For Vera — a student of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, first love instead of joy and happiness brings disappointment — and it was enough to have one first deception, and before a self-confident girl changes, becomes suspicious and closed. She no longer believes in anyone and runs away from people — having left the institute, Vera and her small daughter leave for a remote village where no one knows her. Soon she has a thin and responsive friend — a teacher at a neighboring school, Aleksei Nikolaevich...

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer...

The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden ag...
A young teacher grows up in a small Slovak village during the Second World War.

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer...
A dyslexic girl seeks to win her distant father’s attention by taking on an ultra-marathon.

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subj...

A group of ruthless convicts is led to prison through an inhospitable mountain range by a small cava...

Gazsi, the protagonist of the novel, comes from the very edge of the society of the small village; h...

A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans f...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

Mathilde, aged 9, enjoys her last day of summer holidays at the seaside with her group of friends. H...

When her babysitter doesn’t show, a single mother is forced to leave her precocious five-year-old da...

In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor ...

Sophia, who recently turned 10, is haunted by mysterious nightmares. In her nightmares, a girl named...
Segundo works as a janitor in a city building. In the morning he receives an unexpected call and is ...

Just a few weeks before her wedding, dance teacher Cyd Merriman comes face-to-face with the father s...

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming ...

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...

Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was ...

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave th...