Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get ...

Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They ...

In the Brazilian countryside, a family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch have their lives changed when a shady nurse offers a ...