A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ama, finds out at airport Schiphol that her papers are false. Her dream to start a new life in the United States falls apart. After escaping the authorities, she tries to earn a living in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam.
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans co...
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...
In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North Americ...
Ina, an introverted 11-year-old immigrant, finds herself captivated by Petra, a new classmate coming...
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.
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about t...
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promisc...
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the famil...
The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospita...
Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the Bea...
Stranded on a deserted island, a family of four scavenges for survival as their past unravels, sendi...
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte...
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and praye...
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist fin...
Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best ...
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin...
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from t...
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accu...