I've read somewhere that now it's a good time to have a daughter. She can decide on her future, make her conscious professional and personal choices, and add so much to the society. Still some countries perceive having a daughter as a waste of resources: abortions of unborn girls are common as families welcome boys. Boys: the future, the business resources, the fathers, the succession of the family name. You are lucky if you weren't born in these places. You can also consider yourself lucky if you weren't born in times when being a woman was almost a curse. What if your only duty was to get married and bear children, without which you'd be considered worthless? What if having a boy was your only path to privilege? What if your adult life started as being nothing more than the third wife? Enjoy.
Love is a dangerous game and being too confident in any game can make you lose from your own weapon. While engaging in fleeting romances and appeasing sexual appetite have rather hedonistic values with no guarantee of longevity, playing with feelings can prove to break more than one heart. In the society, which in the past fed on gossip just as now it feeds on gossip columns in internet blogs and flashing covers of blockbuster magazines, is there a chance for true love? Can the most demoralized learn their lessons and is there any good in the most degenerated minds, who seem to have seen it all, done it all and have no boundaries to cross? A beautiful classic based on de Laclos' 18th-century novel, and a modern version of the same story. Can a villain win the purest of hearts? Enjoy.
There's an aura of suspicion hanging over institutions such as government, church, and school. We tend to disbelieve whether priests are the ones with a vocation or is it a safe and secure job that they're choosing (or a shelter where they can fulfill their sexual fantasies). A politician, a priest and a teacher are difficult jobs: demanding, responsible, burdened by hundreds of years of rules, tradition, and history. There are a lot of good people in all of these professions: full of vocation and good will. At the same time, there are hundreds of flawed individuals who only want to succeed in this tricky environment. And once put to a doubt can you convince the institution that you are innocent? Whose words matter? Yours, the victim's or the witnesses'? And can you really be trusted after you committed an unforgivable sin?