Wilbur Penn

The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.

Amanda Vaughn, once the ultimate high school "mean girl," is forced to return home in disgrace after her marriage ends in scandal. As Amanda and her teenage kids try to adjust to their new lives, the ladies from her past alternate between sympathy and scheming.

Emma, a kind-hearted foster kid who can't catch a break, finds out she has an identical twin sister, Sutton, who - unlike Emma - was adopted by wealthy parents and is seemingly living an ideal life. After their initial meeting, Sutton talks Emma into stepping into her life for a few days while she pursues a lead on their birth mother. Initially excited to do this favor for her sister, Emma soon learns that Sutton has gone missing and could be in trouble. Now, Emma must decide whether to come clean to Sutton's family and risk her own safety in the hope of uncovering her twin sister's true whereabouts, along with the truth about why they were separated in the first place.

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.

After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

A sixteen-year-old, bipolar, runaway named Jay breaks into the house of a retired former cop named Bill, just as Bill reaches rock bottom due to his own issues. These two move from distrust to understanding and come to realize that even though they might drive each other crazy, technically or otherwise, they need each other. Together they help fix what's broken in one another.

An overzealous History Professor researches the dark past of the small town of Fairview and uncovers more than he bargained for.

Two young boys come to blows due to religious stereotypes they learned from their parents.

A twelve year-old drug dealer makes makes a costly mistake.

Ellen's grandson, James, proposes to question the candidates for President of the US to determine why they chose to run. They invite one of the prospects, Raye, to dinner and stack the deck with 2 people who have previously had trouble with Raye and have reason to hate him. Dinner consists of much argument about his undemocratic views and proposals. Everyone leaves very displeased with him. Ellen tells James she is very upset about Raye's ideas. In the next scene Raye is shot down in a parking garage. 2 police inspectors arrive to question Ellen and James the next morning. James reveals his suspicions of Ellen but the scene ends without absolute resolution.

Forgiveness is a story of the third generation after the Holocaust. Growing up in America, two busy professional women - Maria and Sarah - are brought together by fate and a diary that links their families. They struggle to understand what happened 60 years ago and find its meaning for their lives today.

Two successful, modern day American women, Maria and Sarah, are brought together by a secret connection they never knew they had; their mothers, Apolonia, a Christian, and Esther, a Jew, were best friends during the Polish Holocaust. A recently bequeathed diary from Esther to her daughter Sarah illuminates events of a dark past that lead Apolonia to confess to her daughter, Maria, a lifetime of self-blame and guilt for an unintended betrayal that led to her best friend's capture by the Nazis.