Deaf to the City (1987)

The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope Gloria who runs the place earns most of her money as a stripper She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor Charlie who is forever in and out of jail is Glorias sometime lover A recent checkin is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her Another resident is Tim who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure A schoolteacher comes by from time to time hoping to do these people some good but in choosing this lot to work with she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them