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An old man recounts: I have always worn glasses. Even in the camp, I managed to keep them. We feared the night almost as much as the day. One night,...

In their third session together, a troubled sex addict seeks help from a therapist for his isolating, self-destructive vices.

A teenager overcomes odds to run a 4-minute mile race.

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of...

Takashi Aoyama has way too much work to do and pushes himself mentally too hard. He blacks out and collapses at a railroad station. When he is about...

A look into the life of someone with a masculine disposition who faces backlash in their household but finds joy when one of their siblings offers...

The story of a family who moved from a village to Istanbul with two children in order to live a better life, but ended up living in an abandoned bus...

A bloodstain on a sheet triggers a great transformation in Tina, an eleven-year-old girl. As she spreads out the laundry with her mother, she will...

Even in Japan, the ancient lifestyle of Uchi Deshi training is all but forgotten. However, a teenager from Tokyo discovers that it's alive and well...

This is a story of a mans journey from desperation to unexpected hope.

An ode to city life, Touch explores themes of isolation and the universal need for community when two strangers make the most important connection of...

Hearing-impaired Mo-Re wants to meet Hiro in person, a Japanese guy she met on the Internet.