In 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, a newly-married man who has criticized the Nationalist army and government fears that he will be the victim of reprisal killings and goes into hiding. As Falangists search for him, he hides under the floor of his house with the help of his wife. The first section, titled “campeada” ("to run”) depicts his first period where he is on the run from his pursuers.

The next section is titled “esconder” (“to hide”) shows his betrayal by his neighbor, and then his move to a trench dug under the kitchen. The next section is titled “detención” (“temporary loss of freedom”). During this section, the couple start to imagine that the Republicans will win the civil war, but this is only a fantasy.

The next section is titled ''Peligro'' (''danger''). As the political situation worsens, Higinio's wife is arrested, but she does not betray her husband's hiding place. The next section is titled ''Encerrar'' (''shut down''). It is about his isolation in his hiding spot. His wife gets pregnant with a child who might be theirs, or perhaps the child of a policeman who raped Rosa and then was killed by Higinio and Rosa. At times Rosa is gone from the house for a time when she goes elsewhere to give birth to the child. When two gay men start staying in the house, Higinio befriends them.

The next section is called ''Apartado'' (''remote''). Higinio starts to feel very isolated and detached from outside world, which he can only see in glimpses through the curtains or from muffled sounds. He tries to follow the news on the radio and TV to learn more. In the ''Cambiar'' (''change'') and ''Franco'' (''frank'') sections, Higino goes through a major change. With the birth of their son Jaime (who Rosa identifies to the neighbors as her nephew), Higinio starts to reconsider whether he should remain in hiding. His wife tells him the family has been needing his help.

In the next section, his wife and son start to question why he remains in hiding, arguing that no one is still looking for him. In the neighborhood, it is becoming well known that he is living under the house. However, he has become habituated to his isolation, and it is hard for him to leave his hole.

The next chapter is titled ''Desenterrar''. Higinio realizes that it is probably safe to come out of hiding. When, in 1969, the Franco government announces an amnesty, and pardons him for his political offenses, he still cannot leave the trench. After 33 years, his isolation has become his normal life.

The final chapter, ''Salir'' (''go out''), begins when his wife, Rosa, threatens to leave him, realizing that Higinio is too trapped in fear. Finally, he manages to leave the hole, as many other "topos" ("moles") show themselves again.

Anne is a lawyer working on the prosecution of a rape case. She is married to a physician, Peter, and they have two daughters, Frida and Fanny. Peter's teenage son from his past marriage is Gustav, who lives in Sweden with his mother Rebecca. The family plans for Gustav to move in with Anne and Peter. Gustav arrives but begins to conflict with Peter, pushing for the right to move out on his own despite being a minor. One day, Anne returns home to find there has been a break-in and burglary. The incident is reported to the police, but afterwards Anne finds an item in Gustav's laundry that was in her bag, stolen during the break-in. She realizes he was responsible for the robbery and confronts Gustav with the evidence. However, Anne promises to keep the matter a secret if Gustav does his part in the household. Time passes and one night, Gustav brings his girlfriend Amanda home. Anne hears the couple having sex and is aroused.

Peter and Anne entertain guests on their balcony, but Anne leaves the group to take Gustav to a bar. There, she kisses him. Later, she enters his bedroom and the two have sex. The two begin a sexual relationship; Gustav interviews Anne, asking her various questions including about her first sexual relationship. Anne says it was with someone she should not have had sex with, but she does not want to talk about it. The family celebrates Frida and Fanny's birthday. When Anne and Gustav step away, Gustav kisses her. A guest, Anne's sister Lina, witnesses the encounter and, upset, leaves the party. Anne fears Lina will tell Peter, and breaks off her relationship with Gustav.

Gustav and Peter leave to spend time at their cabin; Peter returns and tells Anne that Gustav wants to go to a boarding school, and accuses Gustav and Anne of having an affair. Anne angrily denies the accusation, saying Gustav hates her for ending Peter and Rebecca's marriage. She also tells Peter that Gustav was responsible for the burglary. Anne, Peter, and Gustav then sit down together, where Anne continues to deny the affair. Gustav threatens to report Anne for the affair, but she replies he is not a credible witness. Gustav is kicked out of the house but later goes missing from his school. A hunter discovers Gustav's body near the cabin, where he froze to death.

An unusual stone ties together three stories set in the early 2000s, the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the 11th century.

Peter Grill, warrior of the Brave Swordsmen's Guild, has emerged victorious at an international fighting tournament and is crowned the strongest man in the world. Peter uses this victory to gain permission from Guildmaster Sanctus to marry his beloved daughter and fellow Guildmember, Luvelia. However, women from other races have heard of Peter's exploits and seek the "seed" of the strongest warrior to continue their respective bloodlines. Meanwhile, the Guildmaster's obsession with his own daughter drives him to find a way to end Luvelia's relationship, as Peter tries to hide his new lovers from them both.

As with the novel, the musical follows the story of twin girls who were separated at birth who meet at summer camp ten years later before swapping places to reunite with their parents and live each other's lives.

On the first day of his new job, Toshiaki Shima becomes trapped in an elevator with a hungover man, who turns out to be his new boss, Yosuke Togawa. Togawa's brash and flippant behavior irritates Shima, but he soon becomes drawn to him when Togawa becomes supportive of him. However, Shima is reluctant to act on his feelings after his previous relationship with a male co-worker, which resulted in him quitting after his workplace discovered his secret. Meanwhile, Togawa must confront the traumatic past of his family.

Cantinflas is a model of tuxedos for a tailor shop, wandering around in the streets wearing the tuxedos while also wearing an ad put on his back. In the meantime, he also works as a tailor for his neighbors, and collaborates with Lita (Martha Valdés) and Father Feliciano (Domingo Soler) in the neighborhood's dispensary, where Lita works as a nurse. At the same time, the life of Don Pascual Lachica (Ángel Garasa), an anguished millionaire whose family only respects him as a provider, is shown. One day after work, Cantinflas arrives to return the tuxedo, but the store was closed, so he takes the ad off his back and returns home while still well-dressed, running on his way home into the wedding of Don Pascual's daughter. Don Pascual, seeing him elegantly dressed, confuses him with a millionaire and likes the sincerity with which Cantinflas treats him and offers him his friendship.

Through Cantinflas, Don Pascual discovers that his money and himself can be useful to the poor, and provides money for the charitable works Cantinflas does. However, when Simón Sicario, the evil villain of Cantinflas's neighborhood, is murdered and robbed, Cantinflas is believed to be the culprit.

A man (Cantinflas) who works as a window cleaner in the city is eventually presented with the opportunity to clean the windows of a famous French actress, Lulu Duval (Christiane Martel), who is starring in a musical revue in an important theater. The actress's agent Julián (Alejandro Ciangherotti) steals her most precious jewel, a very valuable necklace, and the window cleaner is unjustly accused because he was cleaning the windows at the time, though the assistant and confidant of the famous actress, Anita (Beatriz Saavedra) believes in his innocence.

The thief negotiates the necklace with the head of a criminal band that strikes the city (Rafael Alcayde). The Police Commissioner (Víctor Alcocer) convinces the window cleaner to serve as a spy against the band in exchange for his freedom. The window cleaner accepts, and is infiltrated as an employee of the theater where the famous actress and her agent are. In the theater, the window cleaner is pursued in many occasions by several members of the band of jewel thieves who want to kill him, because they suspect he works for the police, and theater workers, who chase him for the mischief and difficulties he originates in the work at the theater.

A young girl named Adara makes a special connection with a feared and mythic ice dragon, but when another breed of dragon flies in to destroy her world, she and her dragon must find a way to stop the invaders.

Dominatrixes Sasha, Jess, and Angelina work under the supervision of head mistress Marie at a BDSM den, where they inflict pain and humiliation upon their male clients. Jess is a free-spirited exhibitionist and Angelina is married to a client, while Sasha has avoided relationships because of her occupation. Wanting to change Sasha's outlook, Marie sets her up with a blind date she tells Sasha is her friend's son.

After completing their shifts, Sasha meets her date Daniel at a bar, Jess engages in cunnilingus with a young woman in the bar's restroom, and Angelina and her husband enjoy a private romantic evening. Sasha and Daniel remain at the bar until closing and Daniel convinces Sasha to accompany him to a park. The two spend the night together and fall asleep on a bench.

The next morning, Angelina is attacked by a client, but Sasha rescues her. Sasha's actions earn praise from Marie and she asks Sasha to leave the den with her when it closes for the day. Upon stepping outside, the two women encounter Daniel, who is revealed as Marie's son. Put in an awkward position by this revelation, Sasha finds herself at a loss for words.

Danny Conroy grows up in an elaborate mansion in Elkins Park known as the Dutch House, and is raised by his real estate investor father and his older sister Maeve, his mother having abandoned the family years earlier.

Danny's father Cyril is an emotionally distant man but raises his children to understand his business which involves investing in real estate and working as a landlord and property manager. Cyril eventually introduces the children to Andrea, a much younger woman with two daughters of her own, Norma and Bright. While Maeve and Danny do not like Andrea, Cyril eventually marries her, the two having bonded over their love of the Dutch house.

Nevertheless Cyril and Andrea's marriage is not a success and Andrea maintains a distance between herself and the Conroy children. When Danny is 15 and Maeve is 22 their father abruptly dies of a heart attack at work. His employees call in Maeve who calls Danny and no one thinks to inform Andrea until later. Two weeks later Andrea, having assured herself of the fact that her husband's property passed entirely to her, kicks Danny out of the house and fires the housekeeper and cook who have acted as surrogate mothers to the Conroy children. An infuriated Maeve discovers that the only thing she could possibly access is a trust fund for education set up in the names of Danny, Norma and Bright. Maeve decides to send Danny to the most expensive schools she can find in order to drain the trust sending Danny to Choate Rosemary Hall, Columbia University, and to Columbia Medical School.

While training at medical school Danny meets Celeste, a bright young woman who could have been a doctor herself but because of the time period decides to be a doctor's wife instead. Danny is shocked when she proposes they marry his first year of medical school and he decides not to, a decision Celeste blames on Maeve. Danny completes medical school while dreaming of owning a real estate empire. Shortly before he must choose his graduation plans he manages to acquire, and then immediately sell, two parking lots on a tip from his mentor. Danny uses the money to launch a successful career in real estate. He then marries Celeste. They have two children, a girl named May and a boy named Kevin. Though Danny is financially successful Celeste grows increasingly bitter that he never used his medical degree and puts the blame for the strain of their marriage on Maeve.

For years Danny and Maeve develop a habit of driving to the Dutch House and sitting outside of it when Danny returns home. During this time the two reminisce about their childhoods. When they are in their 40s they finally see Andrea outside the house and realize that they are preoccupied with the past and decide to stop coming to the Dutch House. A few years later Maeve has a heart attack and to Danny and Maeve's surprise their mother, Elna, returns to nurse Maeve. Danny is still angry at his mother, whom he has no memories of, but Maeve is reinvigorated by her presence. They learn that she left because she felt uncomfortable living in the wealth of the Dutch House and that she has spent her subsequent years in service to the poor. For a year Maeve and their mother live together in harmony. One day when Danny is visiting their mother abruptly suggests they visit the Dutch House though Maeve and Danny are against it.

At the Dutch House they immediately see Andrea who mistakes Danny for his father. They learn that she is suffering from dementia. Their mother decides to stay in the house and nurse Andrea which horrifies Maeve. A few months later Maeve abruptly dies. Elna continues to nurse Andrea and Danny at least partially blames her for his sister's death.

After Maeve's death Danny and Celeste finally divorce and he spends more time at the Dutch House. He learns that his step-sister Norma was forced to become a doctor to compete with Danny and that his younger step-sister, Bright, became estranged from her mother after what she did to the Conroy children. The former household staff return to work at the Dutch House and Danny brings his children for visits where his older daughter May falls in love with the house.

Andrea eventually dies and May begs Norma not to sell the house for a few years until she becomes rich enough to buy it. To everyone's surprise she quickly becomes a rich and successful actress and is able to buy the Dutch House. Though Danny and Maeve had a lonely childhood in the house May uses it to entertain rich and famous celebrities.

A teenage girl longs to move away from her village to live with her mother in the city.

Inspired by actual events, a 14-year-old Cambodian boy becomes a victim of human trafficking when he is enslaved on a Thai fishing trawler.

One year after the events at Camp Redwood, Richter has grown weary of Ramirez's murderous tendencies and alerts the locals to his presence, giving Richter the chance to drive away alone and resulting in Ramirez's arrest. Four years later, the ghosts of Montana and Xavier, still trapped in purgatory on the campgrounds, kill anyone who trespasses, much to the frustration of Ray's ghost and the ghosts of the 1970 counselors. Meanwhile, Margaret has become a rich real estate mogul by renovating infamous murder locations alongside Trevor, who survived her murder attempt. The two entered into a contentious marriage amid Trevor's threat to expose the truth. Margaret chooses Camp Redwood as her next project, to the chagrin of Chet's ghost. A reformed Richter, now with a new name, Donald, and living a quiet life in Alaska with his new wife and son, learns of the project. He returns home one night to find his wife murdered by Ramirez, who broke out of prison with Satan's help. Richter gives his son away and leaves, intent on killing Ramirez. Brooke is seemingly executed for the Camp Redwood murders, but Donna, posing as the executioner, saves her.

In Ireland in 1650, the residents of the town of Kilkenny are working to clear the nearby woods under orders from the authoritarian Lord Protector, putting them at odds with a wolf pack. English hunter Bill Goodfellowe, with his rebellious daughter Robyn, has been summoned to Kilkenny by the Lord Protector to exterminate the wolves. Wanting to help Bill, Robyn secretly follows him out of town with her pet falcon, Merlyn. After accidentally shooting Merlyn with her crossbow while trying to kill a wolf, Robyn watches a mysterious girl take him into the woods and follows them. Upon finding Merlyn, miraculously healed, a young wolf startles her into a trap. As the wolf frees Robyn, she tries to fight it, causing it to bite her. Merlyn and the wolf lead Robyn to the wolves' den, where she discovers the wolf is the same girl from earlier. The girl, Mebh, explains she is a “Wolfwalker”, whose spirit leaves her body and becomes a wolf when she sleeps. Robyn comes to befriend Mebh, and also learns that her dormant mother Moll's spirit has not yet returned in her search for a new home for their pack. Returning home, Robyn tries to convince Bill of the existence of Wolfwalkers, but he instead scolds her for going into the forest.

The next morning, while working at the scullery as ordered by the Lord Protector, Robyn is drawn into his chambers by a mysterious voice coming from a concealed cage, but is ushered out by the head maid. That night, as she sleeps, Robyn discovers her soul has left her body and become a wolf. Robyn returns to the woods where Mebh reveals her bite has turned Robyn into a Wolfwalker, and helps her get accustomed to her new form. Upon returning to Kilkenny, Robyn infiltrates the Lord Protector's manor and she finds Moll's wolf form inside the cage. Moll tells Robyn that Mebh and the pack must leave the forest, as the Lord Protector plans to burn it to wipe them out. The Lord Protector, seeking to restore control of the town, assures the townspeople he can tame the wolves, and by extension, nature itself. He ignores Robyn's pleas to let Moll go and demotes Bill for failing to eliminate the wolves.

Fearing separation from each other, Robyn and Bill tend to their duties. Mebh, having waited for Robyn to return on a promise from the previous night, enters Kilkenny and finds Robyn, who attempts to relay her mother's warning, but Mebh, hurt by Robyn's refusal to help rescue her mother out of concern for her safety, resolves to do it alone. The Lord Protector presents the captured Moll before the townspeople. An enraged Mebh attempts to free her and when Bill restrains her, Moll bites him. Mebh vows to return with her pack to rescue her mother before fleeing. The Lord Protector orders Bill to kill Moll, and leads his army to burn the forest down.

Robyn protects Moll from Bill, then frees and reunites her with Mebh before she and her pack can attack Kilkenny, earning Mebh's forgiveness. Bill follows them and shoots Moll, causing Moll's wolf form to become a spirit and return to her human form in the den, with Robyn, Mebh, and the wolves following it. The Lord Protector and his army arrive and begin burning the forest. As Mebh works to heal a grievously wounded Moll, Robyn and the pack stall the soldiers. Mebh summons Robyn and her pack back, realizing she needs them present to heal Moll, but Robyn is knocked unconscious after disabling the army's cannon. Before the Lord Protector can kill her, Bill, due to Moll's bite, becomes a Wolfwalker to protect Robyn and overpowers the Lord Protector, who then willingly falls to his death.

Robyn and Bill return to the den and help Mebh revive Moll, and accept her invitation to stay with the pack and embrace their new identities as Wolfwalkers. They set off with their pack to find a new home.

After finding a dead freshwater pink dolphin on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, detective Eric (Marco Pigossi) of the Environmental Police becomes involved in a murder investigation and discovers a world inhabited by mythical entities usually unnoticed by humans. As he investigates mysterious deaths that mirror that of his own wife, Gabriela (Julia Konrad), it leads him into a community of entities with magical powers. He eventually learns that he himself is a half-entity, and the river dolphin spirit Manaus (Victor Sparapane), whom he found dead as the story began, was his father.

Eric and his newfound compatriots learn that Dry Body, the escaped spirit of a dead, vanished anti-environmentalist evildoer, has possessed his daughter, Luna (Manu Dieguez). Dry Body is killing forest entities out of revenge, and is responsible for Gabriela's death. Seeking a stronger host, Dry Body transfers from Luna to Eric and attempts to resume his killing spree. But Eric sacrifices his own life, killing Dry Body, before the evil spirit can kill anyone else. In the final scene, Eric is mysteriously revived; and as the other entities carry him into the forest, it is implied he has been reborn as a full entity.

A comedic short film about two fictional rival republics.

In March 1983, Earth was subjected to cosmic rays that gave sociopaths superpowers, resulting in a rise of supervillains known as Miscreants. With no one able to stop the Miscreants, normal people are usually left living in fear of being attacked by them. After a Miscreant kills her geneticist parents on their way home from work, Emily Stanton becomes determined to find a way to stop Miscreants.

By 1985, Emily has sacrificed much of her social life in favor of researching possible methods of fighting back against Miscreants. While this results in her being bullied, Lydia Berman stands up for her and becomes her best and only friend. Lydia supports Emily's dream of giving superpowers to normal people, though she tries to make sure that Emily does not overwork herself. When Lydia convinces Emily to take a half-hour nap from studying in 1993, she accidentally causes Emily to oversleep and wake up late for an AP exam, straining their relationship and causing them to drift apart.

In 2024, Emily and Lydia have gone their separate ways, with Emily becoming a successful scientist and researcher for her own company and Lydia becoming a longshoreman. Lydia tries to reconnect with Emily when their high school reunion comes around and invites her to come. When she fails to show up on the night of the reunion, Lydia concludes that Emily is still uncomfortable attending parties by herself and goes to pick her up. Emily tells her that while she would have liked to go to the reunion, she had forgotten when the reunion was and had a project she had to work on that night, which Emily wants to show to Lydia. Unfortunately, Lydia accidentally injects herself with a serum Emily had been working on.

Having been injected with the serum, Lydia learns from Emily that the serum was designed to give a normal person superhuman strength and that she would have to undergo special training and treatment so the serum does not kill her. Emily also joins Lydia in the treatment, although a less painful one since Emily took the serum in a pill form to take the other superpower concocted, invisibility. During the thirty-three day treatment and training, Lydia and Emily grow closer. Lydia discovers that in the years since their high school graduation, Emily had a daughter, Tracy, with one of the researchers, who could not handle the responsibility and left them.

Once they finish their training and treatment, Emily and Lydia foil a liquor store robbery run by a Miscreant with crab arms known as the Crab, who falls in love with an equally smitten Lydia, much to Emily's concern. Emily and Lydia, known as the superhero team Thunder Force, are praised for their heroics. This brings Thunder Force to the attention of mayoral candidate William "The King" Stevens, whose campaign is built on the idea that only he can end the Miscreants' crimes.

With the help of Laser, a Miscreant who can generate and control whip-like energy beams, the King tries to get Thunder Force to work for him, leaving Chicago at the mercy of the Miscreants unless he wins the mayoral election. Thunder Force continues to fight crime with their superpowers and support the rival mayoral candidate, thereby causing the King to lose the election. The King then sends Laser to attack Thunder Force when they're at a diner. When she tries to get away, Lydia throws a bus at her despite Emily's protests. Though nobody was hurt, Emily decides that Lydia's impulsiveness is more problematic than beneficial, once again straining their friendship.

In an effort to make amends, Lydia goes on a date with the Crab to get some useful information. Along with how the Crab is a misunderstood person who had to turn to a life of crime, Lydia learns that the King is planning on blowing up everyone who did not vote for him in the election, along with the new mayor, at a party he's hosting under the guise of a celebration of the new mayor. She tells Emily of what she learned and makes amends with her.

After fighting off Laser one last time, Thunder Force go to stop the King from bombing the building. When they manage to find the bomb, the King decides to fight Thunder Force himself, revealing himself to be a Miscreant with superhuman strength, though significantly stronger than Lydia. Before the King can kill Lydia, the Crab double crosses the King and gets his claws broken off. Tracy also joins the fight, having injected herself with her mother's serum, giving her the ability to run at superhuman speed. Though they manage to take the King down, Thunder Force realizes that the bomb will go off before they can disarm it.

With no guarantee that the bomb would be stable enough to not go off while Tracy carries the bomb to somewhere safe, Lydia decides to sacrifice herself, knowing that she can at least reduce the impact of the explosion. She jumps out the building with the bomb and dives into the Chicago River, seemingly dying in the explosion. However, the paramedics manage to find her body and resuscitate her. Thunder Force, now with a stronger friendship between Emily and Lydia, are offered by the mayor the assistance of the city's resources, which they accept.

For years, a seemingly endless war has raged between the technologically advanced Heavenly Empire and the country of powerful magic users known as the Nebulis Sovereignty. In the present day, a master swordsman from the Empire named Iska and the "Ice Calamity Witch" from Nebulis' ruling family, Aliceliese, meet on the battlefield, determined to kill each other. However, even as enemies, both harbor a secret desire to peacefully end the war between their two nations without further bloodshed. As circumstances continuously conspire to bring them together, Iska and Alice begin to wonder if they can find peace with each other at first, and through this, create a path to bring an end to this war.

U.S. Army Intelligence pilot Steve Trevor flies his fighter across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a Nazi spy. His plane runs out of fuel and he crash lands on Paradise Island. Two Amazons, Diana and Mala, recover him and bring him to their hospital, though they and the other Amazons show surprise at a man on Paradise Island. Diana spends several days nursing his wounds and slowly begins to fall in love with him. Her mother, Hippolyta, reminds the Amazon that men are forbidden to set foot on Paradise Island, much less remain there. She declares that as soon as Trevor is fit for travel, he is to be returned to the United States. She then, in two pages that were mostly text, tells Diana that in ancient Greece they were the foremost nation, but Hercules attacked them and was defeated due to Hippolyta's magic girdle, so Hercules resorted to trickery and stole the girdle. His men then enslaved and chained the Amazons. Hippolyta later appealed to Aphrodite and was freed and her girdle returned to her. The Amazons took the enemy fleet and travelled to a new island; however, they would always wear bracelets to remind them not to succumb to men. Hippolyta shows the magic sphere, which was given to her by Athena after they defeated the army of Hercules, and with which she can see the past, present, and even predict the future, which has made the Amazons an advanced race.

During Steve Trevor's convalescence, Hippolyta and Diana use the Magic Sphere to divine the nature of his arrival on the island. They look into the past and learn of Trevor's secret mission.

Two Nazi agents named von Storm and Fritz hijacked an experimental robot plane and attempted to bomb an army airfield. Trevor heroically took control of the plane and drove the Nazis away. He was in pursuit of Fritz's fighter across the ocean, when he crashed on the island.

After the goddesses of the Amazons, Aphrodite and Athena appear before her, Hippolyta decrees that an Amazon agent should be sent to the United States to aid the Americans in their fight against the Nazis. She holds a great tournament to determine which of her warriors should act as their good will ambassador. Diana wants to participate in the tournament, but Hippolyta forbids it.

Diana disguises herself with a simple mask and enters the tournament anyway. She masters every competition and becomes one of two finalists to compete in the "Bullets and Bracelets" competition. Diana defeats her opponent, Mala, because she deflects all five bullets while Mala is unable to deflect the fifth bullet and is wounded in the arm; Diana then reveals her true identity to the crowd. Hippolyta agrees to allow Diana to travel to the United States. She provides her with a patriotic costume and bestows upon her the name of Wonder Woman.

First Appearances: Wonder Woman (a super-hero); Amazons (a race of warrior women); Aphrodite (Greek Goddess of Love); Athena (Greek Goddess of Wisdom); Fritz (a Nazi spy); Hercules (a Greek hero); Hippolyta (Queen of the Amazons); Mala (an Amazon); Phil Darnell (a Colonel in the United States Army); Steve Trevor (a Major in the United States Army); von Storm (a Nazi spy)

The Roys (with the exception of Shiv) attend Argestes, an international media-focused business retreat, hoping to finalize their acquisition agreement with the Pierces. The conference attracts a large, varied crowd that includes some of the Roys' enemies, such as Lawrence, Stewy and Sandy. Shiv, meanwhile, is shadowing Frank in New York, and receives word that a news story about Waystar's cruise line scandal is about to be published.

Logan, Kendall, and Gerri are also informed about the imminent release of the article by Hugo Baker, a senior VP of communications at Waystar's parks and cruises division. They get on a call with Shiv and decide how to contain the story's release, with Kendall and Logan agreeing that the best course of action is to harass and intimidate the magazine into backing down. Logan asks Shiv to fly to the conference to help represent the company at the event should the scandal go public.

Meanwhile, Tom and Greg struggle to find an appropriate slogan for Tom's upcoming presentation on ATN after Greg discovers that the company violated viewers' privacy rights. Roman and Gerri find ways to keep Waystar financially afloat amidst the triple burden of the scandal, the takeover bid and the PGM acquisition; Roman attempts to enlist the aid of Azerbaijani billionaire Eduard Asgarov, who agrees to provide money to Waystar if the company runs propaganda on behalf of his home country. That night, Shiv arrives at Argestes, and Tom confides in her his fear of becoming the public scapegoat for the cruises scandal, given that he was placed in charge of the documents and ordered the evidence destroyed.

Nan and Rhea arrive at the conference the following morning and have breakfast with Logan and Kendall, who attempt to rush through the final steps in securing their deal. In the middle of the meeting, however, ''New York Magazine'' publishes their exposé of the scandal, and Logan and Kendall excuse themselves to assess the situation alongside Shiv, Roman, Gerri and Hugo. They learn the details of Lester McClintock's sexual misconduct aboard the company's cruises, and after some disagreement, decide that Kendall and Roman should represent the company at an upcoming panel discussion at the conference that night.

Rhea meets with Shiv and admits that she wants the acquisition to succeed out of her own self-interest. She also convinces Shiv to go onstage with her brothers at the event. During the panel discussion, the siblings offer conflicting responses to most of the interview questions, and the family becomes indignant when Shiv makes a comment referring to Logan as a "dinosaur" and seemingly suggests that it is time for him to step down from the company. In the argument that ensues following the event, Logan suddenly strikes Roman in the face, enraging Kendall into coming to his brother's defense.

The conference ends with a roast event hosted by stand-up comedian Zell Simmons, who makes a number of cutting jokes at the Roys regarding the cruises scandal. Nan, who was already reconsidering her relationship with the Roys, walks out of the event, and Logan and Rhea chase after her. Nan fires Rhea for conspiring with Logan behind her back and calls off the acquisition deal. An infuriated Logan is unable to do anything as Nan is driven away from Argestes.

Rashan Wijemanna who nicknamed "Rush" is a son of a wealthy businessman named Sunil Wijemanna. He grows up with a possessive attitude, and is almost considered as a psychopath by the audience. Rush goes to trip to Kandy with his best friend Rashantha and other friends. They stay at a hotel. One Day, Rashan went to a gift shop, where he breaks a gift which he likes solely as it had already been brought by someone else. He pays the owner to cover the damages but responds with a negative tagline - "If I can't get it, nobody can". On that night, He meets a young girl named Pooja in same hotel and it is love at first sight for Rashan. Pooja is injured in an accident and Rashan's best friend Rashantha Saparamadu who nicknamed "Shan" rescues her by donating blood which witnessed by Pooja's father, Prof. Madugalle. Being unconscious, Pooja does not know the face of her savior, only the name "Rashantha Saparamadu".

After she recovers, Pooja comes to Colombo to meet Rashantha Saparamadu and stays in her uncle's house. However, Rush who needs her at any cost, pretends to be Rashantha Saparamadu and makes advantage of her soft corner. He also manages to hide her from actual Rashantha. One day, Pooja and Rush go to theater to watch a movie, but he unknowingly learns that Pooja and Shan already know each other during their music project. He is angered and breaks the ice creams brought for them.

One day, Shan learns of Pooja's and Rush's affair and greets them. Pooja's father Prof. Madugalla also learns about the affair and gets happy thinking she is in love with one who saved her. Rush invites Madugalla to meet at hotel. While Pooja is away from the home for a small work, Rush meets Madugalla and admits the truth to him, shocking Madugalla. Madugalla gets a heart attack and dies in front of Rush. CID officer Radeesh begin to investigate the case with police.

One day, Shan comes to Kandy finishing music audition, which he had missed when he donated blood to Pooja. Rush arranges gest room for him but fears that he might find the truth. He goes to the hospital where Pooja was admitted and tears the certificate of admission. Shan sees this, and they go to a nearby hill station. Shan starts arguing with Rush for cheating his name. Rush apologizes and admits the truth, but Shan continues argument. He beats Rush but Shan falls from a high cliff. Having no way, Rush sacrifices his life for his friend's sake. Shocked by this incident, Rush decides to transform himself into a good gentleman and thereby leaves his behavior as that of a psychopath. Rush then sincerely starts to take care of Pooja who misses her father now.

Meanwhile, CID Radeesh come to know that the real murderer of Prof. Madugalle and Shan is Rush. Pooja also becomes aware of this while she was in jungle with Rush. Pooja gets scared and runs to jungle. Rush searches for her and is finally beaten by Pooja for killing her father. However, the police shoots Rush, and he gets unconsicinous, unable to bear the pain. Pooja bursts in tears. However, Rush admits to hospital and CID Radeesh learns that Prof. Madugalle had died from a heartattack and Rush is innocent. Shan who stays in same hospital, forgives Rush to his every mistakes. Radeesh and police apologizes from Rush while Rush's father also in there. The film ends with Rush and Pooja's wedding.

Twelve-year-old robot, XR_935, discovers and forms a friendship with twelve year-old Emma, who has spent her entire life inside an underground bunker. Hidden away from machines, they embark on a dangerous voyage in search of a mysterious point on a map with two robotic companions to break all of the rules and challenge ideas of prejudice.

The story unfolds around the inhabitants of a Buenos Aires boarding house. Ms. Milagros is the owner of the pension where she lives with her three daughters, Camilo Canegato (a shy and quiet painter), David Réguel (a smart and overly confident law student) and Mrs. Eufrasia (a retired teacher who enjoys gossip), among other characters. For six months, Camilo receives mysterious love letters from a girl who identifies herself as Rosaura (Rosa in the English version). Camilo met young Rosaura while working on a job to restore a painting for a rich man. From there, the love story between Camilo and Rosaura starts. The story between them continues to progress until everything becomes dark when Rosaura is found dead. Then, the story is told as each of the characters testify to the inspector of the circumstances surrounding Rosaura's murder.

The story revolves around Antonia Donoso (Ana Lucía Domínguez), a beautiful girl from Villamaría, a small town in Caldas, Colombia. His parents have taken care of their beauty as a precious gift. She is naive and very cheerful. His life could have been better if he had not dabbled on television. At fifteen he had fallen in love with a man 10 years older than her: Tomás Caballero. Television arrived in Manizales with all its technology and looking for a candidate to represent Ana del Campo (famous singer). Antonia, secretly from her parents, signs up to participate and wins.

Petula and Tilda are young artists in New York who make a living as drug dealers. After losing their stash and money while barely escaping police, they are given two days to repay their supplier. The two reconnect with Daphne, a wealthy, unstable childhood friend who lives alone in a remote rural mansion, in the hopes of finding a safe in her house that is full of money. The girls rekindle an intricate fantasy game they played as children - one in which Tilda assumes the role of a young girl, Daphne her mother, and Petula a visiting doctor. The game has three rules - everyone must play, no outsiders allowed, and nobody leaves.

Daphne makes Petula do increasingly bizarre things as the game progresses, such as shattering Tilda’s kneecap with a hammer and simulating sexual intercourse with Daphne. Tilda suffers from a bad drug trip, interspersed with a flashback of an argument between the three girls during their childhood that led to Daphne being pushed out of the treehouse and landing on her head, resulting in her current unstable mental state which causes her to believe the game they’re playing is real. In the present, Daphne has bound and gagged Petula and Tilda, having fully lost herself to the delusion that she is actually their mother.

Daphne is visited by Detective Siegel, who knew all three girls when they were children, after he receives reports of screams coming from her home. Though Daphne's odd behavior makes him suspicious, he leaves after she reminds him that he doesn't have a search warrant. Daphne later gives Petula clues to the location and code of the safe, and promises to free the girls if she can find it. Petula succeeds and the girls escape, but are pursued by Daphne, who runs Petula over with her car before taking them back to her mansion.

Daphne cuffs Petula to a chair and locks Tilda in a cage, forcing the latter to watch as she gives Petula a Glasgow smile. The next morning, Daphne tells them that the "game" has concluded and that they are free to leave, but also that she believes she has become pregnant from her faux sexual encounter with Petula. Realizing that this gives them new power over her, Petula restarts the game by convincing Daphne that she needs to be taken in for an emergency caesarean section.

Just as the two girls are about to attack an unconscious Daphne with surgical tools, they are stopped by Spiegel, but Daphne wakes up and repeatedly stabs him. Tilda gleefully joins her, while Petula initially watches on in horror, but eventually joins the other two in bludgeoning him to death. They bury his body in Daphne’s yard before all three women return to living in the mansion and playing the game, their scars from the injuries inflicted by Daphne having miraculously disappeared. As Petula grows increasingly wary of her surroundings, it is eventually revealed that the entire movie has taken place within Daphne’s mansion—every event that occurred up until this point was merely a part of the game, which Tilda is in on as well—and that Petula has tried to escape several times, only to be punished each time by having her arms burned. This "round" of the game concludes when all three women pretend to commit suicide, only to begin again, showing Daphne as an old woman in a dilapidated house, suggesting that they have been playing for many years.

Clair Hamilton is a military veteran whose son Charlie has been kidnapped. She brings a bag of money as ransom for Charlie but at the exchange she is double-crossed by the kidnappers, leading to a shootout. Clair shoots two of the kidnappers but one of the men, Larsen, escapes. Clair falls into a frozen lake while chasing him but Larsen pulls her out because he was not planning to kill anyone and did not know about the plans to double-cross her. Clair has a peaceful encounter with a black wolf while recovering, then catches up with Larsen and forces him at gunpoint to take her to the leader of the kidnappers, Father, a man who is angry at her deceased father for closing a mill and leaving money owed to him. As they near the hideout in the snowy forest they are fired upon, but the rifleman is attacked and killed by three wolves. Clair finds the hideout but the kidnappers have moved on to a lodge on the other side of the mountain to await a hand-off to sell off the boy and Larsen reveals that Father killed his father and abducted Larsen and his mother when he was a boy. At the lodge Clair attempts to exchange the money and Larsen for Charlie. Father pulls out a concealed gun and shoots at Charlie but Larsen jumps in front of the bullet and is shot in the back. Clair shoots Father and the other kidnappers, then flees on a snowmobile pursued by the uninjured kidnapper Hobbs whose metal knife stopped the bullet Clair shot at her. Clair crashes her snowmobile and gets into a knife fight with Hobbs but is pushed over the edge of a waterfall and Charlie is captured again. Clair climbs out of the river and is guided into the forest by three wolves. She returns to the lodge, kills the injured kidnapper with a hatchet, and confronts Father, who is inside torturing Larsen with a red hot fire poker while confessing that he killed Larsen's mother after she left him. Charlie returns with Hobbs and Clair throws a knife into her throat. Larsen attacks Father but Father shoots him then turns the gun on Charlie as Clair leaps at Father and pushes him out a window. Clair thanks Larsen before he dies, then she climbs on a snowmobile and exchanges glances with the black wolf as it approaches before she escapes with Charlie. Father rises out of the snow as a pack of wolves descends on him and tears him apart. Three months later, in the spring, Clair and Charlie are hiking a path on the mountain when she sees the black wolf again and smiles.

Dubliner David (Jonathan Byrne) is left at the altar by his fiancée Fiona, who meets him to calls off the wedding saying she is reluctant to marry him. Returning to the wedding reception alone, he finds out he has been gifted a holiday cottage in Donegal as a wedding present. Meanwhile, Claire (Alex Reid) is getting ready for work on her birthday when her boyfriend Peter cancels their weekend plans so as to spend time with his wife and children, who do not know he is seeing Claire. She leaves on bad terms with him for her waitressing job.

Leaving the wedding guests, David takes a bottle of champagne and drives to the airport, intending to go on his honeymoon alone, but gets drunk, missing the flight. Remembering the holiday cottage, he tries to convince a taxi driver to take him there, with no success. At work, Claire throws a drink on a customer and is fired. Her manager refuses to pay her. She attempts to take her wages from the till but is prevented from doing so. On the way to her car, she is approached by David who asks her to drive him to Donegal. She begrudgingly accepts after bargaining a price, including a few hundred euro and his wedding ring.

They reach the cottage at night. David invites Claire to stay and to drive her to the bus stop the following day. She asks if she can stay for a few days but he refuses. Later she spies him crying in his bedroom. The next morning, David's car won't start and they are stranded at the cottage. David sprains his hand and Claire uses her pink scarf to bandage it. David unsuccessfully searches for help for his car while Claire visits the beach. Entering a neighbour's cottage, he is ambushed by the elderly owner brandishing a gun, thinking he is being robbed. As his clothes are wet, returning home, David changes into an outfit of Claire's. While drying his clothes, Claire finds a letter in his pocket. She reads and hides it. They have a picnic on a cliff, their relationship softening somewhat with David making her a birthday treat with sparklers. Peter phones Claire but she tells him she does not want to see him. Larry, a neighbour, visits, enquiring about an attempted robbery. He is taken aback by David's feminine attire and the pink scarf on his hand.

David agrees to let Claire stay another night. They drink whiskey and Claire tries to lighten the mood. They dance to an old record but Claire spins David and he falls, breaking a lamp. They have a disagreement and he tells Claire to leave the next morning.

The next day David apologises with a bouquet of wild flowers and tells Claire she can stay as long as she likes. He borrows her phone and calls Fiona to let her know where he is. David and Claire go swimming in the sea. They make a fire and get to know each other better. Claire reveals she removed a part from the car's engine so that she could stay longer. Once the part is back in the engine, David drives Claire to the bus station and on the way they encounter Larry. He invites them for lunch with him and his wife Mary. Mary convinces Claire to try on her wedding dress while Larry shows David his waterbed and tells him that he likes to try on his wife's clothes. David panics and he and Claire leave in a hurry, with Claire still wearing Mary's wedding dress. On the drive, Claire makes a smart comment and David stops the car and tells her to get out. They have a disagreement, ending with Claire throwing the car keys into the distance and walking away. Claire hitches a lift in a farm truck. Meanwhile, Peter unexpectedly arrives at the now empty cottage.

David finds his keys in a field. He pulls in at a rural pub where the farm truck is parked outside. A traditional music session is on in the pub and David sees Claire. David and the truck driver get in an argument when he tries to talk to Claire. Also in the pub is the elderly neighbour. He accuses David of attempted robbery. A pub brawl ensues and to interrupt it, Claire releases a flock of sheep from the truck. The sheep run amok in the pub.

The couple escape the scene and drive back to the cottage where Peter is waiting. He has left his wife and is angry to find Claire with David, assuming they are a couple. David stands up for Claire and Peter punches him in the face. Claire tells Peter to go home and he leaves.

Later, they hear a knock on the door. Larry is hiding behind the door and he tackles David to the ground, accusing him of stealing his wife's wedding dress. Claire takes off the dress and gives it back to Larry. Afterwards, Claire and David share a romantic moment.

