Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women (Judith Malina, Tracy Ullman, Lili Taylor) struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

Summary written by John Sacksteder {jsackste@bellsouth.net}

Two short films tell the stories of a mother and her daughter at key points in their formative years. While the mother, as a young girl, had to contend with marrying an undesirable boy from the wrong side of the tracks and her obsessively Catholic mother-in-law, her daughter, at the same age, puts herself through a series of torturous rites of passage so that she may grow up to be cannonized as a saint.

Summary written by Jojo Mac