Synopsis
Shenah Peshah a young lonely janitress living a painfully secluded life in poverty. She is given hope when she meets a young sociologist who moves into her building to study the people he writes about and she falls in love with him.
A sequel to 'Wings', Peshah gets a job at a shirtwaist factory where one of the workers falls in love with her.
A mother dances on the edge of self-destruction when she paints her kitchen white for her son returning home from the military but has her rent raised by her cruel landlord as a response.
A woman being crushed by motherhood is offered a stay at a free vacation house but finds the strict humiliating living conditions worse than her life in poverty.
A Jewish girl travels to America to find love but finds hardship and loneliness.
Poverty separates a happy couple forever, marking their lives as lifestyles separate them.
A student is denied her diploma because of her unsightly appearance due to her grueling life going to school and supporting herself in grinding poverty, making her rebel against the divisions of class.
A mother goes from poverty to wealth, expecting happiness but only finding a cruel Catch-22.
A young writer finds inspiration and purpose in the suffering of her brethren.
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