Lockdown Contours

Tuli (Filipino for circumcise) is the story of Daisy's life in an isolated Philippine province. Daisy's father is responsible for the circumcision of almost all the males in town. Daisy's father is also a drunkard who abuses his wife and Daisy; this is making Daisy hate her father and all men. Her father forces her into an arranged marriage, but she doesn't want to marry the man her father chose for her. Meanwhile, Daisy's best friend is also suffering. Tradition in this isolated Philippine town dictates that Daisy must succeed her father as the town's official circumciser. must be the town's official circumciser. Daisy challenges the status quo and rebels against everything that she hates--and a young man defends her. Tuli is also the story of two best friends who deepen their relationship beyond friendship and a young man willing to give Daisy everything he has. In this rite-of-passage tale Daisy tells her brutal and painful story - Tuli.

A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare and will come home soon. But her lover is convinced she has been murdered by her husband.

A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy. In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life.

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her straitlaced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.

A man's tale of love, obsession, and madness in the Brazilian Amazon. When Arminto returns to his childhood town to meet with his estranged father, he falls in love with a woman from his past. This love proves to be unattainable (and thus irresistible), making Arminto squander both his family inheritance and his sanity. On his path from passion to ruin, Arminto plunges deeper and deeper into the mythical world of the Amazon, turning his own life into fable.