The next morning, Claire goes to the shop to get breakfast. In the meantime, Fiona and Ben arrive at the cottage unexpectedly. When Claire returns, Fiona introduces herself as David's fiancé and acts as if they are still together. David doesn't correct her. Fiona tries to write Claire a cheque to pay her back for the weekend's expenses and asks Claire for her wedding ring back. Claire says no. She then reads out the letter she found in David's pocket that reveals Fiona had been seeing her ex-boyfriend Ray.

Claire storms out and Ben goes with her to bring her to the bus. David and Fiona have a talk about their relationship and Fiona asks David to marry her. David says that he can't marry her because he is in love with someone else. He drives to the town in a hurry to catch Claire. He thinks the bus has left and he is dejected, but she is on a different bus that hasn't left yet. They meet and share a romantic moment before walking away together.

In the last scene in Claire's bedroom, he offers her back the wedding ring. She throws it out the window, saying it's just a ring.

The story opens with Boddo, who is an ill-respected, physically-deformed and unattractive man of white and Native American parentage, as he travels to tell Father Luke about a wedding that is set to take place between the blacksmith Peter Brown and his intended. On the day of the wedding, Master Caleb leaves, only to witness the Native American Arrow-Tip coming over the hill. A few days later, some items are stolen from Mr. Thorne. Arrow-Tip is automatically assumed to be the thief despite no evidence to suggest this. Shortly after, Arrow-Tip uncovers the thief to be none other than the town hunchback, Boddo.

Meanwhile, Peter's bride has come to befriend Father Luke, who has been spending more time with the villagers, and manages to convince him to tell her of the events that brought him to his current situation. He tells her of his upbringing in Ireland and of his adventures to America. Upon arriving to America, he meets a Native American woman with whom he fathers a child, Boddo, who is unaware of this. His story is interrupted by some disturbing news of an event that took place during a hunting party. While hunting, two of the men in the party chose to create a raft. As they reach their destination, they hear Peter Brown and Arrow-Tip quarreling. Upon reaching shore, they discover the blacksmith unconscious next to a silent Arrow-Tip. He refuses to answer any questions, as he knows that it would serve no good. The two men throw a blanket over Peter and take Arrow-Tip back to the village to announce Peter's death and Arrow-Tip's crime. They do not closely examine the blacksmith and as such, do not discover that he is still alive.

Upon waking up, Peter quickly thinks of the argument between him and Arrow-Tip, deeming himself to be in the wrong. He's discovered by Boddo, who then takes him to Father Luke's cave, the safest available shelter. While fetching water for Peter, Boddo meets Father Luke who tells him that Arrow-Tip has been accused of Peter's murder. When Peter learns of Arrow-Tip's situation, he suggests sending Boddo to alert the villagers that he is alive because he is still too weak to make the journey himself. While traveling to the village, Boddo decides to play with the fate of Arrow-Tip's life for exposing his indiscretions earlier in the story. He and the villagers travel to the place of the purported murder and discover that Peter is gone, causing them to assume that Deer, Arrow-Tip's brother, stole the body away in an attempt to acquit Arrow-Tip.

When they return home the townsmen are determined of Arrow-Tip's guilt and decide to enact vengeance. Arrow-Tip manages to convince the men to let him tell his story in front of the entire village, upon which point he says that the quarrel was over a wager over who would – or wouldn't – catch any game, with some of their possessions as the prize. During the conversation Peter lost his temper and upon seeing Arrow-Tip try to take the weapon he had wagered, the two men began to scuffle. Arrow-Tip is convinced that he did indeed kill Peter, as are the townsmen. Boddo is the only person who can back it up, he knows the truth and despite being present, doesn't come forward. As a result, Arrow-Tip is sentenced to die the following morning via hanging. That following morning the townspeople are glib and a comparison is made to the celebration at Peter's wedding. Deer is allowed to visit his brother. During their meeting Arrow-Tip tells him that he's determined to approach his impending death stoically and that his sentence would have been the same with their own people.

While this is taking place, two schoolchildren discover Peter Brown sunning himself along the riverbank near Father Luke's home. They quickly rush to Master Caleb who, along with Quincy, realize that Boddo has lied about discovering Peter dead. They travel to Father Luke's cave and discover that Peter is alive. They quickly travel to tell the others that Peter is alive, but are too late and arrive just after Arrow-Tip's hanging. Attempts to cut him down and revive him are unsuccessful. Three days after Arrow-Tip's death Father Luke and Deer leave the town. Whitman states that years into the future an aged friar will be buried while hundreds of miles away an Indian leader leads his tribe further west in an attempt to avoid being bothered by the white man. The fate of Boddo is unknown, only that he fled the town and is believed to be either dead or living a similar miserable existence in another place. Meanwhile, Master Caleb has become the leader of an incorporated academy while Quincy is well respected and will likely be nominated for political office. One of his best admirers is Peter Brown, who has survived and fathered multiple children.

Mary Frazier Armstrong, known to all as "Frazier", is a successful and beautiful 35 year-old art gallery owner. When she is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and is told she has only hours left to live, she decides it is time to let everyone know what she really thinks. She writes a series of brutally honest letters to friends and family, and because she'll be dead by the time she reads them, she also tells her deepest secret: She's a lesbian.

When the letters arrive, chaos and pandemonium ensue in her hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, peaking with the news that Frazier is not dying after all. As the society around her seeks to excoriate her for her sexual identity and those close to her are afraid to be painted with the same incriminating brush, only her father, brother, eccentric aunt, assistant and closest friend Billy stick by her. When the pressure grows too great, Frazier escapes, with the help of an accidental electric shock, to a fantasy visit into a 17th-century painting of Mount Olympus, only to wake up in the arms of the stunning and bisexual goddess Venus, and gets to hang out with the ancient, wiser goddesses and gods.

Pop superstar Kat Valdez is a long known starlet of the Latin community who has had two failed high-profile marriages. After "Marry Me", a song by Kat and her fiancé, Bastian, becomes a chart-topper across the world, they plan to hold their wedding ceremony in front of a streaming audience at one of Kat's concerts. Charlie Gilbert, a divorced math teacher, is convinced to attend the concert with friend Parker and daughter, Lou, who has lately been less enthused with her father.

However, right before Kat is prepared to go to the altar, tabloids uncover Bastian's infidelity with her assistant Tyra and broadcast it to her fans at the concert. In distress, Kat sees Charlie in the crowd holding Parker's sign reading "Marry Me". To Charlie and everyone else's surprise, she impulsively decides to marry him. Unsure, Charlie goes onstage and marries Kat in front of the world. After the ceremony, Kat refuses to speak with Bastian or Tyra as she and Charlie leave. The two are awkward and polite to each other before Kat goes home with a broken heart. The media is in a frenzy, speculating about Kat's mental state.

The following day, needing to respond to the media attention, Kat decides to stay married to Charlie for a few months to put a positive spin on the situation. He reluctantly agrees, not wanting to cause a stir in either of their personal lives. Charlie poses for media appearances, though he is uncomfortable with the scrutiny. They eventually begin to grow close after spending time together away from media and her management. Kat also meets Charlie's students and Lou. He eventually asks Kat to his school dance as a date, and she accepts. That night they kiss and have sex. They spend the next few weeks together in a real romantic relationship. Charlie prepares his math team for a mathalon with Kat's encouragement to the students. She teaches Lou, who has stage fright, to dance to take her mind off her anxiety.

Bastian shows up to announce that "Marry Me" has been nominated for a Grammy, Kat's first nomination. Charlie is wary of the fact that Kat and Bastian will have to perform together again, but Kat insists it is over between them. However, Charlie becomes unsure that he can compare to Bastian and fit into Kat's world. He breaks up with her, reasoning that their marriage was not real.

Kat writes a love song about Charlie, "On My Way", that becomes more successful than "Marry Me". Kat realizes it is the day before the mathalon, where she promised to support Lou and Charlie, as she is doing press on ''The Tonight Show'' with Bastian. She corrects rumors, stating that she and Bastian are not back together and she did not write "On My Way" for Bastian, but for Charlie. Kat runs out on their performance. She goes to the mathalon to reunite with Charlie, who is helping Lou overcome her stage fright with the dance Kat taught her. Kat holds up a sign asking Charlie to marry her again, to which Charlie agrees. Kat, Charlie, and Lou become a happy family with their dog. In the credits, a series of couples and their stories of how they met are shown.

The Roys attend the premiere of Willa's play; Kendall seduces Jennifer, one of the actresses. The next day, the Roy children record messages for Logan's 50th anniversary at Waystar, which will be celebrated in his hometown of Dundee, Scotland. On the plane, the Roys learn that a disgruntled former employee of the company is ready to be a whistleblower for the cruises scandal.

In Dundee, Shiv confronts Rhea over her opportunistic behavior, accusing her of trying to take over the company. While Logan is away, Marcia passive-aggressively indicates to Rhea that she knows of her affair with Logan. During a family meeting, Shiv enlists the aid of her siblings to sabotage Rhea's image to Logan in various ways. Kendall, meanwhile, has Jennifer flown to Dundee despite Connor's protestations over depriving Willa's play of a cast member.

While touring a state-of-the-art news building dedicated to Logan, Kendall admits to Rhea that he isn't genuinely working against her. Rhea suggests that Kendall is Logan's most likely successor at the company. Ewan arrives in Dundee, and gives Greg an ultimatum: either quit working for Logan, or lose Ewan's $250 million inheritance. Shiv struggles to convince her brothers to work with her against Rhea, as none of them seem to have as much of a problem with her.

Rhea has arranged an elaborate gala celebrating Logan's 50 years at the company, having invited hundreds of guests, well beyond Logan's expectations. Logan and Shiv agree to a "truce" for the night. Shiv meets with Gerri, Hugo, Cyd, Frank and Karolina, who inform her that the company whistleblower is refusing even the quadrupled settlement of $20 million to withdraw his statement. Shiv decides not to concern her father with the details of the scandal during his celebration.

During speeches for Logan, Kendall surprises the audience with a rap performance. He later has Jennifer sent home after she comes across as awkward and shallow when he introduces her to Logan. Roman and Eduard Asgarov tell Logan they have purchased the Hearts football club as a gift, only to be reminded that Logan in fact supports the rival Hibs. Shiv realizes that Rhea will have to bear the brunt of the cruises scandal if she were placed in charge of the company, and gives Logan her approval to name Rhea as his successor. Logan makes the announcement during his speech. Marcia, feeling betrayed, leaves the event. As Logan prepares to unveil his plaque commemorating his 50 years at the company, Ewan confronts his brother, warning him that he will face a reckoning for his actions, before Logan finds the plaque has been dedicated to their mother rather than himself.

At Logan's apartment, the Roys watch a televised interview with James Weissel, the whistleblower in the Brightstar Cruises sexual misconduct scandal. Weissel names the late Lester McClintock (AKA "Mo-Lester") personally responsible for most of the misconduct, but implicates Gerri, Tom and Kendall in helping cover it up. The interview also discusses the company's "No Real Person Involved" (NRPI) cases, in which the victims were sex workers or migrant workers at foreign ports, which the company used to clear itself of any legal liability. The family learns from Shiv that the Senate wants senior company officials (including Logan) to testify at a hearing pertaining to the scandal. On his father's request, Roman agrees to help the company survive financially by securing funding from Eduard Asgarov's family. Rhea arrives shortly thereafter to aid in preparations for the testimony, and privately relays to Logan that she feels manipulated at being named CEO right as the company is weathering a major scandal.

The Roys plan to use Bill Lockheart, Tom's predecessor who initially oversaw the cruises cover-up, as a scapegoat, but are surprised to find him in the Senate building when they arrive. Bill subtly suggests that he is there to ensure his own survival of the scandal. Logan, Kendall and the others strategize from within a boardroom, while Tom is the first to be called to testify alongside Gerri. Tom thoroughly flubs his responses to Senator Gil Eavis' aggressive questioning, at one point even claiming not to know who Greg is. He returns from his testimony in a panic, accusing Shiv and the others of using him as their "patsy."

Meanwhile, Roman travels with Karl and Laird to consult Eduard's help. He and Eduard half-heartedly continue their duties as owners of the Heart of Midlothian football club, and Eduard invites Roman and the others to Turkey to make their investment proposal to Eduard's father. In Turkey, as Roman is in the middle of a sales pitch, he and the others are ushered into a hotel lobby by anti-corruption militia forces, whom Eduard says were sent by the Turkish president's son-in-law, Zeynal, to seize key assets. The militia hold the hotel occupants hostage while Roman manages to secure something of an agreement with Eduard and his associates. He is later taken to meet with Zeynal face-to-face.

Shiv meets with Gil and Nate privately, where she learns that they have a witness who is ready to testify against the Roys. Logan sends Shiv and Rhea to meet with the witness while he and Kendall take the stand. Logan also stumbles through his responses to Eavis' questions, but deflects the blame onto Kendall, who nonetheless provides a strong and confident rebuke to Eavis and accuses him of operating on personal bias against Logan and his company.

Shiv and Rhea track down Kira, the witness, to a playground where she is with her children. Rhea is uncomfortable coercing a sexual assault victim into silence, so Shiv meets with the woman alone. Shiv candidly tells Kira that she and the company cannot be trusted, but asks her whether her personal courage in coming out as a witness against the Roys is worth the lifetime of public scrutiny that will follow her if she chooses to go through with her statement. She offers Kira a hefty settlement as well as a promise that she will work to ensure that those involved in the crimes will see justice. Kira agrees to back down, and Shiv wins the approval of her father for helping them win the case.

After the trial, Rhea, feeling blindsided by the scandal, tells Logan she no longer wants to be associated with the company, and abdicates her CEO title before walking away. Logan watches Kendall's testimony with Shiv and worries that his son's combative stance against Congress will hurt Waystar's relationship with its shareholders. He tells Shiv that if they really want the company to survive, they will need to make a "blood sacrifice".

Logan throws a party at his apartment to maintain healthy relations with his wider circle amidst the Brightstar Cruises sexual misconduct scandal. Frank and Gerri call Logan, Kendall and Roman upstairs to discuss strategies to keep Waystar's shareholders on their side amid both the looming cruises scandal and Sandy and Stewy's takeover bid. They decide to fly to London to meet overseas shareholders, including Logan's second wife Caroline, who owns 3% of the company's shares. Roman informs Shiv that she has been sidelined from the discussion.

The next day at work, Tom is interviewed in an internal investigation regarding the cruises incidents, and is surprised to receive pointed and hard-hitting questions, contrary to what he was led to believe. Shiv assures Tom that his job is safe and decides to fly to London to confront her father. Tom, meanwhile, confronts Greg, who had kept copies of the documents pertaining to the scandal, and demands they be destroyed. However, while burning the copies that night, Greg discreetly recovers some of the pages.

In London, Kendall and Roman are surprised to see that Logan has invited Rhea along to aid their efforts on account of her strategic expertise and business savvy. Logan and Rhea later spend the night together. Kendall continues his relationship with Naomi Pierce. Stewy and Sandy have begun running smears on Logan invoking the death of Andrew "Doddy" Dodds, suggesting that it was a suicide triggered by Logan's mistreatment of his hospitality staff. Logan asks Kendall, still reeling from the accident, to join him in meeting Doddy's family, and assigns Roman to talk to his mother.

Shiv arrives in London and has lunch with Rhea, who offers her own former position as CEO of PGM to Shiv. Shiv senses that this is a ploy concocted by Logan. Meanwhile, Kendall and Logan visit Doddy's family; Kendall is visibly shaken, but Logan tells him the family attributes Doddy's death to his drug problems, and not anything to do with the Roys. Later that night, Kendall secretly delivers cash to the family's mailbox.

Shiv and Roman visit their mother and tell her the acceptable range of money Logan is apparently willing to offer to buy her loyalty to the company. Caroline sees through the ruse and demands either the family's summer home in the Hamptons, or a simple US$20 million on the condition that she sees her children every Christmas, allowing Logan to ultimately choose. Kendall arrives that night and attempts to open up about his remorse over Doddy's death to Caroline, but she blocks him and asks to discuss anything "quite difficult" the following morning. Nevertheless, Kendall wakes up to find that Caroline has already left the home.

Shiv confronts Logan over her position at the company. Logan accuses her of conspiring against him, confirming that he orchestrated the meeting with Rhea. The others fly back to New York without Shiv. Logan grows increasingly comfortable with Rhea. Shiv calls Kendall to warn him that Rhea is likely dangerous.

Xander DeWitt (Jace Norman) is an inquisitive teenager with a knack for solving mysteries. His sleuthing skills get put to the test when his dad Russell (Rick Peters) leaves for work one day and vanishes without a trace. Frustrated by his attempts to find his dad – with the latest one getting him in trouble with the police – Xander’s mom Ellen (Terryn Westbrook) sends him to go live with his grandfather Charlie (Ed Begley Jr.), a retired private investigator in his dad’s hometown, Bixler Valley. During his stay, Xander finds a surprising lead in the case and teams up with a school newspaper reporter and classmate, Kenzie Messina (Ariel Martin).

With the help of Kenzie and his grandpa, Xander eventually finds his dad who was kidnapped by an old friend in order to raze the town.

Hibiki Higoromo, better known as Empty, is an amnesiac young girl. She wakes up in the neighboring world, where she encounters Kurumi Tokisaki. In order to kill the mysterious girl, Kurumi leads Empty to a school. When arriving at the school, a number of girls, known as quasi-spirits, gather together. Now, a new battle begins.

Platero is a silver-colored donkey ("plata" means silver in Spanish) who throughout the years is seemingly the only constant friend and companion of the author, who makes observations to and confides in him. The author believes that Platero understands everything, except for the language of humans, just as humans do not know the language of animals, but he gives his master joy and sincere warmth.

Javier Morales (Tito Guízar) is a singer-songwriter who seduces a young woman, María Luisa (Alma Rosa Aguirre), who he gets pregnant and then abandons. Twenty years later, Javier falls into poverty. After he's mistakenly declared dead, he ends up going to his own funeral, without knowing that he is going to face his own past.

Orphaned brothers Sam and Nathan "Nate" Drake are caught trying to steal a map made after the Magellan expedition from a Boston museum. Before the orphanage can expel Sam, he sneaks out to be on his own, but promises Nate he'll return, leaving him a ring belonging to their ancestor Sir Francis Drake, although Sir Francis Drake actually had no children.

Fifteen years later, Nate works as a bartender in New York City and pickpockets wealthy patrons. Victor "Sully" Sullivan, a fortune hunter who worked with Sam tracking treasure hidden by the Magellan crew, explains to Nate that Sam vanished after helping him steal Juan Sebastian Elcano's diary. Nate, having stopped receiving postcards from Sam, agrees to help Sully find him. Sully and Nate go to an auction to steal a golden cross linked to the Magellan crew, where they meet Santiago Moncada, the last descendant of the Moncada family, who had financed Magellan‘s expedition, and Jo Braddock, leader of Moncada's mercenaries. Nate is ambushed by Braddock's men, and the ensuing fight creates a distraction for Sully to steal the cross.

The duo travel to Barcelona, where the treasure is supposedly hidden, and rendezvous with Sully's contact Chloe Frazer, who has another cross. Nate, Chloe, and Sully follow clues in Elcano's diary to Santa Maria del Pi, finding a secret crypt behind the altar. Nate and Chloe enter, finding a trap door, but as they open it, the crypt floods with water. Sully helps them escape after subduing an ambush by Braddock. Using the two crosses to unlock a secret passage, Nate and Chloe find a map indicating the treasure is in the Philippines. Chloe betrays Nate and leaves to take the map to Moncada, hinting Sully is keeping a secret about Sam.

Sully recovers Nate and reveals that Sam was killed by Braddock three years prior. Moncada, Chloe, and Braddock's team depart in a cargo plane to find the treasure, where Braddock kills Moncada, gaining control of the operation. After Nate and Sully board the plane, Nate confronts Braddock. A battle ensues; Sully parachutes out with the map, while Nate and Chloe are ejected from the plane landing in the Philippines, where they realize the map does not pinpoint the treasure. Nate discovers the treasure's true location through hints left by Sam's postcards, but leaves fake coordinates for Chloe after correctly doubting her loyalties. He discovers the Magellan ships and reunites with Sully. Braddock follows them, forcing Nate and Sully to hide as her crew airlifts the ships.

In their escape, Sully commandeers one of the helicopters, and Braddock orders another helicopter to approach for a boarding action. Nate defends himself from her mercenaries and shoots down the other helicopter with one of the ship's cannons. When Braddock corners Nate, Sully throws a bag of collected treasure at her, casting her into the sea, where she is killed when the ship falls on her. As Filipino naval units arrive, Nate and Sully get away with a few pieces of pickpocketed treasure while an arriving Chloe is left empty handed. Meanwhile, an imprisoned Sam, revealed to be alive & had somehow survived being shot by Braddock, writes another postcard to Nate.

In a post-credits scene, Nate meets with a man working for Roman, offering his ring for a "Nazi map" he has. He tries to betray Nate, but Sully saves him. They escape, but are cornered by an unseen figure.

In an Italian city, there is a sunflower in a pot on a window sill in a boy's room containing a globe, maps, and an orrery (shown in close up at the start). The Sunflower's strength waxes and wanes with the light of the Sun. One night, as the Moon shines brightly on the Sunflower, which is drooping, and so takes no notice, one of its petals happens to fall. In the morning, the Boy takes a watering can and pours a measure of water such that a small pool forms in the pot.

That night, because of the pool of water, the Sunflower sees the Moon's reflection for the first time and stirs, as though surprised by the beauty of the celestial body. Realising from the experience that the Moon can only be seen by means of reflected water, the Sunflower contrives to pull out another of its petals, so that the Boy will water it once more. The Sunflower continues on like this till at last there is only one petal left.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the day, as the Sun shines the Moon crosses its path and briefly takes its place in the clear blue sky. As the Boy is peering through his telescope at the eclipse, the Sunflower, able to see the Moon itself and not a reflection of it for the first time, turns its two leaves inward, forming the shape of a heart as revealed by the shadow it casts, in a declaration of love.

As the credits begin to roll, photographs of the Boy begin to appear showing him growing to manhood. The Sunflower, too, grows new petals, and witnesses more eclipses of the Sun, and so more sights of its beloved Moon, as the years go by.

This novel narrates the life of trapped and confused woman named Santu under strange circumstances and her miserable plight. The story is set in the remote village near the mountain Girnar namely Gundasar. Though the main story line moves around a farmer family of Hada Patel, it also includes smaller accounts of other supportive characters, giving a picture of the village life, especially elaborate negative characters and their negativity. Hada Patel has three sons. The elder one has left the village and turned a monk, the second one dies due to some disease and story commences with the last son Gobar and his fiance Santu. The story progresses depicting the struggle of pregnant Santu bearing the blame of her husband's murder.

The other major characters are Mandal (cousin of Gobar), Shadul (son of a landlord), Ragha Gor, a Brahmin hotel owner.

Three women in Kabul face challenging moments in their lives during pregnancy.

The book is about a grandpa and his three grandchildren with a magic compass on an adventure. The group "ride horses with a cowboy in the desert, face an army of crabs on a tropical beach and dodge an avalanche while having a picnic up a mountain".

A man assumes a new identity after a near-death car accident to seek revenge.

'''Season 1'''

Gabe Pritchard and Joshua Toms are CIA agents working in Prague in 1970. Two years ago in Cairo, Gabe experienced an accident in which he lost his memory of an entire day. Since that time, he has been afflicted by excruciating headaches. He botches a CIA mission due to one of these headaches, and his status at work falls into jeopardy. Tanya Morozova and her partner Nadia are both KGB agents and members of the Consortium of Ice. The Ice and the Flame are groups of sorcerers seeking to control all 36 hosts, human beings who are possessed by elementals. The Flame seeks to rid the world of all non-magic users, and the Ice wants to preserve the world as it is. Adula Zlata, a Czech college student, is one such host. Tanya tells Andula the truth about her identity, and Andula decides to accept the Ice's offer of protection. Gabe and Josh suspect that Tanya and Nadia are recruiting Andula for the KGB.

Jordan Rhemes, a bartender and sorcerer, was in Cairo at the time of Gabe's accident. She informs him that his headaches are related to magic. He interrupted a ritual by Flame Acolytes in which they attempted to create their own host. As a result, the elemental involved in the ritual attached itself to Gabe. The attachment was imperfect, resulting in headaches and seizures. Rhemes refers Gabe to Alestair Winthrop, an MI-6 agent and Ice member. Alestair teaches Gabe basic sorcery and helps him learn to control the elemental. Alestair and Josh begin a physical relationship, despite the fact that same-sex relationships are stigmatized by both Czech society and their own intelligence agencies.

Gabe discovers that the Ice is freezing hosts in stasis, preventing them from being used by the Flame while simultaneously imprisoning them. He reveals this information to Tanya; her loyalty to the Ice is shaken. Gabe accidentally uses his new powers to awaken a golem, which begins terrorizing Prague and murdering police officers. Gabe and Tanya work together to subdue the golem, leading to a tenuous alliance.

The CIA plans Operation Anchises, in which they will extract a Russian scientist and defector named Sokolov when he attends a scientific conference in Prague. They call in Dominic "Dom" Alvarez from Langley, Virginia to assist with the operation. Gabe uses magic to start a brawl at the conference. Josh and Alvarez extract Sokolov during the chaos and take him to a safe house.

Aleksander "Sasha" Komyetski, head of the KGB office in Prague and Flame Acolyte, discovers an illicit radio in Tanya's apartment. He uses the radio to blackmail her into invading the CIA safe house. Tanya attacks the safe house, but Gabe informs Dom that the KGB is on its way. Dom escapes with Sokolov, who is also a host. Gabe allows Tanya to escape rather than shooting her. When Dom's flight path deviates from its planned course, Gabe realizes that Dom is a Flame agent who now has Sokolov in custody. Gabe, Tanya, Nadia, Alestair, and Jordan work together to perform a ritual to bring down Dom's plane. Dom kills Sokolov and escapes via parachute; the CIA and KGB both try to piece together an understanding of these events without knowledge of the sorcery behind them.

The plot occurs between the years 1918-1928, in Montgomery, Alabama. Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre is a beautiful woman who comes from old money. She is the mother of two, and is trapped in a loveless, yet "socially appropriate" marriage. She falls in love with Hercules, a teenage black prizefighter. After Hercules dies as the result of a train accident, and the failure of the slow, for-blacks-only ambulance, Hortensia gives birth to their daughter, Catherine. To avoid the inevitable scandal, Catherine is raised by Hortensia's cook. However, the jealousy of Hortensia's son, Paris, who becomes increasingly crazed, threatens to upend the balance Hortensia has achieved in her life; and continued secrecy becomes impossible once Catherine, who clearly does not belong in either black or white worlds, becomes curious as to her lineage. After some emotional upheaval, however, the Hortensia and Catherine's lives settle into a new and happy order.

Subplots in the novel include the view of Montgomery and its residents through the eyes of the black prostitutes Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec, who divide the town by sexual categories, and the star-crossed film stars Grace Deltaven and Payson Thorpe.

Ignacio Moreno is a successful business executive, who likes to live a life of luxury, surrounded by women and is not interested in compromising. One day someone rings the bell of his apartment. Karina Urrutia, an old love, reveals to Ignacio that he is Johnny's dad. Karina decides to escape, however, Ignacio chases her but he is hit by Ema Díaz. As the days go by, Ignacio takes his son to school and gets a surprise, the teacher is the same woman who almost ran him over. At the school he meets two other parents. Julián Álvarez is a young father, who while working in his fast-food truck with his son Lucas, his in-laws suddenly appear. The father of his late girlfriend, Alberto Echeñique, along with his wife Ensenada Zúñiga, threatens him and tells him that he will do whatever it takes to take away Lucas, since he believes they will take better care of him. Fernando Pereira is a disoriented father who has found love after a separation. After doing his vegetable dance, Julián is visited by the police who want to take custody of his son to what he refuses. In addition, Ignacio and Fernando provoke the police, so the three parents end up in prison. After this meeting, the fathers start a strong friendship and must face new challenges and risks they may have.

The setting of the story is a cottage in Augusta, GA, before the Civil War. The two main characters, Rosalie, a "quadroon", and her husband Edward, a "Georgian," are living together in "a marriage sanctioned by Heaven, though unrecognized on earth"Child, Lydia Maria. ''Liberty Bell''. Anti-Slavery Fair, 1842. Rosalie, as a partly African-American woman, cannot legally marry a White man, but they live together as if they are man and wife, and she makes no legal claim on her common-law husband. They have a daughter named Xarifa, who grows up sheltered.

Edward develops political ambition, and for leverage he marries a wealthy white woman, the daughter of an important politician, essentially destroying the marriage between him and Rosalie. He asks her to be his mistress but she declines, finding it morally repulsive. Rosalie and Xarifa live alone in the cottage until Rosalie died of heart break from losing Edward. Xarifa had been taken care of by teachers including George Elliot, a young man hired by her father, but Edward becomes an alcoholic due to the guilt he feels after Rosalie's death. His drinking becomes his downfall: he falls off his horse when drunk, and dies--without a will, but his wife makes no change and continues to provide for his daughter.

Xarifa and her harp teacher fall in love and plan to move to France together, but Xarifa was sold before this could occur: "Rosalie, though she knew it not, had been the daughter of a slave; whose wealthy master, though he remained attached to her to the end of her days, had carelessly omitted to have papers of manumission recorded". Because Rosalie's mother had never been manumitted, her daughter and her granddaughter are still legally the property of the owner's family. Xarifa was auctioned off to the highest bidder, who is a man who tries to "win her favor, by flattery and presents", but she refuses to become his lover. Xarifa and George plan an escape but are betrayed by another enslaved person who is a double agent, and George is shot and killed in the attempt. Afterward, Xarifa's owner, having lost his patience, rapes her and she takes her own life--for the tragic mulatta, sexual violence and death are the only options.

In the summer of 1985 in Normandy, Alexis (Alex), a 16-year-old who is haunted by death, goes out to sea. A thunderstorm forms, causing his boat to capsize, but he is rescued by David, who is eighteen years old. After this incident, they grow very close and Alexis ends up helping out at David's family shop. The two end up becoming more than friends and have a relationship in secret, however, David claims he is bored and had an affair with Alexis' friend. Alexis gets very angry and throws a rock at David. Luckily he dodges the rock, but Alexis wrecked the shop a little and ran out. David sits on a chair as his mother walks in and asks what is going on. We never end up getting much footage of this, but, we find out that David "went after" Alexis. Unfortunately, he ends up getting in a motorcycle crash and passing away, "joining his father." Alex, feeling guilty, decides to carry out the pact formed between them: to go and dance on the grave of the one who dies first. Alexis does get arrested however is pitied by the judge and only charged with 160 hours of community service and a strong recommendation to visit a psychiatrist.

Charlotte Nicdao and Gemma Bird Matheson as Lucy and Daisy in ''Content'', which plays out entirely through the lead characters' smartphones. Twenty-three-year-old graduate Lucy Goosey crashes her car while live-streaming on Facebook. The video of the accident goes viral; awed by the number of viewers it attracts, Lucy attempts to become an internet celebrity. To capitalise on her crash video's viral status, Lucy conducts a live mukbang, attempts yoga and gets lost while bushwalking. When her Instagram account is hacked, Lucy's private messages and an embarrassing image are exposed, costing Daisy a job promotion.

After a failed attempt at making a make-up video, Lucy posts a rant about internet beauty gurus; her video goes viral and her Instagram account becomes verified, launching her career as a social media influencer. When Lucy attends an influencers' party rather than Daisy's graduation, Daisy is upset and ends their friendship. In the final episode, Lucy apologises to Daisy in a public YouTube video; Daisy watches the video and, feeling worried, she calls Lucy but quickly aborts the call. When Lucy – who has a new phone – sends Daisy a text message enquiring about the caller's identity, Daisy replies, "soz, wrong number".

Juana Bravo (Elisa Zulueta) is a 33-year-old woman who, after 15 years in the capital, is forced to return to her hometown, the fictional San Fermín, where her father (Alejandro Trejo) is the mayor. When she comes back she realizes that things are not working properly and the town has become the site of landfills, prisons, and polluting industries that nobody else wants in their neighborhood. After discovering the irregularities, she faces both a corrupt system and family challenges. She is an idealistic and somewhat impulsive woman who works hard to gain the support of those who live in the town, believing she can change the system. But in her struggle she neglects her 16-year-old son, Diego (Lucas Balmaceda), who goes from being naive and lonely to an anti-establishment rebel.

In Victorville, California, 15 year old Alex Cooper (Addison Holley) comes out to her Mormon parents (Kate Drummond and Steven Cumyn) as a lesbian and that she has fallen for her friend Frankie (Nicolette Pierce). This leads to them taking her to St. George, Utah to live with the Simms who Alex's grandparents (Roger Dunn and Lynne Griffin) told her parents about. Johnny and Tiana (Ian Lake and Sara Booth) abuse her for being a lesbian where they also beat her and punish her by having her wear a backpack full of rocks while facing the wall as a way to get her to become straight.

The novel is set over a 24-hour period on 23 October 2018 in the terminal building at the Andalusian port city of Algeciras in southern Spain. It follows longtime partners and "fading gangsters from Cork City" Charlie Redmond and Maurice Hearne as they wait for Maurice's missing daughter, Dilly, to pass through on a boat from Tangier, Morocco or leave on one heading there. The two men were once involved in smuggling Moroccan hashish to Ireland through the ports of Spain.

In Lagos, Nigeria, Korede is a nurse with a close relationship with her younger sister, Ayoola. Ayoola is the more beautiful, favored sister, and possibly sociopathic. For the third time in a row, Ayoola has stabbed her boyfriend to death, supposedly in self-defense. Like the previous times, Korede helps dispose of the body and clean away the evidence. Her practicality and concern keep Ayoola from acting suspiciously about her “missing” boyfriend, such as by posting to social media when she should be mourning.

Korede feels unappreciated as she constantly dreads that they will be caught and that Ayoola will kill again, confiding in none but a comatose patient in the hospital she works at. She is in love with Tade, a kind, handsome doctor who does not notice her affection. However, upon meeting Ayoola, he is immediately enamored with her and they begin dating. Korede fears that Tade will be Ayoola's next victim and must reckon with what she is willing to do for her sister.

Aziz Korkmazer is an ambitious, brilliant, and good-hearted man who is the sole manager of Korkmazer holding that, have founded by his parents. One night Aziz got involved in a crime trying to rescue his foster brother Kerem Saltuk, who have bullied by a thief gang. Unexpectedly a young woman named Feride Caglar witnessed the event and recorded the crime scene from her phone. At the moment Aziz and Feride's world collided many mysterious things happened to Aziz's life, such as his weird dreams and being attached to Feride’s neighborhood, particularly to Salih Koliber/ Salih Baba, the owner of the antique shop, Mr. Nemci, and Mr. Abdullah the madman.

As the series follows, reality unfolds about the past of Feride’s mystery neighborhood. Salih Baba is also known as Salih Koliber, was a former famous brain surgeon who gave up his career after the incident failure operation of Aziz late younger brother Firat, and later opened his antique shop. Another revelation emanated was, the Korkmazer holding has three original partners founded by Mehmet Sefik Korkmazer, Sahkir Caglar, and Aneta Kosvar. And most shocking truth about Tahsin Korkmazer was that he was the suspect who killed Feride Caglar, Feride's aunt, many years ago. Tahsin was madly in love with Feride’s mother Suhela, but she chose Faik Caglar the, man she truly loves. Unfortunately, Tahsin could not accept Suhela's rejections and tried to shoot Faik, and accidentally it was Feride's aunt who got shot.

Upon learning the truth, the relationship between Aziz and Feride gets complicated. They encountered a lot of struggles, pains, frustrations, hardships, betrayal, and even losing love-ones in their life. Aziz and Feride's love relationship has so many things to consider and to give up. They knew they would face the consequences and sacrifices in any of the decisions they would make. In the end, Aziz and Feride still choose to be happy together and leave everything behind.

Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yazidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.

Hiram Walker was born into slavery during the Antebellum South on a declining tobacco plantation in Virginia named Lockless. He is the mixed-race son of a white plantation owner and a black mother who was sold away by his father when Hiram was young. The local community consists of the enslaved ("the Tasked"); the landowners ("the Quality"); and the low-class whites ("the Low"). Hiram has an extraordinary photographic memory but is unable to remember his mother. However, in one instance when Hiram is driving across a bridge he suddenly has a vision of his mother dancing. When the vision ends, his carriage has fallen into the water. His (white) half brother drowns, but Hiram is transported out of the water. He learns that his miracle survival was a result of a superhuman ability he has called conduction, which transports himself and others across impossible distances. This conduction is triggered by powerful memories: those of his mother. He eventually becomes involved with the Underground Railroad. Hiram escapes to Philadelphia, where he encounters Box Brown and Jarm Logue. He eventually comes to meet a famous member of the Underground named Moses, who also has the power of Conduction. Moses is later revealed to be Harriet Tubman.

The novel is set primarily in Topeka, Kansas, in the late 1990s, and is told mainly from the perspective of three characters: Adam Gordon, a high school debate champion, and his parents Jane and Jonathan, who are psychologists at a local institution known as the Foundation. In a nonlinear narrative, the novel explores Adam's preparation for a national debate championship (which he wins), his relationship with his girlfriend Amber, and his parents' lives. One of Adam's classmates, Darren Eberheart, a social misfit and patient of Adam's father, also features in a sequence of shorter chapters that culminates in him seriously injuring a girl at a party who rejected his romantic advances after years of bullying by his peers. The final chapter takes place in 2019 and follows Adam, now a father of two young girls, as he and his wife take their family to Topeka from their home in New York City to give a reading of Adam's work. Back in New York City, they attend a protest of the Trump administration's family separation policy.

Rida is a young girl who is raised with three brothers: Faham is the oldest and raised his younger siblings after his father's death; Hatim, the second oldest, is also responsible, but he thinks more with his heart than his head and lives in America; Asim is the youngest brother who loves to tease his sister. Shamila is Faham's wife who dislikes Rida and gets jealous of her as her brother does not love her as much as Rida's brothers do.

Zeeshan's dad dies in an accident and a greedy business partner snatches everything from him. His uncle then gives him a job working with Hatim and a house. Zeeshan is invited to Faham's wedding where he stops Rida's scarf from burning and falls in love with her. Tauqeer is a young man who has an unrequited love for Rida. One day, Tauqueer gives Rida a love letter, which the maid places inside a book in the study. Zeeshan's mother asks for Rida's hand in marriage, but Rida's brothers refuse because they want Rida to complete her education first. However, Rida's mother says yes, as she is worried that Shamila will make Rida's life hard and believes it's best if Rida gets married as soon as possible, she, however, does not express these concerns to her sons worried it will cause issues between Faham and Shamila.

Zeeshan becomes possessive around Rida, and on the second day of the wedding, Shamila asks Rida at the breakfast table whether she loves Zeeshan or her brothers more. Zeeshan expects her to take his name, but he is offended when Rida takes nobody's name. Zeeshan gets typhoid fever and learns that he can never become a father, which causes him to become more insecure because Rida's brothers are richer than him, something Shamila constantly mentions. Zeeshan tells Rida to return her dowry, which she unwillingly does, her brothers get hurt and Shamila sends a recording of their conversations to Zeeshan, who gets even more possessive about Rida. Shamila goes to Rida's house and sees Rida in a poor state and comments that Zeeshan needed a maid, not a wife. Zeeshan overhears this and exposes Shamila. Zeeshan and Rida go to Murree but return as Zeeshan's mother breaks her foot.

Rida remembers that Zeeshan has to collect his medical report and asks Zeeshan if he received it. Zeeshan panics and he scolds Rida for mentioning it. Faham sends a maid to Rida's home after Shamila comments that Rida is forced to do all the housework by herself. Zeeshan again scolds Rida and tells the maid that they do not need her. Rida finally gets angry and says that she is tired of his self-respect and pride and that she feels suffocated around him and that she will leave him. He apologizes to Rida, though Zeeshan starts to get grumpy and ill-tempered with Rida again.

Rida goes to her mother's house after an anxious phone call with her mother. Zeeshan gets angry after finding out Rida has left his mother on her own and goes to her house to bring her back. While wandering around the study he finds Tauqeer's letter. Zeeshan falls into a state of complete shock and believes Rida has a secret lover. He drives home without Rida. Rida arrives home wondering why Zeeshan left without her. When she comes face to face with Zeeshan he starts shouting all sorts at her and throws her and the maid out of the house without explaining what has made him so angry. Rida and the maid return to the brothers' home while the maid explains what has happened.

