Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile…

Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Meanwhile…

When his drinking problem takes control of his life, a father tries to leave the bottle behind while putting his and his family’s lives back together.

After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain.