Jack Carpenter e sua esposa, Claire, realizam seu sonho de toda a vida vendendo a fazenda da família e desenraizando seus quatro filhos para comprar o iate Providence. Os filhos Gary, Brian e Timmy tentam honestamente e a filha, Susan, decide trabalhar em um porto. Seu lugar é ocupado por Wally Hudson, que queria uma carona para o Taiti e prova ser um pirralho mimado, sem a experiência de navegação que afirma ter. Pouco depois de avistar baleias, o Providence é atingido por todo um grupo e afunda, rápido demais para que pensem em enviar uma mensagem de rádio. Sua jangada inflável não é grande o suficiente para todos eles caberem e os suprimentos são apenas para um ou três dias. Para avançar 1.600 quilômetros, onde é muito mais provável que o tráfego marítimo os encontre, Jack projeta uma vela. Tudo se mostra difícil, até a chuva que eles tanto desejavam, mas os meninos mostram muita coragem. Em apenas algumas semanas, Susan começa uma busca.
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
