A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the…

Three ‘Bukowskian’ torrid nights in the life of a man, Harry, in search of love. The first is as a youth, the second on the day of his high school…