On the way to Zeeshan's home, Faham is murdered by , who escaped from jail. At Faham's funeral, Shamila blames Rida for Faham's death, saying Rida's lover killed Faham. Her brothers get angry at Shamila for accusing Rida. Zeeshan overhears the whole conversation and joins in. He shows the brothers Tauqueer's letter and breaks down crying over Rida's betrayal. Rida begs Zeeshan to believe she's innocent but Zeeshan announced their marriage is over. Rida screams and shouts at her brothers to stop Zeeshan but they both look at her in disgust before leaving. Before moving back to her maternal home Shamila continues to poison both brothers against Rida by constantly reminding them she's responsible for Faham's death.

Both brothers make it clear that they find Rida to be a burden, their brother's murderer, and that they are only tolerating her for their mother's sake. Tauqueer finds out his letter is the cause for Rida's marriage being wrecked and tries his hardest to fix it; his sister speaks to Zeeshan, explaining Rida's innocence but Zeeshan remains adamant to believe Rida was unfaithful. Rida learns she is pregnant and believes the baby will be a chance for her and Zeeshan to reunite.

However, an angry Zeeshan informs Rida he cannot become a father so the child is not his but hers and her lover's, proof that she was cheating on him. Rida gets very hurt by Zeeshan's words and vows never to forgive him. The stress causes Rida to faint and have a miscarriage. Meanwhile, Zeeshan is called back into the doctor's office and informed there had been a report mix up and that he is, in fact, able to become a father.

Zeeshan regrets his harshness towards Rida only to learn about her miscarriage. He begins to reflect on his behavior and realizes how unreasonable and possessive he was towards her. When he asks Rida's family to forgive him, Hatim shouts at him but finally agrees, but says he will only forgive Zeeshan if Rida forgives him. Rida, however, shuts the door on Zeeshan's face and says that he not only killed her child but her love and respect as well, her child is gone forever because of him. She further adds that even God will not forgive him until she does. Rida's words haunt Zeeshan as he slips into a deep depression. Shamila emotionally manipulates Hatim and falsely accuses her brother of abusing her.

Hatim forces his mother to allow his marriage to Shamila and sign over the house papers to her. Asim is wary of Shamila and does not believe in her innocence the way Hatim does. On their wedding night, Hatim makes it clear to Shamila that he only married her to save her from her brother and that for him she will always be Faham's wife. Zeeshan continues to slip further into depression and his uncle forces him to speak to a therapist. Shamila gets access to Rida's phone after apologizing for her earlier accusations and claims she wishes to start over their relationship.

From Rida's phone, Shamila texts Tauqueer and stages a plot in which Rida, Tauqueer, and Hatim end up in the same place. Hatim is disgusted and believes Rida is back to meeting up with her lovers. Asim walks into Rida's room and sees Shamila texting Zeeshan off Rida's phone. he begins to shout at Shamila as Rida walks into the room. Rida is shocked and realizes it was Shamila who has been messaging Tauqueer off her phone. Hatim divorces Shamila on the spot. She cries on Faham's grave, angry and regretful. A few men come and harass her, where she runs away and has an accident with a truck. Zeeshan meets some serial killers and asks them to whip him 80 times as said by the maulana. Rida goes with Asim to find Zeeshan where she gets a call from the serial killer who says that Zeeshan has come to him to die. Just as Zeeshan is getting whipped, Rida and Asim stop him. Rida unties Zeeshan and asks him why he was giving himself such a punishment, to which he answers that he wanted Rida to forgive him. Rida forgives him for the sake of their child and says that she kept their child alive. Zeeshan then gets happy for a split second, as he was misinformed that Rida had a miscarriage. A few months later, Rida's brothers profit in their business. Rida delivers a baby boy whom she names Faham after her brother.

A young woman wakes up in a hospital, badly burned and suffering from amnesia. She receives a new face through plastic surgery but still doesn't remember who she is. Doctor Doulin who treats her, tells her that her name is Michele Isola, also called Mickey or Mi, and she is twenty years old. She was caught in a fire accident in a seaside villa with her friend Domenica Loi, also known as Do. The latter died in the fire. When Mickey is discharged from the hospital, she comes to stay with her family friend and childhood governess Jeanne Murneau. Mickey will turn twenty-one soon, and she is expected to inherit a vast fortune from Raffermi, a rich old Italian businesswoman who once married Mi's widowed father. It turns out that Jeanne and Mickey had a love-hate relationship in the past, and Mi's behavior in the months leading to the accident was increasingly erratic, and she refused to visit the dying Raffermi.

Jeanne is reluctant to let Mickey see any of her old acquaintances. Mi suspects that Jeanne may be hiding something. Mickey becomes increasingly convinced that she is not really Michele but Domenica. When confronted with this supposition, Jeanne admits that she and Do were planning to get rid of Mi by staging a fire accident, and then pass Domenica off for Michele to receive the inheritance.

The heroine subsequently meets Serge Reppo, a young postal worker, who claims that he warned Mi of Jeanne and Do's plot several days before the accident. The survivor is then revealed to be Michele, who was able to turn the tables on Domenica. The heroine realizes that she doesn't know anything apart from what others told her, and is tormented by the uncertainty. Is she Michele or Domenica, the victim or the murderess?

''Finding My Voice'' is a frank presentation of the issue of racism through the experiences of Ellen Sung, a high school senior, who is the daughter of Korean immigrants and is attracted to Tomper, a white classmate.

Former U.S. Army medic and recovering addict, Jill Adams, works as a security guard at a local college where she steals drugs from the research lab to sell. After her shift, she picks up her children, Noah and Matilda, from their grandmother, Doris.

While driving, their car loses power and is hit by another car, sending it into a lake. Matilda drowns but is revived by a police officer who reveals that everything that uses electricity is malfunctioning. At the hospital, they learn that the coma patients have awoken. They return home, but Jill, Noah, and Doris are unable to sleep, and Noah says he sees shooting stars which Jill explains are satellites. On her way to work, Jill observes that the whole neighborhood is awake. There, psychiatrist Dr. Murphy explains that people appear to be no longer able to fall asleep. Thus, they will soon suffer from the symptoms of sleep deprivation. The only known exception is an old woman, who is being studied at a military base called The Hub, in the hopes of finding a cure for the condition. Jill remembers that Matilda can also fall asleep and she rushes home to find her, fearing that she will be taken to be studied/experimented on to find the cure as well, only to discover that she's at church. The pastor gives a sermon about Matilda being a beacon of hope and people want to sacrifice her. Jill and Noah arrive to get her but the churchgoers (aside from Doris and the pastor) does not want to give up Matilda. After an officer shoots and kills the doctor with Jill, the people panic and Doris is able to hide Matilda away. Jill, Matilda, and Noah flee to the woods. They rush to a garage to find a car. Jill leaves the two outside while she enters the garage. Jill takes a car after hiding from two men and picks up Noah and Matilda. Noah tells Jill that they should bring Matilda to The Hub and Jill eventually reluctantly agrees.

They reach a library and Noah finds a map. Noah and Jill use the map to find out how to get to The Hub. While doing so, an escaped prisoner steals their car with Matilda in it. Other prisoners threaten Jill and Noah but they are saved by the man who stole their car, Dodge. They discover plane wreckage and Noah and Dodge look for items they might need. Jill teaches Matilda to drive because she's the only one who has the energy to and to prepare her for the possibility of living alone when everyone else has died from sleep deprivation. While driving, they are attacked by people but manage to escape.

They reach The Hub. Dodge offers to stay but Jill gives him the car and tells him to leave. Jill splits up with her children and enters The Hub. She sneaks in disguised as a lab worker to find the other woman who can sleep. She finds her in very ill condition. The woman states she should have been dead months ago. Jill is convinced there is no cure so she begs the woman to raise Matilda. Jill is seen by Murphy and lies about wanting to be there to help. Jill asks if there is a cure and Murphy replies that it has been five days and there is no cure and that the lab workers have been using a drug that helps the brain function to keep them going but it is only temporary and causes neurological damage. The army confronts Jill and her children and Matilda tearfully admits she can sleep.

The next day, Matilda asks if she can help and the doctor responds that they need to find out what makes her special. She sees an ape who has been experimented on and sees that the ape doesn't fall asleep when given anesthetic gas. The doctor says that chimps were the only animals besides humans that can't sleep due to their biological closeness to us. They test the gas on Matilda and she falls asleep. Jill is handcuffed in a room where she experiences delirium.

Murphy asks Jill why her daughter can sleep and Jill begs Murphy to let Matilda go but she insists that humanity's survival depends on her. She explains that the sleep disorder was caused by the same solar flare that knocked out power affecting humans' (and chimps') brains. Dodge is taken as a guard and is given stimulants. The woman who can sleep goes into cardiac arrest and dies. Jill hallucinates that Noah is threatening to kill her. The real Noah is taken away to see if his brain is different than his sister's.

The soldiers then go insane and begin shooting everyone. Jill goes to rescue her daughter and the two run off together. Noah is hallucinating and cuts a wire, electrocuting himself. Jill and Matilda try resuscitating him using a defibrillator but are unsuccessful. Noah suddenly wakes up the next morning, saying that he was dreaming. Noah tells Jill that she was right about not wanting to go to The Hub and that he knows she loves them and needs them. Matilda realizes the reason that she and Noah could sleep was because they had both temporarily died. They drown Jill in a lake. They resuscitate her and she awakens just as the camera zooms in on her eye and cuts to the credits.

Bob and Linda Belcher need to are denied an extension on their loan from First Oceanside Savings Bank, and unless they pay it all in a week, their restaurant equipment will get repossessed. They decide to ask their landlord, Mr. Calvin Fischoeder, if they can skip rent for the month until they pay the loan. However, after a sinkhole forms in front of the restaurant, a skeleton is discovered in it, and Mr. Fischoeder is convicted for the murder, they won't be able to get the rent skip.

The Belcher children Louise, Gene and Tina skip school so they can find out who truly committed the murder, which would free their landlord. After some investigation, they ultimately end up in a secret clubhouse underground a ride called the Mole Hill at an amusement park called Wonder Wharf. Calvin Fischoeder, his brother Felix, and their cousin and family lawyer Grover are all hiding out in the clubhouse until the two brothers can flee the country because of the murder charge. Louise sees a photo that shows Grover wearing a cufflink that was found on the skeleton, revealing that he was in fact the murderer.

Meanwhile at the restaurant, Bob, Linda and their friend Teddy prepare to sell burgers at Wonder Wharf using a portable food stand, in an attempt to come up with the money for the loan and rent. They make a good amount of money, but after being chased by carnies, run into the Mole Hill and fall into the secret clubhouse.

Grover, now pointing a speargun at his seven hostages, reveals his plan: to frame Calvin, kill him and Felix, burn the Mole Hill using a fuse and get the family trust money. He decides that the plan can continue as normal, but the Belcher family must be killed as well. Calvin and Felix are first placed into the submarine designed to drown them, giving the Belchers time to escape. Grover chases the Belchers on go-karts, and in the end buries them in the sinkhole in front of their restaurant. The family is launched out by breaking a water main and they head back to the Mole Hill. Louise stops the fuse from burning down the Mole Hill, the police send Grover to jail and save the Fischoeder brothers from drowning, and the family pays the loan.

Rei Yokoyamada, a teenager aspiring to become a film maker, learns that the pornographic actress Chiho "Papico" Johansson lives near him. Chiho is shunned by her family and neighbors because of her job, but develops a friendship with Rei. Chiho finds an injured old man wearing a helmet and underwear. When she tries to help him, he attaches a device to her wrist that does not come off, before transforming into a doll. Chiho discovers that the device lets her grow into a giant with incredible strength and durability, and shrink back to her regular size, though the growth only applies to her body, tearing her clothing and leaving her naked. Chiho's insecure and abusive boyfriend Ryuji returns home while she demonstrates her growth power for Rei, and assumes she is cheating on him; she uses her giant power to stop him from assaulting Rei, and Ryuji leaves, ending their relationship. Eventually, Chiho and Rei begin dating.

During this, a website called Enjoy the End becomes popular, where users can vote on proposed events, and the winners become reality regardless of how impossible they should be. These include a rain of excrement; a famous actor running naked through Shinjuku; the death of a celebrity rumored to be a murderer; and an earthquake. Following one request, a gigantic god of destruction descends on Tokyo, demolishing buildings and killing many. At the same time, another gigantic monster attacks New York, and is fought by a gigantic man. Rei's family takes refuge underground, and Chiho uses her giant power to fight and kill the god.

The police identify Chiho as the giant woman, and arrest her on suspicion of criminal insurrection. She faces execution, but is granted amnesty after more giants and three more gods appear, who she manages to kill. After it becomes known that Chiho, now a celebrity, is dating a highschool student, she loses entertainment industry opportunities and they decide to put their relationship on hold. Meanwhile, the United States drops a nuclear bomb on Honolulu to stop giants ravaging North America.

A group of time travelers from 2135, dressed like the old man and with similar growth powers, find Chiho, and tell her that two artificial intelligences, Socrates and Plato, were created in 2019 and leaked onto the internet, and, connecting to a Chinese satellite, built a gigantic facility in space from debris; using its machinery, including a bio-printer, the AIs operated Enjoy the End to understand humanity. By 2135, Socrates and Plato have drastically reduced the human population, which is why the group traveled to 2019 to destroy them.

As fourth grader Stan Marsh composes a song for his new death metal band, Crimson Dawn, his father Randy announces to the family that he plans to travel to China to expand the family's Tegridy Farms marijuana business. Upon boarding a plane to China, Randy sees many other people, including NBA players and characters belonging to Disney, who are also going there to expand their businesses. He is arrested at a Chinese airport when marijuana is discovered in his luggage, and incarcertated. In prison, Randy witnesses the practice of summary execution, and is subjected to re-education through labor, torture, and Communist Party re-education.

During a Crimson Dawn rehearsal, the band is visited by a music producer who wants to make a biographical film of the band, as traditional music resources such as albums and tours are no longer profitable. Stan, who desperately wants to leave his farm home, is thrilled. When the film's structure is discussed, the bandmates learn that certain aspects of their lives will have to be edited out in order to make the film marketable in China due to their censorship of the media.

In prison, Randy meets fellow prisoners Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, who are there because they were banned in China after Internet memes comparing Chinese President Xi Jinping to Disney's version of Pooh became popular. When Randy is brought before a court, he criticizes the Chinese government for the way it treats its prisoners, accusing them of lacking "tegridy" (his term for integrity). When Mickey Mouse learns of Randy's criticism, he angrily confronts Randy over the Chinese business he is losing because of it, but Randy holds firm on his beliefs that business should not be conducted on the basis of intimidation, and expresses his marijuana import idea to him. When Mickey and Randy make their case to the Chinese officials, their offer is rejected, which Mickey attributes to the Winnie the Pooh matter. Randy responds by using honey to lure Pooh to a secluded alley and strangling him to death as Piglet watches in horror.

During filming on the Crimson Dawn movie, the censorship continues to the point that Chinese officials are on set to approve its content. The producer asks Stan to rewrite the script "from his heart", but Stan is frustrated by a Chinese censor standing over his shoulder as he writes in his bedroom, erasing passages he disapproves of. Later with his bandmates, Stan realizes that the only film that will even be accepted in China is something "vanilla and cheesy". Stan's best friend, Kyle Broflovski, disembarks from a bus with Eric Cartman following their stay in an ICE detention center in the previous episode. The friends' reunion inspires Stan to re-form his previous band Fingerbang for a new biopic, but he changes his mind during filming, saying that no matter how badly he wishes to leave the farm, he cannot bring himself to compromise for China, and commenting that anyone who does is worthless. Meanwhile, Tegridy Weed has become legal in China. As a dump truck unloads a load of cash at the farm during a family meal, Stan asks Randy why he is covered in honey and blood. When Randy admits that he murdered Pooh, Stan calmly leaves the table to write another song about his father.

Siegfried is an illusionist and Roy is an animal tamer traveling with a white tiger named Manticore. They meet in a kingdom where four demons have recently been released, three of them are personifications of sins and tempt members of the royal court to give in to their vices while the fourth is actually part of Manticore. Roy wishes to make Manticore whole and works with Siegfried to this end while they also try to save the kingdom from the other three demons, which they accomplish using their own brand of magic.

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

After a year in hiding, Win contacts Myron to say he has located Patrick Moore, now 16, one of two boys kidnapped ten years ago from the home of Brooke Baldwin, Win's cousin. The other six-year old kidnapped was Brooke's son, Rhys. After initial ransom demands, the kidnappers mysteriously went silent. Patrick is apparently working in the sex trade under duress in London. Working with Win, Myron is able to rescue Patrick from his captor, but is unable to secure another teenager thought to be Rhys Baldwin.

As the hunt for Rhys continues, Myron and Win, with help from Mickey Bolitar and his school friends, try to unravel the complicated Moore and Baldwin family dynamics, as well as determine if Patrick is really who he claims to be. When the mystery of what happened that fateful day ten years ago is finally revealed, Myron must race the clock to keep another tragedy from occurring.

A girl is playing the violin, until a grandfather clock chimes, and she jumps off the balcony.

Juliet and Vivian Lowe are twin sisters attending their last year at Lindberg Academy, a prestigious boarding school for the performing arts. Both sisters are classical pianists; however, Vivian, a prodigy, has already been accepted to Juilliard while Juliet, overshadowed by her sister, has decided to take a gap year.

Another student, Moira, dies by suicide, as seen earlier. The staff announce that Moira will be replaced at the senior school showcase and auditions will be held to see who will play in her place. Juliet discovers Moira's theory notebook, having fallen off a shelf. Both sisters decide to audition, but at the last minute, Juliet decides to audition using the same piece as Vivian, Piano Concerto No. 2. After finishing practicing, Juliet hears violin music from Moira's room that stops as soon as she enters, and finds a sun symbol etched into the wall behind a curtain, that matches the one on the notebook. She decides to play a untitled piece from the notebook, but is interrupted by Dr. Cask who tells the name of the piece, The Devil's Trill by Giuseppe Tartini, and confronts her about not telling Vivian that she changed her audition piece. While auditioning, she enters a dreamscape and sees herself at the showcase receiving roses and wakes up, realizing she fainted during her audition. Her relationship with Vivian is strained and, in class, when looking at the first image of the notebook, she notices the three balls in the hand, corresponding with the tablets she took. She is crushed when she learns that Vivian landed the showcase.

Juliet fights with her mentor Roger, accusing him of underestimating her. The fight results in Roger slapping her and being suspended. Juliet uses the opportunity to be assigned to the prestigious Dr. Cask, who is also mentoring her sister, and later, finds bloody tampons in her shelf. She confronts Vivian, the latter only telling her that they're now "even". When Dr. Cask asks her reason for changing her piece, Juliet admits to only wanting to beat Vivian, upon which, Dr. Cask tells Juliet she is Vivian's equal in technique but lacks her passion.

Juliet is invited and goes to the secret senior party, where she overhears Vivian on a call, telling someone she is "done fucking" them. Juliet flirts with Vivian's boyfriend Max, and tells him about Moira's notebook. Vivian catches them and the two fight, causing Juliet to run off. She is stopped by a blinding light similar to the one seen on Moira's notebook. The light stops Juliet but Vivian, who does not see it, runs after her, falling off a cliff. The next day, Juliet wakes up on her desk with several pages with Vivian's name written repeatedly, and notices the third page matches with Vivi's fall, and the second with Roger. Juliet learns that Vivian injured her arm in two places and that the injury may permanently ruin her career; Juliet is offered Vivian's role in the showcase and accepts, while Vivian is suspended. Juliet goes to talk to Vivian, but is accused of having purposely let her fall. Juliet looks up Moira's suicide on the internet, and learns that her mother fell off a ski-lift and went into a coma and her father burnt down their house and himself.

Juliet talks to Max about Moira and her notebook, and persuades Max that Vivian cheated on him and, after they break up, has sex with him. The night of her birthday, Juliet invites Dr. Cask to her and Vivian's birthday dinner. At the dinner, an agitated Vivian throws the cake onto Dr. Cask and storms off. As her father is drunk, Juliet has to be driven back by Dr. Cask. At his home, he attempts to encourage her for the next day and Juliet kisses him. After he rejects her, she reveals that she discovered he was having an affair with Vivian and burns his prestigious trophy. Juliet realizes that the previous events have coincided with drawings found in Moira's notebook. She is unsure of what will happen next as the last page is torn out. She falls into a trance and through automatic writing produces an illustration which demands sacrifice, and in a panic, she burns the entire notebook.

Before the showcase, Vivian confronts Juliet over her sabotage and tells her she will always be mediocre. Juliet suffers a panic attack on stage and runs offstage to the roof of the auditorium. She starts to jump but has a hallucination in which she is in the auditorium and has finished her playing, receiving a standing ovation and the approval of her sister.

Afterward, it is revealed Juliet has jumped to her death, but her body fails to be noticed by the busy campus students.

''The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese''

Kyouichi Ootomo, an indecisive and passive office worker, runs into his college underclassmen, Wataru Imagase. Imagase reveals that he was hired by Kyouichi's wife, Chikako, to investigate his infidelity, but he also confesses that he is gay and has been in love with Kyouichi for a long time. He promises not to reveal anything in exchange for a kiss. Kyouichi agrees to the tryst, hoping it will save his marriage, but their secret relationship begins to escalate and eventually becomes sexual. Eventually, Chikako reveals to Kyouichi that she planned on divorcing him and only hired Imagase to get a higher settlement. Kyouichi also learns that Imagase had kept his promise not to reveal his cheating on her.

Shortly after Kyouichi and Chikako separate, Imagase breaks up with his boyfriend and begins living in Kyouichi's apartment. As the two grow closer, Kyouichi begins spending less time with women and realizes he is becoming attracted to Imagase. At his university reunion party, Kyouichi reconnects with his ex-girlfriend, Natsuki, who becomes interested in renewing their relationship. While Kyouichi remains unsure as to whether he wants a life with Imagase or return to dating women, Natsuki, however, discovers his relationship with Imagase when she takes him home after a night of drinking. To settle their confrontation, Imagase and Natsuki force him to choose. Kyouichi picks Natsuki, believing he could never be in a homosexual relationship. After the two sleep together, both Kyouichi and Natsuki realize that Kyouichi's feelings for Imagase remain strong and they break up. Two months later, Kyouichi finds Imagase in town and the two reconcile.

''The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice''

Kyouichi is promoted to section manager at his job, and he learns that his assistant, Tamaki Okamura, is interested in him. He later learns that Tamaki is the daughter of his superior, Yanagida, and is offered to be set up in a relationship with her. As Kyouichi and Tamaki become more deeply acquainted, especially after Yanagida's death, Imagase becomes increasingly insecure and decides to end the relationship himself. After Imagase moves out of Kyouichi's apartment, Kyouichi and Tamaki begin dating.

Later, while on an assignment, Imagase spots Tamaki going to a gynecologist and notices that she is being stalked by his target, but he is too late in stopping him, resulting in Tamaki falling down a flight of stairs. At the hospital, Kyouichi reunites with Imagase, and Imagase begs him to let him be in his life, to which he rejects. Before Imagase leaves, Kyouichi confesses about his frustrations with him and admits their relationship has been dysfunctional. The two make up, and Kyouichi ends his relationship with Tamaki, to which he is met with scorn from their co-worker. After he turns to Imagase, the two decide to live together again, uncertain about what their future may bring.

Khaba Mkhize (Sbo Da Poet) is a young boy along with his mother and sisters, who has to rush to a newly built house after his father's death. Bullied and discriminated at school, Khaba obtains a seemingly unlikely alliance with Nokuthula Khumalo (Thuli Mhlango), a 17-year-old girl from a well to do family who is in fact hiding her own dark secret. Mandla Thabete (Linda Sibiya) starts off at the bottom off the food chain as a low paid sugarcane farmer who loses his job but shows his resilience by tackling the obstacles that he faces. One day, all three youngsters meet together and form an alliance.

In 2013 Taipei, troubled teenager Chen Jian-ho and his friend Radish approaches a young man named Oden at a restaurant; unbeknown to Ho, Radish chops off Oden's hand with a machete. Ho is sentenced to juvenile detention, while Radish is given a harsher sentence. Ho's father Wen disowns him, though his wife Qin continues to visit his son while in prison. Wen instead focuses on Ho's shy older brother Hao, who is studying at a cram school for medical school. Wen is continually pestered at his driving instructor job by Oden's father for money, but he refuses to pay, claiming no legal responsibility as his son did not injure Oden.

Meanwhile, 15-year-old Wang Ming-yu and her guardian aunt Yin meets Qin as she is pregnant with Ho's child. Although Qin supports her throughout her pregnancy, Ho is never informed on this. Hao later does, and Ho rages on the longtime secrecy. That night, Hao commits suicide by jumping from the apartment balcony. Guo Xiao-zhen, Hao's romantic interest, informs Qin that Hao had sent her a text, explaining that he is overwhelmed by all the attention on him, having nowhere to hide from all the scrutiny. Ho and Yu marry, and when he is released a year and a half later, Wen continues to ignore him. Ho takes a job at a car wash to support his family. One night, Wen, tormented by visions of his deceased son, goes out to buy cigarettes. He encounters Ho at the convenience store, unaware that he had taken a night shift there; they speak briefly about Hao and appear to reconcile.

Three years later, Ho is approached by the recently-released Radish who asks him for money, but he rejects. Radish later picks him up amid work, telling him to fire a gun at a legislator's office; Ho grudgingly does so. Wen is alarmed with Radish's presence as Ho's nemesis and confronts him, offering to pay him to stay away from his son, though Radish dismisses him. Radish again visits Ho late at night at the car wash, coercing him into borrowing a client's car and going for a drive. They stop amid a forested highway, where Radish instructs Ho to enter a park and approach a group of men inside to deliver a package; he is paid a large sum of money. However when he returns, Radish is missing, and he flees in unsettlement.

Sometime later, a group of thugs kidnap Ho and demand the money, explaining that Radish was found dead and disordered. After Ho gives them the money, they beat him and drop him off on an overpass, the sum of a substantial "delivery fee" for his trouble. Meanwhile, atop Qixing Mountain, Wen tells Qin that he had been skipping work to tail Ho and Radish. He witnessed their late-night drive; once Ho left to get the money, Wen crashed Radish, dragged him to the forest, and killed him with a rock. As Qin reacts in agony, Wen explains that this was the best way he could think of to help his only remaining son.

Sometime later, Ho and his mother bond over a stack of old notebooks that Wen had gifted to Hao at medical school, each titled with Wen's motto "Seize the day, decide your path", all of which are empty. They then share a tandem bike ride through a park; the ambivalent Qin gazes at the surrounding sceneries.

A thirteen-year-old guy desperately looking for his first kiss against all odds.

Catherine Oxenberg narrates about the day when she (Andrea Roth) found out that her daughter India (Jasper Polish) has joined the NXIVM cult that is headed by Keith Raniere (Peter Facinelli) and Allison Mack (Sara Fletcher). She goes to a place to find out advice for business but is asked odd questions.

Pak, a 70-year-old taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired 65-year-old single father at a park. Despite the families that they had built, the encounter sparks a desire that they had both suppressed and leads to a contemplation of a life together.

The novel starts with Reuel Briggs in his apartment alone in Boston, Massachusetts, ruminating on his financial troubles as a medical student. Determined to improve his friend's mood, Aubrey persuades Reuel to attend a “Negro music” concert. There Reuel witnesses the talented Dianthe Lusk, a light-skinned “Negress” from the South, perform in the Fisk University Singers and becomes infatuated with her beautiful voice and appearance. They attend a house party hosted by Molly Vance, who is engaged to Aubrey, and her brother, Charlie. The group decides to visit the local Hyde House, which is rumored to be haunted, where Reuel encounters a spectral form of Dianthe, who requests Reuel's help.

That next morning, Reuel is called to treat the victims of a train accident. Among them is Dianthe, seemingly dead, but he revives her using a form of mesmerism. The revived Dianthe has no memory of her former self and Reuel's colleagues believe he has performed a miracle. Reuel and Aubrey persuade Dianthe to live with the Vance family under another name until she recovers and relearns her identity. Reuel falls in love with Dianthe during the stay and proposes to her. She accepts. Wanting to provide for his fiancée, he approaches Aubrey for work. Aubrey asks Reuel to accompany him on a dangerous but lucrative archaeological expedition to Ethiopia. Reuel, Charlie, and Aubrey's servant, Titus Crow, prepare for the expedition, since Aubrey elects to stay in Boston with Molly and Dianthe. Charlie and Reuel frequently write back home, but eventually stop receiving correspondence.

They travel first to Egypt, and then via desert caravan to Ethiopia, where they seek the treasures of Meroe. They encounter many dangers on their journey. Soon after their arrive at the ruin, however, they receive news from America that Molly and Dianthe drowned in a boating accident on the Charles River near Boston. Mad with grief, Reuel disappears into the city's ruins to die. But he is kidnapped by unseen foes. He awakens in a luxurious palace within the hidden city of Telassar, built by the inhabitants of Meroe. A native man named Ai, who had passed as a local guide for the expedition, reveals his identity as a councilor and minister of Telassar. Ai introduces Reuel to Candace, the Queen of Telassar, and begins to fall in love with her.

Meanwhile, Charlie and Titus search for Reuel, eventually discovering a secret passage beneath the ruins of Meroe. Telassar's soldiers captures them, but the two manage to escape into the city's tombs where they find a hoard of precious metals and gemstones surrounded by booby traps. Reuel and his guards rescue Charlie from the traps, but Titus is mortally wounded. Before he dies, Titus confesses that Aubrey had ordered him to murder Reuel so that he would never return from Africa. To substantiate Titus's confession, Reuel commands Ai to use his people's magic to spy on Aubrey. They learn that Aubrey murdered Molly and faked Dianthe's death so as to marry her in secret. Enraged, Reuel and his companions return to America to seek revenge on Aubrey.

While being coerced by Aubrey to marry him, Dianthe gradually regains her memory and meets Hannah, an elderly former slave of the Livingstons. Hanna comforts Dianthe and teaches her that she, Aubrey, and Reuel are half-siblings, and that their mother, Mira, was a woman of Ethiopian descent enslaved by Aubrey's father. Distraught, Dianthe attempts to poison Aubrey in the night, but he thwarts her and forces Dianthe to drink the poison. Aubrey flees the estate that next morning and abandons Dianthe to her fate. She tries to clings to life, but Reuel arrives at the Livingston estate as Dianthe dies.

While traveling alone, Aubrey receives a vision that Dianthe still lives and quickly returns home, and is greeted by Reuel's men. They subdue Aubrey and condemn him. Their magic causes him to drown himself in a river. After Aubrey's death, Reuel learns they are all of one blood. Shocked by this news, Reuel returns to Telassar to serve as King and to teach his people about the new world.

Don Gaspar (Domingo Soler), the owner of a prestigious sporting goods store, decides to hire a man (Cantinflas) as a salesman in his store, after seeing him play an American football game.

When the man starts working in the store, he fails in many positions he is given, but Don Gaspar does not fire him despite the constant accusations of an employee of his who sees all the disasters he causes, and trusting that he is good for something. In the end, he degrades him to operator of the elevator, and later decides to send him to Acapulco to try to convince Jorge Maciel (Carlos Agostí), a famous professional athlete who will spend his vacation there, to sign an advertising contract that will give more prestige to Don Gaspar's company.

Cantinflas, when traveling to Acapulco with his ''compadre'' and registering at the hotel, is mistaken by accident with Jorge Maciel himself by a millionaire woman named Lucy (Teresa Velázquez), who is infatuated with him. After having won the affection of that woman he decides to maintain the falsehood despite knowing that the true Jorge Maciel will sooner or later arrive, so he has to compete in several sports categories, from which he wins all.

The real Jorge Maciel arrives at the hotel and finds out what the man is doing, and although he knows that he is usurping his identity, he decides not to unmask him because he wants to know who he is and what he wants. He stays with a false name and keeps an eye on the man all the time without being noticed.

In the end, Lucy, very much in love with the fake Jorge Maciel, proposes that they live together far away. Shortly afterwards, the real Jorge Maciel reveals himself to the man and asks for an explanation, he explains that he was initially sent to try to obtain his signature, but upon meeting Lucy and falling in love with her, he decided to impersonate him to maintain that love since he was unable to tell her the truth. Maciel promises not to tell her the truth and forgives him for everything. However, a companion of Lucy (Alejandro Ciangherotti) discovers it by hearing all of their conversation in secret.

The next morning, Lucy learns that the fake Jorge Maciel left the hotel at dawn without telling her anything, and her companion who discovered who he is offers to take her with him. The fake Jorge Maciel returns to the sporting goods store and Don Gaspar, very upset about failing the mission he entrusted to him, returns him to his elevator operator post to pay everything he spent on it; however, afterwards Jorge Maciel voluntarily goes to the store and presents himself to Don Gaspar to tells him that he will sign the document, only in return for the happiness of the person sent to achieve that purpose.

Lucy and her companion arrive at the sporting goods store, and seeing that her hero was nothing more than an elevator operator, she leaves very angry and disappointed. Just as the man is about to leave heartbroken, Don Gaspar appoints him general manager of the store for having won the contract with Jorge Maciel. In the end, the man, as general manager of the company, reconciles with Lucy.

Yuzuru Shino, a bored and disillusioned third-year high school student, hears a rumor that Tōji Seryō, a popular student at school, will accept anyone who asks him out at the beginning of the week and end their relationship after seven days of dating. Yuzuru decides to ask Tōji out as a half-hearted joke, but, to his surprise, Tōji accepts their date. Over the course of seven days, Yuzuru's feelings for him grow, and he begins to dread the impending day where they will inevitably end their relationship.

Irfan has been the moral political guardian to Arman the way Ahsan has been to him. Then why does a series of unfortunate events- female trafficking, drug smuggling, disappearing of a foreign journalist, a bomb blast- occur in their small town of Thanchi? Who are they that prey on the aborigines at night? Who are they, who roam around with blood-spattered faces and weapons in hand during Vaisavi? Why does Arman continuously end up as the scapegoat? Where do someone's gains lie in Arman's death?

While finding answers to these questions, Arman falls into a rabbit hole of ghoulish truths, making him lose his credence. Right there starts Arman's striking journey to save Pushpa, and his country.

It is a story of Arman's love for Pushpa, of Ahsan and Irfan's love for their country. In some ways, it is a story of selling out your country, of Titli's life in orphanage, of Nazrul's sacrifice, and of Arman's mother's death. In hindsight, it is a story patriotism.

Society has its fair share of different types of people. Some amongst them resort to using others for their benefits; sometimes putting the entire society, even his nation at stake. They wear masquerades of noblemen. But once people hit rock bottom, they possess an inevitable ability to capsize and use those masquerades as a boomerang to the impostors. 'Shapludu' is a tale of those who turn the tables; a suspense thriller based on those who give those swindlers a taste of their own medicine in order to save themselves, their loved ones, and their nation

In 1948, Camp Redwood was known as Golden Star Camp. Lavinia Richter works there as a cook so her sons Benjamin (Richter) and Bobby can have a fun summer. They go down to the lake to swim, but Benjamin leaves Bobby to watch a lifeguard and counselor have sex. Bobby goes into the lake and is killed by a motor boat propeller. Lavinia is distraught and blames everyone, including Benjamin, for the death of her son.

In 1989, Donna, having faked Brooke's death and rescued her from the prison, tries to care for her, who is skeptical and threatens her for an answer. Donna explains that she is trying to make things right. Brooke sees a newspaper showing Camp Redwood's concert event, and states that she wants to go back and kill Margaret. Donna takes Brooke to a roller rink hoping she can change her mind, but Brooke still wants to go back to the camp. A man named Bruce approaches them and asks for a ride. Donna refuses, but when he fixes her car she reluctantly gives him a ride. During the ride, Bruce unnerves the girls and they pull over. Before Bruce can get out, a police car pulls up behind them. When the cop approaches, Bruce shoots him and the women drive off. Bruce kills the cop and takes his car.

Richter returns to Redwood and is ambushed by his victims, out for revenge for killing them. They bring him to the other ghosts, who are infuriated and demand to know why he has returned to the camp. Richter explains that he came to kill Richard Ramirez in revenge for killing his wife. They tell Richter that they are terrorized by a woman dressed in a white night gown, who chases them. Richter realizes that the woman is his mother and explains that after Bobby's death, Lavinia went insane and slaughtered the staff. When Lavinia grabbed hold of Benjamin, he fatally stabbed her in self-defense. When Xavier guides Richter to an abandoned cabin, Richter enters alone and is greeted by Lavinia. She is disgusted with Richter and it's revealed that she manipulated Margaret into carrying out the 1970 massacre and blaming Richter for the crime. She disappears, leaving a devastated Richter alone in the cabin.

Bruce speeds toward Donna's car and rear ends it, knocking the two unconscious. Brooke awakens in the car with Bruce and he gives her two options: put the car into drive and drag Donna who is tied to the back of the car, or he would shoot her and drag Donna himself. Brooke takes a third option and puts the car into reverse, then shoots Bruce with his own gun. Donna tries to choke him, but Brooke stops her. At Camp Redwood, Kajagoogoo's tour bus arrives. Trevor reunites with Montana's ghost. Donna and Brooke tie Bruce to a road sign and cut off both his thumbs. Brooke then leaves for Redwood and Donna insists that she join her to see things through to the end. During the night, Courtney walks into the tour bus and finds all the members of Kajagoogoo dead.

Richter sits on the dock and Lavinia approaches him. She demands that he leave. Richter explains that he has a son named after Bobby. Lavinia encourages Richter to kill himself before Ramirez comes to collect his soul. She disappears and Richter kills himself with his knife. His ghost appears, takes the knife, and leaves the dock.

Greg Wittle spends his work hours daydreaming and drawing. After he is called to his boss's office, forgetting his wallet on his desk, Greg's wallet glitches out. After Greg is fired, he accidentally kills his boss and conceals the body before leaving the office for the bar across the street.

In the bar, he meets Isabel, who appears to know what he has done. She speaks about having created this world with unintended consequences. After Greg does her a favor, she telekinetically makes Greg's boss's death look like a suicide. After they leave the bar a walking woman appears from nowhere multiple times. After Isabel sells Greg's cell phone, she takes Greg to a tented area. There she offers him yellow crystals and teaches him how to manipulate the world telekinetically.

After an altercation at a roller rink in which he and Isabel telekinetically trip a bully, he watches police arrest the bully, only to discover himself in the back of the squad car. Greg is released and his daughter Emily searches for him.

While Isabel gets more crystals, Emily spots Greg on the street and attempts to rescue him. She gives him her phone number and asks Greg to call her. One day Greg wakes up in Isabel's tent and finds her absent but sees his drawings posted. He finds Emily's phone number and calls her, but gets the answering machine. When he returns, Isabel is there, furious that he called Emily, asserting she is not real. Isabel decides she needs to prove what reality is to him. She plans to eject them both out of this "false" world using blue crystals.

After snorting the blue crystals, they wake up attached to a giant computer along with several others. He is told that he has been experiencing a simulation within a Brain Box created by Isabel to study alternate realities and their effects on the human brain. Isabel reveals they are a couple in this world and takes Greg home, showing him his drawings were recreations of this setting. Greg does not remember this world, and Isabel says that after a long dark period of poverty, most problems on Earth were eliminated, allowing humanity to flourish. Greg still has vivid memories of the simulation, but Isabel warns him the simulation pulls tricks on the user.

A gala is thrown for the Brain Box. During the celebration, Greg wanders off and encounters a ghostly Emily, who implores him to come back to her. Isabel begins to see elements from the simulation leak into her view and hypothesizes they need to go back into the simulation and take more blue crystals in order to fully exit it. Back within the simulation, Isabel gets more crystals, but commits a murder in the process. The police are on their tail. At her tent, Isabel finds that there are only enough crystals for one of them to leave. Greg suggests Isabel kill him since he believes real people cannot die in the simulation, but hearing Emily, who has tracked him down, Greg insists Isabel go back alone, which she accepts. Isabel distracts the police long enough for Greg to escape to a rehab clinic, admitting that he believes that his daughter Emily is real. Sometime later, Greg reconnects with Emily.

Jean is a housewife in the late 1970s, married to Eddie, a professional thief. The couple is unable to have or adopt children, something Jean has long since made her peace with. One day, Eddie mysteriously procures a baby boy for Jean to raise. Sometime later, Jean is awakened in the night by one of Eddie's business partners, Jimmy, who gives her a bag of money and instructs Jean to go on the run; she is handed over to a man named Cal, who Jimmy promises will help her. Jean learns from Cal that Eddie has gone missing and that everyone is looking for him. Cal relocates Jean and her baby, Harry, to a vacant house in the suburbs, with strict instructions not to make any friends or acquaintances.

