Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit...
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...
To escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, an introvert flees to NYC with her pet flying ...
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles...
A news reporter looks into who has been anonymously leaving large cash gifts on random doorsteps in ...
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, on...
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's q...
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the...
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her fami...
A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look af...
When a car crash leaves Frannie immobilized, she is brushed off by everyone she can count on. With n...
After a New York City woman is sexually assaulted while walking home one evening, she struggles to a...