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.

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...

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

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

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

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...

Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money ...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

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

Heading on a transatlantic voyage at sea from an Italian lab to America, D'Agostino is the story of ...

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

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

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

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

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...

Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeu...

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

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

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