Jean struggles with loneliness in her new surroundings and, defying Cal's instructions, befriends her widowed neighbor, Evelyn. After a late-night walk with Harry, Jean realizes that her home has been broken into and calls a number Cal gave her before escaping to Evelyn's house. There, she discovers some of Eddie's former associates, who believe Jean knows where to find him and beat Evelyn for her location before tying her up. Cal arrives and rescues Jean and Harry, killing everyone else including Evelyn; Jean is horrified, but Cal tells her Evelyn's death was her fault for not listening to him.

Cal relocates Jean and Harry to a remote cabin. He reveals to her that Eddie, an associate of a local crime syndicate, murdered his boss Marvin, plunging the city into gang warfare as different factions are fighting for Marvin's territory. Jean is eventually joined by Teri, Cal's wife, their son Paul, and Cal's elderly father, Art, who teaches her how to use a gun. Jean eventually pieces together that Teri was formerly married to Eddie, but ran away with her son because of his abusive and controlling nature. Realizing that Cal may be in trouble, Jean decides to join Teri in returning to the city to find him.

To get word to Cal that they are in the city, the two women go to a nightclub, where Jean gets lost during a shootout and becomes separated from Teri, eventually tracking her to a hotel. She learns that Paul is actually Eddie's son and that Teri and Cal, who met and fell in love while working under Eddie, had been living normal lives outside the syndicate until Eddie got in touch with Cal and forced him to help Jean.

Teri and Jean get separated again, and Jean tracks down Cal, who informs her that Eddie is dead. The trio attempt to leave the city, only to be intercepted by a rival gang boss, Mike; Teri crashes the car and Mike takes Jean at gunpoint. Not believing that Eddie is dead, he threatens Jean to tell her where her husband is, but Jean shoots him dead with a pistol previously given to her by Teri. She returns to the scene of the accident and rescues Teri and Cal. They return to the cabin to find Art dead, having killed two hitmen sent by Mike before dying of his wounds. Paul and Harry are found alive, and after reuniting with their children, the two families drive off together.

Bennett's War is about a young soldier, Marshall Bennett (Michael Roark), who is in 75th Ranger Regiment during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) in Army Motorcycle Unit. He survives an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion while in combat, breaking his legs, and is in turn medically discharged and sent back home to the United States. Once home, he learns that his dad, Cal Bennett (Adkins), is behind on his mortgage and may lose the family farm. Marshall wants to help, but the only thing he can think to do is become a motocross racer. He ignores all medical advice and goes back to the motocross Circuit. After he wins a few races against his arch-rival Chris Walker and his brother Kurt, Chris and Kurt cause him to have a bad crash injuring his legs again. Some time later Chris and Kurt's team manager, Cyrus, visits Bennett and tells him that Chris and Kurt betrayed him and now he doesn't have a rider for either the Loretta Lynn Amateur National or the Glen Helen National race. Bennett wins the amateur race and qualifies for the pro race. After Kurt and Chris take out multiple riders, the last lap is between Kurt, Chris, and Bennett. On the last turn Kurt tries to crash Bennett like he did earlier but Bennett hits the brakes and Kurt crashes instead. Bennett beats Chris in a photo finish and celebrates with his pit crew.

Sogo (Mamadou Zerbo) is a war-battered veteran who fought for France in World War II and the Indochina Wars. Due to his bravery and ferocity in battle Sogo has earned the nickname Tasuma (the fire) and fears no one, including government officials. He is also civil-minded and kind-hearted, and has promised the women of his village gasoline-powered mill to grind their millet with the military pension he has earned. Coming home to his childhood village however Sogo finds himself unable to access his pension. After many years of being denied the money which is rightfully his, Sogo returns to his village with a gun in hand. After being sent to jail, the women of the village rally for Sogo to be set free.

After dropping out of New York University, Pablo Neruda Rind begins working the graveyard shift at a deli in Brooklyn while paying off a sizable credit card debt. In the early morning, pop music star Leanna Smart walks into the deli. The two strike up a conversation, with Pablo not aware of Leanna's stardom. After she returns days later, Pablo becomes swept up into Leanna's exciting and lavish lifestyle.

After the whole Salvador family mourned the loss of their eldest child Gabriel, Don Joaquin returns from Manila after going on some business trips, especially with a promise of giving souvenirs to his children. While Carmina is finding her gift, she discovers a dirty-looking boy in front of her eyes, attracting the attention of Milo and Yaya Adora. Apparently, the boy was an orphan and he was found by Don Joaquin in Divisoria but because of his good intentions for the orphan, he decided to adopt him and named him Gabriel after the deceased eldest child. Gabriel was accepted by the family except for Milo, who has hostility toward him. One afternoon, Gabriel and Carmina went to the shores' cliffs, playing together imagining the lives of royalty, similar to the tales of princes and princesses. Carmina becomes close with Gabriel, telling him that he is not an orphan, only an ordinary person. By the time they returned home, Milo shows up and starts blaming Gabriel for stealing his horse and attention to his father, leading the latter to be attacked and beaten by the former. Milo's unacceptable behavior towards his adoptive brother caused his father to banish him to live in Manila with his aunt instead until he changed his intentions.

Many years later, Carmina and Gabriel grew up as adults. Don Joaquin and Yaya Adora were very happy that they are very close together. Suddenly, the family would become devastated when Don Joaquin died in front of his children and house helper. After the funeral, Milo returns from Manila and became the owner of the estate. Since he has a long-time grudge towards Gabriel, he starts to treat him as a servant instead of being expelled out of the estate, much to Carmina's disappointment.

As they walk to the balcony, Carmina and Gabriel began fantasizing about their happiness in the palace, similar to their childhood game, but only to realize that it would be in paradise. Gabriel tearfully promises to love again in heaven until Carmina dies in her arms. Gabriel's devastation continues to her grave where he suffers emotional grief and pain. However, this would cut short when Milo shoots Gabriel to death with his revolver, leaving to his death in Carmina's grave. Days have passed, and he is now buried alongside Carmina with the attendance of Alan, Sandra, and Yaya Adora. Alan stated they now rest in peace, he and Sandra, who was also devastated by Gabriel's death, will live in peace. However, for Yaya Adora, she believes that Carmina and Gabriel are not yet dead but they were just started to live. Before she leaves their graves, she hears the angelic laughter of the two and as she looks behind, she sees the souls of Carmina and Gabriel live happily in peace together in heaven. After a moment of witness, Yaya Adora smiled happily for them.

The film ends with the souls of Carmina and Gabriel running into the hills and dancing into the sunset together.

''The Eve''

The opening segment by director Guan Hu, ''The Eve'' ( ), is about an engineer, Lin Zhiyuan (played by Huang Bo), racing against time to perfect an automatic flag-raising mechanism before the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.

''Passing by''

The second story ''Passing by'' ( ), directed by Zhang Yibai, sees a scientist, Gao Yuan, played by Zhang Yi, work on China's first atom bomb who had to bid farewell forever to his lover in the 1960s.

''The Champion''

The third story ''The Champion'' ( ), directed by Xu Zheng, is about how a young boy from Shanghai named Dong Dong (played by Han Haolin) helped his neighbors watch TV for the China women's national volleyball team's Olympic gold medal win in 1984.

''Going Home''

The fourth story ''Going Home'' ( ), directed by Xue Xiaolu, is about a Chinese executive delegation and local policemen preparing for the return of Hong Kong from British rule to China in 1997. The 12-second silence between the British and Chinese anthems during the Hong Kong handover ceremony is also reflected in this part.

''Hello Beijing''

The fifth story ''Hello Beijing'' ( ), directed by Ning Hao, is about a taxi driver who gives a ticket to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to a boy from the Sichuan earthquake zone though it was intended to be a birthday gift to his aloof son.

''The Guiding Star''

The sixth story ''The Guiding Star'' ( ), directed by Chen Kaige, is about a pair of homeless brothers who witness the landing of the capsule of the Shenzhou 11 crewed spacecraft on November 18, 2016, a moment of national pride that touched them.

''One for All''

''One for All'' ( ), directed by Wen Muye, follows the story of a top female fighter jet pilot Lü Xiaoran who helps her fellow pilots accomplish a smooth aerial performance at the Military Parade of the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945.

Soya the snake is building a "3D puzzle" or model of a T-Rex. The ground shakes as his clumsy friend Michelino, an actual miniature T-Rex, lumbers along and, seeing the blueprints, becomes interested in what Soya is doing and wants to help, to Soya's annoyance. Soya has already had to start over due to the ground shaking from Michelino's heavy steps but then Michelino accidentally knocks the model down a second time.

Frustrated, Soya gives up and swallows the model's pieces rather than rebuild them. Lights similar to X-rays seem to flash as Michelino jumps up and down, such that the jumbled pieces becomes visible inside Soya, changing their configuration with each bound by Michelino. Eventually, they are reassembled as they are supposed to be in Soya's body, which now looks like a T-Rex.

The novel is set in Kattuppati, a remote Tamil Nadu village in Southern India. Kumaresan and Saroja, newly married, arrive by bus to live at Kumaresan's house on a rock in the village. Their marriage is an inter-caste one, performed in secret after they eloped from Saroja's house in Tholur, and Kumaresan believes that no one shall know about Saroja's different caste if they deny it. When they reach their house, Marayi, Kumaresan's mother, curses her ill-luck that her son married Saroja. Her dirge attracts the attention of many village residents who flock to the house to see the new bride and tease her about the marriage. They do not believe that a person as fair as Saroja would belong to the same caste as them.

As days pass by, Saroja has to put up with Marayi's constant insults and the village folks' questions and comments about her caste. A visit to Kumaresan's grandparents turns sour as his grandfather hits him and says that he has brought disgrace upon the family. Saroja is reminded about their affair in Tholur where Kumarasen had come to work with Bhai Anna's help. Kumarasen worked in a soda-bottle packing and distributing unit for Soda Bottle Bhai and was Saroja's neighbor. They often stole glances at each other until some soda bottles explode in Kumaresan's hands and Saroja left him some food. Knowing that her father and brother would never approve of their marriage, Saroja ran away with Kumarasen to get married.

At their village, a council decides to boycott them from any social gathering and a public well. Kumarasen and Saroja are still invited to a coming-of-age ceremony of a distant relative from another village. Kumarasen tries to settle down with a soda-bottle distributing business spread across a few villages. He takes Saroja with him to Virichipalayam, where he has found a shop with money raised from friends. Saroja hopes he would settle down in Virichipalayam and away from his village. They buy a plateful of presents for the ceremony they are invited to. They decide to go directly to the temple where the ceremony will be held rather than walk down with other people from their village. At the ceremony, Kumarasen is humiliated by his uncle and asked to leave immediately.

Back home, Kumarasen discovers that Saroja is pregnant. Saroja believes that a child's coming would convince Kumarasen to leave the village with her. Kumarasen has to leave the village for a couple of days to visit his shop but Saroja urges him to come back at night however late it is. That night, Saroja goes to the bushes near the rock to defecate and overhears Marayi conspiring with other villagers to kill her in Kumaresan's absence. Determined not to get caught, she hides herself deep within the shrubbery. When the villagers realize where she is, they set the bushes alight from all sides with Saroja within it, just as Kumaresan's cycle is heard returning to the village.

Well-meaning but clumsy husband Musty Suffer (Eddie Finn) lives with his wife Sally (Gloria Jean) and his tough-talking mother-in-law (Nina Varela). His Swedish-dialect pal is next-door neighbor Efrem Blobbs (El Brendel). Musty and Blobbs plan an elaborate birthday party for Musty's daughters Betsy and Netsy (Jane and Janette Carty). When the tax collector takes Musty's handy money, Musty and Blobbs stage the party themselves. Still in need of cash, Musty and his family hire on as servants for a society matron, whose important dinner party goes from bad to worse.

The film deals with a pair of young, teen-aged sisters, the sixteen years old Aida and the seventeen years old Maria, escaping Angola to live in Lisbon, Portugal during 1980, in order to escape the Angolan civil war of that era.

The pair make it to Lisbon, where life proves to be harsh for the two African women. They have a hard time adapting to their new country and its customs and culture, but then a tragic event changes their lives once again.

Charlie Burnz is walking to work, having to remind himself of the directions, demonstrating that his memory isn't strong. He arrives at the studio where he has a storied career as a successful comedy screenwriter.

Later, sitting in on a pitch meeting, Charlie goes on a lunch date with someone who won it at an auction. Meeting Emma Payge, she explains her cheating ex-boyfriend won the auction as Charlie is his hero. By taking his lunch date, she gets some revenge.

They get on well, but Emma has a severe allergic reaction to her shellfish. Accompanying her to the hospital, she claims Charlie is her adoptive dad. He gets stuck with the bill and later has to stab her with an Epi pen. He has enjoyed himself but doubts he will see Emma again.

Charlie meets with his physician, who talks of his early stage of dementia. He hasn't told his family, his children Rex and Francine nor his granddaughter Lindsay. Nor has he told his employer.

That night, Charlie attends a recorded discussion of one of his most successful movies. Interviewed by Bob Costas with the film's director Barry Levinson and lead actors Sharon Stone and Kevin Kline, Charlie forgets the names of his fellow panelists, playing it off as a joke. Afterwards, Charlie is surprised by Emma, who attends to support him, as she now genuinely likes him. She also repays him for the hospital visit.

Charlie accompanies Emma to her job as a singer for a band, and is very impressed by her talent. Afterwards, he explains the unfinished novel she saw is meant to be a memoir celebrating his life with his deceased wife Carrie and his children. Charlie admits writer's block and also has a strained relationship with his kids.

The same night, Emma asks Charlie how he met Carrie in a message. This helps him focus and he begins to write his novel. In a flashback, Charlie and Carrie met by chance while walking on the same beach. After light conversation, he invites her to his house to remove tar from her feet. They hit it off, declaring their love for each other after a few dates.

Later, Charlie has a breakdown when his route to work is blocked. Then, during a live show, he has an episode. Angry at the cast member who can't enunciate properly, thereby ruining jokes with his poor performance, Charlie walks onstage. He critiques the actor and engages the crowd, the performance is lauded and goes viral.

Although everyone initially thinks Charlie was simply engaged in brilliant improv, it soon becomes apparent that he is unwell. Emma rushes to the studio after seeing the live show, explaining Charlie's situation. Darrell writes a tribute to him online, providing cover for what happened. Meanwhile, Francine thinks Charlie was drunk and is disgusted.

Lindsay arrives unexpectedly at Charlie's while Emma is out. Tearful, she overheard Francine blame Charlie for Carrie's death. He embraces his granddaughter, saying he will take them somewhere special to cheer her up.

When Francine finds Lindsay is missing, she and Rex go to Charlie's, finding Emma also looking for him. They soon realize he took a rideshare service, so they track him to the country. As they all drive to him, Emma tells Rex and Francine about his dementia.

They find Lindsay in tears as Charlie had an episode and ran into the woods without her. Realizing they are at their childhood cabin, Francine and Rex rush to find Charlie. He wholeheartedly apologizes for his past mistakes. The family tearfully embraces and forgives him, and also accepts Emma as part of the family.

Forward in time, Charlie and Emma are at the cabin on Lake Charlie with Rex, Francine, Lindsay, and Darrell. He, Francine, and Rex reminisce about their childhood as Darrell transcribes the stories for the book. At the sunset, he and the others go together to the lake to watch it. Charlie sees Carrie's spirit watching the it alongside them, and Charlie smiles.

Hollywood big shots bet on anything in "sin city".

Duke is a washed up former actor still living in LA. He runs a local poker game with a variety of characters. One day a director Sebastion joins the game and quickly becomes the best player. While Sebastion is a stereotypical douchebag Hollywood director he has access to the people with more money willing to play and Duke partners up with Sebastion to make more and more money. The guys have side bets on everything from can you make a paper ball into trash can for $500 to can the little person blindfolded on the roof jump into the pool safely. (Spoiler...he makes it). The game grows bigger and bigger and Sebastions true colors start to show more and more. He always has an angle and if you make a prop bet with him you can be sure he’s rigged the odds in his favor. Sebastion doesn’t need the money it’s all about winning for him. For Duke this is his only source of income and he steadily saves wads of cash buried in his yard until he’s saved up over $1,000,000. Through a Ponzi scheme run by Sebastions friend Duke loses everything and Sebastion brags he never invested a dime with the guy. This is when Duke has had enough and decided to put in motion a series of events that ends with a bet on Duke walking to Las Vegas in 7 days 280 miles with pages of rules and stipulations. Duke gets $1,000,000 and puts it up against Sebastions $5,000,000 that Duke can do it. The guys pile in an RV and follow Duke on his 7 day journey filled with prop bets along the way. There are plenty of double crosses and things are never what they seem and in the end everyone gets what they deserve... or do they??

Two kids want to start a heavy metal band in a high school with a celloist to win the Battle of the Bands.

The plot of the film revolves around the child Oscar (Elio Germano) who, when being born, flies away lighter than a balloon.

Oscar comes to light on a stormy night, in the hospital of a small town, and immediately we understand that there is something extraordinary about him : he does not obey the law of gravity. He floats in the air, hovers in the lightest breeze like a balloon, in front of the incredulous look of the mother and grandmother. The child grows closely protected and sheltered - with only one friend, a little girl called Agata who knows his secret. When nosy neighbours cause the police to step in and request that Oscar be sent to school with all the other children, the two women decide to move to a remote village to keep him safe. Surrounded by books, Oscar grows up in this little village until the day he decides that the whole world must know who he really is. He is "The Man without Gravity" .

Reuben Heywood is an aspiring writer, who grapples with anxiety, manifesting as a stutter, while attempting to build a career as both a writer and actor. When a performance at an amateur theatre showcase goes awry, Reuben is bullied by the troupe leader and a sign language interpreter. Derek Shanahan, a profoundly deaf man from the audience (played by Joshua Sealy) comes to vindicate him and the two form a friendship which quickly turns into a sexual relationship.

As Derek and Reuben discuss their mutual ambitions within the arts and political activism, Reuben discloses his troubled past and the origins of his speech impediment. Derek encourages Reuben to steer his work away from theater and into independent film, offering to support him, where needed. Shortly after, Derek seeks out Reuben's dream mentor, Gareth Donahue (played by Paul Mercurio) to help him bring his story, titled ''The Burden of Being Me'' to the screen.

Gareth, meanwhile, has reached a low point in his career. He is over 50, lamenting his lost youth and fading career. Hungry for a chance to make a comeback, Gareth agrees to meet with Reuben and discuss their collaboration on ''The Burden of Being Me''. Derek is also present at the meeting and is quick to point out Gareth's self-obsessed narcissism. but Reuben overlooks his observations, blind-sighted by the support that Gareth offers. Derek's mother, Faye Shanahan, and sister, Courtney, are deeply protective of Derek and treat Reuben's artistic ambitions with skepticism. Faye, a painter, discourages Derek's involvement with Reuben's filmmaking, in favor of noble causes to support deaf education and advocating human rights in the footsteps of Helen Keller. Reuben recognizes the hypocrisy and continues to pursue his film with Derek and Gareth.

Almost immediately after receiving the script of ''The Burden of Being Me'', Gareth begins to amend the characters and plot to suit him as both an actor and a producer. His wife, Lillian Donahue, a highly respected entertainment attorney, is captivated by the screenplay and recognizes Reuben as a talented writer. But Gareth uses his industry expertise and gas-lighting tactics to seize creative control from Reuben, while also manipulating Lillian to help him, using her long-delayed desire to have children as leverage for emotional blackmail. Obediently, Lillian writes up contracts that highly favor Gareth's interests and leave Reuben empty handed. Immediately conflicted by guilt, Lillian stands idly by, as Gareth pressures Reuben to sign the contracts and grant him 100% of the rights. When Reuben realizes that he has been swindled, Faye offers to help finance Reuben's next project, effectively giving her blessing for he and Derek to collaborate in the future. This offer is quickly retracted when Reuben accidentally makes a spectacle of himself at Courtney's engagement party and embarrasses the family. Derek sides with Faye, citing that Reuben has acted in appropriately. Reuben is asked to leave the party, at once.

Shortly after, Reuben receives an emotional call from Courtney, saying that Derek has suddenly died from an accident. At the funeral, Faye confronts Reuben, imploring him to continue honoring Derek's memory, but also to honor himself. Meanwhile, Lillian reads an article about Reuben's stage play, dedicated to Derek's memory. Gareth's only response is to make sure the stage play has no affiliation with the film he now owns the rights to, or else they'd have to sue. Incensed at Gareth's heartlessness, Lillian lashes out at him and vows to reverse the contracts that she had made for Gareth. Concluding that her chance to have children has passed her by, Lillian abandons Gareth and seeks Reuben out at the theater, where he and Derek met. She encourages him to rewrite his story from scratch and amend key elements, so that Gareth cannot claim copyright infringement. Similarly, Faye reinstates her support of Reuben, around the time of her first Christmas since her son's death.

One by one, Gareth's collaborators abandon his project and he is left without any supporters at around the time that Reuben develops his new film, ''The Purpose of Being Me''. At the a screening of his film, Reuben thanks the audience for attending, including those who may have originally discouraged him. He thanks them for providing the strength he needed to continue in his pursuits, even if it was only to prove them wrong. As a final thought, Reuben comes to terms with his speech impediment and thanks those who supported his journey; saying "''actions speak louder than words''."

A Viking Princess (Demetriou) is forced to flee her kingdom after being framed for the murder of her father the King. Under the guidance of the god Odin, Terence Stamp, she travels the world gaining wisdom and building the army she needs to win back her throne.

Yoko (played by the former leading member of the idol girl group AKB48, Atsuko Maeda) is the reporter for a television travel program who visits Uzbekistan with her television crew to make an episode for the program. She dreams of becoming a singer. The film contrasts Yoko's upbeat on-camera persona with her internal conflicts when she is on her own.

The film consists of a series of episodes in which Yoko wades into a lake to describe looking for a possibly mythical Uzbeki fish; proclaims the delicious crunchiness of under-cooked rice in a bowl of ''plov'', a local dish; repeatedly takes nausea-inducing turns on a fun-park pendulum ride until her camera crew can get enough B-camera footage of her face; and tries to liberate a goat in captivity named Okoo only to learn that if she does, it will be eaten by wild dogs.

She and the crew visit Samarkand and Tashkent; in the latter, she sings the classic Édith Piaf anthem, Hymne à l'amour (with Japanese lyrics], in a fantasy sequence set at the Navoi Theatre which (as noted below) had been built after the war by Japanese POWs. During a visit to the bazaar, she wanders off with a hand-held camera and starts videotaping in a restricted area. She runs away from the police, who eventually apprehend her but treat her kindly, especially when she learns that her firefighter boyfriend may have been involved in a massive oil refinery fire in Tokyo Bay, where he was stationed. (The boyfriend is never actually seen or heard; all the audience learns about him comes from texts he exchanges with Yoko.)

In a finale set in the mountains, her crew once again in pursuit of a likely mythical beast, she again sings Hymne à l'amour as she imagines that she has caught sight of Okoo running free in the distance.

Following his supposed death, Batman sends Dick Grayson undercover to investigate Spyral, a clandestine organization founded by Kathy Kane to spy on superheroes. Grayson is given numbered as Agent 37 and is partnered with senior Spyral agent Helena Bertinelli, codenamed Matron. The duo are sent on missions by Spyral's enigmatic leader Mr. Minos to retrieve body parts from the recently deceased supervillain Paragon which are being traded and distributed among criminals in order to give them powers. Tension arises between the two when Grayson's refusal to kill costs the lives of other agents. During a mission, Dick fights against Midnighter who is also keeping an eye on Spyral, causing him to question the organizations purpose and motives even more. While Grayson and Bertinelli are busy with these missions, Minos, who obscures his face using nanobot technology, secretly uses Spyral's resources to uncover the secret identities of superheroes. Grayson communicates with Batman in secret using code in order to discuss his findings and, although he expresses concerns over his safety, Dick convinces Batman that he needs to stay undercover to find out what Spyral are really planning.

Grayson and Matron continue searching for Paragon's organs, coming into frequent conflict with Midnighter, who is trying to keep them out of Spyral's possession and has discovered that Agent 37 is actually Dick. A cult known as the Fist of Cain manage to acquire Paragon's brain and intend to use it to unleash a psychic pulse at an Israeli peace rally, killing thousands but Grayson convinces Midnighter that they are on the same side and they successfully team up to stop them. Minos meets with Helena and shoots her with her crossbow, leading her to play dead until he leaves before making her way to Dick. Helena explains that all Spyral operatives are on missions aside from Agent 1, codenamed Tiger, and theorizes that Minos will try to kill him next. Grayson and Tiger team up to fight Minos, who has used the organs to create a new version of Paragon that has the powers of the Justice League. Using Dick's knowledge of the League, they are able to defeat Paragon but find that Mr. Minos has escaped. In an unknown location, Minos holds a meeting with a reporter, revealing the identities of several superheroes and explaining that he joined Syral so that he could leak their secrets. The reporter, revealed to be Agent Zero, chastises Minos and kills him.

Following Minos' death, Matron takes over as the new director of Spyral and is confronted by the heads of several other spy agencies who inform her that, on each of Agent 37's five previous missions, one of their own agents has been murdered with escrima sticks. Helena is suspicious, knowing that Grayson would never kill, and assumes he is being set up. Dick attempts to contact Batman, asking when he is able to come home but receives no reply, causing him to act recklessly during a mission with Tiger to steal a necklace made of kryptonite. Dick begins to question Helena's true motivations when he discovers that he is supposed to hand the necklace to Lex Luthor and he flees. Tiger is attacked by someone who looks identical to Dick but is saved from being murdered by the real Dick, who initially believes his attacker to be Clayface in disguise. The two Graysons fight but Dick is bested when the attacker distracts him by playing off his isolation from his family. Tiger regains consciousness and rips the nanobots out of his eyes, discovering that the attacker is his old partner Agent 8, whom he believed dead. Tiger lies about the identity of the attacker, blaming Maxwell Lord and Checkmate while Dick, after another failed attempt to reach Batman, quits Sypral and heads for Gotham City. His reunion with Batman, who has lost his memory, is interrupted by Agent Zero, who demands he return to Spyral or they will reveal Batman's secret identity. Dick meets with Jason, Tim, Barbara and Damian, with each reacting in various ways to the fact that he is alive. Knowing Spyral will be watching, he communicates with them in code and tasks them with hacking into the nanobots so that he will no longer be under Spyral's control.

Upon his return to Spyral, Helena reassures Dick that she knew he was innocent whereas Tiger's relationship with Dick remains strained. Tim confirms the identity of Agent Zero as Luka Netz, a woman who he discovers has been watching Batman and Dick (as Robin) for years. Pinpointing her location to Berlin, Dick and Midnighter orchestrate a mission causing Sypral to send him there so he can investigate. Once there, Grayson discovers that Sypral's founder (and Luka's father) Otto Netz created Spyral to deal with superhumans but, worrying that the organization would eventually stray from his original plans once he became bored and left, he also founded rival organization Leviathan to challenge them constantly. Wishing to end the cycle of violence, Grayson and Tiger go rogue and begin taking down the other Spyral agents, leading Helena to send the Syndicate, a group of the world's most powerful spies, after them. In response, Dick reaches out to Maxwell Lord and Checkmate to form an alliance.

Armed with Checkmate technology, Grayson and Tiger handily defeat Frankenstein, a member of the Syndicate before taking on Grifter. Dick works out that Grifter is a telepath and uses his training to outsmart him and learning that the Syndicate are only working with Helena so that they can eventually kill her. Grayson tries to send a warning to Helena but, when the Syndicate attack, she believes it to be Dick and Tiger. Helena is gravely wounded before Grayson can get to her and he is forced to fight against the Syndicate while Netz takes her to the medical bay. Agent 8, revealed to be a member of Leviathan, sets off a bomb at Sypral HQ and, after subduing her, Tiger kills his former partner. Dick calls in Midnighter, who single-handedly takes down the entire Syndicate while he goes after Helena, not realizing that Otto Netz has revived himself, killed Luka and taken over Helena's body. While searching for Helena, Tiger reveals himself to have been working for Checkmate all along and he and Grayson fight numerous times while attempting to locate her. Maxwell Lord reveals that he created Minos and he arrives at Sypral HQ to retrieve the identities of the Justice League but the files are deleted before he can get to them. Dick buries Tiger in an avalanche and makes his way to Otto. Grayson convinces Otto to give up Helena's body and take his instead, to which he agrees. Inside his mind, Dick manages to outwit Otto and destroys him. Helena reveals Otto had programmed a Sypral satellite to erase Dick Grayson from existence so that he could fully take over his life but adds that she tweaked it so that, while most of the world would still be unaware of Dick's existence, she and the rest of the Bat Family would remember him. Relishing his new anonymity, Dick returns to being a superhero.

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The Spectre gathers Harley Quinn, Green Lantern, Azrael and John Constantine together to investigate the activities of a mysterious man with no face known as Agent 37, asking them to recall their meetings with him. Constantine explains that, while looking into some local disappearances, he came across a nest of vampires who were holding an attractive man captive. The man, who had no face, allowed the vampires to feed on him and, assuming he had been drained and killed, Constantine attacked the nest to gain revenge. Agent 37 suddenly awakens and reveals that his skin was coated in nanobots that he then sets alight killing the vampires before calling for Matron to retrieve him. Azrael notes a similar interaction where Agent 37 helped turn the tide of a war and Harley recounts breaking into a supervillain vault alongside him. Green Lantern describes how Agent 37 helped him destroy a collection of parademons. Each of the group describes 37 with one word: charmer (Constantine), savior (Azrael), gymnast (Quinn) and superhero (Lantern). Spectre asks them who they believe Agent 37 is and they all remember Dick Grayson. The Spectre is revealed to be Dick himself who, uses the nanobots to cause the group to forget all trace of him before reuniting with Helena and heading for the next adventure.

Several months later, Helena leaves Sypral, taking up the identity of Huntress and leaving Tiger in charge. Midnighter gives Dick a piece of technology that allows him to save Damian's life and outwit the Court of Owls. Back in Gotham, Dick discusses his plans with Batman, who believes that now Dick has regained his secret identity, he should spend some time living his life. Dick disagrees, explaining that even under his personas of the Flying Grayson, Robin, Nightwing, Batman and Agent 37, they are all still Dick Grayson. He reiterates his resolve to fight crime and protect the innocent and dons the Nightwing costume once again.

18 year old Sammy Abramski has just taken part in the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936, successfully helping to stop Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists from marching through London's largely Jewish East End. Sammy is inspired by this victory to want to continue to fight against the rising tide of fascism sweeping across Europe. Against his mother's wishes, he leaves home to join the International Brigades who are helping to defend the Spanish Republican Government against the fascist military coup in the Spanish Civil War.

Sammy's mother Rebecca, trapped in a failing marriage, misses her son so much that she too decides to leave for Spain, working as a nurse for the Brigades whilst searching for Sammy.

Sammy meets fellow Brigaders, the more cynical older campaigner Jack, a First World War veteran, and tough young idealist George, who both take him under their wing. They discuss their various attitudes and motivations for volunteering.

Sammy meets Pilar, a young woman trying to survive in war torn Barcelona, and they are instantly and deeply attracted to each other. Rebecca meets Ernesto, a charismatic Anarchist, and nurses him when he is wounded. He helps her in the search for her son.

Despite the many privations of the Brigaders as well as clashing with Jack who mocks his youthful ideals, Sammy still believes that he has no choice but to be there to help fight the fascists and George agrees and supports him.

Sammy is wounded and later loses contact with Pilar who has no one to turn to, whilst Rebecca and Ernesto keep searching for Sammy.

Although they become aware that they are losing the war, they are all inspired by the words of La Pasionaria, the living embodiment of the Republic who exhorts them to stay strong and keep fighting.

Sammy and Pilar are passionately reunited, while Rebecca and Ernesto realise that they love each other. Sammy writes a letter to his mother and gives it to Pilar for safekeeping.

The war is almost lost and the International Brigades are due to be repatriated, all with very mixed emotions. Sammy and Jack are sheltering from a barrage of gunfire and when Sammy asks Jack why they even came, Jack repeats his own motivational words back to him. In the final climactic scene, La Pasionaria gives her iconic speech in tribute to the Brigaders gathered in the farewell parade in Barcelona.

In a family of practicing silat Gayong, two siblings Ali and Fatimah are frustrated with their reckless younger brother, Mat Arip, as he fails to return home with the grant of their family land. Mat Arip takes part in illegal gambling and racing, and has loaned the land as collateral for his gambling debts to the loan shark criminal Haji Daud. Haji Daud, a long-time enemy of their father, silat coach Pak Nayan, now exact vengeance to the family. The family must fight and race against time to save their brother who is held hostage by the criminal gang and reclaim the family land grant.

This novel goes back and forth between present events involving Chicago detective Billy Harney and past events involving him. The novel starts with three people being found dead in an apartment (Billy, Billy's partner Detective Kate Fenton and Assistant District Attorney Amy Lentini). Billy's father, the chief of detectives, and his sister, Patty (also a detective), are ushered into this horrific crime scene. As they are leaving it is discovered Billy is barely hanging onto life.

It appears that Billy killed Amy and Kate burst into the apartment and Billy and Kate simultaneously shot each other. When Billy recovers enough to become conscious and coherent, he cannot remember this or the time leading up to this event at all. Prior to the time leading up to Billy's memory loss he and a team of officers waited outside a brownstone where prostitution was taking place. Billy hoped to find a suspected murderer inside. While the team waited, the mayor and other elite in the city entered. Billy pondered what to do and decided to go forward with the raid, knowing his career could be on the line. Once inside and everyone inside was arrested, Kate was with the group that searched for the black book of addresses of clients.

The rest of the novel deals with the intrigue concerning the black book. Various persons suspect each other of taking it and some suspect Billy of having it. Once Billy recovers from his wounds enough to leave the hospital, another two murders take place and Billy is suspected of these. The book is a thriller novel where various persons accuse each other of the theft of the black book and of the murders.

Set in the universe of ''The Hunger Games'', 64 years before the first installment, the book follows young Coriolanus "Coryo" Snow, who is far from the callous president seen in the original trilogy. The Snow family was once one of the richest in the Capitol prior to the war that resulted in the creation of the Hunger Games ten years earlier. Coryo is now an orphan living with his grandmother and cousin, Tigris, in an apartment they cannot afford, not even being able to buy food or clothes.

Based on his academic excellence at the Academy, the Capitol's most prestigious high school, Coryo is chosen to mentor a tribute in the upcoming tenth Hunger Games. He is assigned the District 12 female tribute, Lucy Gray Baird, member of a traveling musician group known as the Covey, who got stuck in District 12 after the war began. Lucy Gray sparks the Capitol's attention after slipping a hidden snake into the clothing of Mayfair, the mayor's cruel daughter, who had arranged for her to be chosen as tribute because of jealousy about a boy named Billy Taupe, as well as singing during the reaping. Coryo is determined to make a good impression, since his success in the games will most likely guarantee the monetary prize he needs in order to attend the University.

Coryo decides to meet Lucy Gray at the train station where the tributes are set to arrive, and accidentally ends up with them in their transport vehicle. Some of the tributes consider killing him, but are dissuaded by Lucy Gray when she warns them that their families would likely be punished. The transport vehicle drops the stunned Coryo and the tributes in the Capitol Zoo. He and Lucy Gray seize the opportunity to put on a show and begin earning the sympathy of the Capitol's citizens.

Coryo starts sneaking Lucy Gray food from the Academy, as the Capitol isn't feeding the tributes. The other mentors follow suit, including Sejanus Plinth, a sensible boy disgusted by the Games. Sejanus was originally from District 2, until his father bought the family's way into the Capitol after siding with them and building a munitions empire during the war. The arrangement ends when one mentor, Arachne Crane, is murdered by her tribute after taunting her with food. Clemensia, Coryo's classmate, is distraught by the murder, leaving him to complete an essay on ways to increase viewership for the games - which they were supposed to do together - by himself. He presents the essay to Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul, proposing a betting scheme and sponsorship of the tributes to engage the people of the Capitol in the outcome of the Games. Dr. Gaul drops the essay into a tank of genetically modified snakes. Snow is forced to retrieve a few pages of the essay from the enclosure but is ignored by the snakes. However, they attack Clemensia when she reaches in, proving that Coryo was the sole author of the project since the snakes did not recognize her scent in the paper. Clemensia is severely poisoned and hospitalized.

During a tour of the Arena, undetected bombs explode, killing several tributes and mentors. Lucy Gray considers escaping in the chaos, but decides to help an injured Snow, saving his life. Despite the bad publicity this generates, the Games begin, with many tributes quickly dying from starvation, disease, or injuries, while Dr. Gaul enacts Coryo's proposals within the Games. Sejanus, resentful of both the Capitol and the Games, enters the Arena at night intending to die as a martyr but, under the orders of Dr. Gaul, Coryo is sent to extract him. He convinces him to leave, explaining that his suicide would not be seen by anyone due to the footage being altered and that he could make more of a change if he decided to live. As they leave, they are attacked by a group of tributes who had noticed them. In the ensuing chase, Coryo is forced to bludgeon one of the tributes to death in self-defense, marking his first ever killing of another human.

While in the lab, Coryo notices a tank of the same colorful snakes he and Clemensia encountered being transported. Suspecting that they are going to be dropped in the arena, he drops a handkerchief with Lucy Gray's scent inside the tank to accustom the snakes to her.

As Coryo expects, the colorful snakes are dropped into the arena. They attack several tributes except Lucy Gray, surrounding and climbing on her but not biting. Eventually, after several days, Lucy Gray is the victor of the Games thanks to a compact full of rat poison Coryo had given her earlier, and the handkerchief he had used to accustom the snakes to her. At a celebration party at the Academy, Coryo is confronted with the evidence that implicates him in cheating in the Games and stealing food from the Academy. Facing punishment and public humiliation, he is forced to become a Peacekeeper in District 12.

Coryo reunites with Lucy Gray in District 12, and begins to develop romantic feelings for her. He discovers that Sejanus, now a fellow Peacekeeper, plans to help District 12 residents escape to the North, which is rumored to be beyond the Capitol's control. Coryo surreptitiously sends word - and a jabberjay that recorded the evidence - to Dr. Gaul in the Capitol. Lucy Gray's former lover Billy Taupe and Mayfair, overhear a conversation between Sejanus and a rebel named Spruce, and are subsequently shot dead by Spruce and Coryo (who stumbled upon the meeting with Lucy Gray) to prevent them from blowing their cover. The Covey discovered the bodies soon after their concert. A few days later, Spruce is found severely injured and eventually dies, while Sejanus is arrested by the Peacekeepers and hanged for treason, leaving Lucy Gray and Coryo as the only remaining witnesses of the murders. Lucy Gray tells Coryo that she is going to escape to the North and he decides to leave with her, despite being offered a spot in officer training school in District 2.

On their way to the North, Coryo accidentally finds the hidden guns used to shoot Billy Taupe and Mayfair. Coryo realized that with the evidence in hand, he could bury what had happened and make a new life for himself. Worried that Lucy Gray had discerned that he was responsible for Sejanus's death, since he sent incriminating evidence against him to Dr. Gaul, he tries to kill her but she disappears. Coryo shoots in all directions, but it is left uncertain whether she managed to escape. After dumping the incriminating weapons into a lake, Coryo returns to District 12 and is sent back to the Capitol, where Dr. Gaul explains that she had arranged for him to be sent to District 12 so he could obtain more experience and ultimately come to terms with her view of human nature as inherently violent. Coryo is given a spot at the university under her tutelage. He is effectively adopted by Sejanus's father Strabo, who is unaware of the role he played in Sejanus's death, and pays for Coryo's university fees.

In the epilogue, Dean Highbottom, the dean of the Academy, reveals he had developed the idea of the Hunger Games simply as a cruel, but theoretical, idea for a school project with Coryo's father, Crassus. Crassus would later present the idea to Dr. Gaul, making the Games a reality and causing animosity between Highbottom and Crassus. Thoroughly tired of Highbottom's obstructive actions, as well as the Dean's opposition and hatred of him, Coryo slipped some poison into Highbottom's drugs, starting the trademark killings that would fuel his rise to power. In the mean time, Coryo implements many of his ideas into future Hunger Games as a Gamemaker. Lucy Gray is never seen or heard from again, having either died or possibly escaped the country of Panem.

