About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Young Laura leaves her small town, where she has been subjected to sexual harassment and finally rap...
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean...
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it...
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, tha...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
On the surface it seems Jade has it all, including a successful marketing career, a heart surgeon hu...
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death becom...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 year...
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trap...
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom,...
An older man begins to work in a modern dairy factory. He feels distant and does not identify with t...
A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peepi...
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.