Upon realizing my hatred towards my mother, I felt like shedding tears over this inexcusable self-hatred." In order to express and accept the very intense memory of a deathly-ill mother and a grandmother who spent time on a small island in her youth, Setoguti Miki has crafted dolls out of various foods and put a curse on them. This modern-day Hariti (Buddhist Goddess of maternity) tale, uses a collage of conversations and connects the vivid colors of rotted meat with a world of "better mothers."
After terribly gory happenings occur one day in a hidden beach house on the Malibu Shore, it leaves one person crying, one person soaked in blood, and another one dead.
The single mother Leonie has great worries: Since her ex-boyfriend left her a huge debt mountain, knows the young cosmetics saleswoman hardly how to make a living.
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Shut out, left alone… which way will Emily turn? This drama gets to the heart of difficulties that many post-modern teens are dealing with today: Peer pressure, cutting, suicide, divorced parents.
