RABBIT HOLE: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident. BIRTHDAY GIRL: A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride. HUMAN STAIN: When a disgraced former college professor has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking secret about his own life that he has kept secret for 50 years.