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.

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

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

A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young m...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remembe...

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakista...

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Moro...

In the year 1915, while the world starts falling apart, a husband comes home to his wife with bad ne...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biologi...

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...

Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy La...