A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gathers in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life...

After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.

When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope that was more than 1,100 feet long and just 3 inches wide, hanging 160 feet above the raging river, people came from everywhere. Some came to watch him cross. Some came to watch him fall. Some thought he wouldn't show up at all. But he did show up. And he did walk across the river. And then he did something else amazing. He crossed...

In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.

Poppy dreams of walking the high wire and practices every chance she gets, but when she fails in her first attempt on a real circus wire, she believes she must quit.

The North Star: Curious about many of the things around him, a young boy goes off to discover the more about himself and his world. The man who walked between the towers: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. That book woman: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through...