When asked for her real name, the feisty woman in a rural whorehouse would quip, "Ligaya. It means joy. And that's what I sell." Yet the small-town prostitute is not resigned that she would be in the flesh trade forever. She still harbors the dream of getting out of the job someday. She saves money and fancies that someone would come and marry her as if she were clean and never been a whore. That becomes almost a reality when a hardworking farmer enters her life. Under some problematic circumstances, her chances get blown away-but not exactly of her sole doing.

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to p...

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the...

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can sho...

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be...

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or...

A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continu...

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her h...

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her ad...

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Singapore Sling is chasing after Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night he finds himself ...

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...