Esi recounts her childhood in rural Ghana, where she lives in a village in a lake similar to the real-life village, Nzulezo, built on stilts, with her father Kojo and her mother Ama, who supplies most of the family's small income through sewing. Kojo grew up in a large city but fled to the village after a tragic event, feeling that "only water could cleanse the past." Esi is close to her father, who takes her around the lake in his boat and tells her stories whose beginnings only make sense if you know their endings. An unexpected visitor — an old blind man from "the realm in-between" where "everything is upside down" — arrives in the village and entrusts Esi with a sacred white bird that he says is being hunted by the crow who rules the land in-between.

Soon thereafter, the family receives another unexpected visitor — Esi's uncle Kwabena, from whom Kojo has been estranged. Kwabena persuades Kojo to bring his family to the city from which Kojo had fled seven years before. There, they live with Esi's grandmother, with whom Esi watches a Spanish-language Mexican telenovela featuring a conflict between two brothers who love the same woman. It transpires that Kojo and Kwabena had also once loved the same woman, who had died on the day of her wedding to Kwabena due to Kojo driving drunk. Kwabena, however, says that the past is the past, and wants Kojo to join him in illegal small-scale gold mining to make money. Initially reluctant, Kojo is finally persuaded, and goes with his brother to an old mine on property now owned by a Chinese company. Without warning, Kwabena pushes Kojo into an abandoned mineshaft and runs away. Esi and Ama go to the police to report Kojo missing. Esi continues to have visions of the "crow who ruled the land in-between." She realizes that the crow is her uncle Kwabena, who also died in the drunk driving accident seven years before, and the sacred white bird is her father, and that only she can find him.

Kevin (Marc Evan Jackson) approaches Jake (Andy Samberg) for help in investigating a burglary at Columbia University where someone stole valuable coins from its classics department. However, he asks him not to tell Holt (Andre Braugher) about it for some undisclosed reason. While at the university, Holt arrives and Kevin is forced to confess his association with Jake. He reveals he didn't want him involved due a previous incident where Holt misremembered a detail at a party and the Dean's (Oliver Muirhead) correction caused him to have a mental breakdown.

Jake and Holt investigate the university and Holt is further humiliated when the Dean says the janitor (Bob Stephenson) found the coins at a professor's desk, potentially ending the investigation. Not willing to backtrack, they continue investigating and find enough evidence to suggest that the Dean himself is the culprit for his footprints. They confront him but the Dean has an alibi as everyone at the party got the same shoes, except for Kevin and Holt. Holt feels lost but Jake reassures him that it is best not to be underestimated. This prompts to finally solve the case and find that the janitor is the real thief. The Dean still mocks Holt, but Kevin defends Holt, citing that he is far more intelligent than anyone else.

Meanwhile, due to the refrigerator out of service, Terry (Terry Crews) and Amy (Melissa Fumero) try to raise the squad's morale by taking them to multiple lunchtime activities, with half of the bullpen going with each one. What started as simple paid lunches soon turns into overly complicated activities that even has had enough and tries to avoid them. After thoughtful consideration, they find their best solution: making the conference room an official lunch room where everyone can use their phones without seeing anyone else.

As described in a film magazine, the black powder and fireworks plant of Danby and Son is under the management of Bruce Henderson (Mayo). He loves Lucille (Ferguson), daughter of John Danby (MacDowell). Sales manager Richard Mower (Clary) is his rival for Lucille's affections. Bruce and the elder Danby quarrel, and Bruce is discharged, but Lucille stays faithful to him and they are married. Richard takes Bruce's place, but Danby is unaware that the promoted sales manager is stealing from him. The peace of Bruce's wedded life vanishes when Richard makes a call on Lucille. Bruce flares into a rage and makes such an exhibition of himself that his wife leaves him, returning to her father. The deserted husband goes fast downhill, but is still anxious to protect the Danby's from Richard's crooked work in the plant. Bruce, disguised, gets a job as a laborer in the plant and secures final evidence of Richard's guilt. Danby and his daughter enter the plant and witness a robbery executed by Richard and a confederate. Richard locks his employer and Lucille in a vault. Encountering Bruce outside, he fires a shot but misses him. The bullet strikes some fireworks and the plant explodes in sections. Bruce struggles desperately through the furnace of projectiles and exploding dynamite and rescues his wife and her father.

Detective Bill Crane and his sidekick Doc Williams are hired by John Essex who has been receiving threatening letters, they are sent to his uncle's country estate to investigate and soon enough his sister Linda is kidnapped.

At the end of the previous film, Darlin', Peggy, and Socket Cleek joined the feral woman to live in the wilderness. Years later, Peggy and Socket are gone while the now teenage Darlin' has developed a feral personality while sporting copper hair halfway down her thighs. She and the Woman had killed a skier and are shown carrying his body while barefoot and in tattered clothing despite the wintry conditions.

One day at the insistence of the Woman, Darlin' arrives outside a hospital and accidentally gets struck by an ambulance. After being treated at the hospital, she is sent to a Catholic boarding school called St. Philomena's, where the staff and other students attempt to civilize her.

A nurse named Tony who was the first to find and befriend her at the hospital tries to look out for her, but is repeatedly turned away by the school for being gay. Though she has forgotten how to speak, she is renamed Darlin' after the name on her bracelet. She slowly regains her ability to speak, her hair is cut to being halfway down her torso, and she befriends some of the other students, especially a trouble-making tomboy named Billy, but has trouble adjusting to modern life and is disturbed by the school's teachings about the Devil. A greedy bishop attempts to exploit her for fame and fortune.

Eventually, the Woman enters the city and kills everyone in her path to retrieve her adoptive daughter Darlin' while wearing a brown dress and stolen sunglasses and a jacket, though she befriends a group of homeless prostitutes. Tony cooperates with the Woman by telling her where Darlin' is and she spares his life.

The bishop is a pedophile who regularly preys on the girls, and had preyed on the school's Sister Jennifer when she was a child. He tries to seduce Darlin' only to discover she is pregnant. She reveals that her sister Peggy had died in childbirth after having a stillborn child (it is revealed in the previous film that Peggy was pregnant, although she denied it) which made Socket run away. A few months ago, she and the Woman captured a hiker and Darlin' mated with him before the Woman killed him. The Woman made her go to civilization so that she could deliver the baby safely. However, due to the school's teachings and what happened to Peggy, Darlin' believes the baby inside her is the Devil and repeatedly pleads with God to save her.

When Darlin' is about to receive her First Communion, she attempts either suicide or to induce a miscarriage by drinking bleach, but all it does is make her sick. During the ceremony, Sister Jennifer plays a recording of the bishop confessing his crimes which makes several people walk out in disgust. Darlin' bites a chunk out of his hand, but suddenly goes into labor. The Woman and the homeless prostitutes storm the church and the Woman kills the bishop while the prostitutes escape.

Tony, his boyfriend Robert, Sister Jennifer, and Billy help deliver Darlin's child which is a girl. Darlin' tells the Woman to take the baby far away. As sirens approach, Tony, Robert, Sister Jennifer, and Billy tend to Darlin', while the Woman takes the baby, puts it in a baby-carrying backpack, and walks out.

''The Shade of the Sinking Plain'' is an adventure in which a huge battle barge has been looting and sinking smaller ships on the rivers of a swamp.

''The Ruins of Chicago'' is adventure set in Chicago 150 years after World War III, in which Morrow Recon Team G-12C are awakened from a long sleep for a mission.

''Beyond the Wall of Tears'' is a solo adventure in which the player character's little sister has been kidnapped.

In ''The Morrow Project'', teams of volunteers have been cryonically frozen in hidden bunkers called boltholes in order to survive an expected nuclear holocaust, with the intention that they rebuild civilization when they emerge. In ''Operation Lucifer'', Morrow Recon Team G-5 in Wisconsin is awakened by the US strategic defense computer Damocles to find and disarm an unexploded thermonuclear warhead. The team have to survive encounters with an armed militia and somehow infiltrate a religious cult in order to reach the warhead.

''From the Deeps of Space'' is an adventure scenario in which the player characters must stop the aliens from Capella who have invaded the village of Midville.

When a man named Cliff's car breaks down, he is towed into the nearest town by a female motorist. It turns out the woman is named Bonnie, and she is the owner of a soon-to-be-opening beauty parlor that has riled up the town.

When she bleaches her hair to stimulate business, a local women's group comes to protest, but she orders them out. But then Cliff's wealthy mother brings Bonnie to a yacht party as her guest of honor, and the local women change their tune and decide to patronize her business; soon she pays off her mortgage and is proposed to by Cliff.

Raja (Rajeev) settled in Singapore, visits his native village. His aunt tries to fortify family bonds, and seeks the hand of Raja's younger sister Asha (Nadhiya) for her son Pandian (Vijayakanth). Raja sniggers at the suggestion and is nasty while pointing out how out-of-place it is. Pandian vows to marry Asha. Raja vows to see that such a thing never happens.

In Singapore, responding to Pandian's overtures, Asha first tries to knock him dead with her Datsun, and then tries to drown him with her motorboat daredevilry, but ultimately undergoes a change of heart and is eating out of his hands. But misunderstandings again cloud the relationship, and when it is cleared Raja is again at his insidious tricks invidiously playing up another suitor Ramesh (Suresh).

A dragon attacks the town of Barrisglen and kidnaps a visiting princess.

''Orion Ruse'' is an adventure set on the Orion trade world of Daros IV, in which the player characters seek a lucrative contract with a wealthy trading family.

The destruction of an asteroid headed for Earth releases chemical fallout, causing cold-blooded animals to mutate into large monsters and kill off most of humanity. During the evacuation of Fairfield, Joel Dawson is separated from his girlfriend Aimee but promises to find her, shortly before his parents are killed.

Seven years later, Joel lives in one of many bunkers underground called "colonies", where all survivors but he have romantically paired up with each other while fighting monsters and seeking supplies. Joel instead is left behind in the kitchen, as he freezes in dangerous situations. When a giant ant breaches his colony, killing Connor, Joel sets off on a quest to reunite with Aimee so he doesn't end up alone.

Passing through the suburbs, Joel is attacked by a giant toad-monster but is saved by a stray dog named "Boy", who follows Joel on his journey, warning him against . They invite Joel to join them, but he insists he must find Aimee. As they part ways, Clyde gives Joel a grenade.

Continuing west, Boy becomes trapped by a giant centipede-monster. Joel freezes, but eventually saves Boy with his crossbow. Sheltering in an abandoned motel, they meet a robot named Mav1s. Before her battery dies, Mav1s powers his radio long enough to briefly contact Aimee. Other survivors have reached her colony, promising to lead them to safety. The next day Joel and Boy are attacked by a queen Sand-Gobbler. They hide, but Boy barks, giving away their position. Joel kills the queen with the grenade. He yells at Boy for putting them in danger, causing Boy to run away. After swimming across a pond, Joel is covered in poisonous leeches and hallucinates, but is rescued before he collapses.

Joel wakes to finally see Aimee. She leads a beach colony of elderly survivors who depend on her. He is introduced to the survivors, Cap, and his crew. As everyone celebrates their imminent departure, Aimee confesses she is glad to see Joel, but has become a different person and is still mourning someone. Joel decides to return to his colony, contacting them on the radio and learning that it has become unsafe and that they too must leave. Cap sends Joel some berries, which he recognizes as poisonous. Realizing Cap is not to be trusted, he rushes to warn Aimee but is knocked unconscious.

Joel, Aimee, and the rest of her colony awaken tied-up on the beach. Cap reveals that his group is there to steal supplies and that their yacht is towed by a crab-monster controlled with an electrified chain. Cap sets the crab to feed on the colonists, but Joel and Aimee escape and are able to fight for their lives, and Boy returns to help. Joel has the opportunity to kill the crab, but he realizes it is not hostile by looking into its eyes, and shoots the electrified chain, freeing it. The crab leaves Joel unharmed and instead kills Cap and his crew, sinking the yacht in the process.

Joel recommends Aimee and her colony head north. They share a romantic goodbye kiss, and Aimee promises she will find him. Joel treks all the way back to his colony, and they too decide to head to the mountains. On the radio, Joel inspires other colonies to take to the surface. As everyone heads north, Clyde and Minnow, already in the mountains, wonder if Joel will survive the next journey.

Phil Lodge (Patrick John Fleuger) is a retired cop who takes up a job in a large apartment building as one of three supers.

As part of being a live-in super, Phil takes up residence in said apartment building with his two daughters, Violet and Rose played by Taylor Richardson and Mattea Conforti. The family has been through a tragedy as it is soon found that Phil’s wife and the mother of his daughters has died. Things seem to have been tense since then, with the adolescent Violet radiating attitude and push back in every conversation she has with her dad.

Prior to Phil moving in, a violent murder happened in the same apartment building. Soon after he begins work, a series of disappearances take place one after the other and Phil begins to notice his youngest, Rose has begun to have a strange fascination with one of the other supers, Walter (Val Kilmer). Walter, in addition to being mysterious, also happens to dabble in black magic. Phil begins to suspect that Walter is behind the mysterious disappearances and is shown to go any lengths to protect himself and the lives of his daughters.

The real-life story of Luis Eduardo Diaz, a controversial bootblack, who went from having nothing to having it all, after winning the elections for an important political position in his city.

Letty a young college girl receives a call from Skye a traveler she met briefly in San Francisco. Remembering that Letty's adoptive father is a detective she requests help in finding her companion Henry, who has just gone missing. Soon Skye is missing as well and Detective Lucas Davenport decides to investigate further. He soon finds himself pursuing a drug dealer named Pilate in a chance that crosses state lines and exposes him to variety of sub cultures and their gatherings.

''Alliance Rising'' takes place on Alpha Station, a space station located at Barnard's Star, about 6 light-years from Earth. It was the first of nine star-stations constructed by the Earth Company during Earth's outward push into space, and they became known as the Hinder Stars. Further exploration led to the construction of new stations, which later broke away from Earth after the discovery of faster-than-light (FTL) travel. No FTL jump points were found between Earth and Alpha, which restricted EC's control of their stations. Trade between space stations was conducted by family-run merchanter ships. In an attempt to regain control of Alpha Station, EC sent Andrew Cruz to Alpha to manage the building of ''The Rights of Man'', a large FTL ship using stolen plans for ''Finity's End'', a merchant ship based at Pell Station. Earth neglected maintenance of Alpha and focused on the construction of ''Rights''. Stationmaster Ben Abrezio attempted to placate both EC and the merchanters, upon whose trade the station became dependent.

A decade later construction of ''Rights'' is complete, but its first test run is a disaster and has to be aborted due to system failures. ''Finity's End'' arrives at Alpha, fuelling speculation that Pell wants to wrestle control of Alpha from the Earth Company. But ''Finity's'' real purpose is revealed to be the establishment of an alliance between all merchanter ships that would unite them against the Earth Company and stations attempting to control them. ''Finity'' s senior captain, JR Neihart, tells the merchanter captains that once jump points between Earth and Alpha are found, the Earth Company, which is very likely building their own FTL ships at Sol Station, will come.

Abrezio does not reveal that he has potential jump point coordinates for the Earth-Alpha run. They were discovered by a retired scientist on Alpha after trawling through data collected from slower-than-light ships travelling this route. Abrezio keeps the coordinates a secret because he fears that once Earth arrives, they will upset the balance of power in the region by monopolizing trade between the stations. But when Cruz threatens to take over Alpha, he sends the coordinates to Earth via the light-speed Stream. He hopes that once Earth arrives, they will see how Alpha has deteriorated, will find that the very expensive ''Rights'' cannot jump, and will remove Cruz. However, things on Alpha worsen and Abrezio decides to speed up the delivery of the coordinates to Earth by sending an FTL ship, using the untested jump points. That will cut down the transmission time from six years via the Stream, to less than one. He pleads with ''Galway'' s captain Niall Monahan to undertake the dangerous trip. Abrezio assures him that by holding onto the coordinates, he will be the only FTL ship able to return to Alpha, and will be in a position to negotiate a good deal with Earth.

Monahan agrees to undertake the risky run, and under a cloud of secrecy, sets off for Earth. But Cruz has gotten wind of Abrezio's plan and, after hiding on ''Galway'' with a handful of his staff, seizes control of the bridge. Ross Monahan, a navigator trainee on ''Galway'', manages to escape with a copy of the jump points, and explains to Neihart and Abrezio that Cruz does not have the coordinates and is dependent on ''Galway'' s navigator to get the ship to Earth. It becomes clear that Cruz wants to be the one to arrive at Earth with the coordinates and take the credit.

The film takes place in Leningrad. Chief Accountant, Smirnov, being in the booth of the traffic controller, violates traffic rules. But guard is brought to the police station instead of him Vodnev, the cashier of Stroytrest, the father of his beloved girl. The guard does admit that he was wrong, but he does not apologize. But, nevertheless, he will soon have a chance to fulfill his duty.

The head of the Provisional Government, Kerensky in suspense: the soldiers do not want to fight, and the Bolsheviks are preparing the people for a revolution...

The film is based on the real exploits of the sappers who were able to demine the ammunition depot in Kursk...

The film tells about the former intelligence officer, Nikolay Mityasov, who as a result of his injury returns to his hometown and learns that his wife Shura has betrayed him. Nikolai is in despair, but everything changes when he meets Valentina...

After the end of the World War II, Fyodor returned to his homeland and met the homeless boy Fyodor the Small. They decide to live together. And all they had was wonderful, until Fyodor married.

With the marriage of Fyodor Sr., their harmonious life is disorganized, although Natasha is trying in every way to win the boy's love. Driven by jealousy to despair, the boy runs away from home. But after much agitation and searching, they find him, and he reconciles with the adults.

A young officer, Sergei Korshunov, becomes an employee of the criminal investigation department, but in the process of investigating a series of crimes he realizes that this is not as simple as he thinks...

The film tells about the doctor Vladimir Ustimenko, who loves his work with all his heart and Varya Stepnov, who as a child wanted to become a famous actress, but became a geologist. Suddenly there comes a war that separates them...

The film tells the story of the nobleman Grinyov, going to military service in the fortress, where he falls in love with the commander's daughter, Maria, and fights for her in a duel. After that, Yemelyan Pugachev organizes Pugachev's Rebellion, conquers the fortress and executes Maria's parents, but he gives Grinev freedom. Soon he learns that Pugachev's accomplice forces Maria to marry him...

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Lara Jean Covey's high school sets up a volunteer program. While her boyfriend Peter Kavinsky volunteers with his friends, Lara Jean goes to Belleview Retirement Home instead, following in her older sister Margot's footsteps.

On her first day there, she meets Stormy, an eccentric old lady who Margot often mentioned, and also discovers that John Ambrose McClaren volunteers at Belleview. They talk about a love letter she had written to him many years ago, and he lets her read the letter as long as she gives it back to him afterward. Lara Jean is unable to stop thinking about their conversation and, in addition, is constantly insecure about her relationship with Peter because she cannot stop comparing herself with her ex-best friend, and Peter's ex-girlfriend, Gen.

On Valentine's Day, Lara Jean witnesses her classmates being serenaded by special acapella groups and is told that Peter had sent a group to serenade Gen every period, back when they were still dating. This enhances her insecurity, though she forgets about this when she meets with Peter later that day. He gives her a silver heart necklace and reads a poem, which she believes is original but turns out to be two verses of an Edgar Allan Poe poem. He later apologizes and tells her he wishes he could write something like that for her, though he means everything in the poem.

While volunteering at Belleview, Lara Jean and John Ambrose grow closer and throw a Star Ball for Belleview after discovering some old decorations. John Ambrose appears to be developing feelings for Lara Jean, who has not told him about her relationship with Peter. Lara Jean and John Ambrose go to the treehouse where they hung out in middle school to dig up the time capsule they buried years ago with their friends, including Gen, and take turns unpacking it. Gen claims that she didn't put anything in the time capsule. Peter gets jealous of John Ambrose and reveals his relationship with Lara Jean. She and Peter argue but end up making up.

The next day, Lara Jean apologizes to John Ambrose for not telling him about Peter, and then dresses up for Peter's game. As she is waiting for Peter to come out to meet her, Chris shows her a photo of Peter and Gen. She confronts Peter and realizes that Peter never stopped talking to Gen and that, on the ski trip, Peter was planning to get back together with Gen. As Peter is in a rush to get to the game, he tells Lara Jean they will have to talk about it later, but she is too hurt and breaks up with him. She goes to the treehouse later and meets Gen, who reveals that Peter was only comforting her as her parents are separating, and that she went to Peter because he had undergone the same experience. She also says that Peter is crazy about Lara Jean, and that Lara Jean shouldn't doubt him. She then reveals that she had, in fact, put a friendship bracelet identical to Lara Jean's in the capsule, and was too embarrassed to show it. Lara Jean realizes that it was her and not Peter who always had Gen on her mind, and makes up with Gen.

On the night of the retirees' ball, Stormy gives Lara Jean a dress and a makeover. She and John Ambrose dance before going outside in the snow. When they kiss, Lara Jean realizes that she truly loves Peter and does not hold feelings for John. She apologizes to him and rushes outside, surprised to find Peter waiting outside for her. He is waiting outside because he remembers she does not like driving in the snow, a fact that she told him on their first date. He says that she can break his heart if she wants, but instead she says that she loves him, and he tells her he loves her back. They kiss and make up, and in an ending voiceover Lara Jean says that she had wanted a fairytale relationship with Peter, but is now satisfied with what she has.

Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) and her father Keith (Enrico Colantoni) are private investigators in Neptune, California, a popular spring break vacation destination. Real estate developer Richard "Big Dick" Casablancas (David Starzyk) campaigns for the enactment of city beautification laws; local business owners protest the likely expense of complying with such laws. Meanwhile, Veronica rejects a marriage proposal from her longtime boyfriend Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring).

When a beachside motel is bombed, the Marses are hired to investigate by Congressman Daniel Maloof (Mido Hamada), whose brother's fiancée was killed in the explosion. A Mexican crime boss, whose nephew was another victim, sends two assassins, Alonzo (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dodie (Frank Gallegos), to find and kill the bomber. Injured in the blast is Penn Epner (Patton Oswalt), a true crime enthusiast, who seizes the spotlight to accuse Maloof of the crime. The late motel owner's daughter, Matty Ross (Izabela Vidovic), investigates on her own; Veronica eventually takes her under her wing to supervise her. Veronica also befriends nightclub owner Nicole Malloy (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), and occasionally consults with Penn and his club of amateur crime-solvers.

Their investigation implicates a local ex-con, who apparently commits suicide before he can be arrested. However, after his death, three more bombs explode in Neptune over several days. The Marses uncover evidence that Casablancas's fixer Clyde Pickett (J. K. Simmons) has been hiring the local juvenile delinquents, organized by Veronica's former friend Eli "Weevil" Navarro (Francis Capra), to mug spring break visitors, driving away tourism; Casablancas is then able to buy beachfront property cheaply, planning to redevelop the land for more upscale businesses.

Veronica's ex-boyfriend Leo D'Amato (Max Greenfield), an FBI agent, arrives to investigate the case. His rekindled flirtation with Veronica eventually makes her realize how much she values her relationship with Logan. She loses her friendship with Nicole when she confesses to considering Nicole a suspect in the case and bugging her office, and decides to accept Logan's proposal.

The Marses eventually conclude that Casablancas was responsible for the bomb at the motel, but the subsequent bombs were the work of a copycat. Casablancas is murdered by Alonzo and Dodie after Clyde tips them off to his guilt. The Marses arrest Penn as the copycat, but he hires them to prove his own innocence. Evidence is uncovered which briefly implicates Penn's fellow amateur crime-solver Don (Clark Duke), but Matty spots that the evidence has been tampered with: Penn was the copycat bomber all along, out for glory and attention. The Marses deduce the site of the next bomb, and Keith disarms the bomb with seconds to spare; but Penn gloats to Veronica as he is being arrested.

Veronica and Logan are married that day. But a few hours later, Veronica's car explodes, killing Logan—one last bomb that Penn had set earlier. The next year, when Neptune is fully gentrified and spring break tourism is a thing of the past, Veronica leaves Neptune to solve cases on the road.

Mr. and Mrs. Wiggs, prior to their marriage, worked as a coachman and housekeeper to Colonel Vanderhurst, who removed his son, Jack, from his will for marrying a woman connected to the circus. Years later, Jack and his wife both pass away, leaving Lovey Mary with Jack's wife's sister and her sister's husband, a temperamental circus proprietor. Along with Lovey Mary goes Jack's marriage certificate, Lovey Mary's birth certificate, and a locket with a portrait of Jack and his wife.

Now, Mr. and Mrs. Wiggs are married with five children, suffering greatly, especially due to strikes at Mr. Wiggs’ work. This place is controlled by wealthy politician Murphy, whose stepson Bob pities the strikers, specifically Mr. Wiggs and his family. Bob becomes an attorney and Mr. Wiggs leaves the town in search of other work, meeting Lovey Mary's uncle, the circus proprietor. With Mr. Wiggs absent, Mrs. Wiggs struggles greatly with poverty as she tries to take care of her family alone.

Years pass, and Mrs. Wiggs continues struggling. Colonel Vanderhurst decides to make a will in Lovey Mary's favor after regretting his harshness with his son. He releases advertisements to find Lovey Mary, which Mary's uncle finds and plans to turn in Lovey Mary as his own daughter to receive the inheritance.

Mr. Wiggs falls in love with a circus performer and has a child named Tommy with her, who Lovey Mary becomes fond of. When her uncle tells her the plan, she runs away with Tommy. Her uncle chases after her but she is rescued by Bob. She has another close call with her uncle, but escapes by train with Tommy, and stops near the Cabbage Patch. Noticed by one of the Wiggs children, she is taken to Mrs. Wiggs house. Soon, she is kidnapped by her uncle with Tommy still at the house.

Her uncle takes her to claim the inheritance, but Bob's firm represents the Colonel's estate and Bob becomes suspicious. He visits the circus, which is currently in the Cabbage Patch, and goes to Mrs. Wiggs, discovering the truth.

Bob follows Lovey Mary's uncle under disguise and saves her as she is about to be murdered. The two later run into Mr. Wiggs and convince him to return to Mrs. Wiggs, who forgives him for abandoning her and their family, and Bob and Lovey Mary announce their decision to get married.

Sent on an errand by his aunt, Andre (Murilo Caliari) finds a notebook of a factory worker, Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), who has been seriously injured. The notebook reveals a handwritten memoir of Cristiano's travels over the last decade. Through this memoir, Cristiano reveals his life as a drifter, and the various people, places, and experiences he encounters along the way.

The novel begins in the present day as the narrator, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, and her mother (Manon Barbeau) discover that Suzanne has died and they are the sole heirs. They visit Suzanne's apartment and find photos, reviews, and poems that will be featured later in the novel.

The novel then shifts to a second-person account of Suzanne's early life. Born into a family impoverished by the Great Depression in Canada, as a teenager, Suzanne is eager to explore life beyond Ottawa. Her desire to explore beyond Ottawa is also inspired by her admiration of Hilda Strike, a Canadian runner that she watched race in the 1932 Olympics. Having cultivated her gift for writing and public speaking, she uses her gift to garner attention and then joins a group of avant-garde artists including the writer Claude Gauvreau and the painter Marcel Barbeau, in Montreal. Suzanne marries Marcel on June 7, 1948. Paul-Émile Borduas, leader of the Automatistes, leads the group in composing the manifesto for free speech, ''Refus Global''. Suzanne initially signs, but later redacts her signature when Borduas rejects her poetry.

Her first child, Mousse, is born in 1949 (who will grow up to be the famous film maker Manon Barbeau). The group of artists has been blacklisted, so Marcel and Suzanne move with their friends to the countryside. Suzanne gives birth to François. Marcel has a breakdown in New York, but when she comes to attend to him, she starts a relationship with Borduas. She leaves Marcel and abandons the children at a daycare in the countryside. Marcel's sister eventually agrees to take in Mousse and an undertaker and his wife take in Francois. By this time Suzanne has started a new relationship and runs off with her friend's lover, Peter, to travel the world; but after a terminated pregnancy she returns to Montreal. She invites Mousse to live with her but her invitation is refused. Suzanne moves to Harlem in New York and begins to date a woman named Selena. Together, they join the Freedom Riders.The first few stops go well, but eventually the KKK attacks the bus and destroys it.

By the age of 40, Suzanne is living in Manhattan. There she meets Gary Adams, a man scarred from his experiences in Vietnam. Her son François repeatedly tries to contact her but Suzanne refuses to meet with him. While living in Ottawa, Suzanne meets and becomes friends with her childhood hero, Hilda Strike.

The novel then revisits the author's interactions with her grandmother, but from Suzanne's perspective. On December 23, 2009, Suzanne dies, leaving her estate to Mousse and her children.

Back in the present, the narrator is living in the countryside taking care of her infant daughter. She contemplates how Suzanne's abandonment affected her mother and family dynamic. Nevertheless, she recognizes the debt that the family owes Suzanne, and she promises to remember her.

Set in Bognor Regis, Jones plays Pete Green, a depressed single father who works as a coach driver and discovers an asylum seeker after taking a coach party across the channel.

Moscow in the early 1970s. The heroes are the residents of a large communal apartment, different families, in particular, the Yakushevs and Banykins. Neighbors become almost relatives, and their fate is closely intertwined. The old house is going to be scrapped, and all neighbors will have to be resettled in different apartments.

The story takes place near Pusan, South Korea, several months after the beginning of the Korean War. A family (a father, mother, boy, and a dog) of farmers has fled from their homes in Sang Po, and now live under a bridge. The father is very traditional, wearing a gat, while his son is more modern, having learned how to make money off of the "long-nose" American soldiers (by shining shoes and leading them to "Shibi-Shibi" girls—prostitutes—to be serviced), going so far as to adopt parts of their jargon. The mother takes pride in her son's money making skills, and views her husband as weak, much to his chagrin.''From Below the Bridge''. Kim Yong-ik, 1956.

The family is destitute, but plans to return home by train. Their dog, however, is sickened after being over-fed by soldiers, and at the station the son refuses to part with him. In an ensuing confrontation, the father's gat is knocked off, revealing him to be a young man. This draws disparaging comments from the crowd, as most young men have been drafted to fight in the war; many assume that the father only wears his gat so that he can pass as an older man and avoid having to fight. The father, angered and frustrated by the lack of respect being shown to him and his heritage, chooses to walk back to Sango Po, telling his family to take next day's train.

The mother and son return to their bridge to find it occupied by another refugee woman. The dog's condition worsens, and the boy wanders a nearby town, which is filled with churchgoers and "Shibi-Shibi" girls pairing with their American lovers. After military police scatter the prostitutes, the boy finds his mother among them. Despairing, he flees into the countryside, followed by his mother and his dying dog. The dog soon collapses, whereupon the mother and son silently stay with him. At nightfall, a passing elderly farmer allows the dog into his horse-drawn cart, promising to bury him when he dies. He tells the couple a story about the origin of the gat - explaining that the garment was intentionally designed to be delicate and easy to knock off so as to deter men from fighting. The son walks off, realizing he can never reveal what he has learned that night.

The film tells about the inevitable conflict of two generations: the younger and older...

Sergeant Danila returns to his native village, where he organizes the construction of the stadium to make life in the village a bit more interesting, and Yushka, nicknamed “The First Lad”, becomes the first football player...

The film takes place after the October Revolution. The Red Army soldiers stop at the Akhsai farm and observe the inhuman attitude of the owner of the family, Akhsay, towards his bride and younger brother. Meanwhile, the White Guards are developing a plan for the defeat of the Red Army detachment.

Thomas (Martin Freeman) is a British Jew who until a year ago used to work for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in Germany. Now he is retired but still has access to some of his former employer's systems and resources. He receives a mysterious phone call from Rachel (Diane Kruger), another former agent whom he had recruited and who had become a friend but disappeared. Summoned to a safe house in Cologne in order to help find Rachel and determine her motives, Thomas reviews Rachel's recruitment and past assignments with his former supervisors through a series of flashbacks.

Rachel's last known assignment was to pose as an English teacher in Tehran and observe Farhad Razavi (Cas Anvar), heir to an Iranian electronics firm. Flashback scenes reveal Rachel's acclimatisation to routines of daily life so as not to arouse suspicion. Eventually, she meets Farhad, who asks her to give him English lessons, leading to a romantic relationship as Farhad also introduces her to Tehran's underground nightlife.

Rachel's personal involvement with Farhad allows Thomas to involve him in the smuggling of parts for Iran's nuclear program, which will work to undermine that program and make Farhad a target for recruitment as a Mossad resource. Some of the related assignments put her own life in serious danger. Eventually, Rachel rebels against her assignment, changes her identity, and cuts off communication with Thomas until, returning to the film's present, she needs his help to return to a life of her own without risking assassination because she might be a security threat herself.

Part I – The Marsh

In 1952, six-year-old Catherine Danielle Clark (nicknamed "Kya") watches her mother abandon her and her family. While Kya waits in vain for her mother's return, she witnesses her older siblings, Missy, Murph, Mandy, and Jodie, all leave as well, due to their father's drinking and physical abuse.

Alone with her father — who temporarily stops drinking — Kya learns to fish. Her father gives her his knapsack to hold her collections of shells and feathers. The illiterate Kya paints these shells and feathers, as well as the marsh's creatures and shorelines, with watercolors her mother left behind.

One day, Kya finds a letter in the mailbox. She recognizes it as having been sent from her mother, and she leaves it on the table for her father to find. When he reads the letter, he becomes infuriated and burns the letter along with most of her mother's wardrobe and canvases. He returns to drinking and takes long, frequent trips away to gamble. Eventually, he does not return at all, and Kya assumes he is dead, making him the last of the family to leave her alone in the marsh. Without money and family, she survives by gardening and trading fresh mussels and smoked fish for money and gas from Jumpin', a black man who owns a gasoline station at the boat dock. Jumpin' and his wife Mabel become lifelong friends to Kya, and Mabel collects donated clothing for her.

