Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat. A personal landscape, breaking with reality—exposed in the allusive photographs—and the confluence of these two languages—one evocative, the other enchanting—through the Woman, a virtual character. Chapters: 1 - "Spring - Work in White" 2 - "Summer - Work in Red" 3 - "Autumn - Work in Black I" 4 - "Winter - Work in Black II"
Isabel Alves de Carvalho
Maria
Beatriz Batarda
Leafing through a family album, filling memories and emotions centered on the charismatic figure of the grandfather, captain of a cod fishing boat. A personal landscape, breaking with reality—exposed in the allusive photographs—and the confluence of these two languages—one evocative, the other enchanting—through the Woman, a virtual character. Chapters: 1 - "Spring - Work in White" 2 - "Summer - Work in Red" 3 - "Autumn - Work in Black I" 4 - "Winter - Work in Black II"
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.