After more than thirty years of marriage, Martha Rimböck takes stock. She reckons up what her husband has done wrong during this time. Using an ingenious points system, she has noted every one of his transgressions in their life together, but has not left herself out either. Now she sees the time has come to settle their unequal accounts: she poisons him.
Jan Biczycki
Rimböck
Ilse Zielstorff
Martha
After more than thirty years of marriage, Martha Rimböck takes stock. She reckons up what her husband has done wrong during this time. Using an ingenious points system, she has noted every one of his transgressions in their life together, but has not left herself out either. Now she sees the time has come to settle their unequal accounts: she poisons him.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.