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.

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with ...

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish v...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in whic...

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 the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

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

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

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

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

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

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

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from ...

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

In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpec...

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

Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother...

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