Date: 1948
Taken at the Flood
Gordon Cloade is a very rich man who is financially dependent on his family. Almost at the end of the war, Gordon marries Rosaleen Underhay, a widow much younger than him. Little time Gordon dies in a bombing and Rosaleen inherits the money the family expected and needed.
Intruder in the Dust
Lucas Beauchamp, a black old man accused of the murder of a white man, is in danger of being lynched. Gavin Stevens, an eminent local lawyer, is committed to justice, but the old stubborn rejects his help. Instead, it is Chick, Gavin's 16-year-old nephew, whom Lucas confesses the truth to.
The reverse of the plot
In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and just man of modest means enlisted to secure the borders.
Don Camilo
We are in a fictional town called Boscaccio, just after World War II. Boscaccio has a mayor named Peppone who wants to realize his communist ideals, and the Roman Catholic priest Don Camillo is desperate to avoid it. Despite their different views, they both work together in the fight against social injustice and abuse.
The tunnel
Pablo Castel, an obsessive and lonely painter, confesses from the beginning the murder of Mary Iribarne, the only woman who, according to him, was able to understand. From that crime, Castel rebuilds his relationship with Mary, marked by incommunication, jealousy and progressive paranoia. His need for possession and his inability to accept the ambiguity of the other lead him to an ever deeper isolation, symbolized by the inner "tunnel" in which he is locked.
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