Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. As in the book, these stories are tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events.

During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events th...

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver...

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one wher...

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin...

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers ...

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelle...

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South Ame...

To overcome the emotional scars of her own past, Vanessa Fullerton recounts her mother Serena's extr...

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decid...

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving ...

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protect...

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old ...

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorro...

Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie experiences a political awakening during the tumultuous regimes of S...

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing ...

A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hid...

When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pr...

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planne...

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.