In 2001, renowned artist Isabella is celebrating a triumphant solo exhibition at Boston's prestigious modern art gallery. While critics have hailed her talent for creating spectacular color-saturated canvases, her career, marriage, and finances are crumbling.
Determined to save her family's historical house by the sea as well as her psychiatrist husband's reputation during his court trial in Europe, Isabella must somehow care for her daughter without a steady income. After she demands that her former lover, Angel, support her passion project, Isabella promises him one night in return. Restoring the house and obtaining financing are both part of the project. This depends on tracking down her missing best friend, Nina, whom she had put forward to a wealthy sponsor for adapting his memoir into a novel.
Now trapped in a love triangle and a deepening financial crisis, Isabella must find a way forward as the conflict between love, legacy, and survival compels her to question her deepest beliefs while her reputation hangs in the balance.
Thirty Grains of Love is the tale of long-time friends who must piece together their broken personal lives while pursuing their dreams, defining their identities, and experiencing authentic love for the very first time. Set against the backdrop of history and generational echoes of secrecy and social limitations, it explores the route to happiness and its price across four marriage models—trad wife, double career, open relationship, and unequal income.
An uplifting story with a dual timeline showing that the hardest yet most rewarding decision in midlife is to embrace one's true self.
The Sea Moves On
Three countries, three centuries, three potions of love.
Friendly couples buy an enchanting Art Nouveau villa before the men get stranded on a tiny rocky island. Upon their return, they need to save their reputation, means of existence, and love. The road to revelation will be determined both by their choices and the past.
In 1945, Axenia leaves a country to vanish behind the iron curtain when her daughter disappears. Establishing a successful business abroad, she never gives up the hope to return and find her little girl.
The tragic love story of a royal officer and a crown princess takes place in 1922. The house, a gateway to past secrets and new guilt, helps the characters to find their true self while solving the puzzles of the past.