As Kya grows up, she faces prejudice from the townspeople of Barkley Cove, NC, who nickname her "The Marsh Girl". She is laughed at by the schoolchildren the only day she goes to school and is called "nasty" and "filthy" by the pastor's wife. However, she becomes friendly with Tate Walker, an old friend of Jodie's who sometimes fishes in the marsh. When Kya gets lost one day, Tate leads her home in his boat. Years later, he leaves her feathers from rare birds, then teaches her how to read and write. The two form a romantic relationship until Tate leaves for college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He promises to return, yet later realizes Kya cannot live in his more civilized world because of how wild and independent she is, and leaves her without saying goodbye.

Part II – The Swamp

In 1965, Kya is 19. Chase Andrews, Barkley Cove's star quarterback and playboy, invites her to a picnic, during which he tries to have sex with her. He later apologizes, but the two form a romantic relationship. He shows her an abandoned fire tower, and she gives him a necklace of a shell he found during their picnic, strung on a rawhide string. Despite her suspicions, she believes Chase's promises of marriage and consummates their relationship in a cheap motel room in Asheville, NC. After shopping for groceries one day, she reads in the newspaper of Chase's engagement to another woman, and realizes his promises of marriage were a ruse for sex. She then ends their relationship.

Tate, having graduated from college, visits Kya and attempts to apologize for having left her and confesses his love for her. Still hurt from his betrayal, she rejects him. Despite this, she allows him inside her shack, and he is impressed by her expanded collection of seashells. He urges her to publish a reference book on seashells, and she does so as well as on seabirds. With the extra money, she renovates her home. The same year, Jodie, now in the Army, also returns to Kya's life, expressing regret he left her alone and breaking the news their mother had suffered from mental illness and died of leukemia two years previously. Kya forgives her mother for leaving but still cannot understand why she never returned. After advising Kya to give Tate a second chance, Jodie sets off for Georgia, leaving Kya a note with his phone number and address.

Some time later, while relaxing in a cove, Kya is confronted by Chase. After an argument ensues, Chase attacks Kya, beating her and attempting to rape her. She fends him off and loudly threatens to kill him if he doesn't leave her alone. The encounter is witnessed by two fishermen nearby. Back at her shack, Kya fears that reporting the assault would be futile as the town would blame her for "being loose". The next week, she witnesses Chase boating up to her shack and hides until he leaves. Remembering her father's abuse, Kya fears retaliation from Chase, knowing "these men had to have the last punch".

Kya is offered a chance to meet her publisher in Greenville, North Carolina and takes the bus there to meet him. After she returns home the next day, some boys find Chase dead beneath the fire tower. The sheriff, Ed Jackson, believes it to be a murder on the basis of there being no tracks or fingerprints, including Chase's, around the tower. Ed speaks with sources and receives conflicting statements. He learns the shell necklace Kya gave to Chase was missing when his body was found, even though he wore it the night he died. Kya was seen leaving Barkley Cove before the murder, then returning the day after Chase died. There also were red wool fibers on Chase's jacket that belonged to a hat Tate had given to Kya. Convinced she is the culprit responsible for Chase's murder, Ed arrests Kya near Jumpin's wharf, charges her with first-degree murder, and jails her without bail for two months.

At Kya's trial in 1970, contradictory testimony is given, and only circumstantial evidence is provided. Kya's lawyer, Tom Milton, debunks the prosecutor's arguments as there was no evidence she was at the fire tower the night of Chase's death or any other concrete evidence to convict Kya. The jury finds her not guilty. She returns home and reconciles with Tate. They live together in her shack until she dies peacefully in her boat at the age of 64. Later, while searching for Kya's will, Tate finds a hidden box of her old things and realizes that Kya had written poems under the name of Amanda Hamilton, the poet frequently quoted throughout the book. He also finds an image of Chase drawn by Kya. He then finds, underneath the poems, the shell necklace Chase wore until the night he died. There is a clear implication that Kya had killed Chase. Tate then burns the rawhide string and drops the shell onto the beach, choosing to hide Kya's secret forever.

In the introductory comic, Billy Batson is shown being thrown out of his uncle's house. Despite his hardship, he is still hopeful. Seeing this, the wizard summons him to the Rock of Eternity, there transforming him into Captain Marvel.

After a long day at the radio station, Billy Batson's plans to go to a baseball game go by the wayside when he is asked to go through a mailbag filled with letters to Captain Marvel. Batson returns to his apartment where he lives alone, mentioning that he once transformed into Captain Marvel to sign the lease. Batson finds a letter asking Captain Marvel to visit a hospital for sick children. As Captain Marvel, he meets with the Wizard Shazam who tells him about a child in despair in desperate need of the hope which only Captain Marvel could provide. When he arrives at the hospital, the children are happy to see their hero, except for one child in a wheelchair who Marvel believes needs his help.

In the meantime, Captain Marvel tends to the other children at the hospital and strives to make each of their dreams come true. He treats some of them to a trip to the zoo, a dive into the ocean, and he even brings back a doctor from Japan to perform a challenging eye surgery on a little girl. On one of his trips, things go awry when a nearby dam explodes due to illegal workers at a nearby government mine. Luckily, he saves the children just in time before the breached water brings them to a waterfall.

Later at the hospital, Captain Marvel asks the lead doctor, Dr. Ellen Miler, about the boy in the wheelchair he met earlier. Marvel discovers that his father brought him to the hospital, explaining that his son fell down the basement stairs, and learns that the boy's name is Bobby. Noticing the bruises on his arm and his broken leg, Marvel soon deducts that Bobby had been severely beaten by his father. Captain Marvel decides to talk to the boy as Billy, hoping he'll open up to someone his age. Billy shares that he, too, has experienced a difficult childhood, and Bobby asks Billy if his father also hurt him.

Later, Billy meets the child's father, and then threatens him as Captain Marvel, telling him not to hurt his son anymore. After his visit is over, Captain Marvel learns from the Wizard that it was Billy, himself, whose hope was waning, and that this visit served as a reminder for how he could inject good into the world. Happy as ever, Billy decides to visit Bobby to play a game of catch.

In 1930, Zuleikha lives in a small Tatar village in the Soviet Union with her husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law. Her husband treats her terribly and favors his mother-in-law heavily. Her mother-in-law is extremely ungrateful for everything Zuleikha does for her. Zuleikha is considered a failure because she has attempted to have 4 different children but all have died. As part of the dekulakization campaign, her husband is executed by Ignatov for refusing to leave. She is then forced to exile to siberia with him while they go on a lengthy journey to a new "Settlement". Ignatov is not interested in Zuleikha and has a woman of his own at home but ends up getting trapped in this just as much as Zuleikha. After an extremely length waiting time and train ride where some people manage to escape they arrive at the port. The port takes them down the river to their settlement and sinks along the way. The result is many who were trapped on the boat and locked up ended up drowning. Zuliekha tries to save them and almost drowns her self but Ignatov saves her. This settlement turns out to be nothing more than some forest with minimal supplies if any. The remainder of the story takes place at this settlement and develops eventually into a real settlement. The first winter is harsh and many die but thanks to Ignatovs leadership and Zuilkhas hunting skills they survive. Many recruits arrive in the spring and don't make it through the harsh winter.

The novel is a historical fiction inspired by stories told to the author by her grandmother, although real incidents in the novel are based on the memoirs of other people. The fictional setting of the novel is based on the labor settlement Pit-Gorodok in Severo-Yeniseysky District, where the author's grandmother was exiled as a child along with her parents.

Phyllis (Ivy Meehan), an aspiring fine artist, and Barry (Duncan Coe), an actor in a community theater, are living together in a small house in an Austin suburb. Barry receives a scathing review of his performance in a low-budget play on the same day that the play is closing. During the wrap party his co-star tries to convince him that all problems can be solved by the use of manifesting and the law of attraction. The next day, while at a gallery opening where her art is on display, Phyllis is confronted by a daft art fan who questions her work and makes her second guess her choice to be an artist. Later that night she overhears her boss talking to another patron as they criticize the work her boss previously praised. Phyllis takes her art from the wall of the gallery before storming out in defiance.

That night, Barry confides in Phyllis that he wishes he could just take a vacation. As they drink a bottle of whiskey he and Phyllis jokingly "manifest" to the universe that they wish everyone would disappear and it could just be the two of them alone in the world. The next morning, Barry goes to check for his newspaper as he always does to discover it hasn't been delivered. He drives to his local convenience store to find it closed. He begins to notice that nobody else is out on the streets. He returns home to confront Phyllis, suspecting they had forgotten about a national holiday, and he and Phyllis head out into the city to investigate. They find the city streets empty with no signs of life. They determine that their "manifesting" worked. Barry falls asleep in the back yard to the light of the moon.

The next morning, Barry discovers a previously unknown stream behind their house that leads to a grotto and swimming hole. At home Phyllis wakes to discover Barry is missing and fearing he disappeared too she has a panic attack and nearly asphyxiates in their yard. Barry returns and she chastises him for leaving. Reunited they bask in their newfound freedom. Phyllis spends the next several days delving into her artwork while Barry goes stir crazy. Soon the power goes out in the house and the summer heat begins to suffocate them in their home. Suffering from cabin fever they set off to spend some time in the woods behind their house. While away from their home Barry doubles-down on his questioning of their purpose in life, the nature of art, and the need for human contact while Phyllis is content with living out the rest of their days alone together. On their journey back to the house they become lost in the woods and spend the night in the shade of a cliff. Barry has an epiphany and makes Phyllis "manifest" again but that this time they should wish they were back in civilization with their old lives. Phyllis gives a half-assed attempt at manifesting which doesn't work.

The next day they continue to travel through the woods in order to find their home but the long journey becomes tiresome and Barry's spirit is defeated. They resign themselves to the idea that all of civilization is now gone and it's really just the two of them left in the woods alone. Phyllis attempts to convince Barry that they're better off together. Barry continues to spiral into a depression and confesses that he doesn't like their new reality and he wishes they were no longer stuck in the woods. Barry sleeps that night under Phyllis' watchful eye.

The next morning they wake to find the forest has disappeared and they're in the middle of a barren desert. Barry's sanity breaks and he accepts his new desolate reality. He and Phyllis play make-believe in the desert sand and imagine they got that vacation after all and they bask in the breeze of a coastal ocean. In the desert Phyllis exclaims that she got exactly what she wanted: to be with Barry. He has a final epiphany and comes to realize that everything they've experienced has been Phyllis' doing. She was the one who wished away everyone in the universe, wished away all civilization, and manifested away the forest which leads to them being alone in a desert. Barry confronts Phyllis about her controlling their reality and she denies his claim that she's selfishly acting for her own happiness. He runs from her and she gives chase. He falls and tumbles down a hill where he hits his head on a piece of driftwood. She mourns over his lifeless body and eschews all her former decisions but the damage is already done and Barry perishes. Phyllis' conscience is left lifeless in blackness and she's must live out her days alone, just as she wished the night she manifested all the people out of the world.

Gloria is kidnapped by a cult which, under a locust moon, performs an occult ritual while wearing grotesque masks before committing suicide. A locust moon is the appearance of the moon in late spring after the "Flower Moon" of May. Five years later, a traumatized Gloria is living with her mother, Ruth. Slowly recovering from her experience, Gloria attends a therapy group at her local church with her lover Joan. Joan tells Gloria she has something special planned for their anniversary tomorrow. But on the night before their anniversary, Gloria is kidnapped by Thomas, a man whose face is hideously scarred by fire, and taken to a remote cabin in the countryside.

Joan launches an increasingly frenetic search for Gloria, and pulls a knife on a man who is indifferent to Gloria's kidnapping. When a police officer learns of Joan's violent behaviour, he suspects that she was involved in Gloria's kidnapping, which leads her to kill both him and the inconvenient witness Ruth. Thomas tells Gloria that he was one of the cultists who had kidnapped her five years ago, and that he was moved by her humanity, which caused him to abandon his beliefs on that night. He feigned suicide, and states that he kidnapped her to protect her from the remaining cultists, who intend to finish the ritual under the coming locust moon. The cultists believed that they had implanted the demon Abaddon, the "Taker of Souls", into Gloria's body and that it has been growing inside of her for the last five years.

Under the light of the locust moon, Gloria becomes seriously ill and begs Thomas to take her to a hospital. Both Thomas and Gloria experience visions of Abaddon while various occurrences suggest a malevolent supernatural force is present in the cabin. As Gloria begins to grow wings, Thomas starts to believe she really is turning into Abaddon, and contemplates killing her before the transformation is complete. Joan is revealed to be the leader of the cult who kidnapped Gloria. Thomas tells Gloria that Joan is really his sadistic sister Gwendolyn who scarred him with fire. Gloria, whose appearance is increasingly inhuman as her metamorphosis processes, starts to lose herself mentally and begins to speak in the voice of Abaddon, saying she will kill him first and take his soul to hell.  

Gwendolyn learns from a man who witnessed the second kidnapping that the kidnapper had a scarred face, which leads her to deduce that it was Thomas. Gwendolyn goes to the cabin (which belonged to their parents), knocks out Thomas, taunts Gloria over her physical degeneration, and begins to perform an occult ritual before a chained Gloria. Thomas breaks free, kills Gwen and takes a seemingly dead Gloria outside under a rising sun. Gloria revives and attacks him, saying in the voice of Abaddon that she will take his soul to hell.

Two young orphans, Buddy and Lucille Roberts, living in an old dark mansion atop a mountain are assailed regularly by ghostly apparitions and mysterious death threats. They enlist the aid of a famous Hollywood Western movie star named Tom Tyler (with Tyler actually playing himself in the film) to investigate the situation and help them discover who is menacing them. It turns out a bunch of crooks have been using the old house as a hideout, and they were the ones trying to scare the kids into leaving so that the children would never discover the valuable cache of silver hidden years before in the house by their deceased uncle. Tyler captures the gang and turns them over to the authorities, then makes sure the siblings get their uncle's valuable stash. He caps off the film by adopting the two misfortunates and relocating them to his beautiful Hollywood estate.

Samad (Payman Maadi) is a narcotic detective in pursuit of a shadow drug kingpin Naser Khakzad (Navid Mohammadzadeh). One day a raid leads to capturing a low level dealer who leads to a bigger fish, who is somehow connected to the notorious druglord...

Kumihimoya no Ryu is a maker of cords used to tie obi and is an ex-ninja. Hanaya no Masa runs flower shop. They join Nakamura Mondo and Oriku’s Shigotonin team replacing Hide and Yuji in the sequel to Hissatsu Shigotonin IV.

A husband and wife each come to suspect mistakenly that the other has been unfaithful. Following a lawyer's advice, they agree to continue to live in the same house but without speaking to each other. Eventually, the situation becomes unworkable and the couple reconcile.

Wardi, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her family in a Lebanese refugee camp. She learns about her family's history through stories told by three previous generations of refugees.

Since 1937, Richard Sorge was his in the German embassy in Tokyo. He was known as a doctor of sociology, who did not shun to become a front-line correspondent, as a pleasant, erudite interlocutor, in a word, as a true Aryan. They didn't know only one thing: behind his reporter's activities there was a secret mission, establishing contact with Moscow through a resident in Hong Kong.

Joe Kemp (Jack Kenny) and his gang attempt a robbery on the express company's payroll, only to be thwarted by Bill Allen (Ted Wells). Bill recognizes one of the bandits as Frank Crawford (Wilbur Mack), the brother of his sweetheart, Mary Crawford (Duane Thompson). After breaking up the robbery attempt, Bill attempts to take the payroll home with him for safekeeping, but Kemp's gang jumps him and makes off with the money. Bill eventually brings the gang to justice and asks to have Frank remanded into his custody.

The German Schroeder family spends their Christmas holidays on the Thai island of Phuket, and in one of the sleazy bars of Patong Beach, 18-year-old son Felix falls in love with a young, gorgeous Thai woman. Felix's brother Tommy is sure that Fai is a prostitute, his parents are uneasy about Felix's love for her, too. After a tearful goodbye at the end of the holidays, Felix spontaneously decides to follow his heart - and to stay in Thailand. Alarmed, his mother Annegret forfeits her return ticket - she will not leave Felix by himself in this foreign country with a "prostitute". Felix joins Fai on the bus to her home town in Isaan. During the bus-ride he learns that Fai is not exactly the woman he thought she was - fearing rejection, Fai had not revealed her transgender identity. Meanwhile, Annegret is looking for her son.

As Natsu's parents were dead, she was raised by her father's old friend Takeo Shibata in Tokachi Hokkaido. At first Natsu was not recognized as a member of the Shibata family, but gradually gains Taijū Shibata's trust by her efforts. Natsu learns a lot from him and he has a great influence on her life.

But Natsu decides to go to Tokyo to be an animator.

Leslie Titmuss returns to Rapstone village and will do whatever it takes to fit in with the highest levels of society. Married to his second wife, Jenny, he seeks to buy his first wife's country house. These plans are hampered by a real estate development that Leslie, due to his free market politics, can hardly oppose publicly.

A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.

In 1924 Simone de Beauvoir is a brilliant, but reserved young girl, who prepares to study philosophy at the Sorbonne university. Only fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre recognizes her talent and intellect. Meanwhile De Beauvoir also explores her bisexuality.

David Hunter is asked by the police to come to an abandoned and derelict hospital (St Jude’s) in London. A mummified corpse has been found in a loft space and Hunter's expertise is brought to bear on the case. After a ceiling collapses, a hidden room is revealed which has a further two bodies in it. After making sure that the building is safe, a cadaver dog is brought in to search for more bodies. Those they have found were put into the room after the hospital was closed and were walled up inside with strange torture and burn marks on their bodies.

As in other cases, Hunter becomes too involved in the people either directly involved with, or on the fringes of the case. One of the people trying to save the hospital is a barrister who asks Hunter for too much information and is killed in a very suspicious hit-and-run which also wounds a fellow forensic officer on the case. Besides all of this, Hunter has to contend with his girlfriend taking a 3-month job abroad and the spectre of Grace Strachan, a female killer from the second book, still causing him to be jittery as she could be back to get him.

The film follows Bannon from his latter days in the Trump administration to just after the 2018 midterms as he attempts to form a global populist movement with like-minded individuals such as Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen, Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orban, Kent Ekeroth, Filip Dewinter, and others.

The film is, like the play, a dramatization of a middle of the night reminiscence by a dying Golda Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, as she endures insomnia while tracing the main events of her seventy-nine years of life. While the plot is anchored in the events of her Premiership during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Golda relives (and describes to the audience) the events of her childhood during the 1903 Kishinev pogrom in Moscow, her emigration to Milwaukee at the age of seven, her teenage activism in the Labor Zionist movement during World War I, her emigration to the British Mandate for Palestine in 1921, her rise in Israeli politics from the 1920s through the 1970s (as an important member of both the Histadrut and the Yishuv, then Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and finally Prime Minister of Israel) — finally climaxing with her consideration of the Samson Option to drop nuclear weapons on the armies of the Arab states at the peak of the Yom Kippur War.

The film takes place over the course of a single day in the life of Jane, a junior assistant who has been working at a film production company in New York City for five weeks. Jane arrives well before dawn and performs various menial administrative tasks. Her job's long hours and demanding tasks keep her busy and incredibly stressed. During a phone call with her mother, Jane learns that she forgot to call her father on his birthday.

As Jane's day progresses, it becomes clear that her boss has been having sex in his office with many younger women and facilitating a culture of sexual harassment at the company. Many of the male executives make snide comments about the boss's affairs while the female executives handle their own workloads and discuss the possibility of transferring to other departments. Whenever Jane does something her boss deems a mistake, he verbally abuses her over the phone as her two male junior assistant coworkers watch silently. Throughout the day, a variety of people from the boss's life interact with Jane, including his wife, his children's nanny, a famous actor, and a group of Chinese film producers.

In the afternoon, a young, inexperienced woman named Sienna arrives from Idaho, saying she has been offered a job as a junior assistant. Jane, concerned for Sienna's well-being, goes to the human resources department to file a report after dropping Sienna off at a five-star hotel being paid for by the company. Wilcock, the head of HR, encourages Jane to share her concerns, but later makes it clear that he is turning a blind eye to her harassment claims, before demeaning her, speaking down to her, and stating she is jealous. He also discloses that filing a formal complaint would destroy Jane's career. As Jane leaves his office, he reminds her that she has nothing to worry about, as Jane is not the boss's "type". Visibly upset, Jane receives a call from her boss when she returns to her desk. He has been informed about the unfiled report and demands Jane write an email apology addressed to him, which she does. He replies saying that he is especially hard on Jane because he knows how great she is.

Toward the end of the day, Sienna arrives at the office so Jane can teach her how to use the phone systems. As night falls, Jane prepares a microwave dinner for herself while other employees leave; her boss stays late in his office with a young actress. He calls Jane on the intercom and tells her to go home. Jane goes to a coffee shop across the street and calls her father as she eats a muffin. After she hangs up, she sees a silhouette in her boss's window appearing to have sex.

At the New Jersey shore, three teenage boys spend summer roaming the boardwalk and town getting into small event trouble, but the discovery of a coin treasure sets the friends on an escalating course of suspicion and violence in an atmospheric thriller.

Belton Piedmont is born to a poor but hardworking family in Virginia and grows up intimately familiar with racism and segregation. He attends school with another black child, Bernard Belgrave, whom he builds a rivalry and friendship with. Belton and Bernard's educations take radically different turns when Bernard goes to Harvard while Belton is too poor to attend a prestigious university.

Belton's graduation speech is published in a Richmond newspaper and it catches the attention of a southern democrat who vehemently opposes lynching, Mr. V.M. King. King takes a liking to Belton and gives him a check that will take him through college, but not before giving Belton some sage advice.

With King's aid, Belton attends a college in Nashville, Tennessee. Belton is perturbed when he discovers that even in the seemingly egalitarian school, there are black professors that are silently ostracized and barred from eating meals with their white counterparts. Belton organizes a movement of civil disobedience and daunts the school's president into changing things.

After Belton graduates, he is harassed by a mob after encouraging black men to vote. The mob goes to lynch him, even shooting him in the head, but the bullet is caught in Belton's skin and only leaves him unconscious. He's claimed by a doctor who wishes to dissect his body, but Belton awakens on the table and kills the doctor in self-defense. Belton flees and is eventually arrested for murder. The trial goes poorly when many of the jurors are from the mob that lynched him. But Belton's case reaches the attention of Bernard who uses his political connections to appeal Belton's verdict.

Belton later contacts Bernard asking him to come to Waco, Texas without any more explanation. Bernard agrees to come to his friend. Belton reveals the existence of the ''Imperium in Imperio'', a shadow state consisting of black men aiming to counteract segregation and to protect blacks in the south from persecution and violence. Belton and others in the Imperium believe that Bernard could be their George Washington.

Bernard is eventually elected president of the Imperium and they concoct a plan to infiltrate the United States Navy and use it to protect a new nation they plan to form in the heart of Texas. Belton opposes this plan, still holding onto his belief in the United States and that it would be wrong to betray the nation. He remains committed to the goal of improving the states rather than seceding and tenders his resignation from the Imperium, knowing full well that he'll be executed by his peers for attempting to leave. The members of the Imperium attempt to allow Belton to escape his sentence, but Belton refuses. Bernard and the Imperium execute Belton for his treason.

The novel opens with a confession from Berl Trout, a member of the Imperium who declares himself a traitor to his race, and an explication of the events surrounding Belton and the Imperium. After Belton's death, Trout writes that he was moved by Belton's convictions and betrays the Imperium, revealing its existence to the world and leaving it to the audience to judge the novel's events.

Ciro (Peter Lanzani) is walking in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires when he sees an SUV model car that catches his interest. He breaks into it, begins taking anything including the stereo, and defiles the car by peeing and passing gas. When he tries to get out, however, he cannot open the doors. He frantically tries to get out, ripping the door panels off but cuts his arm when reaching for the lock mechanism, the floor having reinforced steel, and when he tries his gun to shoot at the front windshield the bullet bounces off and the ricochet hits him in the thigh. He tries calling for help but his cellphone dies.

Ciro uses his shirt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, things get worse when he suffers from the heat being trapped forcing him to finish off the last of his Pepsi bottle. He sees a woman fixing her makeup using the car door window but when Ciro screams for help she does not hear him. Nighttime comes and Ciro is plagued by thirst, trying to lick the door windows for the water covering it.

Morning comes and Ciro reinstalls the stereo to play music, helping to keep his sanity. The stereo stops playing, a number calls the car with the caller ID saying ‘ME’. It is the owner of the car, Enrique, (Dady Brieva) a doctor specializing in obstetrics, he tells Ciro that the security system he built into the car which he calls 4x4 has cut the electric power within the car at the moment Ciro broke in, the car is completely bulletproof, soundproofed and polarized; so no one will hear or see him crying for help, the only thing not secured is the gas tank but Enrique teases it's been rigged with an explosive so if Ciro disobeys he’ll blow Ciro up.

Enrique asks Ciro questions and talks about his personal life to him. He reveals that he is a widower, has a daughter and grandchild, and is suffering from terminal cancer with only a few months left to live. Ciro doesn't care about Enrique and demands to be set free, while threatening to kill Enrique and his family if he doesn't. Enrique hangs up and turns on the A/C to its strongest level, freezing Ciro to point of his lips turning blue from near hypothermia. Ciro also has to deal with his leg becoming infected from the gunshot wound and has no water or food.

Ciro continues to try and escape but the reinforced doors are too strong for him to penetrate with a tire iron. Ciro finds hope when a thief tries to break into the car, but his hopes are broken when the neighbors see what happens, assaults the thief, and calls the police to arrest him.

Enrique calls again to talk more about himself and turns off the A/C. Ciro becomes more frustrated as he wants water but Enrique seems to enjoy messing with Ciro with his conversations. Eventually, he becomes weaker and delirious, he talks about how the world is run by the rich, and the poor trampled by them. Saying he won't obey their rules which is why he steals like his father and grandfather before him and won't obey the rules even if a gun was pointed at his head. Later his skin starts turning yellow, dehydrated, and starving takes its toll as well. Enrique calls and after Ciro answers a question with an answer he likes he tells him there is a washer hose hidden in the back with water to drink. Ciro finds it and fills his empty bottle, but instead of rationing the water, his dehydration causes him to gorge on it completely.

Days pass and Ciro’s sanity begins to drain. He tries to distract himself by drawing on the car interior, eating paper from the car’s manual, and urinating in a bottle to drink his urine to stay hydrated. After another call from Enrique asking for Ciro’s information, he tells Ciro that there is a chocolate bar hidden in the brake panel in the car for complying with his demands.

Enrique calls the next day, he says he has visited Ciro’s home seeing his wife Irina and his son Lionel. Enrique lied about Ciro’s whereabouts, claiming he works for the lottery and Ciro won $100,000 which Enrique gives to Irina to help move out of their apartment and buy a house. Ciro is in tears that Enrique had gone to his family asking what did he do to Enrique to deserve his predicament. Enrique starts teasing Ciro that he has Ciro’s criminal record recounting his crimes from shooting brothers whose car shop Ciro robbed, beating a bus driver to death for stopping Ciro from robbing his passengers, finally that he stole a woman's car and purse alongside a friend and had accidentally run into an innocent bystander. Ciro denies responsibility for his actions claiming it was their fault for either pulling a knife on him or stopping him from stealing. Enrique says Ciro doesn't deserve his family for his crimes and hangs up.

Ciro makes a call to his wife and son after having charged his phone battery in the sunlight for days. He apologies for messing up again before the phone dies. At night after hitting the start button many times the car finally starts up, he drives in reverse and finally escapes. Suffering from his injuries he limps to a gas station where he takes bottles of water and a hamburger to eat. When the cashier alerts the security guard that Ciro hasn't paid for his food Ciro shoots him dead for disturbing him eating.

Ciro awakes realizing it was all a dream and soon he sees Enrique standing in front of him having made one last call. Enrique tries to take Ciro away to punish him more but Ciro manages to escape – only to be subdued once more in his weakened state. A police officer intervenes and the situation escalates to a public standoff with Enrique holding Ciro hostage. The police call in retired negotiator Julio Amadeo to talk to Enrique, but Enrique gets half the community on his side when he talks about how no one cares for people like him or the neighborhood when things go bad and Enrique is forced to handle things himself when the government won't step in.

With half the neighborhood siding for Enrique to kill Ciro and the other to let Ciro free, Julio finally convinces Enrique to surrender and release Ciro. Enrique gets into his car and detonates the explosive device, killing himself and possible bystanders in the crossfire. Ciro looks on sad-faced in the back of a police car finally having been freed from captivity but now has been arrested for his mistake. The media talks about Enrique and the event that transpired, having christened him the ‘Samurai Doctor’ for his strong convictions in seeing himself in the right, everyone talks about the changes that would have to make for the community to prevent further ordeal and get support from the government. Ciro is mentioned, he has received medical treatment and awaits trial for what took place.

Arif, who has returned from Gora to the Earth, is leading a quiet life. Robot 216 suddenly comes to the Earth and tells Arif that he wants to live as a human. Arif and 216 time travel to 1969 with a time machine because the residents do not want an alien in their neighborhood.

In an alternate 2008, Tasya Vos is an assassin who takes control of others' bodies to carry out her hits. Through an implant installed in the unwitting host's brain, Vos can use a special machine to insert her consciousness into their minds. She returns to her own body by forcing the host to commit suicide at the end of each job.

Due to the amount of time she spends imitating other people, Vos struggles with increasing detachment from her own identity and cannot fully separate her work from her interactions with her husband, Michael, and son, Ira. She "practices" assuming her normal persona the same way she practices impersonating her hosts. Thoughts of violence haunt her during ordinary domestic life, such as when putting Ira to bed and having sex with Michael.

Vos's handler, retired assassin Girder, is critical of her desire to remain connected to her family and expresses the belief that Vos would be a better killer without personal attachments. In a debriefing session meant to reconnect her with her real identity, Vos sorts through a series of objects associated with personal memories and pauses on a butterfly that she pinned and framed as a child. She tells Girder she feels guilty for killing it.

Despite her fragile mental state and fatigue with her work, Vos agrees to perform a major hit on wealthy CEO John Parse and his daughter, Ava, by possessing Ava's fiancé, Colin Tate. The hit is only a partial success: Ava dies, but Parse survives. Vos attempts to flee the scene by forcing Tate to shoot himself, but discovers she cannot make him pull the trigger.

Tate instead stabs himself in the skull in an act of rebellion. This damages the implant, and Vos discovers she cannot leave Tate's body or overpower his will. Tate, regaining control, does not know why he killed his girlfriend or why he has begun to experience false, fragmented memories of another person's — Vos's — life.

The traumatized and disoriented Tate flees from the crime scene to his friend Reeta's apartment. He kills Reeta while struggling with dissociative memories of the hit on Parse and Ava. Eddie, another employee from Vos's company, arrives at the apartment to help Vos regain control and complete Tate's suicide. The attempt fails. Vos is still unable to make Tate kill himself. Instead, Tate becomes aware of her presence inside his body; his consciousness overpowers hers in a psychic confrontation, giving him access to memories of her husband, child and home. He kills Eddie during their internal battle.

Tate then goes to Vos's home and holds her husband at gunpoint, demanding to know what she did to him. Vos appears and goads Tate into killing Michael so that she can be freed from her personal attachments. When Michael knocks the gun from Tate's hand, Tate kills him with a meat cleaver. Moments later, Ira stabs Tate in the throat, finally killing him. Tate uses his last moments to fatally shoot Ira, though it is clear that Vos is in control.

Vos returns to her own body and discovers Girder had taken control of Ira to end her struggle with Tate. With Ira and Michael both dead, she is now free of all human attachments, just like Girder wanted.

In another debriefing, Vos sorts through the same personal objects from the beginning of the film. She handles the butterfly again, but does not express any guilt for killing it. Girder smiles and replies, "Very good."

On a remote mountaintop, the Monos, a group of teenage commandos identified only by their ''noms de guerre'', perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner of war referred to only as "Doctora". They are visited by the Messenger, a superior in the unnamed Organization they serve, who oversees their drills and instructs them to push themselves harder. Two of the Monos, Lady and Wolf, request permission to enter a romantic relationship, which the Messenger grants. Before departing, he leaves the Monos in charge of a milk cow named Shakira.

Lady and Wolf consummate their relationship, an event the other commandos honor with celebratory gunfire, during which Shakira is inadvertently shot and killed by Dog. The Monos punish Dog by putting him in solitary confinement in a pit and then drag Shakira's body to their camp to strip it for meat. Troop leader Wolf commits suicide. The Monos argue over how to report this to the Messenger via radio; they eventually lie to protect Dog, saying that Wolf killed Shakira and killed himself out of shame. Lady and Rambo have a sexual encounter that night by the fire. With Wolf dead, the Messenger appoints Bigfoot as head of the squad. Over the radio, the Organization's commander asks Doctora questions from her family to confirm that she is alive.

The Monos' base is attacked and Doctora is put under the watch of Swede, who informs her that she will be killed if the opposing forces try to rescue her. While they are alone together, Doctora appeals to Swede's emotions to help her escape and the two embrace when the bunker in which they are hiding is shelled. Swede begins kissing Doctora, who throws her off; Swede then laughs at her.

The following day, Bigfoot announces that the Monos were triumphant in the fight and will be relocating to the jungle. Soon after their arrival, Doctora makes an attempt to escape. Bigfoot is enraged, damaging the radio and declaring the Monos independent of the Organization. After Doctora is recaptured, Bigfoot demands that Rambo chain her to a tree. Rambo does so, but begins to cry, further angering Bigfoot.

