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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...

Sunny Duane, a chorus girl, goes out to dinner with Cornelius Fellowes, a wealthy man who is murdere...

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...

Sarah Asproon returns to New Orleans to act as executrix of the estate of a millionaire whom she was...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...