As described in a review in a film magazine, in order to better be able to run down a notorious bandit, “The Black Hawk,” Sgt. Steele (Custer) of the Rangers, who has captured another bandit, “Lightning” Brady, impersonates him and joins the gang of unsavory characters led by Murtison (Bennett). Soon he finds The Black Hawk has attacked an official of the mining company and paralyzed his sense of speech. He sends for Dr. Deering (Field), who arrives with his daughter, Ruth (Landis), but returns for instruments and fails to come back. Instead, Murtison’s gang attacks Steele and, in the rumpus, Murtison is killed by The Black Hawk. The gang captures Ruth and a young Indian woman, Wetona (La Rue), and takes them away. Steele rescues them and returns to the shack to find The Black Hawk bending over the patient, who has recovered his speech. Steele forces him to unmask and finds he is Dr. Deering. During a terrific fight, Deering is shot by Wetona. Ruth is shocked to find her father is a bandit, but finds consolation in the love of Steele, who reveals his real identity to her.

The film tells about the beginning of the revolutionary activity of the Bolshevik Frunze.

The film takes place in the autumn of 1942. The Nazis approached Stalingrad. They are opposed by Belarusian partisans who were left without shells, as a result of which they decided to send a young guy named Mikhas along with Sazon Ivanovich to a mechanic. They successfully reached the point where the shells were hidden and suddenly they saw the Germans...

The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The film tells about prisoners of war who work at a factory in the Alps and decide to escape.

The film follows five ex-college buddies who return to the summer home of their youth for their scientist friend's funeral. But mourning turns to terror when they realize their reunion is not at all what it seems.

The film tells about a schoolboy named after Yura, who, as a result of the death of his father, decides to become a cadet at a military school. Once he with a friend are visiting a girl and Yura fell in love with her. After some time, the cadets go to the front...

Three years ago, the Russian Ground Forces are forced to relinquish control of a rare-earth mine in Mrima Hill near Mombasa, Kenya. Bitter about the retreat, Spetsnaz officer Yuri Borbikov formulates Operation Red Metal, an extensive military strike across Europe as a large diversion to retake the mine.

In the present day, Chinese Sea Dragon naval commandos infiltrate Taiwan and assassinate the presidential candidate of the pro-Beijing Taiwan Democratic Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party publicly frames the ruling Kuomintang party for the assassination and threatens military intervention over the elections. In Arlington, Virginia, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Connolly, an Afghanistan infantry veteran, works in the Joint Staff office of the Pentagon with Army Major Bob Griggs. The two are tasked to investigate an intelligence leak of an extra-marital affair between two high-ranking officers of the Indo-Pacific Command that causes both of them to be relieved and disrupts the chain of command. Connolly and Griggs consult NSA analyst Nik Melanopolis who deduces that the leak was engineered by Russian GRU hackers. The Joint Chiefs, however, are predisposed to a war in the Pacific and deploy Carrier Strike Group 5 to Taiwan.

In Moscow, Russia, President Anatoly Rivkin authorizes Operation Red Metal without the approval of the Ministry of Defence in response to crippling economic sanctions. He assigns Colonel General Eduard Sabaneyev to lead a lightning raid via militarized trains into Europe to destroy the US African and European Commands in Stuttgart, Germany, under the guise of military exercises with Belarus. Meanwhile, Colonel General Boris Lazar is tasked to lead an invasion force to seize Mrima Hill by travelling overland through Iran, also under the guise of military exercise, and covertly sail to Djibouti where they will be free to advance into Kenya before the US can mount a response. General Sabaneyev and Colonel Borbikov are confident that the operation will succeed, but General Lazar is disturbed by Borbikov's contingency plan to destroy the rare-earth mine with nuclear-tipped artillery shells if they fail to capture it.

Tensions spike in the Pacific when the destroyer USS Stethem sinks an attacking Chinese submarine in the international waters near Taiwan. The United States National Security Council consequently decides to fully commit to deterrence against China and deploy the Global Response Force to US Pacific bases, effectively isolating NATO forces in Europe. Colonel Connolly and Major Griggs attempt to advise the Joint Chiefs on the Russian machinations but are ignored and rebuffed. Poland, however, is disturbed by the Russian military buildup and begins activating the civilian Territorial Defence Force to prepare for a possible invasion.

In Djibouti City, French DGSE intelligence officer Pascal Arch-Blanchette notices Russian Spetsnaz activity in the country. His investigation is ignored by the French government, but he tips off his son, Captain Apollo Arch-Blanchette of the 13th Parachute Dragoon special reconnaissance regiment, who discovers Russian satellite phone signals at mountain peaks in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Apollo's platoon recons the sights and repels Spetsnaz teams under Colonel Borbikov, but do not realize that Borbikov's men are broadcasting false all-clear radar signals to NATO's airborne early warning and control stations.

Operation Red Metal officially begins on Christmas Eve when a Russian Air Force Su-57 stealth fighter squadron simultaneously shuts down communications across Europe by launching anti-satellite missiles, as GRU "Fancy Bear" hackers penetrate NATO's communications relays, causing an internet and cellular blackout across Europe. General Sabaneyev then launches the raiding force from Belarus through Poland and into Germany, using the covert assault train Red Blizzard 1 as his mobile headquarters. The Polish Land Forces and Territorial Defence Force (TDF) are quickly overrun. A young TDF volunteer named Paulina Tobiasz becomes a local hero and is promoted to sergeant after her entire company is wiped out by a Russian armoured column. Maintenance detachments of the US 37th Armor Regiment in Grafenwöhr are also alerted to the invasion, having been sent ahead of their combat counterparts to prepare for training exercises. Despite being primarily composed of maintenance units, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Grant scrapes together a composite M1A2 Abrams tank regiment supported by a German Army Leopard 2 tank battalion, Apache sections from the 3rd Aviation Regiment, and US Air Force A-10 Warthogs from the US Air Force 57th Wing. Despite their attempted defense, the US-German forces take heavy casualties as the Russian armour units lay waste to AFRICOM, EUCOM, Katterbach Kaserne, and Ramstein Air Base, severely crippling NATO's military and logistical strength. Having completed their objectives in Europe, the Kremlin contacts the White House and demands a ceasefire and safe return of all Russian forces through Germany and Poland into neutral Belarus, which the US and NATO accept. Colonel Grant wants to commit the 37th Armor to a full counterattack, but US forces in Europe are ordered to escort the Russians back to Belarus.

Meanwhile, General Lazar marches his forces southeast through Iran for Oman, where they embark on a heavily guarded flotilla escorted by Iranian container ships west for Djibouti City. Back in the Pentagon, Colonel Connelly is finally able to convince the Joint Chiefs of Russia's true objective. The Pentagon then deploys the Marine Regimental Combat Team 5 under the command of Colonel Ken Caster to sail to East Africa aboard the USS Boxer (LHD-4) and prevent the Russians from taking Mrima Hill. Connolly is assigned to RCT-5 as a Pentagon liaison and acts as an assistant operations officer thanks to his friendship with Caster and his subordinates. A flight of USAF B-1 Lancer bombers attempt to intercept the Russian-Iranian flotilla over the Gulf of Aden but are shot down by anti-air missiles.

In Europe, the Polish government plans to violate the ceasefire by funneling the withdrawing Russians through Wrocław to be ambushed by the TDF and GROM special forces. Polish Air Force fighter-attack aircraft destroy several bridges along the Oder River, forcing the Russians into a pitched battle with the TDF militia in the streets of Wrocław where they suffer heavy casualties as they push through the city and across the Oder. Mistaking them as being allied with the Poles, Russian BTR-80s fire on the US 37th Armor units escorting them. President Henry then authorizes lethal action against the Russians in Europe and the US-German forces in Poland begin attacking Sabaneyev's force with combined land and air assets as they retreat through Wrocław. NATO forces continuously pursue the Russians through south-central Poland while TDF pockets carry them through the countryside. President Henry later convinces the president of Taiwan to postpone the country's upcoming elections in order to forestall an imminent Chinese invasion and therefore provide more reinforcements to Africa.

Upon arriving at the port of Djibouti City, Lazar's flotilla is attacked by the submarine USS John Warner, destroying oil tankers and rendering his T-90 battle tanks useless. Nevertheless, Lazar, accompanied by Borbikov, presses on and marches his forces south for the mine. Pascal manages to transmit intelligence of the Russian forces to the DGSE but is captured and executed by Borbikov's Spetsnaz. Apollo's Dragoon platoon also arrives in Djibouti and harasses the Russian columns as they march through Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the USS Boxer lands RCT-5 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Upon receiving intelligence from Apollo's Dragoons, the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion conducts delaying ambushes against the Russians at Moyale, Ethiopia, and Mount Kenya. RCT-5 is then able to establish a hasty defense base at Mrima Hill with support from a French Foreign Legion battalion.

Back in Europe, USAF Warthog pilot Major Ray "Shank" Vance destroys the Russian attack train in Poland and Sabaneyev is forced to move out the rest of his forces overland. A Russian supply train is sent from Belarus to reinforce Sabaneyev but TDF militia led by Sergeant Tobiasz switch the tracks to divert the train's course, causing it to be ambushed and destroyed by PLF PT-91 Twardy tanks. After being shot down by an Su-57, Shank joins Tobiasz's militiamen and assists them in destroying a Russian armor column by coordinating airstrikes from other Warthogs of his squadron. He and Tobiasz develop romantic feelings for each other afterwards. Shank even has a promissory ring forged for her, but he is killed as a PLF platoon attempts to return him to US forces. The Russians eventually reach Belarus and cross the Bug River, where General Sabaneyev leaves a T-14 Armata platoon as a rearguard to fire on the pursuing NATO forces, confident that they will not retaliate. Colonel Grant, however, is enraged after receiving fire from the T-14s and orders the 37th Armor to press the attack into Belarus, violating their neutrality and shocking Sabaneyev. Running desperately low on fuel, Sabaneyev attempts to coerce a supply base in Slonim to surrender their reserves but the Belarusians refuse to comply. The 37th Armor then attacks the base, destroys the remaining Russian armor, and captures Sabaneyev, defeating Operation Red Metal in Europe.

In Kenya, General Lazar's force attacks Mrima Hill and start gradually obliterating the Marine defenses using accurate artillery strikes and frontal assaults with their BTRs while ZSU-23-4 Shilka tanks defend against Marine airstrikes. As the Marines are pressed to their breaking point, however, the USS ''John Warner'' slips through a Russian-Iranian blockade off the Kenyan coast and fires Tomahawk cruise missiles that destroy most of the Russian artillery batteries. Lazar goes missing in action as his BTR is destroyed and is presumed dead by Colonel Borbikov, who assumes command and orders a VDV regiment of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division to launch a final attack. Sensing the dire situation, Apollo leads his Dragoon platoon and a Marine squad on a recon sortie to mark the Russian paratrooper's staging areas for artillery strikes. They then stage a diversionary ambush against a VDV convoy at a large stating area. With the staging areas marked, Connolly gives the Marine artillery batteries Pentagon authorization for a massive "Shake 'n Bake" fire mission that decimates the VDV regiment and destroys many BTRs. With his final attack thwarted, Borbikov orders a reserve Russian artillery battery to shell the mine with the nuclear-tipped artillery shells as a last resort. A wounded Lazar storms in and has Borbikov arrested, who then tries to kill Lazar but is gunned down himself. Lazar negotiates a ceasefire with RCT-5 the next day. The remnant of his force retreats back to Djibouti with orders from Moscow and Operation Red Metal is decisively defeated.

The political fallout causes Rivkin to be ousted from office by the Duma, as Sabaneyev is tried for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. In Warsaw, Poland, Tobiasz is commissioned as a PLF officer and receives the Virtuti Militari medal but is heartbroken by Shank's death. Colonel Grant returns to Germany expecting a court-martial for violating Belarusian neutrality but is instead reassigned to Fort Bliss, he and his subordinates share a celebratory round of beer with their German counterparts. Apollo receives the Legion of Merit and buries Pascal's body in the Saint-Vincent Cemetery in Paris. He and his platoon sergeant then sets about the difficult task of apologizing to the families of their dead Dragoons. In Arlington, Connolly and Griggs are promoted and the former receives the Navy Cross.

Taiwan resumes their presidential election and the Kuomintang win again despite the objections of the Chinese government. The People's Liberation Army then muster for naval invasion of Taiwan. The novel ends as Sea Dragons prepare to infiltrate the country once again.

As described in a film magazine review, Circus Lacy arrives in a border town following the robbery of a mine, finding the father of Ethel Slocum is under suspicion. He protects Slocum from Sheriff Wells and then routes a bully who menaces Ethel. Later he locates the stronghold of the bandits who are led by Red Lucas and captures the leader.

On Halloween night, two couples meet at one of their houses for drinks and hors d'oeuvres before planning on heading out to a massive party.  Dressed in their finest costumes (witch, cowboy, doctor, and Queen Elizabeth I), the hostess brings out a bottle of blue wine she picked up in Peru.  Based on an old Inca recipe, the wine supposedly has truth-telling properties and is brewed from the skins of blue dart tree frogs.  Three of the four drink the wine and the conversation begins to take odd turns.  Some of the "truths" are harmless enough, but progressively get darker and more disturbing.  It gradually becomes clear that the marriage of one of the couples is disintegrating due to a lack of truthfulness, and the other marriage is only held together by lies.

As described in a review in a film magazine, following the robbery of a suburban bank, the small town of Red Rock is terrorized by the appearance of a gang led by Bill Kilgore (Quinn). After failing to impress Carmen Harroway (Grey), who runs a small store, he will not allow the townspeople to trade with her. Bob Vincent (Flynn), a stranger to town, wins the friendship of Carmen and shows that he does not fear Bill. The populace is mystified when Bob becomes friendly with Bill and joins the Kilgore gang. Bill plans the robbery of the train and kidnapping of Carmen. Bob saves her, but she does not trust him, which makes his job more difficult. The townspeople finally arise and defeat the Kilgore gang, and Bob, who is knocked out and left on the railroad track, saves himself and the train. It is revealed that Bob is the president of the bank that was robbed, and now has secured the evidence to arrest Bill Kilgore and his gang. Carmen accepts his invitation to become a banker's wife.

As described in a film magazine review, because he is trying to hold up an irrigation project and also "butt in" on Max Underly's girl, the latter and his gang try to frame Slim Ranthers. He is lured to a ranch at night and shot in the arm. Austin Livingston, the irrigation engineer, tries to have him branded as a cattle thief, but Slim foils all their plans. He even aids Bess Livingston in getting help when her brother is injured by a cougar in time to save his life.

A story of a woman and a man, half of her age being in love with each other despite the fact that they are both tied with someone else.

Kira calls Sarah, and Art traces it to a motel. Sarah gets kidnapped, while Art has a run-in with Daniel that later results in his suspension. Sarah is taken to Mrs. S, who reveals she ran away with Kira and made it look like a kidnapping. They go to a country house owned by two compatriots. Later that night, Kira admits she no longer trusts Mrs. S, so she and Sarah attempt to escape. Mrs. S learns that her compatriots plan to sell Kira to the Proletheans; she kills the two to allow Kira and Sarah to escape. Meanwhile, during Aynsley's funeral, Alison begins to suspect that Donnie was her monitor all along, so she and Felix set a trap for him that confirms her suspicions. Alison returns to drinking from the guilt of Aynsley's death. Cosima and Delphine set up a new lab at the Dyad institute to learn more about the former's condition. Art's partner Angela Deangelis learns of Helena's existence, but when she visits the hospital, Mark has taken Helena away to a ranch owned by Henrik Johanssen, the Prolethean leader who plans to use Helena to create a baby. Henrik has Tomas killed for objecting to his plan.

Risa Shiragi is a popular student at her university known for her beauty, but she has a timid personality, which prevents her from entering relationships with others. One day, after Hiroto Fukami rescues her from a stalker, she becomes attracted to his mature personality and they begin dating. Throughout their relationship, Risa tries to match Fukami's maturity and hopes one day to become a suitable partner for him.

Aerev is living in disgrace after being responsible for the death of their company when the Queen recalls them to the capital of Greykeep. She grants them a second chance, makes them commander of the Wolf Guard and orders them to investigate several incidents that seem to indicate that the God of Light is again trying to enter the world. Aerev discovers that a masked woman working for a dark elven group called the Crescent has been stealing the souls of humans, dwarves and dark elves alike.

Aerev goes on to help with a rebellion against a racist dwarven demagogue, Arakys, who preaches violence against all other races. They learn that the God of Light needs four Corrupted, souls that wittingly or unwittingly serve it, to bring forth "Jaku", the end of the world. With Rondar Lacairne dead at the hands of Tahar, this leaves Aerev with the task of finding and eliminating the other three. The group tries to identify the other Corrupted but the masked woman interrupts the ritual and the Crescent attacks Greykeep. Aerev chases the attackers to nearby King's Crossing and deals with them but the masked woman escapes. They then lay siege to Windholme and take out Arakys, only to discover that Isgrimm, the Circle Mage that served with Tahar, was controlling Arakys. Afterwards they travel to meet with a former subordinate from Empyria who blames Aerev for his family's death.

Having dealt with both Corrupted, they discover that the Crescent is searching for the Temple of Light which contains a portal to allow the God of Light to enter the world. Aerev manages to defeat the Crescent and the masked woman, only to be betrayed by their companion Raith who struck a deal with the God of Light in exchange for being sent to a reality in which his family did not die. Aerev and his companions enter the God of Light's domain and after a series of challenges, the God of Light offers Aerev the choice of living in a new reality in which they never failed or to face the consequences of their mistake. If the former is chosen, the game ends immediately. The latter choice sees Aerev wake up in Greykeep and learning that the whole regiment followed them and Jaku was averted.

The film follows a Moroccan family residing in Jaffa. The grandmother, Zohara (Rita Shukrun), who immigrated from Morocco in the 1950s, is a seer, and many members of the Moroccan community flock to her, so she can dream for them and advise them on life decisions. In return, they pay her generously. When she dreams, Zohara also sees images of her childhood in the Atlas mountains. Zohara is growing old, and tiring, and she puts pressure on her daughter Simone (Osnat Yerushalmi) to replace her. Simone wants no part of these old-country rituals, and opens a restaurant, which she struggles to maintain. It seems, however, that the "dreaming" is not willing to let her go, and she suffers from what appears to be narcolepsy, and takes medication to control her inability to fall asleep and her resulting bouts of obsessive cleaning.

Zohar (Meital Gal Souissa), Simone's daughter, gets along with her grandmother but sees the dreaming as a curiosity, and wants to write a school project on narcolepsy. She shows no aptitude for dreaming, though her grandmother Zohara continues to check on her when she sleeps, to see if her eyelids move. Simone's husband, Jacqui (Yoram Toledano), is at the intersection of the women in the family: He likes Zohara's old-school mentality, and teams up with her to get Simone to abandon her restaurant, but at the same time, he does not want her to take her mother's place as a seer.

Things become even more complicated when Fannie (Hanna Azoulay Hasfari), Simone's estranged sister, arrives unexpectedly from Paris. Fannie arouses feelings and memories from the past - some good, such as awakening Simone's passion for cooking, others less so, as the possibility of an illicit relationship between her and Jacqui is hinted at. The tumult in the family slowly reveals Zohara's tragic history as a child bride, and places the conflict, which originated between Zohara and Fannie, as an opposition between tradition and modernity.

The game is set in the near future. Terrorists have stolen nuclear weapons and Russia tries to retrieve them back.

Andrey Rodin was trained 15 years ago in a special school of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), where agents were trained from teenagers. In the early 2000s, the project was closed, and the main character has long settled in one of the European cities and no longer remembers Russia.

Once he picks up the phone and hears the voice of his father, who is considered dead. He informs Andrey Rodin that he is open for hunting. Unknown services are trying to destroy him and he can only escape. Andrey Rodin now has a desire not only to survive, but also to find his father again. To the aid of the protagonist comes his first love, Masha, who also has an interest in everything that happens. Andrey is getting more and more involved in espionage game, not realizing the true scale.

Dr. Damon Cameron is shot while leaving his laboratory in route to a state medical banquet where he planned to reveal his new invention. At the time his twin brother Ted is keeping an appointment with Victor Devereaux and Franz Lang, colleagues in his importing business, at a local club. Devereaux angerly warns Ted to stay away from his wife. A brain surgeon believes he might be able to save Damon, but there will be severe memory loss. Police captain Monihan and Sergeant Harris have informed Cameron's daughter Dale and brother Ted of the shooting. With the police captain's permission, Mike Kent, a newspaper writer and crime investigator, searches Damon's laboratory, but finds nothing. Mike meets with one of Ted's business partners, Hyder Ali from India, at the Safari Club's steam room. They both become suspects when Victor Devereaux dies hidden by the steam.

Olga Kaminoff arrives at Devereaux's funeral claiming to be the love of his life, and when she asks to see the body, they find the coffin empty. When the body is found in a bay the autopsy reveals the cause of death was poison. Monihan arrests Lang, as Kent suspects a connection between Damon's invention and Devereaux's murder. Monihan arranges a meeting with all the suspects, Dale, and Ted. While watching a home movie of a hunting trip in India, Dale notices that an ivory elephant of value has disappeared from the mantel. Lang is killed by the same poison that killed Devereaux, cobra venom. Ali is then found dead with the ivory elephant nearby. When Damon recovers enough to reveal that his invention is an insulin hypo-spray, he also mentions that only his brother knew of it. Mike figures that Ted is the criminal, but Ted then takes Dale hostage with threats to poison her as well. Mike and the cops outwit Ted and capture him; then Olga is revealed to be mystery story writer. After the murders are solved Mike and Dale realize that they appear to have a bit of romantic chemistry.

In the 21st century, a worldwide flood caused by multiple earthquakes along the New Madrid fault line destroys most of the United States as magic returns to the world. Dinétah becomes an independent nation. Certain Navajo people develop clan powers based on their ancestral tribes.

On Maggie Hoskie's sixteenth birthday, her grandmother is murdered by witches and monsters. This traumatic event activates her clan powers, giving Maggie superhuman speed and a propensity for killing. She attracts the attention of the immortal monster-slayer Neizghání and becomes his apprentice. Neizghání trains her in the art of combat, but abandons her when he perceives that she is becoming too violent. Maggie becomes a bounty hunter and monster-slayer. She seeks information about a new breed of monster from Tah, a local medicine man. Tah tells her that the monster was created by a powerful witch. He asks her to work with his grandson Kai Arviso, who also possesses clan powers, to destroy the witch.

Maggie and Kai retrieve information about a relic known as a "fire drill", which may be related to the monsters. She is visited by Mąʼii, the Coyote; Mąʼii tells her that the drill belongs to Mósí, a cat goddess. He also requests that she complete a task for him, giving her magical rings. Tah's hogan burns down; Maggie suspects Neizghání. In the carnage, Maggie and Kai kill a corrupt police officer. They seek shelter with Grace Goodacre, a local bar owner. Maggie, Kai, and Grace's children begin working together.

Mósí promises to give the fire drill to the winner of a duel. Maggie agrees and is ordered to fight Neizghání. He brands her and almost kills her, but she is rescued by Kai. Maggie seeks revenge against Neizghání, believing him to be responsible for the death of Tah and the creation of the monsters. They return to Black Mesa, where Maggie last saw Neizghání.

As Kai and the Goodacres are ambushed by monsters on Black Mesa, Mąʼii appears and reveals to Maggie that he controls the monsters. He was responsible for the murder of her grandmother, leading to the activation of her clan powers; he was also responsible for Maggie's duel with Neizghání. He wants to forge Maggie into a powerful warrior. Furious at this revelation, Maggie kills him and returns to the battlefield, where Neizghání has defeated the monsters and is now threatening Kai, whom he considers to be a rival. Neizghání offers Maggie a choice: fight and die now, or betray Kai and return to him. Maggie kills Kai, believing that his clan powers will resurrect him. She then uses Mąʼii's rings to bind Neizghání, temporarily incapacitating him and removing his powers. At Maggie's trailer, Tah and Maggie wait for Kai to return.

The film tells about the brave daughter of a merchant who decides to join the Red Army.

In Verderonne, a small village in the Oise, it is the first day of summer and Claire Darling wakes up persuaded to live her last day. She then decides to empty her house and sells everything without distinction, Tiffany lamps with the collection pendulum. The beloved objects echo his tragic and flamboyant life. This latest madness brings back Marie, her daughter, whom she has not seen for 20 years.

The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.

24 Hours of Le Mans, 1955. 300,000 spectators are in attendance. Mercedes-Benz's Silver Arrows, fielding an international all-star team of drivers, are the favorites to win. For their team manager, Alfred Neubauer, it is his final race before retirement. As such, he hopes to win big, and is pinning his hopes on his first team of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss. The team's second car, driven by Pierre Levegh and John Fitch, is to support them and make sure they keep the lead. Fitch is disappointed that they aren't being trusted to take the lead spot, but Levegh assures him that they could still be the winning car, as "anything can happen in 24 hours."

The Le Mans start sees early trouble for the Mercedes team when Fangio's car stalls at the start, leaving Levegh as the primary car. As Fitch watches, Levegh tries to catch the leading Jaguar of Mike Hawthorn, while Fangio struggles to make up for lost time. At 6:26 p.m., as the Mercedes drivers are preparing to switch for the next leg, a huge fireball erupts in the stands across from the pits. Fangio, coming in to switch with Moss, reports that the source is Levegh's car, which has left the track and crashed into the crowd, killing eighty-four people.

When he observes the carnage, Fitch urges Neubauer to withdraw Moss's car, which is now running second, but Neubauer is reluctant to abandon his final race. Finally, in the early light of dawn, just as Moss takes the lead, Neubauer makes the decision to pull Mercedes-Benz out of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, declaring, "We are racing drivers, we're not monsters."

The play follows important members of the Committee of Safety (a Puritan body that governed England in 1659 before the restoration of Charles II), who Behn portrays as variously inept, greedy or lecherous. Two of the most conniving members, Lord Lambert and Lord Fleetwood, plot against each other to seize the crown.

Behn also has two romantic subplots, each involving an unhappily married aristocratic woman and a dashing Cavalier. Lady Lambert (Lambert's wife and the former mistress of Oliver Cromwell. whose widow confronts her in an early scene) is initially a Roundhead but embraces the Royalist cause after falling in love with Loveless. The second woman, Lady Desbro, is a secret Royalist who loves John Freeman.

At the end of the play, the King's forces conquer the City of London. Lambert is imprisoned in the Tower of London and Lady Desbro's older husband dies of fright, freeing both women to reunite with their lovers.

The players will take over the role of an expert, that was recently hired by the ''Neurostalgia Institute'' to treat their patients in a mind jacking process known as ''neuroprobing''. Every patient there suffers from a form of repressed mental trauma. In order to help them resolve their issues, neuroprobing will show the recollections of the repressed memories so that the trauma can be cured. By advancing through and being nearer to the goal, things around will change in hostile ways as their minds are fighting back.

A white orphan, Jannie, is dropped off at an orphanage run by a priest and nun in Lesotho, Southern Africa. The boy befriends another orphan, Tsepo, who is black. While playing with a tractor tyre, Jannie rolls down a cliff, severely injuring himself. During this ordeal, he has flashbacks to his parents dying. Jannie is evacuated to New York via a USAF mercy flight, to have his kidneys operated on, due to his injuries. He has permanent renal damage, requiring him to take pills for the rest of his life. The local village raises money so Father Alberto and Tsepo can go to New York. At the airport, Tsepo is mistaken for a school student and lugged onto a school bus, before escaping the school bus in Harlem. Upon meeting a Zulu-speaker, Tsepo is taken to the police and reunited with Father Alberto, before reuniting with Jannie, and exploring New York. They then go back to Lesotho.

In 1851, McGlue, an American sailor, wakes up to find himself chained down in the hold of the boat he works on. He is too drunk to remember what happened, but everyone is saying he murdered his shipmate, Johnson. This doesn't make sense to McGlue, who considered Johnson his friend, and has no memory of killing him. However, McGlue's history of alcohol abuse, violence, and a traumatic head injury leave him uncertain about what happened. As the ship completes its route back to Salem, Massachusetts, McGlue's inebriation is replaced by agonizing withdrawals. Awaiting trial in Salem, McGlue recalls the history of his friendship with Johnson and gradually recalls the events of the night he supposedly murdered him.

A friend of the protagonist forgets seven notebooks at the local schoolhouse but can't get them himself because he'd be late for "eating practice", so he asks the protagonist to fetch them. Once the player arrives, Baldi, one of the teachers, quizzes the player with simple math problems every time they find a notebook (three per book), with the promise of a prize if they answer all of them correctly. Baldi is also very easy to anger and, after presenting the player with impossible math problems, will start to chase them when they inevitably fail to answer them correctly. The protagonist is forced to continue to search for all the other notebooks while also avoiding other students and various obstacles. If the player chooses to answer every question wrong, they will experience an alternative ending which includes a distorted version of Baldi and another hidden character asking the player to destroy the game, before the game closes itself.

Rosario's world collapses when her daughter, Ruby, is kidnapped. To recover her, she will have to accept to collaborate with the police, being part of an elite squad dedicated to the capture of El Ángel. Rosario must work against the clock and with the feelings to the surface, because in the neighborhood nothing is what it seems.

In Pandan, Antique, 14-year old student John Denver Cabungcal studies in Sta. Ines Catholic High School. On February 18, after practicing a dance for Director's Day, he goes to a classroom to take his bag and leave. A peer named Carlos Samulde immediately accuses him of stealing Makoy's iPad, which was supposedly in the classroom. When John denies, a fight ensues, and another peer records John beating Carlos, posted on Facebook without context. Having overheard the plan, John learns that the post has gone viral, with unanimous condemnation against him and his abroad father expressing disappointment.

The next day, Makoy's mother takes this to the principal's and police's notice. John continues pleading innocent, but Carlos argues the rest otherwise in convincing fashion, conspiring that this stems from Makoy's bullying towards John. When John's mother is made aware of this, his bad discipline record was noted. She nevertheless sides with her son, saying that when he lies, his nose swells. The school announces an investigation team, and more hate is being directed towards John, culminating in several students beating him up.