The Messenger returns to check on the Monos and discovers that Lady and Bigfoot have begun a sexual relationship without approval. He forces the Monos to carry out strenuous exercises and confess to him about one another's misdeeds. Smurf reveals that Dog is the one who killed Shakira, and recounts what Bigfoot said about the Monos' independence. The Messenger announces that he will be taking Bigfoot to be assessed by the Organization's superiors. However, on the motorboat ride there, Bigfoot shoots the Messenger in the back and returns to the jungle camp. Smurf is tied to a tree as punishment for snitching and the Monos double down on their training, robbing several passing motorists.

Rambo tries to free Smurf in the night, but is stopped by Lady. Rambo then runs off alone, coming across a boat, only to be caught by its owner, who is diving for gold in the river. He takes Rambo back to his home, where Rambo meets the man's family and is given food and a bed.

Swede takes the chained Doctora to swim, and soon joins her in the river. Doctora uses the chain to strangle Swede underwater, then breaks the chain with a rock. She returns to the base, finds Smurf tied up, and takes his boots. Smurf begs Doctora to take him with her, but she leaves him.

The Monos track Rambo down and attack the house, killing the man and his wife. As Rambo flees, a television in the background reports that Doctora has been spotted in the jungle, and it is implied she will soon be rescued by authorities. Lady finds the couple's three children hiding under a table while Bigfoot, Boom Boom, and Dog chase Rambo, who jumps into the river. Eventually, Rambo washes up on shore and is picked up by a military helicopter, whose pilots radio ahead that they have found an unidentified person. As the helicopter arrives in a nearby city, one of the soldiers contacts his commander, repeatedly requesting orders about what to do with the captive as Rambo starts to cry.

In This western, cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante.

In 1794, the English ship ''Berkeley'' is cast upon an unknown shore in New South Wales due to a storm. Upon exploring the land, the crew suddenly stumble across a shipwreck which they believe to be of Portuguese or Spanish origin. They find papers on board when exploring the shipwreck which are dated to 1519. Fearing the implication which this discovery might have on the English claim to Australia, Captain Bells swears the entirety of the crew to secrecy, warning them to never reveal the existence of the shipwreck.

In present day, archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for the wreck of a Portuguese ship on the south coast of New South Wales. He is accompanied on the dig by fellow archaeologist Anna as well as his students. They begin digging in the area where their aerial magnetometer has detected an anomalous signal and discover a body wrapped up in an army blanket. The body is taken away by detectives for examination in Sydney. David is allowed to watch the autopsy and so travels to the police station where he is greeted by Claire, his ex-lover, who he learns is working as a forensic medical examiner for the police. Following her down to the morgue, David watches Claire as she examines the body which they extrapolate to be a Caucasian male from the 20th century who died from four gunshot wounds.

Back at the site, David learns about an old man in a shack nearby who David could potentially question for information. David travels to the shack and meets Kurt Seligmann, an ailing, elderly man with disfigurations on his face and body. When asked about his knowledge on the shipwreck, Kurt tells David to come back the next day. David returns to the archaeological site where Anna and the students have found fragments of farm machinery. Assuming it to be cause of the magnetometer anomaly, the team is disappointed as it marks the end of their expedition. The next day, David visits the shack again in an attempt to get Kurt to talk, but Kurt has a seizure. After treating him, the local doctor tells David that Kurt has inoperable cancer and needs to be hospitalised. David convinces the doctor to let him and Claire move in to nurse and look after Kurt.

Claire arrives and after a while, David manages to convince Kurt to tell his story. While Kurt is recounting his experiences, David reflects on his own life and his obsession with the ship grows, posing a strain on his relationship with Claire. Claire believes that Kurt is leading David on and begins to see the old man's dark nature. Despite this, she stays with David and the two grow closer, emotionally and physically.

In the 1930s, Kurt, as an archaeology university student, hears a lecture disputing the existence of a Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of Australia. Kurt recalls seeing the ship as a boy and his public defence of the ship's existence brings him to the attention of Fraser McDonald, a university lecturer who approaches Kurt to discuss the ship. Kurt becomes Fraser's research assistant despite their different backgrounds. While socialising with the McDonald family, Kurt meets opera singer Veronica Marshall in 1935 and falls in love with her despite the unspoken expectation that she will marry Fraser. Meanwhile, Fraser and Kurt's search for the ship yields no results and they are severely criticised within their department at university for their research. While Kurt is sent away to find more conclusive evidence, Fraser and Veronica engage in a relationship with each other. Fraser and Veronica are married but Veronica pursues an affair with Kurt a few months after the wedding. Although she expresses doubt with their marriage, Veronica is still unwilling to leave Fraser for Kurt.

World War II breaks out in 1939 and both Kurt and Fraser are conscripted to serve in Singapore. Veronica follows them and admits at last that she is in love with Kurt. Veronica is forced to leave when the crisis in Singapore worsens. Meanwhile, Fraser is in danger in Kulai and Kurt searches for him as a way to appease his guilt over his relationship with Veronica. Kurt manages to rescue Fraser and the two drive back to the wharf only to discover that Veronica did not make it onto the ship and is now presumably dead.

Back in Sydney after Singapore's fall, Fraser uncovers a letter between Kurt and Veronica, exposing their affair. Fraser arrives on Kurt's doorstep, inebriated and armed with a revolver. The two fight, and Kurt shoots Fraser four times, revealing that Fraser was the body which David discovered earlier in the novel. Kurt wraps Fraser's corpse in a blanket, buries the body in the beach, destroys any evidence of murder and stages Fraser's death as suicide.

Kurt is drafted to New Guinea, where he is injured, resulting in his disfigurement and an addiction to morphine. After two years in a hospital, Kurt returns to Australia where he continues to search for the ship.

In the present, Kurt reveals that he returned to the sand dunes, bought the shack and began digging for the wreck. David frantically questions Kurt about the ship's location. Laughing, Kurt finally reveals that he in fact found the shipwreck eventually but burnt it to be rid of his past. Leaving David with the nihilistic message that "the past is nothing, and we are nothing", Kurt then dies.

Similar to many of Egoyan's other films, ''Guest of Honour'' features a narrative structure that alternates between the past and present. In the present day, Veronica meets with a priest, Father Greg, in his church to discuss funeral arrangements for her recently deceased father, Jim. Their conversation reveals details of Jim and Veronica's lives which are shown through a series of flashbacks. Father Greg expresses some confusion as to why Jim wished to have his funeral at this particular church given that Jim was not a member of the congregation. He agrees to allow the funeral to take place at his church, but he first asks Veronica to share more information about Jim's life so that he is prepared to give a eulogy at the funeral. Veronica emphasizes Jim's commitment to his work as a food inspector and his ability to care for the family's pet rabbit, Benjamin, who died at the improbable age of 16.

Prior to his death, Jim was a food safety inspector working for the City of Hamilton. He took his job very seriously, and his strict adherence to the health and safety code often led to clashes with restaurant owners, many of whom are immigrants who may not be familiar with Canadian food safety standards. Jim would also regularly visit Veronica in prison where she was previously serving a sentence for having had sexual relations with an underage teenage boy named Clive when she was a high school music teacher. However, Veronica did not actually commit this crime. To Jim's astonishment, Veronica inexplicably resists any attempt to secure her release from prison and she has no interest in speaking to her lawyer. She claims that she deserves to be in prison for what she did, hinting at something else she is guilty of in her past.

A flashback reveals the details of an overnight school band trip that leads to Veronica's imprisonment. A bus driver and chaperone, Mike, becomes spiteful of Clive's romantic interest in Veronica and her rejection of his own advances. During one of the band's performances, Mike uses Veronica's cell phone to send a sexually suggestive text message to Clive. Clive later approaches Veronica to inform her of the text message. He acknowledges that the message could not have sent by her because they were performing at the time the message was sent, and their phones were left on the school bus, a rule enforced by Veronica herself. They both conclude the obvious fact that Mike was the one who sent the text message using Veronica's phone, but they decide to pull a prank on Mike rather than reporting the incident. Later that night at a motel, Veronica, Clive, and another male student spend time alone in a room and purposely make a lot of noise to trick Mike into thinking that they are partying and having sex. Clive signals for the other student to move to the adjoining room to leave him alone with Veronica. Veronica begins to have a flashback to the suicide of her teenage boyfriend, Walter, causing her to panic and storm out of the room in plain sight of Mike who then confronts her.

Veronica explains to Father Greg that she entered a plea deal and asked for the longest sentence possible rather than allowing her case to proceed in court which would have allowed Clive and the other students to testify as witnesses and vindicate her. Father Greg is perplexed and asks Veronica why she would have been willing to go to jail for something she did not do. Veronica explains that she wanted to go to jail for something else she did in her past.

A series of flashbacks reveal that Veronica began regularly taking music lessons at the private residence of a woman named Alicia when she was eight years old. Alicia is a single mother who also teaches music to her son, Walter, who is of a similar age to Veronica, and the two children would go on to regularly perform together at recitals. Around this time, Veronica's mother, Roseangela, became very ill and passed away soon afterwards. Towards the end of Roseangela's life, Jim and Alicia began developing a romantic relationship which was facilitated in large part by Veronica's music lessons. Veronica resented this relationship and the possibility of Alicia becoming her new mother. Veronica's perception of Jim and Alicia's relationship continues to cause tension and disagreement between her and her father during their meetings in prison. Veronica claims that she remembers seeing her father holding hands with Alicia while she was performing at a musical recital despite the fact that her mother was still alive and in attendance, a charge which Jim denies and tries to disprove while emphasizing that he could never love anyone as much as Roseangela. Veronica also claims to remember seeing Alicia follow her father upstairs to presumably have sex during her music lessons which had merely become a pretext for their blossoming relationship. While Jim and Alicia were upstairs doing something, Veronica would be left alone in the piano room to write music.

During a music lesson with Veronica, Alicia experiences a migraine and retreats upstairs to lie down and smoke a cigarette. Veronica stays downstairs in the piano room to write a piece of music and then proceeds upstairs. As Veronica approaches a doorway, she sees Alicia asleep on a couch with a lit cigarette in her hand. Alicia's hand slips off the couch and lands on a stack of papers which catch fire. Veronica allows Alicia to burn to death in order to avoid the possibility of Alicia marrying Jim. Veronica and Walter later become romantically involved when they are teenagers. At some point in their relationship, Walter becomes aware of the circumstances regarding his mother's death. When Veronica breaks up with Walter, he becomes traumatized and then records a video using Veronica's cell phone blaming her for his mother's death and explaining his intention to commit suicide and join his mother in the underworld which Veronica sent her to, all while Veronica is sleeping. Veronica wakes up the next morning to find her cell phone on the nightstand with a sticky note affixed reading "watch later." She then finds Walter dead in a bloody bathtub. The deaths of Alicia and Walter are the source of Veronica's guilt and her desire to go to jail, details which she admits to Father Greg. Her conversation with Father Greg eventually leads to some closure for her as she begins to come to terms with the true nature of her father's relationship with Alicia and the traumatic incidents which have occurred throughout her life, and she begins to re-frame her perception of them. Two flashbacks reveal that Veronica's recollection of what was going on between Alicia and her father was mostly correct, but severely distorted.

Jim inspects an Armenian restaurant called Wild Orchid and discovers two major violations pertaining to their processing of rabbit meat in the kitchen. The restaurant owners convince Jim that the rabbit meat is for a private event and is not for sale during a regular dinner service, but he is skeptical and intends to come back to verify their claim. Later that week, Jim visits a popular German restaurant which is owned by Clive's family. He spreads some of Benjamin's feces, which he has altered to appear like rat droppings, on the bathroom floor. He threatens Clive's grandfather with a shutdown of the restaurant unless he is given an opportunity to speak privately with Clive who had been intentionally avoiding contact with Jim. During a tense conversation, Clive truthfully explains what happened during the school trip which led to Veronica's imprisonment, and he tells Jim that the bus driver was the one who sent the inappropriate text. He also tells Jim that he knows Veronica felt responsible for Walter's suicide. Later that night, Jim returns to Wild Orchid and discovers that there is in fact a special event taking place at the restaurant, and he is unexpectedly the family's guest of honour that evening. After drinking too much wine, he is invited to give a speech in which he expresses his anguish regarding Veronica's imprisonment despite the fact that she came from a loving home with parents who supported her and made sacrifices for her, to the bewilderment of the other guests who are not aware of Veronica's crime. He expresses his desire to kill the bus driver who was responsible, causing him to be reported to the police by the restaurant owners after they send him home in a taxi. While being interrogated by the police the next day, Jim notices that Benjamin, who was given to Veronica as a gift when she was nine, has suddenly died in his cage. Jim returns to Wild Orchid carrying Benjamin's dead body and demands that the restaurant owners cut off Benjamin's feet so that he can keep them as good luck charms. The mortified restaurant owners comply with the request in order to get Jim to leave.

During their final prison visitation, Jim tells Veronica about what happened at the restaurant and the visitation from the police. He explains that the police are suspicious of his regular visits to the prison because he and Veronica may be plotting to murder Mike. He explains that he got carried away during his speech and that the police are just doing their job by investigating the threat. Veronica excitedly asks if this means her sentence will be extended even further, causing a bewildered Jim to ask her what is wrong with her. Veronica explains that Jim, everything he has done, and everything she saw and endured as a child, is what is wrong with her, but also what is right with her.

At Jim's funeral, Father Greg tells a story about having met Jim briefly at the funeral of another parishioner, Alicia, and how Jim had told him about how important Alicia was to Veronica's musical education. Father Greg asks the parishioners in attendance to mourn the deaths of both Jim and Alicia. Veronica, now in possession of the good luck charms made from Benjamin's feet, asks Father Greg to place the charms in the casket with Jim's body after first keeping one for herself and gifting another to Father Greg. Father Greg places the remaining charms in Jim's hands and then closes the casket.

The final scene is a flashback to when Veronica was a music teacher. During a recital, she introduces the final piece of music on the program by explaining that it is a tune she wrote during a difficult time in her life when she was a girl. It is one of the songs she wrote when she was left alone in the piano room at Alicia's home.

The novel begins with one member of the literary group, Marco Gianelli, giving a short eulogy for the deceased, who remains without identity at this point. In the next chapter, it cuts to Cass’ third person point of view as she describes the scenery in wintry Berlin. Cass goes to her first literary meeting and the reader is introduced to the other five members, “Victor from New York, Marco and Gino from Rome, Yukio and Mitsuko from Tokyo”, and Cass from Sydney. The reader learns how Cass came to join this group; she met Marco as they both stood in front of Vladimir Nabokov's old dwelling, as they both took a photo of the building, and Marco came to invite her to the literary group.

The meetings take place gradually over a few weeks, with each person sharing their own speak-memory. In between the meetings, Cass visits landmarks with different people, such as going to the Pergamon Museum with Marco, aquarium with Victor and the S-Bahn with Mitsuko.

After every person's speak-memory, they agree to two weeks without a meeting, and then schedule the next one in Cass’ apartment. Gino is strained and tense and makes a speech about how they are all pretentious and snobbish. Victor comforts Gino and the two men move onto the apartment's balcony. The men become angry, although we are not told what is said, and in a single moment, Gino lifts Victor up and drops him over the balcony edge. A caretaker is called and Victor's body is driven to the edge of a river and sunk into the water. Gino commits suicide soon after.

Singer Solmaz and shopkeeper Fikret ("Fiko") have both just gotten out of 21-year relationships. Solmaz's has been dumped by her boyfriend (and the father of her daughter) and Fiko by his wife, who kicks him out. The two meet and Solmaz tells Fiko she can stay at her house until he gets back on his feet. At the same time, Solmaz's daughter Zeynep, a college student, gets engaged to her boyfriend Emirhan, but doesn't want his traditional, conservative family to find out her parents are unmarried and her father is gone. Solmaz convinces Fiko to pretend to be Zeynep's father and a police chief during the wedding. Fiko refuses at first because he's a terrible liar but eventually gives in. The wedding, originally supposed to be short and private affair, turns in a multi-day extravaganza thanks to the groom's family. Antics ensue.

Mr. Valentine is an urbane panhandler with a wealth of friends and an amazing best friend, a performing dog named Flip. Things change dramatically for Mr. Valentine when his fellow tenant Helen Baxter's boyfriend, a chauffeur for a millionaire, suggests Valentine and Flip put on a show for the birthday party of the millionaire's spoiled son.

The show entertains all the children and the millionaire and Mr. Valentine become friends. The former rewards the latter with not only money and drinks, but a large leftover dinner and cake with several bottles of spirits. However the son demands to have Flip for himself with Mr. Valentine turning down an offer of $500.

Mr. Valentine throws a party with his gifts for his friends including another tenant, French prostitute Jenette Delatour and her pimp.

After the height of wealth and the esteem of his party guests, Mr. Valentine soon goes to the depths when his health fails. He is no longer able to perform with Flip on the streets, and he is evicted from his basement for continued non payment of his rent. The lack of food and bad weather also get to Flip whose health suffers. Mr. Valentine has to force himself to sell Flip to the millionaire so Flip's health will improve, but as the millionaire is away, his wife will only give Mr. Valentine $50 that he accepts in order to give Flip a good home.

Flip pines for his master and won't eat whilst the pimp, who believes Mr. Valentine has received $500 conspires with a violent criminal to rob Mr. Valentine.

The ''Star Twinkle PreCure'' team: Hikaru, Lala, Elena and Kaguya are stargazing through their telescope, but they are transported to outer space by a bird-like creature named Piton, whom used his Miracle Light to brought them here. The light also brings ''Hug! Pretty Cure'' team: Hana, Saaya, Homare, Emiru and Lulu, as well as ''Kirakira Pretty Cure a la Mode'' team: Ichika, Himari, Aoi, Yukari and Akira. Not long after, the dark cloud catches up and tries to attack Piton, but ''Hug!'' and ''Kirakira'' team transforms, attacks and forms a shield around the dark cloud. Wanting to help, the ''Star Twinkle'' team also transforms and fights with them, and with the Elder's plead, Piton tries to summon more Pretty Cures using the Miracle Light. However, ''Star Twinkle'' team's attacks becomes unsuccessful as their hearts aren't united and attacking with brute forces. The dark cloud cut through the shield, reverting Cures to their civilian forms and dims the shine on Piton's Miracle Light. Piton reaches the conclusion that the three Pretty Cure teams and the Miracle Light are not just useless, but a lie.

The Cures are separated to three planets; One full of clouds, one in a blazing hot climate and one full of bird-like citizens similar to Piton. Each Cures briefly bonds in the respetive planets, with Piton having his heart warmed due to Lala's fruit ice cream. However, the space police troops arrives and tries to arrest the Cures, as the president suspects them as crimes for darkening the universe. They capture Ichika, Himari, Lala, Aoi and Ciel, while Piton escapes to the hot planet and sees that Soleil and Selene have escaped. Piton arrives to the cloud planet and with the help of the Miracle Light, he clears the path of darkness for Star, Yell, Ange and Etoile. Piton and the Cures arrive at the factory to complete his Miracle Light, but soon gets trapped in a cage.

With brief disagreements with the president, Yango pulls a liquid out and have Piton finishes his Light, but soon shines a red light, and Yango reveals that he is responsible for everything that has happened. Revealing his true form, Yango manipulate and brainwashes the citizens over the universe, including Earth, and have them cheer for him using the Dark Lights. The Cures escape from their cages and proceeds to fight Yango, while Star and Piton, along with the president reach the top of the factory. As Piton blames himself, the president comforts him by have Piton use his tears to finish his Miracle Light. With his Light finished, the darkness melts away and reverses the brainwashing citizens. With the cheers from citizens across the universe, as well as the previous Pretty Cure teams, the three Pretty Cure teams forms a pyramid and uses "Pretty Cure Miracle Universe Twinkle" attack and purifies Yango. The president tells the audience that a new legend was created, and Piton is promoted as an outstanding Miracle Light maker. Everyone chants and cheers for the Pretty Cures, as the universe is at peace.

Back on Earth, Hikaru and the others, including Hana and Ichika's teams, are stargazing together. Ryōtarō, whom returns with cup of teas, wonders where the other girls came from, but shrugs, and finds it good to have more people.

It's sunset and the narrator rests amidst the Moldovan vineyards, watching men and women returning home from work, singing songs. With him is Izergil, once beautiful, now very old, decrepit woman. She scolds him for being so withdrawn ("You Russians are born already old men!"), then starts telling him stories.

'''I'''.
The first one, having to do with the origins of the mysterious moving shadow (which she claims to see, although the narrator doesn't), is the legend of Larra, the son of an eagle and a woman. Larra enters the local community of men full of pride and with no concern or respect for others, knowing just one law, that of his own desires. A young woman thwarts his approaches and gets brutally killed. Outraged, the men try to figure out the proper way to punish the villain. Then the wisest one suggests that they should just let him go, for that would be the worst fate for this evil creature, bound to punish himself. For many years he fights them, then starts longing for death, but such is the curse upon him that he cannot die. He tries to kill himself but fails. Left alone, wandering on his own, after many years he gradually turns into a shadow doomed to wander the world forever.

'''II'''.
After informing the narrator that "health is like gold, it is there to be spared", Izergil relates to him the story of her rather turbulent love life. Among the men whom she had, unrepentantly, discarded, were:
— the fisherman from Prut whom she fell in love as a teenager girl, but soon got bored with;
— the red-haired Gutsul outlaw. He was later hanged, along with the fisherman (who'd joined the same gang), after being betrayed by a Romanian landlord; the latter has been punished severely for this, and Izergil apparently had some part in the deed;
— the rich middle-aged Turk whose harem she agreed to join in Bucharest;
— his 16-old son whom she soon eloped with to Bulgaria, where a woman stabbed her ("for either her husband, or fiancé, I don't remember");
— a Polish man, described as 'funny and mean', but also prone to offensive remarks for one of which she threw him into the river and went away;
— a Jew who bought her to make her sell her body;

— the handsome Szlachta man whom she fell in love with, and later (after he'd been imprisoned for taking part in the January Uprising) helped escaping from the Russian prison camp, killing a guardsman.

'''III'''.
Izergil asks the narrator if he sees the blueish sparks in the field, as the night falls, and when he says he does, tells him the story of their origins.

In the old times and the distant lands, a small community of people, driven out of their homeland by the enemy, enter the dark and dangerous forest. Surrounded by darkness and paralyzed with fear, they still have to go forward, into the unknown, for with them are the old testaments of their forefathers. The moment comes when things become so intolerable that they start talking about turning round and surrendering. But the young man named Danko arises and encourages them to move on, taking up the role of their leader.

For a while they follow him enthusiastically, then the discontent starts to grow again. The great storm breaks out, and, horrified by the rain and lightning, they blame Danko for everything that happened to them. Overcome by rage, but also the desire to help out this ungrateful crowd, he tears his chest up, and rises his flaming heart up, as a lantern. Their way suddenly lightened, the people rush forward, soon reach the end to the path and then suddenly find themselves in the sun, among beautiful fields washed with fresh rain. Everybody forgets about Danko who, left behind and bleeding, falls down and dies. Just one last man, perhaps fearing something, approaches him and tramples down the embers of his heart, sending blue sparks around and away.

Late at night, friends Dick, Zeke, and Earl hang out together until Dick sustains unexplained severe injuries. The friends leave him at an emergency room.

Earl returns home and tells his girlfriend Lake that he has to leave town for a family emergency but he attends a shift at his warehouse job.

Zeke sneaks into bed, fooling his wife Lydia into thinking he had been asleep. She asks him to drive their daughter Cynthia to school. He agrees and accidentally pulls Dick's wallet out: he and Zeke took it off of him as he lay unconscious. He takes the driver's license and puts it on the counter and gets Cynthia to the garage but realizes his back seat is covered in blood and he covers it with a sheet.

As the two men begin their day, Doctor Richter—the ER doctor—calls the police department to tell them Dick has died overnight from severe rectal hemorrhaging.

Zeke goes inside a gas station and inside the store, Cynthia tells Officer Dudley about Dick's wallet. Zeke notices the blood in the back seat has soaked into Cynthia's dress. He runs inside to keep the police officer from seeing and gives her the wallet.

Earl arrives at Zeke's house and they scrub the blood from out of the back seat. Earl takes Cynthia to school in his truck where he speaks to Dick's widow Jane. The duo decide to dump the car in a river to hide the evidence.

At the police station, Sheriff Spenser enlists Dudley to help her with the murder. The next morning Zeke lies to Lydia saying their car was stolen the night before so she calls the police and Dudley and Spenser arrive to question her. The interrogation is brief and Richter calls the police and tells them horse semen was in Dick's rectum.

Cynthia overhears Zeke and tells Lydia how he drove her in the car that morning. Lydia confronts Zeke about the inconsistencies and Zeke breaks down and tells her that Dick is dead and he confesses the three friends participated in zoophilic acts for years, and Dick died from having sex with Dick and Jane's horse Comet. Lydia demands that he leave.

At Jane's house, she walks to their stable to find Zeke drunk. The two go to Zeke's home where Dudley is waiting to question about the connection between the car, wallet and Dick's death not realizing Jane is Dick's widow. Lydia and Zeke's stories spiral out of control until he runs out of the kitchen. Dudley chases him and Lydia tells Jane to stay so she can tell her how Dick died. Zeke frees Comet and begs him to run away as Dudley arrests him.

The next morning, Dudley and Spenser walk to the site of the ditched car and the sheriff explains that Zeke has been released. Dudley is incredulous but her boss explains that these charges would ruin the lives of Lydia, Cynthia and Jane. Zeke goes to Cynthia's school where Lydia tells him to get out of their lives.

That night, Zeke goes to Earl and Lake's motel room. Zeke asks what Earl's plan is and he says that he'll come up with something, and starts playing "How You Remind Me" on his guitar.

Sometime after the events of the first film, Buster Moon is thriving with his new theater, with Johnny, Meena, Rosita and Gunter working as his both cast and crew while Ash performs solo shows as a rock star. However, he tries to impress talent scout Suki, who tells him he would not make it in nearby Redshore City, the entertainment capital of the world. Buster, encouraged by Nana Noodleman, reunites his crew and Ash, who decided to join them after her former boss only payed her half of what he pays to the other singers, and heads off to the city to make an impression.

They are denied entry, but manage to sneak in for an audition with entertainment owner Jimmy Crystal. As Jimmy is uninterested in Buster's original show pitch, Gunter suggests a space-themed sci-fi musical that tells the story of a space ranger played by Rosita in a quest to search for a long lost partner, which also includes songs from Clay Calloway, a legendary rock star who has not been seen in 15 years. Intrigued, and assuming Clay will be a part of the show, Jimmy greenlights it, telling them to have the show up and running within three weeks.

During production, Rosita develops a fear of heights during rehearsal and is unable to keep on her role, which Buster begrudgingly gives to Jimmy's daughter, Porsha, on his insistence while Rosita is relegated to a minor role as a green alien. Meanwhile, Johnny, has been casted as a warrior in a dance battle scene, is assigned to dance lessons with top choreographer Klaus Kickenklober but senses that Klaus dislikes him due to his inability to dance. Johnny comes across a street dancer named Nooshy, who teams up and agrees to help him out. Meena has been cast in a romantic scene with Darius, a self-absorbed actor. Having never been in love before, Meena is unable to get the feelings across during their scene. She later meets and falls in love with an ice cream vendor named Alfonso.

Ash and Buster visit Clay Calloway to convince him to be in the show. He refuses at first, but Ash changes his mind. Back at the theater, Buster asks Porsha if she would like to switch roles with Rosita, as Porsha's acting skills are poor despite being a great singer. However, a distraught Porsha misinterprets this as Buster firing her and runs off. Upon learning this, a chagrined Jimmy scolds a sobbing Porsha and angrily threatens Buster by nearly dropping him off his penthouse roof before locking him in a closet. Suki later frees Buster and warns him to evacuate Redshore City before it's too late and Jimmy can kill him. Ash arrives with the crew and Clay, who advises Buster not to run and hide as he did after his wife Ruby died. Buster then decides to have the cast and crew put on the show that night behind Jimmy's back after he witnesses Jimmy insulting him and his friends on live TV. Porsha rejoins the show, while Johnny calls his dad and his gang to come over and keep Jimmy and his henchmen at bay.

During the show, a jealous Klaus takes the place of Johnny's performance partner to try to undermine his number, but Johnny defeats Klaus with encouragement from Nooshy and the other dancers, finally earning Klaus' respect. Porsha performs a high energy song and dance number, standing up to her infuriated father. Meena visualizes Darius as Alfonso, and successfully performs a romantic duet with him. In a last attempt to prevent the show, Jimmy drops Buster off of a high catwalk, which forces Rosita to overcome her fear of heights to save Buster. When the time comes for Clay to take the stage, he claims that he is not ready. Ash leads the crowd in a rendition of one of Clay's songs, giving him the courage to perform. After a curtain call, Jimmy tries to take credit for the show but is arrested for his crimes by the police for attempting to kill Buster.

Just as Buster and his friends prepare to return home the following morning, Suki stops them and tells them that a major theatre wants to put on their show. As the cast puts on their first official performance, Buster watches from the VIP section, proud to have succeeded in Redshore City.

Season 1 (2019)

A man's body is found, hidden in the snow, under a tree on a Christmas tree farm near Larvik, Norway. This is investigated by William Wisting and his team of detectives. Fingerprints link the death to Robert Godwin, an American serial killer who has been on the run for more than 20 years. He is believed to have fled to Larvik, "hiding in plain sight", having assumed the identity of a local resident. In response the FBI sends Special Agents Maggie Griffin and John Bantham to assist the Norwegian investigation. But they must keep their presence secret to avoid alerting the killer, who they fear will flee again. Wisting's daughter, Line, is a journalist writing a story about their next-door neighbour, who had died alone in his house. Unwittingly, her investigating opens up connections with the police murder investigation and she becomes a target. Line's liaison with Bantham, allowing her to discover his identity, compromises his cover. Meanwhile, the police discover the killer's principal dumpsite, the body count sharply rises and the hunt moves over the border into Sweden before Wisting and Griffin corner the killer in a dramatic climax.

Wisting appears on a national television show to discuss the Robert Godwin case. Instead he is ambushed by Philip Henden, a lawyer representing Vidar Haglund, who was jailed for 17 years in a different murder case. Now released, Haglund has always maintained his innocence. The crucial DNA evidence, placing him at the crime scene, is shown to have been tampered with, so Wisting is suspended while the investigation is carried out. Line Wisting is outraged that her father is being hounded by the newspaper for which she works and resolves to clear his name, but a murder case she is working on starts to become connected to everything else.

Season 2 (2021)

A race against time to hunt down an escaped killer before he can strike again, with serious consequences for Wisting's team.

Season 3 (2022)

The head of a girl is found placed on a spike in Larvik's town square, shocking the nation. When another dead body is pulled from the river, it becomes clear that the case may delve into broad international criminal connections.

The play opens with Australian Environment Minister Gwen Malkin admiring the night stars with her daughter Cellabrina. Elsewhere, Catch, the leader of an extremist eco-terrorist group, is planning a terrorist attack against the Australian Government.

Malkin has a radio interview with host Jalan Ones (an allusion to Alan Jones). She talks about the Goonyarra Station Project, an attempt to 'blot out the sun with a milky roof over the Earth'. The interview is a failure. Gwen Malkin and her press advisor, Georgina Bekken, prepare for an exclusive Fleetwood Mac concert held at Parliament House. Here, Catch has snuck in with a 3D printer to create weapons for her terrorist attack.

At the concert, Malkin and Bekken go to the bathrooms. Eco-terrorists storm the building and Catch brandishes a rifle on stage. Catch proclaims the whole audience killed unless Australia becomes 100% renewable tonight. Back in the bathrooms, Malkin and Bekken have killed some of the terrorists after a confrontation. Malkin posts a photo of herself with the bodies on social media.

Catch tries to negotiate with the Australian Prime Minister. She kills mining company CEO Remely Clark. She also wounds journalist Beverly Ile, after forcing her to shoot a member of the audience with an unloaded gun.

Malkin and Bekken sneak through the Channel 9 press gallery. They receive a drone care package from the Murdoch Press. It contains merchandise and products for Malkin, who is now the most popular politician on social media. Malkin and Bekken post photos of Malkin wearing merchandise and brandishing weapons to show how serious she is about combating terrorism.

Catch denies the Prime Minister's negotiation attempts and turns to shoot at the audience. Malkin arrives and fires at her and the remaining terrorists. Bekken is killed by Catch in the crossfire. Catch and Malkin fight on the Parliament House flagpole, until Malkin hurls Catch off, killing her.

Thirty years later, Malkin and Cellabrina are looking at the night sky. Malkin has been Prime Minister for the last thirty years, and the Goonyarra Station Project was a success, ridding Australia of bushfires, droughts and floods. However, the stars are invisible due to the blotting out of the sun.

Throughout the play, an actor playing playwright David Finnigan interrupts the plot to insert excerpts of criticism against ''Kill Climate Deniers''. This includes quotes from Brendan Smyth and Andrew Bolt, introducing the notion of 'being Bolted' (gaining popularity through the criticism of journalist Andrew Bolt.)

The film tells about the daughter of boxing trainer, Cyrus, who had an accident. Her father created a simulator for her, sincerely believing that she would be able to return to her former life. In the meantime, a certain Andrei comes to the hall, and Kira immediately falls in love, which returns her will to life and hope that everything will work out.

Joe Dakota, a handsome, mysterious, and not exactly pleasant man, reaches Arborville, an isolated oil-seeking community in California. He is seeking an Indian scout who allegedly left the town after having sold real estate. Joe soon uncovers an unpleasant truth about the townsfolk and their oil well, which was built on the site of the Indian scout's farm. Also, a problem of attempted sexual assault is involved.

Clover Doyle discovers an unpleasant singing cowboy Hughie Mack, and begins promoting him as the renamed Slim Carter. An orphan boy wins a contest to spend time with Mack/Carter, and good qualities begin to emerge.

