young men

Youssef El Mekki, a college student living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca, learns that he is the product of an affair his mother had with a married businessman, and goes in search of his father who takes him in, gives him a job, and sets him on the path to his dreams until a reversal of fortune lands Youssef back in the slums and susceptible to the lure of a fringe group called the Party.

A coming of age story about Arjun Chelvaratnam, who struggles with his homosexuality, entering into an affair with a schoolmate and breaking not only sexual taboos, but also social structures that separate the Tamil and Sinhalese.

A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

Eighteen-year-old Jens Friesen comes to understand himself and his motives much better when he sets out to help his younger brother Daniel, a promising blues guitarist, earn the money he needs to pay off a contract with a music producer.

Joseph, a footman in eighteenth-century England, must protect his virtue from the advances of several women, including Lady Booby and Betty, a chamber maid.

English teacher Will Kelly, still hurting three years after being dumped by his girlfriend Agnes, and depressed over his job, his apartment, and his impending twenty-sixth birthday, sees light at the end of the tunnel when he meets Kate, the previous renter of his awful flat.

During the Depression-era in California, Richard, a young Mexican American, experiences a conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas.

Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.