A little girl's parents have to go overseas for work, so she is sent to stay with her grandmother for that period. The grandmother only speaks Teochew, which the little girl can neither speak not understand, so the initial generational and linguistic gaps result in friction and misunderstanding, until an accident unexpectedly brings the whole extended family closer together, and the child bonds with both her grandmother and her parents.

A story about a girl, a foreign worker employed at a printing house. A boy and several men long for ...

Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends...

A man from communist Czechoslovakia unexpectedly meets his childhood love on a flight to Cuba. When ...
What happens when a bartender on a mission to find her cheating boyfriend gets stuck driving a drunk...

When a close friend of Ally's takes his own life, she plummets into self destructive behaviour. She ...

Luisa from Argentina and Fred from Germany are confronted with their social roles at their wedding. ...

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm...

Hungry for sun, light and warmth, a group of teenagers embark on a dream trip to the Balearic Island...

Set in 1850s Naples, Italy, two sisters are getting ready for a wedding, but neither of them wants t...

When Eva (14) goes to the lake with her older brother and his friends, she finds herself under her b...

A writer must choose between love and career in the wake of an explosive argument.

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity abo...

An ex-convict of substance abuse tries to win over his 9-year-old son and reintegrate himself into s...

An aspiring classical pianist loses his hearing and, with the help of those closest to him, must fin...

After a family tragedy, Samuel develops severe agoraphobia and OCD. We follow him as he tries to nav...

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But p...

Bethany and Sam are friends with a brewing romance that is long overdue. With the making of a studen...

A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world ...