Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in

Saigon in power.

We meet Ruben in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a script said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam.

It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents: a small skeleton.

Accompanying the che...

It is a love story.

About a boy, blind, but free as a bird.

And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free.

With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free.

It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d’Azur, during the summer of 1957.

As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well.

Has it really happened?

Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pi...

All the sawmill’s forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley.

Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside.

She rescues some survivors, who become her new family.

The world is tipping and they must make it on their own.

Sixties. Netherlands. An artists commune in an old castle.

The children live a completely enclosed life of their own, never leaving the estate, without television, radio or newspapers. Hanny, the gardener and Trude, the cook take care and teach them chores in the kitchen and work in the garden. Dries and the immense library are their teachers in basic skills and art at their own little school.

Trude’s son Budi, beautiful, highly gifted, classic soprano and inexhaustible, grows up uninhibite...