From Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ===== The series takes place in Tracksville, a town where kids run the stations and work together with the Mighty Express trains on adventures. The trains all have their own roles and duties within Tracksville, and their own individual set of tools and cargo cars to help them with their adventures. ===== Episode 1: a woman named Nana starts to have weird dreams about werewolves and a strange creature chasing her in a forest, after a few days she hears her mother named Katia talking with another woman about Nana actually being adopted and that her parents are probably dead but were living in Kavala, Nana confronts Katia and tells her that she heard her talking about her being adopted and decides to go to Kavala to visit her dead parents' house. Episode 2: Nana meets her aunt named Eleftheria and Eleftheria tells her that her father is still alive and is living in England, a 53 years old woman in the forest named Baso tells her kids (Dimitris and Ebita) that a girl (Nana) is destined to kill them, Baso also tells to her kids that she had killed Nana's mother and they need to kill Nana too. Episode 3: a strange man named Joseph starts to stalk Nana and after a few days of stalking he confirms to her that he was sent by his father to protect her from Baso but Nana doesn't believe him. Nana then happens to pass outside of a cemetery and decides to walk inside the cemetery but she starts to hallucinate demons chasing her and decides to leave the cemetery. Episode 4: Nana discovers a strange book left by her deceased mother, after many weeks of reading the book Nana trains herself to be a werewolf hunter, the book also says that Baso is the whore of Babylon and a werewolf and that her kids are too. Episode 5: Joseph and Nana's father named George to arrive in Kabala to search for Nana together, Dimitris is then sent to kill Nana but after a small fight Nana runs away and Dimitris starts to chase her, Dimitris steals a truck and starts to chase Nana, however, she also gets in her car and a chase ensues between the two, Joseph and George also steal an armored van and start to chase Dimitris's truck, Joseph starts shooting at the tires of the Dimitris' truck and he crashes in a lake. Episode 6: Nana gets in the armored van and the three people decide to go to a village called Palaiomonastiro so Nana could be trained to become a proper werewolf hunter. Nana also meets a man named "The Antynudity" who wears a clown costume, he tells Nana that he kills or at least injures whoever is naked and that he is the co-leader of the village. He also reveals that he is the second-cousin of George. Episode 7: Nana continues her training in the village and George sees at the news that an RFID Microchip will become mandatory in the next month. Episode 8: Nana, Joseph, and George go to Kavala to kill Baso and her kids, on their way they kill Evita and Dimitris and finally confront Baso, who is shot down by George. A few hours later George calls The Antynudity in his phone to tell him that he needs to construct a wall around the village because the RFID Microchip is the mark of the beast, when The Antynudty asks why he should do that, George says that the wall needs to be constructed so that people that will try to enforce the chip won't be able to enter the village, a few minutes later George is attacked and seemingly killed by Evita. ===== Against Infinity is a novel in which colonists hunt the tunneling Aleph amid the terraforming of Ganymede. ===== The Castle of Dark is a novel in which a magical harpist must rescue a maiden from a castle. ===== The Children of the Wind is a novel in which there is a quest for seven keys of seven sorcerers. ===== Fire Pattern is a novel in which a reporter investigates people that spontaneously burst into flame. ===== Converts is a novel in which characters are artificially evolved into superhumans. ===== Thousandstar is a novel in which the main character is an alien blob. ===== The film is an adaptation on the life of Deyi Baideti, mother of Koti and Chennayya, the twin warriors of Tulunadu, who fought valiantly on battle ground and died about five hundred years ago. ===== Guglielmo and Lidia have been married for twenty-five years; on the day of their anniversary, Lidia confesses to her husband that she has been cheating on him for a year with Guglielmo's order. Having lost his wife and sales assistant, the man offers the job to Luna, a Roman girl with money problems. After a troubled start, Guglielmo and Luna manage to enter into symbiosis, both at work and in private life, to the point that she helps him find a new partner. ===== In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, a building known as the Gate controls the populace by making decrees and requiring inordinate amounts of paperwork which must be directly processed by the Gate itself. Dr. Tarek examines a patient named Yehya, who was shot by government forces in a riot known as the Disgraceful Events. The Gate begins a propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of the Events, denying that anyone was shot at all. The Gate decrees that is illegal to remove a bullet without a permit. It also confiscates all X-Rays within the city, removing all evidence of government-sponsored violence. After the Events, the Gate remains closed. Thousands of people stand outside in the titular queue, awaiting the Gate's opening so that their paperwork can be correctly processed. Over the course of 140 days, Yehya's condition worsens and various other members of the queue struggle to survive as the Gate remains closed. Eventually, Tarek decides to break the law and remove the bullet without a permit, only to learn that Yehya has died of his injuries. ===== The Science Fiction Source Book is a book which grades over 2500 books by 880 authors by awarding them up to 5 stars in the categories of Readability, Characterization, Idea Content and Literary Merit. ===== Raven of Destiny is a novel in which a man travels from ancient Ireland to fight at Thermopylae and Delhi. ===== The Fishers of Darksea is a novel in which a native Fisher on the remote island of Darksea finds an odd device. ===== After the events of The Tempest, Miranda does not marry Ferdinand as planned. Instead, she returns to Milan with Prospero, who has regained his position as duke. She is shunned by the castle staff; her only friend is the servant Dorothea, a Moorish witch, with whom she soon begins a romantic relationship. Miranda learns that Prospero has not given up his magic as he previously promised. Desperate to learn why she is being shunned and about the circumstances of Prospero's fall from grace, Dorothea and Miranda use magic to invade the memories of a castle staff member. Miranda learns that after the death of her mother Beatrice, Prospero used his magic to resurrect her. This led a horrified Antonio to stage a coup against his brother. When Miranda learns that Antonio is being held prisoner in the castle, she and Dorothea attempt to rescue him and stage another coup. Prospero catches them, but is confronted by the reanimated corpse of his wife, who has been living beneath the castle. Prospero is then killed by his brother. Miranda chooses to reject her arranged marriage with Ferdinand. She, Dorothea, and Beatrice return to the magical island where she was raised. ===== Diya works in Jyotirani Devi's Company in Vizag, where all the employees are female. Jyotirani's daughter, Premarati appoints a man, Aditya as regional head of the company. Aditya falls in love with his colleague Diya. One day Aditya realises that Diya's parents are not going through a happy marriage even after 25 years togetherness. This also troubles the relationship between Diya and Aditya. To save the relationship of Diya's parents, the couple decide to act in a different manner. It leads to a series laughter when Adi’s uncle comes Vizag. ===== The film starts with a car being followed by a truck. The truck hits the car and the car flips over. A man alights and brutally kills both the driver and the lady who were in the car. The killer then takes the bodies to a factory and burns them with acid. While doing so, he accidentally gets acid spilled on his hand. The titles roll. 5 years Later, Inspector Jatil Yadav is seen attending the wedding of his colleague Narendra Singh where Jatil's mother is desperately searching for a girl to set him up with for marriage. Jatil is irritated and embarrassed and rushes his mother home to avoid further interference in his personal life. While eating dinner, Jatil gets called by the SSP to investigate a high-profile murder of a rich aristocrat named Raghuveer Singh. Jatil learns that Raghuveer was murdered by his own gun on his wedding night and is further intrigued by the family's silence and lack of knowledge on the matter. Something seems fishy. Could it be an insider job? Jatil Yadav is first introduced to the family by Ramesh Chauhan, brother of Raghuveer Singh's first wife (who was murdered 5 years ago). Members of Raghuveer's family include his 2 children - Karuna Singh (daughter of Raghuveer Singh) and Karan (son of Raghuveer Singh), Chunni (the maid of the house), Pramila Singh (wife of Raghuveer Singh's brother and Raghuveer Singh's sister-in-law), Vasudha and Vikram Singh (daughter and son of Pramila), Ravi Sisodia - the volatile husband of Karuna, and Radha - the young bride of Raghuveer Singh. Starting the interrogation, it is revealed to Jatil that Vikram was the first one to discover Raghuveer's dead body. As per Vikram's story, he went to drop off his fiancée (daughter of the notorious MLA Munna Raja) at around 9:30. He returned around 11:15 and then took the ladies of the house to a temple at 12:30. It was after this that Vikram says that he found his uncle Raghuveer dead. He also says that there was baraat crossing in-front of the house at 10:30. Jatil eventually finds out about back stairs which connects directly to a water tank and wonders if that route was used to carry out any hokey business. During Jatil's investigation, he begins to question Radha. Jatil develops a soft spot for her as something tells him that she is being made a scapegoat by Raghuveer's family. Radha is treated like an outsider and whore by the family who resents her. After first refusing to cooperate, Radha remembers something that connects her to Jatil and gives the chit to Chunni to pass to Jatil. On the chit, the address of Radha is written and he distinctly remembers that he had saved Radha 5 years earlier, when she attempted suicide by jumping off a train. This further leads him to believe that Radha is an innocent and emotionally disturbed girl who is getting caught in the crossfire of what seems to be developing into an insidious plot. Further into his investigation, Jatil finds out that Raghuveer's first wife was killed during a robbery when she was coming back from Gwalior towards Kanpur. But what is really a robbery or a cold blooded murder? Jatil wants to find out. Jatil also learns that Raghuveer's son Karan had once been apprehended with drugs. Jatil realises that there's more to Raghuveer's complicated family than what meets the eye. The next Day, during the investigation, Jatil finds erotic magazines in Raghuveer's cupboard and some photos of women and a plastic bead below the bed. He also learns that Radha was sold by her father and one of the photos is of Radha with a bruised back which he found earlier. Radha continues to refrain from telling Jatil anything. Later, Munna Raja comes in after Ravi Sisodia calls him in response to Jatil's no-nonsense investigation style. While investigating the manor, Jatil also spots a senile older woman who was earlier the maid of house. The old maid's son was the driver when Raghuveer's first wife was returning from Gwalior to Kanpur and she is grandmother of Chunni. Jatil continues to investigate. Forensics tell Jatil that Raghuveer was murdered between 10pm and 12pm with his own gun and blunt marks were due to because he was hit by butt of the same gun. Phone records reveal that Vikram received a phone call from his uncle at 11:30 and many phone calls from an unknown number which is identified as Radha's. No fingerprints were found on gun or on Raghuveer's phone. During an interrogation with Chunni, Jatil finds she was the one who took the lamp up to Raghuveer's room and came back with the lamp which broke down on the stairs. She also refrains from divulging anything related to the current investigation, but does say he couldn't even see her father who died in that road accident and case got closed. Jatil starts investigating the death of Raghuveer's first wife and her driver. He finds that another city's police had reported a similar car and it was filed as hit and run case. This leads him to a tannery in Jajmau which is run by a butcher, but was originally owned by Munna Raja. Further investigation into the family reveals that Karuna doesn't like her aunt and her cousin's interference since they are constantly eyeballing her. Later, Jatil finds a medical report and in the morning Chunni is found dead near the back stairs. He later fights with his colleague Narendra and openly tells the SSP that he will find the truth. Later he is attacked by the goons and calls Narendra for help, but Narendra ignores him and he tells him that he is going to arrest Radha. Jatil immediately warns Radha to run, but before she can run away Ravi chases her and she locks herself in a room. Jatil comes in time to take her away, but goons continue to chase them. They are able to catch a train though unknown to them one of the goons also catches the train. Later in the night Radha wakes up to see Jatil is missing. She takes her knife with her and finds Jatil being attacked by the Butcher working for Munna Raja. Both overpower the Bitcher and throw him out of the train. Jatil and Radha reach Raghuveer's Gwalior farmhouse. During this time Narendra Singh is investigating the murder of Chunni and forensics tells him about the dead skin found in her fingernails leading him to man with burnt skin. Narendra makes the report and goes to SSP, but he sees the man having fingernail marks on burnt hand in the office of SSP with Munna Raja. He goes to Chunni's grandmother and shows her the photo of the man. He informs him about all of this to Jatil, but in the meantime he finds a dupatta in Radha's bag having the same bead he found earlier, he confronts her that she was in fact in the room and she lied, she confesses that she and Vikram had an affair and planned to elope with Vikram but he didn't as he planned to marry MLA's daughter, seeing this she got furious and called Vikram to come and talk, he returned as soon he dropped his fiancée and parked the card and without anyone noticing took the back stairs and confronted Radha. As she going to enter the room to tell Raghuveer about the affair, lights went out, she tells the truth and Chunni comes upstairs with the lamp, as electricity comes back they all find Raghuveer already dead, Vikram tells her to go downstairs and meanwhile Vikram tells Chunni to call on his cell from Raghuveer's phone. After this while coming back she drops the lamp on the stairs and Vikram takes the backstairs and by main gate he asks the women to come to go for the temple. Later Jatil calls SSP that he has made Radha surrender in another police station. Jatil opens the medical report and finds the medical report under the name of Raghuveer's first wife and report was of abortion, and abortion was done one day before the accident. He enquires about it from her brother Ramesh who tells him that she was here with him as Karan caught Malaria but left all of a sudden to Kanpur but when he asked on the phone he told he heard horns of the train but contradicting to this she was travelling by car. He also enquired the caretaker of the farmhouse who told that she ordered him to call whenever Raghuveer came with another woman. Investigating the farmhouse he finds the same erotic magazines, Polaroid photos, Polaroid camera and a badge of a boarding school. He visits the abortion clinic as well and watches the wedding video, too. He comes to know that Radha is being taken by police under the bridge on the orders of SSP. As Radha is being taken by Narendra Singh under the bridge the same van comes who were chasing Jatil with the butcher in it, he comes out and inspect the van as he opens the van to take out Radha, Jatil who all along was accompanying her come out and attack resulting in cross-firing in which Radha gets injured but butcher escapes, as soon as butcher reaches his home Chunni's grandmother comes from back and throws oil onto him and burns him alive. In the climax, Radha comes with Jatil in the bungalow with everyone present he starts to tell the truth, He confronts Ravi Sisodia first that he is one who gave drugs to Karan and later the school caught him and Raghuveer bailed him out. It was in fact the butcher who killed both Raghuveer's first wife and driver and burnt the bodies in the tannery on the orders of Munna Raja. Mrs. Raghuveer was tipped off by the caretaker about a female whom Raghuveer brought in the farmhouse. On peeping through a window, Mrs. Raghuveer finds out the woman is none other than Vasudha, Pramila's daughter. Vasudha was sexually abused many times by her uncle Raghuveer who took perverse photos of her and had sex with her. As a result of Vasudha's abortion, she was expelled from school. On 16th Chunni filed a missing report for her father (the driver who was murdered with Mrs. Raghuveer during their fateful car ride back from Kanpur). The case got closed without due investigation. It is revealed that Vasudha killed her uncle because when she confronted him with the truth, he dismissed her claims and insulted her and asked her to kill herself. In a fit of rage, Vasudha she takes out his gun and shoot him point blank. Later, Vasudha takes out her dupatta and puts it in the Radha's bag. The change of dupatta is noticed by Jatil in the wedding video while he is surveying the footage for clues. It is also revealed that Mrs Raghuveer had called Pramila to tell her about the fact that her daughter Vasudha was being sexually abused by her husband Raghuveer. After the truth is shared with Pramila, she is shocked but uses the opportunity to bury the truth. Mrs. Raghuveer was originally going to go back to her brother's home but Pramila begs herto come to back Kanpur. In the meantime, Pramila reaches out in desperation to Munna Raja (the local MLA and friend of the family) and hints at killing Mrs. Raghuveer who in on route back to Kanpur. She is afraid that Mrs. Raghuveer will take them out of their property to avoid any controversy. Pramila uses the opportunity to broker a deal with Raghuveer to get a lion's share of the property transferred on her son Vikram's name so that she is paid for her efforts while nurturing the family. Munna Raja is revealed to have bought Radha from his father for Raghuveer to placate his sexual desires. After being confronted with the truth, her son Vikram shuns her in disgust. Karuna cries in disbelief. Karan is absent from the scene. Vasudha is teary eyed and in shock that her mother tried to save her perpetrator. Pramila kills herself to save face. During Pramila's cremation, Vasudha tells Jatil the truth. Jatil goes back to his normal life with his mother who is hell bent on finding a suitable match for him so he can get married. He catches up with Radha's train and subtly asks her to spend her life with him, which she shyly accepts when they both romantically bump heads with each other. ===== Esteban Estévez, a mystery novel writer, must finish his new work, so in search of inspiration, he