With more bullying and national broadcasts, John's depression intensifies. The local mayor speculates that he is a troubled teen. The next day, John learns that Carlos edited a video discussing John to make it seemingly supporting the notion that he stole the iPad. He is brought to the police station, where he tearfully pleads innocent, prompting the policeman to scold him, claiming all evidences point him as the culprit. He flees to his house. As police approach, he commits suicide by hanging, while Director's Day is celebrated. His mother questions his presence, walking home after being reassured that the school will contact police for updates.

The novel is structured as a story within a story. A 21st-century academic, Dr Voth, discovers a manuscript that claims to be the confessions of Jack Sheppard. The manuscript reveals that Sheppard (like Voth) is a transgender man, and describes his experience of transitioning gender. It also reveals that Bess is of South Asian (Lascar) descent and that she grew up in the Fens. The manuscript documents Sheppard's love affair with Bess, their criminal escapades, their memories of childhood, and their run-ins with authority. Voth's annotations to the manuscript begin as scholarly comments on its likely authenticity but soon become more personal, comically documenting his recent break-up and his difficulties at work. The novel offers satirical commentary on historical and contemporary political issues, including over-policing and surveillance, racism, the dredging of the Fens, and managerialism in 21st-century universities.

In fictionalizing Sheppard's story, the novel continues a tradition established by Daniel Defoe, John Gay (''The Beggar's Opera''), Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (''The Threepenny Opera'').

The plot revolves around Akio Inaba (Yudai Chiba) who rekindles his bond with his retired and distant father Hirotaro (Ren Osugi) through the online role-playing game ''Final Fantasy XIV''. Akio's plan is to connect with his father in-game and that it will expand into the real world.

On a stormy night in a Miami police station, Kendra Ellis-Connor is waiting for a report on the whereabouts of her son Jamal, who has suddenly disappeared. She asks for help from Officer Paul Larkin, a rookie cop who can't tell her anything about the incident. Due to both protocol and a lack of knowledge of the incident, he tells her that he has to wait for Lieutenant John Stokes, the AM shift liaison officer. Her estranged husband, FBI agent Scott Connor, arrives at the station, demanding to know where Jamal is.

Larkin is able to tell Scott that Jamal and two other black men were pulled over by police. The only other thing he can tell her is the fact that Jamal's car had a provocative bumper sticker about violence against cops. This revelation develops into a long argument between Kendra and Scott, where they confront their tumultuous marriage and their experiences raising a biracial son in a privileged community. Kendra repeatedly brings up how Jamal feels depressed and isolated as one of the very few black men at his school (referring to himself as "the face of the race"), while Scott says that Jamal should have known better than to present himself like "a gangsta."

Larkin returns and says that Jamal was with two other black men, one of whom has a warrant for misdemeanor drug possession. After this discovery, Kendra and Scott engage in a lengthy, contentious discussion about Jamal growing up in an environment of racial tension, specifically pertaining to Kendra's own experiences as a black woman and her fears of a possible confrontation between Jamal and police. Scott says that Jamal should not have been hanging out with these men in the first place, prompting Kendra to reveal that Jamal was angry at Scott for leaving them, which is why he placed the bumper sticker on his car. Scott then receives a video from his brother, which shows a recording of the traffic stop Jamal was involved in. In it, a police officer fires at a fleeing suspect as a bystander records it.

The video sends Scott over the edge, physically threatening Larkin to know where his son is. At this time, Lieutenant Stokes arrives and places Scott under arrest after Scott shoves him. After booking Scott, Stokes tells Kendra that three black males were taken into custody in connection with the traffic stop, unable to tell if one of them was Jamal. After Scott is released after being given a "promise to appear" court order, Kendra reveals that Jamal left the house after an argument with her.

Stokes is able to obtain a full report of the incident: Bell, Rolle, and Jamal were driving around in Liberty City, where Bell (who was driving the car) stopped to purchase a 'nickel bag' of marijuana. Rodney Banks, a black police officer, witnessed the exchange and stopped the car. After both Bell and Rolle exited the vehicle to confront Banks, Bell fled after Banks had trained his gun on both men. Jamal at that point had exited the vehicle, trying to position himself with hands on the hood of the car. Banks proceeded to fire three shots at Bell. One of the bullets (either a stray shot or ricochet) accidentally hits Jamal in the head, killing him instantly. Kendra and Scott are devastated, and Stokes gives them a moment, and they can only wail in agony. In the final scene, Scott exclaims "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" either due to his heart murmur or possibly alluding to the killing of Eric Garner.

Fifteen-year-old Cole is from Detroit and always getting in trouble at school, so his mom drives him to Philadelphia to live with his estranged father, Harp. Dropping him off on Harp's North Philadelphia block, she quickly drives away. A neighbor, Nessie, recognizes Cole, and tells him his father is at the stables.

When Harp brings him in the house, Cole finds a horse standing in the living room, and the fridge and cupboards empty. He says he'll only stay one night. The next day when trying to call his mom, he runs into his older cousin, Smush, who drives him around and gets him some food. The two stay out all night. When Smush drops Cole off at Harp's the next morning, Harp won't let Cole in because Cole has been hanging out with Smush, a drug dealer. Cole refuses to accept Harp's rules, stalks off and asks various neighbors, including Nessie, whether he can stay at their house. The answer is always no. He ends up crawling through a window and finds himself face to face with a horse. At first, he's terrified, but he soon realizes that the horse doesn't intend to hurt him.

The next morning, Nessie finds Cole asleep in the stall with the horse standing nearby. It is revealed that the horse he has bunked with, Boo, has a reputation of not letting anyone near him. No one has been able to tame him- in fact, it could have killed him. Instead, it let him spend the night in the stall with him.

Cole tells the other riders he wants to learn how to ride, and is told he first must help with the stable work. He spends the day learning how to efficiently shovel manure under the instructions of Paris, a rider who uses a wheelchair. He continues to spend time at the stables and secretly with Smush as well. Harp later has a surprise for Paris- a saddle that allows Paris to ride his horse.

Cole gets upset and heads back to Harp's. Harp finds him there, and they get into an argument: Cole feels that Harp gives love to everyone except him. Harp tells him he also used to deal, and went to prison before Cole was born. Harp tells Cole he named him after jazz musician John Coltrane, a fellow Philadelphian who grew up without a father, because he wanted his son to be able to succeed as well.

Smush used to be a rider, too, but began dealing drugs to save up money to buy a ranch out West. One night Boo gets loose and the riders find him in a field. They surround him, but Harp tells Cole he's the only one who can calm Boo. Cole hesitantly approaches and is able to throw the reins over Boo and mount him.

Smush and Cole set up a drug deal that goes bad, and another dealer tries to kidnap Smush. The cops appear, chasing Smush and Cole, but they escape. Smush says they almost have enough money to move West, but Cole says he is done with that life. At the stables, Animal Control has arrived to seize all the horses due to neighbor complaints. Harp says there's nothing they can do, and Cole calls him a coward. Cole finds Smush, and they go on another drug deal. Smush is shot to death by a kid on a bike, and Cole runs.

Harp searches for Cole, eventually finding him hiding in the stables. Washing the blood off Cole's hands, he tells him Smush needs a proper memorial. That night they break into the municipal stables and free the horses. Everyone rides their horses slowly through the neighborhood to the cemetery, where Cole places Smush's cowboy boots on his grave, then stands on the back of his horse for the first time.

Not long afterward, they all watch as the stables are demolished, but Harp says they will keep riding even without their stables. Cole's mom returns to Philadelphia, and Harp thanks her for sending Cole to live with him.

Part 1

The story begins in 1996 after Lomu's meteoric rise to the sporting world, where footages of Jonah Lomu trampling Mike Catt marked his first major moment that launched him to international super-stardom. It helped him move his partner, Tanya Rutter, from South Africa to New Zealand, who later became his first wife. However, his immediate playing future in New Zealand is unknown, and with the debut of Super 12, he signed to join Eric Rush back in Auckland Blues. Moments after signing his first contract, Lomu found blood in his urine, which signalled his first sign of his health troubles ahead.

The movie then had a flashback in South Auckland in 1987, where a rapidly-growing Jonah (12) grew out of his church uniform that he just got from last week, and much like devout Christians, Jonah has been taught to never wander outdoors and play or work on Sabbath Sundays, but their cousin, Drew, managed to lure him away to hang out with his bicycle gang, where Jonah managed to steal a bicycle of his own from a motorbike gang leader. Despite not being the instigator, Jonah was more severely punished as he was the oldest in the family, and his anger and resentment toward his strict father grew. It drove him to join the Crips bicycle gang, which is Drew's gang. However, his first test mission to hide a knife failed, as he was busted by the cops. He also accidentally stabbed himself on the thigh while running into a ditch, and lied about him being attacked by Bloods. However, Semisi still found out, leaving him disappointed and wished he left Jonah in Tonga.

A few days later, Drew was killed in another rivalry gang fight. Days later, Hepi convinced Semisi to send the boys to Wesley College in Pukekohe in 1988, despite them not being able to make ends meet. Throughout his third form, his raw and natural talent for sports was slowly discovered by Mr. Chris Ginter, the college's disciplinary teacher and PE teacher, having gained first place in long jump, discus, javelin, high jump and shot put, despite not entering decathlon outright. He also went on to win the 100m sprint, which gained him positive popularity in the school.

He was recruited to play first XI rugby union in a traditionally rugby union powerhouse, but Jonah initially declined, since Jonah grew up in South Auckland, where touch rugby and rugby league dominates the area. A few months after, he left school grounds without permission to play rugby league for Mt. Wellington U-21, which caused him to be expelled, but later relented since Jonah's home situation is bad.

Jonah started his rugby career as a flanker, lock and halfback due to his size and strength, but as he learns the difference between the two codes, and gaining respect from the seniors. After a time-skip to 1993, when Jonah became a senior at 18, he was already a try-scoring lock, and already had a taste of Sevens rugby, where his agent and manager, Phil Kingsley Jones, made first promises of his future.

Time returns to 1996 after his blood urine, he had doubts about marrying Tanya due to his parents' disapproval, so he went public in Paul Holmes' talk show, but after being hounded by paparazzi, he finally snapped and punched a photographer.

A month later, he won his first Super 12 title with The Blues despite only scoring 3 tries, and met John Hart, but a few weeks later, first signs of his illness showed. He had a lacerated shin that didn't heal, and losing aerobic fitness. He struggled to keep his kidney problems a secret from the coaches and Eric Rush, his roommate. While the initial set of urine tests were lost, the next set came back inconclusive, so Jonah decided to hold off until he manages to play in 1996 All Blacks Tour of South Africa. After being left out of the first match against the home team, he went out with the team, but was sucker-punched in a random attack. A few months later, a nephrology specialist cleared him for Barbarians tour in the UK, but he had the worst outing thus far with the All Blacks, having committed 3 turnovers, and failing to break away from anybody. He was formally diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome late in 1996.

When he started receiving treatment in 1997, he watched an old tape of him playing in 1994, the year when Laurie Mains suggested him to move from lock/flanker to a left winger, a trial in Counties Manukau was a successful experiment. However, since rugby in New Zealand was not a professional sport at the time, he briefly worked at ASB Bank.

In 1997, his health condition improved enough that his kidney problems are in remission, and has made his return for the All Blacks, but his relationship with Tanya soured, as he cheated on her, and was in a relationship with Fiona, a PA, leading Lomu to cede most possessions and caring rights their pet dog, Toby Jack.

The movies jumps back to 1994, when Jonah impressed in the Possibles vs. Probables trial match., which leads to his debut in Christchurch's Lancaster Park against France. Part one ends with Jonah practising the Maori haka while overlooking the Christchurch skyline.

Part 2

After a shaky debut in 1994, and struggling to adjust to the move to left wing, Lomu vents his frustrations to Phil Kinglsey Jones, and feels dejected when he returns to ASB Bank to work a day later. Despite being dropped, he receives a fax from Sydney Bulldogs, an Australian professional rugby league team. Apprehensive about the move to Australia, he seeks advice from Eric Rush, who suggested him to treat the 1995 North-South Prossibles vs. Probables trials match as a swansong, in case if he did decide to switch code and get a professional contract. After Jonah's great performance, however, Eric and Frank suggested him to stay with the All Blacks, then make his mark in the 1995 World Cup, so there would be more options for him after the Cup.

Before the World Cup, however, his fitness already came into question, as Laurie Mains was known to build on the team's cardio fitness and endurance, two things that Lomu lacks. He initially brushed it off as he isn't 'built for long-distance', which may be true, but the blood test already showed impaired renal function while Jonah's medical insurance was being processed. He also put on some weight, despite showing no physical changes.

Time skips to 1999, ahead of the World Cup knockout stages, incidentally against France, the same opponent he faced on his debut. With his kidney problems in remission, he was in the best shape he could be. However, after the team was knocked out, despite him scoring 2 tries, Fiona was too scared to see Grant Kereama, who would become Jonah's kidney donor years later. He was hassled by some regular customers, fearing an attack, Nadine Quirk's father pulled him aside and treated him to a pasta meal. Nadine later becomes Jonah's third and final wife. In 2000, Teina was attacked by a crazed female fan in Wellington, leading him to never party out at night much.

Time returns to 1995, Lomu actually shows first signs of his kidney problems after gaining weight by retaining more fluid. When the team lands in South Africa for 1995 Rugby World Cup, the press is still sceptical about his position change to left wing, having started off as a flanker. To reaffirm his commitment, he shaved his eyebrow with the 11 gap, the squad number for a left-winger.

Time returns to 2002, when Fiona was asking about Jonah's wedding plans with Teina, it fell through 2 weeks before that wedding, and like last time, Lomu ceded his house and cars to her, while he moved in with Fiona. While Kingsley tried to make a damage-control press again, Fiona, a more astute businesswoman with a business degree, saw through him trying to siphon money out of Jonah. They let Kingsley walk, and he was relieved of his duties as Jonah's manager after a decade.

While Fiona was looking through a new contract deal, Jonah felt unwell, a checkup revealed that .a dialysis treatment actually strains the heart, so while his kidney may be better, a heart attack may still be possible. When he started, he met Penina, a fellow diabetic, but throughout his treatment, only Frank Bunce saw him, but even he was taken aback by the equipment and Jonah's plight. A few weeks later, as Penina passed away, he decided to propose to Fiona. A few weeks later, he returned to play for Wellington Hurricanes in 2003. He already lost his explosive power, and can only be a holding defender as he cannot afford to perform full strength solo tackles. Those are compounded by his minute restrictions. He later conceded that he needed to consider retirement.

Time returns to 1995, and footages of the real Jonah against Ireland was shown, where he scored two tries on his World Cup debut match, and Eric Rush answered most answers for him, as he became increasingly uncomfortable with dealing with the press, so Chris Ginter conducted a pre-recorded interview with him. There, Jonah recounted his rough childhood, and fully disclosed he physically fought back against his father. Fearing that the media could backlash, Jonah was simply telling the raw and ugly truth.

Time skips to 2004, with his rugby career nearly over, he was playing Grand Turismo 4 on PlayStation 2 and trying to get Fiona's jacket, he tripped, but was unable to feel his feet. Having lost 90% of sensations on his feet, he let pride get in the way and tried to walk down stairs, and tripped again. He later conceded that he needed a wheelchair, and he lost the ability to drive because he no longer has the ability to sense which pedal he was pressing. Grant Kereama still offered to donate his kidney after finding they both have O+-type blood, and other test also came back showing the matches, so Grant could become a live donor for Jonah.

Four months after the transplant, where the transplanted kidney is placed inside the rib cage, so it can be protected from the tackles and hits. In 2005, he made his return at Twickenham to play in an invitational match with Martin Johnson, but he dislocated his left shoulder in a tackle, and his glenohumeral joint was worn off.

In 2007, Jonah met Nadene in a club, but just like his breakup with Tanya, Jonah tried to deny and ignore everything, but a more astute Fiona tried to reason with him, and also tried to convince him to take it easy and retire from rugby. Like last times, he gave away the house and cars, except for his original Ford Mustang. When he drove off, he lost control, but he didn't crash.

A few months later, he visits John's family house, but he left Nadine sleeping in his car. A few weeks later, she was working in a night club, and as she is a teetotal, she thought her juice was spiked, she is correct that the juice was spike with Rohypnol, a powerful sleeping pill, but it turns out that she is pregnant, even when Jonah was deemed infertile, and Nadine had one of her ovaries removed. Unlike the last marriages, Jonah's family was pleased for Jonah, and are happy that they are finally becoming grandparents, and are receptive to the fact that the children will grow up in Wellington, Nadine's hometown. As the family was extended, they finally got married.

Time returns to 1995, after the quarter final win, the night that was on Sean Fitzpatrick's birthday, where the story of him meeting Tanya was revealed, but the first meeting was cut short as she was led out by her friends. He then came to a bar session, where he discovered that he was on Rupert Murdoch's radar, which could launch his brand and increase media exposure, as Murdoch is a media mogul that later launched rugby into the profession era, as players used to be on semi-professional or even amateur status, hence many players needed to work in regular jobs to stay afloat. There, he and Tanya faced racial profiling by the South African police during Apartheid era, but when the cop realised the car was not a stolen car, and realised it was Jonah, he asked for an autograph. He was happy that he finally had no need to fear the cops due to his star power. In the semi final against England, real-life footages of Lomu trampling Mike Catt, and going on to score 4 tries was shown.

However, time skips to 2011, when a frail Jonah is on his way to hospital in Auckland, because the body rejected Grant's donated kidney, and was resuscitated after he went into renal failure. He had outlived his 10 years life expectancy from the start of dialysis.

In 2015, footages of Jonah's final public appearances were shown, where Prince Harry presented the World Cup in 2015 after the team defended the World Cup in England. As he left the locker room, his friends, family and coaches worked around him. As he sees his current wife and his children, he morphed back into his younger self, and stepping out onto the field. As the screen darkens, his short obituary was shown.

Steve, a ladies' man, and Dennis, a married father, work together as paramedics in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are called out to a series of cases where people are either dead in strange circumstances or whose stories are incoherent. The cases are linked to a new designer drug called Synchronic.

At a domestic abuse call, they find a stabbing victim and an old sword embedded in the wall. While Steve tends to an injured man, he is accidentally pierced by a dirty needle. Being tested for possible infections leads to the discovery of cancer in his underdeveloped and non-calcified pineal gland. The second call, a burn victim, is a completely burned body. The third call is a bite from a venomous snake no longer found in the area.

On a call to a drug party, they find a dead boy, and a girl says there was a third girl, Brianna, Dennis's teenage daughter. The next morning. Steve goes to a local smoke shop and buys all the Synchronic, which he learns is discontinued. As he leaves, Steve declines a man's offer to pay triple its worth and stays firm even when the man ups his offer to almost 20 times what he paid. The next morning, Steve catches the man breaking into his house. He says he is the chemist who created Synchronic from a red flower that grows in the California desert, which alters the pineal gland's perception of time. Children, who have a non-calcified pineal gland, pass through time. Adults seem to only partially move through time like ghosts.

During their next call, a victim of a sword fight dies. Steve, who is a fan of the history of science, quotes Albert Einstein on the meaninglessness of time when faced with his friend's death. Under the stress of Brianna's disappearance, Dennis's marriage deteriorates. When he learns someone has been stealing morphine, he misinterprets Steve's poor health and use of painkillers as evidence he is a morphine addict. The two come to blows while treating a shouting patient.

At home, Steve takes Synchronic, travels back to when the area was covered in a swamp, and is attacked by a conquistador. Steve records his observations, deducing that Synchronic allows traveling backwards through time for seven minutes in the same geographical location. When he travels back to the Ice Age, he realizes that his location when taking the pill determines the destination year.

During his next attempt, Steve takes back his dog, Hawking, to the 1920s where he is chased by the Ku Klux Klan. Moving from the original location, he loses Hawking and is unable to bring him back. Taking another Synchronic pill where Brianna disappeared, he discovers several tribal men, who chase him up a tree. He later learns from one of Brianna's friends that she may have wandered off before taking Synchronic. He also realizes that touching objects can anchor someone to the object's time period.

Steve and Dennis talk at a bar. Dennis, who has taken his life for granted, believes he is headed to a divorce. Steve tells Dennis about his cancer, and the two reconcile. Their driver, Tom, was stealing the morphine. At the graveyard of Steve's family, Steve shows Dennis the videos of his time travel, and they deduce that Brianna may have left a message for them to find in the park. Steve travels back in time from there and finds himself on a battlefield during the War of 1812. He is shot in the leg while searching for Brianna. Upon finding her in a trench, he gives her his last pill. Steve praises her idea to mark a boulder, but she says she did not. At the boulder, they are intercepted by a looter who, believing Steve is a runaway slave, threatens to kill them both. Steve distracts the looter as Brianna returns safely to the present. As Dennis hugs Brianna, Steve appears ghost-like in the present and shakes Dennis' hand.

Golden gloves champion Henry Jackson turns professional and gets scheduled into a tough match. Days before the match, he finds an old school friend of his, Frank Harrison, unaware that Frank is betting heavily on his loss. Frank sets Henry up with beautiful Jerry Jordan, who is instructed to get him drunk and impede him in any way possible, due to Frank blackmailing her. On the day of the fight she slips him a sleeping drug.

The film takes place in a city populated by cheerful workers who suddenly find themselves enslaved to strangers. But not for long. Together with the forest partisans, they began to fight for freedom...

Living on the run, a young boy and his father are found by their sinister pursuers. Forced to roll dice to determine his fate, the father is murdered after rolling double ones, but his son escapes.

Twenty years later, the boy has adopted the name "Snake Eyes" and is discovered by Yakuza boss Kenta Takamura, competing in an underground fighting circuit. With the promise of help finding his father's killer, he agrees to join Kenta's criminal organization, and is asked to execute a man who infiltrated the gang, but helps him escape instead.

The man is Kenta's cousin Tommy, who reveals that they were both in line to lead the Arashikage clan, an ancient ninja society. Banished after trying to have Tommy killed, Kenta still seeks control of the clan. Grateful to Snake Eyes, Tommy brings him to his family's ''dōjō'' in Tokyo to be initiated. Tommy's grandmother Sen, the clan's current leader, agrees to let Snake Eyes undergo three trials to prove his worth.

In his first test, Snake Eyes is unable to seize a bowl of water from the clan's Hard Master; realizing this is a test of humility, he succeeds by respectfully asking instead. Unbeknownst to the clan, Snake Eyes has been tasked by Kenta with betraying Tommy; their escape was staged to allow Snake Eyes to win Tommy's trust, and to steal the clan’s sacred "Jewel of the Sun".

The clan’s head of security, Akiko, distrusts Snake Eyes, but he accompanies her and Tommy on a raid of Kenta's gang. They learn through an ally, Major Scarlett O'Hara, that Kenta is allied with the terrorist organization Cobra. Snake Eyes confronts Kenta and his Cobra liaison, the Baroness, who warns that stealing the jewel is the only way they will lead him to his father's killer.

The clan's Blind Master administers Snake Eyes' second test, a vision of his father, and he bonds with Akiko after telling her about his father’s death. For his final trial, he faces the clan's gigantic, sacred anacondas. Sensing he is not truly pure of heart, the snakes attack, but he is saved by Akiko. Snake Eyes conceals his deception, but is expelled from the clan. He bids farewell to Tommy as blood brothers, but breaks into the clan’s temple that night, subduing Akiko and stealing the jewel.

He delivers it to Kenta, who agrees to give it to Cobra once he has used it to take over the Arashikage. Snake Eyes receives his reward — his father's killer, a former Cobra agent — and forces him to roll his own dice, but spares his life and returns to warn the Arashikage. Tommy puts aside his anger when Snake Eyes comes to his aid, as Kenta uses the jewel's fiery magical powers to lay waste to the ''dōjō''. Scarlett arrives to fight off Kenta’s men, but she and Sen are captured.

A power-hungry Kenta refuses to hand over the jewel, prompting the Baroness to agree to a temporary alliance with Scarlett and the clan. With his men defeated, Kenta loses the jewel to Tommy, who tries to use its power to kill him. Kenta escapes, but Snake Eyes traps them both in the anaconda pit, where Kenta is devoured. The snakes now judge Snake Eyes as pure of heart, worthy of joining the clan.

Sen strips Tommy of his birthright for breaking the family's vow never to use the jewel. Forsaking the clan and blaming Snake Eyes, Tommy vows to kill him should they ever meet again. As Snake Eyes sets out to find him, Akiko gives him a black outfit and helmet, and Scarlett informs Snake Eyes that his father was a member of international peacekeeping organization, G.I. Joe, and invites him to become a fellow Joe. The Baroness invites Tommy to join Cobra, and he declares a new name for himself: "Storm Shadow".

The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, who recounts the events of a particular night at a Villa Santa Rita bar and brothel. The clientele, including the narrator, spend the evening drinking and dancing the tango. Their festivities are interrupted by the arrival of a formidable stranger in black. When the narrator and some of the other patrons try to fight him, he effortlessly brushes them away.

As he leads his gang into the room, the stranger introduces himself as Francisco Real, also known as "the Yardmaster," a knife fighter from the Northside district of Buenos Aires. He announces to the group that he has come to challenge the local tough, "the Sticker" Rosendo Juárez, who at the time commanded the respect and admiration of the entire neighborhood. Juárez ignores the challenge despite the urgings of his girlfriend, the local beauty, La Lujanera. To her disgust, Juárez flings his knife out the window and slips out into the street. La Lujanera decries his cowardice and, wrapping her arms around the Yardmaster, chooses to dance with him, instead. Eventually the two of them step outside, arm in arm; the Yardmaster implies that they will sleep together. The narrator, overwhelmed with feelings of shame and dishonor, follows them outside. He reflects on his sense of insignificance, on Rosendo's (and his) impotence in the face of a "bully" like the Yardmaster.

At some point the narrator returns to the brothel. La Lujanera returns shortly thereafter, followed by the Yardmaster, who is dying from a knife wound to the chest. La Lujanera tearfully explains to the patrons that after the two of them left, a stranger – not Rosendo – appeared, challenged the Yardmaster to a fight, and stabbed him in the dark. The Yardmaster dies on the floor of the brothel. When a patron accuses La Lujanera of murdering him, the narrator comes to her defense and mocks the group by pointing out the irony of a man as fierce as the Yardmaster dying in a backwater neighborhood where nothing ever happens.

The patrons hear the police approaching, and wanting to avoid the law, they loot the Yardmaster's body and dispose of it in the river. Dawn breaks, La Lujanera takes her leave, and the brothel returns to normal. The narrator concludes by describing to his audience – revealed to be Borges himself – how he returned to his house. As the narrator strolls down the street inspecting his dagger, he looks up to see a light burning in the window of his house. It is implied that the narrator is the one who killed the Yardmaster, and that La Lujanera is in his home, waiting for him.

Set in 1998, ''Critical Thinking'' tells the true story of a Cuban-American teacher named Mario Martinez (known to his students as Mr. T) and his national championship-winning chess club at Miami Jackson High School.

Sedrick is an African-American student living with his widowed father a knowledgeable chess player takes chess as an "easy" elective and meets Mr. T along with Ito, a student who works long hours after school to support his single mother; the class also includes
class clown Roddy, and Gil, who is of Spanish descent.

Mr. T deals with opposition from Principal Kestel, who believes that the class is made up of academic misfits and that the chess club brings little to no glory to the school and she uses the chess class as a quasi detention hall. Principal Kestel threatens to redirect funding from the chess club to the school's football team but offers fundraising chocolate bars for the team to raise money. When the boys scheme to convert the chocolate bars into marijuana infused cookies goes awry, Mr. T uses his personal savings to register the team in the regional competition.The team wins the regional tournament to advance and at the end of the road trip Sedrick happily tells his dad about his victory. Sedrick's father tells him to get his life straight and decide on his future rather than waste his time on chess. Ito loses job because of his decision to go out of town to the tournament and his mother throws him out of her apartment, leading him to quit the chess team. The rest of the team realizes that they need money to register for the state championship. They also need Ito, who previously qualified for the regional. If they can't achieve both, they risk forfeiting.

The boys face interrogation from police officers who believe that they have information about the murder of another student by a local drug dealer. Soon after, Ito, dealing with financial troubles, is recruited by a drug kingpin because of his knack with numbers. The boys raise funds for the state championship by washing cars. They also recruit a new member, Marcel, whom Mr. T calls Duchamp. At the last minute, Ito changes his mind and travels with the boys to the tournament. An airline company had promised free tickets via sponsorship for them if they made it to the nationals, which they narrowly qualify for due to Ito's refusal to accept a draw, after which he loses due to a zugzwang. He stays at home to fix his life, with a drug dealer, Andre, threatening to hand him over to the police if he tries to quit.

The boys' progress well and are pitted against Akopyan, the three-time, back-to-back reigning champion. Akopyan plays individually against Marcel, who has the best record on the team. At some point in the game, Akopyan, who is having a difficult time beating Marcel, decides to take a bathroom break and suggests that Marcel should do the same. However, Akopyan mistakenly leaves his clock timer running. In the bathroom, Akopyan tries to talk Marcel into accepting a draw, and Marcel replies that a win is all his team needs to win the tournament. When the game resumes, Akopyan is upset to find his clock running which puts Marcel up in a time advantage. However, Marcel waits about three minutes and a half without a move to level the game time, and the two finalists resume the game on an equal footing. Eventually, Akopyan has to resign as his position is obviously losing. Marcel is crowned as the new champion alongside the boys and Mr. T.

Back home, Ito invites Donny and Andre over under the pretense of talking about business, but Andre suspects something to be off about the meeting. He seizes Ito's Walkman and forbids him from answering the phone, and talks about Sedrick and his girl Chanakya and what he might do to them. Ito gets angry and grabs Andre, bashing his head on a refrigerator until Andre is unconscious, and then leaves the store and walks into the street.

During the end credits, the movie returns to the modern-day versions of Ito and Marcel.

