Laurie is invited to a school reunion, driving five hours to his childhood village to meet people he has not seen for forty years. A homage to Laurie Lee's eponymous book, where the real Slad becomes a fictitious Crawedon. When life is ruptured and swings in a new direction, can one ever go back?
High school lovers make the agonizing choice of breaking up before going off to separate colleges. Years down the road, there's a reunion. Between a broken marriage and mountainous college debt, plus years of separation, what chance is there of romance blossoming once again? From the well-known author of The Waitress, Sarah, Terror in the Snowstorm, Dad? I Have a Question, The Hunger, and others.
Uprooted from rural Dorset as a child, Jack Barnesfield is given a second chance when he is taken in by a farming family in Ontario. As he grows to manhood, war, love and old grievances shape his life. From the trenches of the Great War to the quiet fields of Canada, Jack journeys in search of justice, only to learn that the things of the past are sometimes best left in the past.
He and his high school sweetheart are all but inseparable when they go to college. During their senior year she gets a prescription for the pill and began taking it. She then becomes much less apprehensive about making love with him at that time. They fall deeper in love and they both find jobs in the same city after graduation and live together. Ultimately the inevitable happened for them.
Maya and Dan have hated each other since the day their parents decided to become one family. Between them stands only the thin wall of a shared bathroom. But one night under a bed, where they are forced to hide and listen to someone else’s passion, changes everything.
Dan, an artist and single father, is still grieving his dead wife after five years.He is afraid he will never be ready to love again, until he hires a model to pose nude for him.
Their eyes met watching each other stargazing and playing with each other over the lane way. They finally physically met 7 years later, both were loners.
Still mourning the loss of his wife and the collapse of their shared dreams, Jerry attends a school reunion. There, a chance encounter with an old flame from his school days sparks a new beginning; one he never expected.
Maggie, a 39-year old MILF estranged from her husband, is working in Thailand and becomes a participant in a wide-open environment for sex. She's not in Kansas anymore.