"Ordinary experience has in it all the elements of great drama, if you happen to be lucky enough to be around when it's happening and recognize it for what it is." -- documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

These long-term profiles of Americans in transition explore how people cope with changes in their lives -- how they handle adversity, how they measure their successes and failures. These voices, from people on the margins of society, are often overlooked or misunderstood -- but their stories are poignant and poetic.

Most stories in this series aired on All Things Considered.