The player (male player voiced by Andrew Lawrence, female player voiced by Jamie Gray Hyder) arrives in Palm City for the SpeedHunters Showdown, a citywide exhibition that draws in racers who compete in sanctioned races throughout the day, and illegal street races at night. Lt. Frank Mercer (Josh Coxx), leader of the police's High-Speed Task Force, announces his intent to arrest all street racers in the city. The player buys their first car from Lucas Riviera (Jonny Cruz), a local mechanic and former street racer, who also helps the player enter their first Showdown race, and becomes their mentor. Lucas' younger sister, Ana Riviera (Ana Marte), is a street racer whose crew recently disbanded after the task force nearly killed one of her friends.

Ana introduces the player to The League, a crew of Palm City's best street racers, which Lucas almost joined until he quit racing after their father suddenly died. Ana and the player form a new crew to vie for a place in The League. After a race, Ana and the player are confronted by Officer Shaw (Josh Collins) of Mercer's task force, who impounds Ana's Nissan 350Z.

After another race, they witness Shaw meeting task force officer Eva Torres (Shontae Saldana). Shaw shows Torres bags of money in his car, extorted from street racers on Mercer's orders. Torres takes a bag but warns that Mercer's brashness is endangering them. Ana steals her father's 1967 Chevrolet Camaro from Lucas' shop so she can join the player in a race which Shaw interrupts. The player overturns Shaw's car, scattering the extorted money onto the street. The spectacle raises public suspicion over the task force and Lucas becomes angered at Ana for stealing their father's car.

Torres contacts Ana and the player to admit the task force is corrupt but wants Mercer taken down because he's too reckless. Torres leads them to a warehouse that acts as an illegal chop shop, stripping cars seized by the High-Speed Task Force, or preparing them to be shipped out of the city. Ana realizes her 350Z has been processed after finding its license plate.

The player and Ana attempt to expose Mercer by crashing a Showdown event, leading police and local media to his chop shop, but it turns out to be vacated. Ana and the player visit Lucas and find him bound and tortured by Mercer. Mercer reveals he anticipated their plan after seeing them on a secret camera in his shop. Mercer forces the player and Ana into his police car, but Lucas, having escaped his bonds, intercepts them in his father's Camaro and rams Mercer's car. Ana steals Mercer's laptop and escapes with Lucas and the player. At a hideout, Lucas admits to Ana that he quit street racing because he believes their father's fatal heart attack was caused by hearing about Lucas's arrest for street racing that same night.

Ana and Lucas send files from Mercer's computer to various outlets, proving his corruption and forcing him into hiding, then learn that Mercer is preparing the stolen cars in his possession for export before fleeing Palm City. As they do not know which cops are complicit or innocent, Ana and Lucas convince The League and other crews to simultaneously goad and draw as many police cars as possible to the port where the stolen cars are being loaded. Confronted by a swarm of police and street racers, Mercer attempts to escape in a BMW M3 GTR, which turns out to be the M3 Hero's car from ''Need for Speed: Most Wanted''. The player chases and wrecks Mercer's car, leaving him for Torres, who pulls her pistol in response to his threats and is implied to have shot him.

Over a week later, Mercer is missing and presumed dead. Torres has been promoted to lead his task force, and she announces her commitment to ending street racing. Lucas reconciles with Ana and gives her the keys to their father's repaired Camaro. Now, members of The League, the player and Ana plan to continue racing and tackle any challenges together.

The half-genie Shantae and her friends are invited to Paradise Island by the mayor of Arena Town, where a Half-Genie Festival is being held. There, she meets and befriends fellow half-genies Plink, Vera, Zapple, Harmony, and Fillin. However, during a performance at the festival, the other half-genies are kidnapped. Determined to uncover the reason for their disappearance, Shantae begins exploring the Sunken City beneath the island in search of the other half-genies. While searching, she encounters her longtime arch-nemesis Risky Boots. Shantae accuses her of the kidnapping, but Risky refutes her, stating that she is only here to claim a mysterious treasure said to reside beneath the island, and that the others were taken by the true rulers of the island, the Seven Sirens. Shantae continues to explore beneath the island, entering four of the sirens' lairs and defeating the sirens within. She manages to rescue four of the missing half-genies, each of which transfers their magical ability to Shantae to help strengthen her against the sirens.

While rescuing Harmony, Shantae discovers that Fillin is actually her friend Rottytops. Shantae enters an underground bunker to find her, but inadvertently activates a control panel, realizing that the sunken city is both a giant airship and the treasure that Risky Boots was after. She ventures further inside and rescues Rottytops, who admits she hid in Shantae's luggage and disguised herself after Shantae didn't invite her along, while Shantae explains she only left her out because Rottytops was already hidden and she couldn't find her. As Shantae defeats the fifth siren and they escape, Risky activates the ship and takes off, preparing to activate the ship's weapons and destroy the island.

Shantae is teleported aboard the ship by the friendly sixth siren, Lobster Siren, but is imprisoned by the Mayor, revealed to have been Risky all along. The sirens' elderly leader, Empress Siren, appears and explains she was defeated by Harmony's mother years ago, who placed a spell on her so she could only feed on the life force of genies and not mortals, causing her to starve. The Empress made a deal with Risky, offering the ship in exchange for bringing her five half-genies whose life force she could use to break the spell, restoring her and allowing her to absorb mortal life force again. However, she betrays Risky and steals her life force, restoring her youth, and announces her plan to drain the life force from all creatures to make herself immortal. Shantae frees herself and defeats the Empress, who realizes her restoration was incomplete due to Rottytops not being an actual half-genie. Shantae restores the other half-genies' magic as they take back their stolen life force, destroying the Empress.

As the ship begins to crash from the damage sustained, the others evacuate while Shantae remains behind to rescue Risky Boots, carrying her back to shore. Risky admits she told the Empress Siren Shantae's magic was tainted so she wouldn't be drained, allowing her to defeat the Empress if she tried to betray Risky. As Risky departs, Shantae and the other half-genies decide to resume the festival, and Lobster Siren offers to help rebuild the island. As Shantae and her friends prepare to depart after the festival, Harmony gives her a scrapbook made by the Guardian Genies filled with messages left for their half-genie daughters, including some written by Shantae's mother.

The game takes place on the island of Idyll where there exists the Key to Life.

The plot is set in Istanbul and revolves around the vampire Mia (Elçin Sangu) who wants to kill the vampire who turned her, Dmitry (Kerem Bürsin), so that she will return to being a human again. To be able to do that, Mia first has to gain Dmitry's confidence.

Joselito “Lito” Gopez is a mentally impaired man with the intellect of a six-year-old. He lives in a run-down house in Marikina River along with his daughter Yesha. One day, he gets into a physical altercation with the Defense Secretary Yulo, who has just purchased the last Sailor Moon backpack for his daughter Jenny, a gift Lito was saving up to buy for Yesha. Soon after, Jenny dies in a freak accident, in which she slips because of the wet pavement and suffers a fatal blow in the head while taking Lito to a store that sells the same backpack. When Lito tries to resuscitate her, a bystander mistakenly thinks he is molesting her. Lito is falsely accused of the kidnapping, murder and rape of a minor. Police quickly take advantage of his disability and force him to confess to the crimes while ignoring exonerating evidence. Lito is imprisoned and assigned to Cell No. 7, the harshest cell in a maximum security prison.

The other men in the cell led by gang leader Soliman “Boss Sol” with Mambo, Choy, Bong, and Tatang Celso initially don't take kindly to Lito after reading in his file that he murdered and molested a child. When Lito saves Boss Sol from being fatally stabbed by a rival gang leader, Boss Sol repays the favor by smuggling Yesha into Cell No. 7. The cell's inmates slowly befriend Lito and believe he is a good man who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They help him rehearse what to say at his trial. Eventually, even the warden Johnny, who is initially harsh to Lito but softens up when the latter saves him from an arson attack, realizes that Lito was merely cornered into making a false confession. He takes custody of Yesha and allows her to visit her father every now and then.

Secretary Yulo, however, threatens to harm Yesha if Lito doesn't confess his "crime" during his trial. Lito ultimately chooses to sacrifice himself by pleading guilty and getting the death sentence. His execution date of December 23 coincides with Yesha's birthday. Before the date, Boss Sol and fellow inmates work on a hot air balloon and force Lito and Yesha to board to try and let them escape, but ultimately failed because of a rope connected to the hot air balloon caught in a barbed wire, later on in the film Lito was executed.

Years after Lito's execution, Yesha, who has been formally adopted by Johnny, has become a lawyer. She gathers her father's former inmates, all of whom have been released, to testify at her late father's retrial, which results in his acquittal. She then imagines her father dancing with their signature dance.

Arthur Bretnik is a mentally unstable conspiracy theorist and private investigator whose family was killed in a vehicle accident. Prior to becoming a conspiracy theorist, he was a detective who investigated the unusual death of an individual whose chest appeared to have something explode out of it, and whose body was later stolen from the morgue. Bretnik and his friend Jimmy Cleats host a podcast that discusses conspiracy theories.

One of the podcast's listeners, Elena Guzman, hires Bretnik to investigate the death of her daughter, Zoe, in the small town of Wander, New Mexico, which she believes was a covered-up murder. When he arrives, he meets Sheriff Luis Santiago and attempts to investigate the incident, but becomes convinced that he is being followed and that the death may be part of the same "conspiracy cover up" that caused the death of his own daughter years prior. Bretnik's suspicions reach their peak when, after believing he is being followed by two men in an old Jeep Cherokee, he discovers it transporting a woman's body, which it moves into a derelict garage. When Bretnik goes to investigate, he discovers a series of underground rooms where people are trapped and implanted with microchips.

Cleats arrives to investigate with Bretnik, and they discover that Elena and Zoe's identities are fake and that they are actually both missing persons, Sofia and Martina Lopez. The two go to investigate; before going, Bretnik places an envelope in a mailbox. When Bretnik and Cleats arrive, Elena/Sofia violently attacks Bretnik and claims Cleats is involved before her microchip suddenly explodes, killing her; Cleats claims the "involvement" she mentioned is that he got her to report the death to Bretnik for money, and the two bury the woman's body in the desert. Bretnik and Cleats then go to acquire photographic proof of the garage's existence to expose it to the public. Meanwhile, Bretnik's lawyer, Shelly Luscomb, discovers Bretnik's empty trailer and determines he has traveled to Wander.

As Bretnik and Cleats enter the underground laboratory, the film cuts forward to show Bretnik being involved in a shootout before being apprehended by FBI Agent Nick Cassidy, who arrives with Shelly. Bretnik is questioned, where he explains what happened after he and Cleats arrived at the garage.

When Bretnik and Cleats entered the underground laboratory, Bretnik learned the microchips are being used to control immigrants, minorities, and the lower class. However, the laboratory was attacked by one of the men from the Jeep, and Cleats was shot. Bretnik was saved by a woman named Elsa Viceroy (Katheryn Winnick), apparently from the CIA, and the two met with Sheriff Santiago, who was revealed to also be working against the microchip operation. Elsa and Santiago explained that the victim whose body was stolen from the morgue, as well as Zoe, were both embedded with microchips.

Bretnik, Elsa, and Santiago planned to assassinate the inventor of the microchips, Victor Canton, who was on a rare visit to Wander. Sheriff Santiago met with the inventor alongside the men from the Jeep at the garage, while Elsa and Bretnik moved to ambush them. Elsa shot the others, including Sheriff Santiago, before allowing Bretnik to get revenge on the inventor for the deaths of his family and Cleats; Bretnik shot the inventor multiple times, killing him. Elsa then told Bretnik to clear the data of the computer inside the garage before leaving. Upon exiting the garage, Bretnik was promptly apprehended by Agent Cassidy.

In the present, Shelly informs Bretnik that the medication he takes for his mental trauma causes anxiety and delusions, and tells him that the garage was fully derelict and empty, the morgue he investigated and found bodies in was not in use for years, and that Cleats' decapitated body was located in Bretnik's car. Bretnik, unable to believe whether his turn of events was true or if the entire investigation was simply a delusion, and faced with the possibility that he killed his friend, breaks down.

Bretnik is placed in a holding cell awaiting placement in a mental institution. He is met in his cell by Elsa and an alive-and-well Cleats. They explain to Bretnik that the entire investigation was part of their plan: Bretnik was being used all along as a way to tie up loose ends. Bretnik's mental state allowed them to ensure he would continue to investigate, and allow them to pin any blame on the events in Wander on him.

In the mental facility, Bretnik barricades himself in his room and digs in his chest with the point of a pen he had stolen from a nurse. As he lies on the floor bleeding, he laughs and smiles; in his hand is his own microchip, proving his earlier fears that he himself had a microchip placed in him.

Meanwhile, the envelope Bretnik mailed earlier is sent to Shelly. Inside the envelope is all of the evidence and photographs Bretnik took of the laboratory in the basement of the garage, which could allow the conspiracy to be exposed.

Alice Hughes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author working on her latest manuscript, which her publisher hopes will be a sequel to her best-known work, ''You Always/You Never''. Alice is receiving a literary award in the United Kingdom but is unable to fly due to her health, leading her agent Karen to suggest she make the transatlantic crossing on the ''Queen Mary 2''. Alice invites her nephew Tyler to assist her while on the voyage, and her university friends Roberta and Susan, with whom she has lost touch. Alice and Roberta have a difficult relationship stemming from Roberta's belief that Alice used details about her in ''You Always/You Never'', which Roberta feels derailed her life. Unbeknownst to Alice, Karen joins them on the ship, hoping to learn details about Alice's new book.

Once on the ship, Karen strikes up a friendship with Tyler, using him to gain information from Alice. Alice tells Tyler that the book is about "trying to catch lightning in a bottle for a second time", possibly implying that it will be a sequel to a previous work. She spends the majority of her time writing, only taking breaks to eat and swim. Roberta attempts to attract wealthy men on board, while Susan begins interacting with Kelvin Krantz, another writer; Krantz writes popular mystery and thriller books, which Alice dismisses. Krantz also knows Karen, and advises her not to pry into the details of Alice's work. Roberta attempts to meet with Alice to seek an apology and acknowledgement of Alice's use of her life details – a fact that Alice has never admitted to – but the two fail to connect. Alice runs into Tyler and Karen together, and learns that Tyler has a romantic interest in Karen. Tyler and Karen have dinner, where Tyler's romantic advances are rejected. Alice invites Karen to dinner with the foursome, where tensions come to a head between Alice and Roberta after Karen asks about the new book. They are interrupted by Susan, who accuses them both of being selfish and holding onto their bitterness. Alice decides to delete her book, implied to be a sequel to ''You Always/You Never'' as both Karen and Roberta expected.

After disembarking the ship, Alice and Roberta have a conversation about their estrangement. Roberta tells Alice that she will provide her with the life details Alice would need to write a sequel to ''You Always/You Never'', but wants a share of the profits in return. Alice rejects this offer and they part with Roberta telling Alice "I loved you when you were Al." That evening, Alice begins work on a new writing project.

The next morning, a man that Tyler saw frequently coming out of Alice's room on the ship greets him at Alice's door. He reveals that he is Dr. Mitchell, Alice's personal physician, and that Alice has died in the night from deep vein thrombosis; Dr. Mitchell was aboard the ship to administer injections of a blood thinning medication to Alice.

Tyler, Roberta, and Susan visit the grave of 19th century author Blodwyn Pugh, as Alice had intended them to. Back in the United States, Roberta gives Alice's writing, which she took from Alice's room after her death, to Karen in the hopes of profiting from it. Karen maintains that the work is unfinished and cannot be published, but encourages Roberta's idea of writing a book about her life experiences. Susan works with Krantz on a new book based on an idea of hers she shared with him aboard the ship. Tyler receives Alice's unfinished writing from Karen and returns it to her apartment, recalling a talk Alice made celebrating the existence of consciousness and the ability of people to affect each other.

In 1943, Italian American soldier Julie Sarno is doing a routine secretarial job at a United States Army office in wartime London, the most risky part of her job being to avoid the unwanted amorous advances of a womanizing general. Suddenly, she is taken in complete secrecy to the Carlton Hotel and told that she has an assignment which can influence the course of the war. Ben Ivey, a senior White House official of President Roosevelt's inner circle, has secretly arrived in London on a vital mission, having to do with the forthcoming invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe - and then been struck by a mysterious, incapacitating malady. Doctors can do nothing to help him, and he insisted that Julie is the only person who can help him.

In fact, Julie had known Ben Ivey for sixteen years. As readers learn from the flashbacks which form a large part of the plot, she first met him in 1927 - when she was a precocious 11-year-old girl and he was a young social worker at a local settlement house in the Lower East Side slum where she grew up. At one time she had been madly in love with him, later she came to greatly hate and despise him because of a tragic love triangle involving herself, him and her beloved elder sister Celia.

The book follows back and forth this tangled relationship, from the slum childhood, through an Oregon land-reclamation project in the early years of the New Deal, and up to the tense standoff at the hotel room in WWII London. In the final chapters, secrets which have been suppressed for many years come out at last. On the highly emotional development of the protagonists' personal relationships hinges the success of a major WWII military operation, involving thousands of soldiers, numerous civilians living under Nazi occupation, a risky mission behind enemy lines, and the young exile King of a Scandinavian country.

A large weapon-shaped meteor falls from space to Earth, landing near Gauntlet's HQ in Canada. Demonic invaders lead by a Wendigo monster suddenly appear from within it and begin wreaking havoc. Flame and Grit arrive shortly after and chase the Wendigo deep into the complex, cornering it near their transport ship. Before the duo can engage the monster, it is swiftly killed by The Horseman who battles the two in its place. After a brief scuffle, The Horseman retreats and the pair leave the ruined facility in their transport ship, meeting up with the rest of Gauntlet soon after.

Dr. Bloom explains to the group that weapon-shaped meteorites landed in ten countries across the planet, each one acting as a transfer gateway to allow for demonic entities to invade cities across the globe. She explains briefly how a secret religious parchment foretold that spirit weapons would be crafted at a place known as the Forge and would be used to take over the planet, inciting a cosmic war. The group then receives a message from the dark prince Ravenous, ordering the planet to surrender or face destruction. Adamant in fulfilling her role as a rescue android, Flame offers to engage Ravenous' Weapon Keepers as a Squire pilot with Grit. Despite his reservations about Flame's abilities, the Director allows Flame to fight as a Squire pilot operative for Gauntlet.

Once Ravenous' final Weapon Keeper is defeated, the skies around Earth begin to darken as the planet is thrust into a perpetual state of twilight. Dr. Bloom and Grit suddenly detect a massive energy spike as The Horseman appears, opening a conduit to an Inverted Tower now orbiting the planet and the cause of the phenomenon. He asks Flame and Grit to go to the Spirit Forge within the tower and stop Ravenous, giving a cryptic warning to the pair not to follow in the footsteps of their predecessor. Initially confused, Flame dismisses The Horseman's warning and proceeds to the Inverted Tower.

Once they arrive, the pair encounter a heavily decayed and hostile Paladin mecha. After a fierce battle, Flame and Grit manage to defeat the Paladin who then forcibly ejects it's lifeless operator, a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Flame. The duo contacts the Director, who explains that the woman controlling the Paladin was the first Squire pilot Blaze who Gauntlet had lost contact with following a sabotage mission against Ravenous' forces. He reveals that Flame was built in her image and was allowed to become a Squire pilot partially in the hopes that Blaze could eventually be rescued by her. Ravenous then contacts Flame, telling her that Blaze became corrupted trying to wield his demonic weapons, a fate that all who try to ultimately share. Undeterred, Flame and Grit continue on to the Spirit Forge to confront Ravenous.

The duo make their way through the Inverted Tower, eventually reaching Ravenous' lair within the Spirit Forge. He appears and commends Flame's belligerence, offering the duo a place at his side as an ally. After refusing his offer, Flame and Grit engage Ravenous in a final battle to decide the fate of Earth. The duo eventually manage to defeat Ravenous and emerge victorious, with his demonic lance being all that remains of him following the battle. The Horseman then appears, telling the pair to think very carefully about what they do with Ravenous' weapon. How the player interacts with the weapon determines the game's ending.

If the player picks up the weapon and leaves the area with it, the bad ending plays out in which The Horseman confronts Flame, claiming that she is disrupting the spirit balance by choosing to take the weapon and is destined to be consumed by it just as Blaze was. An already possessed Flame denies this, claiming that it was Blaze's fault for being a weak human unable to control the weapon's power. The Horseman and Flame battle, although the outcome of the battle is unknown. A final scene depicts Flame and Grit standing atop their ruined transport ship before a massive army of monsters, raising up Ravenous' lance triumphantly as their new leader.

If the player refuses to pick up the weapon and leaves the area or picks it up and deliberately breaks it, the good ending plays out. With the demonic weapons destroyed and good prevailing, The Horseman appears before Flame and Grit one final time, giving another criptic warning against humans creating any further weapons lest he return as an enemy against them. Flame retorts, saying humans are good people and don't inherently want to create weapons. The Spirit Forge then begins to crumble as the three make their escape.

Flame and Grit return safely to Earth while The Horseman uses his spirit energy to tow the Inverted Tower back to deep space. The duo is then contacted by the Director, congratulating Flame for her hard work. Just before he gives the two their next assignment, Flame refuses to join up with Gauntlet as a Squire pilot operative for the time being, desiring to do something better with herself. Returning to civilian life, Flame and Grit join a construction team and happily assist them with repairs on the cities destroyed during the invasion.

The body of a 16-year old Turkish teenage girl is found in the town of Aalst, her throat cut. The police assume it to be an ''honour killing'' committed by her uncle but are stymied by the family's refusal to testify. Within a day, the suspect himself is found under a bridge, badly burned but alive. On the bridge above him, someone has sprayed the words "Thou shalt have no other gods", referencing the first commandment.

This is the first in a series of crimes, committed by someone going by the name of Moses, each of which is in some way inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. Those who have been perceived to have violated the Commandments are hunted down and punished without mercy. Two police detectives, Vicky Degraeve (Marie Vinck) and Peter Devriendt (Dirk Van Dijck) are assigned to find the vigilante but are increasingly hindered by the public opinion, which supports Moses despite his excesses.

Bitoy, Atoy and Caloy (Tito, Vic and Joey respectively) are 3 hapless brothers who got employed by a rich couple to take care of their children who turned out to be spoiled brats who have successfully driven out all their nannies from their house through their improvised booby traps. But the brothers stuck through with the children until the end. In the midst of all the mess comes Bridget (Maricel Soriano) who is their next-door neighbor's maid. She becomes the Agatep brothers' object of affection, but unknown to them she also brings trouble.

Although the widower Jorge Llorente warns Elisa that every woman he had loved mysteriously died, she marries him. The two live in a house where they employ Cristina as a housekeeper. Cristina is Jorge's half sister, who was born as a result of the rape of her mother by a crazy domestic worker. Cristina is hostile to Elisa, but when she becomes pregnant, Cristina changes her behavior and shows helpfulness until the son, who also gets the name Jorge, is born. After the birth of the child, Cristina convinces her brother that Elisa had been unfaithful to him. Jorge leaves his wife and takes his son, Elisa returns to live at her uncle's house in the city and Cristina raises the baby as if he were her son in Europe.

Eighteen years later, the elder Jorge decides to look for Elisa, and together they find out about Cristina's deception. When Jorge confronts his sister to know the motive of her evil, she confesses that for all those years she lived in love with her brother, and that she was so jealous that she had poisoned all of her brother's previous lovers. Cristina, in her anguish, poisons herself, and before she dies she asks the son she raised not to forget her, and tells him that that Jorge and Elisa will make him believe that she is not her mother.

Elisa and Jorge, without knowing about Cristina's last deception, decide to reveal the truth to their son, who immediately despises his true mother and asks her to leave the house. Before leaving, Elisa asks her son to accept a medal with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe that she had given him in his childhood; her son takes it to throw it into the fireplace, but when he sees the medal, a memory from his childhood of his true mother comes to him, and runs into the arms of his mother. A huge oil painting of the portrait of Cristina that hung over the fireplace falls into the fire, and Elisa and Jorge hug each other with their son as they see how the portrait of the woman who separated them for years is slowly consumed in the fire.

Bloom, a fairy with fire powers, enrolls at a magical boarding school in the Otherworld called Alfea. She shares a suite with Stella, a light fairy; Aisha, a water fairy; Terra, an earth fairy; and Musa, a mind fairy. With the help of her friends, Bloom starts to learn more about her past. Meanwhile, ancient creatures called the Burned Ones return to the Otherworld and threaten everyone at Alfea.

Home nurse Ichiko works for the Oishi family, where she is treated as a full member. In addition to nursing bedridden grandmother Tōko, she also helps daughters Motoko and Saki with their exams in her free time. One day, Saki, the younger sister, is abducted. When Saki is finally found by the police and the abductor turns out to be Ichiko's nephew, a media frenzy follows which slowly drives Ichiko into social isolation. Motoko, who over time has become a friend and confidante, first supports, but later denounces Ichiko, publicly giving away a secret from Ichiko's past which the trusting Ichiko had told her in private. Ichiko, forced to quit her job and left by her fiancé, develops a desire for revenge.

The story follows Sergiy (''Rymaryk'') a retired soldier with PTSD trying to navigate life in Eastern Ukraine. It takes place in 2025, one year after the end of the war with Russia. He works at a smelter with another veteran and friend, Ivan, both ostracized by other workers blaming them for fighting in the war that devastated the region. Sergiy and Ivan still train much like the war has not ended, dressing in combat uniforms and competing in high-stress target shooting. Ivan commits suicide in a smelting pot, and the factory is shut down shortly afterwards due to economic liberalization rendering it nonprofitable. Sergiy then finds himself in a new job driving a water truck and delivering to areas where pollution from the war has made local sources unpotable. He has trouble adapting to his new life until he meets Katya ''(Bileka''), previously an archaeologist who now works as a humanitarian activist for the Black Tulip Mission, a volunteer organization exhuming and identifying the war dead. Sergiy is offered the opportunity to escape his situation, after saving a member of an environmental NGO from a mine, but it is implied in the conclusion that he has decided to remain with the Black Tulip Mission. The movie is bookended by stylized scenes shot by thermal camera, one of the killing of a captured sniper (later exhumed in the movie) and the other of Sergiy and Katya hugging at the conclusion of the film.

Daniel is a devout Catholic serving a sentence for second-degree murder, but his criminal background prevents him from pursuing his dream of becoming a priest upon release. He is assigned to work in a sawmill in a village, and while visiting the local Catholic church, he pretends to be a priest. The vicar of that church meets Daniel wholly believing his lie, and leaves him in charge of the church while he is away for a medical treatment. Daniel begins performing all the duties of a priest and enjoys it.

The parishioners enjoy his unorthodox methods, even his unexpected claim from the pulpit to be a murderer, but they have mixed feelings when he starts asking about a recent car accident that left the community united in anger against the person they believe responsible, an adult man driving alone who died in the crash that also killed six teenagers in the other car. He begins to discover that responsibility for the accident is unclear, but the mayor insists that the issue has been put to rest. The point of contention is whether the driver should be buried in the village cemetery with the other victims. Daniel discovers that months after the accident his cremated remains await burial and many of the villagers have sent hateful, threatening letters to his widow. Daniel and his new friend Marta confront the villagers with these letters and Daniel decides to conduct a burial service for the solo driver. Marta's mother throws her out of the house for bringing out the letters, and she asks to stay at the temporary rectory with Daniel; while there, they make love.

During the burial service, many of the villagers put aside their hate and pay their respects. Before the Mass planned to follow the burial, the priest from Daniel's youth detention center arrives, having been tipped off that the village's new priest is an impostor. He tells Daniel to pack his bags immediately, but Daniel sneaks out a window and goes to the church to celebrate his "farewell Mass". Before starting, he removes his shirt to display his tattoos, and leaves the church. Daniel is sent back to jail where the brother of the man he murdered is now a fellow convict. They engage in a brutal fight, Daniel gains the upper hand, and the other prisoners allow him to walk free.

In the arid Karoo, the shy and innocent Natalie marries the young policeman Bakkies, equally inexperienced and uncertain. His maladroit effort at consummation leads her to grab his revolver and flee to her beloved horse, that is stabled beside the pastor's house. When the pastor ferociously orders her to return to her husband, she shoots him dead and rides off into the desert. Calling on her heavily pregnant friend Poppie, she takes her off on a quest to find Branco, a trucker who is the father of the imminent child.

Meanwhile, the police officer Beauty drives up from Cape Town into the desert to see her husband Billy, who is serving 15 years for murdering his brother and is suspected of breaking out to kill the pastor. Beauty quickly ascertains that the suspicion is false, but Billy seems to want another sentence.

After Natalie and Poppy find Branco at a roadside bar run by Theunis, the four agree to head for Johannesburg. When the road is blocked by snow, Branco seduces Natalie, who responds to his practiced approach, while Theunis tries to rape Poppie. He is stopped at gunpoint by Beauty, who has been trailing the two girls and takes the pair back in handcuffs. She does a deal with the local police: she will give them Natalie, who in panic killed the pastor, and they will hand Billy into her custody.

Natalie is restored to her ungrateful husband, Poppie's labour pains start, while Billy eventually agrees to escape across the frontier and start a new life with Beauty.

A profile of Yigal Amir in the year leading up to his assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

A prison therapist becomes obsessed with her charismatic patient, a violent serial rapist on the verge of being paroled.

Former Guatemalan dictator Enrique Monteverde (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) is being tried for orchestrating the brutal genocide of native Mayans in 1982–83. Now elderly, he lives with his wife, Carmen; daughter, Natalia; granddaughter, Sara and their security guard, Letona. During the trial, Natalia is troubled by the indigenous women who describe being brutalized by Monteverde's army, while Carmen dismisses them as liars. He is convicted but the verdict is overturned by the high court, which ruled that his guilt could not be conclusively proven. The decision is met with disgust and unrest by the public, who hold nonstop protests outside Monteverde's home.

Monteverde's sleep is interrupted by the sound of a woman weeping and he narrowly misses shooting his wife in the kitchen. This leads to most of his household staff — who are ethnic Kaqchikel people — quitting. His devoted housekeeper, Valeriana, brings in a young woman named Alma from her village to work as a maid. Supernatural activity involving water, including faucets spontaneously turning on, ensues. One night Monteverde sees Alma wading through the pool into the house; his family discovers him, sexually aroused, watching Alma wash her dress. His disgusted wife tells Natalia that he was always attracted to native women and reveals her suspicions that Valeriana, who arrived at their household as a child, may be his daughter. However, Natalia learns from Sara that even though she is very young, Alma already had a son and daughter who died. Alma teaches Sara to hold her breath under water.

