House of Sand and Fog

“Some dreams can't be shared.”

The county auctions off a California bungalow over a tax error, and Behrani (Ben Kingsley), an Iranian immigrant, buys it, planning to fix it up, sell it, and pay for his son's college. The house belongs to Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering addict with nowhere to go, who hires a lawyer to get it back. Vadim Perelman puts two people in the right on either side of one front door, and neither has anywhere else to stand.