moves to an isolated cabin in the woods with his wife, Cristina, and his assistant, Federico. Secretly, Federico had been renting the cabin to a mysterious woman whom he urges to leave the house before Esteban and Cristina arrive. While leaving, the woman decides to keep an uncomfortable thing inside the house: a trunk containing a corpse. ===== Two persons lifelong friendship takes a sour turn when one of them wins a court case and gets a hefty settlement. After this he considers his friend, who is a barber, to be of lower stature and goes back on his word to marry his daughter to his friend's son whom he now considers to be worthless as he has no job and is a barber's son. How the barber's son tries to woo and marry her despite her fathers resistance forms the crux of the movie. ===== The Glamour is a novel in which a cameraman becomes an amnesiac. ===== Castles is a book details castles from history, myth, and fantasy with narrative text by David Day and drawings and paintings by Alan Lee. ===== The Songbirds of Pain is a collection of 13 science fiction short stories. ===== Savoy Dreams is a book about Manchester-based publisher Savoy Books. ===== Nora is a beautiful music student who wants to be a violinist like her late father, but finds out that people focus more on her stunning good looks than her talent, much to her chagrin. When she finds out that the virtuous Bulgarian orchestra director Sándor Horváth is coming to Mexico, she will do the impossible to meet him in person, and on the way, she will be involved in a hilarious series of accidents caused by her looks. In the meantime, a neighbor of hers, the dentist Gerardo, will try to confess to her a couple of things that will end up making her reflect on life and love. ===== Carlo Cofield, a restless WWII vet in New York City, alternates between work at the Atlantic Novelty Company and hanging out at the Treble Bar listening to the Quo Vadis Quartet. Impulsively entering an office of Seaspray Swimming Pools, he pitches a sale to a client on Long Island. A condition of his making this sale is his being transferred to the Seaspray office in LA. During his flight to the Coast he places his neck-tie in an air-sickness bag for disposal, never to be worn again. In LA, he meets Vic Salter and his chimp Simeon in a bar up on Sunset. Vic introduces Carlo to hit songwriter Prescott Tom, whose sister Toby takes him to the beach to see the body builders. Carlo joins them to get close to the beautiful Jocelyn, but eventually he finds happiness and fulfillment with Toby. ===== The plot description in the 24 February 1917 issue of Moving Picture World reads: Daniel Mylrea is the son of the Bishop of Man, the baron of the Isle of Man, whose temporal power is higher even than that of the Deemster, or governor. The Bishop desires Dan to become a minister, but he prefers to be a fisherman. The Deemster of Man has a son and a daughter, Mona and Ewan. Dan and Mona are in love. She consents to marry him when he can obtain her father's consent. Ewan, her brother, decides to become a clergyman, even in the face of his father's insistence that he take up business as a vocation. The Deemster opposes Dan's suit for Mona's hand because he has fallen from his high estate as the son of the Bishop by becoming a fisherman. His dislike turns to open hatred when Dan endeavors to borrow money from Ewan, whom he thought his friend, to pay off the crew of his boat. Dan had squandered his earnings of the season in drink. Ewan refuses Dan the loan, who makes him a bitter enemy by knocking him down on his taunt that spending money in drink is as bad as theft. Dan is now opposed in his love for Mona by both her father and brother. The Deemster forbids Dan to come to his house to visit her. Despite this, he sees her at night. Though this meeting is innocent in intent, the Deemster uses it to inflame the mind of Ewan against Dan, whom he supposes has dishonored his sister. Arming himself with a knife, Ewan seeks Dan and comes upon him at his cabin while he is mending his nets. They quarrel and Ewan falls backward over a cliff and is killed. Dan's crew of fishermen throw the body into the sea, hoping to hide his death, but the tide sweeps it ashore. It is discovered and suspicion of murder falls on Dan. He is arrested by the Deemster's constables and committed to jail, where he is visited at night by his father, the Bishop, who gives him an opportunity to escape. Dan refuses to go, feeling that he must atone for Ewan's death. Dan is tried on Tynwald Hill, the ancient law mount. The Deemster insists that the Bishop shall exercise his legal prerogative as the highest civil power on the isle and sit at this trial. He aims to force the Bishop to sentence his own son on the gallows. Dan is convicted. The Deemster insists on the death sentence being passed by the Bishop, who, instead of condemning Dan to be hanged, decrees that his son shall be cut off from the people, no tongue to speak to him, no hand to touch him, and. in death, no hand to bury him. Dan is driven away, and for seven years lives alone in a hut by the sea. Then a plague strikes the people of Man. The Bishop has learned of a monk in Ireland who has discovered an antidote for the pestilence and sends for him. The monk comes to the isle on a vessel which is wrecked on the shore near Dan's desolate hut. He dies in Dan's arms, who then dons the monk's garb and carries the antidote to the people, as he had been commanded by the dying cleric. When there is but one powder of the antidote left Dan learns that the Deemster is a victim of the plague. When he faces his enemy to minister to him. he finds himself stricken. Either he or the Deemster must die. Revealing himself to the Deemster he chooses to die himself, hopeless under his father's irrevocable sentence to a living death. Giving the Deemster the healing powder he staggers away to his hut. There he is followed by Mona and dies in her arms. ===== Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, is held guilty for the murder of her husband, photographer Gabriel Berenson. Due to a plea of diminished responsibility, she is admitted to a secure forensic unit called the Grove. Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist with a keen interest in the Berenson case, successfully applies for a position at the Grove. At his request, he is placed in charge of Alicia, who has not spoken since the day of the murder. Although she remains mute during their therapy sessions, Alicia gives Theo her diary. In it, she describes being watched in her home by a masked man in the weeks before the murder. To learn more about Alicia, Theo contacts her cousin. He narrates an incident from their childhood that had happened shortly after her mother's suicide. Alicia's father, in deep mourning for his wife, wished out loud that Alicia were dead instead. Theo understands that this has had a deep impact on her psyche. He repeats the episode back to her, which induces her to speak. She tells him that the masked man entered her house and murdered Gabriel. It is revealed that Theo was the masked man. He had broken into the Berenson house to confront Gabriel, who had been having an affair with Theo's wife. Holding them at gunpoint, Theo had given Gabriel the choice to save either himself or his wife, and he chooses the former. Theo left without shooting either of them, as he had only intended to expose Gabriel's selfishness. Gabriel's betrayal reminds Alicia of her father, and she killed him. On hearing the news, Theo planned to help Alicia recover from her trauma by being her therapist. When Alicia tells Theo the false story of the masked man, he realizes that she recognizes him. He attempts to murder her through a drug overdose. Unbeknownst to Theo, Alicia records the events before losing consciousness in her diary, which is found by the police. They go to Theo's house and start reading him Alicia's final entry, while he feels a sense of relief at being caught. ===== Cheung Lei-fong 'Fong', who works in a bridal gown rental shop in Golden Plaza, Prince Edward, is in the 8th year of her relationship with Edward Yan, who runs his business as a wedding photographer in the same shopping mall. They are renting a flat above the mall. Despite their plan to move out of the area, Edward's mother negotiates with the owner about buying the flat, much to Fong's dismay, but Edward simply shrugs it off. Fong learns that the marriage certificate of a divorcee bears a remark and begins to worry about her past. Ten years ago, when she severed ties with her parents, she was introduced by her friend Yee to an agent and entered a sham marriage marriage with a mainlander. The next day, she is told by marriage registration office that she is still legally married to Yang Shuwei, whom she has little memory about, as the agent failed to file for divorce on her behalf. At a loss of what to do, Fong attempts to seek help from Yee, only to be led to a public proposal party. Before Fong can respond, Edward puts the engagement ring on her finger. She declines to hold a wedding banquet for fear that her secret will be exposed. Fong posts a tracing notice for Yang on a newspaper and he finally shows up. He agrees to jointly file for divorce, which will take immediate effect, only if Fong helps him in applying for a One-way Permit, which will allow him to apply for emigration to New York City. Fong would rather wait for unilateral divorce to take effect, but her plan is frustrated as Edward's mother decides to hold a grand banquet the next year. Left with no alternatives, Fong agrees to fake daily life photos with Yang and Yang thrusts a pile of cash into her hands. Yang notices Edward constantly bombards Fong with instant messages and questions her decision to give up her freedom. Edward discovers a copy of her marriage record in her handbag and furiously questions her. Fong confesses to her past and expresses deep regrets. The pair has a brief fight but quickly makes up. The next morning, Fong has to travel to Fuzhou for a face-to-face interview, which Edward attempts to stop but in vain. She meets Yang's girlfriend and overhears that she is pregnant, forcing Yang to rethink his migration plan. Keeping mobile data switched off during her journey, Fong returns to Hong Kong but her attitude towards Edward has changed. One day, a message from Yang triggers the most serious quarrel between them, with Fong disclosing for the first time her dissatisfaction about the wedding arrangements and his mother's intervention. Having abandoned his migration plan, Yang is willing to file for divorce immediately. Fong resigns from her job to get ready for her new life. However, when she returns home, she finds her turtle was released by her future mother-in-law. She rushes to a nearby pond in an attempt to recover her turtle, and complains to Edward about the loss of freedom. Edward lovingly assures her they will remain the way they have been. Early next morning, Fong leaves Edward a sticky note as a reminder of his bad habit and boards a bus to Fuzhou, where she returns the cash to Yang. When she switches on mobile data, she ignores Edward's messages and orders a long table of her own choice. ===== Sathya is a brave and tomboyish girl, who enjoys her life as it comes. She lives with her mother, grandmother and her money-minded elder sister Divya. Sathya owns her beloved late father's mechanic shed, from whom she also inherited her tomboyish nature and hangs around with her male friends. Under unforeseen circumstances, she bumps across Sudhi, a rich man who often falls victim to her antics. Sathya is in love with Sudhi, who only thinks of her as a best friend but lies about being in love with her to not hurt her feelings. Because Sathya is still recovering from a head injury, Sudhi leads her on and does not tell her the truth to protect her. However, he does want to tell her that he is already engaged to someone else and that girl is Sathya's own sister, Divya. He things become complicated as the wedding date inches closer and Sudhi faces the pressure of telling Sathya the truth. Sudhi decides to tell Sathya the truth about his feelings but faces obstacles all the time. After friend-zoning her for over a year, Sudhi confesses the truth to her. Sathya finds out that it is actually her own sister, Divya, who is going to marry Sudhi. Of course, he is still not aware of the fact that Divya is Sathya's sister even after he spots Sathya's father's photo in the house. Sathya is heartbroken to know that the love of her life is going to marry her own sister. To top it all, she has promised Sudhi that she will be with him until he is married. Sathya is also unaware of her sister's doings and how she has been deceiving Sudhi. Divya is unaware of that. She is only marrying Sudhi for his money. ===== The serial revolves around a girl named Kabani. Her passion is to pursue higher education, but due to her family situation, she is unable to continue her studies. Still, luckily she takes part in a kabaddi competition and grabs the opportunity of a scholarship in a renowned college in the city. Initially, she faces hardships in the college as she comes from the village, it becomes difficult for her to adapt to modern culture. The story heats up when she meets her half-sister Rambha, who despises her. She also happens to meet Rishi, and they both start to have feelings for each other. Rambha is envious to see them together as she has a crush on Rishi. Rambha plots numerous plans to create a rift between their relationship. The remaining episodes showcase how they succeed in love even after tackling countless conspiracies created by Rambha ===== ===== A violinist has hallucinations that show her the collapse of space and time. The visions she experiences, and the things she hears, leads her to a portal through time and space to a parallel dimension. ===== Following a car accident where he is forced off of the road by another vehicle, a man awakens with amnesia while a corpse is found in the trunk of his car, the fifth victim of a serial killer that is stalking the area. The man, John Doe, is suspected to be the killer as a result, but escapes the hospital after taking Diana, a nurse who had befriended him, hostage. John becomes determined to prove his innocence and Diana agrees to help him because her father had been convicted of murder and she refused to believe his claims that he didn't commit the murder because he couldn't have, the same thing that John insists upon. Her father had eventually hung himself and was exonerated years later, leaving Diana guilt-ridden by her refusal to believe him. John is haunted by visions of Julia Govern, one of the victims and decides to dig deeper in the hopes of finding answers. While visiting Julia's mother's house in McNabb, Illinois, John's memory flashes draw him to the nearby house of Sheriff Roger Bower who has been working with FBI agent Frank Ward to investigate the murders and John's role in them. When John breaks into the Bower house, he is attacked by Bower's son Oliver who appears to recognize him. However, John accidentally knocks Oliver out before he can learn anything about his identity from the young man. As John searches for answers, he is hunted by Mark Rosovski, the man that forced him off of the road in the first place. Rosovski snaps the neck of Diana's friend Tom who was helping them and sets an ambush. Upon finding John standing over Tom's body, Diana abandons John, believing that he is really the killer and just manipulating her. Rosovski attempts to strangle John to death, but John manages to shoot him in self-defense, escaping with Rosovski's cell phone. From a text message, John learns that someone else sent him to Tom's home to kill John while Bower, investigating the scene with Ward, identifies Rosovski as a recently paroled hitman. Diana visits the Bower house to speak with the sheriff about John and meets Oliver who informs her about the death of his mother, who resembles Diana, twenty years before and John's earlier attack on him. At the same time, John visits a library and does some online research into the murders. John learns that Bower's wife was murdered in a similar manner to the current murders and that the lead detective in Julia's murder, Michael Winslow, recently died in a gas explosion that consumed his home. Looking into reports on Michael's death, John discovers from a picture of the detective that he is in fact Michael Winslow. Realizing that the Bower's know the truth about his identity, Michael calls Ward, reveals his true identity and tells him to ask Roger Bower for more answers. When Ward calls Bower and asks about Detective Michael Winslow, the sheriff immediately becomes concerned. Determined to find answers, Michael returns to the Bower house and confronts Oliver. Oliver reveals that he and Michael were best friends, but claims that Michael did something that put Oliver and his father through hell due to his obsession with finding out the truth about the murdered girls. During the argument, Michael spots Oliver's baseball schedule and realizes that it matches up with the timing and the locations of the killings. Michael is overpowered by Oliver who has taken Diana captive as well as his intended next victim. Oliver explains that the first victim was an accident, someone that he had unintentionally hit with his car, but she had reminded him of his murdered mother. Mentally ill, Oliver would target young women who resembled his mother, kill them in a fashion matching his mother's unsolved murder and then call their mothers so that the last thing they heard was their own mother's voice. Before Oliver can kill Michael and Diana, Bower returns home and shoots Oliver dead. Sending Diana to call the police, Michael confronts Bower who confirms Michael's identity and explains that Michael had discovered that Oliver was the killer after pulling him over driving the last victim's car with her body in the trunk. Michael had called Bower first who promised to take Oliver in together, but he hired Rosovski instead to protect his son. Rosovski ran Michael off of the road on his way to meet up with Bower to make the arrest and stole his identification, believing that Michael had died in the crash, while Bower switched out his fingerprints for a John Doe from the morgue whose body he planted in Michael's house before setting the gas explosion to cover up Michael's murder. After learning that Michael had in fact survived, Bower sent Rosovski to finish the job while trying to frame Michael for the serial killings in order to protect Oliver as Bower knew that Michael would eventually figure out the truth again. Bower, who had previously had a father-son relationship with Michael before the events, expresses remorse for his actions and for not stopping Oliver sooner. As Michael meets with Ward, who has exonerated him thanks to Diana, and Oliver's body is removed from the house, Bower commits suicide out of guilt while Diana watches the events unfold from across the street. ===== After the death of her husband, Libby also loses her home and finds herself a single mother of two, Abby and Tank, with no place to live. She moves in with her mother, Marsha, an overly critical woman. Marsha, who smokes a lot and has been married multiple times, has always had a rocky relationship with Libby. After grieving her husband for 6 months, Marsha gives Libby an ultimatum pushing her to pull herself together more quickly. This proves to be the last straw for Libby, deciding she can no longer take living with her mother. Libby and her two children move to Aunt Jean's goat farm in central Texas looking for a fresh start. Upon arriving at the farm, Aunt Jean instructs James O'Connor, her farm