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Reuniting with an old friend makes a Dublin clerk question the life and ambitions he has settled for.
Maria leaves the laundry for a Halloween visit with the family she helped raise.
After clashing with his boss, a Dublin clerk looks to an evening of drinking to restore his pride.
Eveline must decide whether to leave her family and sail away with the man she hopes to marry.
After a drunken fall, a salesman’s friends try to guide him back toward the church.
A boarding-house owner decides how to handle her daughter’s relationship with one of her lodgers.
Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts’ annual dance, where an evening of music and conversation unsettles his assumptions.
A boy waits for news of an ailing priest and struggles to understand the adults’ uneasy silences.
A child is blamed when a treasured porcelain figure vanishes from a plantation home.
With her husband away at war, a lonely young wife grows close to a visiting neighbor.
A woman estranged from her son takes in a sick child after a family party.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
An enslaved young woman refuses the marriage her mistress has chosen and falls in love with another man.
Sent to work for a Louisiana family, a young Indigenous woman longs for the woods but grows attached to their baby.
A lawyer urges a woman to divorce her absent husband and grows invested in her decision.
A wet and hungry prankster turns up at a lonely doctor's door during a storm.
On her way to Mass, a girl stays with an elderly neighbor whom no one else can tend.
A young man pretends to be ill, leaving his godmother to handle work meant for him.
A woman who has never wanted children must care for a neighbor's four youngsters.
Babette may visit her cousins when the figs ripen, and she watches the trees each day.
After hearing that her husband has died, a woman discovers an unexpected feeling while she sits alone.
On a bitter Christmas Eve, an out-of-work watchmaker hears a violin through the wall just as he loses hope.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
