Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her famil...

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist fin...

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from t...

Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of...

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long tim...

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...

In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouse...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he...

A poetic exploration of the multi-generational affects of Canada's Indian Residential School system,...

His school is closed. There are no other children on those mountains. To keep studying, this young k...

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night h...

Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everythin...

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives whe...

Shwetha, the 7-year-old child of Indian immigrants, struggles to reconcile her Asian heritage, speci...

A glamorous Hong Kong performer struggles to make a home in suburban 1960s Australia.

The true story of a young man's battle with bone cancer and his family's fight to carry him through....