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 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 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.