Bereaved mother Anna Dean, whose young son was murdered by an older boy 14 years prior, goes on trial for inciting murder after she is accused of posting online the new identity and address of the man she believes murdered her son: Craig Myers. Myers, a husband and father, is violently beaten and feels he must restore his reputation. The series revolves around the trial of the case, alongside its consequences for Myers' family and Dean's search to unmask the true identity of her son's killer.

A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.

X-23 (Laura Kinney), Wolverine and Jubilee look for killers who hunt former mutants. Laura goes on off on her own and runs into old acquaintances.

Alexander the Great's family and friends reminisce at a banquet, looking back over his life, loves and conquests.

Speed Leslie is known as the best pilot on the air racing circuit, but he begins to lose to aviatrix Brenda Gordon when his plane keeps malfunctioning during races. Unbeknownst to Speed and Brenda, her older brother, Big Jim Gordon, is behind the sabotage efforts. Big Jim and his partner, Rocco Wolf, an ace pilot, are in the business of stealing aircraft, and purchase the Criterion Aircraft factory as a front. Meanwhile, Speed, looking for extra cash to support his flying hobby, applies for a job as a test pilot at the Benson aircraft factory. Benson needs Speed to test his new, top-secret hospital aircraft model called the Mercy Plane, which is said to be able to "land on a dime". Returning to his own hangar, Speed runs into Brenda again, who tries to flirt with him while he remains suspicious of her. Brenda gets Speed to take her out to eat at a hamburger joint. Rocco and his protege, Skid, follow them, and after Speed drops off Brenda at her house, they run Speed's jalopy off the road and report the accident as that of a drunk driver. The next day, Brenda comes to bail Speed out of jail, but he refuses to accept her help. Big Jim gives Curly, Speed's mechanic, the money to bail Speed out.

Meanwhile, at five o'clock that morning when Speed was due to test-drive the Mercy Plane, Rocco jumps into the cockpit instead and flies the plane off to a secret location. Speed is accused of the robbery and is stripped of his pilot's license. Determined to clear his name, Speed sneaks into Big Jim's office to search his sales records and also searches the factory premises at night, discovering boxes of aircraft parts waiting for shipment. Rocco and Skid find him there but he manages to outwit them and leaves the two bound and gagged.

Speed convinces Brenda to join him for a test drive and takes the plane far off-course, crashing it in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The two are unhurt, but Speed pretends that the radio has been damaged and continually cuts off communication with air traffic controllers attempting to pinpoint his location. Brenda wonders why Speed obviously planned the crash, having brought along plenty of food and blankets, and refuses to trust him. After five days during which all search efforts have failed and the pair is assumed dead, Speed finally tells her that his plan is to get her brother to bring the Mercy Plane out of hiding to rescue her. Brenda doesn't believe him, but indeed, Big Jim sends Rocco out to rescue his sister when Speed claims over the "broken" radio that she is badly injured. Big Jim, Rocco, and Skid all arrive at the crash site and land the Mercy Plane easily. When they find out Speed has tricked them, Rocco fatally shoots Big Jim and Big Jim fires back, wounding Rocco. Speed is the only one left who can fly the Mercy Plane back to Los Angeles, where he is removed from all suspicion and his pilot's license restored. After that, he and Brenda are off to get a new license at the marriage license bureau.

Sisira and Piyumi are respectively husband and wife. They have a son called Kasun and a daughter called Kawya. Sisira is a government officer. At the beginning of the film he gets promoted as a chief clerk in his office. His son passes an exam and enters a job in an office where the chief officer is a friend of Sisira. Kasun has a fiancee in campus and Kawya builds up a relationship with a vagabond. Then Kawya runs off from home. Kasun also gets married. Meanwhile Sisira retires from his job. After some time Kawya comes back home for refuge with her son and husband. When the film progresses Kasun's mother in law meets her daughter's (Sonali's) past boyfriend Ryan who had kept hopes on marrying Sonali.

Kasun gets a foreign scholarship in England. Sonali and her mother also goes abroad with him. Kasun's mother in law persuades Kasun to get the ownership of his parents' house and lease it for their expenses for their expenses. In another place she persuades him to ask his father's gratuity money to buy him a car. Sisira and Piyumi loses their house because Kasun doesn't pay back the lease. Sisira and Piyumi lives in both Kasun's and Kawya's houses taking turns but they have a hectic time there. Finally Sisira takes Piyumi to his friend's house to live there. Sisira files a court case against his son for ignoring his duties towards his parents but after some time he gives it up because of the advice given to him by Piyumi's doctor. On the day that the court case was dismissed Sisira finds his wife collapsed on the floor.

Meanwhile Kasun gets sacked by his boss because of some disputes in his office. Sonali, her mom and Sonali's little daughter goes abroad and Sonali marries Ryan because her mother had persuaded her to do so. Kasun receives a letter from Sonali when he comes home and he is devastated. The flashback ends there.

The film is a flashback. A young lady visits a home for the elders to collect information for a research. She speaks with Sisira who is also living there after Piyumi's death. Sisira tells his story to the lady. At the end of the film she happens to find out that Sonali and Kasun are her parents.

The Redeemer, a fixer who works primarily in the criminal underworld, wakes up with a hangover at his apartment in the Big House. One of his neighbors, Three Times Blonde, asks him for credit for her phone. They go to her apartment to make the exchange, and end up eating and having sex. Another resident of the apartment, an anemic student, hopes to share in their meal, or at least have leftovers, but they shun him.

The next morning the Redeemer gets a call from Dolphin Fonseca, a barrio boss. Dolphin wants him to find his son Romeo, who has disappeared after visiting Lover's Lane, a street of strip clubs. The Redeemer learns from the bartender Óscar that Romeo was taken by boys from the Castro family, another rich criminal household. He also learns from Dolphin's daughter (the Unruly) that Dolphin has taken Baby Girl, Castro's daughter, to an old house called Las Pericas. When the Redeemer goes to Las Pericas, he finds Baby Girl dead.

He calls a nurse, Vicky, to examine Baby Girl's body. She concludes that Baby Girl died from the plague, having gone several days without treatment. She also notes that the body has not been ravished after death. They go to meet the Mennonite, an old friend and fellow fixer, who is working for the Castros to retrieve Baby Girl. The Mennonite tells him that Romeo is also dead. When the Redeemer asks the Castro sons about the matter, they say that Romeo, injured by a van, had asked them to take him to their house so he could rest for a few hours. However, he died shortly after they brought him to the house. After examining Romeo's body, Vicky concludes that their story is true.

The Redeemer and the Mennonite go back to Lover's Lane to talk again to Óscar. They learn that Romeo was at the strip clubs in order to visit his boyfriend, who worked at the ladies’ club. When the Redeemer goes to Las Pericas to pick up Baby Girl's body, he finds out from the Unruly that Baby Girl was already coughing blood when she was picked up as hostage. The Redeemer puts Baby Girl's body in his apartment until it can be exchanged for Romeo's body. He is tempted into Three Times Blonde's apartment to enjoy her company, but when he leaves, he is beaten by Three Times Blonde's boyfriend, who has heard about her affair via the anemic student. Fortunately, a friend arrives and rescues the Redeemer.

The Mennonite calls the Redeemer to tell him that Las Pericas (the old mansion from earlier in the book) has burned down. Meanwhile, the Redeemer goes to a lawyer named Gustavo and finds out that the Castro and Fonseca families are descended from the same father by different wives, and that the two families have been fighting over legal possession of the ancestral house ever since the father's death. The Redeemer returns home and the Fonsecas and Castros arrive to make the corpse exchange. There is no fight, but harsh words are exchanged over the burning of Las Pericas—each family blames the other. Both families leave, clearly distraught after seeing the dead bodies of their family members. The Redeemer goes to Three Times Blonde, but she leaves as soon as she notices that the weather has cleared. His landlady asks the Redeemer to try to free the anemic student, who is now in police custody, and he agrees and leaves Big House.

''Border Crossing'' is an adventure in which the player characters sneak across the East German border to investigate a location, and sneak back across the border.

Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge) is a 27-year-old former high school football star living with his mother (Sherri Shepherd) in Long Beach, California. He is currently on parole and registered as a sex offender due to an incident 11 years prior where he and a classmate, Kennisha (Xosha Roquemore), sneaked off to kiss. When he overheard teachers approaching, he fled to avoid getting caught, leading the scorned Kennisha to falsely accuse him of raping her.

On the advice of his attorney, Banks pled no contest to rape and was sentenced to six years of prison. His childhood dreams of becoming an NFL player are further damaged when new laws require him to wear an ankle monitor at all times and stay 2,000 feet away from schools and public gathering spots, preventing him from playing football, and he has trouble finding legitimate employment due to his criminal record.

Banks approaches the California Innocence Project hoping to clear his name, and they advise him to write a plea of habeas corpus to the California legal system to get them to retry him. When this fails, Innocence Project founder Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) explains that the justice system requires new evidence that incontrovertibly points to his innocence before they will hear his pleas; this excludes DNA evidence, which was taken during the original trial but never used in his defense.

Innocence Project lawyers interview several of Banks' former classmates, but their word is not strong enough to cast doubt on Banks' conviction. Banks unexpectedly receives a Facebook friend request from Kennisha, leading him to devise a scheme with several of his friends to trick her into confessing on tape that the rape allegation was fraudulent.

This seemingly succeeds, and Banks takes the tape to the Innocence Project. However, since Kennisha did not know she was being recorded, the evidence is inadmissible in court. Brooks sends the tape to the media, causing public outcry at the injustice of Banks' situation. Banks' parole officer calls him and warns him that his contact with Kennisha is a parole violation, but gives him until his parole expires before reporting the violation and placing Banks back in prison.

Brooks approaches District Attorney Mateo (Jose Miguel Vasquez) and convinces him that Banks needs a new trial. Banks goes to court, but Kennisha refuses to testify and claims that Banks offered her $20,000 to say he didn't rape her on tape. Mateo and Brooks confront her and eventually get her to say on the record that her claim that Banks bribed her was a lie; this casts enough doubt on Banks' guilt to convince the judge to finally overturn Banks' conviction.

Banks cuts off the ankle bracelet and heads to a local park, where he enjoys a game of football with some local children. The final narration reveals that Pete Carroll, a former University of Southern California coach who offered him a scholarship to USC during his high school days, invited him to try out for the Seattle Seahawks; failing to make the team due to his skills atrophying as a result of his extended time in prison, Banks trained hard over the next year and eventually was signed by the Atlanta Falcons.

The ''Pretty Rhythm'' series focuses on Prism Stars, idols performing figure skating routines through song and dance with special moves known as Prism Jumps. The characters participate in Prism Shows, live performances that are scored based on how charmed the audience is. Currently, there are two styles of Prism Shows for male Prism Stars: academy-style, standardized performances to appeal to women; and street-style, performances that incorporate street dancing and is not officially recognized by the Prism Show Association.

Set 1.5 years after ''Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live'', the story follows Shin Ichijo, a new student at Edel Rose Academy inspired by the group Over the Rainbow to train at becoming a Prism Star and participate in Prism Show Tournaments. However, Edel Rose's ex-supervisor Jin Norizuki has established a rival academy, Schwarz Rose, who becomes their main competitor.

August and Hilda were deeply in love. They were simple peasants living in the "old country," and a man does not propose marriage until he has saved enough money to support his new wife. August had trouble finding work in their village. Although the couple lives together, August could not save enough money even to consider marriage. August and Hilda were desperate to wed and start a family. They decided their only hope to achieve their dreams was to seek their fortune in the new world. They arrive in America and find a home. August promptly seeks work, but lacking any valuable skills, work becomes challenging to find.

In America, people frown upon a couple living together but not yet not married, which especially bothers August. He fears incarceration.

Hilda finally finds work with a wealthy employer. She works for Harris Grail and his wife, Ester, as a domestic. She discovers the Grails are a contented couple, but Ester cannot have children. Hilda blends into the household, but after working a while, discovers she is with child.

Harris and Ester also soon realize Hilda's condition. They also learn an unmarried Hilda is living with her boyfriend. The Grails can't bear to have an unwed mother living in their household. They ask Hilda to leave and not return. Hilda doesn't understand the decision of her puritanical hosts. In the old country, unwed mothers waiting to get married was is not a moral dilemma.

Hilda is distraught. She worries America's morality may ensnarl August. He could face prison. She doesn't want to burden August with this load. Hilda leaves August and strikes out on her own. She will have the baby on her own. Time passes, and Hilda finds herself in the hospital giving birth. A healthy boy is born. The law states a newborn's parentage must register. The nurses ask the father's name. Hilda refuses to tell them. The nurses insist. Hilda steals away in the night. She returns home but finds the cottage empty. She assumes the worst. Unbeknownst to Hilda, August had stowed away on a tramp steamer heading for Europe. The ship sinks, taking August down with it.

Hilda's situation is desperate. She must end her life and let the fates determine the fate of her son. Hilda places the baby boy in a basket, sets it afloat, then heads off to another part of the sea to take her own life.

Meanwhile, someone has murdered Harris Grail, Ester's beloved husband. Ester is alone, childless, and loses the will to live. She heads to the sea, determined to end it all. Ester is wandering along the shore, searching for a spot to commit the deed. Then, she finds a baby floating in a basket. Have the fates handed her a gift? She will raise the boy as her own, and his adopted name will be Steven. Ester heads home with her new son.

How will Ester raise the boy? She needs help. She asked Hilda to be a nurse to take care of her boy. Ester doesn't know Hilda is Steven's biological mother. Hilda accepts the offer, then has problems helping to raise a boy she knows is hers but unable to tell Ester. She leaves Ester's service after a while and moves on.

Some years pass, Hilda can't bear to be without her son, returns to Ester's house. She confronts Ester with the truth about Hilda being Steven's mother. They talk, and Ester convinces Hilda the boy should stay with her. In that way, Steven would have all the advantages that wealth offers. Hilda agrees, Steven will stay with Ester, and Hilda's motherhood will remain a secret.

Steven grows into adulthood and becomes an educated, articulate man. He feels ready for whatever the world offers. After consulting with his sweetheart, Marion, he makes a run for governor.

Ester doesn't want Steven to have any skeletons in the closet. She tells him of his circumstances and adoption. Steven reacts by inserting a new plank in his political platform. He now wants to legitimatize all children of dubious parentage. Steven would allow them to have equal rights like the rest of us. He knows his ancestry is suspect, and he decides not to propose marriage to the beautiful Marion.

Steven wins the election. He schedules an outdoor inauguration. All the principals arrive. Hilda has read about the event in the local newspaper. She longs for a glimpse of her son. Hilda attends the event. Steven is speaking to the crowd. He talks about his platform of legitimizing underprivileged children.

It mesmerized Hilda as she listens to her son speak. Suddenly, she spots someone in the crowd with a gun. She believes the man banishing the gun is some fanatic attempting to assassinate her son. Hilda rushes towards her son as the would-be assassin fires a shot. Hilda jumps in front of her son at the last moment and takes the bullet.

After the assassin is subdued, Steven rushes to Hilda. As she lay dying, her head in Steven's lap, she tells her son she is his birth mother, and then she dies. The sacrifices Hilda made for him overwhelm Steven. Marion, who is nearby, consoles Steven and tells him his real background doesn't matter to her, she loves him, and they can wed.

A man, portrayed by Méliès, is split into two figures: an augmented and a shrunken version of himself. Méliès starts standing in front of a doorway before the split, and his giant self and dwarf engage in jocularity, before moving back into the doorway and going their separate ways.

Set in Kyoto 2027, the Japanese government has made plans to collect and preserve the city's natural architecture and culture through drones in real time, storing all its data in an infinite-capacity quantum computer known as Alltale. Naomi Katagaki is an indecisive high school student living in Kyoto who harbors a love for reading. One day after school, a mysterious ''yatagarasu'' steals his library book and in an attempt to get it back, he meets a strange man that appears out of nowhere. This man, whom only Naomi can see, is revealed to be himself from 10 years later, now grown up and an adult. The adult Naomi explains that he has accessed Alltale from the real world outside in order to change the recorded past and save Naomi's to-be girlfriend, his classmate Ruri Ichigyō, after she was unfortunately struck by lightning at a fireworks festival and rendered comatose. The teenage Naomi decides to call his adult self 'Sensei' and agrees to help, as his adult self has limited capabilities as an avatar within Alltale. Sensei then gifts Naomi a special power, God's Hand, which manifests from the ''yatagarasu'' as a translucent gloved hand, to allow him to create anything as long as its chemical and physical structure is not overly complex.

Consulting his own diary, Sensei leads Naomi to slowly gain Ruri's affection and they eventually fall in love. On the night of the incident, Naomi refuses to invite her out for the festival and remains outside her house per Sensei's orders. They realise that due to this being a world within Alltale, Sensei's interference has caused its Homeostatic System to kick in. Bots in the form of kitsune men appear attempting to correct the data, transporting Ruri and Naomi to the site of the incident. Summoning a black hole, Naomi erases not only the kitsune men, but also the stroke of lightning that would have hit the tree Ruri was originally supposed to have waited at and hence the accident, successfully rescuing Ruri and rewriting the data.

In a twist of events, Sensei suddenly reclaims God's Hand and teleports Ruri away before disappearing. Naomi is shocked as he realizes that Sensei's plan was to recreate Ruri's original mental state in Alltale so that the data within could be synced with Ruri's own comatose mind in the real world, enabling her to wake up. Returning, defeated, to the city, Naomi is suddenly faced with thousands of kitsune men — an effect of Sensei deciding to reboot the system after all data relevant to Ruri's existence has been rewritten. The system then automatically starts filtering parts of data to keep and those to be erased, causing the space within 2027 Kyoto to shift and for red auroras to appear in the sky. Naomi, recalling how Ruri was teleported away in a similar fashion, jumps into the redness. He awakes in a virtual space to the ''yatagarasu'', who assures him that he is not dead and promises to help him save Ruri, manifesting God's Hand for him once more.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Sensei embraces Ruri, who has woken up from a coma. However, kitsune men soon start appearing around the room targeting her, Sensei realized his world is also a world within Alltale. Teenage Naomi warps to Ruri's hospital room and prepares to bring her to the staircase outside Alltale's complex, which has the optimal spatial coordinates for them to return to their original world. With help from Sensei, they manage to outrun the kitsune men and Ruri returns to her time via a portal created by God's Hand. The kitsune men, shifting their targets to the two Naomis, transform into a horrible gigantic creature that overpowers Naomi's strength. In the last moment, Sensei sacrifices himself, knowing that there can only be one Naomi and thanking his past self for letting him see Ruri smile again, wishing for him to always be happy. Inside the Alltale Management Facility, Alltale is successfully shut down after its data goes haywire and begins to duplicate itself. Alltale logic system has been deactivated which makes it possible for a parallel world to happen inside Alltale. In tears, Naomi returns to Ruri and the two share a kiss. As the data has been written and rewritten beyond recognition, Naomi greets a parallel world ahead of him and Ruri.

In the final scene, adult Naomi awakens atop a human civilization on the Moon, to the overlapping voice of the ''yatagarasu'' and an adult Ruri, implying that Naomi fell into a coma after saving Ruri due to the injuries from failing to enter Alltale in his previous attempts and now it was adult Ruri transferring Naomi's memory from Alltale to the real world.

A female vampire, Afeefa (Mariyam Nisha) goes wandering around the island on her own while seducing a man into her trap and finally killing him. A journalist (Hussain Sobah) was assigned to prepare a news report on the incident. Afeefa, being an undergraduate, later joins a tuition center where she sucked the blood out of her classmate, Aminath Madheeha (Amira Ismail) when she see accidentally got a small cut on her neck. Afeefa's father, Nizar (Ali Shameel) buried Madheeha's body while her disappearance was reported on television and radio. Madheeha's friend, Naveen (Hussain Solah) suspects Afeefa's involvement in her disappearance since she was the last to be seen with her. In order to quench her thirst, Afeefa goes into a killing spree.

Shafiu (Ravee Farooq), who was adopted in childhood and the most beloved son in his family, visits an island for a survey and meets Reena (Mariyam Zuhura) with whom he connects after several quarrels in prior meetings. Shafiu marries Reena and is blessed with two children. Before his adoptive father Qafoor's death, he was willed to be promoted as the company head and sole owner of his property. However, upon his death, Shafiu's brother, Ubaid (Ibrahim Jihad), strips him of all of his power, throws his family out of the house and fires him from his post at the company. Until Shafiu finds a decent job and settles in, Reena goes to her island with their children while Shafiu has an extramarital affair with a rich older woman, Nasheedha (Waleedha Waleed).

Cecilia Kass is trapped in a violent and controlling relationship with wealthy optics engineer and businessman Adrian Griffin. One night, Cecilia drugs Adrian with her diazepam and escapes his highly secured house with the assistance of her younger sister, Emily.

Cecilia hides out in the home of her childhood friend, Detective James Lanier and his teenage daughter, Sydney. Two weeks after Cecilia's escape, Adrian seemingly commits suicide and leaves her $5 million. His lawyer brother, Tom, handles the arrangements. Cecilia suspects another presence in the house after several strange events, but James assures her she is just traumatized and paranoid. During a job interview, she finds her work portfolio's contents removed, then faints. The doctor says high levels of diazepam were found in her system. In her bathroom, she finds the same bottle of bloodied diazepam with which she drugged Adrian during her escape.

Cecilia, accompanied by James, meets with Tom. She believes that Adrian faked his death and used his optics expertise to become invisible in order to torment her, but this idea is rebuffed. Later, Sydney is hit by an unseen force while comforting Cecilia; assuming that Cecilia did it and is becoming unbalanced, she and James leave. Alone at the house, Cecilia tries various tactics to catch the figure she believes hit Sydney. She finds Adrian's phone in the attic, on which she immediately receives a text saying "surprise". Cecilia dumps paint down the attic trap door and it coats a previously invisible figure. A violent struggle ensues but she escapes. She goes to Adrian's home to investigate his lab, where she finds an additional invisible bodysuit, confirming her suspicions. Right after she hides the suit in their former bedroom's closet, the invisible figure attacks again, so she flees and contacts Emily. The pair meet at a restaurant, where the invisible figure slits Emily's throat and places the knife in Cecilia's hand, framing her for murder.

While awaiting trial, Cecilia is remanded to a psychiatric hospital, where she learns she is pregnant. Tom offers to get her charges dropped if she agrees to "return to him" and raise the child, implying that Tom helped stage his brother's suicide. He reveals Adrian tampered with her birth control to impregnate her. Cecilia refuses the offer and steals a fountain pen from him. That night she fakes attempting suicide to lure out the invisible figure. When the figure tries to stop her, she stabs him repeatedly with the pen, causing the suit to malfunction. The security team arrives, but the figure incapacitates them before fleeing the hospital, with Cecilia in pursuit. To protect her unborn child, the figure instead threatens to attack those she loves.

Cecilia races to James's house and finds the figure attacking him and Sydney. She shoots the figure to death but finds Tom in the suit. Police storm Adrian's house and find him alive, tied up and claiming that Tom held him prisoner. They conclude that Tom killed Emily as well, but Cecilia believes that Adrian set his brother up as the scapegoat for his crimes.

To get Adrian's confession, a now exonerated Cecilia meets him at his house secretly wearing a wire, while James listens in from a few blocks away. She agrees to mend their relationship, but only if he confesses to killing Emily. Adrian insists that Tom was responsible, but claims that the experience changed his outlook on life and how he treated her. After Adrian says the word "surprise", Cecilia excuses herself. Moments later, the security camera captures Adrian seemingly slitting his own throat. Cecilia returns and calls 911, apparently distraught. Out of the camera's sight, however, she stares coldly at a dying Adrian and taunts him, indicating that she had used the spare bodysuit to kill him.

When James arrives, Cecilia confirms what the camera captured. He notices she is carrying the suit, but allows her to leave.

The story takes place in 2008 during South Korea's first jury trial. Eight ordinary citizens from different backgrounds are summoned to be jurors of a criminal trial.

Mickey Peck is navigating through both life in her hometown in Anaconda, Montana, and her loving but volatile relationship with her single, veteran father Hank, for whom she has to take responsibility. Despite searching for her own identity and independence, Mickey is determined to keep her household afloat.

Chris and Kyle are two Americans who share an apartment in Tokyo. They lived in peace and happiness until the day their toilet seat broke. This leaves them with questions such as what happened to their toilet seat? How does one say 'toilet seat' in Japanese? Where does one buy a toilet seat in Japan? These questions are explored by Chris and Kyle on their journey for answers.

As described in a film magazine, Tommy Frazer (Dix) is part of a gang of crooks led by Tony the Wop (Griffith) and Kelley's Cafe is their hangout. One night gang member Skinny (Dromgold) is killed by a member of a rival gang, and police officers, hearing the shooting, come to the flat. The police find Skinny sitting at a table, apparently playing cards, so they leave, not noticing that a gang member was behind Spider and holding the cards. To get even, the gang gets 'Blondie' Clark (Lynch) to coax The Kid from the rival gang to their rooms, and Tony stabs him and disposes of the body. Tommy is caught in a forgery and is sent up to prison for three years. Ann Whittaker (Windsor), a fellow worker, nods farewell as he is led away. When Tommy is released he goes to a distant town and, using phony letters of recommendation furnished by Ann, he gets a job at a bank. Soon he is in love with Ann. When a large sum is delivered to the bank, he grows restless and decides to steal it. Having been entrusted with the time lock of the bank, he takes the package of money. The old gang, hearing of the money, comes to town. Tommy changes his mind about the crime, and, while returning the package of money to the vault, he is set upon by the gang and robbed. He goes to bank president Denton Drew (Gillingwater) to confess his part in the transaction, but is relieved to learn that the package did not contain any money, the banker having taken it home. Ann then declares her love for Tommy, providing a happy ending.

The ''Pretty Rhythm'' series focuses Prism Stars, idols performing figure skating routines through song and dance with special moves known as Prism Jumps. The characters participate in Prism Shows, live performances that are scored based on how charmed the audience is. The plot is set 1.5 years after ''Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live''.

After Louis Kisaragi gives him a locket and instructs him to attend Over the Rainbow's Prism Show, Shin Ichijo is starstruck from the experience. While Shin bikes home, Hijiri Himuro, noticing his sparkle, sees potential in him and scouts him to become a Prism Star trainee at Edel Rose Academy. Shin becomes acquainted with his classmates but learns that Edel Rose Academy has only nine students after the death of the previous chairman, Kou Norizuki, and most of the school's funds and students have transferred over to Schwarz Rose, run by Jin Norizuki.

Shin meets the members of Over the Rainbow: Koji Mihama, Hiro Hayami, and Kazuki Nishina. The three share how they were able to perform well based on their friendship, recounting the setbacks they faced in ''Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live''. That afternoon, Shin encounters Louis and thanks him for inspiring him to become a Prism Star, but Louis only responds by formally introducing himself and embracing him. At night, Hijiri becomes suspicious of Jin's next move, revealing that the members of Happy RAIN and Bell Rose were able to escape Jin's management during his takeover. However, Koji is offered an opportunity to produce music for a Hollywood movie production to pay off Edel Rose's debt. Hiro, on the other hand, decides to focus on the next Prism King Cup tournament.

While Kazuki is practicing, he is accosted by Taiga Kougami and Alexander Yamato for abandoning street-style Prism Shows to perform academy-style Prism Shows. Alexander challenges Kazuki, and the two battle to "EZ Do Dance" with Kakeru Juuouin's battle mode technology, the Prism System, but the duel ends in a draw. Meanwhile, Koji helps Shin practice for Prism Shows, and, impressed by his ability, gives him the song "Over the Sunshine!" as a reward.

After Koji accepts his new job abroad, Over the Rainbow perform a farewell concert. With Over the Rainbow now disbanded and Edel Rose's future uncertain, the other students are distraught. However, with encouragement from Hijiri and Koji, Shin performs "Over the Sunshine!" with Hiro and Kazuki, which reminds the students and the audience of the excitement they experienced when they first watched a Prism Show. The Prism Show becomes successful, and Edel Rose is determined to continue. Meanwhile, at Schwarz Rose, Jin rallies his students, one of them revealed to be Louis, to defeat Edel Rose at any cost.

The post-credits scene features a preview for a proposed continuation, where in the midst of preparations for the next Prism King Cup tournament, Hiro learns that he is unable to perform "Pride" now that the song has been given to Louis.

An older woman has an affair with a younger man.

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Robert and Donald Cameron are twins in a Scottish family which is separated by the death of the mother. Robert is brought to America by his father, and Donald is adopted by a family named McNish. Robert prospers in the new land, but Donald goes to the bad, runs away to sea and becomes a smuggler of Chinese to America. On one of his expeditions he scuttles a junk, or Lorcha, and a hundred Chinese perish. The only survivor is the cook, a half-breed, John Soy. Soy and an Irish soldier of fortune. Murphy, aid the kinsmen of the dead in a world-wide search for McNish. One day Murphy sees Cameron, mistakes him for his brother, McNish, and puts the avengers on his track. Cameron, who has a fine Connecticut estate, receives a warning from the Chinese, the only signature being a silhouette of the Sable Lorcha, or funeral ship. Apparently before his very eyes his portrait has been beheaded. A second warning is received. Cameron at once sends for a young friend and neighbor, Phillip Clyde, who is in love with Cameron's niece and ward, Evelyn Grayson. The second threat is carried out by the crashing to atoms of a mirror by unseen hands. Cameron and Clyde are mystified as a third threat comes, declaring that before the morning of the third day Cameron will pass from sight of man. The two men go to sea in a yacht, but the avengers follow in a fast tug, drop Soy in an open boat in the yacht's course and put their man on board when he is picked up in the belief that he is a castaway fisherman. Soy now uses a Chinese anaesthetic with which he has performed the other two mysteries. Cameron and Clyde are rendered unconscious and the former is taken off to the tug. In a box the doomed man is taken to Chinatown, where revenge is to be obtained. Later Clyde comes ashore, meets Soy by chance, and follows him to a Chinatown cellar. There a box is found similar to the one in which Cameron is being taken from the yacht. It contains nothing, however, but Chinese merchandise, and while Clyde goes to seek aid from the police the box containing Cameron is taken away. Meanwhile, in front of Cameron's Fifth Avenue mansion, appears an unkempt and sickly individual who later is found to be McNish. He has escaped from two Chinamen who thought he was Cameron. The police follow one of the avengers to a house in Chinatown, where a large tank has been prepared and Cameron is to be bound while the water rises and brings slow torture and death. They arrive with McNish in time to reveal the error of the Chinese and McNish, the guilty one, dies. Thus is solved the mystery of "The Sable Lorcha.

A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman in an earlier life. The girl begins to live the part of the Spanish noblewoman and romance and comedy ensue.

The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

The story follows hoods Tommy McGrath and "Fats" Moody, who are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in order to get them away from their criminal path.

A disreputable holding company has been robbing ranchers by imposing fraudulent taxes. The story's hero, Grant Carter (Kirby Grant) impersonates a long lost son, Chad Hiltonof, of the man who runs the company. Carter eventually reveals himself to be a U. S. Department of the Interior agent, and brings down the bad guys. In the end, he also captures the heart of a postmistress, Julie Randall (Jane Adams).

Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker) and Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller) put a frozen lasagna in the microwave, intending that it will be ready in 21 and a half minutes. However, they discover they ran out of garlic bread and rush to the grocery store. Jake (Andy Samberg) and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) are told by Holt (Andre Braugher) that a hacker is trying to break into the precinct's server to expose the cover of many informants and undercover agents, and unless they find the hacker in the next 19 minutes, Holt will have to use his emergency override to erase the server, and because the NYPD only backs it up twice a year, doing so would erase months of evidence and records.

With help from Sergeant Knox (Sean Astin), they find that the hacker is in the precinct. Holt orders a lockdown in the building and has the squad inspect all floors. Amy (Melissa Fumero), who is at a dentist appointment, hurries to the precinct while Terry (Terry Crews) and Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio) struggles to maintain the peace between a group of warring sorority students in the building. Rosa is visited by her girlfriend, Jocelyn, who says she wants to break up with her because they don't spend time together but agrees to stay so they can discuss it. Rosa confesses to Jake that she plans to make things up with her and then break up with her, saying she is "always the dumper, never the dumpee," though she later admits she genuinely wants Jocelyn back and was merely putting on a front.

To complicate matters, the hacker releases the sorority students from their holding cells, causing chaos to break out around the bullpen. Amy, Hitchcock and Scully return to the precinct just as time starts running out. Knox deduces that the hacker is in another floor but the squad finds no one there. Jake then deduces that Knox is the hacker, and Amy remembers he was involved in a crime she's investigating, and his real goal is to trick Holt into erasing incriminating evidence. Jake texts Holt not to delete the information in the nick of time. Knox finds out, and holds Holt at gunpoint. However, a fire in the toaster oven (due to Hitchcock's and Scully's burning garlic bread) distracts him, which allows the precinct to arrest him. Jake suggests to Hitchcock and Scully to eat their lasagna without garlic bread. The last scene shows Hitchcock and Scully eating the lasagna.

Wendy (Gloria Jean), a naive young girl, lives with her kindly Uncle Bill (John Qualen), who has sheltered her from life by instilling a belief in fairy-tales and make-believe. Uncle Bill, a pawn shop owner buy a violin from shady character, Peg-Leg ('Sheldon Leonard' )qv)). When Johnny (Keefe Brasselle, a neighborhood boy and friend of Wendy, connects the violin with the theft of a Stradivarius from a murdered composer, he is kidnapped by a group of thugs. Peg-Leg is killed by the boss of the crime-ring, a face-disguised mystery man known as Raincoat. He tortures Johnny to make him reveal his knowledge of the gang's activities. Meanwhile, Gloria his discovered the identity of 'Raincoat' and seeks the help of Mike ('Bill Goodwin'), the policeman on the beat.

A criminal is sentenced to jail and gives his daughter up for adoption. Years later, after his release, he finds her working in a revivalist mission in a frontier town. In order not to disillusion her, he pretends to be an old friend of her father. Later, in order to raise vital funds for the mission, he takes part in a final train robbery in which he is mortally wounded.

In May 2013, Joe Bell is walking through Idaho with his 15-year-old son, Jadin. Nine months prior, Jadin revealed to his parents that he is being bullied at school because he is gay. Joe is accepting although still often uncomfortable; he supports Jadin when he joins the cheerleading squad but asks him to practice in the back yard, worried that their neighbours will pass judgement.

Along the way, they stop at a diner where the news on TV mentions sex-same marriage. When two patrons make a disparaging remark, Joe tells them about his mission - to walk across America in order to raise awareness against homophobic bullying - before leaving hastily. Jadin tells his dad that men like that won't change and that bullying starts with their children, who need to be educated properly about its effects.

Back in 2012, Jadin attends a Halloween party and meets Chance, a closeted homosexual; they share a kiss and begin secretly dating. At a school football game, Jadin is heckled by several people in the crowd for being a cheerleader and his parents get up and leave in embarrassment. Later, he is bullied on social media, but is comforted by his younger brother, Joseph. Chance then ends their relationship, scared that his parents will find out. Back on the road, Joe tells Jadin he was supportive of his cheerleading despite never showing it, and the two reenact Jadin's old routine in the rain after they set up camp for the night.

Joe and Jadin arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah. They check into a motel and Joe goes to a gay bar, where he engages with some locals and tells them his son's story. When asked why he didn't bring him, Joe tells them that his son is dead. Joe has been walking alone the whole time; Jadin's presence was all in his mind.

Jadin's mom, Lola, and Joseph visit Joe on the road. Lola shows Joe a note that was left on Jadin's grave, an apology written by one of the boys who had bullied him. Joe reacts angrily and takes it out on Joseph, leaving both he and Lola upset and fearful. When Joe is later spotted by some locals (after having seen him on TV giving speeches at various events) and takes photographs with them, Lola questions if he is walking for Jadin or for the fame. Back home, Lola calls Joe and tells him she found an essay Jadin had written detailing his experiences of bullying and expressing his desire to commit suicide.

Back in February 2013, Jadin is assaulted in the school locker room by a group of jocks. Joe and Lola meet with the school principle who advises Jadin transfers schools or attends therapy. Jadin tearfully refuses, claiming he is not the one who needs help. The bullying continues, particularly on social media. One morning, Lola finds a suicide note in Jadin's bedroom as a jogger discovers Jadin's body, having hanged himself in a nearby park. Lola rushes to the scene to find Jadin has already died. Days later, Joe, who has spiralled into a deep depression, gets into his car with a gun, but Joseph stops him. Joe then decides to walk from Idaho to New York City, where Jadin always wanted to live.

Joe calls Lola from the road and tells her he cannot walk any further, but she convinces him to keep going for Jadin. Days later, a local sheriff, Gary, stops Joe as he walks the side of the highway. He buys Joe a hot meal and they talk; Gary reveals his son, William, is also gay. He tells Joe that he has never considered that William has ever wanted to take his own life. Joe urges him to tell William that it is okay to be who he is, something he never told Jadin and regrets, knowing he will have to live with that for the rest of his life.

Joe continues walking and sees Jadin again. Joe apologises and tells Jadin that he always loved him; Jadin says he knows. Joe then calls Lola and apologises to her also, and thanks her for putting up with him. He promises to be better about staying in touch on the road.

In October 2013, Gary receives a call about a traffic accident in Colorado and arrives at the scene where a semi-truck driver had fallen asleep and hit a pedestrian on the shoulder of the US 40, killing him instantly. The victim is revealed to be Joe.

The film ends with Joe and Jadin meeting in a field, walking together towards the sunlight. As the credits roll, images and videos of the real Bell family are shown.

When Avram (= Abraham Lincoln) becomes King of Detina (Detinu is "United" spelled backwards - a parody of the USA) after the death of his father King Buchan (= James Buchanan), he declares he intends to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. The northern provinces (= Southern United States), where most of the serfs live, do not accept his lordship. The hot north is a land of broad estates, whose noble overlords take the serfs' labor and give back next to nothing. Those provinces secede from Detina, choosing Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey (= Jefferson Davis), as their king in his place.

Avram refuses to let Geoffrey rule the north without a challenge. The southern provinces (= the Union), full of merchants and smallholders stand solidly behind him. So he sends armies clad in gray against the north. Geoffrey raises his own army, and arrays his men in blue made from the indigo much raised on northern estates to distinguish them from the southrons. This begins the Detinan Civil War.

In ''Sentry Peak'', the story begins with Detina General Guildenstern (= Union General William Rosecrans; Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' has minor characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) going on his war unicorn to meet Thraxton the Braggart (= Confederate General Braxton Bragg) of the northern provinces, for a clash at Sentry Peak (= Lookout Mountain) near Rising Rock (= Chattanooga, Tennessee, whose name supposedly means "rock rising to a point" in the Creek language). Guildenstern is accompanied by Lieutenant General George, nicknamed "Doubting George" (= George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union XIV Corps). Everything else in the story is a parody in a vein similar to these examples.

The novel begins shortly after the end of Christine and Marie-Christine's three-month long sapphic affair. In the first and longest section of the book, entitled "No Man's Land," Christine reacts to the demise of her relationship with Marie-Christine and examines the other relationships in her life, including her relationship with her daughter Léonore and her ex-husband Claude.

The next section entitled "Christmas" is divided into several subsections. It begins by detailing the events that occurred between December 25 and 27, ending with a physical altercation between Christine and Marie-Christine and their separation. Christine then defines several words she identifies with, including incest, mental illness, paranoia, narcissism, homosexuality, subject, suicide, perversion, sadomasochism, nazism, hysteria, desire, and schizophrenia, respectively. She follows these definitions with examples of how these words apply to her life, and descriptions of her interactions with other individuals in her life in an effort to understand these words and how they apply to her specifically, as well as flashbacks to her and Marie-Christine's relationship in early December. This section ends with Christine describing a trip to the cinema that she took with her daughter, Léonore.
In the final and shortest section of the novel, "Valda Candy", Christine describes in detail her incestuous relationship with her father, beginning when she was 14 and ending when she was 16. She then describes her relationship with 30-year-old Marc, a friend of her mother's, that began shortly after the end of her physical relationship with her father. Christine's focus then shifts back to her relationship with her father. Christine ends the novel by revealing that at age 26, she had resumed the incestuous relationship with her father.

Verhelst's novel opens in the first-person narrative of a young gorilla. The narrator and his family are captured from their home in the jungle by poachers. The family is chained together and forced to march to an unknown destination, with some members dying from the harsh conditions of the journey. The caravan eventually reaches a coast where the prisoners are crowded into a ship and sent on a long journey overseas. Finally, the ship reaches a large, man-made facility, where the family is divided by gender. The narrator, along with the other males, learns to speak and act like a human from a human trainer. After the completion of their training, the group joins many other animals of multiple species for their final test: a cocktail party. At this party, all the animals mingle and dance with their new human skills.

Following the party, the narrator is brought to a sort of amusement park, "Dreamland", where the animals are assigned various human jobs based on their capabilities. The narrator gradually gains trust from the higher-ranked humans, eventually obtaining a position training animals himself. He gains enough trust from his supervisors to earn a badge showing his rank as fully human, where he is promoted to a management position and a nice apartment. However, the narrator soon begins to notice some suspicious activity among the humans at the park, leading to an impromptu, frenzied investigation of suspicious shipments of animals. This investigation peaks with a devastating fire that destroys the park – the cause of which is unknown. The narrator ends up with a mindless job in the financially devastated city near the park, where he eventually befriends Lucia, the daughter of Dreamland's owner, and comes to live with her. The novel closes with an image of Lucia in front of a sunset.

On a hot, humid August day in 1976, The Democratic Republic of Congo is the setting of the first major Ebola outbreak. Unfortunately, the outbreak is difficult to contain and control due to the squalid living conditions as a result of deep poverty, and the population's ignorance and apathy regarding the virus. These 2 factors help the Ebola strain to fester and spread to an epidemic affecting the city Kinshasa heavily. As luck would have it, an ordinary Sudanese factory worker by the name Lewis, who happened to stop through Kinshasa on his way back to his home, contracted the virus from an escort during an adulterous romp and consequently brought it back to his home in Nzara to subsequently spread like wildfire. The novel goes on and shows Ebola's path of destruction in Nzara through Lewis' social connections and its devastating effect on the town as a whole.

In King's Landing

Qyburn informs Cersei Lannister that the White Walkers have breached the Wall. Euron Greyjoy arrives with Yara Greyjoy as his prisoner. Euron and Cersei start a relationship. Qyburn visits Bronn and presents him with the crossbow Tyrion used to assassinate his father Tywin Lannister. Should Jaime and Tyrion survive the war against the dead, Cersei wants Bronn to assassinate them.

In the Narrow Sea

Theon Greyjoy secretly boards Euron's flagship in the night and frees his sister Yara. Yara decides to retake the Iron Islands while Euron is distracted by matters in King's Landing. Theon decides to journey to Winterfell to fight the undead.

At Last Hearth

Tormund Giantsbane and Beric Dondarrion lead their party into House Umber's seat of Last Hearth, where they find young Lord Ned Umber dead and impaled to a wall. Tormund declares that they must reach Winterfell before the Night King. Ned reanimates as a wight, and Beric burns him with his flaming sword.

At Winterfell

Daenerys Targaryen and her forces arrive at Winterfell. Bran Stark reveals to Daenerys and Jon that the Night King has reanimated Viserion and breached the Wall. Lyanna Mormont and the other lords express displeasure towards Jon for swearing fealty to a Targaryen. This tension is magnified when Tyrion declares that the Lannister army will soon march north too; Sansa fears that the combined forces might overstretch their supplies, but in private implies to Tyrion that she does not believe Cersei will send her army.

Arya reunites with Jon, Gendry, and the Hound. Davos Seaworth suggests to Tyrion and Varys that the Northerners could be won over by betrothing Jon and Daenerys. Jon and Daenerys ride the dragons, deepening their bond. Later, Sansa accuses Jon of bending the knee out of love for Daenerys.

Samwell Tarly meets Daenerys, who thanks him for curing Jorah of his greyscale, but after discovering his identity admits that she executed his father, Randyll, and his brother, Dickon. Bran instructs a heartbroken Samwell to tell Jon about his true Targaryen heritage as Aegon Targaryen VI, the news of which leaves Jon stunned.

Jaime Lannister arrives at Winterfell and is shocked when he encounters Bran in the courtyard, waiting for him.

As described in a film magazine, Richard Burton (Metcalfe), engaged to Betty (Scott), the sister of his friend John Hammond (Torrence), has led a drunken and generally dissipated existence. Despite his wife Joan's (George) injunction to let Richard shift for himself, John resolves to give Richard a final chance to become respectful. He endorses Richard's note for $10,000 to let the latter start an architectural business. Richard hopes that by hard work and success to win back Betty, who has broken their engagement. Betty's determination to drop Richard is the result of her reading of a wild orgy in which he took part. John was also present at the occasion as that was when he endorsed Richard's note. In order to shield his reputation, John evades his wife's question regarding the financial aid given Richard and denies that he was at the party. John's lie leads to a big social scandal with Richard branded as a forger, and a number of complications result. One lie leads to another, and it is not until a trial takes place that vindicates Richard is the tangle straightened out. Richard reestablishes himself in Betty's favor.

The Little Day is one of several characters impersonating calendar days as ''Lichtwesen'' (light creatures) living above the Earth. Each day, one of them comes to Earth and experiences things happening that day, including war, peace and inventions. Each day character has only one chance, reports events on return, and gets ranked by the importance of the events, with sitting in the first row (''Erste Reihe'') in the meetings being the highest rank. The Little Day waits impatiently for its chance on the next 23 April (in the musical, while it is 23 February in the story), and talks to the Mysterious Day (''Geheimnisvoller Tag''), a character who was ranked high, but is unsure if the day was a good day, because that day lenses were invented, making glasses and other good inventions possible but also the better aiming of weapons (''Zielfernrohr''). The Mysterious Day explains that ranking is less important than being unique and authentic.

On 23 April, the Little Day experiences events including a family moving, with their expectations and difficulties, repair work on a street, and people waiting at a bus station and complaining about the weather, causing the Little Day to ask the sun to shine. Other events include a class at school where a child has a birthday and receives a dog, and all children in the class imagining that animals are sitting in the class as pupils. In another, two people meet after a 50-year absence, a son and his father reconcile, a young couple dance in a park, and a family enjoys a picnic ''einfach nur so'' ("just like that" or "for no reason at all").

The Little Day returns happily but is not ranked high, because nothing special happened. The Mysterious Day is not able to prevent the Little Day's disappointment. The following year, the Day for 23 April reports that people on Earth celebrated in memory of the day a year earlier, which had been the most peaceful day of all times, without wars, catastrophes or hunger. This report leads to Little Day's promotion to the first row.

As described in a film magazine review, mischievous pranks lead to the expulsion of Theodora Bland from a young woman's fashionable academy. She aids Dora Smith, who is escaping from a reform school, and later impersonates her in the home of novelist Roland Carruthers. The latter hides her from the Sheriff. Theodora's relatives endeavor to force her into an unwelcome marriage. After various adventures, she defeats their schemes and weds Roland.

A woman (Taylor) having an affair is blackmailed by her lover's roommate (McCullough). When her lover (Steele) is founded dead, her husband (Standing) is then arrested for the murder.

On Christmas Eve, Andrea, Moppet, and Patrick, whose mother has died recently and whose father is leaving for an urgent task for work, are put in the care of Aunt Ruth, an old woman who tries to entertain the children by telling a Christmas tale.

13 year old Nikolas and his father Joel, a woodcutter, live in the forest. Nikolas' mother had died two years before, eaten by a bear, and Nikolas tries to take comfort every night remembering the legend of a place called Elfhelm, where a girl found a magical place inhabited by elves that helped her to survive the winter. One night a mouse tries to steal some food but his life is spared by Nikolas who calls the mouse Miika and tries to teach him to speak.

One day, the King calls his subjects and promises a big reward if someone is able to find an object that would bring hope to the kingdom. Joel joins a group of hunters to try to find Elfhelm. Joel leaves Nikolas under the care of Aunt Carlotta, a selfish woman who makes Nikolas' life miserable.

Nikolas finds a map that confirms the existence of Elfhelm so he decides to go to the Extreme North to find his father and give him the map. During the journey, Nikolas learns that Miika has learned to speak and this provides hope in continuing his quest. When they reach the Half Moon Forest, a reindeer who Nikolas names Blitzen allows Nikolas to mount him.

The trio reaches Elfhelm but finds nothing there except for Joel's knife. Nikolas loses hope and collapses. He is found by Little Noosh and Father Topo. Father Topo, gives Nikolas a "hope spell" that allows him to recover. Father Topo informs him that he is in Elfhelm, but it is only visible to the people who believe in the place.

Nikolas is able to see the place after believing in the elves and tries to stay in the town. He learns that a group of humans, including Joel, has kidnapped a small elf called Little Kip. Nikolas is sentenced to be eaten by a troll in the Dark Tower. Nikolas manages to escape with the help of a young fairy called the Truth Pixie. He then decides to try to find Joel's party and clarify the misunderstanding.

In the forest, Nikolas finds a group of hunters and Little Kip, but he is trapped by the hunters and discovers his father is along with them. Joel has a change of heart and comes up with a plan. He frees Nikolas, Little Kip, and Blitzen and they run away from the hunters. Blitzen is unable to lift the sled with Joel sitting in it, so he decides to sacrifice himself to allow the trio to fly away.

Nikolas comes back to Elfhelm with Little Kip and he is able to bring the little elf on time to prevent Father Topo from being punished. Little Kip's parents reward Nikolas with the elves' traditional making of toys. Nikolas then has an idea and has all the elves create a bountiful of toys and candies. Nikolas is about to ride Blitzen with the gifts when he is confronted by Mother Vodol. She sees the locket he carries with him showing the portrait of her mother, revealing that the girl who reached Elfhelm in the legend is none other than Nikolas's mother.

Mother Vodol then tells him about how she lost faith in the humans when news spread in the place that the men (including Joel) took Little Kip. Nikolas tells her that his mother always remembered how joyful it was in Elfhelm.

Nikolas goes back to the kingdom one night and he shows himself to the King, offering one of the toys. Confused, the King asks him about the meaning of the gift, leading Nikolas to take him to all the houses in the kingdom to leave toys for the children while trying to not disturb them. The King is moved and decides to help him.

Finishing the story, Aunt Ruth explains to the children the meaning of Nikolas's actions and she felt that one of them has already accepted the fate of their mother and is learning to live with that. The children already figure the boy is Santa Claus. The children's father comes back, to find to their surprise that the living room is filled with Christmas ornaments and presents. Aunt Ruth then leaves the place and throws a firecracker in the ending scene, revealing herself to be the Truth Pixie.

As described in a film magazine review, following a mutual misunderstanding, a divorce decree parts Gilbert and Megan Armes. She becomes a companion to an old lady while Gilbert weds Viola, who is frivolous and a flirt. Megan and her former husband meet years later at a fashionable resort and find that they are still in love with each other. Viola is drowned in a boating accident. Megan and Gilbert re-marry.

Seventeen-year-old Autumn Callahan suspects she is pregnant and goes to a crisis pregnancy center. At the center, she takes a drug store test that confirms that she is pregnant. She gets told that she is 10 weeks along and is given literature on adoption and is shown an anti-abortion video.

After learning that she is unable to get an abortion in Pennsylvania without parental consent, she tries to induce a miscarriage by swallowing pills and punching herself in the stomach. When those methods fail, she confides in her cousin, Skylar, that she is pregnant. Skylar steals cash from the grocery store where they work, and the two buy bus tickets to New York City.

On the bus they meet Jasper, a young man who is persistently interested in Skylar even though she tries to blow him off.

At the Planned Parenthood clinic, Autumn learns that the crisis pregnancy center lied to her about how far along she was and that she is actually 18 weeks pregnant. Though she is still able to get an abortion, she must go to a secondary clinic the following morning in order to have the abortion performed.

Autumn and Skylar spend an uncomfortable night riding the subway and playing games at an arcade. The following morning at the clinic, Autumn learns that a second-trimester abortion is a two-day procedure and that paying for the abortion will wipe out most of her funds. The counselor also asks her a series of questions about her sexual partners which reveal that Autumn's partners have been physically and sexually abusive.

Out of money, Skylar realizes the two have no way of going home. As Autumn refuses to let Skylar call either of their mothers, Skylar reaches out to Jasper, who takes them bowling and to karaoke. At the end of the night, Skylar asks Jasper to loan them the money for their bus tickets, and he agrees. Skylar leaves with Jasper to find an ATM, and Autumn later goes looking for them. She finds them kissing. Realizing Skylar is only going along with it for the loan, Autumn discreetly grabs Skylar's hand to comfort her.

In the morning, Autumn goes to her appointment and has the abortion. Autumn and Skylar go to a restaurant, where Skylar asks her questions about the procedure, but Autumn remains vague. The two ride a bus back to Pennsylvania.

Schwarz Rose has seized copyrights to "Pride" and registered it as Louis Kisaragi's song for the Prism King Cup, rendering Hiro Hayami unable to use it unless Edel Rose pays . Kazuki Nishina appoints Taiga Kougami as his successor while he trains with Rei Kurokawa. Edel Rose later discovers that Koji Mihama is composing music for Schwarz Rose's newest talent, Joji Takadanobaba. Hiro goes to the United States to confront him, while Kazuki trains under Rei's guidance. Edel Rose's janitor Ryo Yamada, a former Prism Star whose career was crushed by Jin through scandal, trains the rest of the Edel Rose students for the Prism King Cup.

At night, Louis invites Shin Ichijo out and asks him to open the locket he gave him, revealing a photo of Shine. While performing a Prism Show together, Louis' "Whispering Lunamystic Heaven" Prism Jump ends with him confessing his feelings and kissing Shin before stabbing him. Shin awakens at Edel Rose, believing it to be a dream. Meanwhile, Hiro is forced to move on without Koji's help. Jin accosts Hijiri Himuro and beckons June Amou to follow him, determined to steal everything from him. Within the next week, Edel Rose becomes embroiled in scandal. Despite these hardships, Hijiri reveals to Hiro that Jin had grown so jealous of Hijiri's career as a Prism Star that he permanently injured his leg, ending with him promising to help Hiro. Later, Hiro's mother and the other Edel Rose students show their support, with Yu and Ito giving him another one of Koji's songs to use. Hijiri later announces that he will be registering Taiga, Yukinojo Tachibana, and Hiro for the Prism King Cup, but Yukinojo withdraws and asks to be replaced with Shin, despite Shin having lost his ability to perform Prism Jumps.

The Prism King Cup begins its Thunder Storm Session, and points are gathered through the Prism System with watches developed by Juuouin Holdings that analyze the emotions of the audience. Joji earns 14450 karats and puts Schwarz Rose in the lead, partially due to Jin bribing the judges and planting Schwarz Rose affiliates in the audience. Alexander destroys the stadium out of scorn for academy-style Prism Shows and challenges Kazuki to another duel. Taiga intervenes, leading both to be disqualified. Kazuki performs "Freedom" and restores the stadium and the audience's excitement, but he is also disqualified. While Shin performs "Over the Sunshine!", Louis tears off his earring and gives him the ability to do Prism Jumps again. Shin's performance is well received, but only earns 14380 karats, placing him in 2nd. Instead of performing "Pride", Louis performs "Lunatic Destiny." His "Infinite Hug Eternal" Prism Jump returns June's memories from ''Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live'', including one revealing that Louis is also a Rinne-type Prism Messenger, while Shin was Shine, Rinne's lover, before she was forced to kill him. Having been the first to successfully perform four consecutive Prism Jumps at the Prism King Cup, Louis earns 20000 karats and is placed in 1st.

Instead of using the song Yu and Ito gave him, Hiro performs "Pride" and amazes the audience, even causing the Prism Goddess to crown him as king. Hiro earns 20000 karats and is tied with Louis, but before the final results are announced, Sanada destroys the monitor. However, Kakeru Juuouin reveals that Juuouin Holdings has partnered with the Itsutomo Group to improve the Prism System's security and have backed up the points, while Louis allows Hiro to take the win. With Edel Rose victorious, Koji tells Kazuki and Hiro that his contract in Hollywood is over, and Over the Rainbow can reunite again. Having received her memories back, June returns to Hijiri, while Louis vows to stay with Jin despite his feelings for Shin.

The credits reveal that Edel Rose is able to recover from scandal, while their students carry out their lives. In a post-credits scene, Over the Rainbow performs "Nijiiro Crown" as they graduate from Edel Rose and Kakyoin Academy.

Miri Matteson has just returned home to Hythe, Kent, after serving an 18-year prison sentence. As Miri attempts to rebuild her life, she forms a friendship with Billy, who cares for the elderly woman next door.

The game takes place in Mizzurna Falls, a fictional town in Colorado near the Rocky Mountains.

On Christmas Day 1995, a young girl, Kathy Flannery is discovered unconscious in the forest, apparently attacked by a bear. Soon after, high school student Emma Rowland goes missing. Emma's classmate Matthew Williams becomes involved in the mystery surrounding the disappearance and the dark secrets of the town.

Penrod Schofield is a mischievous boy who makes trouble in his community by protecting kids from overprotective and strict parents. He leads American Boys' Protective Association (ABPA) which engages in local society disruptions. People from his society are becoming frustrated with his behavior and when the town's outlaws arrive, Penrod shows his true color.

The film's prologue transports the moviegoers to the grottoes of Hell. Life's Creator has gathered the underworld spirits to help him create a mortal. They work non-stop and complete their creation. While the spirits admire their work, the Devil enters. Examining the Creator's mortal, Satan determines one attribute is missing. He instills the mortal with the Love of Self. The Devil knows pride is the most sinister of the Seven Deadly sins, and all other immoralities spring forth from the sin of pride.

Satan has added his last touches to the mortal and feels the "Man" is ready to navigate the road of life. The Devil chooses the easiest path for the man and sends him forth into the world. Satan returns to Hell, discovering the spirits have created another mortal. Satan declares this mortal a "Woman." The Devil adds no other attributes to the woman and sends her to follow life's pathways. Satan knows the man will take care of her downward spiral. Maniacal laughter fills the cavern–Satan knows he has done well.

Mason Van Horton is the young president of Van Horton bank, a self-made millionaire, and a ranking member of society. The bank is in an impoverished section of town. Hundreds of workers have placed their hard-earned life savings in the bank. Mason has taken a carefree approach towards the bank, and it is on the precipice of failure. The elder John Manners is wealthy and married to his wife, Doria. She is always seeking to raise her social standing and is a social vampire. John Manners has assisted Mason in his ascent to the top of his business. However, he is not above taking advantage of Mason's missteps whenever they present themselves.

Doria tires of her husband's company, so she focuses her flirtatious talents on Mason Van Horton. She flirts and entices Mason, and he is not resistant to her overtures. Beverly Hope visits her aunt, Barbara. Mason meets Beverly at a social function and falls in Love. Beverly is so sweet and virtuous that Mason reflects upon his past life. Could he have done anything differently so he could ask her to marry him?

There is a gala at the Manners' home. They have invited all the social elites. During the party, Doria snuggles up to Mason and asks him to meet her in private. Mason agrees, and after all the guests have gone, he sneaks upstairs to Doria's apartment. She is sitting on a divan, waiting for his arrival. Mason enters the room, sits on the sofa, and they embrace. He pulls back after a brief sigh and then leans forward to kiss Doria. As their lips are about to meet, Mason takes one last glance at Doria. The room seems to darken around them, and he can only see the face of his beloved Beverly. He reels back in fear and stumbles to his feet. Mason rushes from the room while every fiber of his body is writhing in guilt. After all, he almost betrayed the woman he loves, but just the thought of Beverly broke Doria's spell. As he leaves the room, he passes a curious John Manners.

Doria is beside herself when she cannot win the affections of Mason Van Horton. Mason's rejection of Doria triggers a vengeance response. She tells her husband; Mason had forced his way into her room and tried to have his way. An enraged Manners wants to kill Van Horton. Doria pleads with her husband not to harm him but to ruin him financially. With Manner's business acumen, it doesn't take long for him to bankrupt Van Horton's bank. The bank's investors lose every penny of their savings. Mason holds himself responsible for the failure of his bank. He commits to making total restitution. He sacrifices his entire fortune to repay the poor people that invested in his bank. While all the other intrigues are taking place, Beverly has fallen in love with Mason. Beverly has agreed to marry Mason and, meantime, to help him work his way through his plans for restitution.

Doria throws a reception at her house and invites Mason. He accepts, hoping he can find some private time with John Manners. The reception is in full swing when a strange woman shows up. She was a former member of the Van Horton fail bank and had lost her life savings. Doria discovers her background and orders her from the house. Instead of leaving, the woman slips upstairs to Doria's room. Once in the room, she stabs herself and falls bleeding to the floor. At the reception, the dinner guests gather around a table. Doria is entertaining the guests when a drop of blood falls from the ceiling. The shaken dinner guests are astonished. During the confusion in the other room, Mason and John Manners are in the library discussing business when a guest hurries in and tells them about the drops of blood. John Manners rushes upstairs to see what happened. After assessing the situation, he returns to the library. Passing one of the upstairs rooms, he hears Doria and Prince Vandloup making Love. He enters the room, confronts the two, and condemns Doria. John Manners now recognizes how Doria had manipulated him. Manners heads downstairs explains to his bewildered guests that Doria was behind the collapse of the Van Horton bank. Under the circumstances, Manners will help Mason make restitution. He expels Doria from the house and banishes her forever.

Mason and Beverly profess their Love for each other and get married. Doria has always had an infatuation with Prince Vandloup. The prince made Love to her at every opportunity. Because Doria failed to seduce Mason, she must now pay the Devil his due. Prince Vandloup transforms into the Devil, and Doria learns she is in the power of evil and forever the Devil's Bondwoman.

A year has passed since the events of the "Zero Requiem", a scheme Emperor Lelouch vi Britannia formulated to end conflict with his death, and Nunnally vi Britannia rules Britannia while aided by her bodyguard Suzaku Kururugi, who has taken the identity of Zero. Nunnally and Suzaku are in the middle of a goodwill visit to a desert nation when they are ambushed by a Knightmare squad; Suzaku is easily defeated and they are abducted. The two find themselves in the custody of Shalio and Shamna, the sibling rulers of the Kingdom of Zilkhistan which has suffered from the world peace crippling their primary export: mercenary soldiers. Shamna explains their plan to use Nunnally to access the collective unconsciousness within C's World to restore Zilkhistan's political might.

Suspecting Zilkhistan's involvement, Kallen Stadtfeld, Sayoko Shinozaki, and Lloyd Asplund infiltrate the country and run into C.C. and a physically resurrected but soulless Lelouch. C.C. explains that, after the Zero Requiem, their school friend Shirley Fenette smuggled Lelouch's corpse to her and that she resurrected Lelouch from the dead by reconstructing his corpse, but his memories and personality are trapped in the collective unconsciousness. The group launches an assault on a Zilkhistan prison, where they rescue Suzaku and discover an Aramu Gate, a portal to C's World. C.C. uses the portal to fully resurrect Lelouch. Lelouch once again dons the mantle of Zero and meets up with Britannian forces led by his half-sister Cornelia li Britannia and his former lieutenant Kaname Ohgi.

Lelouch's forces track Nunnally down and find her in a Zilkhistan temple. Lelouch infiltrates the temple and kills Shamna, but she activates her Geass and travels back six hours in the past, allowing her to perfectly predict Lelouch's actions. Lelouch uses his tactical prowess to deduce the mechanics of Shamna's Geass and knocks her out. He frees Nunnally, but learns that her mind has been transported into C's World. C.C. guides him into the collective unconsciousness, and he successfully rescues Nunnally. Suzaku kills Shalio in combat, destroying Shamna permanently. In the aftermath, Lelouch once again bequeaths the title of Zero to Suzaku and departs on a journey with C.C., taking the alias L.L. as his idea of a marriage proposal.

In a post-credits scene set in an undetermined future, L.L. and C.C. are shown standing over a mass grave in a forest, with L.L. stating he would take away the Geass of those who wield it without resolve. This post-credit scene served as the setup for the movie's picture drama where Lelouch and C.C. confronted a pirate and C.C. took away his Geass.

The game's plot follows Shadow, a cyborg ninja who sets out to free his fallen clan from synthetic lifeforms harvesting them for their powers. It is set in the ruins of the fictional Mekacity. Shadow travels across Mekacity, fighting the cybernetic beings as well as a traitor from his ninja clan called Apparitor, and ends his captured clanmates lives to free their spirits. His ultimate goal is to find the Master of the clan, with whom the original human Shadow had a seemingly romantic relationship. Shadow discovers that the Master was dying of a mysterious spiritual disease, and her father, in a mad scheme to save her life, attacked the city with his synthetic army and betrayed the Clan so as to drain their mystical powers, and use the drained energy to keep his daughter alive. Cyber-Shadow sets out to defeat him so that he can free her spirit from her dying body and reunite with her in the Ethos, the spiritual realm.

Set in the year 1973, after her expulsion from the Flemmington Girls' Institute, an all-girls boarding school, the rebellious Jennifer suffers an injury attempting to escape from the Ashmann Inn, a rustic hotel resort (revealed to be the former RossoGallo Farms before its demise two years prior to the game's events) owned by Stefano Ashmann, the eldest son of the wealthy Ashmann family, who were business partners with RossoGallo heiress Arianna Gallo, her husband Richard Felton, and Professor Albert Elias Wyman, located at the base of Mount Etna where she was sent to serve as one of its maids. She also has a strained relationship with fellow maid and former friend Lindsay "Linn" after having a falling out due to the failed escape. Jennifer attempts to escape again, only to witness the head maid Andrea Massino feeding a sick crow to a massive masked man who is apparently Professor Wyman. She is forced to fight Andrea, who has gone mad with a murderous rage. After defeating Andrea, Jennifer steals her master key and heads for the second floor, where she is thrown down the staircase by the masked man.

Jennifer later wakes up, with the staff claiming that she had imagined everything and that Wyman has long been dead as he committed suicide by hanging two years prior. However, Linn later approaches her, revealing that Wyman's suicide was staged and warns her that she must escape, as the staff are sure that Jennifer is Celeste Felton. Linn further explains that since Jennifer's biological mother had taken Phenoxyl while she was pregnant, Jennifer was born with a unique immunity to the harmful side effects, which is what makes her so valuable. However, Jennifer is separated from Linn and captured by the now-insane Stefano and Andrea. Stefano reveals that Jennifer wasn't adopted by Richard Felton, but is in fact Felton's biological daughter (as Felton is actually a woman but was forced to live as a man by his father since she was 10 years old), with Stefano himself being Jennifer's illegitimate biological father as the result of raping Felton in revenge for marrying Arianna, who he loved before Jennifer was born. She is able to escape, but is pursued by the now insane staff. She runs into another maid, Elisa, who explains that the entire staff are being brainwashed through the inn's loudspeaker system. She directs Jennifer to head to the basement to shut down the loudspeakers, since she is the only one immune to their effects.

Jennifer proceeds into the basement of the inn, where she finds a secret Phenoxyl laboratory. There, she learns that there an individual called a "Mother Acherontia" with the unique gift of being able to control those infected with Phenoxyl through telepathic and hypnotic means, creating a collective consciousness among the hypnotized infected. However, there is a risk that the control may backfire and the leader's own mind is absorbed into the collective consciousness through a process called a "fracture/porcelain phase", causing it to go out of control and having all of the infected fall into an endless hypnotic loop of repetition. She also learns Stefano and Wyman were responsible for directing Linn to burn down the Cristo Morente convent, fearing that Gloria Ashmann, Stefano's younger sister, would seize control of the infected away from them. However, Gloria was able to escape and Wyman was made the scapegoat of the Phenoxyl experiments, forcing him to fake his own death and hide in the Ashmann Inn. Elisa is revealed to be Gloria, who survived the fire at the convent two years prior and worked at the hotel under an alias.

Both Jennifer and Linn then escape the inn by stealing a car, though Linn reveals that Gloria tricked her into destroying Wyman's broadcast, allowing her to take full control of the collective consciousness. They are recaptured by Gloria and sent back to the inn. However, Jennifer begins regaining her memories thanks to the help of Wyman's disembodied mind, which has become separated from his body that now serves as Gloria(as Mother Acherontia)'s mindless puppet Porcelain. Jennifer remembers a song that she and Linn composed together, which is actually the trigger known as a "push" to undo the mass hypnosis. She is able to find and play the recording, breaking the loop. Linn meanwhile learns she is Wyman's daughter and escapes captivity. Andrea attempts to kill Gloria, but is killed by Stefano. Gloria, realizing Stefano, her own brother, had molested her when she was a child (resulting in their parents sending Stefano to live with a relative in the North and Gloria to the convent) and tried to kill her in the fire that destroyed the convent, orders Porcelain to attack him. She then orders Porcelain to kill Jennifer, but Linn arrives and usurps control of Porcelain, forcing Gloria to flee, but not before she kills Porcelain/Wyman by lightning him on fire and swears revenge on Jennifer's parents. Afterwards, despite having an opportunity to escape and run away together, Jennifer reluctantly parts ways with Linn, wanting to go back to her parents to warn them about Gloria's revenge, before giving Linn back her violin ''Red Rosemary'' (which Jennifer mispronounced the engraving as "Reed Rosemary").

19 years later, shortly after the deaths of Felton and Gloria, Rosemary Reed arrives at the Ashmann Inn to find Celeste with a dossier of the latter (who was under the name Jennifer after her disappearance in 1971) she collected from the Flemmington Girls' Institute. Stefano, now with his face heavily disfigured by a swarm of Acherontia moths summoned by Gloria, and his left arm maimed from Porcelain's attack in 1973, recognizes Reed as Linn (due to her stuttering). After sedating him with a dose of Phenoxyl and using the hallucination of Porcelain under her command, Linn kidnaps Stefano and coerces him into admitting that he had been tracking Jennifer's movements, especially after escaping from the Felton Villa, as Gloria followed her there. She now lives in Sweden as a writer under a pen name. He also further admits that he had brought in 14 other girls who were suspected to be Celeste/Jennifer, only to have them murdered by Porcelain when they were not. Linn then has the option of killing or sparing Stefano. As Linn laments, she removes her blond wig that she wore in the events of the first game and in the present day.

In the present, Madame Svenska reveals that she is in fact Celeste "Jennifer", and she had been telling the story to Giulio Manni in order to give him closure on the fate of his older sister, Rachele, who was one of the girls abducted by Stefano and murdered by Porcelain. Meanwhile Linn, after one last meeting with her beloved Jennifer, has died from Alzheimer's disease, which she inherited from Wyman. Jennifer takes it upon herself to carry the memories Linn spent so many years preserving in her stead.

;Book One Following the death of her father, the king, Poppy is uncertain of her place in the royal court and wishes to travel to her country estate or her mother's homeland. She makes a formal request to King Surno at his coronation, but that night an assassin attacks her and Cyrenic in the castle. Poppy believes Princess Rellen was behind the attack to prevent Poppy from trying to usurp the throne. Surno denies her travel request, saying she will be safest if she remains with him. To celebrate the new king, a tournament of knights is held in his honor. To gain the favor of Surno and Rellen, Poppy grants her chooses Lord Helder as her champion in the competition. Cyrenic defeats Helder, winning the tournament. His prize is a walk with the king at a time of Cyrenic's choosing. The tournament is followed by a feast, where Poppy's pet alerts her to poison on her plate. Shortly thereafter, Poppy has a private conversation with Rellen, confessing that she only wants to leave Harbeny and bears Rellen no ill will. Rellen reveals she has a bracelet that tells her when people are lying to her, then admits that her concerns about Poppy had been fed by Helder. Together, they suspect Helder is behind the two assassination attempts.

On the way back to her chamber, two more assassins attack but are killed by Cyrenic. Before dying, one confesses that Helder hired them. Poppy and Cyrenic go to the king, who is already meeting with Helder. King Surno suggests the two of them marry to legitimize Poppy's place in the court before Poppy explains what the assassin told her. Surno calls for Rellen, who uses her bracelet to monitor Helder's responses. Rellen admits Helder's careful denials are true, but the king ignores her when she requests to ask more direct questions. Frustrated by these developments and worried he will be unable to protect Poppy if his wakefulness spell falters and he falls asleep, Cyrenic plans to murder Helder. Poppy voices her love for Cyrenic and begs him not to do something that will cause his death. He kisses her in return, but refuses to change his mind. With no other way to stop him, Poppy recites the incantation that releases Cyrenic from his vow. He immediately falls into a deep sleep.

;Book Two One year later, Cyrenic is still asleep. Court physicians do not know what to expect because no Sleepless Knight has ever been released before. His body has been moved to the crypt where former Sleepless Knights are also kept. No other threats to Poppy's life have arisen, and plans for her marriage to Helder have moved forward despite Poppy's continued suspicions. Cyrenic awakens, but it takes him time to adjust to his new condition. In addition to being rested, his body is weak and his mind is uncertain because his vow no longer guides his actions. His relationship with Poppy sours over her coming marriage.

After Poppy and Helder are married, they retire to his bed chamber to consummate their union. With Poppy's prompting, Helder admits that he was behind the assassination attempts, but he now hopes they can rule together. Poppy tells him she has no intention of assisting him, and will actively work against him for the rest of his life. Helder moves to attack her, but she evades him and bloodies his nose. She flees, letting him be seen chasing her through the castle. Cyrenic sees her and helps her escape. Lord Otrano appears behind Helder and chastises him for failing before pushing him over a ledge to his death. He then spreads rumors among the uncertain witnesses that Poppy pushed him with Cyrenic's help. King Surno organizes a search party to locate Poppy and Cyrenic with orders to kill them.

Poppy and Cyrenic sneak back into the castle to find out who has betrayed them. Guards loyal to Otrano capture them and he explains that her country estate used to belong to his fiancé and be part of another kingdom. When his fiancé's family supported an enemy of Harbeny, Poppy's father annexed the estate, removed record of her family, and granted the land to Poppy. Otrano has wanted revenge ever since, and he has been behind all the assassination attempts on Poppy's life, including the one years ago that led to Cyrenic guarding her. King Surno is called to witness their executions, but Cyrenic reminds him of his prize from the tournament and demands they take their walk before he is put to death. Cyrenic recounts what Otrano told them, and Surno believes the truth. Otrano is executed. Poppy and Cyrenic travel to her country estate to live in peace.

Bob Zellner is the son of a Methodist minister, a senior attending all-White Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama in 1961. Seeking information with which to write research papers on race relations, Zellner and four fellow students attend an event held in a Black church to mark the fifth anniversary of the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The event is conducted by Ralph Abernathy and Rosa Parks. When police arrive to arrest them, the White students evade arrest by fleeing through a back door. Dubbed the 'Huntingdon Five' in a newspaper, a cross is burned on the yard outside Zellner's room. Zellner's klansman grandfather warns him not to involve himself in the civil rights movement.

Witnessing a mob attack on the Freedom Riders, Zellner helps Jessica Mitford get to safety. At first a passive supporter of the movement, Zellner goes on to become SNCC's first White field secretary. Facing suspicion at first from black SNCC activists, he proves his bona fides by protesting alongside them, narrowly escaping a lynching while in his home town participating with a march to the county courthouse.

Following the murder of Herbert Lee, Zellner decides to leave the movement and continue his studies in the North. After a violent confrontation with a former friend, who organized his attempted lynching, Zellner firmly changes course and then commits himself to the movement. The film ends with a montage of Zellner's activism during the '60s on civil rights, including tribute to his mentor, the late John Lewis.

In ''Ace of Clubs'', the player characters pose as students at the Ace of Clubs, a private resort in upstate New York which is actually a training ground for spies, to investigate the deaths of instructors at the school under mysterious circumstances.

The adventure is set in the World of Cypher. Thematically similar to the contemporaneous movie ''The Cannonball Run'' (1981), the player characters are participating in a five-team race held only once every seven years. To win, the characters must traverse 600 miles of wilderness, overcoming geographical obstacles, combat with the other teams, and ravenous monsters, in order to be the first to reach the City of Cypher and place a crystal orb in the crown of King Kornilian. Although spellcasting is allowed during the race, no teleportation magic can be used.

''The Cleopatra Gambit'' is an adventure in which the player characters must stop the shape-shifting Demoreans who have infiltrated ancient Egypt.

Jake and Kyra live with their adoptive daughter Mika and Yang, a previously owned robotic child they purchased from certified reseller Second Siblings, rather than from his original maker, Brothers & Sisters Incorporated. When Yang becomes unresponsive, Jake goes on a mission to repair him. Brothers & Sisters recommend replacing Yang, which means his body will decompose. Not wanting to upset Mika, Jake becomes determined to save his robotic child. In a flashback, Yang reassures a curious Mika that she is still part of the family despite being adopted.

Jake takes Yang to a cheap repairman named Russ, who discovers what he claims is a hidden camera inside of Yang. Jake takes the "camera" to a museum specialist named Cleo, who tells him that it is, in fact, Yang's memory bank. Jake goes home and watches Yang's memories. They include short clips from every day of Yang's life, including his time with a woman named Ada. The next day, Jake takes Yang to Cleo. In a flashback, Yang becomes sad about his inability to truly live.

Jake tracks down Ada, who is revealed to be a clone. She confirms Jake's suspicions that Yang had been in a relationship with her. Jake and Kyra decide to move on, letting Yang decompose and donating his memories to the museum. In a flashback, Yang and Kyra discuss the improbability of an afterlife.

Jake talks to Yang's previous owner, Nancy, who mentions that Yang was not a new product. Jake discovers a setting on the memory bank that unlocks more of Yang's memories. They reveal that Yang had lived an entire life before either Jake or Nancy owned him, one in which he developed a relationship with a woman named Ada. The older Ada is revealed to have cared for the aging mother in Yang's first family. Ada later dies in a car accident. The younger Ada tells Jake that the person in Yang's memories was her great-aunt. At night, Mika tells Jake that she does not want to say goodbye to Yang. Jake agrees, and Mika begins to sing a song previously heard in one of Yang's memories.

Westie Phillips is the son of a poor commercial trawler and his wife. One day while paddling his canoe around the ocean, he finds a pretty girl marooned on a rock. Since the tide is rising, he rescues her and takes her to safety. The young girl turns out to be Martha Gorman, the daughter of the wealthy Silas Gorman. In that instant, Westie falls in love. Martha thanks him and forgets him.

Harry Arnold is a prosperous man, much older than Martha. Harry is also a man in love. He constantly flirts with Martha, hoping to win her hand in marriage. Despite Arnold's persistent entreaties, Martha rebuffs them all. Martha's father, Silas Gorman, is not against such a wedding but will not render an opinion. Silas wants his daughter to make her own marriage choices.

The time occurs for every young man to seek their fortune when they must go out in the world. That day arrives for Westie, and he leaves home to set out in the world. Westie gets shanghaied while seeking employment. He wakes up aboard a ship headed to the Orient. They victimized Westie like most sailors, forceable impressed into service aboard a ship. Somehow, Westie jumps ship and escapes to Honolulu.

Harry Arnold has worked out an insidious plot to win Martha's hand in marriage. First, Arnold invites Martha and her father to go on a cruise aboard his yacht. The thought of partying aboard a ship appeals to both of them, and they accept Arnold's invitation. Once at sea, one of the yacht's crewmen becomes troublesome. Arnold forces the captain to head to port and put him ashore. Once in port, they seek a replacement. They hire a hungry Westie Phillips to replace the sailor. Westie comes on board and recognizes Martha. She does not know who Westie is since the rescue was long ago and long forgotten. After he assumes his duties, he sees Martha repulse lecherous Arnold's advances.

Now is the time for Harry Arnold to start the next phase of his plan. Arnold will have the captain of his yacht stage a fake shipwreck near an uncharted island. The crew and partygoers will jump into lifeboats. Arnold will have one lifeboat set in the water with only Martha and himself on board. They will head to the remote island. Arnold feels that by force or otherwise, he can persuade Martha to love and marry him. After a month, the yacht's captain will return and rescue them.

Events unfold, and Westie senses Martha is in peril. Westie catches wind of Arnold's plan. He scrambles to Arnold's lifeboat and asks to go with them. At that exact moment, the captain hits him in the back of the head, knocking him out. Arnold and Martha row their dinghy towards the island. Westie gains his senses and realizes the boat is long gone. He swims to an empty lifeboat and starts paddling toward shore. He hears a woman scream.

After Westie reaches the beach, he discovers Arnold is trying to force himself on Martha. He saves her, and Arnold agrees to behave. Two alpha males and beautiful women agree to make a go of it while awaiting rescue. Arnold is driving himself into a rage after his plan goes awry. He pulls Westie aside and offers him a fortune if he moves to the other side of the island. Westie will not abandon the woman of his dreams. Arnold is beside himself. Later in the evening, Arnold decides if he can't have Martha, then no one will. He tries to murder her. Once again, Westie comes to her relief. An epic battle occurs, and Westie kills Arnold.

Time passes, a rescue ship appears, and the couple flag the ship down. Before their rescue ship arrives, they glance at each other and realize they are in love.

The film follows the plot of the novel. The dour priest Kruse is played by Tore Foss, who opposes the business establishment's town party, which is planned by Johannes Eckhoff as Garman, Jon Lennart Mjøen as Randulf, Claus Wiese as Holck, Erling Drangsholt as the bank manager, and Sigurd Magnussøn as the county governor. Pressure is placed on both sides by Else Heiberg, who is Randulf's wife.

In flashforwards to 2049, Nora West-Allen is a forensic scientist working with her best friend and colleague Lia. Together, they discover a mysterious speedster — whom Lia dubs Godspeed — is stealing chemicals from various laboratories. While Nora and Lia investigate a potential target, Godspeed hits Nora with lightning, exposing her own speedster abilities. Initially believing Godspeed was responsible for her powers, Lia finds traces of a power dampening chip, revealing Nora was a speedster since birth and that it was implanted by her mother Iris West-Allen, which soon causes an argument between them. Later, Nora and Lia discover Godspeed's next target is Stagg Industries. Nora tries to fight Godspeed on even footing, but her inexperience with her powers allows Godspeed to steal what he wanted and kill Lia in the process.

Upon further investigation, Nora learns Godspeed is August Heart, a former intern from Mercury Labs, and that he is stealing chemicals to create an everlasting version of Velocity 9, a drug that was previously used by speedsters Zoom and Trajectory to give them more speed. Nora realizes the only person who can help her is Eobard Thawne, who is incarcerated at Iron Heights. Thawne initially refuses to help Nora, but she eventually manages to convince him; allowing her to defeat Godspeed and avenge Lia. Nora celebrates her first victory with Thawne, who tells her to find S.T.A.R. Labs' Time Vault to learn her father's true secret. At the vault, she discovers that her father Barry Allen was the Flash and Barry's final message to her before his assumed death.

In the present, Team Flash has been reading Nora's journal. After realizing Lia was murdered, Iris releases Nora from the cell she was imprisoned in by Barry after her partnership with Thawne was exposed, allowing her to tell her side of the story and give her a second chance. Barry however, takes Nora back to 2049 without consulting his team and orders her to never return to the present. He then confronts Thawne, who is awaiting execution for his crimes.

Rikuo Uozumi has all but resigned himself to a bleak future, aimlessly working at a convenience store in Tokyo after graduating from college. His monotonous life is interrupted when the peculiar Haru Nonaka makes a lively appearance, frequently dropping by his workplace to befriend him. When Rikuo learns that an old college friend and crush, Shinako Morinome, has moved back into town, he reaches out to further their relationship. Unbeknownst to Rikuo however, Shinako is carrying painful memories from her past that were holding her back from accepting his feelings. Meanwhile, as Haru continually opens up to Rikuo, he discovers that she, much like him, is living by herself and wants to step out of her comfort zone into an uncertain future.

The past lingers long in the mind, and the future remains elusive. At a crossroads along their intertwined paths, these three experience what it means to let go of their feelings of yesterday and embrace the change that tomorrow brings.

Charlie, his wife Michelle, his brother Josh, and Josh's girlfriend/Charlie's coworker Mina rent a remote seaside house for a weekend getaway. On their arrival at the property, they meet the house's caretaker Taylor, who acts oddly and makes racist remarks toward Mina. After they have settled in, Mina, Josh, and Charlie take MDMA (ecstasy) while Michelle goes to bed. Josh later passes out on the couch, and Mina and Charlie end up kissing in the hot tub and having sex in the shower.

The next morning, Charlie and Mina agree to forget what happened between them and not tell their respective partners. While taking a shower, Mina discovers a camera in the shower head and alerts Charlie; the two are confident Taylor has installed it. Charlie stops her from calling the police, as doing so would likely lead to Michelle and Josh learning they had sex. He also assures her that Taylor would not reveal the footage because it would involve him admitting to spying on them.

That night, Michelle calls Taylor over to fix the hot tub, while Josh realizes his dog has gone missing. Josh is suspicious that Taylor may have taken the dog, so he confronts Taylor upon his arrival, but he denies it. Taylor fixes the hot tub, and Mina privately confronts him about the hidden camera in the shower, which he claims to be unaware of. An argument ensues and Taylor attempts to call the police, but Mina tries to stop him. Hearing the commotion, Josh rushes in and, assuming Taylor was attacking Mina, beats him unconscious. Mina is forced to explain the hidden camera in the shower, but does not reveal that she had sex with Charlie. The group gather in the living room to decide what to do. Meanwhile, a masked man sneaks inside and smothers Taylor to death. When the others return and find Taylor dead, they assume that he died from the injuries inflicted by Josh.

A frantic Michelle demands they call the police, but Charlie refuses to let his brother, who has previously been incarcerated, return to prison. He suggests that they stage Taylor's death as an accident by throwing him off the cliff into the ocean. Michelle refuses to take part in their plan and goes to the bedroom. Charlie, Josh and Mina carry Taylor's body to the cliff. It falls onto an outcrop, forcing Josh to go down and push it into the sea. Back at the house, Michelle hears the sound of a shower and when she investigates, she is lured into a room where a television shows the footage of Charlie and Mina having sex. Michelle drives over to Charlie, confronts him about what she has seen, and leaves angrily. Down the road, she crashes into a tree and is attacked by the masked man while texting Charlie to come help her.

Charlie gets a text from Michelle's phone and goes to search for her. He finds her dead body on the road and is then attacked and murdered by the masked man. Back at the house, Mina and Josh are looking for the shower camera's transceiver to destroy any footage it recorded. Josh receives texts from Charlie's phone that contain evidence of Charlie and Mina having sex. Josh then hears someone enter the house and, thinking it is Charlie, rushes to confront him. Instead, the masked man ambushes and kills Josh. Mina flees, pursued by the masked man. Sprinting through the forest in the darkness and fog, she accidentally runs off a cliff and falls into the ocean.

The masked man returns to the house, removing all evidence and surveillance equipment. He rents a new property and installs cameras in it. During the credits, footage is shown from the hidden cameras of the masked man attacking a sleeping couple.

A civil war is tearing apart the kingdom of Detina. When Avram became the new King of Detina, he announced his intent to abolish serfdom for the blond serfs upon which the northern provinces depended, Detina was torn in two, and the rebellious north took Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king.

Neither side could expect an easy victory. While the south was larger and wealthier, the north had better soldiers and more powerful wizards. Led by officers riding unicorns, supplied by flying carpets, both sides clash for three years when Count Thraxton, a conceited wizard-general whose opinions of his spell-casting ability far outstripped the reality, bungled a spell which backfired disastrously against his own side, giving the Unionists a decisive victory.

But the war was far from over: Thraxton is relieved of his command; which means that the south faces a far more competent general: Joseph the Gamecock. And Joseph and his troops were determined to hold Peachtree Province against the loyalist troops. They had occupied Rockface Rise, which offered only two narrow places where the Unionists could come at them, and had further fortified it with trenches and catapults. When the southern army attacked, they would face formidable obstacles both natural and manmade, as well as the repeating crossbows of the troops and the deadly sorcerous storm and lightning wielded by the northern wizards.

A man's car is hit by a stranger who kills him when he takes pictures of the damage for claiming car insurance. Jung Tae-suk is a cop, who goes through the crime scene and suspects it to be the work of a serial killer, but his senior does not believe him. Jang Dong-soo is a crime boss, while on his way home after a meeting. The same killer hits his car and eventually tries to kill him. A brutal fight ensues, leaving both of them injured.

Finally, the killer escapes after knocking Dong-soo with his car. Dong-soo is admitted to the hospital, and his henchmen assume that the attack was committed by a rival gang, whom they counter-attack. However, Dong-soo believes the killer was not a rival gang member as his moves seemed to be random and purposeless. Tae-suk visits Dong-soo at the hospital and asks him to cooperate so that he can catch the killer for him, but Dong-soo does not comply.

Instead, Dong-soo orders his men to find the killer through a sketch, and they manage to find his car and a knife. Dong-soo eventually informs Tae-suk of the findings, and they decide to team up to catch the mysterious killer. Dong-soo agrees to provide manpower and cover expenses — but on the condition that the killer belongs to the one who finds him first. Dong-soo wants to kill him for revenge while Tae-suk wants to arrest him in order to solve five connected murder cases and eventually get promoted.

Meanwhile, Dong-soo orders his right-hand man, Kwon Oh-sung, to kill his rival Heo Sang-do with the killer's knife that already has the blood imprints of the killer's previous victims. An enraged Tae-suk gets into a fight with Dong-soo upon learning what he has done as the killing is confirmed to be the serial killer's work and the case would get transferred to the Major Case Squad.

Dong-soo visits Sang-do's funeral where the killer also turns up informing Sang-do's second-in-command man that it was Dong-soo who actually killed Sang-do with the killer's knife. When Tae-suk and Dong-soo check the killer's car for any evidence, they are attacked by Sang-do's henchmen. A fight ensues, resulting in the death of Sang-do's right-hand man. Dong-soo gets him buried and clears the scene. Tae-suk is now assigned to investigate a kidnapping case, and, while solving it, he spots the killer.

A chase ensues, but the killer flees. Through the forensic test, Tae-suk discovers the killer to be a missing person. He informs Dong-soo about this and lets him hear a voice clip to confirm the missing person to be the killer. Later, Dong-soo helps a high school girl by giving her his umbrella and soon learns that the girl has been murdered and his umbrella was found at the crime scene. They start looking for the killer and eventually find him in a car.

In an ensuing chase, the killer manages to kill Oh-sung but is finally captured and incapacitated by Dong-soo. Dong-soo takes the killer away to torture and kill him, but Tae-suk tracks them and crashes his car into the hideout, knocking Dong-soo unconscious and arresting the killer. The police have no conclusive evidence against the killer, Kang Kyung-ho. As a last resort, Tae-suk asks Dong-soo, the sole survivor of the attacks, to testify. Simultaneously, Tae-suk threatens to release a tape of Dong-soo's confession of having Sang-do killed.

During Kyung-ho's trial, Dong-soo arrives to testify and provides decisive testimony. Dong-soo successfully predicts the existence of a stab wound on Kyung-ho's body, previously inflicted by Dong-soo during their first encounter. Dong-soo also provides misleading evidence framing Kyung-ho for Sang-do's murder. The court sentences Kyung-ho to death; however, Dong-soo is also arrested due to his illegal activities.

Tae-suk is finally promoted while Dong-soo is sent to the prison where Kyung-ho is kept: The condition which Dong-soo had requested Tae-suk to fulfill in exchange for the testimony followed by his arrest. Spotting Kyung-ho, Dong-soo gleefully enters prison. While Kyung-ho is showering, he is confronted by Dong-soo. With a rope in his hand and a smile on his face, Dong-soo tells Kyung-ho that the game ends.

The film is about a man who grows apart from his daughter following the death of his wife, and an exorcist who helps the man and his daughter. After Sang-Won's daughter Yi-Na goes missing in their new home, a mysterious man approaches him and tells him to look for her in the closet.

Once one of the best rock climbers in his college years, Yong-nam (Jo Jong-suk) is now a grown man, who is without a job and forced to live with his parents just to get by. Yong-nam is constantly reminded of this fact by his older sister Jung-hyun, who urges him to neaten up and make an impression at their mother's upcoming 70th birthday festivities.

For his mother's birthday, Yong-nam insists they should celebrate it at the Cloud Garden, with Yong-nam secretly knowing that his old crush and fellow ex-rock climber Eui-joo (Im Yoon-ah) is working there. Yong-nam acts surprised to see Eui-joo and in order to impress her, he lies to her and claims that he now has a successful career, much to her surprise.

Meanwhile a terrorist parks a truck close by to the Cloud Garden and releases a toxic white gas. It quickly spreads to its immediate surroundings, causing mass pandemonium in the city. During this, Eui-joo discovers via a phone call from a close friend, that Yong-nam had lied to her about his job, and she becomes curious as to why.

Oblivious to what is happening outside, Yong-nam's family are shocked to see the converging white gas and urged by Eui-joo, they return to the Cloud Garden but not before Jung-hyun stumbles and is quickly overwhelmed by the gas.

In order to get themselves and Jung-hyun to safety, everyone heads to the roof, but much to their horror, they discover that the door to the roof is locked. With everyone else occupied, Yong-nam proceeds to shatter a window and leap across to the adjacent building. Only equipped with a makeshift harness, Yong-nam manages to scale the Cloud Garden and reach the top of the roof, where he opens the door for his family. Once everyone is assembled on the roof, they manage to hail a passing rescue helicopter with crude SOS signals. However, Yong-nam and Eui-joo are prevented from boarding the helicopter, as their inclusion would exceed the weight limit on the helicopter gondola. Due to the rising gas, they are then forced to wrap themselves up in improvisational safety gear and leave the Cloud Garden to seek higher ground.

Once the two manage to find a suitable building, they proceed to signal to another passing helicopter. However, upon seeing a group of students trapped in a building opposite them, they redirect the helicopter to the students and away from themselves. Then a gas station near by the truck explodes sending a wave of the toxic gas, forcing them to leave the building before they could also be rescued.

After failing to be rescued twice, Yong-nam and Eui-joo realise that the only way to escape the rising gas is to head towards the tower crane, the highest point in the vicinity. At the same time, they are discovered by a drone, which they use to provide directions towards the tower crane.

After running and climbing across numerous buildings, the drone finally loses power, leaving Yong-nam and Eui-joo at a dead end, as they realise that none of the surrounding buildings are close enough to get to the tower crane. Just as they begin to despair, multiple drones begin to converge towards their location, and Yong-nam is able to suspend a rope across the buildings by utilising one of them. Yong-nam and Eui-joo then attempt to swing across, but their combined weight proves too much for the drone, and the two fall, seemingly to their deaths. However, the two manage to survive the fall and reach the tower crane, from where they are eventually extracted from by a rescue helicopter.

Once on safe ground, Yong-nam tearfully reunites with the rest of his family. As Yong-nam and Eui-joo face one another to say goodbye, they agree to see each other again sometime. As they stand smiling, rainfall starts to descend, dissipating the last of the white gas from the city.

In 2019, 28-year-old Kim Seo-yeon loses her cellphone while traveling to visit her sick, estranged mother in a rural area. Arriving at her rundown childhood home, she finds a decades-old cordless phone, and through it receives calls from a distressed woman who says she's being tortured by her mother. After investigating the house, Seo-yeon figures out that the woman on the phone, Oh Young-sook, is living in the same house but in 1999. The two are able to communicate across time through the phone, and exchange information about their lives. Young-sook is orphaned and lives with her adoptive mother, who is a shaman, while Seo-yeon lost her father in a fire that she blames her mother, Eun-ae, for.

Young-sook, acting on information from Seo-yeon, sneaks out of the house to prevent the fire that killed Seo-yeon's father. She is successful, and Seo-yeon's reality changes: her parents are both alive and healthy, and their house lavish. Young-sook, however, is punished by her mother, and becomes resentful that Seo-yeon's life is improved while hers is the same.

Seo-yeon searches the internet and learns that Young-sook was killed by her mother during an exorcism. During the next phone call, Seo-yeon warns Young-sook, who saves herself and kills her mother instead. Now freed, Young-sook becomes a serial killer. Seo-yeon realizes what has happened when Young-sook's victims disappear in the present day. During a phone call, Seo-yeon confronts Young-sook, but inadvertently reveals to her that she'll be arrested.

In 1999, Young-sook is visited by an 8-year-old Seo-yeon and her father, who have come to the house to close their purchase of it. Young-sook kills Seo-yeon's father and takes young Seo-yeon captive. In 2019, Seo-yeon's reality changes again: her father is dead and the house in even worse condition. Young-sook calls Seo-yeon and tells her to find out how she'll be arrested. At first Seo-yeon feeds Young-sook false info, but when Young-sook threatens to kill Eun-ae next, Seo-yeon breaks into the local police station for the notebook used in 1999. Young-sook taunts Seo-yeon that they're the same when she reveals that Seo-yeon caused the fire that originally killed her father, and lied about Eun-ae being responsible.

Seo-yeon gives Young-sook the correct info, and her reality changes again: the house is now owned by an older Young-sook, who has continued as a serial killer. The content of the notebook changes as well, with a note that Eun-ae came to the house with a police officer and made a call on the cordless phone. Seo-yeon waits in the house for the call and uses it to warn Eun-ae.

In 1999, Young-sook kills the police officer and chases Eun-ae. In 2019, older Young-sook reveals herself and similarly chases Seo-yeon. Eun-ae uses the phone again, and Seo-yeon picks up and encourages her to fight. Eun-ae seemingly sacrifices herself to kill Young-sook, and 2019 changes, with the house becoming derelict and old Young-sook disappearing. Seo-yeon leaves the house and is reunited with Eun-ae, who is alive and well, albeit with scars.

In a mid-credits scene, older Young-sook called her younger counterpart to warn her about Eun-ae and the police officer arriving, allowing Young-sook to alter her own history, resulting in the erasing of Eun-ae from present day Seo-yeon's side. The scene then cuts to the torture room where a person tied to a chair and covered in a white cloth is screaming for help. The cloth is removed, revealing a frightened adult Seo-yeon, once again a captive of Young-sook.

As a teenager, Marina Hess and Rebecca Cline stabbed a classmate because Marina believed a ghost called Mercy Black would cure her mother's illness. Fifteen years later, Marina is released from a psychiatric hospital to her sister, Alice. To Marina's dismay, urban legends about Mercy Black have spread on the internet. Alice's son, Bryce, soon becomes obsessed with Mercy Black. While facing her past to help Bryce avoid the same fate, Marina questions whether Mercy Black is merely a delusion of her own creation. When she goes to visit Rebecca to talk about what happened when they were children, she discovers that Rebecca attempted to hang herself and is now in a catatonic state. When looking around Rebecca's room, Marina discovers an old map and Rebecca attacks her.

Bryce is brought home by the librarian after tearing up library books. When he is involved in an incident with his "friend," he says "she told me to do it". Meanwhile, Marina follows the map through the woods, discovering old clues along the way that lead to a nuclear fallout shelter. Inside, she finds "the book you cannot read" and remembers that they created Mercy Black. While Marina now believes that Mercy never existed, Bryce falls deeper into the delusion. While alone in the house, Bryce and Alice have an encounter with Mercy Black, leading to Alice falling over the stair rail. After Marina arrives, Mercy Black attacks her. When Bryce flees out the door, he runs straight into the arms of the librarian, who turns out to be Lily Bellows, the girl Marina and Rebecca intended to sacrifice.

Lily is angry that she lived and Marina didn't finish her off as she promised. She admits to hurting people to make Marina remember but Marina tells her that they made Mercy up. Lily stabs Marina and threatens to slit Bryce's throat. Marina tackles and begins choking her but releases her. Bryce then stabs Lily in the eye and says "I made a promise" as Mercy Black appears behind him.

Following events in ''Infinite Crisis'' where the wizard Shazam and the Rock of Eternity were destroyed, Freddy Freeman/Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel lost their powers. Captain Marvel changes his name to "Marvel", assumes Shazam's role as caretaker of the remains of the Rock of Eternity,''Trials of Shazam!'' #2 (November 2006) and gives Freeman a quest to prove himself worthy of replacing Captain Marvel. Each of the six gods who contributed their powers to the hero — Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury — present Freeman with a challenge. As he completes each challenge, he is granted that god's particular power. If he completes all six tasks, he will take on the name Shazam. Zareb Babak, a demoted necromancer, serves as Freeman's guide during his trials. At the same time, a dark organization known as the Council of Merlin is backing its own candidate, a Creole sorceress named Sabina. If she wins the trials, she will earn the power of Shazam instead.

Freeman and Sabina compete equally in many of the trials, eventually becoming equal in power as each earn the various powers of the gods. When Sabina kills Atlas before completing his trial, Zareb convinces Apollo to take his place among the Shazam collective of gods. The competition culminates with Freeman, Marvel, and the Justice League battling Sabina and an army of demons. When Freeman is willing to sacrifice himself during fight, Zareb reveals himself to be Zeus in disguise and grants Freeman his power, giving him the full powers of Shazam.

At the end of the Second World War, Iya Sergueeva, a tall woman nicknamed "Beanpole" (Дылда), works as a nurse in a Leningrad hospital under Dr. Nikolay Ivanovich. Iya sometimes has fits where she is temporarily immobile, just slightly trembling. She lives in a communal apartment with Pashka, a diminutive three-year-old boy. One day, Iya accidentally smothers the child to death while suffering an episode. Days later, Masha arrives at Iya's room, returning in uniform from the front, and asks where her son Pashka is.

Bitter about his death, yet seemingly unfazed, Masha invites Iya out dancing. They accept the invitation to go with a man Sasha and his friend in their car. Masha orders Iya out of the car to go on a "walk" with Sasha's friend so Masha can have sex with the very bashful Sasha. Iya attacks Sasha's friend when he attempts to seduce her, and beats Sasha over the head when she finds him having sex with Masha. The next day while at a communal bath, Iya notices Masha's abdominal scar, and Masha tells her that she wants to have a child to heal herself.

Masha begins work at the hospital, telling Dr. Ivanovich that she and Iya served together in an anti-aircraft gun crew, but Iya was discharged after suffering a traumatic head injury, while Masha continued serving in the army. Shortly afterwards, the wife of Stepan, a paralyzed soldier, arrives at the hospital to find her husband alive, despite having already told her children that he was killed at war. Stepan cannot bear the idea of returning to his children as a quadriplegic. Alongside his wife, they beg Nikolai Ivanovich to euthanize him. Nikolai is at first extremely opposed to the idea, but eventually relents, asking Iya to do the task and indicating it will be the "last time". Iya hesitantly agrees and during one night injects Stepan. Masha, on night watch and lying down due to suffering from fatigue due to the war, watches Iya and Stepan. Afterward Dr. Ivanovich examines Masha and confirms her infertility.

Masha ask Iya to bear a child that would be Masha's. When Iya vehemently refuses, Masha reminds her that she "owes" her a child after she let Pashka die in her care. At a party, Masha asks Dr. Ivanovich to impregnate Iya, he refuses, but she blackmails him, threatening to make public the euthanasia. Masha says she doesn't care if Iya is also exposed. Later at their room, Iya insists Masha lie against her in bed, while the doctor penetrates Iya. Iya cries and is distraught.

Masha continues to see Sasha afterwards, frustrating Iya, who is confused and jealous. Iya finds out she is not pregnant. While trying on a dress for their seamstress neighbor, Masha twirls frantically and frenetically over and over and over. Iya calms Masha by kissing her. Masha initially fights her off but Iya suffers episode, during which Masha kisses her strongly in return. Later, after an argument in which Iya orders Sasha to stop coming to their apartment with food, but Sasha invites Masha to meet his parents. Iya walks to Dr. Ivanovich's house and tearfully asks him to impregnate her. He declines, but invites her to come with him and leave the city tomorrow.

Masha visits Sasha's parents at their large, posh estate, where Sasha introduces her as his girlfriend, soon to be wife, but Masha receives a very cold response. The mother judges Masha for having served as an "army base wife" (Походно-полевая жена). Masha intentionally misled Sasha's mother by saying that she lived temporarily with different soldiers, who were capable of providing for and protecting her. Masha "reveals" that her abdominal scar was not caused by a combat shrapnel injury as she had earlier described to the doctor, but by many abortions. Her comment was a stereotype of what civilians thought of fighting women during the war not respecting those women's sacrifice and heroism. She says what those people could believe in, instead of the truth. She asserts that Sasha loves her, and they will have a child, given to them from her friend. The mother warns Masha that Sasha would becomes bored with her and discard her. Sasha, enraged, storms out of the room, and Masha rides the tram home alone.

On the way home, Masha's tram hits a tall woman. Masha is unable to recognize the woman dead underneath the tram, and runs home to find Iya having an episode. Iya reveals she is not actually pregnant. Masha begins hitting her, but stops. Masha promises Iya that Sasha won't be coming around any more, and that they will be together from now on, will have a good life and raise a healthy child together, who will resemble both mothers, and will cure them from all pain they have carried until now. The two weep together in an embrace.

In a suburb of Dakar that lies along the Atlantic coast, a futuristic-looking tower is about to be officially opened. The construction workers have not been paid for months. One night, the workers decide to leave the country by sea, in search of a brighter future in Spain. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada. However, Ada is betrothed to another man – the wealthy Omar. Ada is deeply worried about Souleiman, as she waits for news of his fate in the run-up to her wedding. On her wedding day, Omar's bed mysteriously catches fire in a suspected arson attack, and a young detective is assigned to investigate the case.

In the coming days, Ada falls under suspicion and is subjected to interrogations and a virginity test. Meanwhile, her friend Fanta, as well as the young detective are suffering from a mysterious illness. It slowly emerges that the spirits of the men lost at sea have returned and each night take possession of the bodies of other inhabitants of Dakar. Most have their focus on the tycoon who withheld their pay, forcing them to go across the sea. They demand their pay, threatening to burn the tower down otherwise. When they receive their pay from the tycoon they force him to dig their graves so that their spirits may rest. But Souleiman wants only to be with Ada. Unfortunately, he has possessed the young detective, which initially scares Ada. But as she meets the other spirits, including one who possesses Fanta, she comes to understand and spends a last night with the new Souleiman. While reviewing footage from the wedding, the detective sees that he, under the possession of Souleiman's spirit, was the one who committed the arson. He closes the case.

In the 1980s, the period of maximum power of the mafia clans in Italy, the Cosa Nostra of Palermo and Corleonesi factions (headed by Totò Riina) competing for the drug market, maintaining a facade of friendship and collaboration. Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), affiliated with Cosa Nostra and known as the "boss of two worlds", senses the imminent war between families and decides to move to Brazil, where he can follow his business in peace. As he predicted, after his departure tensions begin and the first victims of the feud fall, including two of his sons and his brother. But Buscetta is captured and tortured by the Brazilian police. The mafioso understands that he is facing certain death when his extradition to Italy is agreed. Unexpectedly, judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) offers him a way out: to collaborate with the police and the judiciary, enjoying the protection of the state. Buscetta, who for some time no longer recognizes himself in the violent and unscrupulous actions of the Cosa Nostra and linked to an idea of the mafia that protects poor people, decides to accept, also to take revenge for the reprisals and persecutions against him and his family. He thus became the first justice collaborator in Italian history, making possible the institution in 1986 of the Maxi-Trial with 475 defendants in the bunker-court of Palermo, where his testimonies - and those of Totuccio Contorno (Luigi Lo Cascio) - lead to the condemnation and arrest of numerous members of the mafia, put to the test for the first time and in the spotlight of the state and public opinion. Organized crime will respond with the assassination of Judge Falcone in 1992 in the attack known as the "Capaci massacre", where in addition to the magistrate, his wife Francesca Morvillo and three escort agents lost their lives. Buscetta, under protection in the United States, will return to Italy to honor the pact with Falcone and testify in the so-called "trial of the century", which involved Giulio Andreotti, the main exponent of the Christian Democrats and a great protagonist of Italian politics in the second half of the 1900s, and numerous other politicians, thus bringing to light the strong ties between the state and the Mafia.

Ahmed, a 13-year-old, plots to kill his teacher, whom he believes to be an apostate after being radicalised by a local imam. Ahmed is arrested and sent to juvenile detention, where he claims to be a reformed character.

One Christmas night in Roubaix, the local police chief Daoud, and Louis, a fresh recruit, are confronted with the violent murder of an elderly woman. The victim's two young, female neighbours, Claude and Marie, are arrested.

The film opens with Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge) meeting with Liu Aiai (Gwei Lun-Mei) at a train station. Zhou is expecting to meeting with his wife, Shujun (Wan Qian) but Liu Aiai has been sent instead by Huahua (Qi Dao) an associate of Zhou's. Zhou recounts that he is the leader of a small gang who steals motorbikes. One of his subordinates, Red hair, shot a rival in the leg during an argument about territory. The rival gang wanted revenge on Red Hair and Zhou and set a trap for them. Red hair is killed by the trap, decapitating him, and Zhou is shot twice in the torso. While trying to escape in the rain, Zhou accidentally shot and killed a policeman, mistaking him for the rival gang.

Meanwhile, the police deduce he will hide at Wild Goose Lake; a lawless area of Wuhan, and set a dragnet there for him. The leader of the police is Captain Liu (Liao Fan). The police have Shujun under surveillance.

Zhou had sought out Huahua, an associate he trusts, to get his wife Shujin so that they can leave together. Huahua is a pimp at Wild Goose Lake and Liu Aiai is one of his "bathing beauties" who service customers at the lake. Liu Aiai who is not known to the police is used as a middle person by Huahua.

The police offer a 300,000 yuan, dead or alive, award for Zhou. When Zhou learns of the reward he wants Liu to arrange for his wife to turn him in so that his wife can collect the reward. Huahua is interested in collecting the reward for himself. Meanwhile the rival gang is also looking to collect the reward and kill Zhou in the process. Zhou is eventually trapped by the rival gang in an apartment and stabbed by the rival gang members who shot him earlier, however Zhou is able to kill them and escape. The police hear the gunshots from the rival gang (who kill a passerby in the process) and start actively searching the streets for Zhou. Liu believes that Zhou suspects her of betraying him and tries to run away from him. In trying to escape Liu runs into Yan who recognizes her as one of Huahua's prostitutes. Yan forces Liu into having sex and Zhou saves her by killing him.

Zhou and Liu Aiai walk to the noodle shop and she orders two bowls of noodles. While settling the bill with the noodle shop owner, the police arrive and trap Zhou in the shop. Zhou is able to shoot his way out but becomes cornered by the lake where he is shot several times before succumbing to his injuries.

Liu Aiai later collects the reward and is driven by the Captain Liu to the bank with the cash. While getting cigarettes the Captain sees her leave the bank with the money. He follows her and sees her meeting up with Zhou's wife Shujun.

Alice Woodard (Emily Beecham) is a plant breeder who works in a lab that focuses on creating new strains of flowers. While her colleague Bella (Kerry Fox) is failing at creating a hardy plant that will survive even weeks of undernourishment and neglect, Alice and her team have successfully created a flower that requires more care than an ordinary plant but which makes their owners happy.

Alice decides to name the plants "Little Joe" in honour of her son and smuggles out one of the plants for him.

The Little Joes begin to aggressively pollinate, which Alice theorizes is because she has made them sterile. The same day Bella's dog, Bello, goes missing. Chris (Ben Whishaw) goes looking for him and accidentally inhales some of the pollen. Later on he takes Alice out and, despite her obvious reluctance, attempts to kiss her twice.

The following day Bella finds Bello in the lab. He attacks her and she insists that he has changed. Chris later tells Alice that Bella is mentally ill and had previously attempted suicide before being forced on a year-long sabbatical, returning only shortly before Alice began working at the lab. Alice later learns that Bella had Bello put down. Bella tells Alice that the changes to Bello were due to the plant.

Alice's son is accidentally pollinated by the plant and begins to act strangely, sneaking his classmate Selma into the lab and stealing a Little Joe. He later tells Alice that he is considering moving in with his father, Ivan.

Bothered by her son's behaviour, Alice begins to examine test footage of subjects who have been exposed to the pollen. In every case their family members report that they are acting strangely and have seemed to change since the pollen test. However, just as Alice begins to believe Bella's suspicions, Bella is exposed to the pollen herself and dismisses her previous beliefs as paranoia due to her mental issues.

Joe reveals that he and Selma stole the plant in order to pollinate Ivan, confirming Alice's suspicions that her plant carries a virus, especially as she has used unorthodox methods to create Little Joe. However, this turns out to be a joke as Chris previously talked to Joe about Alice's concerns. At work Bella reveals that she never inhaled the pollen and was only pretending to be happy in order to blend in with the others. Immediately afterwards, Alice overhears Bella fall off of a staircase during a confrontation with Chris.

After Alice's boss dismisses her concerns she takes matters into her own hands and decides to kill the Little Joes before they are commercialized, lowering the temperature in the lab. She is stopped by Chris, who, in trying to prevent her from harming the plants, knocks her out on the floor of the lab, exposing her to the plant pollen.

Later Alice learns that Little Joe has been nominated for an award, meaning that the plant will be sold worldwide. When Chris apologizes for hitting her she kisses him, and later dismisses her concerns as paranoia. She allows Joe to move in with his father and starts a new, happier life with her own Little Joe.

The film begins with images of the crowd in Paris celebrating the victory of the French team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, which had been perceived and celebrated in France as a moment of brotherhood between people of different social classes or ethnicities.

Soon after, Stéphane Ruiz, a police officer who recently moved to Paris and joined the anti-crime brigade, is assigned to work with squad leader Chris and brigadier Gwada on duty in the nearby city of Montfermeil. Chris often aggressively abuses his power on teenagers, with Gwada complacent with that abuse; while he feels unease, Stéphane doesn't interfere. Meanwhile, Issa, a known juvenile delinquent, steals Johnny, a lion cub, from a circus, causing its owner Zorro to go to the local community leader known as "the Mayor" and threaten to return with firearms if Johnny is not returned. Chris and his squadron are tasked with finding and retrieving the cub.

One of Issa's friends takes a picture of Issa with the cub and posts it on Instagram, leading Chris to find out that Issa is the culprit. They chase, capture and handcuff him, but he claims that the cub had run away. Issa's friends then attack the three officers, throwing things at them to stop them from taking Issa in. When Issa tries to run away, Gwada, having accidentally teargassed himself during the chase, shoots him in the face with a flash-ball. Issa's friends scatter, but the squadron realize that they have been filmed by a drone, which escapes. While Stéphane wants to take a badly wounded Issa to a hospital, Chris and Gwada refuse, and instead the trio take him with them in their search for the drone's owner.

The trio arrive at a local neighborhood contact of Chris, leaving Issa in their care and using information given to them by that contact to find Buzz, the teenager the drone belongs to, forcing him to flee before he can upload the video. Buzz, who still carries the drone's memory card, escapes the squadron and takes shelter with Salah, a restaurant owner and key member of the local Islamic community. Both the squadron and the Mayor, having found out, arrive at Salah's restaurant. After a tense confrontation during which Chris attempts to illegally arrest Buzz, Ruiz convinces Salah to give him the memory card, claiming that Issa's shooting was just an accident.

After recovering Issa and the cub (which happened to be spotted near them), the squadron takes the two to the circus. Although Issa is made to apologize, Zorro attempts to lock him as well as the cub inside a cage with a fully grown lion, scaring Issa into wetting himself and almost making Stéphane shoot the lion, until Issa is eventually let go. Deciding that Issa has learned his lesson, Chris drops him off and warns him not to tell anyone what happened, and, if asked about his injury, to say that he slipped and fell. In the evening, the characters involved in that day's event seemingly return to their normal lives, some with visible signs of distress and doubt. Issa, who had been told earlier that his father did not want him back home because of his behavior, sits alone on a ruined couch, traumatized. Later that night, Ruiz meets Gwada in a bar and tells him that he knows that a flash-ball cannot be fired by accident, and that Gwada had therefore intentionally shot Issa. Gwada blames his stress and the children for overwhelming him, and Stéphane, while unconvinced, leaves Gwada with the card, telling him to "do what you gotta do".

The next day, the squadron, while on patrol, gets attacked by a small group led by Issa. They chase them, falling into Issa's trap and ending up assaulted by a much larger group of teenagers, leaving them trapped from all sides in a stairwell and fighting for their lives. Chris is wounded when a bottle breaks on his face, and the backup car Stéphane radios for gets immediately destroyed by the teenagers, forcing the backup policemen to flee. They also attack the Mayor's office, and end up clubbing him and throwing him down a set of stairs. Stéphane pounds on the nearest door, begging for help, which happens to be the door to Buzz's apartment; however, Buzz further locks the door. Issa lights a molotov cocktail and prepares to finish the squadron off with it, leading Stéphane to point his gun at him and warn him not to. The screen fades to black as both Issa and Stéphane try to decide what to do next, and a quote from Victor Hugo's ''Les Misérables'' appears: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators."

In the near future, the people of Bacurau, an impoverished, rural settlement in the fictional municipality of Serra Verde, in western Pernambuco, gather for the funeral of Carmelita, an elderly woman seen as the matriarch of the community. Her granddaughter Teresa (Bárbara Colen), now a young woman, returns to town after many years for the occasion, as well as to deliver some medicine to the town. In the following days, the village experiences a sequence of strange events, including telephone signals going down, the town inexplicably disappearing off of maps and GPS, sightings of UFO-shaped drones and an unnamed couple from Rio de Janeiro passing through town on motorcycles.

There is an ongoing dispute over water rights from the local river, with water being dammed upstream in a corruption scheme which the wealthy mayor of Serra Verde, Tony Junior (Thardelly Lima), is the major driving force behind. He visits Bacurau in an attempt to gain its residents' sympathy and secure their votes for an upcoming election with old food and run down books and no water, but the townspeople all hide and avoid him. A tanker truck of water finally arrives for the town, but it has been riddled with bullets.

When horses stampede through town, two local men are sent to investigate the nearby farm from where they presumably escaped and find the family that owned it murdered. As they attempt to leave the property, they are executed by the couple on the motorbikes. This couple rendezvous with a group of mostly-American foreigners led by Michael (Udo Kier). The couple is chastised for killing the two men, as killing two people will deprive the foreigners of two chances to score "points." After receiving unheard instructions through earpieces, the foreigners execute the motorbike couple and argue over who did the killing and is entitled to the points.

The foreigners begin hunting the townspeople, and Pacote (Thomás Aquino), Teresa's former lover, seeks out Lunga (Silvero Pereira), a revolutionary protecting and being sheltered by the townspeople. Pacote convinces Lunga to join his efforts in fighting back against the foreigners. As the townspeople arm themselves, the foreigners kill a nine-year-old boy and cut off electricity to the town.

The following morning, as the foreigners go hunting, they are gradually overpowered and killed by the locals, with the exception of Michael, who ends up captured. Tony Junior, shows up to collect the foreigners in a luxury minibus. When he sees that the townsfolk have won, he denies knowing the foreigners until the captured Michael yells at him for help. The mayor is sent away to die in the desert, half-naked and tied up to a donkey, while Michael is buried alive in an underground cell while shouting that "this is only the beginning".

At the end of the eighteenth century, Marianne, a painter, is teaching an art class in France. One of her students asks her about a painting of hers, which Marianne calls ''Portrait de la jeune fille en feu''.

Years previously, Marianne arrives on a distant island in Brittany. She has been commissioned to paint a portrait of a young woman of the gentry named Héloïse, who is to be married off to a Milanese nobleman. Marianne is informed by Héloïse's mother, The Countess, that she has previously refused to pose for portraits, as she does not want to be married; she had been living in a convent before the suicide of her older sister necessitated her return and her betrothal. Marianne acts as Héloïse's hired companion to be able to paint her in secret and accompanies her on daily walks along the rugged coastline to memorise Héloïse's features.

Marianne finishes the portrait, but finds herself unable to betray Héloïse's trust and reveals her true reason for arriving. After Héloïse criticises the painting, which does not seem to portray her true nature, Marianne destroys the work. Héloïse's mother is shocked to hear that Héloïse is willing to pose for Marianne over the next few days, while her mother will be away on the mainland. Marianne is haunted throughout the house by visions of Héloïse in a wedding dress. One evening, they read the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and debate the true reason why Orpheus turns around to look at his wife, causing her to be returned to the underworld. Later, the three go to a bonfire gathering where women sing, during which Héloïse's dress briefly catches fire.

The next day, Marianne and Héloïse share their first kiss and make love later that night. The pair spend the next few days together, during which their romance grows stronger, and they help Sophie, the house maid, have an abortion. With their affair about to be cut short by the ensuing return of The Countess, Marianne sketches a drawing of Héloïse to remember her by, and Héloïse asks Marianne to draw a nude sketch of herself on page 28 of her book. The Countess approves of the now completed portrait, and the next morning Marianne bids farewell. As she is about to leave the house, she hears Héloïse say, "Turn around". She turns and sees Héloïse in her wedding dress.

In the present, Marianne reveals that she saw Héloïse two more times. The first was in the form of a portrait at an art exhibition, in which Héloïse, with a child beside her, is portrayed holding a book and surreptitiously revealing the edge of page 28. The second time was at a concert in Milan, where she notices Héloïse among the patrons seated in the balcony across the theater from her. Unobserved, Marianne watches as Héloïse, overwhelmed with emotion, is brought to tears listening to the orchestra playing the Presto from "Summer" in Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons'', the music that Marianne had played for her on a harpsichord years before.

A man escapes Palestine for a new beginning, only to encounter the same problems as back home.

Sibyl is a psychotherapist who returns to her first passion: writing. Her newest patient, Margot, is a troubled up-and-coming actress, who proves to be too tempting a source of inspiration. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot's tumultuous life.

Nefes was only 16 years old when she was sold to a rich abusive man, Vedat Sayar, under the name of "marriage". Nefes had a tough life and had been locked up in house, tortured for 8 years long in Vedat’s mansion in Istanbul. In her 25th attempt, Nefes manages to escape from the "living hell" with her 7 years old son, Yigit, who was a result of a rape. Her escape was a complete coincidence that happened during a visit of a small town, cultural family from The Black Sea region. One of the sons, Tahir, who didn't know Nefes and her son are hiding in his car trunk, discovers that when he arrives to his home country, Trabzon, that is 562 miles away. As a man born and raised in the Black Sea Region, Tahir is ready to give his life for any person treated unjustly. Tahir sacrifices himself to save Nefes and her son. While doing so, he faces many challenges including exposing himself and his family to the threat of Nefes' kidnapper, who was also known as her abuser, Vedat, as well as the rejection of his family and his country to Nefes; as protecting a "married" woman with a child is considered "against traditions" in his hometown.

A man is paroled from prison early in order to keep tabs on another parolee, the man's estranged son.

While in Rome visiting his sister Hayley, Jack tries to muster up the courage to kiss Hayley's roommate Dina before returning to London. However, they are interrupted by Jack's roommate Greg, and after Jack and Dina awkwardly say their goodbyes, a frustrated Jack leaves with Greg.

Three years later, Jack is at Hayley's wedding. Hayley informs Jack that Dina has come to the wedding and is newly single. After the ceremony, Jack and Dina meet for the first time in three years. The two admit that they used to ask Hayley about one another.

Marc, Hayley's former school classmate, arrives uninvited while high on cocaine, confessing his love for Hayley. She demands that Marc leave, but her husband Roberto appears and invites Marc to stay for the celebrations. Hayley asks Jack to drug Marc with her sleeping drops and he reluctantly agrees. Shortly after Jack places the drops into Marc's empty champagne glass, a group of children playfully rearrange the seating order. The narrator comments on the many variations eight people can sit at a table.

The drugged glass ends up with Bryan, the "maid of honour", who quickly drinks it all. While Jack and Dina reconnect, Marc blackmails Hayley by threatening to tell Roberto they had sex three weeks earlier. Hayley once again asks Jack to handle Marc, so Jack locks him in a cupboard. A sedated Bryan mumbles through his maid-of-honour speech before destroying the cake. The mayhem is ramped up by the presence of Jack's vindictive ex-girlfriend and her current insecure, jealous boyfriend.

After a guest releases Marc from the cupboard, he grabs the microphone and exposes his affair with Hayley in front of all the guests. Upset, Roberto abandons Hayley, but when she tries to stop him, he accidentally falls over a balcony. The scene freezes as the narrator reminds the audience of how the wedding can be affected by endless seating arrangements. In fast-forward, the film depicts a number of alternate scenarios where different guests are drugged each time, all ending in mayhem.

In the last scenario, Jack is finally sat beside Dina, though he is the one that ends up drugged. Unable to regurgitate the sedative, Jack asks Bryan to put his fingers down his throat. Dina walks in on the two, much to Jack's embarrassment. They try to move past it back at the table, but as Dina tearfully opens up about her mother's death, Jack struggles to stay awake, upsetting her.

Things soon begin to look up for Jack and the other guests. Bryan gives a successful speech, impressing Vitelli, an important film director also in attendance, and hooks up with another guest, Rebecca. Following a conversation with Jack, Marc decides against exposing the affair. Instead, he wishes Hayley and Roberto the best and leaves.

As Dina is leaving the wedding due to a work emergency, Jack attempts to connect with her for the last time. She says that, although their feelings were mutual, they missed their moment and she leaves. Having finally landed an opportunity with Vitelli, Bryan inspires Jack to take chances when they come. He chases after Dina, catching her at the end of the street. They are nearly interrupted by a man passing by who claims to know Dina, but Jack tells him to go away and they finally kiss.

Ben King and Alice Mori, close friends since college and now in their late twenties, attend a wedding where Alice, having recently broke up with her boyfriend Nate due to his infidelity, overindulges in alcohol and Ben helps take care of her. Ben is fixated on former classmate Jess Ramsey and hopes to establish a romantic relationship with her, but embarrasses himself when she rebuffs his attempt to kiss her because she is engaged. At the hotel, Ben and Alice both vent their frustrations of having to navigate wedding season alone, and decide to help one another by becoming each other's dates; with Alice also agreeing to help Ben meet women.

Alice uses blunt approaches to introduce Ben to various single women at the weddings, one of which culminates in Ben having a one-night-stand. However, Ben remains fixated on finding the "perfect" relationship versus casual flings. Ben goes golfing with his dad, Chuck, and learns he has asked his much younger girlfriend Gina to marry him and asks Ben to be his best man. Citing Chuck's two previous failed marriages, Ben informs his dad to take some time to think about his decision.

After another wedding, Ben and Alice are forced to share a hotel bed and Alice attempts to cuddle with Ben, making him uncomfortable. The pair attend a wedding for one of Ben's family members, and he and Alice nearly drunkenly kiss in the pool after a deep conversation. They miss the shuttle bus back to the hotel and are forced to walk, eventually cutting through a cemetery which Alice attempts to run through and she trips. As Ben helps her with the cut on her arm, they embrace and have sex. The pair awkwardly have breakfast the following day, and decide not to discuss the previous night. A number of weeks later, Ben and Alice travel to Hawaii for a destination wedding and once again embrace their mutual attraction for one another. The pair become romantically involved, and Ben also gains the approval of Alice's parents after helping to make her sister's wedding a success. Alice learns that Ben has been asked to be his dad's best man, and expresses concern as to why he didn't tell her or hasn't accepted. Ben expresses his frustrations with his dad, explaining he still feels resentment from his parents' divorce. Alice tells him that her parents remained together for her and her sister, despite clear displeasure for each other.

As Ben and Alice prepare to attend another wedding, they get into an argument over Alice forgetting the wedding gift and her nonchalant attitude frustrates Ben. At the wedding, Ben tells her he doesn't see their relationship going any further and they break up. One night, Chuck calls Ben for a ride after taking acid during his bachelor party, and the pair reconcile with Ben finally agreeing to be his dad's best man. Ben attends the remainder of weddings alone, and makes a drunken fool of himself prompting his friend Matt to intervene. After some discussion, Ben realizes his mistake and shows up a wedding Alice previously invited him to, finding that she is back with Nate. He attempts to explain himself to Alice and professes his love, but she rebukes him.

Some time later, Ben returns home and finds Alice waiting for him. The couple profess their love and reconvene their relationship. At Chuck's wedding, Ben gives a heartfelt speech to his dad and his new stepmother Gina, while Alice joyously listens on in approval.

In the 1990s, a fashion design student resists religious extremism during the Algerian Civil War.

In Rio de Janeiro during the 1950s, two sisters struggle against repression and bigotry in a patriarchal era.

Crimean Tatars Mustafa and his son Alim clash after collecting the body of elder son Nazim, a casualty of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The family's history with government displacement compel Mustafa on a pilgrimage to mourn and bury in Crimean Islamic tradition. The story starts from the morgue, then on a road trip in a Jeep Cherokee from Kyiv to the volatile Crimean Peninsula. After sleep deprivation and irritability the Jeep lands damaged in a ditch. Taking the vehicle to the closest auto shop, Alim meets the mechanic's grand daughter, a young Ukrainian girl who convinces him to go to the river. It is during this time the traveling party loses their wallet to a group of local boys. Alim and Mustafa become closer as they learn how to defend their passage and regain their lost possessions. Mustafa's illness is also revealed and worsens when the father and son arrive at Uncle Vasya's home. The home is not far from the family's original Crimean homeland, and Mustafa convinces Uncle Vasya to let him borrow a rowboat to complete the remaining segment of their passage.

Sophia earns her PhD for her thesis on Antonio Gramsci, but discovers a lack of teaching positions available in her field and is saddled with student debt. At age 35, she lives rent-free with her brother Karim and leads tours at a local art gallery. Pregnant, Sophia seeks an abortion and she and Karim meet Eloïse, a doctor. Eloïse recognizes Karim as a man she met and slept with when she first moved to Montreal several years ago. Although Karim does not remember Eloïse, they agree to see each other again. After the abortion, Sophia tells Karim he should date a woman like Eloïse, but is turned off when he replies he will see Eloïse herself. Sophia loses her job at the gallery and decides to write a novel. She returns to Karim's apartment and speaks loudly about how she imagined Karim's date with Eloïse went, speculating Eloïse is frigid and shallow. Sophia is embarrassed to see Eloïse is in the apartment. Envious and concerned about Karim entering into an increasingly serious relationship, Sophia watches Eloïse as she interacts with Karim.

Eloïse and Karim take Sophia to a dinner, and Eloïse also brings her best friend Jasmin, a male midwife. Concerned she has been lured into a double date, Sophia is offended when Jasmin says giving birth is the most important event of a woman's life; Sophia never wants to have children. Jasmin and Sophia share a taxi, and Jasmin asks to see her again, though Sophia is reluctant. Eloïse then joins Karim and Sophia in a dinner with their parents. There, Sophia engages in a heated argument over her family, saying the world is overpopulated (when Eloïse expresses a desire for children) and her eight years of education were for nothing. Sophia storms out and refuses to apologize. She leaves Karim's apartment for a room at Jasmin's apartment; she also accepts a job as a French-language tutor for immigrants in the suburbs. Jasmin and Sophia have sex; the next morning, Sophia rushes to her new job and struggles on where to begin.

Sophia visits Eloïse in her office and tearfully apologizes for her behaviour at their last dinner. She confesses she had never seen her brother so happy. Eloïse replies by comparing the sibling relationship to atomic theory; since people are made up of atoms, they inherit their atoms from their parents, and she understands Karim and Sophia share a connection.

College lecturer Maria has been married to Richard for twenty years. After revealing her history of affairs with other men, she leaves the Paris apartment and spends the night in a hotel across the street. She is visited by her ex-lovers, as well as Richard's younger self.

''Signal GK'' is an adventure set in the Solomani Rim in which the player characters must help an eccentric researcher defect to the Imperium.

In 1986, Richard Jewell works as an office supply clerk at the Small Business Administration, where he builds a rapport with attorney Watson Bryant. Eventually, Jewell leaves the firm to pursue a law enforcement career. At one point, Jewell is hired as a sheriff's deputy, but ends up discharged. In early 1996, he works as a security guard at Piedmont College, but is fired after multiple complaints of acting beyond his jurisdiction. Jewell later moves in with his mother Bobi in Atlanta. In the summer of 1996, he works as a security guard at the Olympic Games, monitoring Centennial Park.

In the early morning of July 27, 1996, after chasing off drunken revelers during a Jack Mack and the Heart Attack concert, Jewell notices a suspicious package beneath a bench, which an explosives expert confirms contains a bomb. The security team, police officers, FBI agent Tom Shaw, and Jewell's friend Dave Dutchess move concert attendees away from the bomb before it detonates, and Jewell is heralded as a hero.

After being contacted by the dean of Piedmont College about his dislike and suspicions of Jewell, Shaw and his team determine that Jewell, as a white, male, "wanna-be" police officer, fits the common profile of perpetrators committing similar crimes; they compare him to others who sought glory and attention by rescuing people from a dangerous situation they created themselves.

Shaw is approached by journalist Kathy Scruggs of the ''Atlanta-Journal Constitution'', and he reveals that Jewell is under FBI suspicion. The ''Constitution'' publishes Scruggs' story on the front page, disclosing the FBI's interest in Jewell as a possible suspect. Scruggs makes particular note of Jewell being overweight, the fact he lives with his mother, and work history to reassure herself that he fits the FBI's profile. The story quickly becomes international news.

Jewell, initially unaware of his changing public perception, is lured to the FBI office. Though initially cooperative, he refuses to sign an acknowledgement he has been read his Miranda rights and instead phones Bryant for legal representation. Bryant, now running his own struggling law firm, agrees and makes Jewell aware he is a prime suspect in the bombing.

Shaw and his partner Sam Bennet visit the dean of Piedmont College, who reinforces their suspicion of Jewell. The FBI searches Jewell's home and seizes property including true crime books and a cache of firearms. Jewell admits to Bryant that he has been evading income taxes for years and was once arrested for exceeding his authority. Bryant scolds Jewell for being too collegial with the police officers investigating him, and Jewell admits his ingrained respect for authority makes it difficult for him not to be deferential, even when the authorities are working against him.

Jewell and Bryant confront Scruggs, demanding a retraction and apology, but she stands by her reporting. Still not completely convinced of Jewell's innocence, Bryant and his secretary Nadya time the distance between the phone booth which was discovered to have made the initial threat of the bomb, and the bomb site, concluding it is impossible for someone to phone in the bomb threat and discover the bomb at the time it was found. Scruggs and Shaw come to the same conclusion, and the FBI changes their picture of the crime to include an accomplice. As their case weakens, the FBI try to link Dutchess to Jewell as a possible accomplice and lover.

