Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.

A war correspondent recounts meeting Corporal Cuckoo, who has been alive for over four centuries and holds what he believes is the secret recipe to eternal life.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.