A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and toget...
Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon ...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to ...
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair ...
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, ...
A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a ...
A widower yearning seclusion, an opportunity to get away is still disturbed by his deceased wife.
When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dr...
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret ev...
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, ...
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil...
Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death....