A wealthy elderly Southerner learns that he is about to die. Every member of his greedy family—except for his good-for-nothing son—goes to great lengths just to get their hands on the inheritance.

In the late 1980s, Randy “Baran” Robinson was a well-known professional wrestler. Today, twenty years later, he makes a living performing for small crowds of wrestling fans in school gyms and community centers throughout New Jersey. An aging Randy reflects on his life. He tries to reconnect with

Hortensia, a Black girl from London, loses her adoptive mother and decides to find her biological mother. At the same time, the story follows Cindy Rose, Hortensia’s mother, whom she is searching for, Roxana, Cindy’s daughter and the protagonist’s half-sister, along with her young boyfriend; and

About Robert Crumb, an underground comic artist whose work featured obsessive sexual themes, social criticism, and personal observations on the quirks of the human psyche.

After retiring, Umberto finds himself without any means of support and is faced with a bleak reality—he has no choice but to slowly die without food or a roof over his head. The only ones who care about him are a pregnant teenager and a stray dog.

Calvero, an aging clown, saves his neighbor—a young dancer forced to leave her ballet troupe due to illness—from committing suicide. Thus begins this friendship-turned-romance, which, in Calvero’s opinion, cannot last—the age difference is simply too great...

Famous safecracker Doc Riedenschneider is released from prison with a brilliant plan for a multimillion-dollar burglary already in place. He assembles a team of professionals and plans to sell the stolen goods through the burly fence Emmerich. He successfully juggles his criminal activities with

During the Great Depression, a game leads the wealthy, spoiled, yet charming Irene Bullock—along with her shrewish sister Cornelia—to the city dump, where they meet Godfrey, a homeless man. The encounter ends with Irene hiring him as her butler. While working for her, he discovers that the Bullocks

"Matyushek & Co."—a gift and souvenir shop on the corner. One of the employees is Alfred Kralik, a handsome young man who is in love with a girl he has never seen and doesn’t even know the name of (their “romance” began through a mailbox, via correspondence).

Tired of uncertainty and worldly passions, five Catholic nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, arrive in a remote Himalayan village to establish a school there. However, a breakdown in their relationship with a local white settler, Mr. Dean, the harsh climate, a growing longing for home, and, finally, a