manager, to teach Libby the ropes of keeping up the farm. Libby is not thrilled about the idea, but accepts because she needs a job. Slowly, Libby and the children start getting used to their new life at the farm. Libby develops her farm skills and begins bonding with James O'Connor. One night, they accidentally lock themselves in the farm's big refrigerator, having to spend the night together until Russ saves them the next morning. Another day, they go to the market to sell cheese and they run into three of Libby's old friends, who are mean and laugh at Libby for being dressed like a farm worker and having struggled after losing her husband. The friends are clearly attracted to James, so he kisses Libby in front of them to upset them. The children also begin bonding with James, who enjoys playing with Tank and teaching Abby how to defend herself from a bully at her new school who picks on her for having a limp, which she got in the car accident that killed her father. Abby gets suspended from school for punching her bully and, although Libby is upset with James for teaching her karate, she realizes Abby trusted James to tell her about the bullying issues while she had been too afraid to talk about it with Libby and adding to her stress. Later in the film Abby is suspended again for using curse words with her bully, who had hit her in the head. James drives Libby to school to pick Abby up, and when he runs into her bully, he threatens him. The family also meets and bonds with Aunt Jean's boyfriend, Russ McAllen, and his granddaughter, Sunshine. One night, Sunshine takes Libby to an abandoned house which she says belongs to Aunt Jean, but she hasn't lived there since her husband, Frank, died. Sunshine suggests Libby try to communicate with her dead husband. Although Libby doesn't take the idea of talking with the dead too seriously, she does have a sentimental and raw moment delivering a monologue as if she were talking to Danny. The fire they had made suddenly goes out, leaving Libby thinking maybe Danny was in fact able to hear her. Throughout the next days we slowly see Libby acquire a sense of closure about her husband's death. During Aunt Jean's birthday party, we learn more about James. After 5 years of marriage, his wife fell for another man and asked for a divorce. A few months after the divorce, she had a stroke and required full-time care from a nurse. James had stepped in to help her constantly, as her new boyfriend had left her as soon as things got hard. One day, Libby decides to visit the big abandoned house again and finds a picture of her as a baby with Aunt Jean and Frank. She confronts Aunt Jean about it, finding out that Marsha had abandoned her as a newborn and left her at that house at the care of her grandparents. However, due to their delicate health, it was Aunt Jean who had cared for her for 4 years. After 4 years, Marsha came back for the grandmother's funeral and upon seeing how happy Aunt Jean was with Libby, took her back. Libby drives to Marsha's home to confront her about it. Marsha says she was only 18 at the time and needed time to mature, to which Libby replies that she should have just left her with Aunt Jean and she could have had a better life. Libby goes back to the farm and asks Aunt Jean to let her restore the house, so she can live there with her children, assuring her that she will continue to take care of the farm. As much as she has lost during the past year, Libby has finally found a place that feels like home. In the end scene, we see Libby fixing the house when James comes by to tell her he had been helping his ex-wife move in with her parents, so they could take care of her. Bringing closure to that chapter in his life, James tells Libby he is back and ready to continue working on the farm. They are seen kissing as the credits start rolling. ===== A middle-aged aerospace engineer is fired. He is unable to find a new job, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage starts to break up. ===== Four people (both authors and the Adams married couple from New York) bought a brand new Ford with a "noble mouse color" and crossed America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and back in two months (late 1935-early 1936). The authors: * deeply detailed ordinary life of Americans of that time; * They acquaint the reader with many American celebrities including Ernest Hemingway, Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan Jr., Albert Rhys Williams, Francis Townsend, Joseph Steffens, Bette Davis, etc.; * Described many cities and towns in America: New York, Chicago, Kansas, Oklahoma, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, El Paso, San Antonio, New Orleans and the US capital – Washington DC ; * They visited an Indian wigwam and a Mexican village; * Periodically meet with Russian emigrants, including Molokans in San Francisco ; * They talked about some of the national sports: rodeo, wrestling, American football and Mexican bullfighting ; * They climbed to the roof of the Empire State Building in New York and descend deep underground into the Carlsbad caves ; * Described in detail the unique American invention – the Sing Sing prison "electric chair" and the creation of the first light bulb and phonograph by Edison ; * Explained the most beautiful landscapes of America found in the prairies, mountains, national parks and even deserts ; * Visited the White House, where President Roosevelt held a conversation United States with reporters; * Explains in detail about the production of films in Hollywood; * In Hollywood they spent two weeks writing a screenplay for Lewis Milestone. The authors criticized the standard life of Americans, their intellectual passivity, especially young people, and their gullibility. At the same time, the authors admired American roads and excellent service, work ethic, cleanliness and a clear organization in everyday life and at work. From "One-Story America" the Soviet reader first learned about publicity, life on credit and the ideology of consumption (In the chapter "Mr. Ripley's Electric House"). ===== In a suite in a luxury hotel in Switzerland, Linda Savignac receives a visit from Anne Hilgar. They were once close friends, until Anne's husband, George, left her for Linda, seven years ago. Anne has come from London at Linda's request to discuss George's health. During a routine examination, inoperable and terminal cancer has been detected. Linda explains that George has not been told, and she wants to discuss which of them ought to break the news to him. At first their conversation is stiff, but they become more relaxed as they recall episodes from the days of their friendship. As they are laughing about one of them, George arrives and is taken aback to find his estranged wife and current partner in amicable conversation. His first thought is that one of his and Anne's children must be ill, but she reassures him, and passes off her visit as "a little jaunt". George, who has made his doctor tell him the truth about his condition, realises that Anne and Linda have been discussing which of them is to tell him he is dying, and he tells them that he already knew. Linda, in tears, retreats to the bedroom, leaving George and Anne together. He asks if she was still in love with him when he left her; she says she was not, but cared for him deeply and misses him greatly. He says he wants to come back to her for the last months of his life.Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 517–518 In the second scene, later the same day, George and Linda are in evening dress, preparing to take the boat to Evian to gamble at the casino. He outlines his plans for the short time he has left: a fortnight with her in Capri, back to London to put his financial and other affairs in order, and then return to the family house with Anne. Linda is distressed at the thought of his returning to Anne, but he tells her that he loves them both in different ways. She says that the last seven years, spent with him, have been the happiest of her life, and that she will always be grateful to him. Anne arrives. The three drink champagne together. Anne suggests that she should go back to London straight away, but Linda urges her to stay. George tells them both that he intends to go on being positive about life until "that last bewildering second" before death. The sound of the hooter of the Evian steamer is heard and the three go out together to catch it.Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 518–519 ===== During the Angolan Civil War CIA agent Michael Smith is working with UNITA rebels. He is captured by the Angolan Armed Forces and sent to a prison to be interrogated by an East German named Major Schneider. Smith's father, retired US Marine Corps Colonel Bill Smith has no faith in the United States Government freeing his son. The Colonel travels to South West Africa where he pays the mysterious Elia for accurate information about his son's location of captivity. Colonel Smith hires seven mercenaries that he will lead into Angola to rescue his son. Captain Simpson, the leader of a security force of a diamond mine has a man keeping his eye on the Colonel fearing that he may be a diamond smuggler. Elia's wife Opal is carrying on an illicit relationship with Simpson and informs him that the Colonel murdered his security man, in reality he was murdered by Rick Weston, the leader of Smith's private army. Rick informed the Colonel he was an Angolan secret agent. Elia then discovered that either Col. Smith paid him in counterfeit money or the money was replaced with counterfeit money in his safe. Entering Angola, the mercenaries team up with Sekassi, the Jonas Savimbi type leader of the rebels to support their rescue of Michael Smith. ===== About a hundred years after the events in Semiosis, a new expedition to Pax from Earth is launched. Contact with the Pax colonists had been lost soon after they landed on the planet. On Pax the new arrivals find descendants of the original colonists living side-by-side in a glass city with alien arthropod-like Glassmakers, and Stevland, a sentient rainbow bamboo. Stevland oversees a fragile peace between the Pax humans and the Glassmakers. The Earthlings, as the new arrivals are called, interfere with this delicate balance, causing divisions in the colony and amongst themselves. The Earthlings partake in an expedition with the Pax humans and Glassmakers to explore the plains surrounding the city. There they discover colonies of sentient corals who begin infiltrating the city's territory. The Earthlings, the Pax humans and the Glassmakers put aside their differences and unite with Stevland to fight the corals. Stevland takes remote control of one of the Earthling's heli-planes using their radio network and destroys the corals. Once calm is restored to the city, most of the Earthlings return home with specimens of Pax's fauna and flora, including some of Stevland's seeds. The seeds are planted on Earth and grow into a young rainbow bamboo named Levanter, who becomes aware of his sentience and soon learns how to exploit it. ===== The Time Corps agents are sent back in time to investigate strange events involving the Three Musketeers. Like the novels of Alexandre Dumas, the players have to contend with the rival guards of Cardinal Richelieu as well as the political intrigue of the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. ===== Daybreak on a Different Mountain is a novel in which a fighter and a mystical poet leave their sealed city to go on a quest. ===== The Book of the Stars is a novel in which the heroine Yaleen dies, and is resurrected by her world's god the Worm. ===== Rookie CIA field operative Isabel Alfaro works alongside infamous CIA legend Wayne Addison to bring down Rafael Bautista, Mexico's most vicious and brilliant narco. Her mission brings her into conflict with Eduardo Yzaguirre, her former boyfriend and the current Mayor of Mexico City, the cleanest and most inspirational politician in the country. ===== Kenji (Tasuku Emoto) receives a call from his father asking him to come home to Akita for the wedding of Naoki (Kumi Takiuchi), an old friend he has not seen in many years. Upon their reunion, it is revealed they once were lovers and quickly fall into an affair, which they agree will last only until Naoki's husband-to-be, a military man away on business, returns home for the wedding. Over the course of five days they reconnect, have a lot of sex, talk about their past together, other relationships, and the after-effects the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on their lives. The film is primarily a two-hander, with the only other characters appearing incidentally or offscreen. ===== The film follows the life of Pete Souza, the former Chief Official White House Photographer to former president Barack Obama, as photographer to president as Souza uses his photography as commentary to understand where America is now. ===== Fishing boat co-owners Jim McClain and Sid Lammon are taking their final sailing trip in San Pedro Bay before selling the boat and retiring. They meet the buyer and his lawyer Wheeler at the dock and, while receiving separate checks, are observed by three fishing boat owners, Julio Salvi, Rudy Petrovic and Joe Victor who says that his boat is better, but is not for sale and Julio laughs bitterly that, "every fishin' boat in this harbor's for sale". McClain is looking forward to sleeping late, but wakes up as usual at 4 am the next morning, goes to the dock and finds Sid watching the boat sail away to more productive fishing waters in Alaska. They go to the Flatfish Café run by their old friend Vangie Cruise who complains that the neighborhood is going downhill. Sid takes out ten thousand in cash to show her and the money attracts the attention of bar patron Starkey, one of two unsavory members of a work crew assigned to pave the dock. When McClain returns to his apartment house, police officers are waiting for him to identify Sid's body. During questioning by police detective in charge, Harry Gates, McClain displays his badge, identifying him as a retired member of the San Pedro police department and tells him that Sid was his longtime friend as well as fishing business partner and that he intends to find the killer. Sid had planned to take his family to a new life on an Iowa farm and, when McClain goes to comfort his widow Annie and two teenage sons, there is a "SOLD" sign in front of the house. Unwrapping his old service revolver, McClain goes to the dock, commiserates with Rudy and then goes to the scene of the crime where Gates and his partner Jerry Cross finish examining the body chalk outline, conclude that the murder will likely go unsolved and drive off ignoring McClain calling out to them. McClain then visits the dock paving site to question Starkey but, as he becomes insultingly intransigent, McClain punches him in the jaw, sending him flying into a water and cement slurry. McClain then drives to police headquarters where Gates takes him to meet with Lt. DeNisco who has been informed about the assault and warns McClain that if he interferes one more time he will find himself standing in front of a judge. McClain is drinking at "The Tides" bar and grill and hears Julio, Rudy and Joe sitting in a booth complaining about crime and hard economic times. The next morning he is at the airport saying goodbye to Annie and the boys as they accompany Sid's body to Iowa. Annie's final words to him are, "You find that man. You find that man who killed Sid." McClain spends the evening at Vangie's place, returns in the morning to the dock and then goes to ask Lt. DeNisco to be reinstated as a police detective. When DeNisco refuses, McClain's next step is to visit his old friend Irv Sutherland at the San Pedro Dispatch who prints the headline "SPPD Rejects Former Hero". McClain's former colleague Capt, Scofield overrules Lt. DeNisco and welcomes McClain back, calling him "Big Jim McClain", but warning that, "You're fifty- two years old" and makes him take a full training course at the police academy. McClain passes with high grades despite DeNisco's interference. On the first day, DeNisco assigns Gates to be McClain's partner and, while Gates chases a grocery store robber who takes a shot at him, it is McClain who punches him in the jaw, reads him his rights while pointing a gun to his ear and then cuffs him. Jerry Cross is working on the Lammon murder, but refuses to divulge any details to McClain. After work, Gates and McClain go to the Flatfish Café for a beer. Gates tries to discourage McClain about the prospects for finding Sid's killer, but McClain is adamant. The following morning, McClain arrives at 6:30 for his 8 am shift, sees African-American detective Miller at his desk and assumes her to be a records clerk. She explains that they share the same desk on different shifts. He is assigned a locker, discovers Gates lifting weights in the locker room and then finds a note in his mail slot that the lieutenant made an appointment for him with Dr. Michael Hallett who turns out to be the department's full-time psychologist and tells McClain that he is there for him as a "shrink" if there is ever a need to talk. A large truck arrives at a warehouse and two masked men inside the truck kill the two guards and take a million dollars' worth of Japanese electronics equipment. McClain, Gates and Cross arrive on the scene, followed by DeNisco who excludes McClain from the case and assigns Cross partnered with detective Shaner. Later that day, officers Webster and Caldwell stop a convertible for running a stop sign and spot, covered by a blanket in back seat, ship-to-shore radios and radar receivers which turn out to be stolen. The man, Eddie Grant, a known receiver of stolen goods, is booked, while the 8 mm gun that was found on him arouses Gates' curiosity. After his shift, McClain goes to eat at the Flatfish Café and listens to Vangie regret that Sid felt the need to show her the wad of money that likely caused his murder as well as her fears about the rising crime rate and asks, "Where did it all go wrong?" McClain has no answer. At his apartment, McClain packs his belongings and moves onto a houseboat the next morning. A pre-teen named Nicky Bannon comes over to the houseboat and introduces himself. His mother, Grace who lives with him in the neighboring houseboat, also comes over and reminds him that the school bus is coming. She invites McClain for coffee, tells him that she does graphic design and strikes up a friendship with him. At the start of their shift, McClain and Gates go to see Rudy and Julio and, while Gates waits from a distance, McClain engages them in conversation and gets information about the large truck that they saw parked outside the electronics warehouse that was subsequently the scene of the robbery and killing. The third fishing boat owner, Joe Victor, to whom McClain speaks separately about communications equipment stolen from fishing boats and later peddled by Eddie Grant, is evasive and, after McClain leaves, goes into his cabin and starts to smear grease on his new ship-to-shore radio. In the police car, Gates tells McClain that Eddie Grant's gun, a Japanese Nambu 8 mm, was the one used to kill Sid. McClain rushes to interrogate Grant, but is told that he was bailed out at 4am. McClain goes to police property storage, takes one of Grant's confiscated ship-to-shore radios to his houseboat and examines it for clues. When Nicky comes over, McClain explains to him how electronics parts may be useful in tracking wrongdoers. The next morning, Gates arrives and finds McClain enjoying morning coffee on Grace's boat. At headquarters, DeNisco assigns them as backup to Shaner and Cross on the