Results for Characters Tasked With Important Responsibilities Who Don't Want To Do Them
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An actress rolls through the plan of a rehearsed production while making small mistakes to spite the production team.
When an officer in the State Department is sent to work as a diplomat for the CIA, he must balance the fate of other nations and politicians with his own interests and career goals.
As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.
An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.
A young woman begins to work for an influencer, Seraphina, who she secretly hates. After vicious gossip about Serphina and the young woman pops up on anonymous message forums, the young woman must decide just how far she'd compromise herself for this job.
When a young father is hired for an English instructorship position, he struggles to balance playing the role of a teacher and meeting the university’s demands for a published scholar.
A writer thinks about the not-so-fine moments of his career right before an exposé about his inappropriate conduct toward various women goes live.
In an epistolary-like work, a father must choose between a job he loves and his relationship with his son.
As per tradition in her country, a young girl of a mysterious Order is chosen to bear the launch codes of sere missiles embedded in her heart. To activate the missiles, the president of her country must personally cut open her chest to extract the code capsule.
As a surveillance agent watches a Muslim family, he quickly grows from suspicion to attachment. When the father of the family needs help, the agent has to decide between what he is supposed to do and what he wants to do, despite the consequences.