Boston Brand (also known as Deadman) is attempting to pull of a trick after his co-workers John, Mary Grayson and their son Dick have done theirs, Brand intentionally outdoes theirs to show off. Afterwards when Dick and his parents help with the packing and cleaning of the circus, but Boston declines to lend a hand, saying that he can not risk tearing his costume, or possibly injure one of his hands, because if he did there would be no show. As the Graysons walk away, they discuss how much of an ego they think Boston has. A while later the Graysons join the resistance against the Atlantean/Amazon war. When the circus gets attacked by Amazons Mary and John are killed, and Boston has to protect Dick.

Jake takes his daughter Dani to spend Halloween in the notoriously haunted "Booth House" with the hope of finding inspiration for a new writing project. Shortly after arriving, he realizes the secrets hidden within the house are far more sinister than he ever imagined, and that he is now living his own horror story.

A fishing ship from Bebbanburg goes missing. Then the body of one of its crew washes ashore; it is clear the fisherman had been tortured before being killed. Uhtred, Lord of Bebbanburg, goes to sea to investigate, then sets a trap for those responsible. He and his warriors kill or capture the crews of three ships, but the fourth vessel gets away. He learns that Ealdorman Æthelhelm ordered Waormund, a huge, sadistic warrior and one of his most trusted men, to try to kill Uhtred. Waormund tortured the fisherman and was aboard the ship that got away.

Edward, King of Wessex (and son of Alfred the Great), is dying. There are three strong candidates to succeed him: Edward's vicious adult son Ælfweard by his second wife; Æthelstan, Edward's eldest son by his first wife (though many incorrectly believe he is illegitimate); and Edmund, Edward's infant son by Queen Eadgifu of Mercia. Uhtred has raised Æthelstan and trained him to be king, so Æthelhelm had tried to preemptively remove Æthelstan's most effective supporter.

Eadgifu sends a message to Uhtred, begging for his help. Over the objections of his wife and friends, he heads south, accompanied by Finan and a handful of his men. They rescue Eadgifu from Æthelhelm's men and flee. Then Uhtred receives the news that Edward is dead. Edward's will gives Wessex to Ælfweard and Mercia to Æthelstan; Uhtred realises that this will inevitably result in civil war.

Uhtred heads to Lundene (London), which is held by Æthelstan's men. He spots Waormund there, but Waormund gets away. Uhtred becomes concerned when he discovers that Merewalh, the commander of the garrison, has taken most of his men and marched east, having been deceived into believing that an enemy army is approaching. Before Uhtred can do anything, Waormund and his men open one of the city's gates, letting in Æthelhelm's army. The city falls.

Uhtred's party hides, then steals a ship and flees. By bad luck, Waormund sees him and sets out in pursuit with a large force. Eventually, Uhtred is trapped. He gives himself up so his men (as well as women and children he took responsibility for) have a chance to get away. Waormund humiliates him, but does not kill him immediately, as he wants to do so before a much larger audience, in Lundene. Fortunately, some of Merewalh's cavalrymen show up and free Uhtred.

Uhtred persuades Merewalh to give him a portion of his warriors and to agree to his plan to attack Lundene, despite being seriously outnumbered. They have no real choice, as Æthelhelm keeps growing stronger as reinforcements continue arriving. Messengers are sent to fetch Æthelstan's army, which is supposed to be nearby. Uhtred and his men ride boldly into the city, masquerading as some of Æthelhelm's allies. They seize a city gate - Crepelgate - and hold it long enough for Æthelstan to charge through. A sizeable part of Æthelhelm's forces are from East Anglia and have no real stomach for battle; as Uhtred had hoped, they stay out of the fighting, as do many others. Æthelstan wins. Æthelhelm is killed trying to flee. Ælfweard is captured and personally executed by Æthelstan.

Uhtred is told that the plague has broken out in the north; his wife, son-in-law and grandchildren are dead.

Billy Mitchell, a recent college graduate, falls in love with Virginia, a patient at his father's mental institution just after the civil rights movement, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Mitchell and his best friend Nigel, who is black, fight against the racist cops and other authorities. Mitchell is torn between helping his slightly crazy girlfriend escape, maintaining a friendship with his childhood friend, and making his successful father proud of him.

A young photographer takes passport photos of others who want to leave Iran, while he must stay.

The story concerns a family of wealthy feudals whose head and heir are orthodox and follow century old feudal mechanism. The serial starts with parallel scenes of the protagonists; Balaj and Hooriya. Hooriya is a headstrong young girl living in the metropolitan city of Karachi and pursuing quality education. She likes wearing western clothes and rides a bike and is always ready to do any sort of social work. Balaj on the other hand is a feudal boy of a nearby village, where his taya Malik Shahbaz is the head of the district. Balaj's parents died when he was an infant and was raised up by his aunt Surraya, Malik Shahbaz's wife. Being under his taya's supervision, Balaj has apparently turned out to be cruel and ill-mannered. He even gave up his studies as education was not valuable for him being the future head of his tribe. Not known to both Balaj and Hooriya is that they are engaged since childhood, as Hooriya is the daughter of Malik Shahbaz's younger step-brother Malik Wajahat.

Wajahat fell in love with his college-mate Samreen and married her against the wishes of his family. His brother Malik Shahbaz has ever since blamed him for this act and does not give him the due recognition and respect which Wajahat deserves being part of the Malik family. In all matters of decision-making, Balaaj is above Wajahat. Succumbing to his family's pressure, Wajahat had got married for the second time to Saeeda, a girl chosen by his brothers, even when he was a father of two daughters with Samreen. It is told that Samreen had left the haveli of her in-laws when Malik Shahbaz got engaged her eldest daughter Hooriya to his nephew Balaaj when they were just five-year old kids. Not agreeing to this old tradition of early engagements and fearing that Balaj will be as orthodox as his uncle and her daughter will be just like other women of this family having no say and respect in their lives, Samreen left her husband and took her daughters to live a life of seclusion for their better future. Wajahat didn't bring them back for their own betterment but also was not strong enough to go against his brother's decisions. Unknown to his family, Wajahat secretly keeps vigilance of his wife and daughters and sends them financial assistance through his trusted slave Ghulam Din. Samreen has never told her daughters about Hooriya's engagement or about the whereabouts of their paternal family.

Hooriya is in love with her childhood friend Danish who runs a mobile shop. But Danish's mother does not like Hooriya for her boldness and extroversion. Samreen is also not in favor of Danish as she believes that if his mother does not approve of Hooriya then their marriage will not be successful.

One day, after Hooriya gives meal to an old street-seller, he is wounded by Balach's speeding vehicle, engaging him and Hooriya in a verbal brawl. Hooriya makes the wounded man to be put in Balach's car and taken to hospital. In hospital she makes Balach pay all expenses. Balach does this unwillingly and both him and Hooriya curse each other. Hence, from their very first meeting, Balach and Hooriya are at wits end.

Surraya, called Bi Jaan wants her daughter Amber (Maryam Noor) to be married to Balach. Bi Jaan loves Balach as her own son and considers him the best match for her daughter. Amber, unlike Balach is continuing her studies and is in love with her class-fellow Faiq (Faraz Farouqi). But she is hesitant to tell about him to her family as Faiq is from middle-class and she knows that her father will never approve his proposal.

Malik Shahbaz crowns Balach as the head of the panchayat (ignoring Wajahat) and also commits him to his daughter, thinking that Samreen and her daughters will never come back in their lives, so Balach and Hooriya's engagement doesn't exist anymore. Balach obediently agrees to this betrothment as his uncle's decision is the final order for him. Amber though very close to Balaaj as a cousin, is not happy about this engagement. She tells about Faiq to Bi Jaan, but as expected she rejects it knowing that Malik Shahbaz will never accept a son-in-law from a lesser background.

Seeing her husband's longing for his first wife and daughters, Saeeda one day visits Samreen. She asks her to return, to which Samreen refuses and asks her to leave. While leaving Saeeda meets Hooriya and her sister Minhal (Zainab Shabbir). She and Samreen lie to them that Saeeda is an old friend. Saeeda takes their picture for showing it to Wajahat and leaves. When she tells this to Wajahat, his reaction is not what she expects. He scolds her for interfering in his personal life and warns her not to go near his wife and daughters again. Saeeda once again realizes that only Samreen is Wajahat's love and she can never gain his trust.

Balaaj and Hooriya meet for the second time, which is as unfavorable as their first one. Balaaj splashes water on nearby walking Hooriya and Minhal. Hooriya as usual loses her temper and starts cursing Balaaj recognizing him from their previous meeting. Balaaj retaliates but they both are stopped from manhandling by Amber and Minhal.

Danish convinces his mother to ask Hooriya's hand in marriage and she does that reluctantly and they get engaged. Amber tells Faiq about her engagement and distances herself from him. Faiq is heart-broken to know that though he loves Amber but cannot get her due to their status difference. Faiq's mother is angry to know that Amber betrayed her son's loyalty by choosing her rich cousin over him. Danish and Faiq's mothers are relatives. They visit Samreen's place and on seeing Minhal, Faiq's mother immediately likes her for Faiq. They make Faiq and Minhal meet, and Faiq for overcoming Amber's loss, develops interest in Minhal.

Amber on the other hand is still in two minds in marrying Balaj.She asks Balaj to convince her father for delaying their marriage for few months to which he agrees. Amber again approaches Faiq. They both decide to run away. But on the night when Amber is leaving haveli, she is caught by Bi Jaan. After her mother makes her understand the importance of her background and Balaj as her life partner, Amber decides to stay and accepts Balaj as her man. Faiq is waiting for her in his car but when she doesn't turn up, he is again heartbroken on her betrayal.

Preparations start for Balaj and Amber's wedding. In city as well, there is a wedding which Hooriya's family is attending. During celebrations there is shooting in air and Samreen gets shot accidentally. Her condition is critical and the sisters don't have enough money for her surgery. Unwillingly, Hooriya calls Ghulam Din for help. On knowing about the accident, Wajahat arrives at the hospital and meets his daughters for the first time in years. Samreen is saved but she goes into comma. Wajahat decides to take his daughters to his haveli as he cannot leave them alone in the city.

So, Hooriya and Minhal arrive at their paternal house on the eve of Balaj and Amber's mayun ceremony. Except for Saeeda no one is happy to see them. On seeing Saeeda, they recognize her and after inquiring from a servant they get to know that she is in fact their step-mother. This makes them angry and initially they misbehave in response to Saeeda's motherly affection, accusing her of stealing their father from them and making their parents separate (none of them know that their mother actually left their father to prevent Balaj and Hooriya's marriage).

Amber sees Hooriya and Minhal and recognizes them. Balaj and Hooriya also encounter each other and are shocked to learn that they are indeed cousins.

Balaj and Hooriya's further meetings are also bloody ones. Once she is dragged by him with her arm for strolling outside the haveli without a dupatta. The next time he doesn't allow her to have dinner before their taya has arrived at the table. Hooriya starts to hate this household within the first few days of her arrival, primarily because of Balaj's presence and secondly due to the rigid regulations maintained by her taya Malik Shahbaz.

The main twist occurs in the story when Malik Shahbaz decides to marry Balaj to his childhood fiancé' Hooriya as she has now returned to her family. Being a staunch follower of his traditions, Malik Shahbaz doesn't even care about his daughter's happiness, who is about to become Balaj's bride, and gives his final decision to wed Balaj and Hooriya. Balaj on discovering that Hooriya is committed to him since childhood, also agrees to marry her, primarily because he considers Hooriya as his possession being his fiancé and secondly because he wants to somehow bring her under his command as she has always been repulsive towards him. Wajahat as before submits to his brother's command and tells his daughters about Malik Shahbaz's decision. Both Hooriya and Minhal are shocked to learn about Hooriya and Balaj's engagement and more shocked to know that their taya has cancelled his own daughter's marriage. Obviously, Hooriya's response is negative. On the other hand, Amber is shattered about what her parents are doing to her. She retaliates to her mother that she agreed to leave the man she loved for Balaj and now how can they take Balaj from her. Bi Jaan is also helpless. Even Balaj cannot support Amber as he agreed to marry her only because of his taya's orders otherwise, he never had any feelings for her. Balaj admits to Amber that he hates Hooriya but is doing so only on his taya's orders and for fulfilling his family traditions. Amber is heartbroken.

Hooriya and Minhal realize that Saeeda is not pretending to be good to them, in fact she does care for them. She even agrees to help Hooriya out of this turmoil. Saeeda makes a plan for the sisters to escape. As a ritual, Hooriya is taken to a shrine before wedding and from there, Saeeda makes them flee. Hooriya is in constant contact with Danish who is waiting for them in Karachi. As they escape from the shrine, Balaj and his men catch them in the bus they are travelling and forcefully take them to a hut and lock them. There Balaj beats Hooriya for cursing their taya and takes her mobile away as Danish is calling her, but during all this neither Balaj gets to know about Hooriya's engagement with Danish nor that it is Danish to whom Hooriya is in contact with. Finally, Hooriya agrees to marry Balaj as he points a gun at Minhal and their Nikah is officiated under force and threat.

Thereon, another chapter starts in Balaj and Hooriya's life. Both are aggressive towards each other. Hooriya has vowed not to accept him as her husband and is rebellious at all fronts. Balaj on the other hand is squeezed between his anger towards Hooriya and his taya's set standards for treating a wife. He initially puts unwanted regulations on her and makes her realize that like every other wife in the haveli she is just equal to his shoes. Yet, Balaj maintains a distance from Hooriya, not allowing himself near her without her permission. Despite of Balaj and Hooriya's soft and rough skirmishes, both become habitual of each other and Hooriya also takes her final exams while living in the haveli.

Faiq and Minhal get engaged much to Amber's shock that the man she loved has returned to her life as her cousin's fiancé'. Faiq is still confused for his feelings for Amber but is determined to marry Minhal only.

Samreen awakens from comma. Hooriya decides to take her to their house and not haveli and asks Wajahat not to tell her about Hooriya's marriage before she has fully recovered. Much to Balaj's disappointment, Hooriya goes to Karachi. During her absence, Balaj develops some feelings for her but is unable to accept them as he recalls his taya's words that a wife is no more than a subordinate.

Samreen is worried about her daughters' marriages. She is keen upon marrying Hooriya and Danish at the earliest. This is not helping Hooriya who does not want to break the news of her marriage to her mother at the moment. But Danish's mother tells Samreen about Hooriya's marriage with Balaj. This makes Samreen collapse once again as her twenty-year old struggle went in vain. Wajahat then decides to take Samreen to the haveli as Minhal alone cannot look after her. Bi Jaan convinces Malik Shahbaz and he agrees too. At the haveli, Saeeda attends to Samreen and takes her responsibility.

Hooriya tops in her examination. Minhal makes Balaj realize that he should also applaud her like everyone else. So, he brings flower bracelets for her and somehow tells her that he specially bought them for her. Hooriya likes this gesture of his. This is the first time she develops feelings for Balaj but doesn't realize it herself.

There is a parallel story of Banu, a servant's daughter. She is in love with Waseem (Ghulam Din's son) but her father has fixed her marriage to an elderly man Qadeer. Qadeer is from a rival political party, therefore, keeping their interest safe Malik Shahbaz and Balaj agree to marry Banu to him. They lock Banu in a stable. When Hooriya learns about this, she first frees Banu from her imprisonment and then makes her escape with Waseem to Karachi with Danish's help. By doing this Hooriya feels at peace as she did what she could not do for herself when she was made to lose the man she loved. She also confesses this to Bi Jaan but Bi Jaan does not let Malik Shahbaz know about it.

One day Balaj on taya's orders is going towards their rivals. Hooriya forbids him from taking a gun, once again bringing the subject of her forceful marriage to him under the influence of the same gun. When Balaj doesn't listen to her, Hooriya angrily leaves the room saying that she does not earn his respect as a wife as he brought her in his life forcibly. On hearing this Balaj drops the gun and leaves without it. When Hooriya sees it, she feels happy that Balaj for the first time listened to her and feels content about it.

On his way, Balaj gets shot in the arm.

Hooriya is worried about him being wounded like that. Balach angrily blames her for his condition as she delayed his departure and not let him take his gun. He refuses to take medicine from her, but Hooriya does not give up and Balaj finally surrenders to her privilege as his wife. All night long, Hooriya attends to an unconscious Balaj as a duty-full wife and tiredly falls asleep at his feet. When Balaj wakes up in the morning, he is surprised to find Hooriya near him with first aid. Later-on when Balaj asks her whether she is taking care of him because she has developed a soft corner for him, Hooriya refuses and says that she would have done the same for any other sick person and that she can never fall in love with him as she can never forget that he forced her to marry him, much to Balaj's disappointment.

Hooriya then explores her feelings for Balaj. She is not able to accept the fact that she is drawing near to him and has started to care for him (as her forced Nikah is still fresh in her memory). She vows in her heart not to love him ever. Yet again, she is all the time worrying about him and attends to him as his wife.

Bi Jaan wants to get Minhal married to Faiq at the earliest as Amber is giving her a tough time and she fears that she might ruin Minhal's engagement. Once their wedding date is fixed, Amber is more than outrageous. She has lost both her men to Hooriya and Minhal and plans to avenge them. In her first revengeful act, she tells her father that Hooriya made Banu escape. This makes Malik Shahbaz go mad and orders Hooriya to be locked up in the same place as Banu. Saeeda informs Balaj and he interferes. He confronts his taya saying that Hooriya is his wife and he cannot let anyone harm her like that as that will be against his manhood. Malik Shahbaz though shocked at this change in Balach, does not say anything more.

Hooriya instantly accepts her hidden feelings for Balach, as it was the first time he made her know her importance in his life. She confesses to herself that she has fallen in love with him. Finally, she also admits to Balach that she loves him. Balach at first denies his feelings for her but eventually fails to resist further.

Malik Shahbaz is now regretting his decision of marrying Balach to Hooriya as he sees that she has changed him. Amber takes advantage of this moment and makes her father realize that he is being punished for ruining his daughter's happiness. She further tells him that she likes Faiq and wants to marry him and asks her father to compensate her loss of Balach by marrying her with Faiq. A regretful Malik Shahbaz decides to fulfill his daughter's wish. He makes his men kidnap Faiq and asks him to marry Amber instead of Minhal. But on Faiq's refusal he makes a vicious plan. For winning the upcoming elections and for avenging Faiq for his refusal, Malik Shahbaz decides to get Faiq killed for putting the blame on his rival parties for gaining sympathy votes, as the entire village knows that Faiq is his future son-in-law. He discusses this with Balaj who discourages the idea, saying that Faiq is Minhal's fiancé' and an innocent man. On seeing Balaj's reluctance, Malik Shahbaz carries out his plan on his own and orders his men to kill Faiq, which Ghulam Din overhears.

Thus, one day when Faiq is taking Samreen for her check-up, he is attacked by gunmen. In a struggle, the bullet hits Samreen and she dies. Balaj confronts his taya as he realizes that it was his doing. He tells him that from now on he will never participate in his wrongdoings.

After Samreen's death, Bi Jaan and Saeeda decide not to delay Minhal's wedding. Malik Shahbaz cannot stop it as he knows that Balaj will interfere. But Amber is all keen to stop this marriage. During Danish's condolence call to Hooriya, she overhears her and by trick takes his phone number from her mobile. She realizes Danish to be Hooriya's former lover. She makes a plan to separate Faiq and Minhal. Amber calls Danish and convinces him to help her stop their marriage and in return, she will separate Balach and Hooriya so that Danish can have her back in his life. Danish who is still loyal to Hooriya and is not accepting any other woman in his life, agrees to do so.

Amber takes Hooriya for shopping and leaves her alone for Danish to interact with her and takes a picture of them. Danish asks Hooriya whether she is happy in her married life, to which she replies in the affirmative and confesses that she loves Balach and drives him away. Danish then calls Balach telling him that his wife loves someone else and is still in contact with him and sends him their picture which Amber took.

Balach gets suspicious. On Hooriya's questioning, he asks her whether she loved someone else. Hooriya in a shock doesn't answer at the moment but then tries to explain it to Balach. But he seems to have lost his trust in her and regrets falling in love with her.

On Minhal's mayun, Malik Shahbaz decides not to have Faiq present in the ceremony. Faiq is not happy to know this. Amber and Danish have a plan for stopping the wedding. Once his mother leaves for the haveli, Danish tactfully makes Faiq to go and meet Minhal personally. Amber also convinces Minhal to let Faiq inside her room for a moment and no one shall know.

Balach is still not talking to Hooriya. Minhal removes his misunderstanding by telling him that Danish was their neighbor since childhood and their mother formally fixed their engagement. She also tells him that now Hooriya only loves him and that he should never leave her or suspect her of not loving him. A relaxed Balach then reconciles with her.

Faiq comes to meet Minhal but is caught in her room. Malik Shahbaz is outrageous at the indecency shown by him and as already does not want Minhal to marry Faiq, calls off their wedding. Amber and Danish are happy on their achievement and Amber thinks that she can get Faiq now. But due to Saeeda's insistence for her daughter's happiness, Malik Shahbaz softens and allows the marriage to proceed as planned, much to Amber's disappointment.

After the wedding, Amber is leaving the haveli as she has lost everything. Bi Jaan tries to stop her but in the struggle she falls down the stairs when Amber pushes her. Bi Jaan dies and Amber loses her senses for causing her mother's death. On doctors' advice, she is admitted to a mental hospital. Danish now realizing his mistake for trying to ruin Hooriya and Minhal's lives, tells everything to Hooriya for relieving his guilt. Hooriya slashes out at him and warns him of ever coming near her again. Under the weight of his guilt, Danish commits suicide.

One day Malik Shahbaz's men see Waseem working in Karachi and inform him. He immediately orders them to kill both Waseem and Banu for going against his orders. Days pass and Hooriya realizes Ghulam Din being absent from his duties. She visits him at his place and he tells her that his son and Banu have been killed on Malik Shahbaz's orders. Hooriya is shattered to know this but the worst comes further as Ghulam Din discloses to her that her taya was behind her mother's murder as well. Hooriya at once confronts her taya and tells him that she will put him behind bars. Hooriya calls Balach and tells him that she is about to do something terrible to which he gives the nod. Malik Shahbaz asks Balach to control his wife otherwise he will do it himself. Balach gets infuriated and declares war against his taya proclaiming that what he did was wrong and now whatever Hooriya will do, he will support her and between his taya and his wife, Balach will stand like a wall. Wajahat overhears all this and squares up his brother for killing his wife.

Balach joins Hooriya at the police station, where Hooriya does a press briefing about Malik Shahbaz's wrongdoings and Balach and Ghulam Din get the FIR registered for the murders. Malik Shahbaz is finally arrested.

In the last scene, it is shown that Balaj takes Hooriya's hand while going to the family gathering, signifying that she will always be beside him in all matters, breaking the year old traditions of his family, where wives were treated disrespectfully. Hooriya shows her gratitude towards Saeeda for being a mother to her and Minhal and that now she will take Bi Jaan's responsibilities. Balaj puts the tribal pagri on Wajahat's head saying that it belongs to him as he is the next heir and leader of the tribe after Malik Shahbaz and not Balaj.

The novel is set in Mumbai, India. Yudi, a freelancing journalist in the city, cruises around Churchgate railway station and picks up a young, Dalit boy outside the men's washroom. They have sex and the boy introduces himself as Kishore Mahadik. Kishore leaves Yudi his address.

Post the Bombay riots, Yudi's looks for Kishore. He discovers that Kishore had given him a wrong address. His editor introduces him to an upcoming painter, Gauri. Gauri likes Yudi and confides in him that she has left her husband. She gets a drunk Yudi home after a party one night, pays him an unwelcome visit later and bargains her way to a lunch with him. Yudi then visits Gauri at her place. The next day, he spots Kishore in an elevator. Kishore gives Yudi his real name, Milind Mahadik, his address, and confesses that he is an Untouchable. Yudi is unperturbed and claims that his homosexuality makes him an outcaste too. In a disco, Yudi and Milind confess their love for each other.

They spend a week at Yudi's Place in Nalla Sopara and mock a marriage in Yudi's bedroom. Due to an extended holiday with Yudi to Shravanabelagola to see the naked statue of Gommateshwara, Milind is laid off from his work. Yudi gives him pocket money and finds him work with Gauri's ecofeminist group. Milind is tasked with sticking posters across town about the group's activities and feels good about the work and the money that comes with it. But he is laid off again due to the group's dwindling funds. When Yudi finds Milind another job, the latter disappears. Yudi is depressed at the disappearance and calls at Milind's home for information. His mother and Gauri come over to support him, both of them trying to realize Gauri as a permanent mate for Yudi. Milind, meanwhile, finds himself at A.K. Modelling Agency in Goregaon, an organization that supplies men for magazine advertisements and prostitution. After a customer rapes him, he escapes from the Agency and returns home. His parents wish to get him married and he concedes, seeing marriage as a natural next step. When his family members tell him about Yudi's visit, he gets angry and gives Yudi his wedding invitation.

Milind and his wife find themselves a house and raise a family, falling on hard times because Milind refused to work. His wife, Leela, urges him to reach out to Yudi to ask for money, knowing of Yudi only as Milind's rich friend. Milind finds Yudi with Gauri who is now sisterly towards him. Yudi and Milind have sex and Milind asks for his pocket money again, which Yudi happily gives him, telling Gauri that "[he has] come to the conclusion that life is beautiful".

Set in London, the film tells six stories of people seeking companionship in the run-up to Christmas.

'''Hugh and Susan''' (David Dixon and Maria O'Brien): Hugh, a young office clerk, spends his Christmas bonus on a night out with Susan, a social escort. After dinner at an Italian restaurant, they take a taxi back to Susan's flat, where both admit their loneliness. Susan takes Hugh's virginity. '''Mary and Barry''' (Helen Christie and Richard Wren): Mary is a wealthy widow whose outward pride conceals her inner loneliness. She takes a young male escort, Barry, to a nightclub and then back to her hotel room. Barry is put off by Mary's overbearing nature and slips away while her back is turned, leaving her heartbroken. '''Emma and Wayne''' (Marijke Mann and Gil Barber): Emma is a company director weary of the business world. As an amusement, she hires a male escort, Wayne, to accompany her to a high-level Christmas party. Returning to Emma's house, Emma and Wayne have sex. '''Harvey and Sheila''' (Brian Jackson and Barbara Wise): Harvey Matelow is a corrupt businessman who books an escort, Sheila, to take with him to a casino. Later, he tricks his way into her flat and rapes her. He is interrupted by Sheila's boyfriend (Max Mason), who photographs him in the act and proceeds to blackmail him, stealing his money and threatening to publish the photographs if he goes to the police. Realising that he has been set up, the humiliated Harvey is kicked out of the flat. Left alone, Sheila and the boyfriend have sex. '''Vicky and Lester''' (Veronica Doran and Ken Gajadhar): To impress her old school friends, Vicky shows up at a reunion accompanied by Lester, a black male escort who has agreed to pose as her fiancé. Over the course of the party, Vicky's female friends fantasise about Lester and discreetly pass him their telephone numbers. Back at Vicky's flat, Lester hesitantly indulges Vicky's interracial rape fantasy. '''James and Ian''' (David Brierly and James Hunter): James and Ian are Scotsmen visiting London for the first time. They pick up two women and take them to dinner at a restaurant, where they are shocked to see an exotic dancer (Teresa Van Ross) give an explicit solo sex show. Later, they pursue the two women for sex but are knocked to the ground and drunkenly pass out.

In the film's epilogue, the normally shy and reserved Hugh arrives at work and greets his female colleagues by cheerfully slapping one of them on the rear with his morning newspaper.

After 2,000 years of countless wars and strife, the demon king Anos Voldigoad made a deal with the human hero, Kanon, to sacrifice his own life to ensure peace could flourish. Reincarnating 2,000 years later, Anos finds that royal demons now harshly rule over lower class hybrid demons in a society that values Anos's pureblood descendants over the demons who interbred with other species, such as humans and spirits. Finding that magic as a whole has begun to decline and his descendants weaker as a result of the peace he created, Anos, now technically a hybrid himself, decides to reclaim his former title of Demon King, but first, he must graduate from the Demon King Academy where he is labeled a total misfit.

Caridad "Cari" Mora is a refugee from Colombia, who fought in FARC as a teenager and now lives in Miami Beach under temporary protected status. Whilst trying to evade ICE's radar, she works a variety of odd jobs, her favorite being wildlife rehabilitation at Pelican Harbor Seabird Station. She works as caretaker of, and stays in, a house once owned by Pablo Escobar.

Meanwhile, two rival gangs have fixed their attention on the Escobar house because of the $25 million worth of gold that lies beneath it. One is led by Hans-Peter Schneider, an alopecic, Paraguayan-born German, sadistic psychopath whose specialty is human trafficking. The other is the Colombian-based Ten Bells, whose members in the United States include three friends of Cari's in Florida: Captain Marco, Benito and Antonio.

With the aid of the house's corrupt agent Felix, Schneider and his crew get permission to stay in the house for a time, masquerading as filmmakers. Upon meeting Cari, Schneider develops an obsession with her, while Cari distrusts him and his thugs on sight. Shortly after Schneider's arrival, Benito and Antonio also explore the house, posing as laborers. They warn Cari that she must be very cautious around Schneider and his crew. Benito discovers a hole in the lawn, beneath which lies an enormous safe that contains the gold. Schneider discovers Benito's Ten Bells affiliation, forcing Antonio to rescue Benito. Cari leaves the house and goes to stay at the apartment of her cousin and elderly aunt.

Having discovered the location of the safe, both gangs attempt unsuccessfully to access it. Schneider sends Felix down the hole to examine the safe, only for Felix to be attacked and torn in half by a mysterious creature (later revealed to be a saltwater crocodile). With Cari ready to drive his getaway vehicle, Antonio goes in scuba gear to enter the hole from its seaward entrance, but he is spotted and killed by two of Schneider's henchmen. The two thugs then try to kill Cari, who kills them both.

Hans-Peter Schneider repeatedly speaks on the phone with Jesús Villarreal, a former associate of Escobar who brought the gold to Florida thirty years previously. Now bedridden in a hospital in Barranquilla, Villarreal tells Schneider that the safe is guarded by a massive quantity of Semtex which will detonate unless it is opened by the proper method, which Villarreal refuses to divulge unless Schneider pays him a large sum of money. Villarreal is also interrogated by Don Ernesto Ibarra, the head of Ten Bells, who learns no more than Schneider before Schneider has Villarreal assassinated to prevent him from divulging anything more to Don Ernesto. Ernesto sends four assassins to kill Schneider, who kills them all instead. Ernesto comes to Florida to see about the heist firsthand; he meets with Cari and asks her to assist in exchange for a share of the take and a secure nursing home for Cari's sick aunt. With Cari's aid, the Ten Bells crew successfully disarms the explosives, removes the gold from the vault, and makes their escape before alerted authorities stage a raid on the house.

With the gold she has earned from the heist, Cari is able to fulfill her dream of buying her own house and living peacefully while advancing on her path to citizenship. However, Hans-Peter Schneider is plotting to mutilate and traffick her. He abducts Cari and takes her to his boat to deliver her. Cari escapes the boat and swims back to shore with Schneider in pursuit. When he catches up to her, they grapple and she kills him by stabbing him with a concealed blade.

Set in a hospital staffed by the most brilliant doctors in their field, the series follows the story of Gonzalo Olmedo, an idealist and dedicated internist. Gonzalo is appointed director of the hospital after the assassination of his predecessor. Upon assuming his position, he discovers the complexities of operating a hospital teeming with the deficiencies associated with bureaucracy and corruption at the top echelons of its prior administration. To carry out the transformation, Gonzalo recruits a group of leading professionals who heal the most complex cases and, at the same time, strive to heal the wounds of their personal lives.

The harsh winter has passed, and the collective communities continue to thrive. There have been no signs of the Whisperers, and there are split opinions on what this means. Some, like Michonne and Daryl, fear that they will return, and order others to respect the line that delineates their boundaries from others. Others, like Carol, believe the Whisperers to have disappeared, and thus should not fear crossing the territory, but respect the orders of Michonne and others.

The collective communities have started training an army against walkers at Oceanside, however, during one exercise, they find a Whisperer walker mask washed ashore, and fears about the Whisperers spread to the communities. Scouting parties are sent out to check along the territory boundaries to see if there are any signs of walkers, but none are found. Daryl and Carol form another party, and Carol expresses her desire to leave on her own, causing Daryl and her to have an argument.

Across the communities, they all witness fireballs fall from the sky into the nearby forest, within the Whisperers boundaries. Over radio, the communities agree that if they do not put out the fire, it will spread and threaten their communities, and fire-fighting teams are sent out. As they put out the fire, they find the fallen object is an old Soviet satellite. After a brief encounter with walkers drawn by the fire, the fire is extinguished, and Michonne orders everyone to leave immediately, but Eugene insists they need to recover the satellite for any technology that might help them. Michonne reluctantly agrees. During the chaos, Carol wanders off, followed by Daryl, and again she talks about her wanderlust. He offers to go with her, but she refuses. As Daryl goes back to the others, Carol looks down into a nearby ravine and sees Alpha step out of the woods, and their eyes meet.

In the past, Alpha and Lydia struggle to survive on the road. The two have learned how to walk among the dead by covering themselves with skin and staying quiet. Lydia, still frightened by the noises, wears earmuffs to muffle the sounds, but panics when a walker knocks them off. Her mother drags her into a nearby sanitarium, where they encounter a hooded man. He threatens them at first, but after discovering he and Alpha share similar views on the walkers, allows them to stay the night.

To keep their anonymity, she refers to herself as "A" and him as "B". Attempting to become more brave to be like her mother, Lydia covers herself with walker blood and wanders off to practice walking among the dead while Alpha is asleep. Alpha wakes up and immediately begins looking for Lydia. "B" discovers her in the room and tries to kill her in rage, but is interrupted by Lydia, who attempts to convince "B" to follow Alpha's path. A walker suddenly enters the room, which Alpha quickly dispatches. "B" collapses by the walker's body in remorse; Alpha, recognizing that the walker must have been someone important to "B", offers to take the skin off the walker and give it to "B" as a mask to wear.

In the present, Alpha orders Beta to lead a team of Whisperers to gather a herd of walkers. Among the team is Frances, the mother of the baby that was abandoned outside of Hilltop, as well as Frances' sister. After gathering walkers Frances hallucinates hearing a baby crying nearby and panics, causing the walkers to turn on them. Beta is able to dispatch the walkers, but assures Frances that there will be consequences, and they return to their camp. Upon returning, Frances is taken to a secluded area to meet with Alpha; expecting punishment, Frances cries and repents, promising to never show weakness again. Alpha decides to spare her of punishment, causing Beta, who was expecting Frances to be executed, to begin questioning Alpha's leadership. She justifies sparing Frances by saying she understands the loss of a child, falsely claiming to have killed Lydia during their last encounter.

The Whisperers continue their attempts at gathering more walkers, until a distant explosion caused by a crashing satellite scatters them. While attempting to re-group the scattered walkers, Frances sees a walker with a baby carrier, reminding her that Alpha had ordered her to bring her son to Hilltop. With newfound anger towards Alpha, Frances jumps onto Alpha's back and starts screaming, attracting the horde towards them. Frances' sister drags Alpha to safety and pushes Frances into the herd of walkers, killing her. This impresses Alpha, who thanks her for her sacrifice and later grants her the title of Gamma. The following morning, Alpha leaves the rest of the Whisperers and heads to the site of one of their old camps; Beta secretly follows her and discovers that she has set up a small shrine to Lydia. When he demands an explanation, Alpha breaks down into tears and admits that Lydia is still alive. Alpha is ashamed at having shown weakness, but Beta promises to keep her secrets from the rest of the Whisperers. Alpha then destroys the shrine and repeats the Whisperers' code together with Beta. She asserts they will soon attack the communities, which Beta had been requesting ever since their last conflict. Alpha spots Carol from across a ravine, and the two of them lock eyes.

Over a period of 48 hours, several hordes of walkers appear against the Alexandria community from several approaches, exhausting the communities as they deal with them. Lydia tells the others that this is not Alpha's normal strategy: she would drown the community with a massive horde instead of these smaller attacks. During a lull, Gamma approaches the Alexandrians and instructs them to meet Alpha at the line of posts delineating their territory to the north. Michonne, Daryl, and Carol go to meet Alpha, while other groups work to try to stop the advancing hordes from other directions. Aaron is instructed to take Negan, one of the few people left capable of fighting, to stop a horde coming from the south. Aaron, still bitter at the loss of his boyfriend during the battle with the Saviors, detests Negan and forces him to fight only with a wooden stake rather than a crowbar. After Negan and Aaron taunt each other about failing their late loved ones, they are attacked by a walker covered in hogweed, which falls on Aaron, causing him to get a rash on his face and temporarily blinding him. With no sign of Negan around, a visually-impaired Aaron finds a house and takes shelter there, but walkers soon arrive and break in. Negan, who was already in the house watching Aaron struggle, finishes off the walkers and saves Aaron to prove his loyalty to Alexandria.

At the border, Alpha tells the group that she knows they have crossed into Whisperer territory several times before, violating their agreement, but acknowledges that the crossings were done out of necessity. She asserts that punishment will be necessary, but rather than bloodshed, she declares that the border has been changed, extending Whisperer territory to include most of the hunting grounds near Alexandria. When Carol complains, Alpha threatens her and boasts about Henry's death; Carol attempts to shoot her, but Michonne knocks the gun out of her hand and apologizes for Carol's actions. Alpha forgives Carol and allows them to leave without further punishment, but tells them to run immediately, as a small group of walkers begins pursuing them. As they flee, Carol sees a small group of Whisperers stalking them, and alerts the others. She, Michonne, and Daryl attempt to track down the Whisperers, but are overwhelmed by the walkers and are forced take shelter in an abandoned school. It is then revealed that Carol has been taking a prescription medication that keeps her awake to avoid dreaming about Henry's death, causing her to hallucinate.

While searching any sign of the Whisperers inside the school gym, Carol gets caught in a snare trap set by a Whisperer, who briefly taunts her before bringing out a small horde of walkers. Carol fires her revolver at the Whisperer, who flees and leaves the walkers to attack her. Carol manages to free herself from the snare, cutting her arm in the process, and fends off the Walkers. Daryl and Michonne help Carol back to Alexandria, where her injuries are treated; she later considers not taking the medication any longer. Back at the school, the Whisperer that Carol shot reanimates as a walker.

At Hilltop, a tree falls across the fence line and onto a barn, trapping people inside while walkers start to invade via the gap. Hilltop's people rally to contain the breach until it can be fixed. Connie, Alden, and Earl suspect that Alpha and the Whisperers had knocked over the tree, and Alexandria is alerted to the situation. Michonne leaves with Judith and a small group to help out. However, as word in Alexandria spreads that the incident was believed to be caused by the Whisperers, Lydia finds herself being tormented and bullied by Gage, Alfred and Margo, accusing her of the other Whisperers' deeds. Lydia runs off to hide, only to be found by Negan who helps to comfort her and suggest she retaliate against the bullies. Daryl catches Negan talking to Lydia, and warns him that he should stay away from her, as he and Michonne are worried that Negan's influence may cause Lydia to act irrationally; they need to protect Lydia as she is believed to be what is holding Alpha back from unleashing a full walker horde against them. Daryl finds "Silence the Whispers" written across his house sometime later.

En route to Hilltop, Michonne spots Ezekiel all alone, and has the group continue on while she talks to him. She finds Ezekiel has become suicidal, having lost his Kingdom, Shiva, Benjamín, Henry, and Carol. Michonne helps to calm him down from the brink of jumping, and he thanks her with a brief kiss, before the two rejoin the others. The group soon arrives at Hilltop and help with pushing back the invading walkers long enough for the fence to be braced.

That night at Alexandria, Gage, Alfred and Margo corner and attack Lydia. Negan arrives to try to break up the fight, inadvertently pulling Margo off too hard and cracking her skull in the process. When Daryl discovers this, Lydia tries to assert Negan was helping her and didn't mean to hurt Margo. Daryl locks Negan in his cell and puts Negan's fate to a vote before the Alexandria council. Daryl talked through the radio that night, Michonne tells Daryl to keep Lydia safe as she might be the only leverage they have against Alpha and tells Daryl to be her proxy in the vote. The vote in the council turns out to be a tie, Gabriel being the tiebreaker takes the night to consider his vote. Gabriel while thinking over his vote goes to visit Negan but finds the cell empty; Lydia claims she allowed him to escape, but Daryl had watched her all night and knows this was a lie. Lydia locks herself up, knowing that she does not fit in with their group.

