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Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

When a defiant young girl stages a silent protest, refusing to return home until the disruptive presence of her father is gone, her mother must...

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has...

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and...

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading...

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later,...

Aboard a spaceship where souls of the deceased are readied for reincarnation, a lone crew member's rigid existence is disrupted by a spry new...

Eriko married the heir of a businessman and was living happily ever after. One day, even though it was Sunday, her husband Yoshiki went to work. She...

A woman is assaulted on a train, later becoming a model for an artist.