Life Story #41

When a seventeen-year-old named Lola is sent to a corrective school, she falls under the influence of an older girl named Dolly, who offers her an easy path through institutional life—but at a cost that pulls her away from Dave, the young man waiting faithfully on the outside. As release day approaches, Lola must choose between the comfortable shortcuts Dolly has provided and the genuine future Dave has been planning for them both.

Gloria, a confident high school student engaged to Steve Rogart, a newspaper reporter, dismisses her English teacher Miss Hanlin's concerns about her failing grades—after all, marriage will be her future. When Gloria manipulates Steve into visiting her teacher, she sets in motion a chain of events that threatens everything she thought she wanted. As jealousy and pride spiral out of control, Gloria discovers that her attempts to hold on to Steve may be pushing him further away.

A woman named Dorothy manipulates her way onto a radio quiz show by fabricating a story of amnesia, winning money and the affection of the show's handsome announcer, Ted Barstow—all while keeping her true identity and her boyfriend Phil in the dark. As Dorothy's deception deepens and her relationship with Ted grows, she must reckon with the consequences of her lies and the cost of her ambition. What began as a desperate scheme to escape poverty threatens to unravel everything she's built and everyone who trusted her.