A Sister's Garden

Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in...

A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet,...

A heroic fire captain values dedication and service to others above all else, but the most important partnership in his life, his marriage, is about...

A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he...

Longline: A struggling artist has 24 hours to sell her painting and pay off a ruthless debt collector.

Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.

Nearly one in ten Czechs over the age of 15 face some form of distraint, under which their property is seized because of money they owe. Every day,...

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman...

In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love,...

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.