Mariam Barry

Seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence, young convict Bode Donovan joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.

Four Black women, with unrelated lives, meditate on race and their circumstances setting off a life-saving event that allows them to breathe again.

A Zimbabwean immigrant struggles to find a foothold until a gentle apartment caretaker named Gary reaches out to help her, in ways that exemplify the best of goodwill and empathy.