Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Now, caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she'll see her family again, Missie copes with the challenges, and cherishes the rewards, of her new homestead.

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think...

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f...

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found sh...

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...

Young Matula has succumbed to gambling and he steals money from his parents to finance his passion. ...

Bobby Wyler is a confused fifteen year old trying to figure out who he is and what he believes befor...

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talen...

Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war...

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambi...

The closing years of the nineteenth century Old West. Dry River tells the story of a Mexican border ...

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling pr...

Postal inspectors investigate a con man who uses the identities of others to falsify credit card pur...

The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scu...

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...