
September 20, 1953 · 73 years old

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.

Antonia Brico dreams of becoming a conductor, but she isn't taken seriously because she is a woman.

A middle aged housesitter meets two tearaways (people who behave in a wild or reckless manner), and together they form a surrogate family.

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.