Desperate Characters

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker...

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to...

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must...

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going...

A man blames himself for the tragic death of his daughter's friend. Unable to get past this event, the man spirals into depression, and then he...

A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon....

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for...

An 80-year-old widow with extra-sensory perceptions can see the history behind the objects she touches, through which she comments on evolution of...

A recreation of what it feels like to live with the hidden issues of depression, anxiety, inclusion, bulimia, drug addiction, and abusive...

Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his...

The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.