While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcoming her initial reluctance to open up to the writer, Emi talks about her busted leg and her childhood friendship with the chronically ill Yuka.

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the ...
When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, t...

What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abru...

Two women set out on a road trip across the American West. Junior is trying to let go of her past. M...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wo...

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to ...

Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a you...

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cous...

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys ...

The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Ea...

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life toge...

Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, ...

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an i...

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...