The Shop Around the Corner

A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.

A painter revisits a site of love and is lured inside to confront his guilt.

Twenty years after saving a frail sapling from a cutting crew, Molly Logan learns that the bank is foreclosing on her parents' Christmas tree farm. Can the tree she spared rescue the holiday?

A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life.