An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.
An urban take on the fairy tale "Rapunzel". It's the story of a young black girl who's being pulled by her roots into womanhood by a perm. Through her journey she gets the long hair she's always dreamed of from fairy tales, however, it comes at the cost of distance from her family and friends.
Claire Wilson, a young teacher at a suburban Texas high school, begins an affair with her student, Eric Walker. But their relationship accelerates faster than anticipated and the permanent damage becomes impossible to ignore.