A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and...

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check...

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and...

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary Mercedes, sparking a connection between...

During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow...

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and...

Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words...