The protests continue around the clock, leaving the family essentially trapped in the house. Carmen wets the bed during recurring nightmares where she pictures herself as a Kaqchikel woman being chased and abducted with two Kaqchikel children by the military. The house is blanketed with flyers of the disappeared from decades earlier; Sara and Alma notice one of the Kaqchikel men on the flyers is among the crowd of protesters. Suspicion grows within Valeriana when she reveals to Alma that nobody in her village appears to know her.

Valeriana suspects dark magic is at work and attempts to cleanse Monteverde of the evil spirit. Later that night, Sara uses her grandfather’s oxygen cylinder to hold her breath longer under the pool. Terrified, Monteverde starts shooting Alma while accidentally shooting Sara in the arm. The house is surrounded by the spirits of the disappeared. As he searches around the house, Letona encounters the spirits of two Kaqchikel children who calmly take him away and is not seen again. Valeriana performs a Mayan ceremony while a woman's wailing can be heard. Carmen goes into a trance as she is transported back to the nightmare, which are revealed to be Alma's last moments, watching her children drowned by soldiers before being executed herself by Monteverde. A distraught Carmen strangles Monteverde in the trance and in reality.

At Monteverde's funeral, another old general excuses to the bathroom where he hears a woman wailing as the room begins to flood.

Young Kareem Jenkins joins a secret underground group of black super heroes and must choose between personal revenge against cops or collective action to achieve real and lasting change.

In 1955, Hiram Hillburn, a sixteen-year-old white male, lives in Arizona with his father. He resents his father for moving the family from Greenwood, Mississippi when he was nine, away from his beloved Southern grandfather. Despite his father's concerns about letting him go due to the racial tensions in the city, Hiram is given permission to spend the summer visiting his grandfather in Mississippi. At the train station he meets his grandfather's housekeeper Ruthanne and her visiting cousin Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago. After reuniting with his grandfather, he begins to notice his grandfather's culturally ingrained racism. He meets Emmett again whom he rescues from drowning in a river. They begin talking and realize they have a lot in common.

Hiram runs into his old friend R.C. Rydell with whom he joins on a fishing trip where R.C. harasses and assaults Emmett. While Hiram does not participate, he does not help Emmett either and feels guilty. A few days later, R.C. tells Hiram that he is going with some white men to talk to a young African-American man who offended a white woman at a grocery store. Concerned for this young man, Hiram calls the police. However, the police are unhelpful to Hiram; they refuse to act, stating the boy from Chicago has to learn some manners. At this point, Hiram realizes they are talking about Emmett.

Emmett is reported missing shortly after and his corpse is found in the river a few days later with a cotton gin pulley around his neck. Two white men are arrested for kidnapping and go on trial for the murder of Emmett. Hiram delays his trip home to serve as a witness for the trial due to the information he had told the police. His grandfather wants him to stay out of the trial to avoid the drama, but Hiram wants to help find justice for Emmett causing contention between the two. Hiram stays for the entire trial, despite not being called as a witness and the suspects are acquitted of murder at the relief of Hiram's grandfather. Hiram becomes suspicious after seeing his grandfather sell his blue truck but his grandfather becomes angry when Hillburn confronts him about it. After running into his neighbors, Hiram learns that his grandfather was spotted with the suspects on the night of Emmett's disappearance. Hiram, again, confronts his grandfather about this information upon which his grandfather unapologetically admits to being involved.

Having been absent since the night Emmett went missing, Hiram runs into R.C. who tells him that he considered participating in Emmett's abduction but decided instead to escape his abusive living situation and move to Jackson, Mississippi where he had been living ever since. When Hiram prepares to return to Arizona, he expects an apology from his grandfather but is disappointed to never receive one. He meets his father at the railway station whom he begins to tell everything, repairing their previously broken relationship.

Two young lovers, Maya and Jules, are found wrecked on the side of the road after a party by a loner roughneck, Freddy. During rehab, their relationship falls apart, and Maya forms an unlikely friendship with Freddy.

One month after his breakup with Tessa Young, Hardin Scott meets an unknown homeless man, whom he rebuffs after the man tries to ask him a question. On her first day as an intern at Vance Publishing, Tessa shares an awkward encounter with coworker Trevor Matthews. Impressed with her work, Vance's owner Christian Vance takes Tessa, Trevor, and his secretary and girlfriend Kimberly to a Seattle-area work event. At a nightclub, Tessa and Trevor network with and impress a businessman considering an investment in Vance. Tessa drunk-dials Hardin, compelling him to track her down. He arrives at her hotel room to find a half-dressed Trevor (whose clothes were drying after Tessa accidentally spilt wine on them). Hardin kicks Trevor out of the room, and Tessa fights with Hardin before the two have sex.

The next morning, Hardin and Tessa fight again before Tessa and Trevor leave with Vance, who informs his interns that he has secured financing from the businessman. Tessa and Hardin each come to regret their decision to end their relationship. When Tessa returns to the apartment she shared with Hardin to retrieve some belongings, Hardin steps into the apartment with his mother Trish, who assumes the two are still dating. Tessa plays along and finds that she enjoys spending time with Hardin and Trish, who reveals to Tessa the source of Hardin's personality issues: he is traumatized after watching Trish get violently raped by men to whom his father Ken owed money. On the following day, her birthday, Tessa visits her mother Carol's house and encounters her ex-boyfriend Noah. The two accidentally reveal that Tessa's long-lost father had visited the home in an attempt to see her. Feeling betrayed, Tessa returns to Hardin's apartment and resumes a relationship with him.

On Christmas Day, Hardin, Tessa, and Trish attend a holiday party at Ken's home. Furious at Ken's apparent willingness to forgive himself for his role in the attack on Trish, Hardin gets drunk and attacks Ken. Tessa describes the incident to Trevor, who warns her that her relationship with Hardin will not end well. Vance contacts Tessa to inform her that his company is expanding and moving to Seattle, and offers her a job there. On New Year's Eve, Tessa and Hardin attend a party hosted at a university frat house, where they reconnect with a number of their former college friends. Each misinterprets a conversation held by the other: Tessa assumes Hardin is cheating on her when she sees him asking for the forgiveness of another girl with whom he had previously been involved, and Hardin accidentally learns of Vance's offer and concludes that Tessa will leave him for Trevor. Tessa and Hardin fight, and Tessa storms off. Hardin only sees apologetic texts sent by Tessa the next day after charging his phone. He calls Tessa, and she reaches for her phone while driving and is involved in a car accident that leaves her injured.

Devastated by his indirect responsibility for the accident, Hardin decides ending the relationship, but Trish talks him out of it. He races to Vance's farewell party, where Vance proposes to Kimberly. Tessa fights with Hardin once more before deciding to continue dating him. One night sometime afterwards, the homeless man who spoke to Hardin earlier confronts the two and reveals his identity: he is Tessa's father.

Vincas, a resourceful tailor, gets a job with a struggling peasant Bekampis who desperately needs 200 rubles to repay his debts to Jew Faibčikas. In an inn, Vincas meets Antanas, an old acquaintance from their native village. Antanas is looking for a bride and has an eye on Agota, Bekampis' daughter. Vincas agrees to act as an intermediary – arrange a loan from Antanas to Bekampis and a marriage between Agota and Antanas. However, Vincas seduces naive Agota with stories about the easy life in America and convinces her to steal the money from her father. They plan to use the money to escape to America. Agota steals the money, but Vincas locks her in a bathhouse and runs away to America alone.

The play is rather simple and was well suited for the illegal amateur theater of the time. It depicts a scene from the ordinary lives of Lithuanian villagers and provides relevant commentary on the Lithuanian emigration to United States instead of more abstract or artistic characters or plot. Similar fraud and deception was described in Lithuanian newspapers of the time. It was also easy to stage as it needed only simple decorations and a limited cast (seven men and two women).

An international terrorist organization abducted many children, turning them into spies to work at various police forces around the world. After Superintendent Yip (Francis Ng) and Chief Inspector Ching (Nick Cheung) arrested a female hacker named Yiu (Jiang Pei yao) who was about to piece together the schemes of the organization, Superintendent Cheng (Louis Koo) tried to take the case off their hands. Who could be the double agents? They went to Myanmar and Navarre to find out the truth, but soon there are blurred lines between good cops vs bad cops.

Scruffy-haired, heavily tattooed Jimmy (Damian Hill) is a courier for a small company, and has a $15,000 debt to Banos (Tony Nikolakopoulos), the tough owner of a car repair shop where Jimmy once worked, and who has given him a deadline of 5 o'clock that day to repay him or suffer dire consequences. Jimmy's mind is preoccupied with the prospects of a horse that's running (race two at Ballarat) that day. He picks up his mate Steve (Arthur Angel), a fellow courier. He is late to pick up his pre-pubescent son Alex (Hill's real-life stepson Tyler Perham), who he's promised to baby-sit that day, and is harassed by his ex-wife Karen (Faye Smythe). He arrives at her house in his car, an immaculate 1968 Ford Fairlane, previously owned from new by his own father, who deserted his family when Jimmy was young.

Alex reluctantly joins his father, for whom he has no respect, and flagrantly defies his every instruction. His father's chief leverage over him (and subject of much of the bickering) is use of his smartphone and promise of a new (soccer) football. Jimmy reports late for work at the depot, and because of the presence of Alex is obliged to use the Fairlane for deliveries rather than a company vehicle. Alex gets to experience the inside of a variety of Melbourne businesses.

His deliveries completed, they stop for lunch at a suburban hotel with TAB facilities, and are joined by Steve. Jimmy is anxious to put some money on his tip, and borrows a substantial sum from Steve, who puts somewhat less on the same horse, which comes home and Jimmy has more than enough to pay off his debts. He rings Banos with the good news, but cannot however refrain from trying to build on his good fortune and loses the lot. Fearing Banos, he pleads with Steve to lend him the money, alienating his mate, who refuses point blank: he has debts too. Getting desperate, Jimmy offers the Fairlane to a used-car dealer; it's valued at $35,000 but they settle on $25,000 cash. But while the would-be purchaser is at the bank, Jimmy has a change of heart and he and Alex drive off. Steve approaches Mel (Kat Stewart), a friend from his younger days, who has prospered and now has a small bakery. She offers to lend him the sum if he will deliver some small zip-lock packages of white powder to various addresses. He tells Alex they contain vitamin C. While Jimmy is purchasing icecreams at a roadside van, Alex opens one of the bags and just as he is putting some in his mouth, Jimmy becomes aware of the situation, rushes back to the car and forces Alex to cough it up. He confesses the truth to Alex, they exchange confidences resulting in a reconciliation. Jimmy confronts Banos with the few hundreds of dollars he has left, and Banos signals to his men, then as they have beaten him to the ground and are kicking him, Banos calls them off in a seeming change of heart.

Jimmy signs the car over to Banos and pedals a pushbike back to his ex-wife's residence, Alex on the handle-bars. Night is falling, and when asked by his mother how the day went, he replied "It was the best day ever".

A decade after the fall of communism, a section of Eastern Europe known as "Crimeland" becomes a trade route for drugs and weapons. Billie ("Crazy Six") and his friends rob a plutonium deal involving Raul in order to obtain money for their drug habits with the aid of Dirty Mao, who cheats them out of the money in the end. Raul is given 48 hours by his boss to recover the goods and begins by hunting them down at a local club, injuring the singer Anna and killing Andrew's girlfriend Viyana. The American detective Dakota interviews Anna, leading him to Billie. Anna is kidnapped by Raul's men and forced to smoke crack. Billie and Andrew rob Dirty Mao's hideout and recover the money. Dakota follows them to the exchange with Raul, but so does Dirty Mao. After a gunfight between Dakota and Raul's men, Dirty Mao kills Raul and attempts to frame Billie for it but is shot and killed by Dakota. In the end, Dakota adopts Dirty Mao's dog, Anna returns to singing, and Billie gets clean.

Evan Goldman is forced to move from New York City to his grandmother’s house in Walkerton, Indiana, when his parents go through a divorce ("Thirteen"). He befriends the next door neighbor, Patrice ("The Lamest Place in the World"), and her friend Archie, who is wheelchair-bound.

Faced with his upcoming Bar Mitzvah, Evan aims to befriend the popular kids at his new school, led by football star Brett Sampson and head cheerleader, Kendra Duncan, but this alienates him from Patrice, who is considered a dork by the popular kids and sees Evan wanting to befriend them as a betrayal. Things aren’t better at home, with Evan resenting both his parents for the divorce and move and his mother Jessica lamenting giving up her writing career for her marriage, only for it to fail anyway.

Brett and Kendra are crushing on each other and want to share their first kiss together ("I’ve Been Waiting"), but Kendra’s best friend Lucy also likes Brett, and is fed up with always being outshone by Kendra ("Opportunity"). When Evan comes up with a plan to trick Kendra’s overbearing mother and get her and Brett on a date to the movies ("The Bloodmaster"), Lucy threatens him to prevent the two from kissing or she will get everyone to boycott Evan’s party.

To prevent the kiss without angering Brett directly, Evan recruits Archie, who has a huge crush on Kendra, to sit next to her at the movies to ruin the mood. Archie is fine with this, despite knowing Evan is using him ("Getting Ready"), but Patrice learns and calls Kendra’s mother with the truth, causing her to storm in and ruin the date. This backfires on her when such an act alienates her from both Archie and Evan, who is blamed and shunned. Lucy makes her move and kisses Brett, claiming her as her boyfriend.

Lucy proves to be a clingy overbearing girlfriend to Brett, whose friends pity his sad state ("Bad Bad News"). Evan and Jessica reconcile over the disappointing turns their lives have taken ("It Would Be Funny"), and Evan finally calls his father, who apologizes and encourages him to fix his mistakes. He convinces Brett to apologize to Kendra, with help from Patrice ("Tell Her"). Brett and Kendra reconcile, and he dumps Lucy. Evan and Patrice apologize to each other, and Evan asks her to come to his Bar Mitzvah.

The morning of the party, Patrice is convinced to forgive Evan by a gift Evan leaves at her house, and goes to the service, which is also attended by Brett and Kendra and their friends, including Lucy, who apologizes and makes up with Kendra. Evan completes his service, and everyone sings that they have "A Little More Homework to Do" while flashes show Jessica and Evan moving into a house of their own, Evan being friends with both Brett and Kendra, and Patrice and Archie with understanding on both sides, Jessica resuming her writing career, and Archie getting a new crush. The whole cast has an epic party afterwards, with a performance of "A Brand New You".

It is summer and the composer Petter Gran is on vacation when he suddenly hears a scream from Miss Hermansen. The brakes on her bicycle fail, and she ends up in the water. He helps her out of the water, but the bicycle is broken and so they continue spending the summer together. They return to Oslo and soon afterwards get engaged. She is introduced to Petter's parents. His mother is not enthusiastic about her, but his father welcomes her into the family.

The couple soon get married. They have difficulty finding their own place to live, and so they have to live with Petter's parents. His mother's dislike of Kari eventually becomes such a big problem that the couple is forced to move to Kari's former apartment. However, they have bought a site where they are building a house, and every Sunday they work frenetically to finish the building. Kari gets pregnant, and when the landlady learns about this she forces the couple to move. The house is not finished, so they have to rent rooms in Mrs. Rønne's house at an exorbitant price.

Their house is almost finished when a building inspector pays a visit. He says they cannot move in because they do not have a building permit for the house. The couple have already canceled their lease for Mrs. Rønne's room, so they cannot stay there. Instead, they rent a dilapidated place to stay on a farm far out of town. Petter needs money and signs up for a song competition. Initially he fails to compose anything, but when he sees some swallows sitting on a telephone line it comes to him. The swallows look like notes on a staff, and suddenly he knows what the tune should be. Petter submits his contribution to the competition and at the same time he and his wife receive the building permit to complete the house. Many people visit on the day they move in, and when they turn on the radio they hear Petter's song "What Was Life without You?" which won the competition.

Andy (Andrew E.), Johnny (Janno Gibbs) and Dondon (Dennis Padilla) are working as promodisers in a local mall. After fighting with robbers in a mall, Atty. Jose Agcaoili (Christopher Roxas) broke the news that Johnny's father, Don Roberto Endrinal had passed away. In his last will and testament, Don Roberto inherited his hacienda to Johnny. Johnny, Dondon and Andy went home to the Hacienda and found out that there was a big problem with the hacienda according to Enrico. But, Johnny denied about his identity and he and Andy switched places. There Andy who poses himself as Johnny met Sam (Louise Delos Reyes), who is the daughter of Don Roberto's best friend. Don Roberto arranged Johnny and Sam for marriage. But Johnny refused and ran away. In the hacienda, Dondon met Isabel (Zarah Tolentino) who is the caretaker of the animals in the farm.

Johnny who poses as Andy met June (Cindy Miranda), an engineer who is pissed off at Johnny after he took her luggage away at the airport. The news of Johnny's return reach Russel Flores (Eddie Garcia) who is planning to build a hotel and casino at the hacienda. Russel is planning to poison the lake so that it may cause sickness and death to plants and animals. With the help of his lawyer Atty. Saguit and Russell's personal secretary Selina, they offered Johnny 100 million pesos to sell the hacienda which Andy who poses as Johnny agreed. As time goes by, Andy who poses as Johnny is getting closer with Sam, while Dondon is also getting closer with Isabel. While the real Johnny would talk to the veterinarian and plant pathologist. After which, he would have sex with them. When Andy, who poses as Johnny met with Chairman Flores for him to sign the papers, Johnny who poses as Andy poured coffee on purpose, in order to stop Andy to sell the hacienda. While Dondon, Isabel and June discovered that someone is pouring poison in the irrigation system. Johnny also discovered that his father didn't die in an accident. Don Roberto was ambushed and their vehicle fell on a ravine. Only Sam survived the accident, but it caused her to be blind. In another attempt, Atty. Saguit visited Andy who poses Johnny for him to sign the papers. But Johnny who poses as Andy took the deed of sale and burn it in a barbecue grill. There Russell calls for drastic measures. They use Selina to convince Johnny to sell the hacienda. Dondon and Isabel pushed through with their one night stand, Johnny celebrated his birthday with June and had a drinking spree. Selina came to Andy who poses as Johnny and ask if she would stay for a night. However, it was a plan of Atty. Saguit, there she put a lapel microphone with a recorder for her to record their conversation. Selina confessed that she likes Andy who poses as Johnny but he confessed that he loves Sam. However, Selina knew about Andy's true identity and Atty. Saguit's plan failed. Selina returned to Andy and gave to him a voice recorder, there they knew that Russell is the mastermind in the murder of Don Roberto. June and Johnny decided to talk to the mayor and tell about Russell's plans. While Andy and Dondon along with Selina sought the help of Atty. Agcaoili. Selina also revealed that after Andy signed the deed of sale, he will be gunned down by a sniper. There, Atty. Agcaoili sought the help from the governor.

In the celebration of the town fiesta, Johnny, Andy, Dondon along with June, Sam, Isabel and Enrico came. Selina also told Dondon, that the sniper is positioned at foyer. June talked to the mayor and told about Russell being the mastermind of all the problems in the hacienda. However, the mayor didn't listen to her because he's a close friend of Russell. There Johnny revealed his true identity as the real son of Don Roberto. A furious Russell who was about to shot at Andy, but Selina shielded Andy and was shot instead. And when Russell about to shot Johnny, Dondon used a pan to shield, but the bullet went to Andy. There Russell told the mayor to come with him, or he will be implicated. But the mayor shot at Russell. As they're about to rush Dondon to the hospital, mayor along with Atty. Saguit and some policemen chased them. At the hospital, several police officers are on standby along with the governor and arrested the mayor and Atty. Saguit. At the hospital, they also learned that Selina died from the gunshot would she sustained.

Johnny decided to give the house to Enrico and his family and he and June are now on. Dondon is now also happy with Isabel. As for Andy, he knew that he will be rejected by Sam after she regained her eyesight after Selina decided to give her eyes to Sam before she died. Sam also confessed her love to Andy.

Keza narrowly escapes death during the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which the rest of her family perishes. She and her mates Shema, a Hutu and Mutesi, a Tutsi get on a run to sneak out of Rwanda to Uganda across the Kagera River border.

Seven years after the events of ''Drive'', Driver is living in Phoenix under the name Paul West, engaged to be married. When two men attack him and his fiancée, leaving her dead, Driver seeks vengeance.

"After his mother's sudden death, Sócrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief," dire economic situation, family strife, homophobia, abuse, lust, and love.

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way.

Inés (22), along with her husband Justo (28) and their best friend, Gerardo (23), are members of Fatherland and Liberty, a Chilean far-right paramilitary group of nationalist and neo-fascist ideology supported by the CIA, that performed multiple terrorist acts in the early 1970s in order to overthrow the leftist government of Popular Unity and Salvador Allende.

In the heat of this fight they are involved in a risky and passionate love triangle. Together they commit a political crime that changes the country's history and incidentally involves them in a great betrayal that separates them forever.

Forty years later, Gerardo reappears. Not only does revenge inspire him, but also his youth's obsession to revive the nationalist cause, now focused on street crime and Haitian immigration. The police surprise him with an arsenal of war in his house. Inés, today a powerful and influential businesswoman, will do what is in her hands so that Gerardo does not disclose her past or her husband's.

Police chief Ingimundur, whose wife died in a car accident, reluctantly undergoes grief counselling, works constantly on renovating a farm building for his daughter Elín's family, and sometimes looks after her daughter Salka. Elín gives him some of her mother's effects, and he's shocked to find a video evidently recording an affair she had with a man called Olgeir Olafsson. He stakes out Olgeir's home, joining his football club. Bad weather closes the roads; while having a pixellated online therapy session, he snaps and trashes the room, beating up two colleagues when they protest and locking them in the cells. Insulting Salka to get rid of her, he kidnaps Olgeir and takes him at gunpoint to a grave he's dug, demanding to know the truth about the affair, and what Olgeir thought of her. Olgeir obliges and Ingimundur yells in fury; Olgeir flees. The next day Olgeir confronts and stabs Ingimundur, terrifying Salka. With a bleeding arm, Ingimundur carries her home through another white-out, apologising for being rude. Having finally acknowledged his grief and anger, he has a vision of his wife undressing and smiling at him as he weeps.

Ronald Wilby, a 17-year-old boy with divorced parents, lives with his mother. Living with his first sexual urges, he tries to rape a girl. He kills the girl and buries her. Having forgotten his jacket at the scene of the crime, he confesses to his mother, who decides to hide Ronald in their house. She tells the police that her son has disappeared. Ronald lives in his hidden room, only going out into the rest of the house at night. When his mother dies, a couple and their three daughters move into the house, none-the-wiser that Ronald is living in the walls. Over time, he becomes infatuated with the daughters, and signs of his presence begin to surface in the household, concerning the new residents.

The book differs somewhat from the 1974 movie adaptation. The book was considerably more graphic, featuring scenes of rape, paedophilia and sexual perversion. The movie toned these elements down; rather than trying to rape the young girl, in the movie Ronald accidentally kills her in a blind rage after she mocks him and his mother for being "weird".

Alice (Sarah Kennedy), a shy and lustful woman, lives in a New York City apartment that is wallpapered with pornographic images. She is filmed in various poses under the male gaze, and speaks in a sexy baby voice. She receives an obscene phone call from a stranger (Norman Rose), which fascinates her and sends her on a picaresque adventure through various situations in pursuit of the caller, all of them sexual in one way or another. Alice's scenes are interspersed with confessional footage of anonymous men who place obscene calls.

At last the caller is revealed, a man in a suit wearing a pig mask. He makes a confession, and Alice's infatuation for him does not wane. The film ends with a sudden change to color footage and a psychedelic, heavily sexualized and absurdist animated sequence.

The novel is set in an unnamed Midwestern hamlet where each year all of the young men take part in a yearly ritual where they hunt a giant pumpkin-headed creature that arises from the corn, known as both "Sawtooth Jack" and the "October Boy". They are tasked with catching the creature before it makes it to the hamlet's church, which it must do before midnight in order to win the ordeal. Girls are forbidden from participating or being outside during the hunt. The winner of the hunt receives the ability to leave the hamlet - something not otherwise possible- and his family is given a new home, car, and a year free from bills. Winners are frequently idolized and last year's winner, Jim Shepard, is no exception.

Unbeknownst to the participants, the truth behind the ritual is far darker than what they would expect. While the winner's family does receive their prizes, the winning boy is killed so that he may become the new creature the following year when he is resurrected as a gnarled monster with a pumpkin head. His father, this year Jim's father Dan, is forced to carve a face for the creature and then later persuade the creature to let itself be caught if it does happen to make it to the church by midnight. Many of the town's fathers are aware of the truth of the ritual, but still allow their sons to take part. This year the October Boy is determined that it will be the last year for the ritual.

Ultimately the October Boy manages to make it to the church with the help of some of the local teens, where he finds that his father has completed suicide. He also comes face to face with the hamlet's lawman, Jerry Ricks, who is determined that the ritual continue. Ricks's attempts are for naught, as he is shot and killed. The church and surrounding buildings are then set ablaze by the October Boy as the townspeople flee, now able to freely leave the hamlet.

Yassi Pressman as Trina is an unlucky girl when it comes to love, she had been hurt by three men as she always ends up being the ''third wheel'' in her every relationship. Later on she meets Sam Milby as Neo an impossibly gorgeous and sincere man who manages to break down her walls until she learns that Neo has a son from his previous relationship. Trina's character finds herself the ''third wheel'' again but not in the way she expected.

Raki Kiseki is a second-year middle school student who transfers to Star Harmony Academy to become an idol. However, when she uses an Aikatsu Pass she received from her elder sister Saya, an Aikatsu engineer, something mysterious happens. Many doors appeared before her, and when she opens them, she meets Aikatsu idols she never knew before, such as Ichigo Hoshimiya, Akari Ōzora, Yume Nijino, Aine Yūki, and Mio Minato. Raki vows to design her own premium rare dress and perform in it on stage.

Three generations are connected through the song "Champa Battambang" by Sinn Sisamouth.

Kaylie Konrad (Bryana Salaz) is a famous 19-year-old billionaire and reality TV show celebrity who gets into a car accident and is sentenced to one-year of community service leading a Wilderness Club at an inner city middle school.

Istanbul (1980s–2016)

The book starts in Istanbul, Turkey, where Peri is with her daughter when she is robbed and is subject to an attempted rape. Her early childhood of the 1980s and home life are also discussed in the same city.

Oxford

In her late teenage years, Peri left to study at Oxford and met Professor Azur, who changed her life. Peri also meets two women at the campus: Mona, an Egyptian who is a true Muslim, and Shirin, who is a faithless Iranian. The book discusses these three characters, denoting them as the "Sinner", the "Believer" and the "Confused".

''The Asutra'' is a novel in which the hero must overthrow the rulers of his world.

Elie's father, Julien, reproaches him for not having left him to enter the service of Louis the Pious. Julien challenges him to show his prowess by attacking a quintain. Elie accepts, but promises leave. After Elie masterfully defeats the quintain, Julien wants to make him master of his lands. Elie refuses and leaves. On his travels, he meets a badly injured knight who has been a victim of the Saracens. Elie promises to avenge him and to go to the aid of the Christian knights (one of whom is William of Orange). He kills seven Saracens, but is unable to free the prisoners before being chased away by the Saracen king Malpriant. The prisoners are freed by some peasants. William, upon learning Elie's parentage, goes to Saint-Gilles to seek help. Elie has been captured by Malpriant and the Saracen king Macabré. However, Elie escapes on Malpriant's horse. After three days without food, Elie comes across four robbers preparing to eat in the forest. Elie kills two of them as a third one runs off. The fourth one, Galopin (a dwarf), begs for mercy. At this point, they are attacked by three Saracens. Galopin kills two of them as the third one runs off to Sorbrie where Macabré is. An injured Elie is taken to a tower where Rosamund, the daughter of Macabrés after him. Macabré received Lubien, an elderly Saracen king, who challenges him to a duel for his kingdom and his daughter's hand. Rosamund produces Elie to take her father's place in the duel. Elie is the victor and kills Rosamund's brother Caifas who insulted him. After killing Macabré's son, Elie is forced to take refuge in a tower until king Louis and his company arrive. Galopin kills Macabré and they return to France. They return to France where Elie wishes to marry Rosamund (who has been baptized) but the arch-bishop refuses. Instead he marries Avisse and Rosamund marries Galopin .

A plot summary, in French, was first given by Paulin Paris in 1852,''Histoire littéraire de la France'', tome XXII, [https://archive.org/details/histoirelittra22riveuoft/page/416 pages 416-24]. 1852. Available online via archive.org. followed by a shorter one by Gaston Raynaud in 1879.Raynaud 1879. Pages III-X.

Gaston Paris considered that the final quarter was not part of the original poem, but was a poorly composed, hasty addition to the original.Malicote, Sandra C. O., [https://www.persee.fr/doc/roma_0035-8029_2006_num_124_493_1374 ''Visual and verbal allusion: disputatio and the poetics of Elie de Saint-Gille and Aiol''], Romania, 124, 2006, p. 79. Available online via persee.fr.

The musical takes place in 1941, in Seoul, Korea.

In the Japanese army camp, the women are cruelly abused to try to make them into sex slaves.

Minsik, a Korean serving in the Imperial Japanese Army, decides to help Goeun and the other women escape their Japanese captors.Chanin, M. (2018). ''COMFORT WOMEN: AN AMBITIOUS AND NOBLE UNDERTAKING''. Theater Pizzazz. [http://www.theaterpizzazz.com/comfort-women-an-ambitious-and-noble-undertaking/ Link].

Plot rewrite

To empower the female characters, Kim rewrote part of the script in 2018, making the female characters, rather than the male soldier, plot their escape from the military brothel. The 2019 production of the musical has also reduced the violent scenes.

