When a French stockbroker is cleaned out by his ex-wife, he steals his client’s stocks and escapes to a Caribbean island. There he falls for an American woman who later turns out to be one of his victims. He lies to her about his past until two Interpol agents arrive to arrest him. When she finds out that he had robbed her she attempts to…
One of the difficulties in moving out of the familiar is the temptation to close off the full drama of change before its own attractions have a chance to ripen. The sense of being bereft of all that is familiar is the vacuum that threatens to suck up everything in its reach. What is hard to appreciate, when terror shapes a catastrophic gap, is that…
In August 1998 my 10-year-old son and I visited my friend and her family in Invercargill which is situated on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The country around the town (now city) is exquisite and includes the famous beach where the movie, the Fastest Indian, was shot. We drove to Queenstown by the infamous Devils Highway which follows the edge…
