Woman #2
A wanna-be filmmaker persuades a reluctant film director into giving a mentorship when suddenly they are both kidnapped by an enigmatic gang.
Writer
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
Screenplay
Джейн Остин верит в любовь, а ее родители хотят, чтобы она вышла замуж по расчету: в Англии 1795 года у молодой женщины не было иного выбора. Однако, когда двадцатилетняя Джейн познакомилась с обаятельным молодым ирландцем Томом Лефроем, его ум и дерзость разожгли ее любопытство, и весь мир полетел кувырком. Сможет ли Джейн отвергнуть ухаживания племянника леди Гришем, пойти наперекор воле родителей и бросить вызов общественным устоям?
Writer
In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relatively young age to Sam Beeton, a publisher of books and magazines on a variety of subjects. Not someone to sit at home in the traditional role of a housewife, Mrs. Beeton started work in her husband's business, initially as an editor correcting English but then writing some of the columns herself. It as at this point that she developed an idea for a cookbook and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was born. Her life was not an easy one however. The publishing business went bankrupt, she lost two children at a young age and had several miscarriages. She died at the age of 28.
Writer
История любви, потрясшая Великобританию и весь мир. Старший сын короля Георга V, 40-летний Эдуард, в начале 1930-х годов знакомится с прекрасной Уоллис Симпсон. Их взаимная страсть приводит в ужас королевское окружение, ведь Уоллис замужем, причём вторично. После смерти отца Эдуард должен стать королём. Согласно законам, он не может сочетаться браком с Уоллис, к тому моменту вновь разведённой. Эдуард с негодованием отвергает предлагаемые премьер-министром Стэнли Болдуином варианты, и принимает мужественное решение.
Ruth
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