''Daikatana'' stars Hiro Miyamoto, who is told that an enemy of his family, Kage Mishima, had stolen the Daikatana with the intention of using its time-warping abilities to change history. Mishima then kidnaps his friend Mikiko and attacks the family dojo.

Characters from Jane Austen's novels appear in ''Ever, Jane'' as non-playable characters that players may interact with.

Thomas Anderson is the creator of a video game series called ''The Matrix,'' based on his faint memories as Neo. At a coffee shop, he keeps crossing paths with Tiffany, a married mother with no recollection of her past, on which Anderson based the game character Trinity. He struggles to separate perceived reality from dreams. His therapist prescribes him blue pills to suppress the occurrences, which he stops taking.

Anderson creates a simulation to develop game characters. A young woman named Bugs learns the simulation is running old code in a loop, enacting the moment when Trinity first found Neo within the Matrix. Bugs discovers a program embodying Morpheus, and helps free him. Having deduced that Neo is alive, Bugs and Morpheus extract Anderson from the Matrix, meanwhile Anderson's business partner Smith regains his memories as Agent Smith, Neo's former nemesis.

Neo awakens in a pod and notices Trinity confined in another one nearby, before being extracted to Bugs's hovercraft ''Mnemosyne''. Neo is brought to the human city Io, where he reunites with an elderly Niobe. She explains that sixty years have passed in the real world since the Machine War ended, and that Neo's allies have died over time, including the original Morpheus. The peace achieved by Neo's sacrifice lasted for many years, but the large number of humans leaving the Matrix created a serious power shortage, causing the machines to fight over limited resources. Zion was destroyed, though most of its people relocated to Io with the aid of sympathetic machines. She says she won't risk Io to help him free Trinity, and has him locked in his quarters.

Bugs and her crewmates free Neo and enter the Matrix to contact Trinity, where they are intercepted by Smith and other exile programs, including the Merovingian. They attack, but Neo and the crew of the Mnemosyne defeat them as Neo's abilities begin to return.

They leave and locate Trinity, but before Neo can talk to her, his therapist appears and immobilizes him by manipulating time. He reveals his identity as the Analyst, a program designed to study the human psyche. He explains that after Neo and Trinity's deaths, he was tasked with studying Neo's body and his anomalous powers as The One - convincing his superiors to resurrect both of them. He found that due to The One's inherent connection to all humanity in the Matrix, manipulating Neo could actually make the Matrix produce more energy. Moreover, he discovered that the code anomaly in Neo was actually shared in his bond with Trinity. By suppressing both their memories and keeping them close but always apart, the Matrix generated much more energy. Solving the energy crisis put the Analyst in a position to seize power from the Architect, after which he rebuilt the Matrix to control humans with emotional manipulation - citing that humans generally believe what they ''want'' to believe. However, Neo's liberation destabilized the system and triggered a fail-safe to reboot the Matrix. The Analyst stalled the reboot by convincing his superiors that threatening to kill Trinity would get Neo to return voluntarily to his pod.

Neo and Bugs return to Io and talk to Sati, an exile program he previously met. Seeking to avenge her parents' deaths at the hands of the machines, Sati helps devise a plan to free Trinity. Back in the Matrix, Neo makes a deal with the Analyst; he will return to his pod if he fails to convince Trinity to leave the Matrix. Tiffany reaffirms her identity as Trinity while talking with Neo. Realizing that he has lost, the Analyst attempts to kill her, but Smith appears and attacks the Analyst, seeking revenge for his own imprisonment. Neo, Trinity, and the others escape in their vehicles, but are chased through the streets by hordes of "bot" programs and attack helicopters. As the last ones to be extracted, Neo and Trinity become cornered atop a skyscraper. Holding hands, they leap off and Trinity begins to fly, taking them to safety.

With Trinity's newfound control over the Matrix, both return to confront the Analyst. They sarcastically thank him for giving them a second chance by resurrecting them, which they intend to use to remake the Matrix as they see fit. Neo and Trinity then triumphantly fly off into the sky together.

An African-American male in the ghettos of Houston struggles with opportunities to enter a life of crime including a chance to kill the man who killed his brother.

The series revolves around two families. The Walford family is headed by wealthy tycoon Phillip Walford, his wife Cate and privileged son Bart. Their world is penthouses, luxury cars and designer offices. The Grey family consists of single mother Sophia, footballer son Danny, and daughter Bella. Their world is suburbia, work and sport. The two worlds become linked by an unexpected incident.

This is the story of "Shinemon Nitta", the future manager of Card Capital.

10 years before the reunion of Aichi Sendou and Toshiki Kai, the card shop run by the Tokura family "Card Capital" was going out of business. Then came the attempt to take over the store by Esuka Hibino, the owner of a major card shop.

In order to protect Card Capital, Shinemon Nitta stands up as the "Self-proclaimed Manager"!

A married father of three comes out as a trans woman.

Driving instructor Rose Dooley lives alone in Ireland. She possesses powerful paranormal "talents", including the ability to send wayward spirits into the afterlife, but has not used them since a paranormal accident killed her father, paranormal expert Vincent Dooley, when she was a child. Rose ignores obvious minor hauntings around her, and continually fends off phone calls to her driving service asking for help with paranormal problems. One of these calls is Martin Martin, who calls under the guise of wanting to learn to drive, but actually wants Rose to help him deal with the spirit of his nagging wife Bonnie, who haunts his house. Rose orders him out of her car, but not before Martin tells her he finds she has a warm presence. Meanwhile, one-hit wonder rock musician Christian Winter attempts to sacrifice a virgin woman to regain his popularity, but his wife Claudia interrupts the ritual and inadvertently kills the woman, forcing Christian to find another virgin before the blood moon the following night.

Rose falls for Martin and follows him to a store where his daughter Sarah works, where she overhears him talking to Sarah about her. Christian's divining tools lead him to the same store, where he thinks he has been led to Sarah, and he gets ahold of some of her hair. That night, Christian uses the hair in an incantation that renders Sarah motionless and floating in midair, causing Martin to panic and call Rose for help again. Rose decides against her better judgment to help Martin, informing him that waking someone who has been put under a Satanic spell will cause them to explode; she instead puts a holding spell on Sarah, keeping the spell from drawing her to the site of a sacrificial ritual. She realizes Martin has the ability to talk to ghosts, rendering him "talented" as well, and explains that they will need the ectoplasm of several different spirits to break the spell on Sarah.

Rose and Martin answer one of Rose's phone messages and exorcise a spirit from a garbage can by using Martin as a host for the spirit; when Rose commands the spirit to move on from this world, Martin spits up ectoplasm. Christian and Claudia, infuriated by the holding spell, witness this, and Christian calls Rose for a driving lesson, despite his fear of driving. During the lesson, Christian fails to overcome his fear, but obtains some of Rose's hair. Rose re-watches a tape from her father and remembers how her failure to control her abilities may have killed him; she goes to Martin's house and explains the accident. As a child, Rose assisted her father in helping a dog drowned in a haunted pothole to move on to the afterlife, but forgot part of the incantation, resulting in her father being possessed by both the dog and pothole and being hit by a bus. However, Martin convinces Rose to continue using her abilities to help Sarah, despite her worries that she might kill him by mistake.

Rose and Martin collect the ectoplasm of several different ghosts, but wind up one short of the total, forcing them to attempt to exorcise Bonnie from Martin's house. As they do, with the help of Rose's pregnant sister Sailor and her date Brian, Christian performs an incantation that breaks the holding spell on Sarah and weakens Rose's talents, leaving Martin still half-possessed by a furious Bonnie after expelling her ectoplasm. When they try to apply the ectoplasm to Sarah, they realize she is being drawn to the site of the ritual, and follow a magpie that has been following Rose ever since her father's accident. On the way, they find Christian also in Sarah's pursuit, and realize he is behind the ritual; Martin loses a finger trying to stop Christian's car.

At Christian's castle, Christian kills his wife after she interrupts his incantations, then prepares to sacrifice Sarah. Rose, Martin, Sailor, and Brian arrive too late to stop Christian from opening up a huge pit in his floor that sucks Sarah into it; Christian also fatally wounds the magpie. However, the pit expels Sarah, fully alive; the demon Astaroth rises from the pit and berates Christian for not bringing him a virgin, as everyone believed Sarah was. Astaroth decides to take Rose, an actual virgin, in Sarah's stead, but as she is dragged towards the pit, she convinces Martin to have sex with her on the floor to keep her from being a virgin anymore. As they do, Sailor goes into labor, Brian helps her deliver her baby, and Sarah knocks Christian into the pit, which closes as Rose and Martin climax. Bonnie tells Rose to treat Martin and Sarah well, then leaves Martin's body. Martin then allows himself to be a vessel for the dying magpie, which is revealed to be possessed by Rose and Sailor's father. He forgives Rose for the accident and welcomes Sailor's child, whom she names Vincent, before leaving Martin's body as well.

Three months later, Rose and Martin have started a paranormal investigations and services business. Martin proposes to Rose, who, shocked, responds with a cheerful "No!"

''Brassic'' follows the lives of Vinnie O'Neill and his five friends as they live their lives in the fictional northern English town of Hawley. The working class group commit various crimes to keep money in their pockets, but as they get older some of them start to wonder if there's more to life away from the town.

In 1870, the new farm owner of Robber's Rise struggles against a rival neighbour as well as his own family and beliefs.

Bare-fisted Gallagher (William Desmond) has inherited a mine from his uncle. Gallagher falls in love with a woman bandit, whom he has rescued from an attack by Aliso Pete (Frank Lanning). Aliso owns the general store, but also turns out to be another bandit. Gallagher convinces Jem to reform.

Best friends Elinor Boxwood-Horace and Reina Carvajal discover they have magical powers: Nory can transform into animals and Reina can control fire. They enroll at Sage Academy, a prestigious magic school.

At Sage Academy, there are different classes for each student: The Flare class is for those who can create fire with their hands like Reina. The Fluxer class is for those who can turn into animals like Nory. The Flyer class is for those who can fly a few feet from the ground. The Fuzzy class is for those who can talk to animals. The Flicker class is for those who can levitate things to them with the flick of a finger. The duo must test their magical powers to see if they are fit to be in the honors-level classes for their magic category.

During the test, Reina shows off her flare skills while Nory unintentionally transforms into a cat/dragon hybrid while trying to turn into a cat. Reina is placed in the Honors Flare class, but Nory is placed in the Upside-Down Magic program which is run by Budd Scriff. In this program are students who have imperfect abilities as Headmistress Knightslinger considers them to be easy targets for the Shadow Magic, an evil force that uses a person's magic against everyone else through possession. As Nory and her fellow students secretly plan to perfect their abilities while assisting Budd in his groundskeeping, Headmistress Knightslinger is unaware that the Shadow Magic has ways of targeting the most unlikely students.

Reina discovers a book about Shadow Magic and, unaware of the Shadow Magic legend that Nory and the other UDMs were taught, takes the book to the dorm and finds a page about strengthening magical abilities. Reina reads the page because she was being belittled by a fellow Flare student named Phillip who has more Flare experience than her, and even her strange new friend Chandra is unable to fully help her.

Budd finds that his students are working to perfect their abilities in secret and agrees to help them while keeping Headmistress Knightslinger from finding out.

The next day, Reina prepares for Founders’ Day, where Reina competes against Phillip. Reina's powers are unusually strong and she gets to represent the Flares. Nory attempts to crash the competition by turning into a kitten, but instead becomes a wild boar/cat/dragon hybrid. Reina uses Nory's favorite Flare move to snap Nory out of it, but it almost burns Nory because Reina's powers have been so unusually strengthened.

The Shadow Magic book starts appearing after where Reina goes when she tries to get rid of it, and Chandra acts increasingly strange and has knowledge of the book. Reina tells Chandra to take the book with her. Chandra takes it, but it just reappears in Reina’s room. Chandra is revealed to be an embodiment of Shadow Magic in human form the next day when the other Flares cannot see who Reina is talking to. Chandra manipulates Reina and possesses her. At Founders' Day, Reina goes up to represent the Flares and uses a complicated Flare trick and becomes a shadow-like being who threatens to destroy the entire school. Eventually, it is the UDMs who are able to rescue Reina and return her to normal enough for her to defeat the Shadow Magic.

After the incident, Nory and the UDMs are moved into their respective magic classes and Budd is now an official Fuzzy teacher.

In the final scene, the Shadow Magic book falls off the shelf as it opens on a specific page that shows the magic logo with one symbol that has been removed in the normal magic logo. Shadow Magic is not fully defeated and it seems to have its own lost category of magic that it wants to show the world....at any destructive cost.

Dian is on a quest to find her long lost father. The quest leads her into darkest moments and the loss of her mother even before she can find her father.

Paul Canova, a middle-aged university history professor, is married to Vera, a beautiful Russian émigré much younger than him. Paul's first wife and their young son have died under odd circumstances, and an insurance company launches a secret investigation about Vera's possible role in those deaths. Nevertheless, Canova seems content with his second marriage and has taken out a large life insurance policy designating Vera as beneficiary.

Then Vera accuses Canova's long-time secretary of theft, and insists that Paul fires her. The secretary maintains her innocence and later commits suicide. Paul now needs a secretary, and his teaching assistant, Christian Magny, recommends one of his own students, Beatrice Manceau. While on the job, Beatrice has a brief affair with Canova. But she soon ends it, because Christian proposes to her and she accepts.

Now married to Christian, Beatrice begins suspecting that he is secretly meeting with someone in their apartment while she is working with the professor. She hires private detectives who install a covert listening device that records all the conversations in the apartment when she is away. She finds out from the recorded tapes that Vera and Christian aren't just lovers but they are also plotting to murder Canova for his life insurance. According to their plan, Beatrice would also have to die to make it look more convincing. Beatrice then places the incriminating tape in a safe deposit box and intends to use it as the leverage against the plotters. She allows the murderers to proceed almost as planned, only to lure them in a clever trap and exact her cruel revenge.

The show is set in Storybrook Village, where the titular character, Whyatt Beanstalk, lives with his friends Woofster (as of season 2), Littlest Pig, Red Riding Hood, and Princess Pea. In each of the episodes, one of the main characters (sometimes two characters, or even all five) has a "super big problem", a "super big question", or a "super big mystery". The main characters then discuss their situation at the Book Club, agreeing to look in a book of a famous story to resolve it.

The goal of the Super Readers is to follow the storyline of the book. As they progress through the events of the story, they encounter various obstacles, which can be solved by applying their literacy skills to change the story. As they overcome each of these obstacles, they are rewarded with red glittery "Super Letters" that form the solution to whatever scenario they're investigating.

At the conclusion of the adventure, the Super Readers fly back to the Book Club. The Super Letters are put onto the giant computer screen and are spelled out to show the "Super Story Answer". Then, one of the Super Readers gives the reason why that particular word or phrase serves as the solution to their issue or mystery.

As Dr. Gideon Fell and Professor Melson walk back to Melson's rooms at Lincoln's Inn Fields, a horrific scream draws them into the home of clockmaker Johannus Carver. At the top of the stairs is a dead tramp. Standing over the body is Eleanor Carver, Calvin Boscombe, and former Chief Inspector Peter Stanley. Boscombe has a gun, but the tramp has been stabbed in the neck by the minute hand of a large clock. The tramp, in fact, is Detective-Inspector George Finley Ames, who was investigating the stabbing death of a floorwalker at a local department store.

Fell is confronted with three seemingly surreal stories. The prim Boscombe and the nerve-shattered Stanley claim they intended to play a joke on Ames, threatening to shoot him with an unloaded pistol just to see his reaction. Don Hastings, claims he was on the roof for a lover's tryst with Eleanor when he saw, through a skylight, Ames enter Boscombe's room and die. Neither Boscombe nor Stanley were near him, Hastings says. When he tried to climb down from the roof, he fell and was knocked unconscious. Christopher Paull, a drunkard living in the Carver home, swears that he awoke in a stupor in the middle of the night and found the murderer's blood-stained glove in the hall near the landing. In the glove was a key to the rooftop trap-door.

The murder weapon came from a large standing clock which Johannus Carver was making for Paull's uncle. Someone broke into a locked workroom and stole both hands from the clock. Complicating matters, female solicitor Lucia Handreth (who rents a combined apartment-office on the first floor of the Carver home) and housekeeper Millicent Steffins point the finger at Eleanor Carver as the murderer.

Chief Inspector David Hadley arrives to take the case in hand. Hadley reveals that an anonymous informant had told Ames that someone in the Carver household had killed the department store worker. Ames had gone undercover as a local tramp to investigate. Fell and Hadley quickly discover that Stanley shot and killed Don Hastings' father 14 years earlier. Carlton Hope-Hastings had been accused of embezzlement; the unjustified shooting led to Stanley's dismissal from the police force. Fell and Hadley also discover that Eleanor Carver is a kleptomaniac, and in a secret compartment in her room they find the second clock hand and other highly incriminating evidence.

Hadley is convinced that Eleanor Carver impulsively killed Ames when she discovered him in the darkened house. Fell, however, is equally convinced that Eleanor Carver is being framed by the true murderer. Without any evidence to support his supposition, Fell asks an unreliable ally to help him unmask the killer.

Carlos Fernández de León is a partying and irresponsible man who lives off his father's money. When he dies, his father decides to leave his fortune to Carlos, with one condition: he must get married. Otherwise, the inheritance would go to the hands of his cousin Diego, an ambitious man, capable of everything for money. Carlos fulfills the condition imposed on him by his father and marries Deyanira, a waitress with a brother and sister and severe economic problems. Carlos never imagined that the will would have a clause stipulating that his marriage should last a minimum of 5 years.

In the second season, Carlos and Deyanira continue to pretend that they love each other and maintain a solid relationship. Diego now seeks to divorce them and keep the money, next to his faithful and innocent squire, Matías. Pamela, Carlos's ex-girlfriend, after finding out about this marriage, will seek to separate them, as she does not overcome that Carlos has chosen Deyanira and not her as his wife.

Its plot follows a bored housewife who takes on an alternate persona that starts wreaking havoc on her life. Karen Black plays the title role, a dowdy, downtrodden housewife plagued by recurring nightmares of funerals, black flowers, fires, and a woman called Sandy. Seeking an escape from her stifling lifestyle and dull husband, who only wishes her to have a baby, Black dons a low-cut red blouse, blonde wig, garish makeup, and a new identity. She is also compelled to buy a house in a beach community where it would appear a woman who looks just like her once resided - before her tragic demise.

It turns out that the woman Black pretends to be may actually exist—and may have more than a passing knowledge of the occult.

In 1972, after martial law was imposed in the Philippines through Proclamation No. 1081, Geny Lopez and Serge Osmeña are separately arrested based on false accusations of attempts to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos. Eventually, Lopez and Osmeña would hatch a plan together to escape from Fort Bonifacio and discreetly travel abroad, out of range from Marcos' dictatorial grasp.

During the Spanish coup of July 1936, Nationalist troops occupy Salamanca. In the process, the city's Socialist mayor is arrested. Revered author Miguel de Unamuno (Karra Elejalde) convenes with two colleagues, Protestant priest Atilano Coco Martin and leftist Salvador Vila Hernández; they discuss the coup briefly, after which Unamuno leaves for an interview to publicly support the coup. During the interview, the mayor's wife interrupts to ask him to intervene regarding her husband's imprisonment; Unamuno offers monetary assistance instead, which she rejects.

Meanwhile, in Spanish Morocco, a German delegation meets with General Francisco Franco to pressure the formation of a single Nationalist leader following the death of General José Sanjurjo. Franco maintains that the junta in Burgos holds power, even as his colleagues pressure him to take leadership. Back in Salamanca, Unamuno is removed from his position as rector at the University of Salamanca by the government of the Second Spanish Republic in response to his support of the coup. Unamuno meets with Coco and Salvador again, with the meeting culminating in a heated argument from which Coco leaves. Unamuno later goes to Coco's residence to speak with him, only to find that he is not there. Elsewhere, General José Millán-Astray meets with Franco in Cáceres, while the junta in Burgos reinstates Unamuno as rector of the university, where he finds that he has been prompted to write a manifesto supporting the coup, a task he rejects. Unamuno attempts to meet with Coco - his wife reveals that he had been taken into Nationalist custody days prior. Unamuno meets with Salvador, who attempts to convince him of the fascist nature of the coup.

Meanwhile, Millán-Astray urges Franco to relieve the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, but is rebuffed on strategic grounds – to relieve the siege would delay the war's end by years. Millán-Astray pressures Franco to assume leadership, a proposal Franco once again rejects. Later, Franco replaces the Republic's flag on his headquarters with the old monarchist flag, stirring discontent within the junta. The junta then arrive in Salamanca to meet with Franco and his generals, with whom Unamuno is called to meet. Unamuno attempts to plead for Coco's release, and is told that his case will be reviewed. Unamuno is then quietly confronted by Millán-Astray about his unwillingness to sign the manifesto, leaving Unamuno to make a decision. The junta leave to hold a vote on the leadership question, during which Millán-Astray exhorts his colleagues to vote for Franco. At the same time, the administration of the University of Salamanca meet regarding the manifesto. Unamuno assents and signs, while Franco is voted in as commander-in-chief. While leaving the meeting, Unamuno is met by Coco's wife, who presents him a letter testifying to her husband's innocence. Meanwhile, Franco visits a cathedral, where he is inspired by an image of El Cid to relieve the siege of the Alcázar, earning more fervor for his cause.

Unamuno meets with Salvador in the countryside, with whom he debates with regarding the war. During the walk back, Salvador is accosted and arrested by Falangists, leaving Unamuno to walk back alone in the rain. He slips into a delirious state for several days, after which he attempts to make a personal appeal to Franco and his wife to have his colleagues released; the attempt fails, and Unamuno, anguished, informs Coco's wife. Meanwhile, Millán-Astray confronts Unamuno once again and informs him that he will be taking Franco's place in a Nationalist event at the university the following day. At the event, Unamuno initially refuses to speak, though he changes his mind after reading Coco's wife's letter. He presents a speech criticizing the nationalists, causing the crowd to turn on him, thereby forcing him out. An epilogue details the fates of several of the figures in the film.

An agent of the Uzbek special services, Timur Saliev, is conducting an operation to seize the Scorpion terrorist group when he learns that his brother, whom he considered dead, is alive and belongs to this very organization. Risking his life and career, Saliev follows in his brother's footsteps into a country engulfed in chaos and the mercilessness of war. Suspected of treason, he faces a choice that will affect not only his life, but also the peace in the region.

In a world where giant monsters and humans coexist, monsters compete in a popular professional wrestling global sport known as monster wrestling, with each city having its own monster wrestler. After the current wrestler for the small town of Stoker, the shark-like Tentacular becomes the new world champion, he announces he no longer wants to represent Stoker. The townspeople are later told if they do not find a new wrestler, they will lose the town's stadium and its revenue, which prompts wrestling enthusiast Winnie Coyle to search for a new monster representative for her town.

Winnie heads to an underground fight and finds Rayburn Jr., the son of the famous late Stoker champion Rayburn Sr., fighting under the name of "Steve The Stupendous". Winnie interferes in the match and causes Steve to win instead of taking a dive, as the underground arena employer wanted. Steve is confronted by his employer and threatened unless he can get the owner back the money she just lost. Winnie tells Steve she can help him get the money by training him to fight Tentacular. Realizing he has no other way to make the money, Steve agrees to be trained.

Steve initially is uninterested in learning how to fight properly and wins his first match by evading his opponent. Steve later tells Winnie he left Stoker because everyone saw him as an extension of his father and could not live up to his name. Winnie learns Steve loves dancing and decides to train him using dance moves. As they progress up the league's rankings, Tentacular announces he and his agent have bought Stoker's stadium and wants to demolish it as Tentacular sees it as a reminder that he will be always compared to Rayburn. Even though Steve manages to repay his underground arena employer, he decides to help Winnie, reveals his identity as Rayburn's son and challenges Tentacular to a match for the stadium.

During the fight, Steve avoids most of the hits by Tentacular in the first round, but Tentacular counters his dance moves in the second round. In the third round, Steve brings the fight and is able to not only use dance but land several hits. Winnie tells Steve to use Tentacular's suckers to stick him to one of the corner posts. When Steve goes in for the final move, he and Tentacular collide and are both knocked out. Tentacular gets up first but is too rattled to end the match. The crowd gets Steve back up by clapping a salsa beat and he is finally able to defeat Tentacular and save the stadium.

''Beyond a Steel Sky'' takes place within a far-future Earth, in which mega-cities, such as Union City, exist within a world that has been ravaged by nuclear war and disasters. While those who reside in such cities are subject to their laws and views on society by major corporations, those who reside outside them in the vast wastes (referred to as The Gap) live within tribal communities that survive on trading, hunting and other skills, with such people referred to by city dwellers as Gaplanders. The game's story is set ten years after the events of ''Beneath a Steel Sky'', and focuses on the life of Robert Foster - a Gaplander who formally resided in Union City as a child, until certain events led to him being exiled unwillingly and raised by a local tribe that found him. The plot, written by Charles Cecil, focuses on the concept of how an AI would interpret a prime directive to make people happy.

Four years after the death of her daughter Eien, Sanao Mokoya has separated from her husband Thennjay and spends her time hunting naga. She has lost her gift of prophecy and is now tormented by magical visions of her past, rather than the future. A gigantic naga attacks the city of Bataanar, a Machinist stronghold; Akeha and Mokoya fight it off. Mokoya is stunned by the naga's ability to use slackcraft, which is a human quality. Mokoya admits that when Eien died, she used the Slack to fuse Eien's soul to the nearest living creature, a raptor named Phoenix. Unknown actors from the Capital have used the success of Mokoya's experiment to fuse a human consciousness to this naga.

Mokoya meets a mysterious person named Rider, who uses advanced slackcraft for teleportation; she falls in love with them and begins a physical relationship. Rider states that Bataanarian adviser Tan Khimyan, Rider's former lover, is behind the attack. Raja Choonghey, leader of Bataanar, calls for Protectorate aid in the face of the naga attack. Mokoya suspects that the Protectorate soldiers will swarm the city, massacring Machinists and civilians alike. Akeha prepares the Machinists for war as Thennjay pleads with Choonghey to change his mind.

Mokoya and Thennjay ask Princess Wangbeng for aid. In Wangbeng's room, Mokoya finds Rider's teleportation equipment. She accuses Rider of summoning the naga, and they flee. The naga returns to attack the city, and Mokoya realizes Wangbeng is behind the attack. She learns that the naga is tied to the soul of Raja Ponchak, Wangbeng's mother. Wangbeng escapes with the naga. Mokoya is injured, but she is saved by Rider. She has a prophecy in which Rider is killed by the naga, her first vision in years. Mokoya attempts to subvert the prophecy in order to avert Rider's death; she leaves the camp and confronts the naga alone. With Wangbeng's help, Mokoya frees Ponchak's soul from the naga. She is severely injured, but is saved by Rider. Choonghey calls off the Protectorate troops. Thennjay and Rider work together to assist Mokoya with her recovery.

In Lafayette, Indiana, in September 1999, Jeremy Camp (KJ Apa) departs for Calvary Chapel College in Murrieta, California. The night of his arrival, he goes to a concert of Canadian Christian band, the Kry, where he meets the lead singer, Jean-Luc LaJoie (Nathan Parsons), who becomes fast friends with Jeremy, who turns to him for musical advice.

After the concert, Jeremy meets Melissa Henning (Britt Robertson), a fellow student at his school, and friend of Jean-Luc, who loves Melissa, but Melissa does not reciprocate the feeling. Jeremy and Melissa get to know each other, and quickly begin dating, causing a rift among Jeremy, Melissa, and Jean-Luc. As a result, Melissa ends her relationship with Jeremy. Jeremy goes back to his family's home in Indiana for Christmas break. A few days after Christmas, Jeremy receives a phone call from Jean-Luc, saying that Melissa is sick, and asks Jeremy to come back to California.

Upon his arrival, Jeremy visits Melissa in the hospital, who tells him that she has been diagnosed with Stage 3C cancer in her liver. Melissa also tells Jeremy that she loves him. Jeremy says the same, and proposes to her. Melissa accepts. During this time, Jeremy begins to make a name for himself as a Christian singer-songwriter. Melissa learns that the cancer has spread to her ovaries, and that she needs a surgery that will leave her infertile. After the surgery was supposed to happen, Melissa wakes up to Jeremy, who tells her the surgery was canceled because she is now cancer-free. Six months later, Jeremy and Melissa marry. Everything seems perfect until after their honeymoon, Melissa wakes up in pain. Jeremy takes her to the hospital, where they find out her cancer has returned, and that nothing more can be done for her.

As Melissa grows weaker, Jeremy begins to question his faith in God. In the hospital, Jeremy sings a song he wrote ("Walk by Faith") during their honeymoon. Melissa passes shortly after. Jeremy becomes angry at God, and chooses to abandon his musical career, smashing his guitar until it breaks. Inside the guitar, Jeremy finds a note Melissa left for him to find after her death, telling him that suffering does not damage faith, but strengthens it. Her parting words encourage him to continue writing songs.

Two years later, Jeremy performs a song he wrote after Melissa's death ("I Still Believe") about his suffering, but eventually restored faith. After the concert, he meets a girl named Adrienne (Abigail Cowen), who tells Jeremy that she lost someone close to her, and she was angry at God, and his songs changed her life. Jeremy promises to share Melissa's story, believing that God will use it to change lives. The credits reveal that Jeremy and Adrienne got married in 2003, and have three children.

The game is set somewhere in the Edo period of Japanese history, and centers around the fictional rivalry between the ''Kyokusei'' (Polarity) and ''Tokui-ten'' (Singularity) Ninja clans. After suffering a devastating attack on Kyokusei village, the last remaining Genin of the Clan named ''Hitoshi'' and ''Kanaye'', resort to a life of banditry, teaming up to take out Tokui-ten's Generals and restore Kyokusei village to its former glory.

Characters

'''Playable''' * Hitoshi - clad in red and described as a "pacifist", this playable character has the exclusive ability to jump. As such, Hitoshi is the only character who can make use of the ''Double Jump'' power up. * Kanaye - described as a warrior, this playable character is clad in black robes. He has the exclusive ability to attack enemies (including bosses), but cannot jump.

