2024-09-12
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8yearold daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever.
In the secular environment of a Brooklyn school, an Orthodox Jew and a Muslim teacher find solace in one another as they navigate many roadblocks from facing discrimination by the principal against their religious attire to arranged marriages.
In 1959 in Africo, Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because the lack of roads prevented the doctor from reaching in time. The tragedy unites the villagers and Giulia, a new teacher, to build a road. But Giulia must contend with local mafia Don Tot.
An authors success following the release of her celebrated erotic memoir is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the truth behind the memoirs provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.
Sara, a schoolteacher from Tehran, is preparing to attend a wedding in northern Iran with her family. When her husband suddenly forbids her from going, she hatches a plan to go in secret. But her choice soon places her on a painful path to atonement.