adult child abuse victims

The survivor of severe abuse by his alcoholic mother, now a successful motivational speaker, author, and family man, discusses adjusting to changes in his life now he is middle-aged and how they are affected by his troubled childhood.

Kawashima, a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his wife and baby, battles the desire to stab his child with an ice pick. He decides to face his demons and hires a prostitute, determined to stab her with the ice pick and rid himself of the desire. However, when he meets the girl, he discovers she has her own problems and the two clash in one terrifying night.

Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.

Trace Pennington, who lives a complex double life--posing as Ianthe Covington at school--wrestles with childhood traumas and mental illness as she falls in love with her literature professor and, as she learns that he has dark secrets, starts to confront her own past.

Andrea Ashworth discusses how the events in her childhood affected her life.