Shame II: The Secret (1995)

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

After surviving an IED explosion in combat overseas, a young soldier with the Army Motorcycle Unit is medically discharged with a broken back and leg. Against all odds he trains to make an impossible comeback as a motocross racer in order to support his family.

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.