warehouse case. That evening, while Nicky is away at Little League night practice, McClain and Grace make plans to go sailing and, as they share a glass of wine, Nicky returns. The next morning, McClain and Gates visit electronics repair shops and Gates helps an attractive young woman, Vicki Thomas, start her stalled sportscar. They are then assigned to replace Cross and Shaner at the warehouse where they spot the robbery truck with three men who are listening to police radio and hear DeNisco's instructions to wait for backup. The truck starts driving away and one of the men fires a shotgun at McClain and Gates, shattering their windshield. Gates runs after the truck, climbs on top and shoots at the drivers. The gunman jumps out, fires at Gates and is then shot by McClain. DeNisco is angry about the shooting and the flouting of proper procedure, but lets McClain and Gates borrow his car. They find an electronics shop owner who recognizes Grant's stolen equipment and points McClain to Joe Victor, the boat owner. McClain, accompanied by Gates, goes to confront Joe and accuses him of killing Sid Lammon for the money in his pocket. Joe runs, grabs a flare gun and points it at McClain who shoots, killing Joe. In the aftermath, McClain is thinking of turning in his badge, but Gates talks him out of it. DeNisco arrives on the scene and says, "I'm not even going to ask." ===== right Part one In the street in front of Hotel Bon Coeur (), Lantier is flirting with Virginie. Gervaise arrives and follows Lantier inside. In their room, Lantier and Gervaise start a fight but they stop when their friend Coupeau enters the place. Lantier asks her for money. After giving him her purse, Gervaise takes her bundle of clothes and leaves for her work. Lantier packs his things, puts his trunk on a cab and leaves after having given a note to a young boy. Gervaise arrives at the public wash house, where she begins her toil. Virginie, one of Gervaise co-workers, taunts her about the loss of her lover. Soon the boy arrives at the laundry and gives Gervaise Lantier's note that reads: "I have had enough of your jealous outbursts, and have decided to leave you. Don't worry about me: I have found consolation. Lantier." Virginie looks at her with a triumphant sneer and under her breath makes slurring remarks. Gervaise turns on her, giving her a terrible beating. In front of the wash house, Gervaise sees Virginie enter a cab with Lantier and drive away. A few months later, Coupeau meets Gervaise in the park and proposes marriage to her. Gervaise happily accepts and on their way home they stop at a café to inform their friends of the coming event. A drunk man starts a brawl and is arrested by a policeman. Gervaise makes Coupeau swear that he will stop drinking. The couple invite their friends to a party for their wedding in a guinguette. They dance to the sound of a barrel organ. Four years later, Virginie takes her revenge. She has never forgotten the humiliation she endured that eventful day in the laundry, when Gervaise attacked her. One day, Gervaise and her little daughter Nana carry Coupeau his lunch to the building site where he is working. While he is having lunch with them, Virginie climbs upon the scaffolding and loosens some of the boards. As Coupeau climbs the ladder to return to work he stops for a moment to wave goodbye to his dear ones, when suddenly the planks give way under his feet and he is precipitated to the ground below. The other workmen who hurry to the scene raise the injured man and carry him to his home. Part Two right Coupeau, now cured meets his friends, including Goujet and Virginie at a café, all carrying flowers. They drink a glass of champagne and leave together. Coupeau and his friends arrive at Gervaise's laundry shop where she has invited them for her birthday. Coupeau drinks heavily and falls asleep on the table. Lantier, who had watched the scene from outside, comes in and tries to kiss Gervaise. Goujet throws him out. Coupeau goes to a café and his friends convince him to start drinking again absinthe. Lantier bets that he can drink eight shots of spirit while the clock strikes eight. Coupeau loses because he is only able to finish six before he is helplessly intoxicated. Gervaise enters the place and, seeing the condition of her husband, begs him to go home with her, but he refuses to move. Desperate, she starts drinking with him. Goujet tries to take her away but Coupeau starts a fight with him. Finally Coupeau is attacked with delirium tremens and after a difficult struggle with his companions, is carried a raving maniac to the hospital. Part Three. right Two years later, Coupeau is authorised to leave the hospital. He is sternly warned by a doctor against the use of strong liquors. The smallest glass, he is told, will cause immediate death. He may, however, partake of a very little red wine. He is accompanied home by a friend, who stops on the way to purchase a bottle of wine. Gervaise is very happy that Coupeau is back at home. After an effusive greeting, she takes her basket and hastens off to purchase some food for him. While Gervaise is away, Virginie slips into the room and substitutes a bottle of spirit for the wine. Soon Coupeau feels the need of a drink and goes to pick up the bottle. He raises it to his mouth and is flabbergasted when he realises it is not wine. Burning with the desire for liquor, he drains the bottle of its contents and is immediately seized with delirium tremens. After much suffering, he falls prostrate upon the floor, where his lifeless form is found by his unhappy wife upon her return. She sees Virgine looking triumphantly at the dead body and starts a fight with her. Goujet comes in, separates the two women and throws out Virginie. Other friends come in as he tries to comfort Gervaise. ===== In 1983, during the last hot period of the Cold War, two Russian cosmonauts engaged in an orbital research mission experience something inexplicable while returning to earth: they see something moving outside their ship. The spacecraft malfunctions on re-entry, and only one of the cosmonauts, Konstantin, survives, but it is clear that something is wrong with him. He is taken to an isolated military facility, where Dr. Tatyana Klimova, a young psychiatrist under review for her controversial approaches, is brought in, recruited by the officer in charge, Colonel Semiradov. She is not told the real reason for Konstantin's quarantine, but she soon finds out that the cosmonaut brought back an extraterrestrial life-form inside his own body without knowing it himself. The creature comes out during the night, while its host is asleep. Colonel Semiradov reveals to her that she is here to determine how to separate Konstantin and the creature, since they seem to have developed a completely symbiotic relationship, with the creature living in the esophagus of the cosmonaut and benefiting from his nutrients, while Konstantin has made an impossible recovery from his injuries received when crash-landing. Tatyana confronts Konstantin by telling him she knows he has a child whom he has abandoned at an orphanage, implying he is not a national hero but a coward who does not care about his own son, with the purpose of stressing him. Thanks to this, she discovers that the creature is affected by hormone levels and that one of the videos she has been shown has been altered, which leads to her discovering a horrifying truth: the creature does not feed from whatever Konstantin eats, but rather eats live humans, and that the military has been feeding it prisoners. The creature shows itself to its victims in order to augment their fear, which makes the human brain release cortisol, from which the alien obtains its nutrition. Disgusted and horrified by this, she confronts Semiradov, only to be told that the real reason they are here is to find a way to turn the alien into a weapon that they can control. He asks her if she will cooperate, to which she seems to agree. Later on, and because she has developed a caring relationship with Konstantin, she takes him on a run around the facility, and under the guise of exercising she informs him that he has a parasitic creature inside him and the plans of the military for him. They agree to evade surveillance and meet later on, when she shows him the bodies of the people the creature killed, and the still living astronaut who was in the spacecraft with Konstantin: he was not infected because he had cancer, which had gone undetected by the tests done before the mission, but which the creature must have been able to sense. It is revealed that Konstantin was well aware of his unwanted guest and of what the creature does when it is not attached to him. Tatyana is shocked at this revelation, and Konstantin tells her that he has a son that he must take care of and he will do anything in order to get out of this place. Tatyana finally determines that she wants to help Konstantin and with the help of another doctor inside the facility, stages an escape. She shows Konstantin a syringe with drugs that will simulate Addison's disease, the same type of disease the other cosmonaut had. Technically, she reasons this would force the creature out, and hopefully, it would die within the hour outside its host. As they make their escape, they are ambushed by Semiradov, who sends a response team after them. Tatyana is injured, and Konstantin asks her for the syringe. Upon injecting himself, the alien emerges and kills the team. Tatyana and Konstantin run away, but they do not make it far before Konstantin collapses. Tatyana realizes that Konstantin cannot survive without the alien, as they have become completely symbiotic, and she surrenders when Semiradov catches up with them. The Colonel has brought the now heavily injured creature in order to force it inside Konstantin: the latter however has the creature kill Semiradov and his companions, setting Tatyana and himself finally free. However, as the authorities descend on them, alerted to the monstrous experimentation of Semiradov, a revived Konstantin shoots himself in order to kill the creature, and himself alongside it. Sometime later, Tatyana adopts Konstantin's son, and it is revealed she herself lived in an orphanage as a young girl. ===== During the 1500s Ming Dynasty, a heroine named Luo Ming Yi (Carrie Wong) sneaks into the heavily guarded imperial jail to rescue her senior, the famous doctor Li Shizhen (Xu Bin). She is stopped by the agent Bi Zheng (Qi Yu Wu), a Brocaded Robe Guard under the command of the powerful Eunuch Sun (Bryan Wong). The two engage in a fierce fight and unknowingly travel through time to Singapore in 2020. They encounter the descendants of Li Shizhen, who now owns a failing traditional restaurant. Luo Ming Yi and Bi Zheng have no choice but to cooperate and help the restaurant. But their time-travelling feat is noticed by the evil Eunuch Sun, who has plans to take over both worlds. Can the two martial artists stop the evil plan before it is too late? ===== Decades prior to the start of the novella, a civil war between Earth Central Governance and its colony planets lead to the loss of Earth's authority. Millions of people died as a result of warfare and biological terrorism. The Order of St. Rita is a group of Roman Catholic nuns who live on the spaceship Our Lady of Impossible Constellations. The ship is a living organism resembling a slug. They travel to rural colony planets to perform charity work; as part of their mission, they visit a colony on the moon Phoyongosa III, where they bless marriages and perform baptisms. The Mother Superior is suffering from the early stages of dementia, leading to a crisis among the sisters. At the same time, the Earth Central Governance sends a priest to join the ship's crew, reasserting control over the previously independent sisters. Sister Gemma decides to leave the order when she falls in love with an engineer named Vauca. The ship received a distress signal from Phoyongosa III; the colonists are suffering from ringeye, a deadly plague. The nuns and Vauca's crew respond, only to find that Earth Central Governance has unleashed the plague in order to trigger another war and regain their power. The Mother Superior reveals that she was previously a member of Earth Central Governance before becoming a nun, and that her husband designed ringeye as a biological warfare agent. As penance, she takes the Our Lady on a suicide attack against Earth's ships. This allows the other nuns to join Vauca's ship, land safely, and save some of the colonists. After this, remaining nuns declare independence from the Catholic Church and vow to continue their mission of servitude and charity. ===== Following the events of "Stolen", Phil Coulson returns to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters, the Lighthouse, with Daisy Johnson's sister Kora, an Inhuman with the ability to shoot energy beams from her hands. Despite her affiliation with the anarchist Nathaniel Malick, Kora professes her desire to become a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., much to the others' skepticism. Revealing that the S.H.I.E.L.D. team created a parallel timeline when they traveled to 1931, Kora claims that she wants to improve this course of events by killing people who will go on to do bad things, including the young Grant Ward, who went on to betray Coulson's team in the original timeline. Meanwhile, Malick, John Garrett, and a crew of mercenaries have flown into space in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mobile headquarters, Zephyr One. Taking Agents Deke Shaw and Jemma Simmons prisoner, Malick uses a brain-scanning device to scan her memories and determine her husband's Leo Fitz's location. In one of these memories, Malick learns Fitz and Simmons spent an extended period of time together before she was sent back into the past. However, he is unable to determine Fitz’s location due to the presence of a brain implant in Simmons' head. When she is released from the brain machine, Simmons does not remember who Fitz is. Concurrently, Johnson plans to use a quinjet to reach Zephyr One and rescue Simmons and Shaw before being joined by Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie and Daniel Sousa. While in space, Mack reassures Johnson that they will be alright if this is indeed their last mission together, as predicted by their late ally Enoch. Encouraged by Mack, who also threatens him not to break her heart, Sousa teases Johnson about her superhero nickname "Quake". Melinda May interrogates Kora, but inadvertently provokes her into knocking out the Lighthouse’s power supply, enabling the Chronicom Sibyl to hack into its computer system and download a list of S.H.I.E.L.D. bases. After discovering his LMD body allows him to read computer code, Coulson attempts to slow Sibyl down while May tells Kora Malick killed her mother in an attempt to sway her away from his side, but Garrett arrives and teleports her onto Zephyr One. As Johnson, Mack, and Sousa approach Zephyr One, a fleet of Chronicom spaceships rendezvous with it and proceed to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.’s facilities, including the Triskelion. ===== The Dead Kingdom is book 3 of the "Seven Citadels" tetralogy. ===== Broken Symmetries is a novel in which the powerful US/Japanese TERAC accelerator in Hawaii is surrounded by scientific and political infighting. ===== The Truth About the Flaming Ghoulies is a novel in which a group of rock musicians in the late 1980s detonate themselves and Chicago with a multimegaton blast. ===== The Frozen City is a novel in which a city is under a cruel regime, with movement restricted by mazelike streets. ===== For the then-debt-ridden Anthony Ler, he knew to himself that given his precarious financial situation, he would be at a disadvantage in gaining custody of his daughter because he did not have the ability to raise her well. Another factor was because of his debts incurred from all the failed businesses he engaged in and the pending sale of their flat. For this, Ler began to contemplate the most cold-hearted intention motivated from the darkest depths of his heart by money - murder. He planned to murder his wife, in order to gain custody of their daughter and the full ownership of his flat; so that his debts will ultimately be paid off from the proceeds promised by the sale of the flat. Anthony Ler would begin his first move by meeting a group of five teenage boys gathering outside a McDonald's restaurant in Pasir Ris in April 2001. He befriended the group of boys and act as a mentor figure to them, and even went on meeting them a few times (there are some occasions where a few girls known to the boys would be present). After they first met, Ler asked the boys if they dared to kill people and when one of them asked how much he was willing to pay, Ler asked them to name their price. One of the boys, a 15-year-old secondary school student whom Ler known for five years, replied S$1 million; another boy, a 16-year-old school drop- out named Gavin Ng Jin Wei (黄敬伟), said S$100,000; the others gave unknown prices. Ler agreed to Gavin's price, and asked them to name a target. That was when Ler expressed that his target will be his wife, whom he said he hated for not allowing her to visit his daughter frequently and everything. He said he would pay that amount to any boy who dared to do it, as well as treat them to some pretty girls. All boys perceived it as a joke. After that, in the first week of May 2001, Gavin and the 15-year-old youth, with whom Gavin were childhood friends of 11 years and fellow school mates before Gavin's drop-out from school, once again met up with Ler. Ler then once again brought up the issue of wanting his wife dead, and asked if Gavin would do it, even asking him to kill his wife by covering her mouth with one hand and slit her throat with a knife from behind. It was then Gavin Ng realised that Ler was dead serious about killing Annie Leong. Gavin was later brought to Ler's flat to practice killing by using a newspaper and knife, and being shown the photos of Leong and Avelyn. Gavin later talked to a female friend, 14-year-old Adeline Quek, about this incident, and he decided to back out after Adeline told him to not do the job. Gavin even tried to warn his 15-year-old friend to not do the job. Another youth, 22-year-old Seah Tze Howe (佘子豪), was approached by Anthony Ler to kill his wife. Like Gavin, Tze Howe also realised that Ler was serious about it when he was invited to Ler's flat one night, where he was offered $100,000 to commit the murder. Ler also said he would sold the flat and get the money from the proceeds to pay him. Tze Howe then made a suggestion to Ler, which is to hire a professional killer to carry out the murder. He later told the persistent Ler that he could not find anyone to do it. Similarly, the remaining two of the five youths, 19-year-old Kong Ka Cheong (江家聪) and 17-year-old Vickneswaran Krishnan, felt that Ler was joking and disturbed at Ler's constant mentioning of the issue of desiring his wife's death respectively. Vickneswaran, who is also known as Vick to his friends, told the court that, "I found it strange that he should mention the subject of killing his wife every time we met. I thought he was crazy". On the other hand, the 15-year-old youth, who was described as simple-minded and being too trusting by Gavin, agreed with Ler's requests to kill his wife. ===== Hitman In-nam has completed an assignment in Japan, killing a Japanese mobster Koraeda. In Thailand, Young- joo sends her daughter Yoo-min to school, and tells her that a babysitter will fetch her after school, as she meets up with real estate agents for an investment in a golf course. Later, as Yoo-min gets down from the school bus, the babysitter takes her to her husband's car and drives away, instead of going home. Realising that Yoo-min went missing, Young-joo reports to the police, and contacts Chun-sung to get In-nam for help, which In-nam rejects. The next morning, In-nam receives a message from Chun-sung that Young-joo is dead. Flashback to 8 years ago, it was known that In-nam was part of the National Intelligence Agency alongside Chun-sung, and that Young-joo and In- nam were lovers. In-nam was instructed to leave Korea without her. Present day, In-nam travels to Incheon to see Young-joo's body, and subsequently discovers that Yoo-min is his child. After visiting Chun-sung for answers, In- nam receives a call from Shimida that Ray, Koraeda's estranged younger brother, is seeking revenge on the ones involved in the murder of Koraeda. Ray subsequently kills Shimida, then flies to Incheon and kills Chun-sung, and finds out that In-nam headed to Thailand to find the kidnapped Yoo-min. He follows suit. In Bangkok, In-nam meets Young-bae, who briefs about one of the real estate agents Jong-su, who Young-joo met before her death, being a fraudster and has set up the kidnapping of Yoo-min. In-nam finds Jong-su and gets information, then leaves him to die. Meanwhile, Ray kills a gang that lied to him about having captured the babysitter. In-nam finds the babysitter's home, and tortures both her and her husband to get information about Yoo-min. Young-bae introduces Yui, a transgender woman, to In-nam for assistance. In-nam and Yui head to a building, then realise that it is a child trafficking operation meant for organ transplants. The two then know that Yoo- min already left the building for Lang Yao, Ratchaburi Province to do a heart transplant surgery. Ray arrives in the building, finally meets In-nam and they fight, with In-nam eventually escaping. Yui and one child from the building also escaped, but are arrested by the police. That night, police have raided the building, which belongs to Thai criminal organisation Chaopo. Chaopo's boss Lan instructs his men to kill In-nam and Yui. In-nam leaves for Lang Yao. Meanwhile, Yui tells the police that In-nam has gone to Lang Yao. In Lang Yao, In-nam sees Yoo-min being taken away from a football factory for surgery. In- nam gives chase, but Ray intercepts to kill him. The police have arrived, and shoot both of them. In-nam escapes from the gunfire, kills the surgeons involved before surgery and takes Yoo-min away. Chaopo's operations in Lang Yao are subsequently busted. At night, Ray storms into Lan's home and asks for help to get In-nam. Ray then visits and kills Young-bae. The next day, In-nam and Yoo-min check in to a hotel, and then he heads out to secure an escape route for the two. Returning to the hotel, he gets ambushed by Chaopo's men. As he kills his way back to the room, Ray and several Chaopo's men are already inside and Yoo-min kept in a luggage. Ray kills a few of Chaopo's men, having changed his mind, and tells the remaining men to bring In-nam to somewhere else and wait for him, as he plans to settle Yoo-min first. In the carpark, Yui sees In-nam being taken into a van, then rams the van with her pickup, and frees him. In-nam gives chase and barges into Ray's car and fight. He detonates a grenade, causing serious injuries on both of them. In-nam frees Yoo-min, when Yui arrives and he tells her to take Yoo-min and run away. He gets brutally stabbed by Ray, but then detonates another grenade inside, killing both. In-nam left a bag of cash and documents in a locker, which Yui unlocks. He hoped that she will take Yoo-min to Panama in his place in case he gets killed. Yui and Yoo-min then left for Panama and settle down there. A photo frame in the Panama house shows a photo of In-nam and a photo of Young- joo and Yoo-min side by side. ===== After Pat (Dana Ashbrook) is attacked by his wife Carmen (Claudia Ferri), his world begins to unravel as he comes to terms with her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. ===== Ranajay is an industrialist and influential person. He joins into politics. One day his wife goes missing and his sister-in-law Amrita doubts him responsible for her mysterious disappearance. She complains to police. Police inspector Sabyasachi Banerjee investigates the case. ===== While picking up his son at his college dorm, ex-agent Vic Davis meets his son's crush Erin Walton, the daughter of the nation's supreme court justice. However, Vic notices an unusual number of people on the premises watching Erin closely. When Erin reveals that her driver is not her usual escort, Vic plunges into action to rescue Erin from a kidnapping plot that puts both his and his son's lives in jeopardy. ===== Goro is a con man based in Tokyo. He works with his friends Kosuke, Jun, and Tatsuo. In a parking lot, they see a kidnapping of a man, which Goro records with his mobile phone camera. When they watch television news in their hideout, they find out that the kidnapped man is a witness to a bribe scandal of a politician Atsugi. Goro meets a fortune-teller Keiko. Keiko tells him that she is a victim of marriage fraud and has no money. Goro takes her to his hideout and they start to live together. Kosuke, Jun, and Tatsuo are killed by Risk Cover Agency's agents. A police officer Kajiwara tells Goro that RCA is working for Atsugi to cover up his bribe scandal. Goro and Keiko go to a port town. Goro recommends Keiko to break up with him, but she refuses to do so. When they hug and kiss, they are shot by a sniper. Keiko is kidnapped by RCA. With a gun in his hand, Goro raids on RCA's headquarters and kills the agents one after another. However, the agency's leader Kijima is not there. Goro finds a body which is covered with sheets, laying on a bed. Goro sneaks into a national assembly and hands out a photograph that captures Kijima kidnapping a witness. Kijima grabs Goro's left arm. It is revealed that Goro's left arm is artificial. Goro tells Kijima that he will wait outside. Side by side, Goro and Keiko walk in a crowded city. ===== The End of a Legend is a scenario in which the player witness the assassination of a national hero, and subsequently investigate who is to blame. ===== The plot revolves around three parallel stories in the style of magic realism. There is an eccentric King of rural India who can go to any extent to fulfill his dreadful wishes. Munni, a teenage girl and tightrope walker, lives with her mother. Goja, the postman who lives in jungle and suffers from meaninglessness of life. ===== The prologue of the novel starts with how Sivagami's parents were killed a day before her 5th birthday, 13 years ago. Her father Devaraya is carried away in a close caged cart by his best friend Thimma. Devaraya was a Bhoomipathi and his best friend was Thimma, the army general of Mahishmathi and the one who is later the foster father of Sivagami. Later her mother Kadambari is also carried away and as Sivagami follows her parents, she is also later put into one of the caged carts and brought to the Mahishnathi. Her mother is accused of sleeping with their family's slave Neelappa and thrown into fire by Pattaraya and the slave Neelappa is hanged in front of the audience. Her father Devaraya is given Chitravadha, a method of execution in which a man is put into a cage which rises up in the air and the person is eaten alive by eagles. Sivagami, who witnesses her parents' killing, is shocked to the core and vows to kill Maharaja Somadeva. The novel resumes at present day, 13 years after Sivagami's parents were killed. Sivagami, who is expected to execute her uncle Thimma, challenges him for a duel. ===== ===== The show story of is the love story of landlord and wrestler Devan (Jai Dhanush) and highly educated school teacher Alli (Pallavi) who has recently moved to the village. Their difference in mindset, upbringing and lifestyle makes their love story sweet and complicated at the same time. ===== Inspector Wu assigns a group of female detectives to look after a blind suspect named Piu, while a female robber who previously kidnapped him is out to retrieve some diamonds she thinks he possesses. ===== Tomilola Wright is a young advertising executive who generally lives a routine lifestyle in the city of Lagos, until one fateful night, when she goes out for her regular evening run and finds herself being a witness to a horrible crime. Tomilola then embarks on a run for her life, as she was spotted by the perpetrators of the crime. She ends up going through a lot of chaotic scenarios, as she navigates the Lagos nightlife. The entire movie revolves around her experiences in that torrid evening in her search for redemption from the perpetrators of the crime she witnessed. ===== Renee has just surprised her husband, Clay, with her younger sister, Ellen, while they are at a restaurant. This impromptu meeting persuades her that her husband is cheating on her. Devastated, Renee returns home, hesitating to talk to her husband. Soon after, Renee disappears, mysteriously. JoAnne, the couple's young daughter, does not know what to think of all these events and does not take long to bring back stories that had until then been carefully kept secret. Clay soon appears as the prime suspect in Renee's disappearance. Was this kidnapped or is it a murder? ===== Fantastic Cinema is a book that explores the history of science fiction and fantasy films. ===== The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party is a collection of 16 newly written stories. ===== This story is set during the Han Dynasty, and spans the reign of four Emperors. Wang Zhengjun enters the palace to become a lady-in-waiting, along with Fu Yao, Feng Yuan, Wang Zhaojun, and Li Yuan'er. Wang Zhengjun meets a court musician named Xiao Yu, and they develop feelings for each other. Fu Yao is ambitious, and wants to become Empress, while Feng Yuan just wishes to be happy. Li Yuan'er suffers the same fate as her aunt Lady Li, and Wang Zhaojun is married to the Chanyu of the Xiongnu Empire. One day, the Empress is holding a selection for a new Crown Princess. The Crown Prince's favorite, Consort Sima had suddenly passed away after being frightened by a dead mouse, and he was deeply saddened. Many palace women wanted to attend, in hopes of being selected and live a life of luxury. Wang Zhengjun was hesitant, but she believed she wouldn't get chosen. As she left for the selection, Xiao Yu granted her a special ornament that would give her good luck. This ornament instead helped Wang Zhengjun be selected by the Crown Prince, due to its resemblance to Consort Sima's jewelry. Wang Zhengjun and the Crown Prince were instantly wed, and Wang Zhengjun decided to forget Xiao Yu. The Crown Prince didn't have any feelings for Wang Zhengjun, but they respected each other. Soon, Wang Zhengjun gave birth to a boy named Liu Ao. Fu Yao became increasingly jealous after seeing her former friend rise in status. She then seduced the Crown Prince, who became attracted to her and Fu Yao became one of the Crown Prince's concubines. The Crown Prince also met Feng Yuan one day, and decided to take Feng Yuan as a concubine too after complimenting her personality. Soon, the Crown Prince ascends to the throne as Emperor Yuan of Han. Wang Zhengjun becomes the Empress, while Fu Yao and Feng Yuan become Zhaoyi, which is the second rank for consorts. Fu Yao is displeased with her status and wishes to replace Wang Zhengjun as Empress. Her jealousy is shown when Feng Yuan is complimented after protecting the Emperor from a bear. Wang Zhengjun, Fu Yao, and Feng Yuan all have one son, but the Emperor selects Wang Zhengjun's son as the Crown Prince. Fu Yao does her best to ensure her son becomes the next Emperor, and almost succeeds, but Xiao Yu and the other officials persuade the Emperor to keep Liu Ao as Crown Prince. After the Emperor dies, Wang Zhengjun becomes Empress Dowager and her son becomes Emperor Cheng of Han. Fu Yao and Feng Yuan are sent to smaller kingdoms, where their sons remain princes. Fu Yao is not content with her life as princess dowager, and seeks to replace Emperor Cheng with her own son, Liu Kang. Since Emperor Cheng had many favorites, Fu Yao trained two girls named Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede as dancers to gain the favor of the Emperor. Emperor Cheng was in love with his Empress and another consort, but he didn't have any children. He arrived at Fu Yao's palace, where he met and fell in love with Zhao Feiyan. He took Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede as his consorts and brought them back to the palace. However, Fu Yao's son Liu Kang was in love with Zhao Feiyan, and died of grief. Fu Yao was saddened, but was determined to make her grandson Liu Xin would become Emperor. Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede retained the favor of Emperor Cheng, and Zhao Feiyan wanted to become Empress. She accused Empress Xu of witchcraft, which led to her downfall. Another one of Emperor Cheng's favorites, Consort Ban became a servant of Wang Zhengjun. Wang Zhengjun didn't like the Zhao sisters, but she couldn't do anything about it. Zhao Feiyan became the new Empress, but soon lost favor to her sister. She wanted to have a son, but she realized that Fu Yao gave her a medicine that helped her become flexible at dancing. This medicine would let her never be able to bear a child. Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede briefly reconcile, and they murder all of Emperor Cheng's existing sons. Emperor Cheng soon dies from pills that Zhao Hede gave him, and names Liu Xin as the next Emperor. Fu Yao finally returns to the palace as her grandson is now Emperor. To get rid of Wang Zhengjun's allies, Fu Yao sentences Xiao Yu to death. Fu Yao believes that she can finally become Grand Empress Dowager, but her plan fails. She is stopped by Wang Zhengjun, and is forced to return to her small kingdom of Dingtao. ===== The series is based on six girls who meet at an international boarding school. Characters are expanded upon in each season in depth, as the girls learn to live with each other and become friends despite their different backgrounds and histories.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8738840/https://trademarks.justia.com/880/26/go-88026600.htmlhttps://www.youngtimes.com/article/tenyearold- dubaibased-actor-is-hopeful-to-return-to-the-us-in-august-2020-to-start-the- shooting-of-a-film-/3276?nid=3276&term;_id=5https://fridaymagazine.ae/life- culture/people-profiles/the-next-meryl-streep-meet-the-10-year-old-rising- star-from-the-uae-1.2307541 ===== Fa'ezeh is probably carrying a baby, but not of her own husband. And this pregnancy could have a very very big penalty in the place she lives.https://raftfilms.com/the-pink-line/ ===== The film is composed of five scenes introduced by intertitles: 1\. Interior of the happy and prosperous worker household A working-class family is living happily in a simple but comfortable house, a women, her mother and two children do their daily tasks and when the man of the house comes home, they all have dinner together. 2\. The first step to the wine merchant The husband meets in the street some friends who invite him to go and have a drink in a café. 3\. The ravages of alcohol. His wife picks him up at the cabaret In the café, the man drinks and plays dice with his friends. His wife comes with their children and insists that he must come home. He brutally pushes her away. 4\. In the attic. Misery. The family is now living in a dilapidated attic. When the man arrives, he has a fit of delirium tremens wiggling on the floor. 5\. The madhouse. Delirium tremens The man is locked in a padded cell, with a straitjacket. A raving maniac, he tears it apart, and dances wildly around the room before collapsing and remaining motionless. ===== An astrophysics professor leads a lecture about a black hole that absorbs everything around it. He doesn't know yet that he will also be enveloped by this black hole. Because each of us is born to interact with each other, mutually absorb each other for the sake of our common development. ===== The story chronicles the life of three women with different backgrounds and different personalities. Gu Jia is strong willed, and is both a housewife and a businesswoman. She helped her husband become the CEO of a fireworks company, and fought rich housewives who bullied her son. Wang Manni is rebellious, and is confident at both her workplace and at home. Zhong Xiaoqin is content with her average life, with a normal job and a husband who likes fish. However, their lives are suddenly disrupted by external factors. Gu Jia begins to suspect her husband Xu Huanshan of having a young mistress, Wang Manni faces difficulties with sales and relationships, and Zhong Xiaoqin's idea of a perfect marriage is destroyed. How will the three women deal with the challenges of turning thirty? Additionally a couple with a son close in age to Gu Jia's son Ziyan, who operate a Food truck appear as silent characters. They occasionally interact with the main character and consistently appear at the end of the show before the closing credits. ===== Elizabeth Sheridan (Joanna Pacula), a painter, is married to Cole (Michael Moriarty), who runs a yacht-building company. When Cole becomes abusive, Elizabeth begins an affair with Tony Blanchard (Boyd Kestner), the firm's top designer. When a blackmailer (Peter Onorati) produces incriminating pictures of her and Tony, she and Tony agree to pay, but when murder gets added to the mix, she becomes the obvious suspect. ===== Mia Akerlund is a medical student at the University of Freiburg, where she meets Jasper, a talented biology student, and Niklas, his somewhat strange roommate. She is very interested in biohacking technology and becomes involved in the world of illegal genetic experimentation. Mia is also trying to investigate the cause of her brother's death. When she learns of breakthrough biohacking research results which have landed in the wrong hands, Mia has to decide whether to protect her friends or avenge her brother's death. ===== American soldiers are sent on a mission to prevent Nazi scientists from creating a super serum to transform their victims into an unstoppable fighting force. ===== The Years of the City is a novel in which a utopia is build from New York in five linked stories. ===== A merchant caravan hires Captain Isa, Sorcerer Demane, and their men to guard them on a journey through the dangerous Wildeeps. The Wildeeps are a forest in which multiple dimensions overlap; only by staying on the Road can travelers be assured of safety. Isa and Demane are both descended from gods, granting them supernatural strength and other powers. They hide both their powers and their romantic relationship from the rest of the convoy. During the journey, the caravan is stalked by a jukiere, a type of magical tiger. Isa and Demane leave the Road to hunt the tiger. Demane kills one tiger while Isa fights another. In an ambiguous ending, it is implied that Demane's missed spear throw kills Isa. ===== Set in 2017, .hack//G.U.+ chronicles the revenge quest of Haseo, a player from the online video game The World. Haseo is a player killer of player kills, defeating a group of them in the first chapter who were aiming to kill the young Atoli. Haseo seeks the pk Tri-Edge who used an unknown skill to send his friend Shino into a coma after defeating her in the game. With help from his former mentor, Ovan, Haseo learns of the current location of Tri-Edge, a cathedral. However, Tri-Edge, easily defeats Haseo, sending him into a coma for a short time where his PC is taken to the guild of the Serpent of Knowledge who have been investigating Tri-Edge actions as they work for The Worlds developers. When Haseo recovers, he learns that Azure Flame Kite is the true name of the Tri-Edge and that multiple people have been sent into a coma by Tri-Edge through a virus known as AIDA. Finding a chance to bring Shino back, Haseo joins G.U.. Once joining G.U. Haseo meets Khun who reveals that there are eight players called Epitaph Users who can use Kite's Data Drain skills provided by their Avatars in order to defeat the AIDA. Haseo and Shino are two of the eight Epitaph Users. Seeking to wake up his Avatar, Haseo is motivated by Ovan to face Endrance, a gamer famous in the The World tournaments who possesses both AIDA and an Avatar. When facing Endrance, Haseo awakes his own Avatar, Skeith, and defeats Endrance, erasing his AIDA in the process. During his quest, Haseo, Khun and G.U.'s Pi face Azure Kite, but are unable to make him reveal information about the Lost Ones. After saving an AIDA infected Atoli, Ovan reveals himself to Haseo as the true Tri-Edge whose PC contains AIDA. Ovan had manipulated Haseo to awaken his Avatar and gather all other ones in order to unlock his own skill: The Rebirth. Following his defeat at the ends of Haseo's Skeith, the Rebirth restores all comatose players including Aina, his sister who was accidentally targeted by AIDA out of control, but this comes at the cost of Ovan's life in the real world. As Shino is revived, Haseo quits The World. Ryou Misaki, the player behind Haseo, meets a recovered Shino in real life and confesses his romantic feelings towards her. However, Shino rejects him as she explains she willingly let Ovan PKed her because she loves him, and her feeling still remain unchanging. Some time after Ovan's death, Misaki returns to the The World to meet Aina after she received a mail sent by her supposed dead brother. Their discussion interrupted by the new leader of G.U., Kazumi, who steals Skeith from Haseo, damaging his PC and mind in the process. Atoli's superior, Zelkova, saves Haseo by hacking his character. Kazumi seeks to eventually fulfills his ambition, becoming a "false god" of The World. Kazumi once again tries to kill the weakened Haseo but he is protected by Atoli who is revealed to have inherited Shino's Avatar it left the latter. Kazumi seeks his plans to become the new god of the The World by absorbing a creature known as Cubia and becomes one with it. Upon being commanded by the goddess of the The World, the Ultimate AI Aura, she guides G.U. to Cubia's location. Haseo's group reaches Cubia and use their Avatars together to take him down alongside the remains of Kazumi. During this battle, the remains of Ovan's PC are restored to The World by the AIDA still attached to his left arm, allowing Ovan to help Haseo in defeating Kazumi and Cubia. Following this, Ovan is reunited with his sister and reconciles with Haseo and Shino. ===== A musical film set in the heartlands of modern India. It traces the journey of a 10 year old blind boy 'Kesu' as he and his family work towards regaining his eyesight. Positive and inspiring in nature, the film will tug at the heartstrings of every viewer. ===== A wedding is interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests. ===== Shot over the course of three years between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, Notturno follows different people from near war zones in the Middle East, trying to start again with their everyday lives. One of the most cruel scenes are the one which shows a veiled Kurdish mother in the jail cell where her son had been tortured and killed. Another scene concerns a mother listening the phone messages of her daughter kidnaped by the Isis terrorists who ask to pay a ransom. ===== In an opium den, an attendant offers a well-dressed gentleman a pipe of opium. The gentleman dreams he is at home, and that his wife and maidservant are pouring him a large glass of beer. However, before he can drink it, the beer flies upward through the window to Phoebe, the Moon goddess, seated on her crescent in the sky. The dream shifts to imagine the Man in the Moon flying through the sky, to meet the beer glass as it travels through space. The dream shifts back to the gentleman's dining room, where he attempts to have a drink with Phoebe and to flirt with her. However, first the beer glass, then Phoebe herself, magically jump around the room, evading the gentleman's attempts at control. Just as the gentleman thinks he has chased Phoebe into his arms, she turns into a grotesque clown. The clown teases the frantic gentleman as the dream comes to an abrupt end. ===== A surviving print of the film Note: Since the film is silent and has no intertitles, some names and details in the summary below are taken from the film's description in Méliès's American catalogue. Lothaire, a penniless troubadour who is the last in a lineage of gallant knights, visits the witch Carabosse to find out what his future holds. The witch tells him that he will rescue and be loved by a damsel in distress, currently trapped in a dungeon as part of a plot by her father to steal her inheritance. Carabosse magically summons up a portrait of the damsel so that Lothaire will recognize her. Lothaire asks for a magic charm to help him rescue the damsel. The witch offers an enchanted four-leaf clover, but demands a steep price for it. Lothaire, having no money, tricks the witch by giving her a money bag loaded with sand, and hastily leaves to start his quest. Carabosse, discovering the way Lothaire has cheated her, is furious. She vows revenge and sets out in pursuit of the troubadour. As a weapon for herself, she enchants a poignard so that it can fly through the air and spit fire. The chase begins. Lothaire tries to escape Carabosse by pushing down piles of rocks on her, but they are no match for the witch's magical powers, and she continues the chase flying on a broomstick. Crossing a field of sacred monoliths built by ancient Druids, Lothaire reaches a cemetery. He is surrounded by ghosts, but wards them off with the four-leaf clover. He reaches the imprisoned damsel's castle, and finds it guarded by monsters: a giant toad and owl, a fire-breathing dragon, and various serpents. Lothaire is about to be eaten when a Druid priest appears, on the ruin of an old altar nearby. He gives a piece of holy mistletoe to the troubadour, who uses it to tame the animals. Lothaire continues into the castle, where a ghostly knight presents him with an anointed sword used at the Crusades. Lothaire holds it in his teeth and climbs up the castle walls to the damsel's dungeon cell, while the Druid priest holds back the pursuing witch. At long last he reaches the damsel, undoes her chains, and breaks open the cell door with a convenient battering ram. The troubadour and damsel escape just as Carabosse reaches the window, and enraged she flies away on her broom, creating a thunderstorm. She catches up to the escaping couple on the cliffs of a lake, and attacks them with her magic poignard. She is about to triumph when the Druid priest appears again, attacks Carabosse with her own broomstick, and sends her falling into the lake. One of her minions, a gnome, attempts to slay the Druid with an axe, but he turns the poignard on the gnome and vanquishes him. The couple, safe at last, receive a benediction from the Druid and vow eternal love. ===== A young, aspiring artist named Dimitri lives in Los Angeles, California. He pays rent by delivering pizza. He enjoys listening to music and smoking weed with his friends. Because of the color of his skin, he has been often stopped by police officers while driving. ===== It is a family drama with a romantic element. Apart from a beautiful lovestory, ‘Khorkuto’ will narrate the tale of a joint family, its roots and beliefs. ===== A special forces unit is sent on a mission to a research testing facility to fight the undead. ===== Doug Rawlins, an outspoken American journalist and blogger is kidnapped by members of the Iranian regime while he is in Cairo, Egypt making speeches. He is then taken to the Middle East and put on trial for erroneous and phony spying charges. His wife Liz, a State Department official, tries to use her influence to get the American government involved. She wants the US government to get her husband back. However, she soon realizes that the American government will not get involved. She is forced to go to the Middle East to search for him herself. on The Film Catalogue ===== The 20 years old law student Luisa, who comes from an upper-class family, joins Antifa because she is opposed to the rise of the political right in Germany.Und morgen die ganze Welt, filmportal.de. The plot is partly inspired by the biography of director Julia von Heinz, who belonged to Antifa herself when she was younger.Hannah Pilarczyk: Ihre Jugend in der Antifa, Spiegel Online, 1 September 2020. The political design of the movie's right-wing "Liste 14" party is also a reference to that of the Alternative for Germany.Rüdiger Suchsland: „Und morgen die ganze Welt“– Politisches Kino von Julia von Heinz im Wettbewerb von Venedig, SWR.de, September 10, 2020. ===== Sharad Nerulkar has devoted his life to becoming an Indian classical music vocalist, diligently following the traditions and discipline of old masters, his guru, and his father. But as years go by, Sharad starts to wonder whether it's really possible to achieve the excellence he's striving for. ===== Filmmaker Ricardo Preve and actress Paula Odell Humphries, who played the role of Catherine Roberts in the documentary A group of Welsh colonists decides to emigrate to Argentina's Patagonia region in 1865. Among them is a woman called Catherine Roberts, her husband, and her three children. On board the sailing ship Mimosa they arrive at present day Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province, Argentina on July 28, 1865. Catherine dies on August 21 and is buried near the coast, but all trace of her is lost until 1995 when some bones are discovered by chance. Argentine scientists Silvia Dahinten, Julieta Gomez Otero, and Fernando Coronato work for 20 years to determine if the remains found are those of Catherine. In 2015, with the arrival in Puerto Madryn of a Welsh descendant of Catherine, and new scientific research techniques, the scientists are able to confirm that the bones found in 1995 are those of Catherine. ===== Ladyhawke is a novelization of the film Ladyhawke. ===== Refugee is a novel in which Hope Hubris is raided by space pirates during an interplanetary journey. ===== Rome, 1976. 10-years-old Valerio witnesses together with his mother a failed assassination attempt on his father Alfonso by a terrorist commando. From that moment on, fear and a constant sense of vulnerability dramatically mark the feelings of the whole family. That summer, Valerio meets Christian, a boy slightly older than him. Lonely, rebellious, and bold, he seems to have come out of nowhere. Their meeting will change his life forever. ===== Philosophy and Science Fiction contains 14 stories, one play (Capek's R U R), two extracts, roughly 30 pages of introductory philosophy, and Study Questions. ===== 11 July 1995. UN translator Aida tries to save her family after the Army of Republika Srpska takes over the city of Srebrenica and begins the ethnic cleansing of its Bosniak population. ===== ===== ===== Jeevitha Nouka takes a deep dive into the depths of relationships. It is an unforgettable lesson on overcoming the struggles of life while keeping your loved ones close. A testimony of the brotherhood shared between Jayakrishnan and Harikrishnan. ===== ===== The story revolves around Karthika aka Karthu(Snisha Chandran)who is adopted by Kannan(Yadhukrishnan) and Pavithra(Amrutha). Kannan is a hardworking farmer who aspires that his brother Unni(Roshan Ullas) should become a Doctor.Unni is bethrothed to Karthika before he leaves for Banglore for his studies. After his studies Unni returns to his place but totally changes.He finds no interest in Karthika and expresess his objection for their marriage.Kannan swears that till he lives he will not allow Unni to marry any other woman. Unni falls for Vijitha aka Viji(Jismy) who is the daughter of Unni and Kannan's evil uncle,Kallamasheri Karunan(Kottayam Rasheed)and Sudha(Vijyalakshmi) who is very rich and lures Unni by gifting him a car and a hospital constructed by him(Where Unni is the M.D).Unni's mother Kanaka(Sreekala) who is moved by their lavish life also supports Unni and Vijitha's marriage.Kannan is put into jail for keeping ganja with him which was Karunan's plan.Meanwhile Karunan arranges Vijitha's marriage with Unni. Arun(Vivek Gopan),a village officer falls for Karthika who frequently turns down his pleas for a happy married life with her.Vijitha starts to torture Karthu and Pavithra along with her family members.Everyone gets devasted on learning that Kannan's home "Madhillakam" is going to be seized by the bank which is retrieved by Vijitha and is also registered to her name making her the absolute control of the house.Vijitha gets her shock when Deepan,her boyfriend comes from jail.He has taken the blame of the murder of a girl who has been killed by Vijitha accidentally for being close to Deepan.Before going to jail Deepan had warned her to wait for him to return otherwise he will kill her and her parents. Vijitha lie to Deepan(Akhil Anand) that she has waited for him.She plays a cat-and-mouse game with Unni and Deepan.Kathu,Pappan and Pavithra discover that Viji is cheating on Unni.Deepan also discovers the truth of Vijitha's marriage with Unni after seeing a big marriage photo them in a studio. Viji turns Unni's attention on Pavithra by lying to her that Pavithra and Pappan(Giridhar) who is Kannan's friend have extra-maritial affair.Karunan and Sudha tells her that Unni and Vijitha should have a child as soon as possible so that she gets more preference in Unni's life.Vijitha visits Dr.Nirmala who discloses that Vijitha's report are fine but Unni has some problems which may or may not be cured completely.Vijitha requests Nirmala not to tell thus to Unni which Nirmala agrees. ===== The plot revolves around the romantic lives of a few couples. It is set in the backdrop of love and break up. The plot-based in Kolkata. With the free flow of story-telling, the series received a great response from the audience. ===== While under quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of friends have decided to hold weekly Zoom calls to stay in touch. For this week's call Haley has hired a medium, Seylan, to lead them in a séance. One friend, Teddy, intentionally leaves the chat because his girlfriend Jinny keeps interrupting. During the séance one of the members, Jemma, claims to have made contact with a friend who committed suicide, Jack, only to later admit that it was all fake after Seylan drops out of the call. The remaining people begin to experience strange, terrifying phenomena; Emma's glass breaks, Haley's chair is pulled by an unseen force, and Caroline sees a hanging corpse in her attic. Haley receives a call from Seylan and informs her of everything that has happened. Seylan believes that Jemma's prank could have summoned a demonic spirit, which has taken on the guise of 'Jack', and begins to give them instructions on how to close the séance. The spirit interrupts this by causing more phenomena and Seylan's call drops out once more. The spirit kills Caroline, by repeatedly smashing her face into her desk, and then Radina and her boyfriend Alan, by dropping them both from a great height. Haley and Jemma argue, passing the blame between each other, only for Haley to be pulled off-screen. Frightened, Jemma immediately leaves her home to check on Haley in person. Teddy then returns to the call, only for the spirit to attack him (now in the form of a zombified corpse-like demon) and kill Jinny, by breaking her neck. Teddy is then knocked unconscious and burned alive. Emma is killed next, after being thrown from her balcony onto her backyard table. Jemma makes it to Haley's home but is attacked by the spirit while other supernatural phenomena occur around her. She manages to find Haley hiding under her desk, and the pair attempt to escape the house using the flash of Haley's Polaroid camera to light the way, only for the demonic spirit to attack the two of them as the Zoom call timer expires. The film ends by scrolling through Haley's list of Zoom participants, revealing the credits of all who worked on it. ===== College senior Danielle and her sugar daddy Max have vocal sex before she hurries to arrive at a shiva with her parents, Joel and Debbie. Outside the stranger's home, Danielle is schooled by her parents on how to respond to questions about her degree, career and love life, particularly being warned away from "funny business" with Maya, her high school ex-girlfriend. Members of the local extended Jewish community quickly interrogate Danielle, who flits between nosy neighbors and her overbearing parents before they introduce her to a former colleague of her father's: Max. Though not invested in their relationship, the perfect life she had fed him is broken down through conversations with her parents. She is further affected by the arrival of Max's seemingly perfect wife, Kim, and their baby. Over the feast Kim comes to suspect something of Danielle while trying to soothe the constantly fussy baby. When Danielle retreats to try conversation with Maya, she realizes that her ex has a life plan and is much more stable and comfortable than her. ===== The documentary series follows convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who used his power and finances to shield his predatory behavior. Eight survivors share their stories in the documentary. Courtney Wild, Rachel Kay Benavides, and Virginia Roberts Giuffre appear in the series, along with new victims who chose to come forward for the first time. The series continued filming close to the release date in order to include the FBI arrest of British socialite and alleged Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell on July 2, 2020. ===== A young man, Guilaume, loses his job in Paris, and returns home to a seaside town, accompanied by Lina, a prostitute on the run from police. Guillaume's family, the Ferauds, runs a mussell packing factory with Henri Messardier. Henri is attracted to Lina but is unable to handle the fact she was a prostitute; he gets drunk and hits a workmate who insults her, accidentally killing him. He refuses to see Lina in prison and she marries Guillaume. Guillaume's sister Marinette adores Henri but he is unable to forget Lina. ===== Diana d'Alva is part of a family who are leading a conspiracy against the Borgias in medieval Italy. She is rescued from being attacked by Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family. Federico goes to serve Cesare Borgia. Cesare's sister Lucrezia desires Federico but he is in love with Diana. Lucrezia's former lover, Astorre, is jealous of Frederico. Frederico rescues Diana from the Borgias and kills Atorre in a duel. ===== On Christmas Eve, a young girl, Polly, is excited to find out what Santa Claus will bring her during the night. As soon as she falls asleep, a pair of kidnappers arrive and carry Polly away. Escaping them, she becomes lost in a snowy forest. She climbs a tree and sees a far-off church lit up for Midnight Mass. Arriving at the church, Polly admires a stained glass window. Magically it spins and disappears to reveal visions of Santa, children finding Christmas presents, and angels bestowing blessings. Leaving the church, Polly finds the way to Santa's palace. In the palace, where angels are loading an airplane full of toys for Santa to deliver, Polly finds an enormous box holding a doll as large as she is. Polly puts on the doll's clothes and takes its place in the box, which is loaded into the airplane and sets off. Polly's box is dropped down a chimney and into her own house. Polly wakes up to realise her whole adventure had been a dream—but the giant doll she had imagined is there among her gifts, waiting for her. A final scene shows Polly and Santa Claus together: he is bestowing gifts and she is blowing kisses goodbye. ===== A young boy embarks on a mission to save his mother after she is bitten by a Nazi zombie. He must save the Ginseng King from a three-headed king. ===== The film follows the research of psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis who studied the psychology of murders. Richard Burr, Catherine Yeager, Park Dietz and Bill Hagmaier also appear in the film. ===== The film explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more. Wiseman's documentaries don't have a standard narrative arc, narration, or interviews, but are based on observation of day-to-day organizational life, in this case the activities of Boston's city government in fall 2018 and winter 2019. Much of the film follows Mayor Marty Walsh in activities such as meetings with aides, addressing business leaders about the impact of climate change on the Harbor, listening to veterans at Faneuil Hall on November 11, observing Thanksgiving Day at Goodwill Industries, and giving his state of the city address at Symphony Hall. A second major theme of the film is public servants helping people in need: the eviction prevention task force, another task force on economic advancement for Latina women, and an economic development adviser working with an ethnically-focused grocery store.http://www.sandfordborins.com/2020/09/16/city-hall-a-valentine-to- public-service/ On numerous instances the Mayor and public servants complain about the policies of the Trump Administration. In an interview done for the Toronto International Film Festival, Wiseman says, "City Hall is an anti-Trump film because the mayor and the people who work for him believe in democratic norms. They represent everything Donald Trump doesn't stand for." ===== The Irish Film & Television Network describes it as a story in which the central character Phil is "under pressure from his parents who have decided how his life should proceed, [he] refuses to sit his Leaving Cert. and runs off to London to follow his own ambitions.""The Clash of the Ash". Irish Film & Television Network. Retrieved 2 August 2020 According to the Irish Examiner, "the basic script would be familiar to frustrated youngsters anywhere in the world, all of them eager to clear out for the bright lights; the difference here is that the frustrated teenager in this case is a talented hurler." ===== The film begins with Vallal (Vimal Natarajan) and Vennila (Supraja) eloping from their remote village and they take the train. In the train, they meet Bharathi (Sathish) and Shwetha (Aishwarya Rajesh) but the young lovers soon leave them. The next day, in Nagercoil, Vallal and Vennila who have no money struggle to survive. That night, Bharathi and Shwetha find the young lovers in a bus station and take the young lovers with them. In their home, the two couples tell each other the reason why they had to elope. In a remote village, Vennila was from a rich and upper-caste family. She was pampered by her father Mahadevan (Manikka Vinayagam) and her two brothers. Whereas Vallal was from a poor and lower-caste family and his father Chinnasamy (G. M. Kumar) was a cobbler. Vallal had completed a degree in leather technology in Chennai and was chosen by his college to go to Singapore to pursue his studies but before, Vallal returned to his village. Vennila's family helped Vallal financially to go abroad. Thereafter, Vallal and Vennila fell in love with each other and had to elope. Similarly, Swetha was the daughter of a rich businessman (Boys Rajan) and was neglected by him. Swetha then found comfort in their car driver Bharathi (Sathish), an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. The two finally fell in love with each other and decided to elope. The four friends decide to be independent, so they first look for a job. Vallal and Bharathi find employment in a catering service run by a kind-hearted man (Charle). One day, Vennila's brothers find the couple and they have to escape once again. At the temple, the two couples decide to get married and Vennila's brothers track them down. During the escape, the four meet with an accident. Vallal and Swetha survive while Bharathi and Vennila die in the hospital from injuries. Vallal and Swetha are distraught after losing their lovers. Despite being depressed, Vallal finds a job to take care of a mournful Swetha. Swetha's father eventually finds her and decides to take her home but Swetha chooses to stay with Vallal. Vallal and Swetha, being good friends, decide to support and take care of each other. ===== Monika a young girl joined in a job in a doctor's chamber. She faced some mysterious and horrible incident there and informs her boyfriend about it. He ignores, considering this is her hallucination. Finally Monika died, but after her unnatural death her vengeful spirit revives. ===== ===== It all started when Mark dated his girlfriend Liz for a very long period of time as they both grew up in the village. Years later, Mark left his home for Kampala to work in return, but decided to leave the girlfriend in the village. After a few years of hustle in town, Mark's girlfriend Liz was tempted by Mr Rukyanga, who had other two wives at home, because of the money and other riches. ===== In Thoothukudi, in the 1990s, Kathir (Jayanth) is a carefree youngster who spends his time drinking and hanging out with his friends. He lives with his widow mother and sister. His neighbour Jennifer (Srinidhi) is a student in tenth grade and she lives with her parents and two sisters. At first, she hates Kathir thinking that he is a bad person when he talked to her classmate and he had a fight with the rowdy Madamurugan. Jennifer then comes to know that Madamurugan had molested her classmate and Kathir beat him up to punish him. Jennifer slowly develops a soft corner for him and they eventually fall in love with each other. During a dance function, Madamurugan misbehaves with Jennifer and Kathir has again a fight with him thus the police arrest Kathir. At the police station, the police inspector (Srinivas) warns Kathir not to do it again and releases him. The police inspector is, in fact, Jennifer's close relative. Kathir's mother wants him to become a responsible person so she forces Kathir to go to Chennai without delay. Kathir could not tell Jennifer about his departure and he instead decides to go to the nearer city Tirunelveli where one of his uncles live. There, he works in a cinema theatre and often returns to his city to meet Jennifer with the bike of a cinema client. Kathir comes to know that Madamurugan's brother Madasamy (Stunt Silva) has threatened his mother and one night, he beats Madasamy up. Madasamy who couldn't recognize the aggressor in the dark sets out in search of him. Thereafter, Jennifer's father accepts for the marriage but under multiple conditions: his first daughter must get married, Jennifer must finish her studies and Kathir have to earn enough money to marry her. Later, Madasamy finds his aggressor Kathir and he tries to run over Kathir with his vehicle but Kathir avoids it at the last moment and gets hit by another vehicle. Many years later, Jennifer has developed a mental illness and refuses to get married. To treat her, her parents take her to a special place for the mentally ill. There, Jennifer recognizes Kathir who is now a mentally ill person. In a state of shock, Jennifer recollects her past life and she is completely back to her normal self. Jennifer who wants to be with Kathir starts to act like a mentally ill person in front of her parents and they leave her there. ===== In Rajapalayam, Marudhavelu (Kailash) is a wastrel who spends his time drinking and hanging out with his friends. After the death of his mother, Marudhavelu is pampered by his father (Ilavarasu) who is a rich and respected man. Marudhavelu and his cousin Manju (Akanksha) are in love. One night, Marudhavelu catches the village priest with a prostitute in the village temple and with his friends, he beats him up. At the village court, the priest lies that Marudhavelu was with the prostitute and the villagers start to believe it. Marudhavelu decides to find that prostitute to be declared innocent and to prove Manju that he only loves her. To find the prostitute, Marudhavelu enters the house of his village prostitute Dhanam to interrogate her. Manju who witnesses it misinterprets the situation and she is now disgusted for being in love with Marudhavelu. That night, Marudhavelu who feels distraught drinks a lot of alcohol and sneaks into Manju's bedroom to explain what really happened but Manju doesn't want to listen to him and asks for help. At the village court, Manju's family accuses Marudhavelu of attempting to rape Manju that night and Manju even confirms it leaving Marudhavelu aghast. The village head, therefore, bans Marudhavelu from the village for one year. Muthu and Shanthi, two young lovers from the village, try to elope and Muthu's family chase them. Marudhavelu comes to their rescue and the three escape by taking the bus. In Chennai, they immediately go to the registrar office for the marriage but the powerful local don Kalivardhan alias Annachi (Bangalore Swamy) arrives there with his henchmen, he kills Shanthi and kidnaps Muthu. Annachi then bribes him for his silence and Marudhavelu surprisingly takes the money but only for giving it to Shanthi's parents. The lawyer Vidya Venugopalan (Nakshatra) helps Marudhavelu lodging a complaint against Annachi for the murder of Shanthi. Vidya Venugopalan has her own reason to take revenge on Annachi: in the past, Annachi brutally killed her mother (Rekha) for being a witness of one of his crimes. In the meantime, Vidhya Venugopalan falls in love with Marudhavelu but Marudhavelu is still in love with Manju. Marudhavelu then convinces a judge to help him. In court, the judge orders the police to reexamine all the cases against Annachi and to arrest him. Marudhavelu eventually returns to his village. Manju comes to know that Marudhavelu is innocent and he only loves her. Annachi and his henchmen try to kill Marudhavelu in his village and Marudhavelu fights back. During the fight, Annachi kills Marudhavelu's father and Marudhavelu's friends then kill Annachi. ===== A young Dragaeran, Eremit, is sent by his parents to investigate a plot against the family for control of their lucrative mines. He is kidnapped and imprisoned on a volcanic island for more than 600 years, where he dreams of taking his revenge. ===== A mysterious group kidnaps a politician, an advocate, a businessman and a police officer. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Thamizharasan (Thol. Thirumavalavan) pressures the police to find the culprits. Ilavarasu (Yuvaraj), the leader of the group, contacts Thamizharasan via email and tells him why he had to kidnap them. Ilavarasu was a carefree student who lived with his parents and his sister Jaya. One day, Raghava, the brother of the local don Kottai Kumaraswamy (Muthuswamy), and his friends eve-teased and molested Jaya in a shop. Ilavarasu and his friends caught them and took them to the police station. Raghava and his friends were then sent to jail. A vengeful Kottai Kumaraswamy threatened Ilavarasu's family and made their lives miserable. Ilavarasu's father sought the help of ACP Venkatesh and filed a complaint against Kottai Kumaraswamy but Venkatesh being Kottai Kumaraswamy's loyal man threw away his complaint. Kottai Kumaraswamy's henchmen continued to tease Jaya and one day, Ilavarasu and his friends beat them up. One of the rowdies died during the fight. Kottai Kumaraswamy's henchmen then kidnapped Ilavarasu's family and Kottai Kumaraswamy brutally killed them. The journalist Kathir (Sougandhi), Ilavarasu's girlfriend Aarthi (Madhuchanda) and his four friends (Ajay Pradeep, Adith, Kannan and Babu) decided to help him. Back to the present, Thamizharasan feels bad for what happened to Ilavarasu and wants to help him. The next day, on live television, Ilavarasu and his friends introduce the hostages: corrupt politicians, corrupt police officers, corrupt advocates, fraudster businessmen and rowdies. They beg Thamizharasan to fight against social evils like corruption and rowdyism and they ask him to abolish bail. The public strongly supports the students and their request. Thamizharasan also decides to support the students, he asks them to release the hostages and promises to clear them. When Thamizharasan went to see the governor, his car exploded and on the news, Thamizharasan is pronounced dead. At the headquarters of Thamizharasan's party, the politicians have a savage fight on who will be the next leader of the party and the governor dismisses the current government. A few months later, Thamizharasan returns alive just before the election. Thamizharasan tells the media that he was saved by the students that day and they were protecting him from the people who tried to kill him. With the support of the students, Thamizharasan is reelected as chief minister and he finally abolishes bail. ===== Jean-Gab and Manu, two simple- minded friends, find a giant fly stuck in the trunk of a car and set themselves up to train it to earn money with it. ===== Harry Dresden, now torn between his White Council wizard duties, his obligatory Winter Knight duties, and being a father to his daughter, is contacted by the Winter Queen Mab to serve as emissary for Winter at upcoming peace negotiations between the Fomor and the various other signatories of the Accords. Even as he does, he discovers that forces in the mortal world are moving against him and Karrin Murphy, the White Council may be meeting to expel him, something in collusion with Outsiders is trying to kill him, and his grandfather, Ebenezar McCoy, wants to take his daughter away from him to someplace safe until she can grow into her magic. His brother, Thomas Raith, attacks the King of the Svartalfar at the cusp of the negotiations, fails, and is imprisoned. Lara Raith uses favors from Mab to force Harry into springing him, and they do so right during the middle of the peace talks for the Fomor to join the Accords. Arriving just as Harry and Lara are escaping, the King of the Fomor declares open war on the surface and humanity, and introduces the last Titan, in possession of the Eye of Balor, who effortlessly beats off almost all other present parties. He declares that in a few hours, the Fomor will rise from Lake Michigan and sack Chicago. The Accordites realize this would almost certainly mean a genocidal war against the supernatural, and would likely result in their extinction... possibly while the Fomor are safe in their underwater cities. Harry flees to Demonreach with Thomas, who is dying from his Hunger. He has to outwit his grandfather McCoy, and finally reveals that Thomas is his brother, much to the older wizard's utter disgust and rage. Harry escapes and traps Thomas in a Warden crystal, imprisoning him in Demonreach, to prevent his death. Lara attacks Harry in a rage, thinking he has effectively trapped Thomas as a future pawn. Harry easily overpowers her with the aid of the island's spirit, and the two agree to an uneasy truce to face the greater threat, not having the resources to save Thomas on hand anyway. ===== In a remote village, Mahi (Sanjeev) is an ambitious football player who aspires to get a job in Indian Railways on sports quota and he lives with his widow mother (Senthi Kumari). His best friends Meiyyar (Shankar) and Balu (Enamala Shiva Shankar) often tease Mahi for being single while Mahi hates people who are in love. One day, Mahi falls in love with Devasena at first sight. Devasena is from a wealthy and respected family. Mahi starts to tell lies about his love matter to his friends. Later, Mahi and his friends go on a pilgrimage to Palani Murugan temple and Devasena is also part of the pilgrimage but Mahi is unable to convey his love. When Devasena comes to know about Mahi loving her and telling fake stories about their love to his friends, she scolds him. Mahi, in turn, tells Devasena that his love is pure and sincerely loves her. One day, Devasena's father Varadhan (Jayaprakash) is stabbed by his relative and Mahi takes him to the hospital thus saving his life. Devasena thanks him for saving her father. Devasena who slowly fell in love with Mahi agrees to marry him but only with the approval of her family. Meanwhile, Varadhan finds her a groom. Mahi and Devasena decide to elope and to get married with the help of Meiyyar and Balu. Devasena then feels bad not telling anything to her father, so she calls him and convinces him to unite them. Unfortunately, Devasena meets with an accident and dies at the hospital. Her family scolds him and a heartbroken Mahi dies on the spot. ===== Julius Lampe is a wealthy baker who has just received a letter from a Prince, who would like to buy Lampe's pasta products, to take on an expedition to Africa. Lampe's friend Finke is tired of how pretentious Lampe is, and decides to teach him a lesson on April Fools' Day. Finke pretends to be the Prince's assistant and tells Lampe on the phone that the Prince plans to personally inspect the bakery. Lampe excitedly makes elaborate preparations for the Prince's visit. Lampe eventually learns that the impending visit was a prank, but he has already told the whole city that the Prince is coming to his bakery and Lampe is afraid of embarrassment if he admits that he was wrong. Finke regrets the trouble he has caused and arranges for a friend of his, Müller, to play the role of the Prince for a carefully staged fake visit to the bakery. Meanwhile, unknown to Lampe, the actual Prince decides to visit the bakery that same day. Lampe mistakes the actual Prince for the imposter and treats him terribly, while he treats the imposter like a Prince. The real Prince falls in love with Lampe's secretary Friedel, while Lampe tries to convince the imposter to woo his daughter Mirna. ===== The point of divergence occurs in 1913 when Alfred von Schlieffen, who in real life died in 1913, survives to personally oversee the successful implementation of his famous plan for two-front war against France and Russia. Germany wins World War I in 1914 after only a few months, and fully occupies both France and Belgium while the United Kingdom and Russia back out of the war completely. Two years later in 1916, an earlier communist revolution erupts in Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II (fearing the consequences within his country's own borders if the Russian Tsar fell) helps his cousin and former enemy Tsar Nicholas II to crush it quickly. The main action of the story itself is set years later 1929, as sergeant Adolf Hitler of the Feldgendarmerie is sent to Lille in pursuit of communist agitator Jacques Doriot. The story is a series of letters from "Uncle Alf" to his niece/lover, Geli Raubal. In these letters, he expresses his frustration with the complacency of the local German officials; his disgust with the "degraded" French; his utter devotion to the German Empire, and; his unrestrained (and incestrial) passion for his beloved Geli. ===== Several years after the events of the first film, a Candlewood local, Mason, stops by Gretel's pie shop & bakery shortly after close one night, but is killed by a hooded figure. Elsewhere, Hansel has spent several years becoming a witch hunter and has just killed an elusive witch Bunny, when he learns of his old friend Mason's disappearance. He decides to return home to Gretel, who he hasn't talked to for a year. He arrives at Gretel's and she tells him her suspicions that Mason was murdered in the bakery. That night, four witches, Circe, Kikimora, Morai, and their high priestess Cthonia, convene in the woods nearby Candlewood. They take control of a local homeless woman to be their servant in their plot to avenge their sister Lilith's death and take back her shop. The following day, Hansel and Gretel visit Mason's brother Jason and his roommate Willy and Hansel explains his theory that a new witch has taken over Lilith's bakery. Jacob and Willy insist on helping the search for Mason, but when the group leaves the house, the witch's homeless woman begins shooting at them. Gretel is kidnapped while the other three take cover. Hansel shoots and kills the homeless woman and discovers a witch's mark on her forehead confirming his theory, when they all realize Gretel is gone. Meanwhile, Gretel is tied up in the bakery and confronted by the witches. She confesses to killing Lilith and implies she ate part of her, gaining her powers. Cthonia makes a deal with Gretel: in exchange for Hansel's head, they'll let her keep Lilith's bakery; if she doesn't kill Hansel, they will kill her instead. Gretel kidnaps Willy and the following day, Hansel gets hostage pictures of Gretel and Willy texted to him, which he shows to Jacob. Jacob conveniently took some photography classes and recognizes graffiti in the pictures as being from an abandoned warehouse. Once there, they find Gretel and the unconscious Willy tied up, when Kikimora fills the room with a blinding fog. Gretel allows Hansel to decapitate Kikimora and while he and Jason help Willy, she feeds on Kikimora's corpse, gaining her powers. Hansel is convinced there are more witches but they are able to escape, while Circe watches them. Hansel drops off the others and then goes to the bakery. Circe confronts Gretel at her house about Kikimora's death. Gretel offers to take her to Hansel so Circe can kill him herself. At the bakery, Circe hypnotizes Hansel to kill himself with his own knife. Before he can, Gretel summons Kikimora's blinding fog which breaks Hansel's hypnosis, allowing him to stab Circe in the face. As she dies, Gretel, obscured by the fog, drinks her blood and gains her powers. Hansel goes to check on Willy and Gretel goes to hypnotize Jason into sleeping with her and then killing himself, but it doesn't work because Jason is gay. Instead, Gretel kills him with brute force. Hansel and Willy find a package at her door with Jason's eyes inside then led on a macabre scavenger hunt with Jason's body parts. Gretel brings the rest of Jason's body to Morai telling her it's Hansel and then hides nearby. The notes eventually lead Hansel and Willy to Morai's location. Hansel kills Morai and leaves with Willy; Gretel drinks Morai's blood. Cthania calls Gretel from her grandma's phone, luring her back home. She threatens to kill her grandma but Gretel tears off her grandma's head instead which Hansel and Willy witness. Cthania concedes her high priestess ring to Gretel who assumes power over the coven. She and Cthania take the Willy and Hansel to the local pet cemetery where Gretel reveals she's buried Lilith. Now holding enough power, Gretel begins a resurrection incantation, bringing Lilith back to life. Gretel then rips Cthania's throat out so Lilith can regenerate when suddenly Willy reveals herself to actually be a powerful witch-crone who disintegrates Lilith. Hansel cuts Willy's throat, killing her, and confronts Gretel. They fight each other with neither sibling initially willing to kill the other. Hansel eventually shoots Gretel in the shoulder as police cars pull up. She admits defeat and they walk off together. ===== Biswas hails from Sreerampur, Chakdaha. His father's name is Nagendra Nath Biswas. He passed M.A from Calcutta University in 1969 and worked as a teacher. Biswas completed his Ph. D from the University of Kalyani in 1992. In 2001 he was defeated by CPI(M) candidate Asim Bala from Ranaghat East, presently Ranaghat Uttar Purba seat. He won Kalyani Assembly Constituency in 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He was elected again in 2016 being an All India Trinamool Congress candidate and became the Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Kalyani. ===== While on his way to the gold fields Mordecai ended up for the past year hanging around a somewhat lawless settlement as Deputy to an over the hill Sheriff who when he isn't reminiscing about past glories pursues carnal pleasure by wooing a local wealthy widow thus far to no avail. The deputy handles any gunfighters who enter town, mostly with shooting skill but sometimes instead with guile. His best friend Doc is the world's worst dentist, often having to evade irate patients after pulling the wrong tooth. Trilby his semi-girlfriend harbors matrimonial designs and is the only child of a prosperous feed and grain store owner who openly disdains his daughter's choice of suitor. Mordecai confides to Doc his lukewarm attitude toward Trilby, partly because he sees her as a bit crazy. The main threat to law and order are the motley Bixby clan who blatantly rustle cattle from local herds then take it south to Mexico to sell. In a final showdown Mordecai faces off with the Bixbys aided (reluctantly) by the Sheriff and Doc along with a gunfighter he disarmed earlier that considers the lawman compared to the Bixbys the lesser of two evils. After a chaotic shootout in the old corral with minimal injuries the Bixbys surrender and go to jail. Both the Sheriff and deputy are jilted as the widow marries Trilby's father while Trilby weds the former gunfighter. As a rainstorm strikes holes in the ceiling of the office allows cascades of water to soak them. ===== Sally is sent out by her mother with a bag of laundry to deliver to a customer. En route a chaffeur- driven car enters the gateway of a large house and she looks in. They spot her and as it happens they need a maid for a day and ask her to help.http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/3823 They are having a small garden party. The guests arrive one by one and are invited in by Sally and shown to the garden, which backs onto open countryside. The guests try to educate Sally in their specialties, including dancing, singing, posing for a drawing, and smoking a pipe. Sally fails comically at all of them and goes home exhausted by the experience. ===== The story is recalled by Finnish grad student Mikael Aalto, who is being interviewed as the sole survivor of the team aboard the Scandinavia-Russian petroleum prospecting vessel Hafguva, their mission being to search for oil and natural gas deposits in the regions of the North Pole recently opened to navigation due to polar melting. The trip was proving to be fruitless, until Mikael's coworker Sofia picked up a strange, continuous signal coming from the bottom of an uncharted area up North. Uncertain if it's a natural gas deposit and with winter falling and risking to harden the ice for the trip home, Hafguva captain Johanssen gives the team leader Professor Norberg five days to find the deposit before he turns the ship around. Once the Hafguva arrives at the uncharted area, Norberg and Mikael admire a large iceberg far in the distance. Mikael vaguely makes out tall, pointy structures sticking out from the glacier, while Norberg collapses at the vision. As the professor rests at the infirmary, Sofia continues the investigation of the mysterious sound and Mikael finds in Norberg's notes his observation on the repetitive, mechanical nature of the sound and notices strange writings and occult symbols. Three days later, when Norberg gets better, Mikael grows uneasy about the search for the sound and tries to tell the captain, but nobody listens to him, including Norberg, who seems to be acting this way to keep his observations of the sound obscured. Mikael insists on turning the ship back thinking that his team isn't up to the task, but Norberg and Sofia convince the captain to continue to find the gas deposit. Shorty after, the ship picks up the floating carcass of an Elder Thing-looking creature from the sea. This causes Mikael to dream of an underwater city populated by Elder Things. First mate Ångstöm grows hysteric as he wants to turn the ship back while Mikael tries to get answers from Sofia about the beacon-like nature of the mysterious sound and attempts to convince the captain to go back, but Norberg and the captain inject him with a tranquilizer. Mikael dreams of the underwater city again and notices a relief of the symbol he saw in Norberg's notes at the bottom. When he awakens, Mikael sees that the team has found a large underwater cave and sent a ROV to see if it's a natural gas deposit. It also turns out to be hiding the submerged city, and once the occult seal comes into view, Norberg sets off an explosive in the ROV that causes a bigger explosion. As the crew panics, Mikael chases Norberg in his cabin only to find Ångstöm killed, Sofia handcuffed and more mad writings. Norberg reveals that he wanted to find and unleash "Ubbo-Sathla" and his Shoggoth-like spawn, one of which crawls onto the ship. Sofia strikes Norberg with a fire axe before the Shoggoth breaks in and engulfs him, while she and Mikael make their escape on a life raft. Sofia falls into the sea after being numbed by the sight of Ubbo-Sathla raising from the ocean, while Mikael is rescued three days later. Mikael finishes to tell his account and warns his interrogators about the powers far greater than man in the world and other horrors that we may face once Greenland melts, but is angrily silenced by the interviewer who only wants to know the final coordinates of the Hafguva. Mikael demands to be taken ashore, as it's revealed that he was interviewed aboard a ship headed towards the cursed waters his team explored, a thunderstorm builds in the distance. ===== An elderly, tattered drunkard stumbles down a street in front of a fireworks shop. He makes a chaotic pass at a passerby, who rebuffs him, and he collapses into a drunken stupor. A group of young troublemakers pass by, see the drunkard, and hatch a plan. Breaking through the doors of the fireworks shop, they surround the drunkard with pyrotechnic devices and let them start going off. The drunkard wakes up, bewildered by the fireworks, and begins running about before disappearing in a burst of smoke. The young troublemakers laugh at their prank. ===== In a scientific laboratory, aided by an assistant in a worker's apron, a magician in Renaissance garb makes two chairs, a carpet, and a woman in peasant dress appear. The magician spreads two sheets of glass across the chairs, and puts an almost flat box on top of the glass. He escorts the lady into the box, which she vanishes into, despite it being far too shallow to hold her. The magician, removing the glass setup, sits with his assistant, and shows that the lady is still inside the box. He then jumps into the box, the assistant follows, and the box rolls away of its own accord. ===== In an opulent room, a crowd of people are playing at a gambling table. Suddenly a servant rushes in to warn them that the police are about to raid their gambling den. In a few moments, in a flurry of moving panels, the gamblers disguise the whole room as a millinery, with the women posing as hat makers and the men hiding just outside. The raiding police come in, are astonished to find no gambling den, and apologize profusely for disturbing the "milliners". As soon as the police leave, the room is changed back into a gambling den and the games resume. All is going well when the servant rushes in to announce a much bigger raid. This time there is no time to transform the room, so the gamblers simply rush out, leaving one of them to turn out the light in the chandelier. He drops on the floor to hide, and a crowd of policemen and soldiers hurry into the darkened room, most of them tripping over the gambler before he can rush out. The policemen and soldiers, tumbling over each other on the floor, untangle themselves when their leader lights the chandelier. After stern instructions from their leader, the whole force rushes to the gambling table and begins their own chaotic game. Hidden behind the room's trick panels, the scheming gamblers watch the policemen enjoy themselves. ===== ===== Rosario Velázquez (Libertad Lamarque) is a singer who has an affair with Roberto Casahonda (Julián Soler), a married man, with whom she has a daughter. After accidentally leaving her daughter behind on a train, Rosario believes the girl dead when the train crashes, making Rosario lose her sanity and leading to her being committed to a psychiatric institution. Upon leaving the institution, Rosario is reunited with the now-widowed Roberto, who reveals the truth to her: Their daughter is alive, and Roberto raised her alongside the two daughters of his marriage. Rosario tries to discover which of the three is his daughter by becoming close to them; although Rosario manages to befriend two of them easily, Claudia (Alicia Caro) is reluctant towards her. Rosario becomes especially determined to gain Claudia's respect after seeing history repeat herself when she discovers that Claudia has an affair with a married man, Manuel Lezcano (Ramón Gay). ===== Oola Maguire is throwing a St. Theresa's Day Party for her clients and friends, along with her right "hand" Essie Farrell. She has a party every year on that day to celebrate surviving the time she was shot by a gunman. Her rules for the party are no guns and no alcohol. Oola also does not invite any women. Before the guests arrive she is introduced to Horrie, a friend of her associate Charlie Gibson; Horrie has just got out of prison after serving a five-year sentence. Other guests include Whitey Maguire, who has just got out of prison after two years, and his girlfriend Wilma Cartwright, a former prostitute; Oona wants to reconcile Whitey with his father Paddy. Oola's 16-year-old convent educated daughter Thelma visits the party accompanied by two nuns, Sister Mary Luke and Sister Mary Mark. Oola is considering becoming a nun. The guests arrive and are unhappy about giving up their guns but do it for Oonas's sake. The men propose a "treasure hunt" which will enable them to drink. Whitey and Paddy confront each other - Paddy was unhappy about Whitey dating Wilma. Paddy defends Wilma, saying she waited for him for two years. It turns out Wilma and Whitey were secretly married shortly before the party. Oola finds Thelma in the arms of conman Horrie. Thelma returns to the convent. It is ambiguous as to what her future relationship with her mother will be. ===== A woman, known only as Elle ("She"), has a nightmare in which she encounters a man chained to a tree above a blazing pyre into which he tries to pull her by the hair, an elegant gentleman in evening dress who pursues her into an opium den full of dazed women, a bishop who instructs her to return to her home, and a ragged beggar who attempts to embrace her before stabbing himself. Upon waking she realises that they each had the features of Z, a detective and master of disguise whose memoirs she has been reading in bed. Her wealthy husband, whom she married after he had saved her from drowning, is concerned about her mental state and her diminishing affection for him. He wants to take her away from the temptations of Paris, back to his home country in South America, but his plan is impeded by her resistance and by a burglary in which some important documents have been stolen. The husband hires a detective agency to recover the documents and to find the means of restoring his wife's affection; the detective assigned to his case is Z. Z quickly works out that the burglary was faked by Elle in order to obstruct her husband from taking her away from her beloved Paris. While pretending to continue his search for the documents, Z extends his acquaintance with Elle and realises that they are falling in love with each other. In order to fulfil his contract with the husband, Z goes to a nightclub with Elle and stages a contest of endurance dancing for women, in which the winner seemingly dances herself to death. Elle is so distraught by this that she rushes home and begs her husband to take her away from the odious city. The husband arranges their immediate departure on a transatlantic liner. Z hands over the missing documents and stoically makes his farewell to the couple. At the port of Le Havre, the husband tells his wife that he has forgotten to give Z his promised fee and he asks her to travel quickly to Paris to deliver it in person. As Elle and Z are re-united, a letter from the husband tells them that he has understood his wife's change of affection and he gives them his blessing, as he departs alone. ===== In April 2016, Robert Sternvall (Richard Sammel), a German journalist, learns about the resumption of military actions in Nagorno-Karabakh and leaves Berlin to cover them. The articles on Operation "Koltso" ("Ring") during the first war in Karabakh brought him great fame years ago. This time his car is bombed and he is taken to a hospital in Yerevan. While the local journalist Michael Movsisyan is suspended from works for endangering Robert's life, Robert is invited to a charity opera concert in Yerevan with the participation of a young opera singer Sophia Marti and French tenor Jean Milosh who is courting her. After the concert, Robert, fascinated by Sophia, suggests arranging a photo shooting and writing an article about her. Soon Robert and Sophia's relationship becomes warmer and takes a romantic turn thus triggering Jeans' fierce jealousy. Sophia suggests Robert visit her favorite childhood place – a gorge known as the "Gate to Heaven", which she used to visit with her late father, photographer Edgar Martirosyan. Edgar had been taken prisoner and killed during the war in 1992. Nevertheless, Robert fails to turn up at the agreed time; instead, he takes a flight to Germany. Meanwhile, during his private investigation, Michael discovers the dark side of Robert's life. Robert is getting ready for his grand exhibition in Berlin. Sophia comes to the opening ceremony and urges Robert to tell the true reasons of his visit to Talish. It is revealed that the photos, presenting the horrors of the Operation "Koltso" in Talish, were taken by Edgar Martirosyan. Furthermore, Edgar and Robert had met in Talish. On the day of Talish's fall, when defending his own house with a gun, Edgar passed all the photos to Robert for him to take them to the Artsakh press. Instead, Robert appropriated them and published them under his name, while Edgar was captured. Years later, when the military operations restart in Talish, Robert decided not only to cover the developments, but also to find Edgar's relatives and extend his apologies to them. However, after meeting Sophia and learning about her origins, he feels unable to confess at the last moment. Sophia leaves. Shortly afterwards Robert publishes his book Confession at the Gate to Heaven, where he reveals the truth about these events and republishes the photos under Edgar's name. Michael visits Sophia at her parental house in Talish and gives her the book. ===== When her husband dies, a woman (Libertad Lamarque) inherits his fortune, but enters a deep emotional crisis that makes her act like a child. Her lawyer (Pedro Armendáriz) will be in charge of protecting her interests against those of her late husband's selfish and fortune-seeking relatives while helping her recover from her condition, since he is secretly in love with her. =====