Back in Hilltop, as proper repairs on the fence start, there are reports of a Whisperer near Oceanside. Michonne heads there with Judith and Luke, but Eugene declines to go and instead offers to stay to help with repairs. A pan across Alexandria shows more graffiti on its buildings, demanding "Silence the Whispers."

Yumiko receives reports that supplies have been missing, so she confronts Magna about this as she was the one guarding inventory; Magna denies it. Kelly, with slight hearing loss, gets separated from her hunting party, which concerns her deaf and mute sister Connie. Daryl and Connie go to search for her, but are also being followed by Magna. They eventually find Kelly near a stash of supplies that she and Magna have been taking from The Hilltop, as they do not yet fully trust the community. Daryl agrees not to inform the rest of the community and will instead say that they simply found the supplies.

Elsewhere, Aaron, while on patrol, spots Gamma leading a walker to their river water so that its blood poisons the waters. Gamma senses someone nearby, but does not spot Aaron. She then reports back to Alpha, who tells her to be wary. Later, as Gamma leads another walker to blood-let, conflicted in where her morals lie, she cuts her hand. Aaron, who saw her, passes her a bandage; she takes it and runs off. When Gamma shows this to Alpha, she considers that Aaron may be interested in Gamma; she takes off Gamma's walker mask, suggesting she may need to use another to keep him interested.

Meanwhile, Siddiq discovers that Ezekiel has thyroid cancer and does not know how long he'll live. Though Ezekiel's grandmother and father fought off the same illness, Ezekiel is convinced that his condition is terminal in the current world which lacks modern medicine. Siddiq contacts Alexandria as he plans to return that night, but arranges for Carol to come talk to Ezekiel. However, just as Carol is about to come on, Ezekiel turns off the radio.

Free from his cell, Negan gets some distance from Alexandria and finds he is being followed by Brandon, the son of a former Savior also living in Alexandria. Brandon expresses his admiration for the way Negan used to be when he ran the Saviors; he gives Negan a new bat and returns his old leather jacket, both of which Negan refuses to accept. The two later help rescue a mother and son trapped aboard a bus. Irritated with Brandon's pestering and idolization of the Saviors' way of life, Negan tells Brandon to leave, which causes him to storm off. Negan is soon drawn to the young boy and promises that he will lead them in the right direction to The Hilltop where he and his mother can live peacefully. When Negan returns from collecting firewood, he finds that Brandon has killed the two, thinking this was a test to become Negan's protégé. Enraged by the senseless murder, Negan takes a stone and beats Brandon to death, then recovers the bat and his jacket, and continues on. That night, Negan purposely crosses into Whisperer territory and kills walkers. However, he is caught and thrown to the ground by Beta.

Carol and Daryl go on a mission to find where Alpha is keeping the horde. They set up a watchpoint in view of the Whisperers' border. Eventually they see a Whisperer moving a herd of walkers into their territory. The two follow, but unintentionally draw the walkers to them. While Daryl hides, Carol captures a Whisperer. They return to Alexandria with their captive.

At Hilltop, Eugene learns about the infection at Alexandria through the radio from Rosita. Then, a new radio signal comes in with a female voice. He answers it, but they both agree to avoid sharing specific information. Eugene and the woman talk more, but the woman insists that Eugene should keep these conversations private. Meanwhile, at Alexandria, Siddiq and Dante rush to fight off a fast-moving infection within Alexandria, the cause of which they struggle to identify. Siddiq who is suffering from PTSD caused by witnessing the deaths of his friends, later falls asleep in the infirmary but then wakes up on the windmill's balcony, unsure how he got there.

Negan is taken by Beta to Alpha, trying to prove his value for knowing everything about the communities' plans. Alpha decides to test Negan, which Beta oversees. Negan is unable to outdo Beta's strength and attempts to capture a live pig to present as food for the Whisperers. Beta refuses to give him any food, though another Whisperer shares with him. Beta catches this and kills the Whisperer as a walker horde arrives. Beta leaves Negan to defend himself. Beta returns to Alpha to tell her that Negan is dead. When Negan emerges, he goes straight to Alpha, kneels in front of her, and submits to her, which enrages Beta.

Siddiq struggles with ongoing visions of being held captive and Alpha killing people and a voice telling him to open his eyes, but does not know if these are dreams or past visions due to the fatigue from dealing with the infections in Alexandria.

Carol secures their Whisperer in the prison and Gabriel, fearing that Alpha would retaliate, insists that the prisoner receive medical treatment. Lydia, from a distance, identifies him as one of Alpha's lieutenants who has been trained to avoid harsh interrogation, and instead suggests to Carol to show him the value of life within Alexandria to turn him. Carol offers the man sandwiches but he spits them back at her. Carol and Daryl revert to a more harsh interrogation, but Carol pauses after hearing him praise Alpha for sacrificing Lydia. Carol realizes that the Whisperers, outside of Alpha, do not know about Lydia's safety, and considers using her as a pawn to reveal Alpha's lies to the Whisperer. Meanwhile, Aaron continues to meet with Gamma at their boundary, hoping to bond with her.

Carol goes to get Lydia to see the prisoner but discovers that he died shortly before their arrival. Dante discovers that the medical kit being used to treat the prisoner's wounds contained hemlock, which was mistakenly given to him; Siddiq blames himself, as he realizes that he accidentally added the hemlock to the bag due to his fatigue. After seeing Dante burying one of the older infected women that he had grown close to, Siddiq attempts to commit suicide by drowning himself, but is rescued by Rosita. As they talk, Siddiq has a realization and rushes to test the water supply, discovering it to be contaminated; he blames himself for failing to notice.

Despite Daryl's strong opposition, Carol takes Lydia to see the Whisperers and comes across one of Aaron and Gamma's meetings, where Gamma has taken Aaron at knifepoint to demand more intel. Carol and Lydia rush forward. Upon seeing Lydia, Gamma panics and runs away; when Lydia discovers that Carol simply used her as a pawn, she flees as well. Carol and Aaron are forced to retreat as walkers approach.

At Alexandria, after decontaminating the water supply, Dante tries to cheer up a depressed Siddiq, reassuring him that what happened wasn't his fault. While doing so, Dante then makes a strange verbal tic which causes Siddiq to have another lucid dream, in which he remembers one of the Whisperers' making the same tic during the decapitation of several fair attendees. He realizes that Dante is a Whisperer agent who helped Alpha sneak into the Kingdom's fair and capture the victims. He moves to attack Dante, but Dante gets the upper hand and is able to subdue and choke him to death.

In a flashback several months after the blizzard, Alpha chooses and assigns Dante, due to his loyalty and because Lydia doesn't know him, to infiltrate Alexandria as her spy and sabotage the community from the inside for the impending war between them. It is revealed that Dante is the one who painted the "Silence the Whispers" graffiti, sabotaged the water supply, and suffocated Cheryl to death. In the present, Rosita goes to visit Siddiq, but finds Dante who attacks her. Rosita is able to stab Dante in the chest with a knife and is forced to put down a reanimated Siddiq.

At the border, Gamma reveals information to Aaron about the current position of the horde in exchange for seeing her nephew. She also reveals her real name is Mary.

Back in Alexandria, the residents hold an Islamic funeral for Siddiq, led by Gabriel who delivers a eulogy. Rosita is distraught over Siddiq's death and releases her anger by killing walkers on the outskirts of the community; she is helped by Eugene. Gabriel visits an imprisoned Dante and ends up brutally stabbing him to death.

Meanwhile, Michonne, Judith, and Luke travel to Oceanside. Along the way, the visit a library for books and music. While looking at music sheets, Luke is attacked by walkers from among the bookshelves. He is rescued by an unknown person who than runs away. When they arrive, a man named Virgil appears and Michonne becomes suspicious of what he wants. Luke recognizes him as the one who saved him in the library. He explains he was just looking for supplies and wants to get back to his family. They live on a fortified naval base, but it is hard to find. Michonne agrees to help Virgil find his family in exchange for weapons from the base to destroy Alpha's horde. She leaves Judith a walkie-talkie for them to communicate and they say their goodbyes. Michonne and Virgil then sail away on a boat towards the island. Judith and Luke later return to Alexandria.

Sometime later, Daryl, Carol and Aaron meet with Jerry, Magna, Connie, and Kelly to locate the horde, but find the location is empty and instead decide to go look for Lydia. In the forest, Carol spots Alpha and chases her. The whole group follows her which leads them directly into a cave, where they are trapped and surrounded by Alpha's gargantuan horde of walkers.

Randy Marsh celebrates the milestone $300,000 in profit that his business, Tegridy Farms, has made selling marijuana by organizing a parade and producing a television commercial touting the new customer base resulting from his recent deal with the Chinese government. However his wife, Sharon, is angered at him for undertaking these endeavors without considering their cost or consulting her, despite the fact that they purchased the farm together to avoid the type of business it has now become. She is also upset that the Chinese government purchases their product to use it to frame Chinese protesters in order to justify their arrests.

Meanwhile, fourth grader Eric Cartman, who is terrified of needles, refuses the vaccine required by his school, squealing like a pig and evading restraint whenever a shot is imminent. Threatened with expulsion from South Park Elementary, he attempts to avoid vaccinations by lobbying to be designated a conscientious objector, citing fears that vaccines might make him "artistic" (an eggcorn of autistic). He has his mother, Liane, repeat this notion at a town meeting, but she then abandons this ruse to confess with exasperation that she simply cannot restrain him for the shot. Fearing that this may threaten the herd immunity that protects their children, the other parents in town conspire with her to ambush Cartman with a shot as he sleeps, and when this fails, they hire an expert pig wrestler, Big Mesquite Murph, who captures Cartman and places him in a pen. However, Cartman proves too fast for Big Mesquite Murph to restrain, so a rodeo is organized, which will pit the non-immunized children of South Park against those attempting to administer the required shots.

When Liane goes to Tegridy Farms to buy marijuana, she and Randy end up commiserating over the conflicts they are each having with their loved ones. When she tells him he should feel lucky at having a partner in life, he realizes he has not been kind to that partner, who is owed an apology. He apologizes not to Sharon, but to his business partner, Towelie, admitting that he became greedy, and promises to end his business deal with the Chinese. Liane, realizing that being a mother is the only thing she knows how to do, crashes the rodeo to rescue Cartman, and is accidentally stuck with the needle intended for Cartman. After freeing her son, she takes him home, but denies him the toy that children get after being immunized. Cartman later goes to his doctor himself for the shot, but is told that his mother is exhibiting side effects from the heavy dose she received, which was not intended for an adult. Eric discovers her painting a still life, horrified that the vaccine has indeed made her "artistic."

A young man who works hard to educate himself through University as a result of him coming from a poor background, he made a difference in the society and country at large and inspires the young ones who comes after him through his story.

Kuroe Akaishi is described as "Psycho-tan" by her classmates and is an outcast at school. She suffers from a rare, incurable illness that causes deformations in her body at random times. She is surprised one day to find that Arata Minami, a popular guy in her class, starts to pay attention to her and questions the weird new feelings she has around him. It isn't long before her mother confesses to Kuroe that she is in fact a kaiju, which confirmed a realistic "dream" the prior night that involved her monster form rampaging through Tokyo. Kuroe struggles and is dismissive of the information, and worries that Arata will not accept her for what she is (both human and monster form).

The series follows FBI director James Comey in the run-up to the 2016 election, and later in the early months of Donald Trump's presidency.

In 2015, Comey asks Mark F. Giuliano to stay on as the deputy FBI director to lead the Hillary Clinton e-mail server "Midyear" investigation.

Crossfire Hurricane in 2016 looks at George Papadopoulos, an advisor to the Trump campaign. GRU is said to have recruited Carter Page as an asset. Paul Manafort is said to be on the payroll of Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Dmytro Firtash. The investigation finds un-corroborated evidence that the Russian government had damaging information on Donald Trump when he stayed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Moscow in 2013.

After closing the Midyear Clinton investigation in July 2016, the FBI re-opens the investigation in October 2016 because some Hillary Clinton server e-mails turn up in a new sexting scandal on Anthony Weiner's laptop computer.

The first episode ends with news reports that Hillary Clinton has called Donald Trump to concede the election to him.

In the second episode, the heads of the Intelligence Community tell Barack Obama that Russia wants a friendly Donald Trump in the White House to collapse NATO, end the Iran nuclear deal, allow oil drilling in the Arctic, set up a pathway for Turkish invasion against the Kurds, start a trade war with China, and sow discord above all.

Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak lobbies Michael Flynn to end economic sanctions against Russia after Obama expels 35 Russian diplomats and announces further sanctions on Russia. After the 2016 election, James Clapper and other intel chiefs discuss the Steele dossier with Obama during a briefing at the White House.

After Trump's election in 2016, the U.S. intel chiefs meet with the Trump campaign in Trump Tower New York to state that Russian government agents are using fake social media accounts at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to duplicate pro-Trump propaganda at Russia Today and Sputnik Radio. Comey also accuses the Russians of attacking the voting process itself. The FBI intercepts five phone calls during which sanctions relief was discussed while Mike Pence tells ''Face the Nation'' that the phone calls between Kislyak and Flynn were about expressing condolences for the Russian plane crash.

Trump hosts Comey for a private dinner at the White House; during the meeting, Trump demands loyalty. Afterwards, Trump fires Sally Yates. Trump tells Comey he didn't give "a billion dollars to Iran like Obama did." Trump goes on to ask Comey to drop the FBI investigation on Michael Flynn.

The second episode ends with the dismissal of Comey along with the firings, resignations, re-assignments, and retirements of several appointed officials at the FBI and DOJ.

In Los Angeles, an armored truck robbery leaves two guards and a bystander dead. This sets off a chain reaction of events, told in four parts.

'''A Dark Spirit'''

Five months after the robbery, Patrick Hill joins Fortico Security as an armored truck guard. His manager Terry commends his references, and company trainer "Bullet" nicknames him "H". Hill barely passes his training, and gets off to a rocky start with his colleagues, including “Boy Sweat” Dave and Dana Curtis. During a pickup of over $2 million in cash, Bullet is taken hostage. Hill convinces a panicked Dave to comply with the robbers' demands, before disposing of the entire crew with expert marksmanship and merciless efficiency.

Questioned by FBI agents investigating the first robbery, Hill is assigned to desk duty as a precaution, but Fortico's CEO returns him to working in the field. The investigators identify him to their superior, Agent King, as someone the FBI has been hunting for 25 years, but King tells them to leave Hill alone. An associate delivers Hill a dossier of Fortico employee files, photos of Dana's family, and an autopsy report.

Three months later, Hill and Bullet are waylaid in Chinatown, but the robbers flee at the sight of Hill. Bullet and Dave share their suspicions about Hill, who questions Dana at gunpoint about her stash of $125,000. She claims to have stolen the cash from a liquor store pickup, and Hill shows her photos of her parents, threatening them if she is withholding information.

'''Scorched Earth'''

Five months before joining Fortico, on the day of the first robbery, Hill is with his son Dougie. Revealed to be working with the robbery crew, Hill grudgingly agrees to monitor the armored truck's route, leaving Dougie in the car. The robbers hijack the truck, and spot Dougie nearby. Racing back to his son, Hill watches as Dougie is executed, and is shot himself and left for dead. Three weeks later, Hill wakes up in the hospital. Blaming him for Dougie's death, his wife leaves him. He meets with King, who gives him a list of possible suspects and agrees to temporarily turn a blind eye.

Hill is actually Mason Hargreaves, a notorious crime lord; determined to find Dougie's killer, Hargreaves and his men — led by Mike, Brendan, and Moggy — kill nearly everyone on King's list, without results. Mike voices his concerns about retaliation, and Hargreaves agrees to lay low in London, but instead assumes the identity of Patrick Hill and joins Fortico to continue the hunt himself. It was Hargreaves' own crew who attempted the Chinatown robbery, until Mike recognized him.

'''Bad Animals, Bad'''

Sometime before the first robbery, a group of disgruntled veterans — Carlos, Sam, Brad, Tom, Jan, and their former sergeant, Jackson — decide to become thieves. They rob Carlos' wealthy client, resulting in only a few hundred thousand dollars. With help from an unidentified guard who served under Jackson, they pull off a more ambitious heist of an armored truck. Later, Hargreaves and his men help them arrange the Fortico heist; unaware of Hargreaves' identity, Jan needlessly shoots the guards, Dougie, and Hargreaves, who sees Jan's face.

'''Liver, Lungs, Spleen & Heart'''

Five months later, the veterans reunite to steal over $150 million from the Fortico depot on Black Friday weekend. Bullet reveals to Hargreaves that he is Jackson's inside man, threatening him into cooperating. The crew takes the depot hostage, but an alarm is triggered; in the ensuing gunfight, Bullet kills Dana and Dave, and Hargreaves kills several of the robbers. Fleeing with Bullet and Jackson, Jan kills them to escape alone with the money.

Jan finds a phone in one of the money bags, planted by Hargreaves to track its location. Hargreaves confronts him with Dougie's autopsy report, shooting him in the same places he shot Dougie. Abandoning the money, Hargreaves tells King his task is done, and is driven away.

In 1980, Catherine Claire, an art restorer, lives in Manhattan with her husband George and daughter Franny. When George lands a job teaching art history at a college, the family moves into a large farmhouse in upstate New York.

Catherine, who suffers from bulimia, feels isolated in the house. She finds an old Bible containing a family tree of the previous owners, the Smits; some of the names are scratched out and marked "Damned." She senses a spirit and sees strange lights leading her to an antique ring, which she begins wearing. Franny sees a female spirit in her room and insists on sleeping with her parents. Catherine employs brothers Eddie and Cole Lucks as handyman and babysitter while George starts an affair with Eddie's cousin Willis.

Catherine befriends George's colleague Justine Sokolov. George invites Floyd DeBeers, the head of the art history department, to his home. Floyd feels the presence of a soul but assures Catherine that the spirit is benevolent and offers to hold a séance. George and Catherine throw a party, where Catherine finds out the previous owners, who died in a murder-suicide, were Eddie and Cole's parents, and that her ring belonged to their mother Ella. She confronts George about the house's violent history. As they argue, a radio begins playing, only stopping when George smashes it. Catherine asks George to take Franny to his parents' house.

While George is gone, Catherine and Floyd hold a séance and the ghost of Ella is summoned. Floyd tells Catherine that there is another spirit in the house and that she should be careful. Catherine discovers George's affair with Willis. On a class trip, Justine overhears a conversation between George and his dissertation advisor, who asks how he was hired without a letter of recommendation. Floyd confronts George, who admits to forging a recommendation. At a family dinner, Catherine learns that the paintings George claimed were his work were actually painted by his cousin, who drowned in a boating accident. Her trust shattered, Catherine begins an affair with Eddie.

On a boat ride, George fails to dissuade Floyd from reporting him. Later, a soaked George returns to campus (with Floyd nowhere to be seen), where Justine confronts him about his affair with Willis. George follows her car and runs her off the road, putting her into a coma. Catherine learns of Floyd's death and Justine's accident. In George's classroom, a mystical painting of death and a Christian cross from a book that Floyd gave him is suddenly projected on a screen. George can't make it go away, which infuriates him and sends him running from the class.

Back home, Catherine prepares to leave with Franny. George drugs her and murders her with an axe. In the morning, Cole comes to babysit, finding instructions from George not to disturb Catherine as she is ill. George returns home from campus, where he has been given Floyd's office and position, and pretends to discover Catherine's body. The police suspect he is responsible but have no proof, so they release him. He takes Franny to his parents' home in Connecticut.

Catherine's soul joins forces with Ella's. They awaken Justine and show her what George did. Justine speaks to the police. To avoid being arrested, George tries to escape on his cousin's boat. A storm arrives and George's boat disappears in flames, a scene that resembles the painting seen earlier. However, the cross in this painting is upside down, indicating that George is damned.

The film is about a young girl who had her future taken away from her when she was forced to marry a man she did not love.

Greg is called to testify before the Senate regarding the sexual misconduct on Brightstar Cruises. He fumbles his way through questioning from Senator Eavis. Logan watches the testimony in a car with Hugo as they discuss who should be the company's public scapegoat for the scandal. Logan receives a call from an influential Waystar shareholder, who suggests that Logan take responsibility for the crimes.

After the testimony, the Roys spend a holiday on a large yacht in the Mediterranean. Connor and Willa are the first to arrive, and Willa is upset to hear that her recently opened play has been panned by critics. Shiv tells Tom she wants to have a threesome with him and a yacht employee, though Tom is clearly apprehensive. Kendall soon arrives on the boat with Naomi Pierce and Greg.

Roman, Karl and Laird return from Turkey, having been released by the anti-corruption militia on account of being foreigners. Laird claims to Logan that the deal to secure financing from Eduard Asgarov's family was successful and will allow Waystar to go private, but Roman admits the agreement is likely spurious. Laird, who was seeking to profit off the Turkey deal, reminds the others of the legal consequences if Waystar remains public, and leaves the yacht for the others to resolve the dispute amongst themselves. Connor asks Logan for money to cover the financial loss related to Willa's play as well as numerous other expenses; Logan agrees so long as Connor suspend his presidential campaign. Logan asks Kendall to have Naomi leave the yacht, surmising that she is enabling his drug abuse; before departing, Naomi tells Kendall that Logan only favors him in his broken state.

At breakfast the next day, Logan nonchalantly offers to take the fall for the cruises misconduct, but the others immediately begin debating other options as they gather to the table. Tom's name is suggested by several members, including Shiv, as he oversaw the handling of the relevant documents, though the discussion is inconclusive amidst arguments. Logan and Kendall travel to a Greek island in an attempt to enlist financial aid from Stewy, but he turns them down. While relaxing on a beach, Tom confesses to Shiv that he is unhappy with their marriage and resents how she has treated him. After returning to the yacht, Tom eats a piece of Logan's chicken in defiance, while a reeling Shiv implores Logan not to sacrifice Tom.

Logan finally approaches Kendall and persuades him to bear the public responsibility for the crimes. A despondent Kendall suggests that he deserves the punishment for the death of Andrew Dodds, though Logan dismisses that incident as a "No Real Person Involved" case. Kendall asks Logan if he ever saw him fit to run the company, but Logan tells his son that he doesn't see him as a "killer." Logan announces his choice at dinner, which shocks the other family members. Logan also appoints Roman as the company's sole COO.

The following morning, Kendall and Greg are flown back to New York to give a press conference, which Logan and Shiv watch on television from the yacht. Kendall begins by saying he has been chosen to accept blame for the company's handling of the cruises incidents, but suddenly deviates from his prepared remarks by blaming Logan, calling his father a "malignant presence, a bully and a liar" and stating that Logan was personally responsible for approving the legal settlements covering up the misconduct. Additionally, he informs the reporters that he has brought documents proving his father's guilt, which Greg has on hand. The speech shocks the reporters, Karolina, and the rest of the Roy family except for Logan, who is faintly smiling.

The game takes place in the world of Picnic. The player character is a dog that is named by the player that the game suggests should be named after a food with a default name of Pizza. Pizza works as a janitor in the Wielder's tower. One day while cleaning the tower, the color disappears, leaving the world black and white. Pizza goes to Chicory's room to ask her about the disappearance and finds the door locked, with the Brush left outside. The Brush is of significant importance to the world as it creates the color to the world and is passed on from person to person throughout generations who becomes the wielder, with Chicory at this point being the current one. Pizza takes the Brush, and leaves the tower, helping to fix problems and color in Luncheon. Pizza explores deep into Supper Woods and finds a tree filled with darkness. Inside the tree, Pizza fights a form of the darkness that is later revealed to be called a corruption before blacking out.

Pizza wakes up in the house of the previous wielder, Blackberry. She tells Pizza that a darkness has been spreading through the world, while expressing disapproval that Pizza took the Brush. Blackberry asks Pizza to go back to the tower and return the brush to Chicory. Pizza attempts to do so but finds out that chicory wants them to have the brush anyway. After finding and taking out another dark tree, Pizza comes to find out there was previous rift between Blackberry and Chicory before Chicory held the magic paintbrush. Pizza finds another dark tree and meets a dark version of chicory who doubts Pizza's ability to become the next wielder of the paintbrush. Pizza then confronts Chicory who states that the corruptions must be coming from inside them and expresses feelings of self-doubt, causing a rift between Pizza and Chicory. Pizza then meets Queen Drosera in the Grub Caverns who asks Pizza take out the black roots infesting the village. There Pizza meets a dark clone of themselves who offers words of discouragement to Pizza.

After defeating them, Pizza comes to realize that the darkness problem is a larger issue then expected as the dark trees and roots do not disappear even after Pizza closes up the dark trees. And it is shown that in reality the darkness is expanding. Pizza then goes to confront Chicory again, who is now dark and blames herself entirely for the catastrophe leading to a boss fight. Following the encounter Chicory suggests the brush may be causing the corruptions and mends relations with Pizza while still showing self-doubt. Chicory states that the center of the corruptions is at the top of the wielder's tower. But also says that Pizza cannot face it as they are not a true wielder and therefore has to complete a series of wielder trials to do so. During which Pizza learns that Blackberry tried to retain the brush from Chicory during the passing on process of the brush from her to Chicory, failed to do causing the corruptions to start appearing. In a following cutscene and boss battle a dark version of Blackberry is shown to express regret over the incident.

After competing the trials Pizza returns to the hub world of Luncheon to find it has been overrun with dark trees and roots and goes to confront the corruption which takes the brush, which is revealed to carry the darkness of every past wielder and the root of all the corruptions. The incident causes Pizza to end up back at their parents house weakened from the incident. Despite this Pizza returns to Luncheon and meets up with chicory again, who states she gave Pizza the Brush as she wanted to free from overall concept of it. Pizza then creates a new brush using their will, confronts and defeats the corruption with the help of Chicory who has gotten over her self-doubt., and destroys the brush. This causes color to rain on picnic and the dark trees and roots to disappear returning things to normal.

Following the credits, Pizza officially becomes the next wielder, Chicory moves out and announces plans for art classes for people in order to help create new brushes.

Based on real events, a coffee producing family in Marcala fights to keep their farm.

As the Russian Revolution spills into Mongolia, a boy seeks to be reunited with his horse.

Minare Koda, a floor manager at a small restaurant in Sapporo, tries to deal with her bad breakup with an ex-boyfriend. In the process, she drunkenly vents her frustrations to an older man sitting next to her at a local bar. The following day, she discovers that the man works as a producer at a nearby radio station, which broadcast her drunken ramblings over the airwaves. As Minare's voice gains her more attention than her work at the restaurant, she ends up becoming a late-night radio talk show host at the same station, trying to balance her talk show with her daytime life to make ends meet.

María Clara González (Diana Hoyos) works as head of nurses in one of the most recognized hospitals in the city: the Santa Rosa. Life would seem to smile at her were it not for the monotony into which her ma rriage with Román has fallen, with whom she has two children. On the day of her anniversary, María Clara makes the decision to win her husband back and reserves a hotel room to spend the night with him. However, Román suffers a heart attack at the scene and is transferred to an emergency to receive medical help. María Clara spends the night at his side. The next day, a woman named Paula arrives, accompanied by her young son, and tells the nurse that it is Román's first-born son. From there, Maria Clara becomes increasingly disillusioned with her husband, to the point of planning their divorce.

On the other hand, a young resident of internal medicine arrives at the hospital, Dr. Carlos Pérez (Sebastián Carvajal), who immediately has a special connection with María Clara, later becoming more than a friend. However, their relationship will be clouded by multiple obstacles, when Maritza and Valeriano, Carlos's wife and father, respectively, find out what happens between them. In addition, María Clara's enmity with boss Gloria, her children's opposition to her new love, the turbulent business that occurs within the hospital on behalf of Manuel Castro (Lucho Velasco), its scientific director, and the appearance of a new person in Dr. Pérez's life will make their lives take different directions.

Following the Source Wall being shattered at the end of ''Dark Nights: Metal'', the mysterious watcher known as Tempus Fuginaut (introduced in ''Sideways'') begins trying to recruit several "heroes" from across the Dark Multiverse in the wake of a coming crisis.

"Batman: Knightfall"

Azrael/Jean-Paul Valley refused to give back the mantle of the Batman to Bruce Wayne and defeated him and the Bat-Family, ruling Gotham City as the Saint Batman for 30 years. Bruce, referred to as the Broken, is kept alive, dissected, and tortured as he is forced to watch what Jean-Paul has done to Gotham. With Saint Batman's body failing due to his Venom addiction, Bruce is rescued by the Son of Bane and Shiva and turned into a cyborg. The latter two defeat Saint Batman but Bruce/the Broken, his perception of Gotham warped, kills the two and takes over as Gotham City's new ruler.

"The Death of Superman"

Lois becomes enraged and bitter after the death of Superman by Doomsday's hands, believing the world failed him. After meeting the Eradicator, who failed to bring Superman back to life, Lois proposes that the two merge, turning Lois into the Eradicator. Taking extreme measures to 'make the world a better place', Lois kills Lex Luthor, the Joker and Batman and goes to fight the Cyborg Superman. When the real Superman returns, only for him to be killed by the Cyborg Superman, Lois kills the latter and continues her role as Earth's 'savior'.

"Blackest Night"

Sinestro never had the powers of the White Lantern taken away, leading to Nekron and the Black Lanterns consuming almost the entirety of the universe. Sinestro, now a Black/White Lantern hybrid called the Limbo Lantern, teams up with the Dove, Lobo, and Mister Miracle, the last mortal beings in the universe, in order to recreate the universe with the Dove as a template for the new universe. However, when Mister Miracle realises that their efforts will just create a new universe and Barda will still be destroyed, he betrays them and Dove is killed, leaving Sinestro to use Lobo as the template instead after Lobo kills Mister Miracle in revenge. However, the end result is no better, leaving Sinestro to try and find a way to recreate the universe again as the one he is in has been taken over by new lifeforms who worship Lobo. Eventually, Sinestro decides to leave that universe to reside in the current universe. Tempus Fuginaut, not wanting that universe to pollute the main universe uses his powers to leave Sinestro presumably trapped in that universe forever.

"Infinite Crisis"

Ted Kord/the Blue Beetle was not killed by Maxwell Lord and managed to kill the latter instead. Taking control of Brother Eye and Checkmate, Kord tries to bring peace to the universe, with methods deemed questionable by Batman and long-time friend Booster Gold. Alexander Luthor of Earth-3 tries to get Kord to ally with him and destroy multiple Earths to create a single perfect one but Kord refuses, resulting in Luthor killing the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane when they discover the truth, but then being killed himself by Superboy-Prime. Kord teams up with Superboy-Prime and realizes that the only way to bring true peace is to convert everyone into OMACs. Donning a Blue Beetle/Anti-Monitor hybrid armor turning himself into an OMAC inspired cybernetically enhanced entity with Brother Eye installed into the system, Kord achieves his plans, at the cost of the lives of several Teen Titan members and Booster Gold.

"Teen Titans: The Judas Contract"

On the night Dick Grayson gives up being Robin, he has a private discussion with Terra and empathizes with her. He tells her that having a mentor can sometimes limit one's ability to forge their own path. Terra reports to Deathstroke shortly afterwards, who reprimands her for opening up to Dick. Inspired by Dick to become more independent, she murders Slade in retaliation and forces Wintergreen to inject her with the same serum that gave Deathstroke his powers. Unlike Slade who was left in a coma for weeks, Terra easily survives. Now calling herself Gaia and viewing herself as a goddess, Terra uses her heightened abilities to murder the Teen Titans, reduce their headquarters to rubble and destroy most of the world by destabilizing Earth's core. Robin and Kid Flash keep Gaia at bay long enough for Superman to arrive, but even the Man of Steel is no match thanks to Gaia's control over kryptonite. After killing Changeling, the last person to care about her, Gaia rules over the broken Earth and forces the survivors to live in constant fear.

"Batman: Hush"

The Elliots are the ones who raise Bruce Wayne instead of Alfred after Bruce's parents are killed. When Thomas Elliot's parents die in a car crash, he grows up to become the Senator of Gotham and CEO of Wayne Enterprises thanks to connections from his girlfriend, Talia Al Ghul, the head of the League of Assassins. With the help of Gotham's other elites, they turned Gotham into a militaristic city-state, leading Barbara Gordon to form a rebellion group called the Outsiders after the corrupt police force murdered her father. He also had Bruce committed to Arkham Asylum with help from the facility's lead scientist, Dr. Jonathan Crane.

During the midst of a power struggle between the League of Assassins and the Court of Owls in the city, Crane and several other members of Gotham's elite such as entrepreneur Oswald Cobblepot, attorney general Harvey Dent and the defense contractor company Redline's president Jason Todd are attacked and kidnapped by a man in a bat costume covered in bandages. Thomas initially receives protection from President Lincoln March's head of security from the Court of Owls, Richard Grayson, but the latter turns on him after realizing he and the Batman are connected and that Thomas was making a play for the Wayne family fortune. The two are then captured by the Batman, who takes them to an underground prison with Gotham's other elite. Thomas is attacked by the masked man, known as the Silenced, who is revealed to be an insane Bruce Wayne. With Alfred's help, Bruce found out that Thomas had orchestrated the deaths of both of their parents as well as Jim Gordon's. Bruce and Alfred planted a handyman named Jack Napier in Arkham to fake Bruce's death and give him access to several inmates that taught him how to be a skilled warrior. He keeps Thomas and the rest of Gotham's elite in cages that are monitored by Jack and the now delusional Alfred, who is set to inherit Wayne Industries. Talia begins dating President Lincoln March, and the Silenced sets his sights on taking down the Court of Owls and League of Assassins next.

"War of the Gods"

Wonder Woman was manipulated by Hecrate to dominate the world while taking out her friends and family.

"Flashpoint"

When Barry Allen attempts to restore his powers in order to undo the Flashpoint timeline, he dies in the process. Eobard Thawne - the Reverse Flash - takes his place and begins to reshape the world as he desires. After he blackmails the President to grant him authority by killing Aquaman to end the war, Thawne is nearly defeated by 'Superman', only for Superman to be killed by Batman so that Thawne may someday bring Bruce back to life. When Wonder Woman reappears with the New Gods of Apokolips as her gods, Thawne runs back in time to save the Waynes as a deal with Thomas, and then turns his attention to trying to reconstruct reality to make himself the hero.

"Crisis on Infinite Earths"

After the Anti-Monitor’s defeat, it was the Justice League who were forever trapped fighting in Ragnarok. The Justice Society/All-Star Squadron came in to rescue the team but were outmatched by Surtur. Alan Scott then sacrificed himself by becoming the pawn of Surtur known as the Dread Lantern, leading Surtur to other worlds in exchange for his promise that he will always spare Earth.

"Dark Nights: Metal"

When the Justice League banded together with Element X, the energy corrupted them and became the Dragons of Barbatos. Barbatos then conquered the Multiverse. All that was left to survive was Duke Thomas. He then assembles a new Justice League consisting of Detective Chimp with the armor of Red Tornado, Barry Allen/The Flash who is in a skeletal appearance and has a suit to convert with, Hawkgirl with Hawkman who the latter of which is now a Hawk God, Nightwing, and the Joker who is now a Joker Dragon. They banded together and defeated the Dragons of Barbatos. Duke Thomas then absorbed the deathwave energy becoming The Last Knight and confronts Tempus Fuginaut.

The film begins with three girls, Frankie, Tabby, and Lourdes, trying to freeze time with magic, but failing as they require a fourth member. Lily Schechner moves into the town with her therapist mother, Helen, to live with Helen's new boyfriend Adam Harrison and his three sons, Jacob, Isaiah, and Abe. The girls befriend Lily after she has her period in class and is mocked by her other classmates, particularly by the school bully Timmy Andrews. They are amazed when she telekinetically pushes Timmy into the lockers. When Lily responds to them using only her mind, the girls confirm her to be their fourth member and invite her to join their coven, to which she agrees. As a result, they succeed in freezing time.

To seek revenge on Timmy, the girls cast a spell on him. The next day, Timmy behaves sensitively, confirming the girls' success. They continue to experiment with their powers, including levitation. Adam learns of the incident in school and scolds Lily, but Helen defends her. Lily overhears them arguing and goes outside where Abe talks to her about his father's authoritarian beliefs. Timmy hosts a party, inviting the coven, and apologizes to Lily, eventually becoming friends with the coven. When Timmy is at Lily's home for a project with Jacob, he admits to the girls that he had sex with Isaiah, Jacob's elder brother and that he is bisexual. Later, Lily places a love spell on Timmy, using his sweatshirt, and the two kiss.

The next morning, during class, the coven is told by their teacher that Timmy allegedly committed suicide the night before. Lily opens up to her friends about her kiss and love spell. They sever ties with her and bind themselves from magic. Lily suspects Adam to be dangerous and asks her mother for them to move out, but she does not agree. In hopes of finding something against Adam, she searches his office only to find her own adoption papers, forcing Helen to admit to her that Lily is actually her patient's child. After Timmy's funeral, Helen tells Lily she agrees to move out. Helen also admits that she knows about her powers of telepathy, telekinesis, and magic. The conversation prompts Helen to ask Lily to give her powers to Helen. When Lily suspects her, Helen shapeshifts and turns out to be a disguise by Adam, who, being part of a pagan cult, has been after her powers since the beginning and knocks her unconscious.

Lily awakens in a forest at night with Adam, who confesses that he murdered Timmy and threatens to kill her too. When Timmy contacts Lily's friends through a Ouija board and tells them about being murdered by Adam, they arrive to save Lily by freezing time, but Adam subdues them quickly. The girls then work together and use their elemental powers to defeat Adam, burning him to death. Later, Lily continues her friendship with the girls and Helen takes her to a mental health hospital to meet her birth mother, who is revealed to be Nancy Downs.

Ai Tachibana is a high school student who is excited to visit the library every Friday just to see Mia Serizawa, an upperclassmen she is in love with. One day, she is asked to tutor her 5th grade cousin, Nekota Honjo. Nekota startles Ai by confessing that he is in love with her. While Ai dismisses him at first, she slowly begins to see him differently.

A cockroach takes over the body of the prime minister of the UK and finds itself in 10 Downing Street. All of his cabinet except the foreign secretary are also cockroaches in 'superficial human form'. Instead of Brexit is the theory of Reversalism in which the flow of money is reversed. Workers pay money to their employers, and in turn are paid to shop. Trade functions by exporters giving Britain money to take their goods; Britain will in turn pay other countries to import its products and services.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/07/the-cockroach-ian-mcewan-review A Brexit farce with legs, McEwan’s scabrous satire, in which an insect is transformed into the PM, is a comic triumph] Retrieved 25/1/2022.

Shortly before Halloween, Bruce recovers and drives to Camp Redwood, interrupting a fight between Ramirez and Richter's ghost in the process. Ramirez enlists him to help eliminate Richter, eventually learning Richter is a ghost. Donna and Brooke are approached by Stacy, a tabloid writer who knows their identities, and they take her with them to Camp Redwood. Brooke promises to reveal the true story to Stacy, secretly planning to kill her, but Donna stops her and convinces her to focus on Margaret. Stacy flees, only to be killed by Bruce, Ramirez, and Margaret. Margaret reveals to Bruce and Ramirez her plan to murder the rest of the bands (except Billy Idol) at her festival. Trevor declares his love to Montana's ghost and plans to kill himself to join her, but she pushes him away, guilty and distraught about her relationship with Ramirez. The dead counselors, enraged at Richter's past murder spree, tie him up and refuse to allow him to escape to kill Ramirez, intending to kill him over and over for the rest of his afterlife. Bobby's ghost appears and drags Richter into the lake; he awakens next to Bobby and Lavinia, who convince him to stay with them.

Chikage Deguchi, a 31-year-old office worker, believes her life to be dull and full of missed opportunities. She is nostalgic for when she was 15 years old, which she believes to be at her prime. During her middle school reunion, Chikage becomes humiliated when her class discovers that she has never had a boyfriend, and when she plans on confessing to her former classmate, Haruki Kunitachi, she becomes crushed when she learns he has a girlfriend.

When Kanshi Tokita, another former classmate, finds her, he offers her an experimental drug that can change her body to her 15-year-old self for 5–6 hours. After Chikage takes it, she is suddenly scouted to become an idol, and she decides to take the chance to make the most of what she missed out when she was younger. Going under the name Akari Deguchi as her 15-year-old self, Chikage begins to lead a double life.

Tensions rise in Harare as the Chikwiro family await the arrival of their dead son Peter from London. Conflict arises on burying of Peter's body which turns out to be a chaos. Peter's mother insists to bury on a local cemetery but Matyaya and Jonathan are persuading other ideas to consider Shurugwi, the place where Peter's father was buried. Mary's cousin Lisa who is in England then informs the relatives of Peter in Harare that it could take another week to send the body.