'''Tokui-ten Generals''' * The ''Onna-bugeisha'' - described as ''"a formidable foe and master of long-range combat"'', she will launch war fans in two different altitudes while remaining at the right edge of the screen, out of the player's reach. Her design was inspired by the historical onna-musha female Japanese warriors. * The ''Komusō'' - described as ''"a master of ichi on jo butsu"'', he uses a shakuhachi bamboo flute launching note projectiles at the player. When hit by a note, the player character is significantly slowed down, allowing the Komusō to strike with his naginata at regular game speed. This boss' appearance was inspired by the komusō monks, who flourished during the Edo period, although it is never mentioned in-game whether this character truly is a monk or a disguised ninja spy. * The ''Wakō'' Captain - described as ''"a former Korean admiral"'', makes use of a matchlock hand cannon to punch holes in the platform the player is currently running on, causing it to slowly sink. * The ''Akutô'' - described as ''"a powerfully-built, hulking Japanese bandit, who excels in hit-and-run combat tactics"''. This boss will usually run in the background, out of the player's reach, jumping out at regular intervals to surprise-attack the player. * The ''Samurai'' - described as ''"a fierce warrior, whose heavy armor makes him almost indestructible"'', the Samurai is completely immune to the player's regular attacks. * The ''Ninja Jōnin'' - described as ''"a legendary warrior and master of illusion"'', has the ability to "split" into multiple bodies, attacking the player whenever one of the decoys is hit instead of the main target.

'''Other''' * The Merchant - This character is the only one consistently appearing in the village screen, enabling players to exchange game coins for power-ups, or pay real money to purchase in-game currency.

Levels

''Ninja Tag Team: Slash n' Dash'' features six levels, each with a different environment and music. Players can select between levels at the Main menu screen, swiping either left or right to match the main menu background visuals with the environment corresponding to the level they wish to launch. The following levels have been available since launch: * '''Sakura Forest''': This level features a dense, endless Japanese cherry blossom forest. This level is the home of the Onna-bugeisha Tokui-ten General. * '''Iga Mountains''': This level features a snowy mountainside. It is the home of the Komusō Tokui-ten General. * '''Storm Ocean''': This level features a rough ocean theme, and was inspired by ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa''. It is the home of the Wakō Captain Tokui-ten General. * '''Cliff-side Harvest''': This level features an endless array of cliff-side wheat fields overlooking the ocean. It is the home of the Akutô Tokui-ten General. * '''Burning Village''': This level features an unnamed, burning Japanese medieval village. Presumably, the player arrives at this village while it is being raided by the Tokui-ten, led by the Samurai General. This is the only level not to feature traditional pitfalls, opting instead for fiery obstacles, which cause the player to disappear in a puff of smoke upon contact. * '''Rooftops''': This level features an unnamed Japanese medieval village during a downpour. Players traverse the environment by jumping on an endless array of building rooftops. It is where the Ninja Jōnin General boss can be encountered.

On Halloween night in Carbondale, Illinois, roommates Harper and Bailey attend a party together where they meet with their friends Angela and Mallory. The group befriends two guys, Nathan and Evan, at a local bar. Throughout the night, Harper suspects she is being stalked by a man in a devil mask. The group encounters a haunted house attraction. Before they enter, they are forced to surrender their cell phones and sign liability waivers. The group becomes separated after entering a maze; Bailey, Nathan and Angela encounter a series of armholes. As Bailey sticks her arm inside, it is slashed with a straight razor. She also accidentally loses Harper's mom's ring, which she was wearing. Harper and Evan lose Mallory. They meet back up with the others and witness a performer in a witch mask impale Mallory through the head with a hot fire poker.

Now believing they are in danger, the group sends Nathan to find an exit. He encounters a man in a ghost mask, "Mitch", who agrees to help. Devil Mask kills Angela. Bailey flees into the tunnels and accidentally activates the trap door, dropping Nathan into the house's operation rooms. He saves Harper from Devil Mask before finding the group's phones. Evan and Mitch make it outside, but Mitch kills him with a hammer before ripping off his face.

Nathan manages to give the location of the house to Harper's abusive boyfriend, Sam, before making it out of the house. Harper enters an escape room very similar to her childhood bedroom where she witnessed her father abuse her mother. Devil Mask attacks her and she kills him. She then encounters another performer in a skull mask and kills them too, but is horrified to find that the person in the costume was Bailey, who was previously captured by the other performers. Sam arrives at the house, where he is promptly killed by the attraction's ringleader, a man in a clown mask.

Nathan goes back inside to save the others but is attacked by Mitch, while Harper is attacked by a man in a zombie mask. She defeats her attacker before helping Nathan kill Mitch. They encounter a man in a vampire mask, who explains that the performers are part of a cult that makes extreme modifications to their faces to look like real monsters, and like to rip the faces off their victims. He is shot to death by Zombie Mask. Harper and Nathan escape the house, killing Witch Mask in the process. Zombie Mask attacks them but Nathan kills him before the two escape in Sam's truck. Clown Mask proceeds to burn down the attraction. Harper and Nathan reach a hospital, where the nurse asks Harper to write her address on a release form similar to the one they were asked to sign before entering the house.

Sometime later, Clown Mask arrives at Harper's house with the intent of killing her, but becomes stuck in a trap by Harper, who emerges with a shotgun and kills him.

A prostitute exploited by a mafia boss tries to break free and pursue justice.

Several years ago Peter Koslow was released early from prison on condition that he works as an undercover informant for the FBI's New York City field office. Having worked his way into a Polish crime organization, he is about to provide his handler, Special Agent Wilcox, with substantial evidence to indict crime boss Ryszard "The General" Klimek. Koslow is outfitted with a wire as he smuggles a large amount of fentanyl through the Polish consulate's office with the intention of it being delivered to the General. However, Koslow's cohort Staszek learns of a potential buyer and instead veers off-plan. Meeting with the buyer, Koslow quickly deduces that he is an undercover police officer. When tensions arise, the officer attempts to apprehend Koslow, but Staszek kills him. Listening to this over the wire, Koslow's handlers abandon him. Koslow and Staszek are brought before the General, and Koslow is told he will be required to return to prison in order to run the drug trade on the General's behalf. Initially reluctant, Koslow agrees after the lives of his wife and daughter are threatened.

Wilcox informs Koslow that he will continue to act as an informant while imprisoned, and in return he will be freed upon completion. Meanwhile, NYPD Detective Grens begins to investigate the murder of the undercover officer and suspects the Polish Mafia. He obtains security camera recordings of Koslow leaving the scene and the FBI vehicle driving by. The General and his wife visit with Koslow and his wife, Sofia, in preparation for Koslow's return to prison. The following day, Koslow breaks his parole. Grens meets with Wilcox and Montgomery, who deny knowledge of the murder. He also speaks with Sofia, who refuses to divulge information about her husband. Meanwhile, Koslow begins his drug distribution but is thwarted by corrupt prison officer Slewitt who works for Smiley Phelps, the boss of the prison gang who holds sway over the drug trade. Koslow is nearly killed until he reveals to Smiley that he is an informant working to take down the General, Smiley's competition. Koslow calls Wilcox for help, but she is unable to help after being ordered by Montgomery to "burn" Koslow to cover up the FBI's involvement in the operation that led to the murder of the undercover police officer. Koslow then calls Sofia, asking her to give Grens the secret audio recordings he taped while speaking with Wilcox.

Wilcox reluctantly leaks to the General's attorney that Koslow is an FBI informant, and the General orders him and his family to be killed. Koslow is attacked and nearly killed by a Polish gangster but manages to subdue his assailant. In an act of desperation, he takes Slewitt hostage and renders him unconscious. Meanwhile, Wilcox confronts Sofia and takes possession of the tapes. At the prison, Montgomery has taken command of the hostage situation and Koslow, using his past experience as a U.S. Special forces sniper, enacts a means of escape when he switches outfits with Slewitt and strategically places a propane tank behind them, causing a sniper to mistakenly kill Slewitt and hit the tank, triggering a massive explosion. Staszek and another Polish gangster attempt to kill Koslow's family but Grens arrives and thwarts them. Grens is shot but Sofia saves him and both gangsters are ultimately killed.

Koslow is transferred via ambulance and awakens to find that Wilcox is his escort. She allows Koslow to escape as retribution for her actions. In NYC, Wilcox confronts Montgomery and has him arrested after she wears a wire to record him threatening to kill Koslow to cover up his actions. Grens and Wilcox partner to help Koslow and protect his family.

''Anomalies'' includes nine loosely linked adventures that use the ''Traveller'' universe and rules system, including: * "Lock and Loot": the players try to prevent a renegade diplomat from enslaving a primitive civilization. * "The Sleepers" is set in a cyrogenics facility, and features followers of a death cult and deadly robots. * "Dead Space": the players confront a genetic experiment on a deserted research station.

Season 1

Eze's mother brings him with her from Nigeria to Uganda where she is taking up a new job. Eze has to get used to a new school, new people in a new country. He immediately becomes friends with Wonny, a rugby and soccer captain, gets in his circle of friends and makes a few enemies of himself when he starts hitting on Shamim. Eze, Wonny, Shamim, Umutoni all have different social, personal, financial and academic issues affecting them and with the help of each other, they devise means on how to overcome these issues.

Season 2

Kyaddala II follows the lives of high school old friends who are reunited by their admission to university. Caleb struggles with living an HIV positive life, a secret he keeps so long before it threatens to take his life, kills his friendships and takes away the only thing that mattered to him; 'Vapors lounge', a popular hangout spot that becomes the center of reunion with his new friend Wonny. Umutoni's past comes back to haunt her but this time through her friend Fifi, when she relives her friend's worst nightmare, faced with the hard choices she will choose to protect her girl child. The mysterious Miss Tina finds her true love when she meets Dave a struggling and disabled musician who makes it against all odds, while Shamim's independence from her recent marriage comes at a cost when she decides to defy the odds and take chances on making it on her own.

''Apparitions'' is a 128-page softcover sourcebook for players and referees of ''Chill'' that contains information about malevolent spirits, haunts and hauntings, and also presents creatures, additional profession templates, disciplines and an adventure scenario. The book sorts the entries into three broad categories: * Departed Spirits (ghosts) * Projections (benign spirits that only manifest to inform or warn) * Independent Creatures of the Unknown (dangerous spirits that seek to harm or torment humans)

The book was designed by Philip Athans and edited by Jeff Leason, with graphic design by Mari Paz Cabardo, and illustrations and cover art by Joe DeVelasco.

A group of professional stunt performers is hired by a former U.S. Intelligence agent to retrieve a stolen weapon from a dangerous arms dealer.

Dominique Labattut-Largaud, is a German literature professor at the Sorbonne who also writes pulp thrillers and historical adventures under assorted pen names. To his embarrassment, the professor’s secret life as a literary hack is discovered by Cecile Dubois, a young librarian, his former student and admirer. When he approaches her trying to protect his academic reputation, she mistakenly believes he is attracted to her, though he is a middle-aged married man with two children. Then Labattut-Largaud decides to get even with his boorish publisher Grouillot by plagiarizing an obscure 18th-century novel by Abbé Prévost. What started as a practical joke, quickly gets out of control. Labattut-Largaud's book, titled ''Equivocations'', becomes a runaway bestseller and wins a prestigious literary prize, which makes the unscrupulous publisher even happier. The fraud is discovered by Cecile who is righteously outraged. Desperate to prevent her from causing a scandal, Labattut-Largaud begins a reluctant affair with Cecile, which culminates in a fatal confrontation at the Frankfurt book fair.

Candace Flynn's day of optimism is ruined when she fails to tell her mother about the antics of her brothers Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, who spend their time making crazy inventions. Candace airs her grievances to her friend Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, and as they talk, a space pod appears and kidnaps them. Phineas and Ferb identify the license plate on the pod and learn that it came from the planet Feebla-Oot in the Vroblok Cluster. With this knowledge, they recruit their friends Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Baljeet Tjinder, and Buford van Stomm to help them build a portal to the planet. However, the portal redirects them to Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc., where they join forces with Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Anticipating that the portal would not work, Doofenshmirtz had built a spaceship – which he dubs a "Galactic Travel Inator". He and the children travel to Feebla-Oot, with Perry the Platypus secretly following them.

Candace and Vanessa explore the spaceship they have been taken to and locate the escape pods. While Vanessa escapes, Candace is captured; both end up on Feebla-Oot. Candace is taken to the leader, Super Super Big Doctor, who sympathizes with her plight. She, too, has two younger brothers that she was tired of and decided to come to Feebla-Oot to rule it. Big Doctor informs Candace that she contains "Remarkalonium", which is important for their people, thus making Candace feel special. Upon arriving to Feebla-Oot, Phineas and Ferb try to patch things up with their sister by giving her a gift they made, but she rejects them and Big Doctor has them taken away.

The gang become imprisoned, which is what Big Doctor had done to her brothers; Perry rescues them. Candace learns that the "Remarkalonium" is actually just carbon dioxide, which is what a spore plant named Mama needs so that Big Doctor can use its mind controlling spores on her subjects. Candace accidentally reveals that the people of Earth exhale carbon dioxide. With this knowledge, Big Doctor plots to conquer the planet. Phineas, Ferb and the gang team up with the oppressed Cowards, the previous inhabitants, and attack the alien city. As they begin the battle, Big Doctor and her army flee to Earth. The gang follow her, but Doofenshmirtz and Perry stay behind when they learn that Vanessa is still on Feebla-Oot.

The gang return to Earth in time to fight Big Doctor and her army. While Isabella, Buford, and Baljeet lead a battle against the aliens, Phineas and Ferb free Candace, who they find crying in shame over how she treated her brothers. They reveal that her gift is a coffee mug that projects images of their past adventures. Candace realizes that she may not be special to the world, but she is special to them. They begin fighting the aliens, but Mama grows big enough to unleash her spores on the populace. As the heroes are captured, Candace manages to reach out to Big Doctor, who has an epiphany about her life, just as Mama increases in size and devours her.

As the kids and Mama begin to fight, Doofenshmirtz, Vanessa, and Perry suddenly return, having used the Chicken-Replace Inator, a gadget that swaps something with the closest or furthest chicken, to transport themselves to Earth. Under Doofenshmirtz's direction, Candace uses the Inator on Mama, replacing it with the chicken used to reach Danville, and sends it back to Feebla-Oot. Mama shrinks in size and spits out Big Doctor, while getting crushed to death by an alien elephant lookalike from earlier. Big Doctor gets captured and taken into custody by the Cowards. Candace has the chance to bust her brothers when Linda Flynn-Fletcher, her mother, drives by, but she instead tells her to go get pizza for them away from the scene. Candace begins to truly appreciate her brothers for everything they have done for her, while a wandering Perry receives a call from Major Monogram congratulating him, forcing the platypus to hide the message, which leaves everyone in confusion.

In a mid-credits scene, Lawrence Fletcher discovers that the portal is still in the backyard. Travelling through it, he ends up in Doofenshmirtz's lab, which is still on fire from the rocket's take-off. He returns on fire and accidentally razes the portal to the ground. Linda returns and, once again missing the action, wonders what Lawrence has been doing, to which he replies, "I have no idea".

Britton Rainstar is deeply in love with a woman named Manuela Aloe and the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he comes.

The player's mission is to find the fountain of youth.

On the 30th anniversary of his wedding with Lisa McDowell at the end of the first film, Prince Akeem of Zamunda is summoned before his dying father King Jaffe Joffer. Jaffe and his shaman Baba reveal to a baffled Akeem that he had sired a bastard son during his first visit to Queens, New York many years ago, after his aide and long-time friend Semmi had enticed two women into spending the night with them while Akeem was still searching for his future queen. One of them inadvertently sex and drugged Akeem, resulting in a tryst he did not remember. Akeem viciously attacking Semmi for setting him up, after Akeem finds out that Semmi is the one who asked one of women to have sex and drugged Akeem in the first place. As Zamundian tradition demands that only a male successor can inherit the throne, and Akeem has fathered only daughters, Akeem is forced to travel back to Queens to retrieve his son. If not, Zamunda could face a hostile takeover by Zamunda's militaristic neighbor nation Nexdoria, whose dictator, General Izzi (the brother of Imani, Akeem's original arranged bride-to-be), has been pushing for Akeem's eldest daughter Meeka to marry his foppish son, Idi.

Following King Jaffe's funeral and Akeem's ascension to the kingship, he and Semmi travel back to Queens to find his illegitimate son. During a light-hearted reunion with the barbershop gang they bonded with years earlier, head barber Mr. Clarence informs them that the son in question is Lavelle Junson, a ticket scalper who hustles outside of Madison Square Garden. After an awkward reunion with Lavelle's mother Mary, Akeem takes them back to Zamunda, much to his family's displeasure. When General Izzi learns of this, he drops by to introduce his daughter Bopoto to Lavelle as a last shot at laying claim to the throne of Zamunda, but in order to qualify as a royal prince, Lavelle first has to pass a series of traditional - and hazardous - tests.

Lavelle is at first highly reluctant to place himself in danger, but then bonds with Mirembe, a royal groomer, who tells him of Akeem's quest to find his queen and encourages him to follow his own path. Lavelle then invites his uncle Reem, Mary's streetwise brother, to Zamunda. He coaches him on how to blend his urban upbringing with his new royal status. Lavelle gradually develops an understanding with Akeem's family and, using his wits and some forced courage, he passes and is made Prince of Zamunda. However, at his accession party, Lavelle overhears a conversation between Akeem and Izzi which makes him believe that Akeem is just exploiting him, and he, Mirembe, Mary and Reem go back to New York. Upset at losing Mary, whom she has befriended, Lisa locks Akeem out of their bedroom. After a pep talk from his father-in-law Cleo, who reminds him of the late Queen Aoleon's progressive mind, Akeem flies back to the States, while Semmi is left to stall Izzi, who intends to return the next day to either see Bopoto marry Lavelle or declare war.

Returning to Queens, Akeem finds that Lavelle and Mirembe are about to get married. Confronted by Lavelle and reminded of his own life story, he gives them his blessing and releases Lavelle from his marriage to Bopoto. When Mirembe expresses reluctance in the couple cutting all of their ties to Zamunda, Akeem offers to fly Mary's family back for a proper wedding. In the meantime, Semmi and the princesses, all trained staff fighters, fight off and subdue General Izzi when he invades the palace, forcing him to try a more diplomatic approach. Upon his return home, Akeem changes the royal succession by allowing his daughter Meeka to ascend to the throne upon his death, while Lavelle is made an ambassador to the United States, and General Izzi has opened Nexdoria for a peaceful political and trading relationship with Zamunda. The film concludes with a grand party at the royal palace to celebrate Lavelle and Mirembe's marriage, including the barbers from Queens as special guests and a performance of the song "We Are Family" from Sexual Chocolate.

Kalle (Anders Henrikson) and his girlfriend Blenda (Marianne Löfgren) are on the way home from Tivoli amusement park in Stockholm when he tells her that he will be away for two years as a first mate on a sailing ship, but he swears his eternal fidelity to her. During the journey, the ship take Bessie (Nanna Stenersen) on board because her vessel was wrecked. Will Kalle manage to resist the temptation of having a beautiful woman on board while Blenda is waiting for him at home?

A new sport called "Prism Dance Skate", which combines figure skating and dance, has become popular with the creation of Prism Skates, shoes that allow people to ice skate on any surface. Junior high school student Rizumu Amamiya enrolls in the Prism Dance Academy to become a professional Prism Star. At the Prism Dance Academy, Rizumu meets Serena Jōnouchi and Kanon Tōdō, and together, they compete under the team name Asterism.

In a dark television news studio, news anchor Lou Vanetti broadcasts as Earth approaches the final hours leading to Earth's magnetic field disappearing. Cynthia and her stepson Shane pass through a deserted Lindenville, Washington during the electromagnetic storm, only for the former to be "swallowed" into the ground after an earthquake. One week earlier, Lou discusses the comet Copernicus' path with Doctor James Mayfield (Jack Coleman), an astrologist and astrophysicist from the Storm Hazards Department (SHD). A piece of Copernicus splits off on a collision course for Earth. James' colleague Pam tries to warn James and Peter (Nicolas Carella) in North Alaska that the fragment will land not far from them, but interference cuts her off.

The comet's fragment hits Northern Alaska, generating the shock wave blast bringing severe damage to Canada, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. Peter is among the quarter-million dead, while James Mayfield survives because he took cover in an avalanche bunker. He returns home to Lindenville and is displeased by the President's speech (Roger Cross) because of his near-death experience. While at home, their television set suddenly emits static, followed by an unknown tremor.

Recognizing the Earth's tremor preceded by the EM disturbance, he tries to log into SHD to review the data Peter uploaded during the comet's impact. His access is blocked, its data classified by the administration, following the gag order of the whole department. He continues regardless as he becomes more suspicious when the sun unexpectedly sets at Eagle Peak.

James' son, Shane, meets Zoe and Kevin at the park, where the latter challenges Shane in drag racing to settle a dispute over who repays the damage to a telescope they broke during a fight earlier that night. As they prepare for a drag race, an electromagnetic interference suddenly occurs, followed by an earthquake that swallows Kevin and his car. Shane and Zoe make a run from the park. At the same time, James explains in an interview with Vanetti about the misalignment of the Earth's axis due to a sudden axis tilt following the cataclysmic events in Alaska. James' findings have received enormous attention. As a result of violating the gag order and U.S. government-imposed censorship, he was being called by his father, General Mayfield (Terry David Mulligan), to report to the Gilboy Air Base. James began explaining the consequences of the Earth's axis shift to the General, the President, and Doctor Elman, but with no success.

Later, a 40 Khz electromagnetic pulse tears through Lindenville and the world, resulting in a blackout knocking out communications and killing anyone inside buildings, cars, and while using electronics. The President declares martial law throughout the United States and orders all civilians to evacuate to emergency shelters. James instructs his family to leave Lindenville and head to Little Brook, a town 40 miles away. While on the road, members of the U.S. Army force Cynthia and Shane to turn back and take shelter in a parish.

Returning to Lindenville, they find their road blocked. An EMP shock wave and an earthquake force Shane and Cynthia to run on foot, narrowly surviving the tremor after the crevice nearly swallows Cynthia before making their way to the Lindenville Parish. She tries to persuade the people inside and the General in charge to evacuate, but they refuse. Only Michael and Zoe leave the Lindenville Parish with Cynthia and Shane before the electromagnetic shockwave fries everyone inside.

While heading for Little Brook, Michael dies of a heart attack after the EMP wave disabled his pacemaker and after a looter's death by electrocution by the shockwave as he tried to steal Michael's SUV. Despite the vehicle being fried, Shane turns it back on by using the EMP wave to ignite the spark plugs and start the engine. At the same time, James and General Mayfield, along with the Russian Navy Captain Yulenkov and his submarine crew, dive and head towards the Mariana Trench to bring the planet back into regular axis tilt by dropping two nuclear warheads into the bottom of the trench.

Despite encountering several anomalies, the combined efforts between Russia and the United States became a success as the warheads detonated in the trench, saving the Earth.

The film tells about a music student named Sergey, who during his walk home sees a beautiful girl, Natasha, who catches his attention. He tries to talk to her but finds her unresponsive, he later discovers that she's deaf. In their own way, they try to understand the other's world. For Sergei, his whole world is centered around sound, whereas for Natasha, hearing and sounds are associated with traumatic experiences from childhood.

The plot focuses on representatives of one generation, whose lives were influenced in different ways by the formation of the Soviet Union.

The film takes place in Petrograd in October 1917. Lenin is going to organize an armed uprising, while Zinoviev is against it. Most members of the Central Committee support Lenin. The Russian Provisional Government sends its troops to the Winter Palace, and the commander of Aurora Erickson receives an order to go to sea...

The film tells about a modest and naive man who wants to overcome his shortcomings and become a strong man.

The film tells about a girl named Ira, who planned to go to college, but after meeting the builder she decided that she would work at a construction site, where she began to conflict with colleagues who did not like her personal qualities.

The film tells about Lieutenant Reshetov, who observes the total collapse of the Russian army and decides to go to Petrograd to kill Lenin.

Estrella is a young girl in a Mexican city devastated by the Mexican Drug War. While working on a fairy tale writing assignment, Estrella's classroom is disrupted by gunfire outside the school. Amid the panic, Estrella's teacher hands her three pieces of chalk she says will grant three wishes. Following the incident, classes are indefinitely suspended.

Street orphan Shine steals a gun and an iPhone from Caco, a henchman of crime boss Chino, who is actually politician Servando Esparza. Shine points the gun at Caco, who is drunkenly oblivious to the theft, but is unable to shoot.

Estrella walks home past a dead body on the street. A trail of blood from the body follows Estrella to her house, where Estrella discovers that her mother is missing; a probable victim of rampant drug cartel-related violence from Chino's human trafficking ring ‘The Huascas.' Growing lonely and desperate for food, Estrella wishes for her mother to return. Estrella begins experiencing haunting visions of her mother as a ghost imploring Estrella to "bring him to us." Soon after, Estrella catches Shine looting her house. Estrella follows Shine back to his hideout and meets fellow orphans Pop, Tucsi, and Morro. Shine refuses to feed her or welcome her into his gang but Estrella stays with the boys anyway.

Caco comes looking for his stolen gun and phone. The other children escape, but Morro is kidnapped. Shine gives Estrella the stolen gun and tells her that if she kills Caco, he will let her remain in his gang. Estrella sneaks into Caco's apartment. While aiming the weapon, Estrella makes a wish that she didn't have to kill Caco. She then sees that Caco is already dead. Estrella frees Morro and tells Shine that she killed Caco. Later that night, Estrella has another vision of her mother. She warns that the man who really killed Caco will be looking for Estrella, and Estrella must bring the man to her. Shine, Estrella, Pop, Tucsi, and Morro bring the other rescued boys back to their rival gang leader Brayan. Brayan taunts Shine for having Estrella kill Caco when Shine should have been the one to do it. Estrella later finds Shine crying over the fact that he couldn't kill Caco. Shine confesses that he keeps Caco's phone because it contains the only picture of his own missing mother, his family photos being lost when the Huascas set fire to his home. Having heard about Estrella from Brayan, Caco's brother Tio calls Caco's phone to threaten the children.

After the kids decorate soccer balls, Shine tells Estrella more about his mother. Shine asks Estrella if she might use her last wish to remove the burn scars on his face. Estrella refuses, claiming something bad happens every time she makes a wish. Tio captures Shine while the other boys stage an imaginary talent show. Estrella has another haunting vision of her mother along with other murder victims while hiding from Tio before also being captured. Morro shoots Tio to save his friends, but Tio shoots and kills Morro. The other children escape.

Wondering why recovering the phone is so important to the Huascas, Shine and Estrella closely examine its contents. They discover Caco recorded a video of Chino killing a captive woman. Estrella has Shine call Chino, who threatens the children. Estrella bargains to turn over the phone if Chino makes the remaining Huascas disappear. Chino agrees and arranges a meeting. He also reveals that he was the one who actually killed Caco because Caco could not turn over the stolen phone. In the wake of the revelation that she did not kill Caco, Shine and the other two boys shun Estrella. Haunting visions of dead people chase Estrella, again telling her to "bring him to us." Fearful of Chino, Pop and Tucsi steal the phone from Shine. They show the footage to two policemen, but the officers refuse to act when they recognize the murderer as Chino. Shine takes back the phone and notices that the bracelet worn by the murdered woman in the video is identical to the bracelet worn by Estrella's mother in a photo he had found earlier. Morro's ghost tells Estrella where to find the boys. When they reconnect, Estrella insists that they must go to Chino or else he will kill them all. After burying Morro in a box dropped into water, Estrella, Shine, Pop, and Tucsi go to the meeting with Chino, Tio, and another henchman in an abandoned building, where Shine turns over the phone. When Shine claims to not know the password, Chino crushes the phone with his foot. Chino then executes Tio and the other henchman, explaining to Estrella that he honored his part of the agreement. Pop and Tucsi run away.

Recognizing the building, Estrella insists on finding her mother. Shine reveals that he still has Caco's phone because he gave Chino a decoy, and then reveals that the woman in the video was her mother. He advises Estrella that wishes aren't real, but she still chalks Shine's cheek and makes a final wish that his scars disappear. Chino suddenly appears and shoots Shine through his face, having figured out Shine's deception. Estrella flees while Chino chases after her. Morro's tiger doll leads Estrella into a shaft, and she falls into a room containing numerous dead bodies, including her mother's. Estrella tearfully connects with a vision of her mother when her mother's bloody body briefly reanimates, and transfers her bracelet to Estrella. Estrella uses Caco's phone to lure Chino into the room and trap him inside. The ghosts of his victims are heard killing Chino.

Estrella encounters Shine's ghost. After a brief farewell, Shine enters the body pit room and sets it on fire. On her way out of the building and into an open field, Estrella encounters a tiger that escaped from a zoo.

The film tells about the Ivanov family. Three sons have become adults, they are going to leave the house, and their parents and younger brother will have to find the strength in themselves to put up with this.

The film tells about General Zhuravlev, who after the war is engaged in the creation of spaceships. He sets a rocket with astronaut Borodin into the sky and recalls his namesake, whom he met in the war.

The controversy surrounding his first feature length film, ''L'Age d'Or'', leaves director Luis Buñuel unable to find new work. An anthropologist named Maurice Legendre hands Buñuel an ethnographic study of the Las Hurdes region of Spain and asks if he would consider making a documentary of the region. Buñuel's friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to use the winnings to fund the film. Indeed, Ramón wins and keeps his promise. So Buñuel assembles a film crew in the town of La Alberca.

From La Alberca, Buñuel drives the crew to a monastery that doubles as a hostel. From the monastery, the crew explores the nearby villages. The villages consist of ramshackle box-shaped houses packed tightly. The winding streets between the houses make each village resemble a labyrinth, and Ramón notes that the jagged roofs resemble the scales on a turtle. The crew find themselves appalled by the poverty-stricken conditions of the homes. The plentifulness of their food supplies astonishes villagers. When they film a school, they find out that locals make most of their money getting government payments for taking in orphaned children, and the schoolchildren crowd around Buñuel desperate for affection. Buñuel later finds a little girl dying on the street, and feels helpless not having the medicine that would cure her.

