Purged and Other Stories

A gypsy pays a terrible price for reading the palm of a young Austrian artist. A mafia hit man reminisces about his life as he lays dying in his apartment. A Jesuit missionary has his faith put to the test by an Amazon tribe. A holocaust survivor finds solace in the company of a boy who reminds him of his dead son. A Sri Lankan art restorer is guilt-ridden by his cowardice to help a woman and her son. A mother takes her ten-year old son on a trip to the Holy Land as a way of recovering from a failed marriage. A man awakes from a coma to discover a harrowing truth. The wife of an imprisoned war criminal will visit her husband for the last time. These are some of the stories that cross the boundaries of time and place to reveal glimpses of the dignity and misery, the love and loss of the human condition.