Amalia’s life in an Israeli village revolves around the return of her favourite charming uncle – a 35-year-old Nir. After years spent in Paris, Nir comes back suffering from a mysterious disease. They share a special bond based on the mutual help as they both feel alienated from the world around them.
Amalia’s life in an Israeli village revolves around the return of her favourite charming uncle – a 35-year-old Nir. After years spent in Paris, Nir comes back suffering from a mysterious disease. They share a special bond based on the mutual help as they both feel alienated from the world around them.
Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
After five failed attempts to go to the United States, 18-year-old Ramón decides to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany, but never finds her. With no papers or money, and without knowing the language, he barely survives living on the street until he meets Ruth, an old retired nurse who doesn’t speak Spanish. Beyond language barriers and prejudices, they discover that solidarity and humanity make life bearable.
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".
When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.