Boris Without Beatrice

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, a bizarre and thrilling confrontation ensues.