A Desperate Road

Four kayakers take the wrong river into a jungle inhabited by a tribe of merciless cannibals.

Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.