Solveig is a recent widow with no children. In the early 1980s she sponsored a young orphan, Sibusiso, in the small kingdom of Eswatini in Southern Africa. Solveig now contemplates if she should include Sibusiso in her will. Under the pretence of a holiday trip she travels to meet him.

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

Sunny Duane, a chorus girl, goes out to dinner with Cornelius Fellowes, a wealthy man who is murdere...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friend...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
With her husband's funeral to plan and grieving to be done, a woman reaches out to her estranged son...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...