Skald recounts the story of how he was captured, in his youth, during an unsuccessful Viking raid.

Linda Veszprém, a graduate high school girl, decides to become a police officer. However, her family does not consider this profession a good choice: her father and teachers would prefer to see her as a biologist or researcher, and his classmates regularly mock her for her mania, but she does not complain about them either. Tamás Emődi, one of his classmates, likes Linda and courts her. She doesn't seem to notice it, but once her father remarks to Tamás, "she's constantly reading your stupid love poems."

Linda's first successful affair begins at school, disposing of the “satir” smelling after her classmate, and then using a brilliant investigation to find out who her classmate is her real father.

Later she served in the traffic police, then she fought on the ranks and served as a lieutenant alongside Gábor Eősze. Her boss, on the other hand, is not happy about the overly enthusiastic girl, who seems to want to get into trouble. Rain will do everything he can to keep Linda away from more serious crimes, so entrust her with simple tasks. Eosse is very strict, but this is much more motivated by a sense of concern because she doesn't want the girl to get in any trouble. However, Linda, whether willingly or unintentionally, encounters serious crimes, in which case she is also confronted with aberrant individuals, so her boss's concerns are also justified. They are regularly sent to further training to have peace of mind, so without success, because Linda is constantly involved in spectacular fights. The detective stumbles upon a variety of crimes: robbery, mafia case, serial murder, but the foody, combative and clever girl all detects these. In addition to the mysterious crimes, the mood is enhanced by Linda's impressive taekwondo knowledge, and even the laughing and captivating portrayal of her father Béla Veszprémi and her large-scale girlfriend Klára, as well as Linda's taxi groom, Tamás, who is often unfortunate to grow up.

The plot follows a betting scheme between the three childhood friends who were uniquely situated to their roles.

The film was inspired by the Reverend Harold Davidson, the Rector of Stiffkey, a rector in the 1930s who helped prostitutes.

Julian is a convict assigned by the sadistic Captain Brown to be a "dog boy"—a human guinea pig used to train attack dogs to hunt down potential escapees.

Victor, an unemployed cartoonist and illustrator, is in his sixties and disillusioned. His marriage to Marianne is in trouble and he is uninterested in, and overwhelmed by, the modern world and what he sees as faddish, technological advances. To cheer him up, his son Maxime buys him a voucher to spend an evening run by a company that stages historical reenactments as a form of "time travel". The company offers its customers an opportunity to relive the era of their choice, mixing theatrical devices and historical reconstruction, and some wealthy clients choose to spend an evening with William Faulkner, Adolf Hitler or aristocrats in the 17th century. Although Victor is at first dismissive, after Marianne tells him she wants to break up with him, Victor reluctantly approaches the company, choosing to revisit the most significant week of his life, in which he first met Marianne, forty years earlier, in ''La Belle Époque'' café in Lyon. Antoine, the owner of the company and a former screenwriter, is very fastidious and overbearing but holds an appreciation for Victor from a kindness he did for him as a teenager. Antoine restages Victor's first meeting with Marianne, casting as Marianne the woman with whom Antoine currently has a turbulent affair, Margot. Little by little, Victor becomes lost in the reconstituted memories, and at the same time Antoine and Margot's relationship breaks down. Meanwhile, Marianne comes to regret her decision. Eventually, the two couples are both reconciled over their need to connect to the authentic, rather than the nostalgic.

The novel is set in Tristopolis, a fantastic city where humans live side by side with zombies, wraiths, mages, witches, talking gargoyles and other mystical creatures. Death is a prominent theme in the culture of Tristopolis, with the characters using the names of Thanatos and Hades in place of "God", and the bones of the dead serve as the city's primary energy source.

The story revolves around the police detective Donal Riordan who is assigned to protect the opera diva Maria daLivnova against the Black Circle, a group of assassins who target gifted artists with the intent of trafficking their bones. After Riordan fails his mission, he realizes that he was set up as a pawn by his higher-ups, and is recruited into a task force which investigates the Black Circle and their connection to the higher ranks of the Tristopolis society. At the same time, Donal falls in love with his new superior, the beautiful zombie woman Laura Steele, and they begin a passionate romantic relationship.

A schoolgirl, Amelia, attempts to find an angel costume in time to appear in her school play.

This series follows the life of Bahar, a young widow with two children. She was abandoned by her mother when she was 8 and later loses her grandparents. Soon, Bahar meets Sarp, with whom she falls madly in love, but loses Sarp too as well after some years together. Bahar is left alone with her two children, Nisan and Doruk. Together, they turn life into a game, poverty into fun, and absence into joy. She believes that when one has a smile on their face, their heart also responds with a smile. Sometimes, she talks to Sarp's photograph about all her troubles, remembering their past life.

Bahar has given up her life for her children. Her mother, Hatice comes back into her life after 20 years. Bahar wants to get close to her mother again but her half-sister, Şirin prevents her mother and sister from bonding. In order to protect Şirin's mental well-being, Hatice turns her back even though Bahar needs her. Bahar is helped by Hatice's husband, Enver and best friend, Yeliz. Soon, Bahar moves to new apartment and meets Arif and Ceyda. Arif is the son of Yusuf, the owner of Bahar's flat. Ceyda initially refuses Bahar but later helps her to survive.

Bahar finds out that she has aplastic anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life. She attempts to hide her condition from everyone due to her financial and social problems, but everyone soon learns about this and finds out that Şirin's bone marrow is suitable for transplant to Bahar.

Meanwhile, Sarp is shown to be alive, pretending as Alp Karahan. He is married to Pırıl and has twin children. He is told by Pırıl's father, Suat that Bahar and her children died 4 years ago, which is a lie made up by Şirin. To prove this, Suat makes fake graves and shows them to Sarp who believed that. Soon, Sarp meets Şirin. It's revealed that Şirin was in love with Sarp 4 years ago and she was the reason for Sarp's ferry accident. Suat kidnaps Şirin to stop Sarp from learning that Bahar is alive.

Bahar's condition worsens and she is admitted to a hospital. Arif now has feelings for Bahar, proposes to her. Doruk sees Sarp and calls him father. After meeting Enver, Sarp learns that Bahar and his kids are alive. He is shocked, realizing that Suat had lied to him. He reunites with Nisan and Doruk and brings Şirin back for Bahar's treatment. Bahar recovers and meets Sarp after years. However, She ignores him, after learning truth. One night, Sarp escapes with Bahar and kids to save them from Nezir's henchmen. Yeliz is shot to death by henchmens and Bahar lives in Pırıl's home with her kids. Bahar breaksdown learning Yeliz's death and tries to elope with Nisan and Doruk, but fails. Sarp reveals to Bahar how fell out of the ferry and how Şirin and Suat had lied to him about Bahar and kids. Bahar is shocked and forgives him.

Bahar, Hatice, Sarp and Arif meet with a tragic accident and Hatice dies. Șirin secretly closes the flow rate of the IV line connected to a sleeping Sarp and kills him. Şirin blames Arif for their death. Shocked, Bahar completes the last rites of Sarp and Hatice while Arif gets arrested.

3 months later, Bahar is living peacefully with her children. Arif is released from jail. Enver misses Hatice and moves into a new house with Şirin in Bahar's apartment. Șirin brainwashes Nisan and Doruk that Arif had killed Sarp and Hatice on purpose, but in vain. Meanwhile, Şirin gets a waiter job at a restaurant belonging to Emre, who was Ceyda's ex-fiancé. It's revealed that Arda (Ceyda's autistic son) is not Ceyda and Emre's son. They meet their son, Satilmiș, but Ceyda refuses to accept him. Satilmiș secretly earns money to keep Arda with them. Finding out this, Ceyda breaks down and accepts him.

Ceyda takes care of disabled Raif. Raif's mother, Fazilet, who is a writer, invites Bahar to share her story. Fazilet writes Bahar's story, naming the book Kadın (Woman). Bahar is surprised to see her book.

Soon, Arif finds that Sarp was killed by Șirin after hearing her voice record. Once Bahar learns this, she follows Şirin, who is staying at a hotel. She calls Enver to meet her, and Șirin gets arrested by the Police, who admit her to mental hospital. Meanwhile, Arif and Bahar's relationship gets stronger when Raif and Ceyda fall in love. Bahar-Arif and Ceyda-Raif get married on same day. Bahar, Arif, Ceyda, Raif, Enver, Nisan and Doruk celebrate together happily.

At the ceremony of introducing the author of the book Kadın (Woman), Bahar tells how she managed her life while facing so much hardship. Șirin reads Bahar's book and regrets what she did to Bahar. Finally, Bahar and her kids get praised by the world.

In the 19th century in the Channel Islands, the sisters Marianne and Marguerite fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne. He emigrates to New Zealand, and writes home asking the one he loves to join him and become his wife, but by a slip of the pen he names the wrong sister. When Marianne arrives instead of his beloved Marguerite, he accepts the inevitable and strives to make their marriage a success. After many years, William and Marianne return to the Channel Islands with their daughter.

In the mid-1960s, wealthy socialite Jennifer Stirling suffers from memory loss after a car accident. Unable to remember much of her life before or connect with her husband Laurence, Jennifer is intrigued by a letter she finds between "J" and "Boot". She decides to try and remember what happened to her by following clues from the letter.

In modern day London, Ellie Haworth, who recently broke up with her long-time boyfriend, has to write an article about the recently-deceased editor of her paper. Getting past the formal archivist Rory to access the editor's archive, she finds a misfiled love letter, to someone identified as "J", from "Boot". Moved by the passionate feelings between the mysterious couple, Ellie becomes determined to learn their identities and how their love story ended.

In the past, a pre-accident Jennifer and her husband Laurence travel to the French Riviera for a summer vacation. Foreign correspondent Anthony O'Hare arrives to interview Laurence about his business success. At the party, Laurence is condescending to both Jennifer and Anthony. Afterwards, a drunk Anthony complains about the awful company to a fellow guest and is caught by Jennifer. Anthony returns the next morning with a written apology, which Jennifer forces him to read aloud. Anthony invites the Stirlings out to eat the next day, but Laurence is called away on a sudden business trip, leaving Jennifer and Anthony to spend the summer together until his return. They begin writing letters to each other, under the pennames "J" and "Boot" (or "B"). Neither act on their growing electricity, until Jennifer impulsively tries to kiss him. When he pulls away, she flees. Some days later, a letter penned by Anthony reaches her, proposing to meet at Postman's Park in London.

They start a whirlwind affair, spending moments together where Jennifer can safely be with Anthony. Finally, he proposes she run off with him to New York. Jennifer is hesitant to leave, in fear of being treated as outcast by her family and friends. After Anthony sends her a letter that he will be waiting for her at the train station on the night of his departure, Jennifer rushes off to meet him. Just before she can arrive, she gets into a car accident, with a blow to her head causing partial amnesia. Anthony leaves for New York, believing that Jennifer has rejected him.

Six months after the car accident, Laurence hides the last letter Jennifer received from Anthony in effort to prevent her from remembering the affair. Jennifer feels lost as she struggles to recover her memories. She begins finding several of the love letters from "Boot" hidden in her house, leading her to discover a postal box in her name that Laurence had closed. Jennifer confronts Laurence, who claims Anthony had died in the crash. Four years later, Jennifer bumps into Anthony, restoring her memories of their time together. Anthony once again pleads for her to run away with him, but she refuses out of consideration for her two-year old-daughter. Enraged at Laurence for his lies, Jennifer asserts that she will stay with him because of their daughter, but vows to leave if he mistreats her. In turn, Laurence threatens to ruin Jennifer's reputation and gain sole custody of their daughter, as she would only be seen as an adulteress by the court of law. This prompts Jennifer to escape with their daughter to go with Anthony. After finding out he has checked out of his hotel, she tries finding him at his workplace, but is informed by the editor that Anthony has already left. Forced to return to Laurence, Jennifer gives the bundle of love letters to the editor to be sent to Anthony if they hear back from him.

In the present day, Ellie and Rory grow closer as they uncover more of the love letters. After spending the night with Rory, Ellie distances herself from him. She learns that Jennifer and Anthony are both alive and goes to speak with them. After hearing their regrets and pain over their lost romance, Ellie decides to enter into a relationship with Rory, choosing to give romance another try and not live with regrets. Ellie returns to Anthony and encourages him to write one last letter to Jennifer, in which he asks her to meet him once again at Postman's Park. Ellie and Rory watch from a distance as the two lovers reunite.

In 1980, the Stauffer family is planning a mission trip. When leaving a salon, Mary Stauffer and her daughter, Beth, are abducted at gunpoint by Mary's former student Ming Sen Shiue. During the kidnapping, a boy named Jason sees the abduction and is forced into the trunk of Mary's car by Ming along with Mary and Beth. Jason is later removed from the trunk and it is unknown what happens to him, though it is later revealed that Ming killed him and left his remains in the woods. Ming would then take Mary and Beth and kept them locked in his house where he threatened to kill the rest of the family should they try to escape or get help. Ming keeps Mary and Beth locked in his closet and forces Mary regularly to do video interviews.

On her birthday Ming rapes Mary and then video interviews her. He asks if she is having a good birthday. She tells him she can't when she has been raped. This upsets Ming who says he was making love to her but she wasn't making love to him. Mary says she can't do that while she is married to her husband. Ming asks her to make love to her like she does to her husband, calling out his name. This makes Mary ask if he had been listening to her family and if he has been in her house. Ming grows increasingly agitated and threatens to suffocate Mary's daughter with plastic wrap. Mary begs him not to and says she'll do what he asks. Ming puts the little girl back in the closet and Mary's muffled sounds are heard.

Back at the house, Mary's husband Irve is in the basement and realizes the window is open. There is dirt with shoe prints on the ground, and a small hole in the ceiling under the bedroom. He notifies the police who suggest someone with familiarity with electronics may have been listening to them. They suggest looking through Mary's old school yearbooks in case it was someone she knew through school.

Before Ming leaves the next day, he asks if he can pick up anything for Mary and her daughter. She asks for a Bible. He returns later with the Bible and says he is leaving the house again. After he's apparently left, Mary and Beth hear the door open and then hear noise in the kitchen. They pretend to be asleep and then hear music coming from the basement.

When Ming returns home later, Beth asks if Ming is keeping someone else in the basement. Ming explains that it's his cousin, Brian but there is an extra layer of padding on the floor in the closet so Brian can't hear Mary and Beth.

Ming says he has been invited to attend a conference in Chicago and he's rented an RV to take them with him. When Ming asks what Mary would do if someone asks about her in the RV, she admits she would say she is being held against her will. After some convincing by her daughter, Mary tells Ming to give her paper so she can make a list of needed supplies for the trip.

At 30 days, Mary's voice narrates saying that what kept her going was hope and her daughter's love. She would do anything to keep her daughter safe.

They begin the journey to Chicago in the RV. Mary and Beth are tied to the floor. Ming explains they are tied to the gas line. If they pull too hard, it will explode. He tells them he has installed listening devices and if they yell out to anyone, he will kill as many people as possible. Mary tried to whisper for help to some boys skateboarding but they don't take her plea seriously.

At day 45, they are back in Ming's home and he says his cousin is gone, so they can come out of the closet. Because they have been good, they can have the bedroom to themselves. On Father's Day. Ming lets Beth call Irv. She tells him she and mommy are OK, but she doesn't know when she's coming home. Irv asks to speak to the man holding them, but Ming tells Beth no.

During their regular video interviews Mary begs Ming to let her and Beth go. He says the Fourth of July holiday is coming up. He hears a noise and finds Beth outside the room looking for a bathroom. He becomes enraged and ties them to a door in the room.

For the Fourth of July on Day 49, Ming takes them to Como Park in the RV. Mary promises not to alert anyone. Meanwhile, Irv stays home with his and Mary's son Steven rather than watching the fireworks from Como Park, as they usually do.

On Day 53, Beth is now allowed to watch TV. Mary is losing faith, which causes her to try and see if she can pull the door hinges out that they are tied to. It works and the door falls down. Mary calls the police from the kitchen phone, then leads Beth outside where they hide behind the RV until the police arrive. At Ming's place of work, the police arrive and arrest him. When a female police officer asks if they were taken out of state, Mary states Chicago causing the female police officer to arrange for the FBI to be involved in this case. Mary and Irv are reunited at the police station.

Mary narrates again where it turns out that they are at the church days after the rescue. She says she doesn't want to forget. For weeks it was a horrible time, but the Lord was with them. Mary was 36 when she was abducted, Beth was 8.

A post-script revealed that Ming Sen Shiue was sentenced to life in prison and was denied parole in 2016. When the authorities found Jason's body during the investigation, Ming stated that he had panicked. Elizabeth Stauffer now has children of her own.

Selah is a teenage girl who is living in a remote forest compound belonging to a polygamist cult. The cult's messianic leader, the Shepherd, is the only male in the group. The women are divided into two groups: the younger Sisters, who are dressed in blue, and the older Wives, who are dressed in red. As she matures, Selah has become more of a focus of the Shepherd's attention. She frequently wonders about her mother, who died giving birth to her.

One night, Selah overhears a police officer telling the Shepherd that the group must leave. The Shepherd announces that he will be leading the women on a journey to a new home. During the arduous journey, Selah begins to doubt his judgement. When she sees a car driving on a road, she has a fantasy of herself inside it, dressed as a normal teenager. During the walk, she befriends Sarah, one of the Wives, who is under punishment for an unspecified sin. Sarah tells Selah that her mother did not die in childbirth, but rather caught an infection and died because the Shepherd would not let her seek medical attention. Sarah admits that she has no faith in the Shepherd but stays because she has no place else to go. When Selah has her first period, she must stay in isolation with Sarah because menstruation makes her "unclean".

The strenuous hike causes one of the Wives to go into premature labor, and she dies in childbirth. After the funeral, Sarah tells Selah that she is leaving with the baby, whom the Shepherd had wanted to abandon in the wilderness because they were "born wrong". Sarah reveals that the Shepherd wanted to abandon the baby because "there can only be one ram in a flock". Meanwhile, the Shepherd gets angry at Tamar, one of the Sisters, and beats her, further eroding Selah's regard for him.

The group arrives at a valley with a large lake, which the Shepherd declares will be their new Eden. The Sisters’ faith has been shaken by the journey, but the Shepherd rebaptizes everyone. That night, he calls Selah to his tent and rapes her. She fantasizes about the Sisters killing the Shepherd. The next morning, the Sisters awake to find the Wives missing. They go to the lake to find the Shepherd kneeling near the Wives' robes. He tells them that the Wives have ascended into a new life and the Sisters must replace them. Selah confronts him, telling him, "You are not our shepherd!" He smacks her and she hits him back. Some time later, police officers discover the bodies of the Wives washed up on the shore of the lake. They also discover the Shepherd's dead body suspended between two trees, a pair of ram's horns placed on his head like a faun. The Sisters, led by Selah, congregate at a waterfall.

Holly, a successful professor, travels to Aspen for a rendezvous with her 27-year-old former student and current lover Everett Alan. She puts on the blindfold left for her and chains herself to the headboard of the bed using the handcuffs left for her. She is unaware that the man who next enters the room is her policeman husband Russell Pierpoint, who has sex with her. She enjoys the sex until it becomes too rough but he ignores her pleas to stop and continues, leaving her crying afterwards.

In the next room Russell tells Everett, who is bound and gagged, that he is holding Everett's wife Lydia and daughter Jessica hostage, then leaves after instructing Everett to lie to Holly and say that he was the one who just had sex with her. Everett unlocks the handcuffs and Holly berates him for his behavior while she dresses to leave, but Russell calls Everett and instructs him not to let Holly leave. Russell then calls Holly, telling her that Everett is a dangerous man responsible for the disappearance of multiple women and pleading with her to escape somehow.

Over the course of the day the two are manipulated by phone to pit them against each other for revenge. Holly slips Dave the bellboy a note that she is in trouble but Russell finds it and sends back Lydia's severed ring finger to Everett as punishment. Russell advises Everett to use pills he has left in the room to drug Holly, but Holly also uses her own supply of pills to drug Everett. Everett whispers to Holly that her husband Russell is holding his wife and daughter hostage and set up the entire encounter, then both fall unconscious from the drugs.

Holly wakes to find herself handcuffed to a railing in the room and accuses Everett of being a serial killer, warning him that Russell will bring the police force to stop him. Everett finds Russell beaten and bound to a wheelchair in the bedroom. Everett releases Holly and they watch Russell die from an injection of an unknown drug. A person with a disguised voice calls them and gives the ultimatum that only one of the two lovers is permitted to check out of the hotel to return to family life. Holly stabs and kills Everett, then receives a call instructing her to microwave the phone to destroy it. She is invited to come to 513 to learn the whole story, but when she arrives she finds a surveillance system monitoring her and Everett's hotel room as well and discovers Everett's wife Lydia bound and blindfolded in the bathtub with her ring finger missing. Holly unties her and checks the contents of a memory card hidden away by Everett before his death, revealing that Lydia was involved in the plot. Lydia enters and confesses that she killed Everett's other two lovers, then grabs the memory card, breaks it, and flushes it down the toilet. Holly smashes a glass vase over Lydia's head, killing her as two security guards force their way into the room and demand that she surrender.

Two former college roommates, Alice and Lucy, are reunited in Tangier in 1956 where Alice lives with her husband, John. Lucy, still dangerously obsessed with Alice, arrives in Tangier unannounced, eager to pick up where their relationship ended, badly.

The movie follows the people of Elmina, Ghana following the discovery of crude oil as they battle against corrupt multinational corporations.

A young man called Kwasi Atta Bosomefi who is a public servant during the colonial period rose up to the ranks power because of his relationship with the colonial masters. He also changed his name from Kwasi Atta Bosomefi to Quincy Arthur Bosomfield abandoned his culture and heritage and adopting that of his colonial masters.

Folklore film describe how cunning Ananse tries to outwit his family because of the pressure of him providing his family members every day. He pretended dead and he told his family to bury him in his farm, he thereby was eaten the food staff in the farm when its late. The family set a trap using a statue smeared with glue. When Ananse saw the statue he taught it was a living being so he started kick and slapping it and he was stuck. The following morning he was caught by the family and villagers.

SFC James Harper, a decorated Green Beret, is involuntarily discharged from the army due to his use of illegal steroids to treat an otherwise debilitating knee injury. Facing financial ruin, he contacts his friend Mike who works with a private military company under the command of fellow veteran Rusty Haynes.

Harper is being headhunted by a number of military contracting companies with lucrative offers but still feels a sense of duty to his country. Mike tells him that Rusty runs clandestine operations for the Department of Defense. Harper agrees to meet Rusty after seeing Mike's opulent house. After the meeting, Harper signs on with Rusty and the team for an operation in Germany. As a sign of good faith, Rusty gives Harper's family $50,000 to help clear their debts.

Harper spends most of his tour surveilling a Middle Eastern scientist named Salim. After analyzing the data, Rusty informs the team that Salim is working for Al-Qaeda and developing a bio-agent. He tells the team they have been given permission to invade Salim's laboratory and retrieve all of his scientific data and then dispose of Salim. The team easily accesses the lab and acquires the data. Mike orders Harper to finish Salim, who protests that he is just a scientist working on a cure. Harper follows orders and then departs after setting the lab on fire. As the three man team return to their exfil van, they encounter the police and after a prolonged shoot-out, during which the remaining team members are killed, Harper rescues a wounded Mike and they hide in a nearby sewage drain.

Mike, believing he is about to die, begs Harper to look after his family and get the data to Rusty. Harper provides a blood transfusion and saves Mike's life. After recuperating, Mike is ready to return to Rusty and the main team, but Harper's knee has given out on him, and he needs to rest up. Mike proceeds alone but informs Harper he will be picked up after he is sufficiently rested.

Harper manages to make it to the agreed hotel and finds fresh clothes but no sign of Mike or Rusty. He tries to treat his injured knee and then gets a burner phone and makes contact with Rusty. Rusty informs him there is a car waiting to exfiltrate him to safety, but Harper senses all is not as it seems. As he delays going to the car, a hit team emerges and they shoot at Harper, forcing him to flee. Harper evades capture and manages to kill the hit team who are revealed to be a team of former Recon Marines working for Rusty and who have been sent to kill Harper. Before dying, one of the Marines gives Harper intel on a safe house but advises him that he can never return home.

Harper visits Salim's home, threatening Sylvie, Salim's wife, into providing him with Salim's computer files. Sylvie gives Harper her husband's iPad, and he leaves for the safe house. After Harper meets Virgil, he is tranquilized and awakens in the safe house. Virgil explains that Harper's knee was infected, and that while it has been treated, Harper still cannot return to his family. Harper plays a video on the iPad in which Salim explains that he was indeed working on a successful H5N1 vaccine formula that he intends to provide for free, rather than sell to a pharmaceutical company. While Virgil shares dinner with Harper, another fire team from Rusty attacks. Virgil is killed, but Harper escapes, setting off a booby trap for Rusty's team.

Harper returns to the US. He tracks down Mike, who explains that Rusty also lied to him and told him Harper had died. Rusty has provided for Harper's family, and Mike advises Harper to disappear; Harper protests. Winning his old friend over, they set-up a plan to get revenge on Rusty.

Mike gets Harper into Rusty's compound, where they surprise Rusty's guards. While Mike directly engages the guard force with an unsuppressed pistol, Harper closes on Rusty's house with a suppressed rifle, taking advantage of his partner's distracting, suppressing fire. Harper manages to terminate Rusty but not before Rusty is able to mortally wound Mike. After destroying the evidence<!--

?? is this referring to Harper setting Mike's truck on fire ??

-->, Harper is finally safe to return to his family.

In ancient times, the thoriphants were a tall bipedal species who migrated north in response to human encroachment. Those that stayed behind were enslaved by humanity, who used them as beasts of burden. Gradually, their backs became bent and they lost the use of their hands. Some thoriphants believe that their cousins known as the Uprights will return to free them one day.

A young thoriphant named Mosley is auctioned off and sold to a farmer named Simon, who uses him to plough his fields. Twenty five years later, Mosley and his mate Bera have produced a son named Rue. Mosley and his family are also acquainted with Turpin, who serves as a beast of burden to traveling salesman Bemus and his associates Shank and Ollie. Later, Bemus tries to swindle Simon into purchasing a nearby rocky field. Simon agrees to sell Rue after Bera has given birth to her child, much to the dismay of Mosley and Bera.

Later that night Rue, guided by several fireflies, leads Mosley to a cave lined with drawings showing Upright Thoriphants. A dispirited Mosley dismisses them as fairy tales. Mosley and Bera later overhear Simon agreeing to sell Rue to Bemus following the birth of her second child. To save their son, Bera convinces Mosley to escape the following day and return to the caves in order to seek clues on how to find the "Uprights."

Despite being pursued by Simon, Bemus, Shank and Ollie, Mosley manages to escape into the forest. In response, Bemus convinces Simon to hire the services of the ruthless, tattooed bounty hunter Warfield to bring back Mosley alive. Inside the cave, Mosley stumbles into a sinkhole trap planted by Warfield. However, he manages to escape when Shank and Ollie interfere. Following a pursuit, Mosley manages to hide behind a waterfall with the help of several fireflies.

Behind the waterfall, Mosley encounters three "Upright" travelers named Warnie, Deaver, and the elderly Gailin and realizes that the legends of the Uprights were real. Warnie and his companions agree to bring Mosley back to their city Kineserath, under the pretense that the Uprights are a species of great warriors. During their travels, Mosley and the Uprights learns more about his people's history. They also have several adventures including avoiding death at the cursed "Great Orchard" and escaping Warfield with the help of the fireflies, who can communicate with Mosley and Gailin. Warnie realizes that the fireflies are not ordinary creatures but something mystical.

Back at Simon's farm, Rue tries to fill his father's shoes by looking after his heavily pregnant mother. Turpin encourages Rue with stories about the Upright and also teaches him to fetch a bucket. However, Semus sells Turpin, devastating Rue. When Bera enters into labour, she convinces Rue to seek Simon's help. Simon helps Bera to deliver her daughter Rosie.

Meanwhile, Mosley and the Upright reach Kineserath only to discover that the Upright are a dying species, who have not produced any children for a hundred years. Warnie reveals that the Upright are affected by the curse of the devolution, which he fears will cause them to regress into a non-sentient state. Warfield catches up with them, laying siege to Kineserath and killing Gailin with an arrow. To save their people, Queen Agaba convinces Mosley to venture into the cursed Orchard in order to find the Living Tree and eat of its fruit in order to reverse the curse.

With help of the thoriphants, Mosley lures Warfield into the Orchard. He attempts to reach the Living Tree but is mortally wounded by Warfield's arrows. Before Warfield can kill him, the mystical fireflies form a mystical bright being known as the Guardian, who drives Warfield away and heals Mosley. Mosley returns to the Upright with several of the Living Tree's fruits, which he eats and becomes an Upright.

The Upright Mosley returns to Simon's farm where he stops Simon from selling Rue to Bemus. Following a confrontation, he frees his family from servitude. Mosley also gives Bera, Rue, and Rosie fruits from the Living Tree, causing them to become Upright. Together, the family leave Simon's farm to start a new life in Kineserath.

Allison and Carlos Torres are married with three kids: Katie, Nando, and Ellie. When they first met, they were adventurous and said yes to everything. However, once having kids, they feel they must say no to protect their children.

One evening, they are called into a parent-teacher conference at school where they discover Katie and Nando have both submitted school work calling their mom a dictator. Allison expresses frustration that her kids perceive her this way and tells Carlos that she feels he makes her play the role of "bad cop" with their children. Mr. Deacon, a school employee, and father of six overhears and shares with them that he maintains order in his house by having a 'yes day' from time to time: one 24-hour period where the parents cannot say no, within reason.

Carlos and Allison present the idea to the kids, telling them that if they don't get into trouble, do their chores, and keep their grades up, they can have a yes day as a reward. Katie makes a wager with Allison that if her mom makes it through Yes Day, Katie will go to the music festival Fleek Fest with her mother. If she doesn't make it, Katie will be allowed to go with a friend, Layla. The kids eventually manage to earn a yes day and put together a list of five activities for the day. First, Ellie dresses her parents in crazy outfits and requests that they don't look at anything with a screen on it all day. Next, they go and order a massive $40 sundae that is free if they can eat it all in 30 minutes. They successfully finish the challenge, with the help of Carlos. They then go through a car wash with the windows down. Next, they go to a capture the flag competition, where each family member leads a group and the goal is for one team to catch the others, throwing balloons filled with Kool-Aid at their opponents. Allison wins the game for her team, impressing her kids. Carlos, however, is tempted to drop out of Yes Day, but ultimately decides he can't bear to disappoint his kids.

The fourth event is a trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain. When Katie steps away, Allison sees texts on her daughter's phone from Layla indicating she and Katie will be hanging out with older boys at Fleek Fest. Allison tells her that the wager is off and she's going to Fleekfest with her, not Layla. Hurt, Katie storms off. In an attempt to win a pink gorilla for Katie as an apology, Allison and Carlos get into a fight with another park-goer and are arrested. The children sneak away. Katie goes to Fleekfest with Layla but quickly becomes uncomfortable being alone with older boys, and her friend abandons her. Nando stages a "nerd party" at the house as the final big event, but it quickly gets out of control when Ellie accidentally sets off a foam explosion inside the house that was meant for the backyard. Meanwhile, Katie's phone dies while trying to contact her siblings and she panics. With help from H.E.R., who is performing at the event, Allison finds Katie and they reconcile. H.E.R. is moved and invites them on stage for a song. Carlos arrives home and finally manages to be a disciplinarian, forcing the party to stop and the kids to help with the cleanup. As Yes Day draws to a close, Ellie makes one final request. They all spend the night playing games as a family in a tent in the backyard, until Nando's foam bomb (having been flushed down the toilet) starts to fill up the house.

In a mid-credits scene, the Torres family and other players pelt Mr. Deacon with Kool-Aid balloons at the Capture the Flag field as revenge for suggesting Yes Day in the first place.

Reyyan is Nasuh Şadoğlu's granddaughter, patriarch of the prominent Şadoğlu family in the town of Midyat. However, she has never felt loved by anyone in her household except her father, Hazar, her mother, Zehra, and her younger sister, Gül. Reyyan has been mistreated by her grandfather since childhood because she is not his biological granddaughter, and the only reason he accepted her into the family was at Hazar's request.

One morning, Reyyan goes out on horseback to watch the sunrise. On her way back, her horse is nearly hit by a car. Reyyan falls and loses consciousness. The driver of the car, a handsome young man named Miran, is immediately attracted to her and offers to drive her back home.

Yaren, daughter of Hazar's brother, Cihan, is infatuated with Miran. When Miran falls in love with her cousin, Yaren swears revenge on Reyyan for stealing Miran from her and ruining her life.

Eventually, Miran and Reyyan are married. However, Miran abandons Reyyan after their first night as husband and wife, sparking intense feelings of betrayal and hatred in Reyyan. She vows to never let him forget what he has done to her. Soon, Reyyan finds out that everything Miran has told her about himself is a lie: his name, his background, his family, and the wedding. Miran's plan all along was to gain the trust of the Şadoğlu family, marry their innocent daughter and then leave her the morning after, humiliating the entire family and thus, exacting the first part of his revenge against the Şadoğlus.

The motivation behind his revenge is the fact that Miran believes Reyyan's father, Hazar, kidnapped and raped his mother, and then killed both his parents. He was raised by his grandmother, Azize Aslanbey, who told him since he was a child that he has to avenge the murder of his parents and uplift his family's name once again. However, his feelings for Reyyan were the real, and his actions were done against his will under the guiding hand of his grandmother. As a result, Mirran struggles to cope with what he has done to Reyyan.

As time goes on, secrets are revealed while Reyyan and Miran struggle with their feelings for each other. Reyyan is in love with Miran, but is convincing herself she hates him, while Miran struggles with extreme guilt for what he has done to the one person he has truly cared about. Meanwhile, Azize also struggles to keep her control her daughter-in-law, Sultan, and her granddaughter, Elif—who was orphaned as a child and raised by Azize—and she begins tightening her grip as the unforgiving matriarch of the Aslanbey family.

Despite his hatred for the Şadoğlu family, Miran works hard to regain Reyyan's trust. It takes Reyyan a long time, but she realises she cannot live without Miran. Eventually, she marries him in earnest without her family's approval. She also believes this will end the animosity between both their families. However, the enmity between the Şadoğlu and Aslanbey families only becomes stronger, and Miran is torn between his loyalty to his grandmother and wanting to be a good husband to Reyyan. After a lot of persuasion from Reyyan, Miran agrees to chase the truth of his parents' death himself rather than blindly believing the version Azize has fed to him.

They find a clue about the death of Miran's parents and follow it together, which leads them to Miran's maternal grandmother, Şükran, who Miran believed to be dead his entire life. While traveling to Istanbul, they find another lead that reveals Miran's mother was never raped, and discover Azize bribed the police to lie in their report that she had been raped before her death. Miran breaks down and he begins questioning everything he’s been told regarding his parents' death. Azize, angry that Miran has learned the truth, begins tracking Miran and Reyyan, making sure that any new leads they find become dead ends. When confronted by Miran, she claims that, although his mother was never raped, she was indeed murdered by Hazar. She slowly regains Miran's trust, who believes her to be contrite. Meanwhile, Reyyan knows Azize is still lying to Miran, and becomes increasingly frustrated at her inability to break Miran's connection to his grandmother.

During this time the family rivalry intensifies. Elif, who has always been tormented by Azize's cruelty, escapes her house marries Azat, Reyyan's older cousin, in yet another attempt to make peace between the families. However, Elif's efforts turn out to be in vain and she slips into a deep depression at her grandmother's intense hatred of her husband and desire for revenge. Elif, exasperated by the never-ending fighting and a feeling that Azat will never love her the way she loves him, commits suicide.

After the death of Elif, the enmity between both families cools. Miran and Reyyan, fed up with both families, decide to move to Istanbul permanently. Azize, who needs Miran as a pawn in her revenge, sets Miran up to shoot Azat while Reyyan watches from afar. This causes the hatred to come back in full force. Azat's life is saved by a stranger who befriends the Şadoğlu family. He hides his real identity as he is actually Aslan Aslanbey, the true heir of the Aslanbey family. Azize faked his death and kept him hidden to protect him from the rivalry between the families.

Yaren, tired of Miran and Reyyan's undaunted love for each other, reveals to Reyyan out of spite that Hazar is not her biological father. Reyyan, angry at her family for lying to her, escapes to Miran's maternal grandmother's home. Miran and Hazar follow Reyyan, hoping to calm her anger. When they reach Şükran's home, they discover a recording of a conversation between Miran's mother, Dilşah, and a friend, in which she confesses her love for Hazar, and tells her friend that Azize is trying to force her to marry her son. Miran takes the tape, and finally accepts that Hazar did not kill his mother. He then learns that it was his father, Mehmet, who tried to kill Dilşah and Hazar, and later killed himself.

Meanwhile, Aslan is working with Reyyan's real father, Mahfuz, who has come back to help his daughter expose Azize. However, Aslan becomes obsessed with Reyyan and loses focus. He attempts to kill Miran out of jealousy, and nearly succeeds. Upon a second attempt, he ends up causing his own death. At the same time, Fusun Aslanbey, Azize’s sister-in-law, returns and reveals to everyone Miran is not an Aslanbey: his real father is not Mehmet Aslaneby, but Hazar Şadoğlu. Upon learning this, Miran reaches his breaking point. He takes Reyyan with him and they move into a rural cottage to escape their reality.

When Miran learns the truth, Hazar makes attempts at building a relationship with his son, but Miran is not interested. Later, Miran plays the rest of the tape he took from his mother's room. In it, she tells her friend she is pregnant with Hazar's child; she wishes for it to be a boy, and plans to name him Miran. Any doubt Miran had that Hazar is his real father disappears. Meanwhile, Reyyan comes face to face with her real father and accepts his only request—that she let him hug her. Upon seeing her forgiving her own father, Miran turns to Hazar and accepts him as his father.

Nasuh begins chasing the reasons for Azize's strong hatred of his family. He discovers her real name is Ayşe, his first love. He confronts her, and asks her why she hates his family. Azize shares their past, including the child they had together, and their plans to get married. However, one day, Azize woke up to find her house engulfed in flames, and fainted from smoke inhalation. When she woke up a few days later, Nasuh's mother informed Azize that her entire family, including their child, died in the fire. Nasuh's mother tells Azize that Nasuh has remarried, and blames her for their child's death. Feeling betrayed, Azize decides to get revenge. Her original plan was to punish Hazar by taking away his daughter. However, after Mehmet killed himself, her hatred intensified and she plotted a plan for vengeance using Miran. Nasuh is shocked, and explains to Azize that his mother had told him Azize died in the fire, which is why he remarried. Nasuh also tells Azize their child never died, but is the same Hazar whose life she has been trying to destroy.

To show how remorseful she is for her sins, Azize reveals that Miran's mother, Dilşah, is alive. Having been locked away from reality for so long, Dilşah is struggling mentally to adapt to her new life. Miran, however, is overjoyed at being reunited with his mother. Meanwhile, Reyyan, upon seeing Azize’s state and learning the origin of her hatred toward Hazar and Miran, convinces Miran to forgive Azize.

Reyyan, now pregnant, is told by her doctor that she will not survive the birth of her child, so she wishes Miran to have his entire family by his side should she die during childbirth. While Miran struggles to cope with the possibility of losing Reyyan, Hazar is still in shock after learning Azize is his mother.

When Reyyan goes into labour, she slips into a coma. Meanwhile, Hazar is killed. Miran is wracked with grief over losing his father and the possibility of losing Reyyan, leaving him unable to find any joy in the birth of his son. Reyyan eventually wakes up from her coma, and is devastated when she learns of Hazar's death. After being discharged from the hospital, Miran and Reyyan move into the cottage with their child and grieve together. The series ends with the families moving on from their pasts and the rivalry finally over.

Everyone in an old apartment complex that’s been waiting for demolition work for 10 years is in deep debt. The residents gamble in the hope that they can gain enough money to keep their apartment and achieve their small dreams. 14-year-old Ròm works as bookie lottery runner to earn a living. He lives an unsettling life due to his separation from his parents and always yearns to earn enough money to find them. Ròm’s rival is Phúc, due to his streak of picking the winning numbers, the people in the apartment complex trust him over Ròm. However, Phúc had been tricking the residents for a long time. Seeing that this isn’t right, Ròm changes this by helping the people pick a good number. Ròm’s number wins and Phúc loses all of his customers to Ròm. Believing in Ròm’s good luck, the tenants want to bet big to settle all of their debts. But Phúc kidnaps Ròm and takes all of the bets to turn in, and once Ròm finally appears, the creditors are demanding if their debts are not paid off, they will take their apartments.

