A Woman

A man collapses while drinking a cup of coffee. His wife and their servant raise a hand and releases it. It drops imertly. He's dead. His worries are over. His suffering wife, however, must go through the wearying routine of dealing with his death alone.

Bilquis is a woman who lives alone in a remote forest house, in the middle of nowhere. She has fled her own town to avoid execution for committing a crime. While peacefully living out her lonely days, she accidentally hits a little girl with an arrow while hunting. Bilquis decides to take the girl home and treat her wound, before it becomes infected. This unfortunate event further reminds Bilquis of the crime she committed in her hometown, and she is haunted by the personification of what appears to be her sense of guilt.

The sceptical daughter of a traditional healer has her certainties challenged when she encounters one of the 'Good People'.

Thai horror.

An adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under the Elms.

Celtic Woman goes solo and stretches beyond the purely Irish for this collection. Mixing classical pieces (Vivaldi's 'Rain' (from The Four Seasons), 'Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring', Brahms' 'Lullabye') with pop ('Someday', Don McLean's 'Vincent/Starry, Starry Night ') Chloe's album is soft and accessible without sounding overly sentimental.

A courageous and determined young woman talks about her experiences going through Female Genital Mutilation and the need to undergo a reconstructive surgery on her genitals.

A maniacs seeks brutal revenge against two women wo disfigured his face in self defense.

Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees from her parents' home and succeeds in running a bamboo ware manufacturing company. Sun-ok has a stuttering problem and their son inherits the habit and he is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing Sun-ok...

A young woman, Natalie Storm works in a sweatshop and struggles to support her mother and little sister, Beatrice. Their mother dies and Beatrice suffers from poverty. Because of her circumstances, Natalie rejects the marriage proposal of Tom Chandler, a self-educated mining engineer. He then leaves for South America, where he intends to make his fortune. To save her sister and herself, Natalie becomes the mistress of a wealthy Wall Street magnate, Alvin Dunning. When he publicly humiliates her, however, she becomes determined to free herself. Meanwhile, Chandler discovers a copper mine in South America and returns. He is invited to a party at Dunning's home. When he meets Natalie as Dunning's mistress he is heartbroken and abruptly leaves. Natalie is by now desperate to get away from Dunning. She then acquires enough money from a lucky stock tip to leave him.

Peter Alexander, interviewed in Sydney, born and brought up as Mavis Higgins in New Zealand, speaks of his sex change from female to male. He discusses the aspects of his personality when younger which influenced his decision, his view of women in society and his plans for the future. Although Peter talks about shaving it is not clear if any medical intervention had assisted his sex change. The predominant voice in this clip is that of Alexander, dressed in jacket and tie, talking cheerily about his interest in sport, his awareness that his "male side and personality" were always dominant, his desire to marry and continue with his musical career. The story was sensationalised in the tabloid newspaper of the day "The Truth".

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until her head is pointed towards the floor and her feet toward the ceiling. She revolves in both directions, as though on a pivot, with apparently nothing to hold her.