After a dangerous sea crossing and a stay in a camp in Malaysia, the young Vietnamese Tinh and her family are accepted as refugees in Canada and arrive in Montreal where they begin their new life. But for Tinh, adapting has its share of difficulties.
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a m...
He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house ...
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends ...
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at th...
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising...
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mys...
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con...
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...
Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripe...
Dona Lurdes is a mother and housewife who is suffering from empty nest syndrome when her last child ...
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...