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 the 19th century, a young widow named Eva manages a remote winter fishing outpost in an Arctic ba...

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

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

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.

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

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

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

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...

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

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

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

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...

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

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...