Hopeless is a thoroughbred race horse with a breeder pedigree so discouraging that the owner feels the name perfectly describes the stallion's racing prospects. But the owner, a Chinese American lady, knows the feeling of being written off as worthless. Medical problems forced her to have a hysterectomy when she was 17, and being unable to have children, she was deemed worthless as a prospective wife in her Chinese culture. A young Sudanese girl has experienced the horrors of being a sex slave to a rebel army, and life doesn't get much more hopeless than that. And an Irish lad, slightly...