Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day...

The third part of Seventh Company adventures.

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure...

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to...

A man is struggling to keep his beloved bull from being used as sacrifice for his dead wife's funeral rites.

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel...