The Friendship Vow

Pim is a Thai woman living in Korea with her husband Wee. At her birthday a friend reads her fortune with a deck of cards and informs that something she has lost will soon return to her. But some lost things are better off staying lost.

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.

Mary flees with her newborn son to protect him from the murderous King Herod's attempt to find and kill the child. A retelling of the Biblical tale of Herod's slaughter of innocents.

A man falls in love whilst studying in Chandigarh, despite his marriage being arranged to another woman.

Elizabeth and Tristan, who find solace and healing in each other's company after suffering devastating losses. As they navigate their grief and past traumas, they discover the power of love and second chances.

A ruthless corporate raider is forced to return to his small-town roots where he suddenly inherits his father's nearly-bankrupt pencil factory. He must decide to either let it close or join the community's fight to save it.