In an underwater village, the friendship of the new boy and a pretty girl is endangered by his arrogant dad.

To become an adult, a boy must survive alone in the desert for a month without weapons or supplies.

A young woman competes to be a five-year champion in a cross-country horse race, but can she triumph without her brother at her side?

Prejudice over his back-country origins might send a new winged priest home in shame.