Although the film is a documentary, Buñuel stages many scenes for dramatic effect, in opposition to his crew. In La Alberca, Buñuel makes Ramón hire a farmer to reenact the local tradition of ripping the head off of a rooster. Later on, Buñuel wants to film the image of a mountain goat slipping and falling down a cliffside, but shoots a goat dead rather than wait for an accident to happen. Buñuel also arranges for a donkey to get stung to death by bees, to use as a symbol for the suffering of the local people.

All through the shoot, Buñuel is tormented by nightmares of his troubled childhood. One nightmare about his mother and the Virgin Mary compels him to dress in a nun's habit. When the sick girl finally dies, Buñuel has a nightmare where he sees a friend from the region as Death. The nightmare inspires him to have the villagers reenact a funeral for an infant for the film.

By 1933, Buñuel is back in Paris editing his film, ''Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan''. Notes at the end of this movie explain that days after the Nationalist coup in Spain, Ramón Acín and then his wife were executed for their Anarchist activity. Buñuel is able to release his movie in Spain, but without Ramón's name. Movie notes explain that he was able to restore Ramon's name to the credits many years later.

Pleshcheev lost his sight during the war. Returning home, he begins to drink. His wife decides to leave the family, and he remains with his son. And suddenly, an old friend of Pleshcheyev returns from the army...

Alyosha and Nadia early lost their parents, but the father's friend and the people around him helped them to maintain kindness and openness.

In 1970, three camp counselors are about to have a threesome in a cabin but one of the female counselors hears jingling. A mysterious figure enters, and the trio are stabbed to death. As the scene opens more widely, it reveals the sleeping campers have also been killed.

In 1984, Xavier Plympton leads an aerobics class for Montana Duke, Ray Powell, Chet Clancy, and Brooke Thompson. Xavier describes the terror that the Night Stalker is wrecking on Los Angeles and says he is escaping to the re-opening Camp Redwood to avoid the murders. The others are convinced to join him as counselors at the camp. Brooke declines at first, but relents after she is assaulted in her home by a man claiming to be the Night Stalker. The next morning, the group goes on a road trip to Camp Redwood. At a rest stop, the gas station attendant warns the group that they are going to die, after discovering they are headed to the camp. The group's vehicle hits a man lying in the road. The group agrees to take him with them to get him medical attention.

The camp's owner, Margaret Booth, instructs them to take the injured man to the infirmary, where the camp's nurse, Rita, tends to him. Margaret takes the counselors on a tour and explains the rules. They encounter Chef Bertie, an original camp counselor who volunteered to re-open the camp with Margaret. That night, the counselors gather around a fire, and Rita tells them of the incident that closed the camp 14 years before. The accused killer was Benjamin Richter, aka Mr. Jingles, a Vietnam veteran who was discharged dishonorably. Rita claims there were 10 victims, but Margaret approaches and corrects her that there were only nine; she was the sole survivor. She was the star witness at Jingles' trial, and he was sent to a mental institution. Brooke finds the amnesiac man awake and guides him back to bed. He is confused about the camp reopening, and warns her that something bad is going to happen. Trevor Kirchner, the activities director, arrives in their cabin. Later, he and Montana begin a sexual encounter in the lake but are interrupted when Montana sees approaching car headlights at the edge of the lake.

At a facility for the criminally insane, Dr. Hopple is informed that Richter has escaped. Three hours earlier, Richter, in his cell, lured in an orderly, whom he strangled to death. Hopple finds a newspaper clipping in the cell announcing the reopening of the camp. The gas station attendant, Roy, is repairing a car from underneath, and Richter crushes him by lowering the jacks. Richter takes his truck and drives to the camp. In the infirmary, Brooke finds the amnesiac man impaled on a hook and is pursued by Richter. She reaches the others, but they do not believe her; the hiker's body is missing when they investigate. Unable to sleep, Brooke hears the pay phone ringing (despite the hiker having said earlier the lines were down). She answers it and hears the jingling of keys, while being observed by the Night Stalker from afar.

The story is set after Dead Effect 2. The fictional spaceship ESS Meridian floats in the universe without direction after a system overload. The player has to escape using an escape pod, and crashes on Tau Ceti F. The player wakes up in a dense jungle and has to survive the harsh environment of the planet.

New mother Aslı hires a babysitter named Gülnihal, who also has a baby of her own. Aslı soon confronts her own long-held secrets.

Peter I of Serbia was banished from Serbia as a young man. Many years later, he returns to his country to liberate its people and secure parliamentary democracy and later lead the country during World War I.

Much as Tom Stoppard did with two of Hamlet's attendant lords in ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'', the play ''To Hell in a Handbag'' explores its protagonists lives when they are not onstage in Wilde's original. Beginning with their walk "to the schools and back" in Wilde’s Act II, we begin to learn how these well-educated but impecunious individuals have survived on the lower rungs of Victorian society. Continuing with their time offstage in Act III, we learn that far from being the models of propriety they appear in public, both have been forced to make ends meet in less than ethical and legal fashion. They find themselves mutually dependent to ensure their survival. But no sooner has ''The Importance'' ended happily, than one of the duo turns the tables on the other.

Mono, a boy wearing a paper bag over his head, awakens from a dream of a door marked with an eye at the end of a hallway. He journeys through the Wilderness and enters a decrepit shack. He frees Six, who is being held prisoner by the masked Hunter who lives there. The Hunter pursues the pair until he corners them and they kill him with a shotgun. Using a door as a raft, Mono and Six drift across a body of water and wash up at the Pale City, which is shrouded by mist and rain and strewn with old television sets. Throughout the journey, Mono attempts to use televisions as portals to enter the hallway from his dream. However, he is always pulled back out by Six before he can reach the door. He also encounters several ghostly, glitching remains of children, which he can absorb by interacting with them.

Mono and Six enter the School, where they are separated when Six is captured by the porcelain Bullies, the School's rabid students. Mono rescues Six and they escape the long-necked Teacher. Outside the School, Six finds her signature yellow raincoat. The pair reach the hospital, where they encounter the mannequin-like Patients, their detached Living Hands, and the bulbous Doctor who crawls on the ceilings. Mono lures the Doctor into an incinerator and may choose to kill him or leave him trapped inside. Mono and Six then exit into the heart of the Pale City. They spot the Signal Tower, which emits a pervasive Transmission that controls the city's inhabitants: the TV-addicted Viewers, whose faces have been distorted from prolonged exposure to it. When Mono finally reaches the door through a television set, it opens to reveal the spectral Thin Man. After Mono is pulled out from the television, the Thin Man emerges too and captures Six, leaving behind a glitching shadow of her. Six's shadow remains lead Mono close to the Signal Tower, where he confronts the Thin Man. Discovering he has powers similar to the Thin Man's, Mono takes his bag off and battles and disintegrates him before pulling the Signal Tower towards himself.

Mono enters the Signal Tower and finds Six, now a distorted giant. She becomes hostile when he damages her music box, but Mono returns her to normal by destroying it. As the Signal Tower begins to crumble, the children are pursued by the gelatinous mass of flesh and eyes which forms its core. They outrun the mass, but Six allows Mono to fall into a chasm and escapes through a television portal. Alone and surrounded by the mass, Mono sits in a solitary chair and resigns himself to his fate. Time passes, and Mono grows older and taller while slowly being corrupted by the Signal Tower's influence, ultimately taking on the form of the Thin Man (revealing that the Thin Man is Mono's future self). The camera draws back to reveal the now-adult Mono in the room at the end of the hallway in his dream, and the door closes.

If the player has found all of the collectible glitching remains, a final scene shows Six exiting the television portal and encountering her shadow self, which gestures to a pamphlet on the floor advertising the Maw. Six's stomach suddenly growls with hunger, setting the events of the first game in motion.

As described in a film magazine, the exploits of the gentleman crook known as the Eel (Rawlingson) were puzzling the police and matters came to a showdown before the mayor (Davis) when the chief of police (Girard) declared that the underworld was protected by a powerful political ring. He turned in his star and the mayor called in the city attorney to discuss the proposition. That night the Eel pulled two more sensational jobs, both of them within the political group declared by the former police chief to be shielding criminals. This proved the Eel to be a free lance and outside the clique. This political clique was cutting close to the mayor’s pockets and the mayor knew it. So the Eel became the object of nets thrown out by the mayor’s forces and the opposition political ring as well. The mayor’s daughter Cordelia (Myers), blonde, pretty, intelligent and adventuresome, took the matter of helping her father into her own hands and an interview was arranged with the Eel through the personal columns of the morning paper. That night found the Eel and the mayor’s daughter in the home of the head of the political group which sought the Eel. The Eel desired certain papers, he told the girl, which should present a clear expose of the mayor’s opposition and the graft involved. But the Eel, clever as he appeared to be, seemed to have pulled a faux pas. Three men stepped into the room and he and the girl were trapped on a neat count of burglary and in a wonderful position for a blackmail shakedown. But the Eel had only begun to take action to end the graft and win her heart.

Tim Jamieson leaves his job in Florida and prepares to head to New York City. By coincidence, en route, he gives up a seat on a plane and finds himself in the small town of DuPray, South Carolina. A decorated former policeman, Tim takes a job as a local patrolman, and soon develops a relationship with a deputy, Wendy Gullickson.

Another storyline begins in suburban Minneapolis with Luke Ellis, a twelve-year-old intellectual prodigy with mild telekinetic abilities. One night, intruders silently murder Luke's parents and kidnap him. Luke wakes up in a room almost identical to his own at "the Institute," a facility secretly located deep in the forests of Maine. The Institute houses a number of other kidnapped children, each with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy. Luke befriends several other kids: Kalisha Benson, Nick Wilholm, George Iles, Iris Stanhope, Helen Simms, and later ten-year-old Avery Dixon, in the area known as Front Half. Mrs. Sigsby, the Institute's director, and her staff are dedicated to extracting the special talents from the children - known as TPs (telepaths) and TKs (telekinetics). Experiments and torture are performed on the children to try to enhance their talents, as well as to awaken TP abilities in TKs and vice versa. Once the experiments are done, the children "graduate" to Back Half. None of the children who have gone to Back Half have ever been seen again. Luke begins to develop weak TP abilities due to the experimentation but keeps it secret. After Kalisha graduates to Back Half, she is able to send telepathic messages to Avery, an advanced TP. Luke comes to believe that in Back Half, the children's collective abilities are weaponized for assassinations until the strain kills them. Luke becomes desperate to escape and get help before he graduates.

Maureen Alvorson, a housekeeper at the Institute, is also an informant for Mrs. Sigsby, but her financial issues cause her to seek help from Luke. Maureen thus helps Luke to escape the Institute and then commits suicide in order to help hide his disappearance. The Institute's deteriorated security takes almost a day to realize Luke's escape, by which time he has found himself on a train, which he jumps off of in DuPray. A hotel owner in Du Pray is on the payroll of those in charge of the Institute and informs them that Luke is in town. Meanwhile, Luke manages to convince Tim Jamieson, Wendy Gullickson, and other police officers of his story and gives the Sheriff a USB stick containing a confession from Maureen, along with a harrowing video taken secretly in Back Half, which convinces them to help him. Several staffers from the Institute arrive in Du Pray and, following a shoot-out, several police and all but Mrs. Sigsby and a doctor from the Institute are killed. Tim and Luke take the captured Mrs. Sigsby back to the Institute where her second-in-command, Trevor Stackhouse, tries to ambush them. Since Tim made Mrs. Sigsby drive the car, the Institute's guards mistakenly kill her.

Whilst Luke has been away, several Back Half children, including Avery (who was sent to Back Half as punishment for helping Luke escape), round up those who have been in Back Half for longer, and whose minds are almost completely broken, and plan a revolution. Stackhouse gives orders to kill them using poison gas created by mixing the facility's cleaning chemicals. As the gas is released, Avery, Kalisha, Iris, George, Nick, Helen, and the others join together and fight back, managing to levitate areas of the Institute into the air. Kalisha, George, Nick, and Helen escape, but the others, including Avery, are killed when the corridor they are trapped in collapses. The remaining Institute staff are all killed or flee, and Tim takes Luke and his surviving friends back with him to DuPray.

Months later, they are visited by an unnamed man, the supervisor of the Institute, who speaks with a vague lisp and explains that the children in the Institute were being used to combat those who precogs working for the Institute have seen threatening the safety of the entire world. The Institute is just one of several around the world, but all of them have had revolutions at the same time, apparently all telepathically coordinated by Avery. Luke argues with the man about the possibility of predicting the distant future, claiming that precogs can only accurately predict occurrences that happen in the near future, as there are too many variables involved over long time spans. The lisping man leaves Luke and his friends alone for the promise that the USB Stick will not come to public knowledge; the USB stick is kept hidden in a safe, with each of the surviving children holding a key.

The other kids are slowly returned to their homes, but Luke remains in DuPray with Tim and Wendy, and the novel ends with Luke thinking about what a little hero Avery was.

The novel's protagonist is known only as Gregor and shares other similarities to Rezzori, most notably being the son of an Austro-Hungarian aristocratic family in decline. The plot is arranged into five sections, and follows Gregor as he revisits his past from his childhood to middle-age. As Germany succumbs to Nazism, Gregor finds his complicated feelings for the Jewish friends and lovers in conflict with the hatred his country directs at them. His passive, apolitical nature ultimately is at tragic odds with the horrors happening around him.

Two sisters struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France during World War II.

After being appointed literary executor, a young woman named Audrey Benac uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Józef Wittlin corresponded from 1957 to 1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Set over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia's words.

Coming up against her aunt's disapproval as well as complications of access to the material, Audrey struggles to dig into an intimate past while facing her own existentially troubled present. Between silent segments of handling the letters at the archive and discursive monologues that articulate her findings, the film traces the emotional movement through the research process.

An underground organization which helps free paying criminals helps out yet another client; Miss M. William, Adeline, Moe, and Ryan are founders of this organization, Ryan being an expert as he was used in a trial before joining. At the beginning of the film, we see that members of this underground organization have put together a total of 3 potential candidates (supposed to be 4 but one is missing) for the murder case they are covering. Each candidate is blinded by sacks and bound in handcuffs linked to one another in a chain. They are to undergo a series of tests to figure out which of the 3 fits the profile and will be convicted for this case.

The client in question, Miss M, appears with her assistant Morris to shake things up and to make sure that her money is being well spent to cover her tracks. After interfering with several of the procedures the organization has, Miss M, ends up killing P after he refused to bash someone’s head in like she asked. Ryan who is becoming fed up with the interference and brutality of the client tries to free another candidate. Morris sees this and promptly drugs and strangles the candidate before they have a chance to fight back.

It’s down to two candidates now, L and J. Miss M test them on how to hide the body and despite the impressive answer J gave, L is declared the winner based on Ryan’s reaction. Miss M changes the game after this “victory” for L. She decides to choose Ryan as a candidate based on a deal William had made prior to a threat she made against him. Ryan— who wants out of this deal, is baffled and tries to convince the duo otherwise but is knocked out.

The true motive behind Miss M and Morris’ involvement is based on the case Ryan had confessed to before joining the team. The victim of the said case had been her sister and a dear friend of Morris, they were unhappy to find out that justice had actually not been served and are looking for revenge. Their plan to torture and kill all members of the team had been short-lived as Ryan was able to slit the throat of Morris before he was able to torture him. L and Ryan find and shoot Miss M after she doused William and Adeline in gas. William tries to persuade Ryan to free him and to take the money, but Ryan and L leave the pair tied up. The film ends with L and Ryan escaping with the money, an unspoken bond between the two now.

Dusty, a bellboy looking to raise enough money for medical school, falls for the wrong woman.

The game is set in 1996, two years after the events of the first film. Veteran and former police officer Ellis Lynch (voiced by Joseph May) alongside his police dog Bullet, travels to Black Hills Forest in Burkittsville, Maryland to join the search party for missing 9-year-old Peter Shannon. He arrives and begins his search. Shortly after entering the forest, Ellis contacts search party leader Sheriff Emmet Lanning, who lets Ellis join the search despite questioning his mental fitness due to his recurring PTSD.

After finding Peter's hat and following his scent, Ellis and Bullet reach a campsite. Ellis finds a working camcorder before blacking out. He begins to recall previous points in his life before waking up inside the tent to find that night has fallen.

Ellis happens upon a red tape and after viewing it, realizes that he can manipulate reality around him, which he uses to find clues. Shortly after, he receives contact from Lanning, who tries to locate him. Lanning desperately told Ellis that the team never saw the campsite he described, and for him to stay put so they can rendezvous. He refuses, continuing to walk deeper into the thicket in fear of Bullet losing Peter's scent.

Ellis and Bullet eventually arrive at a crooked white tree with black vines, and they are attacked by several silhouetted creatures, but he scares them off with his flashlight. As they search the area, the duo finds what looks to be war trenches and a broken-down vehicle. He finds another red tape that shows Peter's abduction by a mysterious figure. As Ellis and Bullet try to find another route, the broken-down truck transforms into Lanning's police truck. After instructed by an unknown voice through the radio, Ellis switches on the truck's headlights. A bright flash envelopes them and they find themselves the next morning.

Continuing their search, Bullet finds Lanning's body buried under forest debris; another tape shows Lanning's murder by Peter's abductor. Ellis follows Bullet back the way they came only to find that the riverbank they crossed is now dried up. While walking across the river, Bullet sniffs an old soldier's helmet. As their surroundings are altered into a battlefield, Ellis and Bullet proceed to run to escape gunshots until they came upon a large tree. Ellis follows Bullet through the hollow tree trunk whilst hearing mysterious whispers of a woman before losing consciousness again.

It is revealed through his nightmare that Ellis, as an officer, fatally shot Peter's brother while responding to a robbery call; he becomes obsessed with saving Peter as a means of amending it. Awakening, he finds himself in front of the campsite, now far more deteriorated. He inexplicably finds various dog tags belonging to his previous military squad. He, alongside Bullet, finds more clues to investigate a lumber mill deep in the forest.

On the way, Ellis finds parts of the forest burning, with rubbles reminiscent of the site of his failed mission scattered throughout with strange forces digging through the pile of dead leaves. He suffers a powerful hallucination of how he felt responsible for the death of his military squad, who were all killed during the mission. Arriving at the mills' outpost, he uses the recorder to restart the boiler to power and ride a minecart. Crossing a bridge, Ellis calls his ex-wife Jess once more before losing the signal, who insists he return, but he refuses.

At the mill, Ellis finds the corpse of missing lumberer Todd Mackinnon, murdered with a circular saw by the abductor. He confronts the abductor, a disheveled man named Carver, who asks if he sees "her". He accuses, mocks, and knocks Ellis out, stating that Peter must die because 'such is "her" will'. Ellis awakens as Carver drags him back to the now completely decayed campsite. Under Carver's instructions, he uses the camcorder to locate the white tree, which he uses alongside a deer's skin to make the witch's sign. Carver urges him to survive by submitting and directs him to shoot Bullet; outraged, he refuses. Bullet runs off and is later found wounded. Ellis carries him only to find himself walking in circles.

Ellis passes out to find Bullet missing. After losing and regaining consciousness several times, he's confronted by Carver, who taunts him with Bullet's supposed death. He wakes up at the now-flooded campsite in a rainstorm. He sees and enters a dilapidated house, following clues through numerous doorways and passages leading to the basement. Visions of the past reveal the cause of Ellis' PTSD; he accidentally killed a native girl while hiding from enemy forces during a combat mission. This shocks him enough, causing his negligence in warning his squad of danger, resulting in their deaths; the concealed face seen throughout the game was the girl's face.

Mysterious voices alongside creatures inside the house continue to taunt Ellis. In a fit of rage, he aggressively makes his way into the basement. Entering it, he finds Peter is nowhere and goes through a secret trapdoor that teleports him outside to Carver. Multiple endings are available.

Depending on the player's actions throughout the game, he either kills Carver or lets Carver kill him, refusing to allow the presence to take him over. Based on how well he was treated, Bullet could end up alive and well. If he ends up killing Carver, he will find himself becoming the next Carver, causing Bullet to leave the forest in fear and sadness. If he lets Carver kill him, Bullet will either move on or stays by his side. The outcomes also vary; It can either reveal that Lanning's body was never found or was recovered and buried with top honors, either Todd Mackinnon's remains were found nearly beyond identification or recovered by his family to be buried, and Peter's fate can either be unknown, revealed to be murdered at Carver's hands, or safely found by the authorities and returned to his family unscathed.

Artist L. S. Lowry lived with his overbearing mother, Elizabeth, until her death in 1939. Bed-ridden and bitter, Elizabeth tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, while never failing to voice her disappointment in him.

Middle-aged Eliseo, a projectionist, travels to rural towns to screen his films. He meets a young woman named Rubi and takes her on the road.

As described in a film magazine review, a strong willed woman rules over her relatives and the town with an iron hand. She is the owner of a large industrial plant. No one has ever dared to oppose her until her son Kenyon appears with his wife Frederika. The wife is a modern young woman and just as dominent a personality, and she refuses to be cowed by her mother-in-law. a misunderstanding develops, but she is reconciled to her husband, and eventually she breaks the proud spirit of the older woman.

''Honeyland'' documents the life of Hatidže Muratova, a Macedonian beekeeper of Turkish descent, who lives in the village of Bekirlija in the municipality of Lozovo. She is one of the last keepers of wild bees in Europe. Due to its location in a secluded mountain, the village has no access to electricity and running water. Hatidže lives with her 85-year-old, partly blind and bedridden mother Nazife, who is completely dependent on her daughter. Hatidže earns a living by selling honey in the country's capital Skopje, which is four hours away from the village.

The atmosphere in the village changes when the nomadic rancher Hussein Sam arrives with his wife Ljutvie, their seven children, and their imported domestic animals. Initially, Hatidže maintains good relationships with the family and spends time playing with the children. In need of money, and inspired by Hatidže's way of earning money, Sam takes an interest in wild beekeeping himself. Hatidže instructs him on collecting honey and provides him with several bees so Sam can start his own colony. Despite his initial success, one of Sam's customers demands more honey than his bees can produce. Sam disregards Hatidže's advice to always leave half of the honey for his bees and proceeds to sell the entire stock of honey. This leads to Sam's colonies attacking Hatidže's during the resource-scarce winter. Hatidže scolds Sam for ignoring her advice and her bee colony collapses. Soon after, her mother dies. As the nomadic family decides to move to another village, Hatidže remains alone in Bekirlija.

The plot revolves around 17-year-old Héctor who runs away from the youth detention center he's been at for the last two years to locate the dog Oveja that Héctor met on an animal rescue center. Héctor is accompanied by his older brother Ismael, who wants to make sure Héctor doesn't get into trouble.

Ran is a 500-year-old vampire who chooses to live an ordinary life among human beings despite having powers such as speed. She runs a make-up shop in the neighborhood of Mangwon in Seoul, but her life is still different compared to other women as she does not age and needs animal blood to survive. Things change when Lee So-nyeon, the new landlord's son, falls in love with Ran: her appetite for human blood comes back.

Jessica, a Scottish expatriate to Bogotá, Colombia, awakens one night to a single loud boom. She appears to be the only one who can hear it. The next day, she goes to visit her sister, Karen, who is ill and in the hospital. Jessica also operates a market-flower business in the area, and begins to learn more about an excavation project being carried out in the same hospital where her sister is being treated.

Still bothered by the sound, which she hears repeatedly and which prevents her from sleeping, Jessica seeks the help of a young sound engineer named Hernán to recreate the sound. Though unsuccessful at first, the two eventually approximate the sound, and begin a friendly relationship. Right before they are to take a trip together, Jessica looks for Hernán at his sound engineering studio, only to discover that he is not there and no one working there knows who he is.

Finding herself growing increasingly uncomfortable in the company of her now-healthy sister, Jessica ventures out into the countryside alone, where she encounters a middle-aged fish scaler, also named Hernán. This Hernán lives a secluded life, but he speaks frankly with Jessica. They discuss his connection to the earth, his sleep, and their memories. Inside his home, Jessica learns to connect with her memories in a similar fashion to Hernán, and at one point while holding hands, appears to have her memories intertwine with his.

Jessica then approaches an open window and hears the booming sound again, but seems to have grown to accept it and even appreciate it. Suddenly, a camouflaged alien spacecraft rises out of the jungle, leaving a loud sonic boom in its wake. A radio broadcast is heard reporting a mild earthquake that, unbeknownst to the general population, coincided with the take-off of the spacecraft. The broadcast goes on to say that the quake has unearthed previously inaccessible areas that the aforementioned excavation project was searching for.

The story begins with the description of the way Alana and Osiris look at the narrator and between each other. They observe with confidence and without duplicity. The narrator then shows signs of jealousy towards Osiris, he expresses how he is incapable of reaching complete happiness when his wife express love towards him due to the constant presence of the cat and complains about her inability to realize and assess the situation. Furthermore, he believes his love for his wife is also not complete. He is obstinate in the idea that Alana has more to her that what she is letting him know. There is a whole number of aspects of her personality that are unfamiliar to him and he wants to discover. At first, he decides to use music to try to discover her. He believed music helped her let go of that facade of superficial happiness and total honesty and left her naked to his eye. He felt that by doing this, he would be able to love her better, to be a better husband. He had given up trying to understand Osiris. But Alana was a work in progress. He decided to take her to an art gallery to attempt to decipher her further and deeper, as he was not pleased with what he had discovered. He was convinced there was still more of her to show. He shows confidence in his endeavor, as he was sure she would have never realized that his true intentions to take her to the gallery was not to look at art, but to get to know more about her. This time around he was pleased of what he was seeing. He felt for the first time she was truly opening to him and was enjoying the sight of his wife. He was ready to love her entirely. Love her for what she was, all of her. In a twist off fate, She steps in front of a painting portraying a cat identical to Osiris looking out of a window. At this moment, she broke up her ties with her husband and entered the painting, from which she and the cat stared at him.

''Ashes to Ashes'' is an adventure module connecting to the story included in the first edition of the game's corebook. The player characters are ordered to present themselves to Lodin, the Prince of Chicago, and find themselves involved in deadly vampire intrigue between two competing groups.

After dying from a car accident, the protagonist finds himself reincarnated in another world as a sword with no recollection of his name, though he remembers everything else from his previous life. Accepting his fate as a sword, he begins to seek someone to become his wielder. He discovers a caravan of slave traders under attack by a two-headed bear. A young catgirl slave, Fran, discovers the sword, and uses him to kill the bear. After being freed from slavery, she names the sword "Teacher", and the two embark on an adventure together.

Ángel is devastated by the sudden death of his wife Alma, with whom he had lived with for 20 years. Everything happened so suddenly, that Ángel has no idea how to process it. Alma is in the same situation, she doesn't know that she is dead and is trapped in her house, until she resolves her problems on earth. Heaven and hell will dispute her soul, while she tries to take care of her family, being a ghost that can only communicate with her loved ones through the body of Paco, Ángel's best friend.

"Armin" (Saed Soheili), a young 25-year-old computer savvy student, is unable to communicate with people and spend most of his time with his own book-reading website. His father (Majid Mozaffari) is suffering from MS and has been separated from his mother (Parivash Nazarieh). She meets a girl on the reading website, "Jaleh" (Mahoor Alvand), whose list of favorite books is very similar to Armin's. Jaleh, who has financial difficulties, introduces him to work at a company where she works as a graphic artist. Armin in the company, meet "Bahman" (Hossein Yari) Branch Chief, "Anahita" (Leila Hatami) Bahman's nominee, Haleh (Azadeh Samadi) Company Secretary, "Nader" (Hamid Reza Azarang) board member of the main company, and "Morvarid" (Vishka Asayesh) Nader's wife and another board member of the main company. Armin is hired as the network security officer at the company and this is the start of his new life.

In a small town, a group of migrant workers are employed at an aircraft factory and live in a trailer park. When 15 year-old Dotty Fisher claims she has been attacked, a group of men, led by Frank Doran, attempt to find out who is possible. They seize a boy, Raphael Infante, and threaten to lynch him. Only a tolerant man called Alec Beggs dares to stand up to the mob in an attempt to stop them.

A drug addict is brought to Los Angeles for treatment, who soon learns the treatment center is not meant to help people but instead a coverup for a fraud operation enlisting addicts to recruit other addicts.

The play revolves around the Edwardian family values being tested by unusual circumstances. The household contains a marble statue of Niobe. The moment of magical transformation occurs as the statue is bought to life by a quaint electrical storm.

In Boston, Clancy Finch is invited by her crush Travis Schultz to a party at his house. Her brother Kevin is caught dancing in the restroom by some older students who record him and bully him, but Clancy's and Kevin's mother Margot, the lunch monitor, scares them away. The bullies upload a remix video of Kevin dancing and Margot admonishing them to YouTube, where it quickly goes viral, gaining over two million views.

Kevin, Clancy, and her friend Mim are picked up by their father Ron, an awkward pastry chef. Clancy asks her parents if she can go to Travis's party and they both say no, leading to her insulting her mother and getting grounded. Later, Kevin's friend Lewis comes over for a sleepover in a tent in the backyard.

That night, Clancy and Mim sneak out. On their way to the party, they first scare the boys, causing Lewis to run into the house to pee. While in the bathroom, he notices a man and a woman break into the house, force Ron at gun point and Margot (whom they call "Matilda") to come with them under threat of Ron's death to get their group back together. Margot agrees, removing her necklace as a clueless Ron is brought along. Lewis runs back to the tent and tells the others what happened.

Not believing him, the four run back inside until they notice United States Marshals Agent Henry Gibbs sneaking into the house. An intruder, they attack him, tying him to a chair. He tells them Margot was in the Witness Protection Program because she turned in the boss of the crime syndicate she was in, but has been located due to the viral video.

In another location, Elise and her associate are briefed on the mission. Also present is Margot's criminal ex-fiancé Leo Bouchot, who had been in the Witness Protection Program before he was found.

The kids follow clues Margot left them in the flour and her necklace when she was taken away, leading them to a storage unit, a secret spy center. They take a self-driving spy car to Travis's party. Travis agrees to take them to Downtown Boston in his family's boat, but they are stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard and he has a revoked license.

