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...

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.

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

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

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

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

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

Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together, until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter c...

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

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...