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.

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...

Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She foll...

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

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...

Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to w...

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in ...

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...

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 ...

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

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

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

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him whi...

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

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

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

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

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...