This series depicts what happens when lives are seriously disturbed by trauma, disease or accident - and how people put them back together again. Through the vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of crises, the series will examine how they rework their ideas about themselves and their worlds.
ACCIDENT - Dominique Show is a globally renowned world-beat musician, whose career was abruptly cut short by a car accident that resulted in a devastating spinal cord injury.
AFTER SUICIDE - Moira Farr will never forget Valentine's Day - the day she found her boyfriend Daniel Jones' note tacked to the living room door.
AIDS - Louise Binder was a successful lawyer in a new relationship, when her life was turned upside down forever. She was diagnosed with AIDS, transmitted to her by her husband before their marriage ended
CANCER - Julie Davey-Prior discovered she had a lump behind her left nipple seven years ago and when she finally had it removed, her greatest fears were confirmed. The tissue was cancerous.
DEATH OF A SPOUSE - Shant Ohannessian's life changed abruptly when his wife of four years, Shirley-Anne, was struck by a bus.
LIVING WITH HUNTINGTON DISEASE - The Pace Family carry a deadly legacy, the gene for Huntington's disease, a condition which causes the sufferer to lose memory, mobility, the ability to speak clearly and to make rational decisions. Mother Iggie started to show symptoms and her three children have watched the heart-breaking progress of the disease, while also confronting the uncertainty of whether they carry the gene themselves.
MURDER OF A CHILD - Sharon and Gary Rosenfeldt were putting a new life together when it was changed forever by a contact with Canada's most infamous serial killer, Clifford Olson. Their son Daryn was cruelly murdered by him.
PRISON - Robert "Rosie" Rowbotham was paroled from prison, where he had spent more than 20 years for trafficking millions of dollars worth of grass and hashish. He once told a judge that he could not be rehabilitated, but a heart attack convinced him that he did not want to die in prison.
RAPE - Tammy Crawford's nightmare began soon after she showed up for work. David Walker, who was a dangerous offender out on a day pass from a psychiatric facility, brutally assaulted her as she worked in her mother's store. SEXUAL ABUSE - Kathryn Wetheral lost her childhood to sexual abuse when her grandfather abused her for seven long years. She became anorexic and suicidal due to the pain of keeping her violent and conflicted feelings inside.
STROKE - Jerry Meland had two strokes in the space of six months, events that profoundly altered the way he looked at himself and his life.
TORTURE - Ezat Mossallanejad spoke out against human rights violations in his native Iran and was tortured many times for his outspokenness.
WAR - Gordana Knezevic knows all about war, having lived in Sarajevo under the fire of Serbian guns on a daily basis from 1992 to 1994. As a Serbian journalist living in a multi-cultural city, her newspaper was the target of Serb missiles and guns, largely because of its multi-ethnic staff.
DISC ONE contains: Prison; Sexual Abuse; Accident ; Torture.
DISC TWO contains Murder of a Child; Rape; AIDS; After Suicide.
DISC THREE contains Huntington's Disease; Death of a Spouse; War; Stroke; Cancer
*** Programs are also available separately