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.

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. Bu...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

A young woman takes a job as a personal maid for a rich young man. The pair do not get along, but so...

A story about the heroism, redemption, and sacrifice of both sides of the Mindanao conflict.

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri...

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Ric...

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyd...

Out of our glorious historical past comes this story of a Chinese General who unselfishly gave every...

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...