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After fifteen years apart, a Parisian visits an old friend and finds domestic contentment masking a disturbing family amusement.
When a timid civil servant’s elderly mother is declared dead, grief soon competes with inheritance, office protocol, and his wife’s practical schemes.
After their child vanishes with a traveling circus, two aging parents spend years searching roads and city churches for one familiar face.
A young Norman soldier asks his parents to judge the Black woman he hopes to marry on her character rather than her skin.
A dying Norman farmer entrusts his son with an address, a secret household, and an obligation no legal will records.
After four years at sea, a sailor returns to Marseille and meets a woman whose questions turn a night of celebration into dread.
A man defends an unforgivable marriage by tracing the grief, resemblance, and desire that brought a father to it.
A society observer explains why a fashionable countess is said to have killed her daughter without committing a crime.
A poor family builds its hopes around an absent uncle’s promised fortune during a long-awaited holiday to Jersey.
A miserly Norman farmer resists his son's marriage, then finds his rigid household altered by love, loss, and the demands of survival.
A boisterous sergeant seeking nightlife in a quiet Breton town follows one wrong turn into a social disaster.
An imperious old maid’s final illness exposes the private life she never allowed anyone to see.
Bullied because he has no father, a village boy asks a kindly blacksmith to give him a name his classmates cannot mock.
At a country christening, a priest discovers an unexpected tenderness as he holds his newborn nephew among the reveling family.
A lonely woman adopts an orphan for love, then begins to fear the silent young man growing up inside her house.
A stranger’s watchful presence unsettles a fisherman’s household until his identity forces the family to reconsider every bond within it.
A young man explains how his mother’s final testament exposed the truth behind a brutal country household.
A chance meeting in a beer hall reveals why a once-privileged schoolmate has spent his adult life drinking at the same table.
A young scholar traces his family's troubled history from a decaying English estate to a ruined city deep in the Congo.
After a meteor lands on a New England farm, the soil, animals, and family begin to change in ways that local science cannot explain.
A man follows a family summons to a silent New England town, where a Christmas gathering leads beneath the local church.
A self-styled investigator of horrors climbs Tempest Mountain to uncover what has been killing whole families near an abandoned mansion.
An American heir restores his family’s ruined English priory, where only he and his cats can hear rats moving inside the walls.
Maria leaves the laundry for a Halloween visit with the family she helped raise.
