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.

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...

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

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

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil serv...

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

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 ...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To c...