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...

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

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

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

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

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

It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, en...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines w...