In a story told from two different perspectives, Will Bird recounts the events which led to him being in a coma, while his niece Annie recounts her attempt to help to revive him from his coma.
阿黛(🖍)尔(ěr )和(🥋)她的母(🚦)亲孔查(chá(👞) )生活在(🖖)城(chéng )郊(🏆)的一个贫民窟(kū )里。孔查(chá(🐮) )的丈夫(🚊)(fū )是个(🌼)可恶(è(🙍) )的暴徒，他(👄)使母(mǔ(👯) )女俩长(😙)期(qī )生活在暴力和虐(nuè )待之中。对(🧗)此忍(rě(🛋)n )无可忍(🥤)的(de )孔查决定不顾(👏)一(yī )切(🥅)风险，偷走一大笔钱，并带着女儿阿(🏬)黛(dài )尔(⏪)逃离。不(🥫)幸的是(📉)，她们(men )在出(🗺)逃中(zhō(🐿)ng )被发现(🍙)(xiàn )了。在追(zhuī )捕过程中，孔查(🕋)(chá )却意(🍜)外地(dì(🔚) )驾车撞(📖)死了丈夫(📼)(fū )……(📆)这场逃(🏕)离注(zhù )定是一次(cì )冒险，而母女俩(🗞)(liǎng )竭尽(😏)全力(lì(🌳) )，才能挣脱一直(zhí(🌧) )禁锢她(📩)们的牢笼(lóng )。在这段(duàn )跨越生命的(🔥)寓言(yá(🔋)n )中，力量(🛄)、困难(nán )、爱的(♋)希(xī )望(💌)、机会(🥥)和死亡(wáng )如影随形(xíng )。
When a quick-witted but co-dependent college girl helps her best friend land a boyfriend, she's left on the outside looking in and is forced to deal with the realities of adulthood for the first time.
Dave Stimple, an unfocused mattress store owner, is having issues connecting with everyone around him. He arrives at the shop one morning to find the local health and safety people have shut him down. Bugs, huge bed bugs and lots of complaints are cited as the reason. Dave is really confused and his relationships with his wife, friends, and his own humanity seem to be devolving and increasingly distracting anomalies begin to take over his reality. But his issues may not be as internal as they seem.
It's summertime in a hot and empty Buenos Aires. Marcela's world is shaken when her sister dies, leaving her completely out of sorts. Still grieving, she must deal with clearing out her flat. One of her daughter’s young friends, Nacho, appears on the scene, eager to help, a presence which leads to shared road trips and adventures. During these confusing days, people and conversations from another time will mingle, prompting questions, while the imminence of everyday life closes in on her.
Juanita, a loud 35 year old mulata, returns to her homeland to spend Christmas with their loved ones along with 350,000 Dominicans living abroad. She does not come alone, she's accompanied by Mariano, a rough Spanish man much older than her, he's anxious to get to know this island where you can sow 365 days a year. Mariano has decided for the first time in his life to take a risk, he sells his share of the land in Burgo de Osma to a brother and helps Juanita pay for the mortgage of her house in Santo Domingo just when she was about to lose it to the bank. Upon arrival, Juanita confesses she has two children, Mariano confesses in return to have taken advantage of her illegal status in order to get her to stay with him. Amidst these confessions the avalanche of family and friends falls on them, among them is Jairo, the father of her children, a typical 30 year old street wise Dominican who looks at him with jealousy. What Juanita did not confess to Mariano is that she has allowed Jairo to stay at her house to help with the children. Juanita and Mariano, who while being in Spain clung to each other like two castaways to a raft, will try not to drown in Santo Domingo.
Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own. She travels to Hungary, trailed by Adam. As the border with Austria falls, everything changes in Hungary. The frontiers are open, as the new possibilities for Adam and Evelyn to decide in which world –(🗑) Eastern or Western – they want to build a happy life. Adam und Evelyn is based on the homonymous novel by Ingo Schulze, translated in more than ten languages.
