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.

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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...

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French wo...

A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital...

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love wit...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

Growing increasingly desperate, a married woman asks her young associate to seduce her husband in or...

In summer 2025, the Van Drayens gathers at their secluded estate, The Château, for their annual fami...

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be t...

Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get mar...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play ...

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their Ger...
Newly divorced, Achilles Pumpkinseed lives alone in the house left to him by his deceased mother. De...

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a ...

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing f...

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them...