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A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?

Marta, who after her breakup, reacts by withdrawing into herself. When she loses her love she loses her appetite, too, but soon enough, she discovers that this has more to do with her own health than the pain of separation. Now, everything changes: the taste of food, the music, the desire, the certainty of the choices that were made.

The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.