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Eniiyi is born cursed. It’s not her fault her cousin was buried the day she was born. Or that she bears an uncanny resemblance to her.

But her family believes she is Monife reincarnated, and will eventually share her same tragic fate. 

Of course, that’s on top of the family curse, which promises nothing but broken hearts, as three generations of women are abandoned by the men they love.

So when Eniiyi saves a boy from drowning and falls in love, it seems like it’s time for the curse to take hold of her. 

Only, Eniiyi is not going to let either curse control her future, even if she has to confront all the unspoken tragedy that has haunted her family for generations.

If you’re going to age, you might as well surround yourself with other like-minded women. That’s how the Humpty Dumpty Club got started. And now, their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, is out of commission thanks to a fall down some stairs.

Following the toils and triumphs of the four cardinal members, these women show how you can find purpose in community and discover who you are in chosen family.

Paige wasn't supposed to be the one Hollywood wanted. Her husband, Rob, is the screenwriter. The reason she ended up becoming a stay-at-home mom was to take care of their son with Down Syndrome. 

But now he's grown, she's written a memoir, and producers want to bring her story to life. Only, it isn't exactly her story to tell. It's also Emmett's, who doesn't understand why everyone is focused on his Down Syndrome. 

Rob desperately wants to be the one to adapt the screenplay.

And Darcy? Well, no one worries about the "normal" child, even if maybe they should.

Living in a cramped house with multiple generations of family as a young mother is not how April imagined her life would be. Secrets and arguments surround her, and her only refuge is when she locks herself in the bathroom. 

But building inside of her is a feeling she can only describe as the white hot, a volcanic rage that whispers for her to just walk away. So she does. She buys a one-way ticket out of Philly as far as she can go. 

What starts as ten days of freedom, stretches to ten years of abandonment, told through letters to her daughter. It’s an explanation, not an apology, about how living free and almost dying led April to an impossible choice that she can never take back.

Esther Nacht lived most of her life in an orphanage. Her early life was marked by tragedy. She was born in Vienna, her father died on their voyage to Maine, and her mother was then murdered. 

Dr. Wilbur Larch takes her in, but he knows it’ll be difficult to find a family willing to adopt the young Jewish girl. But eventually, at the age of fourteen, Dr. Larch finds the Winslows, a philanthropic New England family known for taking in unadopted orphans. 

What follows is Esther’s journey as she traces her roots from Vienna to Jerusalem, where she finds her identity and belonging thanks to the unwavering support of the family who took her in when no one else would.

In September 1974, Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, was looking for an apprentice in Venice. And that’s exactly what he finds in the young artist, Nicholas. They travel back to Rome and become lovers as they work to bring Fellini’s Casanova to life. 

But in the world of illusion, Nicholas carries his own secret. One that hides his true nature. 

As tensions rise, he unwittingly acts as an accelerant, sparking a tragedy he never intended but is powerless to stop.

It’s been ten years since the son has seen his mother. Not since he left their Houston home when it became clear his parents favored his homophobic brother.

Now, she’s standing on his doorstep in Tokyo, unannounced and uninvited. 

She wants to reconcile, he wants to forgive. But the divide between them seems too large and filled with thorns. That is, until life steers them in new directions. 

As the mother becomes friends with a local bistro owner and the son explores a new relationship, the two start to see each other differently. Through shared meals and tentative conversations, they begin to define what home truly means and whether they may find it in each other.