The four jump off and swim away, then reach the building where they believe their parents are located. They instead find a secret passageway behind a painting of Margot's favorite poet W. B. Yeats leading them to the hideout of Margot's best friend Jay, who tracks Margot's GPS chip to an extravagant gala. Jay tells the kids to stay, but Clancy handcuffs her to a pipe so they can all leave.

At the gala, Ron, Margot, and Leo are attempting to steal Queen of Moldana's crown by poisoning her. Upon meeting her, Ron accidentally ingests the poison and vomits everywhere, gala security then detains them. When they are about to be sent to the FBI, Margot and Leo knock out all the security guards. They go with Ron to the main floor, where they find the four kids, who got in by pretending to be live musicians. The seven escape to Leo's safe house.

There, they discover Leo was never in the Witness Protection Program, but is actually the new head of the syndicate. Elise holds them at gunpoint and calls the police to frame them for the theft. Ron throws a wolf spider at her to make her drop her gun and then shoots the chandelier onto her. Margot hot-wires a car which Ron uses to drive Leo into a bunch of construction barrels, then Margot kicks the crown out of his hands and Clancy catches it.

The Boston Police arrest Leo and those involved. Henry drives everyone back to the Finch house where Travis returns Clancy's jacket and Lewis's mother picks him up. Everyone returns to their normal lives.

Writer Kate Conklin's engagement is called off at the same time the tour for her debut novel is cancelled due to poor sales. Shortly after, she receives an offer to speak at her alma mater, the fictitious Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois (site of the real-life Southern Illinois University), from her former professor and mentor David Kirkpatrick.

Returning to Carbondale, Kate is surprised to be staying at a bed and breakfast across from the house she lived in while at university. She meets the current occupants, three boys named Hugo, Tall Brandon, and Animal, who allow her to visit her former room. She tells them she nicknamed the house The Writers' Retreat. They tell her the name is still used, which she finds flattering. They tell her she's welcome to come to the party they're having there that night.

After her reading, Kirkpatrick offers Kate a teaching position, which she mulls over. Walking home late and finding herself locked out of her B&B, she sees a number of students at the party across the street, and decides to join them. While there, she receives a text message from her former fiancé, asking her not to contact him anymore. Animal and his girlfriend end up comforting her, and they allow her to stay over at the house.

The next day, while consulting with writing students in a coffee shop, Kate meets with April, one of Kirkpatrick's students and Hugo's girlfriend. April is a rising star in the English department, and when Kate tries to give her some professional advice to make her writing more marketable, she is surprised to have her suggestions rejected.

Returning to her former residence, Kate learns that April has dumped Hugo. The others suspect that she was cheating with professor Kirkpatrick. Kate, Hugo, and two others decide to go to Kirkpatrick's house to try to verify the cheating rumors. They walk in on April and Kirkpatrick in bed together. After serving the students refreshments, Kirkpatrick tells Kate that he and his wife have an open relationship. Kate is disappointed by his actions, though, and further disappointed to learn that he has lied about reading her book. She declines the teaching position he offered her.

Kate and her student friends return to the house. When Kate tells Hugo she's been locked out of her B&B, he offers to let her stay in his room, her former room. He tells her he admires an essay she wrote when she was a student there, and the two make love. As Kate sneaks out of the house the following morning, she bumps into April, who is presumably arriving to see Hugo, and who deduces that Kate has just slept with him. Kate apologizes to her for not encouraging her work, and admits that her feelings of failure and jealousy prevented her from being more supportive.

On the drive back home, Kate's driver tells her he read and loved her book. When he asks her how the experience of being published has been for her, Kate says she thinks she "could have done better".

The movie opens as Wyoming rancher Jim Kirk flees three bandits intent on robbing the money he earned by selling his Texas Longhorn herd. Back at his ranch, Kirk explains to his cowhand Andy that he is carrying a cashier's check made out to him, because he feared being robbed.

Kirk tells Andy that the price for Longhorns has fallen steeply. Kirk has a plan to breed Longhorns with Hereford cattle. He shows Andy a prototype that he has bred, which will have the stamina of a Longhorn and yield as much beef as a Hereford. The only place to get a herd of Herefords is in Oregon, and driving them all the way back to Wyoming seems insane to everyone but Kirk.

When Kirk deposits his check in town, Andy slips away to meet with Latimer, the gang leader who engineered the failed robbery of Kirk. Andy tells Latimer about Kirk's plan, and they agree to hijack the Herefords as Kirk drives them back to his ranch.

On their way to Oregon, Andy is shot by Native American horse thieves. Kirk walks on foot for miles to find a doctor, who just manages to save Andy's life. While Andy recovers, Kirk buys a herd of Herefords and tries to hire a road crew. Most men turn him down, because driving Herefords over the open range seems impossible. The only men who agree are a bunch of outlaws whom nobody else will hire.

The cattle drive back to Wyoming is arduous, and the crew grows restless when they run out of meat. Kirk refuses to butcher one of the Herefords. Meanwhile, Andy meets with Latimer to plot the hijacking of the herd. They agree to start a stampede and force the cattle into a canyon, where they will kill Kirk and his crew.

Just before Andy is supposed to start the stampede, Kirk tells Andy that he will be the foreman of the crew when they return to Kirk's ranch, and he also offers Andy an ownership stake in the herd. When the stampede begins, Andy regrets his betrayal, and fires on Latimer and his henchmen. He is killed in the gun battle, but he helps to thwart Latimer's plan. The film ends as Kirk arrives back at his ranch with his Herefords.

In 1939, Suffolk landowner Edith Pretty hires local self-taught archaeologist-excavator Basil Brown to tackle the large burial mounds at her rural estate in Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge. At first, she offers the same money he received from the Ipswich Museum, the agricultural wage, but he says it is inadequate; so she ups her offer by 12% to £2 a week (approximately £120 in 2020), which he accepts.

His former employers try unsuccessfully to persuade Brown to work on a Roman villa they deem more important. They ignore Brown, who left school aged 12, when he suggests the mounds could be Anglo-Saxon rather than the more common Viking era.

Working with assistants from Pretty's estate, Brown slowly excavates the more promising of the mounds. One day the trench collapses on him, but they dig him out in time. Meanwhile, he spends more time with Edith, a widow, and her young son Robert, finding common interest in archaeology and astronomy with them. However, he does not become unfaithful to his wife, and we see that they are an amicable couple. She supports his jobs as excavator despite them being low wage. Meanwhile, Edith struggles with her health, warned by her doctor to avoid stress.

Brown is astonished to uncover iron rivets from a ship, suggesting that it is the burial site of someone of tremendous distinction, such as a king. Prominent local archaeologist James Reid Moir attempts to join the dig but is rebuffed; Edith instead hires her cousin Rory Lomax to join the project. News of the discovery soon spreads, and Cambridge archaeologist Charles Phillips arrives, declares the site to be of national importance, and takes over the dig by order of the Office of Works.

As World War II approaches, Phillips brings in a large team, including Peggy Piggott, who uncovers proof that it is Anglo-Saxon in origin. Brown is demoted to only keep the site in order, but Edith intervenes and he resumes digging. Brown discovers a Merovingian Tremissis, a small gold coin of Late Antiquity, and Phillips declares the site to be of major historical significance. Phillips wants to send all the artefacts to the British Museum, but Edith, concerned about war raids in London, asserts her rights. An inquest finding confirms that she is the owner of the ship and its priceless treasure trove of grave goods, but she despairs as her health continues to decline.

Peggy, neglected by her husband Stuart, begins a romance with Rory, but he is soon called up by the Royal Air Force. Edith decides to donate the Sutton Hoo treasure to the British Museum, requesting that Brown be given recognition for his work. The film ends with Brown and his co-workers replacing earth over the ship to preserve it.

As the end credits begin, text explains the fate of Edith and the recovered objects. Edith died in 1942. The treasure was hidden in the London Underground during the war and first exhibited without any mention of Basil Brown nine years after Edith's death. Only recently was Brown given full credit for his contribution and his name is now displayed permanently alongside Pretty's at the British Museum.

When survivors of the Chernobyl disaster arrive in Cuba for medical treatment, a local Russian literature professor is ordered to act as a translator.

Don Koch, a man from Chicago with a criminal past, purchases an old house in the suburbs hoping for a new start for his pregnant wife, Liz, and their dog, Cooper. Shortly after moving in, Don meets Ellie Mueller, the pastor living across the street. Later, Don learns from the local bartender about the house's sordid past, and its effect on straight men. Don witnesses strange events within the home, including sludge-like substance seeping from the walls and fixtures, as well as the appearance of marbles throughout the home. Next, Don meets another assumed neighbor, Sarah Yates, who easily seduces him in the upstairs bedroom. After she leaves, the bedroom ceiling collapses revealing a viewing platform in the attic. The next day Sarah appears again and tries to seduce Don, but he admits his guilt and dismisses her.

Milo Stone, Don's former coworker, arrives at the house to help Don patch the bedroom ceiling and discovers Don's affair. The two men have an argument, and Don leaves for more supplies and tells Milo not to return if he cannot keep it a secret. While Don is out, Milo follows a marble into the basement where he is murdered by Sarah. When Don returns and does not see Milo, Don assumes Milo left.

The next day, Liz sees Sarah in the background during a call with Don. Becoming nervous, Don installs new locks and security cameras. That night, Sarah lures Cooper downstairs with a marble. When Don wakes up the next morning, he finds his dog dead in the dryer. The police are no help. Furious, Don waits for Sarah to appear, then kills her and attempts to bury her body within the basement walls. He gets a call from Liz and he leaves the body; when he returns to finish the job, he finds Sarah is missing. Don searches for her and breaks through some walls and finds a secret room in the attic with drawings on the wall of a girl with a bird-man figure. While searching in other walls, Don finds Milo's head. Don sees a deformed girl, who attacks him with a marble that tunnels up into his body under his skin. Don slices his neck with a penknife to try to remove the marble, while the girl releases more marbles towards him.

Liz arrives and finds a newspaper article about the house's past as a brothel and a missing body. Sarah appears and claims she is helping Don renovate the house. Ellie rings the doorbell and tells Liz that the house is bad for relationships. Liz returns to the house and experiences a vision from the house's past with strange men going upstairs to watch "the show". She goes up into the attic and sees a crowd of men in suits peering down into her bedroom where Sarah performs S&M with a masked birdman. She sees a little girl named Sadie in a dark corner of the room drawing on the wall when the masked man gives the girl a bag of marbles.

When Liz returns to the bedroom she once again sees Sarah, who confesses that the brothel owner killed her. Sarah attacks Liz, but Liz hides in the bedroom where she finds Don's lacerated body. He confesses his affair and begs for Liz's forgiveness, but she refuses. Sarah reveals herself inside Don's skin and explains it was a trick and a test before allowing Liz to leave the house for being strong against the will of men. Liz runs downstairs and sees the deformed girl and kills her. As Liz leaves, she finds Ellie, who explains how each person must choose to enter and face their actions. Liz decides to stay in the house to lift the curse. She finds Sarah's body and gives it a proper burial.

Six months later, Liz is living happily alone in the house with her daughter. When the baby is left alone in the crib, Don appears in a ceiling grate and drops marbles into the crib.

The film is about man known as Vandam. He lives in prefab housing estate in Prague. He trains every night to be fits which earns him nickname reminiscent of Jean-Claude Van Damme. He likes barmaid Lucka who gets into trouble due to debts and Vandam decides to help her.

Story

Yasuomi Nīzawa was separated from his parents and moved into his grandfather's house after losing his memories as a child, as the amnesia distanced him from his parents. The main story of ''Cosmos no Sora ni'' takes place in the fall season when Yasuomi is a sophomore at . As everyone is preparing for the approaching cultural festival, Yasuomi begins to discover more about his past and memories. During this time, the protagonist bonds with a heroine of the player's choice through healing each other's pain. Each heroine has an emotional scar that plays a significant role in her story; for example, Suzuka's story deals with her guilt for being responsible for a childhood incident.

Main characters

; : :Yasuomi is the protagonist of ''Cosmos no Sora ni'' who lost his memories in childhood. At a young age, he was separated from his parents and now he lives in his grandfather's house. He is a second-year student at Nanazaka High School who likes to prank other students. ; : :Suzuka is the main heroine and Yasuomi's childhood friend who acts like an older sister towards him. As she is his next-door neighbor, she will often cook meals for him.

; : :Haruhi is a sophomore like Yasuomi but she belongs to a different class. She is the president of the women's swimming club at Nanazaka High School.

; : :Wakana is a classmate of Yasuomi who has been in and out of the hospital. She is unusually short and frail because of her hospitalization.

; : :Uiko is Yasuomi's classmate and a good friend of Wakana.

; : :Hiyori is a third-year student at university who is twenty-one years old.

Billie and Laura are best friends living on the outskirts of Canberra. During one scorching summer, the girls enter a love triangle with Laura's boyfriend Danny, who Billie is secretly sleeping with. Billie's mother has taken in an orphan Islander teen, Isaac, with a criminal record. Laura has aspirations to be a writer and keeps a journal. One evening, Billie, Laura, Danny and Isaac attended a house party where they consume alcohol and get drunk. Billie steals the keys to somebody's car and the four teens go for a joy ride. Billie almost hits two small children crossing the road, swerves, and flips the car. The four of them escape seemingly unharmed, though Laura complains of a headache. Over the next few days, Laura reveals to Billie that she knows about her betrayal with Danny. After this, Laura experiences a fainting spell but refuses medical attention. She sleeps with Isaac and that afternoon collapses after getting off the bus. She is rushed to hospital, but dies after an emergency operation. Billie is overcome with guilt. The heat of the summer intensifies and bushfires threaten to engulf the outer suburbs of the city as Billie, her mother and Danny find themselves escaping the region.

William Collins is a former boxer with a deadly accident in his past. Collins has broken out of his fourth mental hospital and met a con man and a beautiful woman, whose plans for him include murder and kidnapping.

Robert T. Ironside, a detective who needs to use a wheelchair for mobility, tracks down a faceless murderer stalking San Francisco.

Moe (Hemsworth) and Bobby "Skunk" (Cohen) are money launderers for Perico (Buric) who is also Bobby's uncle. They are both given a large job which involves $20 million in 10 days.

As they are both about to launder the money they get a call from Perico to not do anything and just sit on the money until he rings them again. This gives Bobby an opportunity to make a fast buck by doing a drug deal and making some extra money. He involves Moe who reluctantly agrees after refusing flat out first.

They go to see an Indian shopkeeper Fedex (Sharma) who is told he will make $60,000 in a few hours if he gives them the phone number of the drug dealer. Hesitantly he gives them the phone number of Debo, a local drug dealer and contact him to set up a once only deal.

But Debo is in cahoots with some dirty cops who have "borrowed" the drugs from the evidence room so that they can rob the money and the drugs once the deal is done. Debo is given 1 kg of drugs, for his help and told to run with his gang by the cops whilst they ambush Moe and Bobby at the drug deal.

Unbeknownst to the cops, Moe has set up a shooter who helps them take the money and drugs back off the cops and escape with the cops in hot pursuit. Whilst getting away Moe crashes his car and loses his memory whilst Bobby has a few scratches.

They manage to hide out with the dirty cops in hot pursuit who want their drugs and the money and will do anything to get them.

Problem is Moe has no memory and has to keep himself safe with the cash and drugs. Who will win? It is a game of cat and mouse...

Skunk and Moe go to see Skunk's uncle on his mother's side, a crime boss in the middle of a real estate deal with a congressman and being vetted by the biggest bank in New York. Skunk's uncle tells them that because they messed things up they must leave New York forever. Before they do, Moe insists he must see his apartment. At the apartment they find his pregnant girlfriend and Skunk leaves and tells them to be ready when he returns. When Skunk returns, so do the dirty cops. They capture Skunk and shoot Moe's girlfriend who later dies at a hospital. Moe goes to see Skunk's uncle, who agrees to help.

Moe is able to rescue Skunk and they take the cash and drugs to Skunk's uncle. His uncle assaults Moe after being tipped off by an FBI agent that Moe is an undercover cop called Killerman. Skunk's uncle informs him that Moe's girlfriend did not die but his unborn child did and then tells him to kill Moe by emptying a clip in his head. Instead of killing Moe, Skunk kills his uncle and his uncle's men. Skunk tells Moe that his uncle would have killed them both and not mentioning that Moe is a cop and his girlfriend is alive. They take a car, the money and drugs and leave New York. In credits, it's said that no one knows their whereabouts and that it is unknown whether Moe ever got his memory back.

The dancer Elva Marja has a very faithful and enthusiastic admirer in Henry Corner, who is known for his wealth and eccentricity. Immediately after her performance, he writes in a letter that he has been following her from city to city for three months and hopes that she must have realized that she can no longer avoid him. Corner concludes that he will wait for Elva Marja in the vestibule. He asks a theater employee to give her the letter. Elva Marja is sitting in her changing room, surrounded by several men. She reads the letter to them, and they all laugh. Elva Marja asks the theater staff to tell "the conceited gentleman" that he should not waste his time waiting for answers. Corner is still waiting for her in the vestibule as announced. When Elva Marja passes him with her male companion, she makes a cutting remark.

The next evening, Corner has bought all the tickets to Elva Marja's performance and is the only spectator in the parquet. She refuses to dance for him because she thinks he has arranged everything just to annoy her. The director persuades Elva Marja to perform anyway, and she delivers a masterful performance before the lone spectator. After the show, Corner sends her a bouquet of flowers with a note. It says that he is waiting for her in the vestibule and that there are no words to express how much he is looking forward to spending the evening with her. Corner stands patiently and waits yet again. Elva Marja throws the bouquet at him as she walks past and travels home. After she returns home, her maid tells her that a messenger has delivered a magnificent bouquet of flowers. Like the first one, it is a gift from Corner.

The burglar Søren Svup is interested in the dancer's home. He climbs a ladder to the second floor. Elva Marja hears him and calls the police. The police officer replies that she lives so far away that it will take at least a quarter hour before they can reach her. Corner is outside her home and discovers the ladder.

San Francisco Police Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is the main character of this book. It has two plots. The main plot involves three schoolteachers, who suddenly vanish after a night out after school. One turns up murdered with no clues as to who killed her or why or where the other two teachers are. The second plot involves Lindsay's husband, Joe Molinari. A woman who survived a deadly attack on her village in another country many years before comes to Joe with a story that she has seen a war criminal who was involved in this attack in San Francisco. Both Lindsay and Joe look very hard for any clues they can find in both these cases.

Diane Di Sorella, a young Italian American professional photographer, has to return suddenly to New Jersey, where she grew up, when her mother dies to settle her estate. In recent years Diane didn't get on with her, and begins to remember her embittered mother whom she abandoned. But at the same time, she begins to rediscover the heritage she rejected a long time ago when she is amongst her neighbours while packing up the house. Then she meets a close friend of her grandmother's and late mother's, who gives her support in this tough time and also gives Diane her mother's last gift: a secret journal kept by her mother. As it is written in Italian the woman must read it to Diane. This helps her learn more about her mother's history, and as she does so she finally comes to terms with the relationship they had and her own Italian heritage.[https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7e63713d ''Tarantella''] at BFI

The main character, whose gender is selectable, lives in Verona Beach, a city in a contemporary fantasy world where monsters pose a danger to people. The player fights in dungeons, known as "dunj" in the world's slang, using weapons created from transformed humans or other creatures. The weapons can be dated to increase their power, although the game also contains a "platonic" relationship with a cat. The personalities of the weapon characters are based on their weapon type.

It tells the story of a woman hooked to gambling who begins neglecting her husband and children.

Duff Anderson moves to a small town to work on the railroad. He marries Josie, much to the dislike of her preacher father, and they both re-locate to live in their own house and Duff lands a job in a mill and tries to unionize the workers.

While driving to school, Kristen Marshall, senior class president of her high school, accidentally hits Richard Ashbury, a socially minded cyclist posting flyers for a food & clothing drive. When Kristen's wealthy parents as well as her boyfriend Jason's wealthy parents go broke, her college dreams are crushed.
Kristen and Jason accompany their friend Graham to his father's lake house, where he has also invited Richard. When Richard reads the newspaper and realizes that he is holding a winning lottery ticket, Kristen sees her opportunity and attempts to seduce Richard in the pool but he rejects her.
The next day Jason is convinced by Kristen to push Richard off a cliff during a hike but ends up slipping himself, only to be rescued by Richard. A disappointed Kristen kisses Richard during a game of Twister in order to inspire jealousy in Jason, who punches Richard. The next morning Jason apologizes, then he suggests another hike, during which he pushes Richard off the same cliff. Richard begs for help and Jason offers his belt but once Richard grabs it Jason drops Richard to the ground far below, killing him. Jason searches Richard's body but is unable to find the lottery ticket.
Jason returns to the lake house, claiming that it was too slippery from the rain to carry Richard back. That evening Richard struggles back to the house and dies on the floor. Graham demands that they take the body to the police. Kristen offers to drive Richard's body to the police herself but reconsiders and turns around halfway. She manages to find the ticket on Richard's body but is seen by Graham. She explains her situation to Graham, who then realizes that Jason pushed Richard and refuses to help them. Kristen convinces Jason to knock Graham out and beat in his skull with a fire iron.
When Graham's girlfriend Amber drives to the lake house and knocks on the door, Kristen sends Jason to drive Richard and Graham off a cliff in a car while she distracts Amber. The next morning Amber convinces them to search for Graham. They find the car wreck and report it to the police.
Jason discovers that Kristen has been lying to him about several things, while Amber discovers camcorder tapes of the group discussing the lottery ticket. They break into Amber's house and retrieve the tape, while Amber calls the police. Kristen buys some scratch-off tickets then she and Jason attempt to redeem the ticket, only to be told that it was purchased after the drawing and is not valid. Amber brings a police officer but Jason knocks him out with a tire iron. Jason and Kristen drive after Amber and Kristen throws the new tickets out of the car window before Jason crashes into a gas truck. Kristen's cigarette ignites both vehicles.
Amber later watches camcorder video of Richard planning to trick Kristen with his invalid lottery ticket, then scratches off Kristen's new tickets and finds a winning ticket for the grand prize. She conceals this information from her friend Maria.

After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading to Mexico run into ex-Union soldiers selling horses to the Mexican government and join forces to fight off Mexican revolutionaries.

In a central apartment building in Santiago, three foreigners wait impatiently for a call to carry out an illegal operation in the desert. In her apartment, Helena, a lonely American woman, waits for her lover. Upstairs, Nico settles in his brother's apartment. As time goes by, tension increases, intertwining these characters' lives in a sordid and oppressive environment.

The novel is written in the form of a letter by a young Vietnamese American nicknamed Little Dog, whose life mirrors that of Ocean Vuong. The letter is written to Little Dog's mother Hong, more often called or translated as Rose (''hồng''). The novel has a nonlinear narrative structure.

The novel also recounts the life of Little Dog's grandmother, Lan, who escapes an arranged marriage during the Vietnam War and becomes a prostitute. She marries a white American soldier and gives birth to a child, although the father of the child is another man, as Lan was four months pregnant when she met the man who would become her husband. The child is Little Dog's mother, Rose. She is barely literate, having left school at the age of five when her schoolhouse in Vietnam collapsed during an American napalm raid. She suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder as a result. Rose marries an abusive man but eventually separates from him.

Working in a nail salon, she struggles as a single parent living in Hartford, Connecticut with her son and her mother Lan. Living in America as refugees, the three can barely speak English. Little Dog, who is gay, is abused by his mother throughout his childhood. Halfway through the novel, Little Dog meets a young white man named Trevor while working on a tobacco farm one summer, and the two begin a romantic relationship. Trevor eventually becomes addicted to opioids and later overdoses and dies.

An illegal memory dealer clears her name of murdering a man she does not remember in one night.

An alien ship approaches the Earth and launches a probe which enters the atmosphere and then splashes into the Pacific, where it is devoured by a great white shark. The shark convulses and in a few moments is transformed by the probe into a red-lined robotic simulacrum of the ocean predator. An American nuclear submarine in the area detects the robotic shark's movements and, considering it an unknown hostile entity, the captain decides to destroy it. Instead, the submarine's hull is breached by the shark's newly enhanced teeth and all hands are lost.

In Seattle, a viral video of uncertain authenticity begins to circulate of a seaplane being attacked in the harbour. Local reporter Trish Larson is tired of her role as "the wacky weather girl" and complains about fake news. She defies station orders and takes her cameraman Louie to cover area military activity in the Discovery Park area, and they witness the so-called Roboshark as it invades a coffee shop and devours a customer who unwittingly livestreams his own demise. Trish's story is hijacked by her colleague Veronica. Trish's husband Rick, a supervisor at the Seattle public works department, is tracking the alien's progress through the sewers and informs her of its movements even as Roboshark begins trending in earnest. The Navy commandeers his office, determined to destroy Roboshark by any means necessary, even at the cost of bystanders' lives.

Navy SEALs track and engage Roboshark in the Pacific Place mall. The men's guns are minimally effective against its metal frame, slowing it down but ultimately failing to stop it and it kills them. Trish and Melody record the latter stages of the encounter and post it on YouTube, getting high numbers of views, but are disappointed to find that many people do not take the video seriously. Trish's teenage daughter Melody discovers that Roboshark is following her on Twitter, and realizes that it is not acting out of malginant intent but reacting defensively. In a close encounter with Melody, the alien's robotic form's colours switch from its usual aggressive red to a more "friendly" green.

Trish, Melody, and Louie try to convince Admiral Black that Roboshark intended no harm, to no avail. A techpreneur "more powerful" than the President arrives - Bill Glates. He tries to help the Navy by communicating with Roboshark with a view to reverse engineering it, using a small quadcopter, but the plan fails as Roboshark traces the signal back to its source and Glates - after crying out "It's full of stars!" - is dragged around a park to his death. Veronica gets too close to the action in her zeal to win a Peabody Award and is likewise killed. A final confrontation ensues at the Space Needle, which Roboshark intends to use as a means to "phone home". The battle leads to the Needle collapsing, Admiral Black along with it, and the disappearance of the alien. Rick is reunited with Trish and Melody.

Some time later, a woman walks in the park amid the Space Needle debris with a small dog whose eyes begin to glow red.

The screenplay was inspired in part by the 2016 horror film The Wailing and the 2013 gay mystery Stranger by the Lake. The story centers around a young lawyer from Manhattan named Joseph who takes a trip to Fire Island in search of the island’s infamous parties and events He finds the island is in its off-season without the aforementioned events or visitors. He meets a stranger who winds up drugging and robbing him. While partially unconscious, Joseph witnesses a murder and narrowly escapes being killed himself. He wakes up in the care of a local named Cameron whom he later develops feelings for, momentarily forgetting about the murder while the murderer reemerges among Cameron's friends.

The first section of the novel, "Oklahoma Panhandle," introduces Julia and Milt Dunne, farmers in western Oklahoma during the 1930s. They live in a dugout basement with Milt's father ("the old man" or "Konkie") and their daughters Myra and Lonnie. After another year of barely making ends meet with his usual broomcorn crop, Milt persuades his father to try planting winter wheat and purchases seed using money that had been set aside for clothing for the family. The wheat harvest goes well and the family finds itself financially secure for a brief time, but then a summer drought arrives, and with it billowing clouds of dust that suffocate the crops and sicken the children. Other farmers are similarly beleaguered, beset with failing crops, abundant debt, and little hope.

With the few resources they have left, the Dunnes (minus the old man) decide to follow in the footsteps of other "Okies" and head to California, lured by the promise of plentiful resources and abundant jobs. In the second section of the novel, "California," the reality turns out to be less idyllic. The flood of refugees from the east means low pay for menial jobs, mostly picking crops. The Dunnes are forced to live in tents and move from camp to camp in a desperate attempt to earn enough to survive. They are hampered by a company store system that substitutes store scrip for wages and holds workers financially hostage to their bosses. The Dunnes' desperation, and that of the other farmworkers, grows as they find that no matter how hard they work, they are unable even to feed their children. An attempt to organize in protest of working and living conditions results in Milt's beating and arrest and leaves the workers jobless and homeless, as the company is easily able to find replacement laborers.

The novel closes with Milt's realization that workers on company farms are no more than "a lot of parts that can't stand alone because we haven't got an acre of our own to keep our feet on...[T]hese bosses of ours...[are] looking out for the Almighty Dollar, and if they have to starve us to get more'n they can count, they can do it because there's more where we come from. They can do it because they never have to look a poor man or woman in the eye. We ain't human, we're figures on the books." In the final paragraphs, the workers reach a shared resolve to persevere despite the hardships, to organize, and to "stand together as one man. They would rise and fall and, in their falling, rise again."

The film opens with a paean to American values, noting how America means different things to different people. The central conflict in the film concerns four composite characters, a worker, capitalist, politician, and farmer, who all find themselves at odds with each other. A slick salesman approaches the men, offering them a solution to all their problems in the form of a magic tonic known as ISM, which he claims will "cure any ailment of the body politic."

He offers the tonic to the men for free, but provides them a contract that requires them to–quite literally–sign away the freedom of themselves, their children, and their grandchildren. Upon hearing this, a sleeping man on a bench wakes up and approaches the group, announcing that he is John Q. Public. He demands to see the contract, examines it, and is astonished that the men would so readily sign away their freedoms. Public then regales the men with a tale of Joe Doakes (another generic American name), a lowly inventor in the 1890s, who became wealthy thanks to his inventions for the automotive industry. He had financial backing from his family and friends. Public explains that Doakes' success is due to the American system of free enterprise, and that being a capitalist is nothing to be ashamed of. He also notes that America enjoyed a standard of living after World War II unparalleled by any other country.

Public then invites the men to try ISM and see what its collectivist vision would allegedly bring. The worker finds himself shackled to a machine and branded a state union member, the capitalist removed from his factory, the farmer stripped of his power, and the politician turned into a propaganda speaker. Disgusted with the ISM, the men turn on the salesman and chase him out of town. The film ends with patriotic music backing up the now-united marchers, claiming that an ever-increasing abundance for all is the secret to American prosperity.

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected. However, Hamilton's friend Edgar Bergen solves the case '''('''''without much help from Charlie McCarthy''''')'''.