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Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island.

A tough Irish debt collector fights ruthless developers and their thugs who want to build a chemical plant near his town, after locals ask for his help.

A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.

A man and a woman find something very touching about the sea turtles in their tank at London Zoo. They meet and form an odd but endearing camaraderie as they plot to steal two of the turtles.

A South African video journalist is sent to neighboring Namibia to do a story on a man who has been going around and killing black laborers. The killer, Nhadiep, has an almost mythical status to both the white farmers and the black laborers with his ability to evade capture in the racially segregated country.

A British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous recovery and goes on to win the 1981 Grand National steeplechase on the horse Aldaniti.

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.