Bryant arranges a polygraph examination, which Jewell passes, removing Bryant's doubt about his innocence. Bobi holds a press conference and pleads for the investigation to cease so she and her son may proceed with their lives. Jewell and Bryant meet with Shaw and Bennet at the FBI office, and after some irrelevant questions, Jewell realizes they have no evidence against him. When he asks pointedly if they are ready to charge him, their silence convinces him to leave.

Eighty-eight days after being named "a person of interest", Jewell is informed by formal letter that he is no longer under investigation.

In April 2003, Jewell, now a police officer in Luthersville, Georgia, is visited by Bryant who tells him that Eric Rudolph has confessed to the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

An epilogue states that on August 29, 2007, Jewell died at the age of 44 of complications from diabetes and heart failure. It also mentions that Bryant and Nadya got married and had two sons, both of whom Bobi babysits to this day.

Jill Davies is a housewife who lives in a bizarre, unnamed suburban town, where all the adults wear dental braces and drive golf carts instead of cars. She is married to Nick, with a seven year old son named Julian and an infant daughter named Madison. She is friends and rivals with Lisa Wetbottom, placing Julian and Lisa’s son, Bob, in competition with each other. Throughout the movie, Jill is stalked by a mysterious giggling person.

Jill chats with Lisa on the sideline of their children’s soccer game. They briefly discuss the recent murder of a local yoga teacher before Lisa compliments Madison. On a whim, Jill asks if Lisa would like to have Madison as her own daughter; Lisa accepts.

Jill and Nick are frustrated by Julian, an eccentric young boy who is bad at sports and frequently urinates himself. After Jill and Julian argue at Nick’s birthday party, Julian sings “Happy Birthday to You” to his father before abruptly falling face-first into the swimming pool. When he re-emerges, he has turned into a golden retriever. Jill and Nick continue sending Julian to school dressed in human clothing. Nick delights in playing with his newly athletic “son,” but Jill misses Julian as he used to be, and their marriage begins to fray.

In the parking lot after school, Jill asks Lisa if she could have Madison (now named Paige) back. Lisa, hurt, refuses to let her go. Later at a soccer game, Lisa picks up the soccer ball and places it under her dress, mimicking a baby bump. She is congratulated by her friends for her pregnancy, and eventually “gives birth” to the soccer ball, naming it “Twilson” and treating it as a third child.

After encouragement from her friends while bowling, Jill tells Nick that she wants a divorce, casting him out of the house. Upon returning one day, he finds Julian alone in the backyard without clothes on while Jill is out getting a haircut. Aghast, Nick takes Julian from Jill, devastating her. She rings Lisa’s doorbell and begs for her daughter back, but Lisa angrily refuses, telling Jill that it’s her fault she has no children anymore. Jill returns home, only to run into her stalker, a delusional middle-aged woman who screams at Jill to get out of her house.

Manic and distraught, Jill rides her golf cart out of town and onto the highway, stopping near a cow pasture to remove her braces with wire cutters. She arrives at the house where she grew up, currently occupied by a single woman with three children. After asking if she can have one of the woman’s children, Jill kidnaps one and takes her to a diner. There, she sees on the news that her stalker (who also murdered the yoga teacher) was arrested after being discovered by Lisa.

Returning to town the next day, Jill watches her kidnapped “daughter” play soccer with the other children. She learns that Lisa had moved her family into Jill’s house, with Nick serving as a pool boy. After realizing that the children are playing soccer over graves, Jill stands up from the bleachers and declares that she needs to get out. The referee admonishes her for being “out of bounds,” and Jill immediately sits back down.

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev, middle-aged actor. For many years, he played in the provincial theater on lead roles. The director of the piece based on the play, written for Goryaev, takes a young actor for his role. Goryaev first falls into despair, leaves the theater, makes an appeal to his friends. After a while, he digests what happened and realizes it's time to leave the scene adequately.

A pretty school teacher (Lois Collier)---make that a very pretty school teacher---, a doctor (Don Porter) who disapproves of the white man's attitude toward Indians, and a young Indian boy (Buzz Henry) do what they can in the modern west to keep Robert Wilcox and his henchies (the usual Universal suspects headed by Dick Curtis) from capturing and killing a wild horse herd so Wilcox can sell the hides. It all looks bigger than it is because director Wallace Fox makes liberal use via stock footage of the massive wild horse herds from Universal's 1936.

Truthful Tulliver is a frontiersman turned newspaper editor who sets up shop in Glory Hole, a lawless border town. While standing at the news office window with Easterner York Cantrell, Truthful sees two sisters, Grace and Daisy Burton, being insulted by drunken customers of the 40 Red Saloon. "Deacon" Doyle manages the saloon but Cantrell secretly owns it. The next day, Truthful runs an editorial in his paper condemning the 40 Red Saloon. Truthful rides his horse into the saloon, lassos Doyle, and drags him behind his horse out of town. Later, Doyle returns and attempts to shoot Truthful. Meanwhile, Daisy confesses to Grace that Cantrell has wronged her and Grace tells this to Truthful. Truthful, who is in love with Grace, misunderstands and thinks Grace wants Cantrell. As Cantrell tries to leave town, Truthful intercepts him. They clear up the misunderstanding, Cantrell decides to marry Daisy, and Truthful embraces Grace warmly.

Luke and Sylvia think of themselves as the embodiment of a "modern" couple – always in the know, open to new experiences, and proud to be San Franciscans. Enter Elena and Ronald – a provocative polyamorous couple that not only challenge Luke and Sylvia's status amongst their friends, but also force them to examine their commitment to each other. With temptation right around the corner, Luke and Sylvia must figure out where they really stand on love, sex, and honesty.

Actress Candy Black once was a blockbuster comedic star. However, after years of drug abuse and anger issues, she's considered difficult. On ''Entrapment Baby'''s set, she refuses to work until her stand in Paula (also Barrymore) reveals the director may replace her with Melissa McCarthy. During the scene, her co-star Jenna Jones hits her with a solid marble statue instead of a breakaway bottle. In a rage, Black shatters an ashtray and a shard hits Jones' eye. The video goes viral, ruining her career.

Candy locks herself up in her Long Island mansion for five years, while facing many legal issues from her addictions and tax evasion. Her romantic pen pal relationship with Steve Grady, also passionate about Shaker carpentry is her one joy - however, she secretly writes as Kathy Tyler, her actual legal name. In May 2019, sentenced to months in rehab, may ruin her plan to finally meet. She asks her former manager Louis to find her former stand-in Paula, now a struggling actress living in her car. Inviting Paula to her mansion, Candy asks her to attend rehab for her. She agrees, only if Candy resumes acting, with Paula as her stand-in.

In rehab, Paula meets director's assistant Ingrid, who offers her a cameo in a reboot of their former collaboration ''Saddle Up''. Upon release, Paula tells Kathy, but she refuses because filming conflicts with her first date with Steve. Desperate to resume work, Paula, as Steve, messages Kathy, claiming to be married and severing contact. Then as Kathy, attending her first date with Steve, initially planning to break up with him, but quickly falls for and begins dating him.

Although the ''Saddle Up'' cameo is still in limbo, Paula convinces Kathy that she does a series of six-figure talk show apology appearances. This puts Paula in contact with Louis (who doesn't know she's Paula), as well as their new publicist Simon. He asks her on a date and she accepts, but they are interrupted when Paula and Steve spot each other (Steve sees Kathy/Paula was Candy Black after watching her on a television interview). Paula and Steve go back to his apartment and have sex. Several days later, the ''Saddle Up'' offer is a go.

Paula drugs Kathy to host another date with Steve at the mansion, dumping her in the backyard. During the date, Steve admits he is actually Larry Cooper from Ann Arbor, Michigan, infamous for accidentally peeing on the New Orleans Holocaust Memorial while drunk. Kathy's high drug tolerance results in a quick recovery from being drugged, so she enters the mansion bathroom to vomit. Steve narrowly misses seeing her there before he leaves. Kathy and Paula then have a physical fight, leading to Paula dragging Kathy outside, locking her out, and getting the police to remove the 'crazed stalker'.

Kathy seeks help from Louis. However, when he discovers Paula is who's been making Candy Black's comeback, he drops her for Paula. She then applies for a construction job as a carpenter, so she breaks into the mansion to retrieve some papers. Steve spots Kathy, and recognizes her voice from the phone. Paula walks in behind him, and the three are in the same room for the first time. Confusion ensues over their respective secret identities, and Kathy realizes Paula sabotaged her relationship with Steve to further their career. She storms out, and Steve dumps Paula to reunite with her.

Steve and Cathy go to his townhouse and start building a relationship, while Paula films for the ''Saddle Up'' reboot as Candy Black. Uncomfortable doing the physical gags, Paula begs Kathy to resume working as Candy. She goes downstairs to personally refuse Paula's offer, and after complimenting her Method acting skills over the past few months, she gut-punches her for trying to sabotage her and Steve. As Kathy goes inside, a group of teenagers take selfies next to a downed Paula while she's down.

One year later, Paula is successfully working as Candy Black and dating her publicist Simon. She is shown in a beautiful gown, over whelmed at a large movie premier and acting out, showing she is now living through the celebrity stress Kathy wanted to get away from. No longer living in her own shadow, Kathy and Steve have a happy, quiet, successful life as woodworkers in a Shaker community.

Charlie (Bobby Kennedy) is an American hard-partying slacker and recent college graduate whose wealthy parents (Alec Baldwin and Catherine Mary Stewart) cut him off with a cheque for $5000 and an ultimatum to get a job. Instead, eager to explore Europe, he buys a plane ticket to Italy. On the plane, he meets the self-proclaimed "King" of Bologna, Lele (Lele Gabellone), who tells him he is welcome to stay with him, also making a strong impression by joining the mile high club with the woman he just met, Alessia ( ).

Just out of the airport in Rome, Charlie is accosted and robbed by three Neapolitan mafia men: Vito (Vito Facciolla), Jaroslav ( ), and "Il Nero" ( ). Charlie manages to get away from them, fleeing in their pickup truck. Not knowing what else to do (he speaks no Italian and has nowhere to go), he heads to Bologna to take the "King" up on his offer.

Lele takes Charlie under his wing and introduces him to his eccentric group of friends, like Badoo ( ), a scraggly "gutter punk" (''punkabbestia''), and "Il Pisa" ( ), an insatiable whoremonger. Charlie moves in and picks up where he left off in the US, living each day as if it were his last. Lele teaches Charlie the subtle techniques of Italian seduction, throws all-night parties, and generally causes chaos. Charlie is a good student and meets and charms two lovely ladies, the dangerously beautiful Valentina (Alessandra Mastronardi) and all-American beauty Vicky (Eva Amurri).

Thanks to Charlie's swaggering immaturity and some cultural misunderstanding, he incurs the wrath of mafiosi Don Ferracane (Giancarlo Giannini), Valentina's father, and Don Farina (Ernesto Mahieux) the boss of the three men Charlie clashed with in Rome. It turns out the van Charlie escaped in had something important belonging to the ill-tempered Don Farina, who, exasperated with his underboss Vito, threatens to kill him unless he produces results. Vito threatens Jaroslav and Il Nero in turn and the trio finally track Charlie to Bologna...

The film focuses on Samia, a young unwed pregnant mother who goes looking for work and is taken in by a widowed baker, Abla. The film was inspired by a similar situation Touzani experienced where her parents sheltered a heavily pregnant woman in Tangier for several days during a time when being an unwed pregnant woman was illegal in Morocco.

In the 18th century, the libertines spend a night of sexual debauchery in the forest.

Robert, a millionaire's son comes home after getting kicked out of college, married to Sally, a woman Robert's father suspects is a gold digger. After a brief conversation, Sally proves him right when she accepts Charles offer of money to annul the marriage to his son and leave town. One day at the local market Robert runs into his childhood friend Dorothy, there is an instant attraction to each other but Dorothy turns him down when Robert asks out. Returning to the store, Robert runs into his father who insists Robert get a job. Working at the market, Robert and Dorothy get to know each other again and he invites Dorothy and her family to a family dinner. Charles, who happens to like the McCarthy family is pleased. So pleased that he arranges for Dorothy to play for his own house guest, the famous pianist Signor Luigi Montefiori.

Montefiori is so impressed that he decides to take on Dorothy as a student. While studying and practicing Robert and Sally fall more in love. Charles is not happy when he realizes this because he believes his son is not serious. Robert moves out of the family home and tells his father that he will prove how much Dorothy really means to him. One day Sally's little sister Penny sneaks out the house on a winter night to the market only to become very ill. Everyone worries and prays that she gets better soon. Robert wants to do something special for Dorothy so he uses inheritance that his mother left him to arrange a concert for Dorothy.

Just as everything is coming together, Robert's former wife or you can say current wife comes back to town with her lawyer and inform Robert that they are still married and if he wants a divorce he'll have to give her half of his inheritance. When Robert meets with them later he tells Sally that he no longer have the money because he used it to give a concert. Not believing him, Sally and her lawyer go to the concert hall to talk to Robert's father and try to blackmail him as well. Robert and a Detective come in and inform them that Sally and her lawyer are con artist and married to each other. Dorothy comes back stage after playing terribly and learns of everything. Both are free to be together now.

The novel is set in Lucknow and an imaginary Middle East during the late 19th century. Its theme follows the pattern of Miguel de Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'', with Azad modeled on Don Quixote. Azad's faithful friend, Khoji, echoes Sancho Panza.

Azad, with no family history, wanders around the city; he encounters all kinds of people and observes Lucknow's changing urban milieu. He has a keen eye for female beauty. Azad meets two sisters and falls in love with Husna Ara, the older sister. Although she loves him too, she sets a condition for their marriage: Azad must go to Turkey and fight with the Turks in their war with the Russians. Azad leaves for Turkey with Khoji, his sidekick, a dwarf with a fondness for opium and delusions about his handsomeness and martial prowess. They have a number of adventures in Turkey and Russia; several noblewomen fall love with Azad, who remains more-or-less true to Husn Ara.

Azad, Khoji, and two female European admirers return to India in triumph. Azad marries Husna Ara, and the two European women become social workers. He becomes the father of twins and is well-known and respected, devoting a great deal of time to the propagation of new ideas, education, commerce and industry. When war breaks out against Afghanistan, Azad is asked by the government to aid the war effort. He goes to war, again proving himself a valiant soldier. Azad then returns home and lives a happy, useful life devoted to the advancement of his country. ''Fasana-e-Azad'' has a number of sub-plots, including the story of Husna Ara's sister, Sipahr Ara; her lover, prince Humayun Far; and the Shahsawar, his mysterious rival.

''Demand of Honor'' is an adventure module set during the first five-year mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise, in which Starfleet tries to prevent Gorn pirates from attacking Federation shipping.

Maude Flanders appears in a dream to Ned as a ghost. Ned cries and asks Todd if he ever dreams about his mother. Todd confesses he no longer remembers what she looks like. After watching Christmas tapes of their family in an attempt to jog his memories of Maude, Todd starts having doubts about Maude being in a better place.

At church, Reverend Lovejoy invites the kids to say what they would want to say to baby Jesus if they could speak to him and Todd says he would angrily tell him thanks for nothing because his mom is dead and that he no longer believes in God, shocking everyone. Ned is shocked to the core and reprimands his actions, while Todd keeps questioning God's existence. The next morning, Todd refuses to say Amen to the prayer for the breakfast and Ned asks himself what can put fear of God back in Todd. After seeing Bart trick Homer into staying outside in his underwear, Ned asks the Simpsons to look after Todd for a while and help him rediscover his beliefs in God. This proves futile.

Eventually, Todd tells Homer the reason he does not believe is because his mother is never coming back and asks Homer if he knows what he feels. Homer remembers his mother, Mona, and the time she had died, making him cry, too. Homer goes to Moe's Tavern to forget, but is surprisingly joined by Ned. The two get drunk before getting hit by Hans Moleman's car. They are greeted in Heaven by Ned's second wife, Edna Krabappel, and Maude, John the Baptist, and God. After a movie argument with Abraham Lincoln, God informs them they are not dead. They are merely in a coma with their families at their hospital beds. After seeing even Bart praying, Todd prays to God to bring his dad back. Ned returns to his body. Homer is then met by Mona and finally has a chance to say goodbye to her before he, too, regains consciousness and the families are reunited.

At night, Rod and Todd dream of Maude tucking them in while Edna's ghost shouts "Ha" to Ned.

Artie Ziff invites Homer and Marge to his wedding. Although both are conflicted about going due to the number of times Artie has tried to break them up, they reluctantly accept the invitation. Homer goes alone to the bachelor party, where he finds Artie has regained his wealth after his parole, selling burning cash-resembling fireplaces. Attending the ceremony with Marge, Homer gives the bride away, only to find out that the bride looks just like Marge. Unsettled, Marge leaves the ceremony, and later decides to tell the bride that Artie only married her because she and Marge look alike. She and Homer get to the honeymoon suite and find out that the marriage was a ruse and Artie's bride is a robot. Artie admits he had been trying to make a robot clone of Marge for years, but they all have flaws. Following Marge's suggestion, he uses his army of Marge droids to do humanitarian work, though they all reject his sexual advances, sprouting wings to fly off.

Meanwhile, Lisa is heckled by a man who claims that she will be prettier and more popular if she smiled more often. Marge takes her to a new dentist to get a new set of braces, as her old dentist was a rogue periodontist masquerading as an orthodontist. The top half of her braces cause her to constantly smile and finally win popularity among her classmates. Initially disgusted by the shallowness of the concept, Lisa decides to bank on her newfound popularity and run for class president. Unfortunately, the other half of her braces are installed, resulting in her now constantly frowning for the next six months. Bart hires Martin Prince to manipulate a live feed of Lisa doing her election speech to make her smile, but the app malfunctions and Lisa exposes herself, causing her to lose the election to Dubya Spuckler. Outside in the school playground, Marge attempts to comfort Lisa, only to witness the same man heckle her for not smiling. Marge then sprouts robotic wings and attacks the man while Lisa smiles and cheers her on.

In the wake of his wife Theresa's mastectomy, Nathan Gardner moves his family, including children Lavinia, Benny, and Jack, to his late father's farm. One night, a brilliantly glowing meteor crash-lands in their front yard, briefly traumatizing Jack. The next morning, hydrologist Ward Phillips, who is surveying the area for a dam development, along with the mayor and the sheriff of the nearby town of Arkham, arrive to see the meteor. That night, during a storm, Nathan and Lavinia witness the meteor being struck by numerous bolts of lightning.

Ward notices that the groundwater has taken on an oily sheen and tests it. When his test strips begin to glow brightly with the Color, he advises the Gardners not to drink it. While notifying nearby resident Ezra of the contamination, he is shown a recording of sounds of unknown origin sounding beneath Ezra's house at night. Meanwhile, Jack becomes fixated on the property's well, observing strange plant growths and insects, as well as claiming to communicate with a 'friend' inside the well. A news crew arrives to interview Nathan about the meteor, but finds that it has vanished.

Later, while Theresa is preparing dinner, she absentmindedly cuts off two of her fingers. As Nathan rushes her to the hospital, he leaves Benny in charge. On Nathan's request, Benny goes outside to put the farm's alpacas back in their stables, but does not return until late at night, claiming time had passed instantaneously for him. Meanwhile, Lavinia attempts multiple times to contact Nathan, but they are unable to hear each other through the phone. Upon the parents' return, Nathan lashes out at Benny and Lavinia with uncharacteristic rage.

Later, Nathan becomes frustrated after finding that his most recent harvest of fruits has proven inedible, and Theresa snaps after losing a work client due to the faltering Internet connection, bringing the two to a fight. The same night, Lavinia tries to perform a Ritual using the Necronomicon and offering her blood to save her family, mutilating herself in the process. Theresa suddenly hears Jack and Benny screaming after entering the alpaca stables and rushes to their aid, but in the process, a bolt of Color fuses Theresa and Jack together into a deranged mass. Unable to start the car or call for help as all electronic devices have stopped functioning, and upon discovering sunlight harms Theresa and Jack, Nathan and the children carry them into the attic. Benny reveals that he had witnessed the alpacas after a horrible mutation due to the Color. Nathan decides to euthanize the alpacas with a shotgun after finding they have similarly fused together. Beginning to lose his sanity, Nathan also attempts to euthanize Theresa and Jack but is unable to bring himself to.

Lavinia and Benny conspire to leave the farm using Lavinia's horse, but it runs from the property. Before returning inside, Benny insists he hears the family's dog inside the well, but upon climbing in, he is assimilated by the Color. Nathan displays more uncharacteristic rage and locks Lavinia in the attic with Theresa and Jack, who have turned to aggression. Ward and the sheriff are brought to the farm after a nearby resident discovers a fused mass of animals, and arrive just in time to break into the attic. Nathan shoots and kills the monster, saving Lavinia.

After rushing outside, Nathan attempts to shoot the Color emerging from the well, but the sheriff mistakes Nathan's aim for Ward and fatally shoots him. Ward and the sheriff leave to evacuate Ezra, and Lavinia insists on staying with Nathan. At Ezra's house, the pair only find his desiccated corpse and a recording he left behind, where he surmises that the Color is attempting to remake Earth into "something it knows." Heading back towards the farmhouse, a mutated living tree kills the sheriff.

Ward returns to rescue Lavinia, but finds her possessed by the Color, which explodes out of the well and forms a funnel into the sky. Ward is shown a vision of where the Color hails from, a psychedelic exoplanet inhabited by tentacled alien entities, before Lavinia disintegrates. As space and time begin to unravel, Ward enters the farmhouse and is pursued by a murderous apparition of Nathan. He hides in the wine cellar as the Color's distortion of reality drives the property to destruction, leaving Ward the only survivor as he climbs out of the remains of the farmland, now a colorless ashy "blasted heath".

In an epilogue, a traumatized Ward stands on top of the finished dam which covers the former property, and narrates that having witnessed the Color's takeover, he will never drink the dam's water.

The film is divided into seven chapters.

'''1. I'm Sorry'''

Best friends Mike and Kyle are biking together when Mike breaks the news to Kyle that he's currently sleeping with his fiancé. In the ensuing argument, Mike has a moment of road rage with a motorist that culminates into Mike getting assaulted after chasing the motorist down the road. At the hospital, where Mike is recovering from minor head wounds, Kyle's fiancé, Ava, visits Mike and is confronted by Kyle over her affair. After she tells him that she still loves him, he then asks if she still wants to get married.

'''2. Let Go'''

Ava goes on to marry Mike instead, but she unexpectedly dies shortly after. A visibly distraught Mike causes a scene at her funeral which is diffused by Kyle, who came to pay his respects. Mike admits to Kyle that what he did was wrong and that he's a terrible friend. Though Kyle is still angry at Mike, he still consoles him over his loss.

'''3. Thanks'''

Sometime later, Kyle, now in better physical shape, is working as a commercial-jingle writer and is dating his former high-school girlfriend, Marissa, with whom he is celebrating Thanksgiving with his family. Though his overprotective, overbearing mother is disapproving of the relationship, she is nonetheless happy for him when he announces his engagement with her. She then reveals to Kyle that she invited Mike to celebrate Christmas with them, noting his having no family of his own to celebrate with.

On Christmas night, a now overweight, alcoholic Mike arrives at Kyle's family's home. Finding his way into the garage, he comes across some old pictures of himself and his old helmet from when he played football in high school. Kyle's mother confronts Mike and tells him that he needs to make amends with Kyle for his selfish actions and stop feeling sorry for himself over how he hurt him. Mike then stumbles into the living room where he passes out drunk.

'''4. It's Broken'''

Seeing Mike's worsened state, Kyle invites him to join him and Marissa on their vacation to a ski resort over New Years. After breaking his arm on a difficult slope, Mike is given permission by Kyle to stay with them for the night, the two of them getting drunk together and catching up on their pasts. A frustrated Marissa tells Kyle that Mike is a negative influence on his life and that he needs to cut him out from it. When Marissa goes to bed early, Kyle joins her in the hopes of having sex, but he quickly passes out before she returns from the bathroom. She then goes down to confront Mike about his behavior, and he attempts to kiss her. Though disgusted, she physically pressures him into following through with his advances, convinced that it will finally convince Kyle to break off their friendship for good.

'''5. Stop It'''

Mike and Marissa's brother Ronnie plan a surprise ice-fishing bachelor party for Kyle before his impending wedding with Marissa. When Kyle momentarily steps away from the party, Mike approaches him and claims that he slept with Marissa. Kyle, angered once again, surprises Mike by saying that he no longer cares and simply wants to spend his life with someone who cares for him. Mike responds that Marissa doesn't actually care for Kyle as he is and wants to turn him into something she wants him to be, suggesting that he leaves her. At some point, Kyle breaks through a thin patch of ice in the frozen lake, though Mike manages to pull him out.

'''6. Grow Up'''

Kyle has since cut all ties with Mike, who is lonelier than ever. On the day of Kyle and Marissa's wedding, Mike crashes the ceremony and objects to their union, instigating a small brawl in the church between him and members of both Kyle and Marissa's families. During the confrontation, Marissa loudly declares that she's pregnant and that she's adamant about getting married. Upon learning this, the priest refuses to wed them over concerns that their child is pressuring them into a potentially doomed marriage and advises them to wait until after the child is born.

'''7. Fine'''

About a year later, Mike is now working at a bicycle shop/café, where a now-married Kyle and Marissa visit him with their newly born son Otis, the former of whom still misses Mike.

Several years later, Kyle and Marissa have decided to divorce. Kyle lives close to Marissa to stay in touch with their son and maintains his friendship with Mike, whom Otis affectionately refers to as his “uncle.” The three go on a bike ride together and Mike encourages Otis to remove his training wheels. He initially falls, but eventually rides, to Mike and Kyle's encouragement.

After her triumph against the English army, Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians. She is put on trial for heresy.

The story takes place in the Serra dos Ancares mountain range in the Galician province of Lugo, in north west Spain. It tells the story of Amador Coro, who has recently been released from prison after a conviction for arson – he had started a fire in the thick forests that cover the local mountains. Returning to live with his mother Benedicta in her farm house, he lives an uneventful life, tending his mother's cows and avoiding unnecessary contact with other people. However, when a large forest fire devastates the area, tensions against him appear due to his arson conviction.

A 20-year-old Midwesterner arrives in New York City, and catches eyes with a young woman, leading to the two falling in love.

You are a senior investigator with the police force of what is basically a totalitarian state. On a world where nearly all forms of crime are punishable by execution, you have been called on to investigate someone who has been unlawfully killed. From the initial investigation it clearly looks like an accident and your superior is very keen for you to close the case. You decide to dig a little deeper and it is then that you uncover something that should probably have been better left hidden. The Player character in this game is a robot.

Luke is a fourteen-year-old boy who wakes from a coma to discover that the evil and disturbing presence named "Dreeg" has taken up residence in his head. Dreeg causes visual and auditory hallucinations, some of which are symptomatic of synesthesia. Ashamed and frightened, Luke doesn't tell his family about Dreeg or the synesthesia, leading his family and doctors to believe that he made a full recovery. In the following days, however, Luke develops a limp that resigns him to a wheelchair. Upon returning home, Luke has malicious thoughts towards his older sister Laura and is convinced by Dreeg that he can manipulate reality however he wants. Encouraged by Dreeg to begin running, Luke discovers that he can fly. He also finds that he can control minds and that there were rules to his power. First, Luke had to practice and, secondly, he needed Dreeg. With the help of Dreeg's coaching, Luke conjured up a deaf girl he calls Seraphina, showing him the extents of his power.

His enjoyment over his powers comes to an end when a creative writing assignment results in one student's face becoming morphed and deformed when the teacher reads Luke's story aloud. A figure also appears outside of the class window. After the students rush to the window Luke denies that anything occurred, returning everything to normal and causing him to realize that his power came with repercussions. As the novel progresses Luke begins to lose control of his mind to Dreeg and his malicious thoughts towards his sister Laura increase to the point that Luke dreams of her death. Luke wants to give up his powers but is convinced otherwise by Dreeg, leaving Luke at his mercy.

The book culminates with the disappearance of Laura in the local woods. Together with his best friend Tom, Seraphina, and his dog, Luke goes to rescue Laura and manages to successfully defeat Dreeg, but at the cost of a portion of his mind and the loss of Seraphina. During the fight the woods catches on fire, however the group is rescued by paramedics and rushed to the hospital. Now left without memories of his powers, Seraphina, and many of the events from the book, Luke comes to terms with both his synesthesia and the missing pieces of his mind while staying with his grandfather.

An energetic, modern woman, she believes that with the help of connections and sober calculation everything can be achieved: well-being, respectability, even personal happiness. She does not notice that the fulfillment of her desires does not at all make a person close to her happy. Payback is unexpected and terrible.

After a long fought out civil war, the Southron forces of the Kingdom of Detina defeat the Northoners and serfdom is abolished throughout all the kingdom.

Act One

The play begins with a Black woman, Beverly, setting up a birthday party for her mother in an upper-middle class house. Her family slowly joins her onstage, including her husband Dayton, her sister Jasmine, and her daughter Keisha. Beverly receives a phone call from her brother, Tyrone, telling her that he cannot come to the birthday party. Beverly becomes so upset with things going awry and family conflict that occurs that she faints.

Act Two

Act two has the Black actors mimic the same actions on the set from act one as a group of White characters commentate on race. Two of the White people, Jimbo and Mack, discuss which race they would be if they were not White and are challenged by a third White character, Suze. Bets, another White woman, questions the concept of race. Suze, who was raised by a Black woman, says that she would choose to be African-American because she holds a lot of empathy for them. As the White characters begin to argue, Beverly faints in the background action. The White characters continue their conversation as the audience sees the Black characters engage in action that continues where act one left off. As the act ends, the White characters disappear.

Act Three

The actions of the Black characters are continued in act three as Beverly’s mother enters the scene, played by the same White woman who played Suze in act two. Keisha is notably uncomfortable as her grandmother is played by a White woman. Tyrone then appears, played by the same White actor who played Jimbo. The White actress who played Mack appears as Erika. A second, jazzier version of the grandmother appears, played by the same White actress who played Bets. While all of the White actors enter the play as Black characters, Keisha becomes more and more uncomfortable as White people are trying to fit into Black misfortune. The play ends with Keisha breaking the fourth wall and speaking to the audience about how Black people need to tell their own stories and how White people need to participate as listeners.

In 1968, Michael arrives at his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in preparation for Harold's birthday party. Michael receives a call from his friend Donald, who will be arriving early due to a canceled psychiatrist appointment. When Donald arrives, Michael pities his own aging and debt-riddled lifestyle. Alan, Michael's old roommate from Georgetown, calls Michael in tears saying he has something urgent to tell Michael in person. Michael invites Alan to the party and warns all his guests that Alan is heterosexual and doesn't know about Michael's homosexuality.

As the sun sets, Emory arrives with lovers Hank and Larry, whose relationship is on the rocks. Bernard arrives with a stack of books for Donald before he too settles into the party atmosphere. Alan calls Michael from a phone booth, informing him that he isn't coming to the party after all and will instead meet Michael the following day for lunch. Larry and Bernard dance to "Heat Wave" as Emory and Michael join in.

Despite his earlier conversation with Michael, Alan arrives at the party and finds Michael and his friends dancing. He bonds with Hank, who he mistakes as being straight, and shows discomfort towards Emory's flamboyant behavior. Michael takes Alan to his bedroom to discuss Alan's urgent conversation, but Alan dodges his questions.

A hustler, called "Cowboy" arrives earlier than Emory expected and mistakes Michael for Harold, kissing him on the lips. Alan descends from the upstairs bathroom and announces he's leaving. Emory chides him for being a closeted homosexual which results in Alan punching Emory and calling him a "faggot." Harold arrives high on marijuana and accepts Cowboy's gift of a passionate kiss.

Michael begins to drink and smoke despite having quit 5 weeks prior. He and Harold trade vicious insults as Hank helps a vomiting Alan in Michael's bathroom. Emory brings out Harold's birthday cake and presents. After opening them on the terrace, a thunderstorm forces everyone inside.

Alan tries to leave again but is stopped by Michael, who informs everyone that they are playing a party game: everyone must use the telephone to call the one person they truly believe they have loved. Michael creates a points system based on how far each one can get in their conversations with their true loves. Bernard calls the son of his mother's employer, with whom he had a sexual encounter as a teenager. After his call goes awry, he only earns 2 points.

Emory solemnly calls a dentist he had a crush on in high school but his call ends abruptly, earning him 3 points. Hank calls his answering service at home and leaves a message for Larry, earning him 7 points. Larry loudly disagrees with Hank about the insistence of monogamy in their relationship, leading Michael to deduce that Donald and Larry have had sex in the past. Larry uses the kitchen phone to call Hank in the living room. His tearful declaration of love earns him 10 points. Hank and Larry go upstairs to Michael's room.

Michael angrily confronts Alan about his closeted relationship in college with a boy named Justin. Alan makes a phone call to who Michael believes is Justin, but turns out to be Alan's wife Fran. Alan tells her he loves her and is coming home to Washington. He earns 10 points and leaves as Michael stands defeated.

Harold informs Michael that no matter what Michael does, he will always be a homosexual, just like the rest of them. He departs, taking Cowboy and his presents with him. Emory leaves with a distraught Bernard, promising to sober him up on the way home. Michael laments over the group's treatment of each other, wishing "if we could just not hate ourselves so much." He tells Donald that he never learned what Alan wanted to confide in him.

As midnight nears, Michael attends Mass at St. Malachy's. Donald reads ''The Golden Notebook'' on Michael's couch, despite his earlier insistence he would not be spending the night. Harold and Cowboy ride in a taxi to Harold's home, Emory and Bernard sit at a late night diner enjoying coffee and buttered toast, Hank and Larry have sex in Michael's bedroom, and Alan sits at a bar drinking alone. Michael exits Mass; his walk turns into a run as he heads down the street.