Sachiko Mishima a young Japanese woman get sent to Haiti as a dispatch member for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She thinks she is going to the holiday resort of Tahiti by mistaking Tahiti for Haiti). While in Haiti with the help of a Japanese craftsman she learns paper can be made from bananas. She embarks on a mission to create paper for the Haiti residents to help them.
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and mu...
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love...
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives whe...
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Moro...
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakista...
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him whi...
The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps bo...
Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl wh...
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...
After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get marri...
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not c...
A young actress seeks an engagement in New York but faces obstacles due to jealousy and politics. He...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...