Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. ‘I predict that the gramophone…

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins…

Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he’s drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie…

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive…

After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband’s family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.

Elder sister, Spring, seeks her origins before heading to university, Autumn, the mother, grapples with conceiving a child through artificial insemination, Summer, the younger brother, tries to engage with a…

Lisa, an aspiring songwriter, whose farming family has suffered foreclosure is forced to work at a new, ‘urban farm’ where she meets Dalia. Her casual racism leads her to be…

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase,…

A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.