Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern Un...

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together...

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can succ...

A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on ...

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab ...

When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North P...

Jaakkola, a priest with a bad memory, gets a prescription for a spa day from Dr. Viljo. Ruustinna pl...

Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the mo...

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in ...

Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the...

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical f...

Second Lieutenant Romppainen and Sergeant Ryhmä are tasked with blowing up the enemy's ammunition de...

Lieutenant General T.J.A. Heikkilä travels to the Republic of Sierranueva together with his military...

Ulla Järvinen gets a telegram about the death of her aunt and that she has inherited a manor, but th...

Väinö Kehkonen, the head of a Helsinki-based construction company, takes his wife and the Ärmälä cou...

Pekka Lipponen is trying to trace hidden diamonds before a group of bandits finds them. He enlists h...

Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected c...

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town beg...