Betting everything they have, it is now up to Ròm to save the tenants again.

Can Ròm save them again?.

In what seems like a perfect life, three beautiful women who are pushing thirty make bold attempts to change their lives even when destiny plays its joke on them. With a marriage that seems almost doomed from the beginning, to an affair with an unlikely candidate and the endless pursuit of love, three friends will learn the harsh lessons of life, the challenges of marriage, the fatality of falling in love and the rewards of having a good laugh in the mist of sorrow. The Perfect Picture offers a colorful and humorous insight into a world where everything is as perfect as your life and that of your friends.

Act One: "Work"

Act One begins at McGregor Plantation, a southern cotton plantation in pre-Civil War Virginia. The first act chronicles three private meetings and sexual encounters of three interracial couples. The play begins with the song "Work" by Rihanna playing in the McGregor's overseer cottage.Harris, Jeremy O. "Slave Play." ''American Theatre'', no. 6, 2019, p. 42-50 Kaneisha, a slave, begins to twerk to the song when Jim, a white slave owner, walks in holding a whip. Jim is repeatedly uncomfortable when Kaneisha calls him "Master," but berates her for not cleaning the room better and throws a cantaloupe on the ground and tells Kaneisha to eat it. As Kaneisha eats the cantaloupe, she begins to dance again, which confuses and arouses Jim. The overseer then initiates sex with Kaneisha. When she asks to be called a "nasty, lazy negress," he instead proceeds to perform cunnilingus.

The scene transitions to the boudoir of Madame McGregor, the wife of Master McGregor. Madame McGregor, or Alana, calls upon Phillip, her mulatto servant, and asks him to play the fiddle. Phillip begins to play Beethoven's Op. 132. Alana stops him, calling European music boring, and asks him to play "negro" music. Phillip plays "Pony" by Ginuwine and Alana dances, then initiates sex, saying she is under Phillip's mulatto spell. She then uses a dildo to penetrate him, asking him if he likes being in the woman's position. Phillip replies that he is unsure.

In the McGregor's barn, Gary, a black slave, is in charge of Dustin, a white indentured servant. Gary taunts Dustin, finding their allocation of power amusing. Gary kicks Dustin down, calling him lesser than other white people. The song “Multi-Love” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra begins to play. The two fight before they engage in sexual intimacy. Gary has Dustin lick Gary's boot clean; this causes Gary to orgasm. He suddenly starts crying and cannot be comforted by Dustin.

The scene shifts back to the other couples. Phillip keeps playing music that Alana does not like on his fiddle and Kaneisha and Jim are engaged in sex. Kaneisha asks again to be called a "negress." Even as Kaneisha nears orgasm, Jim stops participating when Kaneisha calls him "Masta Jim". Jim then switches to speaking in a British accent and tells Kaneisha that he is not comfortable with the situation. Jim uses his safeword, "Starbucks," to end the encounter.

Suddenly, new characters in modern clothing, Patricia and Teá (also an interracial couple) come into the room. They recommend for the three couples to meet back at the main house soon. It is revealed that in reality the characters are modern couples participating in a role-playing exercise meant to improve intimacy between white and black partners.

Act Two: "Process"

The second act is dedicated to a contemporary group therapy session among the three couples to treat their inability to experience sexual pleasure. The therapists, Patricia and Teá, speak through affirmations and academic jargon for most of the session.Harris, Jeremy O. "Slave Play." ''American Theatre'', no. 6, 2019, p. 50-64 They are on Day Four of the therapy, which focuses on fantasy play.

Dustin begins by noting that Gary came, which he could not do before, but Gary counters that Dustin was uncomfortable in making his whiteness hyper-visible. Alana enjoyed the release of the fantasy and asks Phillip if he enjoyed it too, noting that he got an erection when he had trouble before. Jim keeps interrupting speakers with laughter; Teá asks him to share, especially since he was the one who said the safeword. Jim is confused and overwhelmed by the therapy. Teá clarifies that the therapy, titled Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy, was designed to help black partners feel pleasure again with their white partners. Jim is uncomfortable playing the role of the slave overseer and demeaning his wife, and believes the experience is traumatizing and ruining his relationship with Kaneisha. Kaneisha feels frustrated and betrayed that Jim did not give what she asked of him.

After Patricia and Teá read back to the group what they have said, Alana points out that mostly white men are speaking. Dustin insists that he is not white. Dustin and Gary get back into an old argument over Dustin wanting to move into a more gentrified neighborhood. Dustin refuses to label himself as white, and Gary feels that through this he erases Gary's identity. Phillip, who has not spoken much, says that the therapy seems fake to him. Alana speaks over him, still upset about Jim saying the safeword.

Patricia and Teá explain the origins of Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy in treating anhedonia, with Patricia speaking over Teá. The couple shaped it as their thesis together at Smith and then Yale. They are foregrounding the study both through their experiences in their own relationship and their academic background. They state that anhedonia is caused by racial trauma passed down through history: black partners may be unable to enjoy sex with their white partners because of “Racialized Inhibiting Disorder." Teá previously experienced anhedonia with Patricia, and it was through fantasy play that she worked out her racial trauma. Symptoms associated with Racialized Inhibiting Disorder include anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and "musical obsession disorder."

Phillip says none of his partners are able to see him as black and he struggles with being mixed race. Gary realizes that the song he often hears, “Multi-Love”, was imagined due to "musical obsession disorder." Kaneisha says she felt in control during the fantasy play, but Jim took that away from her by using the safeword; Gary agrees but Phillip does not. It is revealed that Phillip and Alana met because her ex-husband had a cuckold fetish, and that when Phillip was with her under those pretenses, he felt sexually excited because he was viewed as black by her husband. Alana insists it had nothing to do with race, and now that they are in a committed relationship Alana views him as a complex person. Alana breaks down. Gary confronts Dustin, asking why he always says he is not white. Gary questions why they are still together, and he and Dustin almost get into a fight before Patricia and Teá break it up.

Jim starts to read something he wrote on his phone. He does not understand why Kaneisha looks at him with disgust, like he is "a virus," nor does he know what he is supposed to do. Kaneisha realizes that "virus" is the description she has been searching for, referencing the diseases introduced by Europeans which decimated the indigenous peoples of the Americas. She says she knows now that she cannot experience pleasure because she cannot forget her disgust with Jim's race. She confronts Patricia and Teá, saying they are wrong: the problem is within the white partners, not a disorder within the black partners. Kaneisha is overwhelmed as “Work” by Rihanna begins playing again.

Act Three: "Exorcise"

In the third act, "Work" plays as Kaneisha is packing in a room and Jim comes in. Kaneisha says that what she needs isn't better communication, but for Jim to simply listen. Jim is silent as Kaneisha recounts how they met, and then times in her childhood when she had to visit plantations on school field trips. As the only black girl, she felt a need to act proud for her "elders" watching her. She says she fell in love with Jim, a white man, because he was not American.Harris, Jeremy O. "Slave Play." ''American Theatre'', no. 6, 2019, p. 64-67 Jim begins to initiate foreplay and the music rises while Kaneisha continues that the relationship went downhill three years ago, when she stopped feeling sexual pleasure because she began to see him as foreign and frightening. She saw Jim's whiteness and power, and that he also has "the virus", because though he is not American, he benefits from being white while being unaware of the privilege that whiteness gives him. She says that Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy and the fantasy play gave her a sense of peace because she feels the elders watching her again; the elders do not care that she is with "a demon / who thinks he’s a saint", but simply want the two of them to ''know'' he is a demon.

Suddenly, Jim calls Kaneisha a "negress" and gags her; the music stops. Jim returns to performing his slave owner role, dominating and insulting Kaneisha. She silently consents to continue, but when Jim initiates forceful sex she struggles free and screams the safeword. She begins to cry, then laugh, and Jim cries as well as they comfort each other. Kaneisha stands and thanks Jim for listening.

As described in a film magazine reviews, Black Hawk and his bandits steal a bag of money from the bank; the foreman of “B” ranch, Billy Dennis, pursues them. While the bandits divide the loot, Billy obtains the bag and makes away with it. He intends to return it to the bank. The sheriff comes upon the bandits, who accuse Billy of being the Black Hawk. Billy loses the bag and is chased by the sheriff. Jim Low, the cook finds the money and starts for his ranch with the thought of returning the money. The Black Hawk gang steals an automobile which they drive over a cliff. Billy is in time to rope the Black Hawk before the crash. It is explained that Billy was trying to restore the money when the cook appears; and everything ends happily.

Captured during an assassination mission, Gabimaru the Hollow is sentenced to be executed, but nothing seems to kill him due to his superhuman body. Believing his love for his wife to be subconsciously keeping him alive, executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri offers him the chance to be pardoned of all crimes by the Shogunate if he finds the elixir of life on Shinsenkyo, a legendary realm recently discovered southwest of the Ryukyu Kingdom. After losing five expedition teams sent to the island, this time the Shogunate sends a group of death row convicts. The convicts are each given a Yamada Asaemon executioner, who they must return with in order to obtain the pardon.

In a near future, humanity is threatened by the existence of monsters they call . To anticipate this, the whole world unites against Huge and succeeds in developing a decisive weapon called that brings together the power of science and magic. Since Charm shows high synchronization to teenage girls, these girls are called and are regarded as heroes. To train them, the Lily training institution called was established all over the world to counter Huge, and became a "sanctuary" to protect and guide people.

In a small-town elementary school, 8-year-old Michael lays on the cold gym floor, stretching with the rest of his class. Suddenly the class hears the sound of a gunshot nearby. As they rush to seek refuge in their gym teacher’s office, Michael senses something familiar about the shooter and makes a daring move, altering both of their lives forever.

The series follows Oggy as a kitten, who goes on cockroach-free adventures with his friends in a world where everything's made out of kid toys.

Teresa Palmer plays Michelle Payne, the youngest of ten children of racehorse trainer Paddy Payne, who dreams of becoming a jockey and becomes the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015.

As a metred beat thumps, and a metred line is pulled across the screen, a narrator asserts with certainty that the entire universe expanded to twice its size overnight. The narrator considers whether this might have any effects on perception or motion. Images follow. A sneaker on pavement, trees, a brick wall — all appear to be the same. The pull of the metre across the screen doubles, and its twin pushes the other way to the same beat.

The narrator decides that there can be no measurable effect of this nocturnal doubling, since no meaningful measurements could be taken if everything everywhere had expanded proportionately and at the same time. Any and all information would be undetectable — even by God, since God, too, must be twice as great as before. Despite this, somehow, the narrator knows it has happened: "My knowledge was correct, and... I knew nothing. The change had definitely occurred, and it made not one bit of difference. I decided to keep it to myself."

Vinny Vincenzo (William Lee), an extremely intelligent, ruthless and tough gangster who joins the mob and works and fights his way up the ranks to be bestowed the title of the first African-American Don. His Daily Struggles to maintain his power while fighting off FBI official Stick (Mel Novak) are chronicled.

Count Bobby and his friend are running a struggling detective agency. However they get a break when they investigate a gang of smugglers using a nightclub as a front. In order to infiltrate the organisation Bobby is required to go undercover dresses as a woman.

The youth of a fishing community in Sierra Leone have discovered their new identity through surfing, but the elders in the community disapprove of what they set out to do but they have to fight all odds to make their dreams come true.

Judy Reynolds (Lynda Day George) is a young lady who is self-described as romantically "frigid", but wants to find her sense of passion for life. She takes an airline flight, running away from her parents in New York City to relocate to Rio de Janeiro. There she meets an attractive man (future real-life husband Christopher George) who is an architect working on a large construction project. He doesn't respond to her polite attempts to begin a conversation, instead returning to a table where his drink is sitting. Judy apologizes for disturbing him and leaves.

Later, Judy's acquaintance Nancy (Fay Spain) explains that Bill is mute, and has been ever since a terrible accident in which his former girlfriend was killed. Following a party held for English-speaking Americans who live and work in Rio, Judy goes to Bill's apartment where he feebly tries to play guitar for her. He then shows her a letter, the first he has written in years, that states that since their first meeting he has fallen in love with her. She is kind, but states firmly that Bill only ''thinks'' that he is in love.

While the rain falls on Bill's window, he writes "Don't pity me" on the glass panes, then collapses in sadness onto his bed. Judy sits on the bed in sympathy to comfort him. He sits up and uses basic gestures to her to explain details of the car roll-over accident that left him mute. Bill was unable to rescue his fiance from the burning wreck, and following his last desperate scream as she died horribly, he was left unable to speak.

Judy continues to meet with Bill, and their relationship begins to grow. After spending the day together touring Rio while holding hands and relaxing in a park where there is a waterfall, they return to his home and make love that evening.

Judy wakes later and has had time to evaluate Bill's mute state. After she dresses, she begins a one-sided conversation with him, and confronts him with the truth that it isn't that he ''can't'' speak, but that he ''won't'' speak because he has been punishing himself for the past three years. Judy leaves Bill alone in his room to face his inner demon.

At the climax of this story, Bill is wandering around in his room. He realizes he wants his relationship with Judy to continue, but that he is going to have to reconcile with his past to move forward in life. As he continues to wander his room, Bill finally faces his desk telephone, wanting to call her and prove he can speak after all.

Bill fears he has lost Judy for good, and in the end we see him staring at the phone that he must use to save his relationship with Judy. Grabbing his own hair on the sides of his head Bill shakes as though shivering in great frustration. The viewer is left with this frame frozen as the end credits begin to roll, and we never find out if he is able to accomplish the call or if he simply withers back into his own lonely world.

Randy Marsh, owner of the marijuana business Tegridy Farms, tells his family that due to the end of his business deal with the Chinese government in the previous episode, profits are down. Randy's business partner, Towelie suggests taking the parts of the marijuana plants they usually discard after harvesting and sell it as mulch. Later at a Burger King, he samples one of that restaurant's plant-based Impossible Whoppers. Though he finds that it tastes awful, the realization that customers will pay for plant-based burgers, even ones that taste bad, inspires him to create Tegridy Burgers, which are made from his discarded marijuana plants.

At South Park Elementary school, fourth grader Eric Cartman is irritated that familiar lunch food like ground beef has been replaced with fish in response to complaints from students like Wendy Testaburger and Nichole, who tell Cartman that some students who do not eat red meat want healthier options. Enraged at the elimination of the food he likes, Cartman angrily rants before succumbing to a heart attack. The school counselor, Mr. Mackey, assures Cartman that the school menu will not change. Cartman subsequently delights in being able to eat barbecue ribs for lunch again, but Wendy and Nichole's continued protests prompt another heart attack for him.

Randy starts selling Tegridy Burgers, first at a stand outside the Burger King, and then at a restaurant across from it. This angers the Burger King's employee, Rick. Randy campaigns for the adoption of vegan diets at a town meeting, arguing that it is better for the environment and animals. As a result of his efforts, beef loses popularity, but this prompts an angry cattle rancher to appear at Randy's home with his cows, complaining that they are now useless. The rancher leaves the animals there, where they eat Randy's marijuana and pollute his farm with their waste. To remedy this, Randy and Towelie decide to shoot the cows all to death, an endeavor Randy says they can do if they get really high.

At a school assembly, PC Principal announces that as a compromise, Incredible Meat will be the supplier of the school's meals. That company's founder, who calls himself a Goo Man, says his green goo can be made to resemble any food requested, and that he wants to be the plant-based food supplier for the entire town. When Cartman returns to school from his hospital stay, he learns that on Taco Tuesday, the school cafeteria is serving Incredible Beef tacos. Not knowing it is plant-based, he eats the new tacos without incident. He learns the truth, however, from the Goo Man, who is now conspiring with Rick and the rancher. The Goo Man describes the complex industrial infrastructure responsible for the goo used to make Cartman's school lunches, but says that it does not work unless he owns all the eateries in town selling plant-based meat. When the Goo Man sees that Randy's new Tegridy Burgers restaurant is popular, it makes Randy a target for the Goo Man, who does not want competitors to his business.

During a news broadcast focusing on Randy's business, Rick poses as a student protester criticizing the unethical practices of Tegridy Farms. The newscast then shows footage of Randy and Towelie's cow-killing rampage, causing the townsfolk to turn against Tegridy Farms.

At school, Cartman reveals that he knows the truth about the plant-based meat in the school cafeteria, but that far from being angry, it is he who owes everyone else an apology. While he previously thought they were trying to force him to eat healthy, he has learned that the goo is made in a factory, with much added salt, just like all the other "processed crap that comes in a box" that he eats. Having only desired to "eat the same garbage" he always has, and since the goo is definitely garbage, he does not care that it is more sustainable or ethical.

The story begins with the point of divergence in December 1860 by General David E. Twiggs bring unable to take command of the Department of Texas, which leaves Lieutenant-Colonel Robert E. Lee as the commander. The story itself is set in February 1861, shortly after the state of Texas voted to secede from the United States to join the Confederacy, to March 1861. Lee concludes that it is his duty to defend U.S. Army munitions and property in San Antonio, Texas, including the fabled Alamo, rather than to allow their surrender to the seceding Texas government, as Twiggs did in real life. That leads to a Second Battle of the Alamo.

Lee is forced to surrender to Benjamin McCulloch after several weeks of siege but becomes a national hero. After Virginia eventually secedes, US President Abraham Lincoln is able to convince Lee to stay in the Union's service by agreeing to send him west, where he will not be fighting against his fellow Virginians.

Elisa (Ana Serradilla) has become a shy, conservative girl, dedicated to her job and avoiding social life. Between her family and her job, the only person she lives with in her routine is Carlos, whom she could consider her best friend. One day Elisa is visited by her future self, who explains that the way to resume her life and find happiness is to lose her fear at work and let herself be found by love.

Jo Dong-il argues that classic Korean novels stemmed from four different types of folktales: life and spirit (''myeonghon'') tales (about a man falling in love with a dead woman), dream (''mongyu'') tales (about what happened in a dream), unrecorded (''ilsa'') tales (about an extremely talented person who does not accomplish anything notable and ends up disappearing without a trace), and heroic (''yeongung'') tales (about the life of a hero). The four different types of Korean novels came to be: life and spirit (''myeonghon'') novels, dream (''mongyu'') novels, unrecorded (''ilsa'') novels, and heroic novels. Among them, heroic novels refer to works that are structured to tell life stories of heroes. A typical life story of a hero is developed in the following form: the hero 1) is of noble blood, 2) conceived or born under unnatural circumstances, 3) has great skills unlike other ordinary people, 4) is abandoned and nearly killed, 5) meets people who can raise him and thus avoids getting killed, 6) grows up and faces a crisis, and 7) struggles through the crisis to ultimately become the winner.

Jo believes that Korean heroic novels share the same structure as ancient myths about the lives of the founders of state, such as the Myth of Jumong. Stories that were passed down to younger generations became novels, starting with the ''Hong Gildong-jeon'' (洪吉童傳 The Story of Hong Gildong), which became the first Korean classic novel with a heroic narrative. Various heroic novels were written in the late Joseon dynasty, and they came to be at the heart of the history of Korean novels, according to Jo. Of the four different types of the early Korean novels, Jo argues that heroic novels—the life stories of heroes, which have long been passed down from the ancient myths—came to be central to Korean literature.

He asserts that the mythological ability of the self gradually came to an end, as we went from the myths of the founding of the state to ''Hong Gildong-jeon'' and later heroic novels. In other words, as myths became novels, the genre of heroic novels became more developed, replacing the “mythological characteristic of the self” with the idea of using ordinary people in our daily lives as the main character.

Jo classifies heroic novels into three groups depending on the degree of “mythical abilities” of the heroes. He estimated the first group to have been written in the mid-to the late-17th century, consisting of ''Geumbangul-jeon'' (金鈴傳 Tale of the Golden Bell), ''Yang Pung-jeon'' (楊豊雲傳 Tale of Yang Pung), ''Sukhyang-jeon'' (淑香傳 Tale of Sukhyang), ''Sodaeseong-jeon'' (蘇大成傳 Tale of Sodaeseong), and ''Kuunmong'' (九雲夢 Dream of the Nine Clouds). The second group consists of ''Jo Ung-jeon'' (趙雄傳 Tale of Jo Ung), ''Yu Chungryeol-jeon'' (劉忠烈傳 Tale of Yu Chungryeol), ''Hyeon Sumun-jeon'' (玄壽文傳 Tale of Hyeon Sumun), ''Hwang Un-jeon'' (黃雲傳 Tale of Hwang Un), and ''Yi Daebong-jeon'' (李大鳳傳 Tale of Yi Daebong), which were estimated to have been written between the late 17th century to the early 18th century. The last group, in which the “mythological ability” of heroes have nearly vanished, were estimated to have been written in mid-18th century or later and consists of ''Jang Pungun-jeon'' (張風雲傳 Tale of Jang Pungun), and ''Jang Gyeong-jeon'' (張敬傳 Tale of Jang Gyeong). In terms of time periods, ''Hong Gildong-jeon'' marks the very beginning of the heroic novels, and the time of creation of later heroic novels were estimated depending on the degree of the heroes’ “mythological abilities.”

Yeowa (女媧, Pinyin: Nüwa), the mother goddess of Chinese mythology, is giving a lecture about the way of the heavens when strange energy begins to rise from the earth. The energy is coming from women at Hwangneung Tomb who were competing for their beauty and calling themselves by the posthumous titles of virtuous emperors and wise kings in front of Emperor Shun's two queens. When Yeowa becomes enraged at the irreverence of the women, Bokhui (伏羲) sends Mun Changseong and Mun Ilseong down to earth to handle the situation at Hawngneung Tomb.

Descending to Hwangneung Tomb along with Mun Ilseong, Mun Changseong points out the women’ lack of reverence and strips them of the titles they have conferred on themselves. Mun Changseong then criticizes each woman's accomplishments and failures, rearranges their ranks, sends away some of the women from the Hwangneung Tomb, and brings in new women to the tomb to be servants to the two queens. After resolving the situation at Hwangneung Tomb, Mun Changseong and Mun Ilseong return to the celestial realm, and the women who have been left behind at the tomb praise Mun Changseong's brilliance. The story of Mun Changseong's past life is then introduced in connection with ''Yussisamdaerok.''

Overjoyed at the work carried out by Mun Changseong and Mun Ilseong, Yeowa tells the Jade Emperor about their accomplishments. The emperor praises them and appoints Mun Changseong as the Grand Supervisor of the World Under Heaven (天下文脈 大總管). On the way back to the palace, Mun Changseong gets into an argument with Bodhisattva Gwaneum (觀音, pinyin: Guanyi), eventually persuading the latter. However, Gwaneum's disciple, novice monk Mokcha, fights Mun Changseong, who subdues him by pinning him with a brush. At this, Gwaneum goes to Buddha, asking for revenge, but Buddha orders Gwaneum to respect Mun's dignity, strengthening Mun Changseong's reputation even more.

Diachronically, it is a story that follows four generations of the Jeong family; synchronically, it focuses on the events of the Jeong family and also tells the stories of other families that are related to the Jeong family by marriage. The members of the third generation of the Jeong family are the central figures in this novel, which mainly depicts the birth of the third generation, their growth and marriage, social accomplishments, and filial piety and brotherly love.

Early in the novel, a birthday banquet is held for Jeong Han, a member of the first generation of the Jeong family. Jeong Han’s eldest son Jeong Jam does not have a son and ends up adopting his younger brother Jeongsam’s son Jeong Inseong. At the birthday banquet, Jeong Inseong is named the successor of the family and promises of marriages are made with family friends. Two members of the third generation of the Jeong family, Jeong Inseong and Jeong Ingwang, become betrothed to Yi Jayeom and Jang Seongwan, respectively. The two couples who are bound by promises of marriage suffer numerous hardships and difficulties until they eventually marry and live in harmony. The two main conflicts in this novel are the conflict involving the naming of the family’s successor and the conflict between the father-in-law and the sons-in-law. The former conflict occurs when Jeong Jam’s second wife So Gyowan slanders Jeong Inseong and his wife Yi Jayeom to make her own son the successor of the Jeong family, while the latter conflict occurs between Jeong Ingwang and his father-in-law Jang Heon. While Jeong Inseong is a man of virtue with a calm and mild personality, Jeong Ingwang is a heroic character with a strong and reckless disposition. Ingwang’s father in law Jang Heon is a weak-minded man without a sense of shame who grovels before the powerful. Immediately after the Jeong family collapses, Jang betrays them despite being indebted to them. Considering the ungrateful Jang Heon as his sworn enemy, Ingwang  shifts his wrath to his wife Jang Seongwan. The conflict between Ingwang and his father-in-law is extremely intense, to the point that Ingwang demands his wife to commit suicide. However, an even more important conflict in the novel involves the issue of family succession, which is evidenced by the main narrative of the novel beginning with So Gyowan’s plot against Jeong Inseong and ending with her becoming a completely changed person.

Wang Lang's real name is Wang Sagwe, and he is a man from Gilju. One night, his wife Song who has been dead for 11 years appears to him, telling him that Yeomla (Yama) is will punish the two of them for criticizing a devout Buddhist named An Nosuk. She then advises him to hang a painting of Amitabha Buddha on the west wall, and sit on the east side of the house, and recite Buddhist invocations.

The next day, Wang Lang does as Song told him the night before when five demon messengers appear. They pay respects to the painting and bow to Wang, telling him that they admire Wang but that they were ordered by Yeomla to bring him to the other world. Although the third demon messenger argues that Wang Lang should be tied up and brought to Yeomla, the rest of the demon messengers disagree, saying that someone reciting the Buddhist invocations should not be tied up. The first demon messenger comforts Wang by telling him that his sin is grave enough for him to be sent to hell but their good word will bring him back to life.

In hell, the five demon messengers speak highly of Wang's conduct to Yeomla, who becomes impressed by Wang. He then calls ''choepangwan'' (an official in hell), telling him to look for ways for Wang's wife Song, who has died so long ago and no longer has a body, to be reincarnated. ''Choepangwan'' comes up with an idea of putting Song's soul in the body of the princess of Wolji who died at the age of 21 and was reborn in Yamacheon (the third of the six realms in the Buddhist cosmology). Advising Wang Lang and his wife not to criticize Ahn Nosuk, Yeomla asks them to relay to Ahn that he will pass away in three years. Wang Lang comes back to life, while Song is reborn as a princess of Wolji. Seeing that her daughter has come back to life, the king of Wolji is overjoyed at first but becomes morose when he hears about what happened in the other world. Song and Wang Lang live together for the rest of their lives until they die and go to heaven.

''Yussisamdaerok'' tells the story of the growth of the Yu family, mainly focusing on the marital conflicts of the Yu brothers of the first generation (Yu Baekgyeong and Yu Useong), second generation (Yu Segi and Yu Sehyeong), and the third generation (Yu Gwan and Yu Hyeon). The stories of the first and third generations are relatively fewer, and therefore the stories of the second generation of the Yu family are central to the novel. The novel paints a detailed picture of the people of the second generation of the Yu family, such as Yu Segi, Yu Sehyeong, Yu Sechang, Yu Segyeong, Yu Sepil, and Seolyeong, Hyeonyoung, and Okyeong, from their marriages to civil service exams, marital conflicts, prosperity, and death. Each married couple in the story has a different type of relationship. There are a gentleman and a lady in a happy marriage; a man who is already betrothed to a woman but is selected to be a princess’ husband which causes a conflict with his wife-to-be; a couple in a conflict because the husband falls in love with a woman fighter he meets after marrying a lady; a couple with different personalities who come to accept each other after a near-death experience; a wife who is mistreated by her grandmother-in-law and is able to live together with her husband only after she moves the grandmother-in-law’s heart; and a couple where the generous husband attempts to reign in his headstrong wife by mistreating her but accepts her as she is after her near-death experience and live happily together.

The central character in the novel is Princess Jinyang, who is married to Yu Sehyeong, one of the second-generation members of the Yu family. After she marries into the Yu family, she changes her husband, who is originally at odds with her, and also resolves various problems in and outside of the family. Around the time of the Queen Mother’s death, Princess Jinyang falls ill and dies at the age of 25. On her deathbed, she prepares a sealed letter for the Yu family, and the Yu family overcomes a number of crises thanks to her letter. Similar marital conflicts are repeated in the third generation of the Yu family, but the narrative progresses in a way where the various conflicts are happily resolved. The novel ends with the members of the Yu family enjoying prosperity as the previous generations had and bringing honor to the family.

''Jeon Uchi-jeon'' is largely divided into two versions: ''Jeon Uchi-jeon'' and ''Jeon Unchi-jeon.'' The two versions have different plots.

Jeon Uchi-jeon

The following is the plot of the ''Jeon Uchi-jeon'' version of the novel. Jeon Jungbo is a slave belonging to the Gangwon Provincial Office in Wonju. He offers tens of thousands of sacks of rice during a famine to help the people of Korea and receives a government post. Afterward, Jeon Jungbo and his wife dream of a boy who serves Taoist gods, and his wife gives birth to a boy, who they name Uchi. In his childhood, Uchi learns Taoist magic from different teachers. One day, upon hearing from a fortuneteller that Uchi has the mark of a king, Uchi’s father attempts to kill him to protect the family, but Uchi runs away. Uchi becomes the leader of thieves and steals rice from Buddhist temples. He also goes to China to ridicule the Ming Emperor and disappear after revealing that he is Korean. When the Ming Emperor sends an emissary to Joseon, demanding that they bring Uchi to him, the Korean government officials imprison Uchi’s father, Jeon Jungbo, to catch Uchi. When Uchi appears in front of the king, the king promotes Jeong Jungbo as Uchi requested and sends Uchi to China. The Ming Emperor tries to punish him but is duped into giving him a government post, and Uchi makes fun of the emperor and disappears once again. Afterward, Uchi heads to the Chinese state of Yan and marries its princess, brings his parents over from Joseon to Yan, and eventually becomes the king of Yan.

Jeon Unchi-jeon

The following is the plot of the ''Jeon Unchi-jeon'' version of the novel''.'' In the late Koryo dynasty, there was a scholar named Jeon Suk, who never held a government office, and his wife surnamed Choe. They dream of a boy who serves Taoist gods and have a son, who they name Unchi. One day. Unchi lies with a woman, who is actually a fox in disguise, and ends up swallowing a ball of the fox’s energy that was in its mouth. It gives him the power to turn into 36 different beings. At the age of 15, he wins first place in the civil examination. The next year, on the way to a temple where a demon is supposed to be tormenting people, he meets an old man, who gives him a rope and a paper talisman. A beautiful woman approaches him at night, and Unchi figures out that she is an old fox in disguise. He binds her with the rope and subdues her with the talisman. The fox gives him the Heavenly Book, a mysterious and secret book that contains Taoist magic used by Taoist gods, and learns all the magic.

After becoming proficient at Taoist magic, Unchi gives up his government post and wanders the country using Taoist magic. He makes a fool of the king, helps ordinary people in need, and plays tricks on government officials. As Unchi kicks up a storm throughout the country, the king gives him a government post to stop him from his mischief. However, when government officials torment him, he decides to punish them. Through this experience, he becomes a new man, devoting himself to the country and subjugating thieves. Around that time, a treasonous plot is uncovered in Hoseo, and Unchi is arrested when the conspirator confesses that he wished to enthrone Unchi as a king. Unchi uses Taoist magic to escape and lives in hiding with his mother in the mountains. Even in hiding, he uses magic to punish a Buddhist monk who harasses a widow, torments a government official who told the king to kill Unchi, and sets an envious wife straight. When he tries to help a friend, who falls head over heels for a widow, Unchi is scolded by Gangnim Doryeong, who is a Taoist god. One day, Jeon Unchi travels to Seo Hwadam, who is known for his Taoist magic skills. He competes with Seo’s younger brother and wins but ends up losing to Seo. Afterward, he follows Seo into the mountains of gods to cultivate himself and is never seen again.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of China’s Liu Song dynasty, Prime Minister Jo Jeongin renders distinguished services but ends up committing suicide after being falsely accused by Yi Dubyeong. When the emperor continues to miss Prime Minister Jo and cherishes his son, Jo Ung, Yi tries to harm Jo. After the emperor dies, Yi sends the crown prince on an exile and usurps the throne. Enraged, Jo writes a manifesto criticizing Yi and calling him a traitor and posts it on the streets, and Jo and his mother ends up on the run from the wrath of Yi.

While Jo and his mother were roaming the street in disguise, hiding from Yi and begging for food, a Buddhist monk named Wolgyeong leads the two to Gangseonam. There, Jo Ung studies under Wolgyeong and receives a sword—the Sword of Jo Ung—from an old man in the market. Later on, Jo learns martial arts and military tactics from Cheolgwan from Gwansan and gains a swift horse (''yongma,'' literally “dragon horse”), assuming the qualities of a hero who will save a country from difficult times.

After all the training, Jo Ung leaves to go see his mother. On the way to see her, he stays at the house of a government official surnamed Jang, where he promises to marry his daughter, Lady Jang, in the future. Upon returning from the visit to his mother, Jo follows Cheolgwan’s advice and wins the war against Seobeon, saving the State of Wei from a crisis.

Meanwhile, Ganghojasa, who has been looking to remarry after his wife died, hears about the beauty of Lady Jang and attempts to force her to marry him. Lady Jang runs away, and Ganghojasa imprisons her mother. On his way to see the exiled crown prince, Jo Ung learns what happened to Lady Jang and punishes Ganghojasa. He then takes Lady Jang’s mother to Gangseonam, where he reunites with his mother and Lady Jang with her mother. Jo Ung takes off again, arriving just before the crown prince drinks the poison given by the order of the emperor. Jo rescues the crown prince and his faithful servants and returns to Wei. In an alliance with the King of Wei, Jo attacks the Imperial City, and Yi attempts to thwart him by sending the troops but ends up failing. Yi’s men try to escape from the crisis by handing Yi and his family over to Jo, but Jo Ung kills Yi and all of his men in the presence of the crown prince. Later, Jo Ung becomes the king of a small region, where he rules with benevolence and lives happily ever after (Wanpan edition with 104 pages).

In Austria-Hungary, 1876, Count Dracula emerges from his castle and raids a girl boarding school, kidnapping the young Countess Barbara von Weidenborn. A posse pursues him, but Dracula is able to bite Barbara and drain her blood before he is cornered and staked inside his tomb. Unwilling to defile Barbara's corpse, the citizens bury her in a coffin sealed with a cross to prevent her from rising as a vampire herself. A hundred years later, two construction workers accidentally unearth Barbara's coffin, and one of them steals the cross to trade it for a drink of beer before they report their find to the police. In the meantime, however, the coffin is stolen and sold to an unscrupulous antique dealer. Barbara emerges the following night and kills the dealer; but after having consumed his blood, she turns into a beautiful adult woman.

Barbara eventually finds employment with Theo Marmorstein, an undertaker, where she secretly drains the corpses of their blood for later consumption. However, during a carnival party, her supply of blood runs out (mostly thanks to Marmorstein's bumbling assistants), and in her thirst she attacks and drains Irene Ruhesanft, Marmorstein's love interest. When Marmorstein catches her in the act, she moves to attack him as well; Marmorstein accidentally knocks over a bunch of chemicals which set the building ablaze, forcing Barbara to flee and sustain herself on blood banks and the occasional human victim.

The vampire murders are investigated by Austrian police Inspector Harris and his assistant Eddi. They encounter Barbara while she is still working for Marmorstein, and while Harris falls in love with her, Eddi gradually begins to suspect that the murderer is a vampire, which Harris dismisses. After the undertaker's firm has burned down, Harris is delighted to find Barbara still alive, but as they spend one evening together, she attacks and tries to drain him. The imminent sunrise forces her to retreat to her coffin stored inside a secret room within her apartment; when Harris uncautiously follows her and bends over the coffin, she pulls him inside and the lid falls shut. When Eddi, after having deduced that Barbara is the vampire, arrives right afterwards and comes upon the shaking coffin, he ends the film by nervously asking the audience: "I wonder if I should disturb them now?"

Rogaciano (Cantinflas) is the modest worker of a Mexican film studio, who performs several roles as an extra in the films shot there. His excessive zeal at work causes the antipathy of successive directors who do not support his forays into their films. After his run-ins into film sets, he dreams that he is the protagonist of each of the productions of which he has participated, such as him playing a ''sans-culotte'' and saving Marie Antoinette in a film about the French Revolution, being the lover of Marguerite Gautier in a retelling of ''La Dame aux Camélias'' in which she survives, and saving a maiden from an Aztec sacrifice by fighting a warrior (defeating him by fighting him as if it were a bullfight) in an Aztec film.

In one of the productions Rogaciano is in, he meets Rosita (Alma Delia Fuentes), a young woman who also works as an extra, who is initially disappointed in the treatment of the studio workers, who tell her that they don't need more people like her to work there. Rogaciano, seeing the situation of Rosita, who is the guardian of her two younger brothers and has economic deficiencies, helps her to be chosen as an actress in an audition for a blockbuster conducted by the directors of the studio where Rogaciano and Rosita work. After signing Rosita to a contract, the directors, having been made aware of Rosita's relation to Rogaciano, tell her that from now on she must not get involved with him due to Rogaciano's low social status. Rosita is reluctant to this, but Rogaciano learns this and, albeit heartbroken, convinces her to follow through it.

''Blizzard or Bust''

At Twilight Sparkle's house, the Equestria Girls wake up after spending the previous night studying for a school test. Despite their all-night study session, they are sleep-deprived and under-prepared for their test. Luckily, after seeing light snowfall outside, Rainbow Dash comes up with the idea of making a fake snow day in order to get Principal Celestia to cancel school.

In the montage that follows, the girls set up a fake snow day display outside Canterlot High School. Pinkie Pie makes a snowman out of potatoes (with some interference by a hungry raccoon); Sunset Shimmer paints a large portrait of the school courtyard covered in snow; Fluttershy directs her animal friends to make snow from ice blocks delivered by Applejack, which Twilight then spreads across the courtyard; and Rarity spends the whole time knitting a scarf for Pinkie's potato snowman.

Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna see the result of the girls' work outside Celestia's office window. Before Celestia cancels school for the day, however, Cranky Doodle sees through the ruse, and the girls are caught and punished with detention after their test. It is revealed that Rainbow Dash's snow day project was actually a way to prepare her and her friends for their test on water vapor.

''Saving Pinkie's Pie''

At Pinkie Pie's house, Pinkie is baking a soufflé for Rarity. She explains to Sunset Shimmer that she bakes a soufflé for Rarity every year, but it always deflates before she can deliver it. This year, Pinkie plans out the perfect route to deliver the soufflé to Rarity's house within seven minutes, but she and Sunset discover a huge snowball fight taking place in the front yard.

Sunset and Pinkie attempt to break through the war-like battlefield, even trying to call a ceasefire, but the two sides refuse to stop hurling snowballs. After briefly incapacitating Applejack, Sunset recruits Flash Sentry's help in getting Pinkie across the yard, but Flash is quickly taken out. Sunset eventually sacrifices herself so that Pinkie can make it the rest of the way, but seven minutes pass, and Pinkie fears she will once again fail to deliver her soufflé in time.

Just then, Rarity unexpectedly appears, and Pinkie quickly gives her the soufflé before it deflates. Rarity finds the soufflé absolutely delicious, and Pinkie is happy that she has finally succeeded in delivering her gift. When Rainbow Dash pops out of a snowman and tries to hit Pinkie and Rarity with snowballs, Rarity shields them with her magical geode powers.

''The Cider Louse Fools''

Twilight Sparkle has been invited to attend the Apple family's annual holiday harvest and cider-making party at their house. Applejack mentions to Twilight that Flim and Flam swindle her and her family at the party every year. The Apples intend to out-swindle the Flim Flam brothers this year by setting traps for them, and Twilight offers to help.

Through Twilight's instruction, the Apple family sets up for their cider-making party and plans to sell Flim and Flam a jug of salt-and-pepper water instead of their signature apple cider. As the party gets underway, Flim and Flam arrive and, promising to have no tricks up their sleeves this year, offer to trade some of the Apple family's cider with a fake diamond. Once the trade is fulfilled, Flim and Flam drive off, and Twilight and her friends believe they have successfully swindled the brothers.

However, Flim and Flam, having seen through their deception, reappear and make off with the cider that Twilight and her friends had hidden away. Applejack and her family believe Flim and Flam have swindled them yet again, but Twilight reveals she predicted that the brothers would see through their deception. She set up cardboard standees of party guests and made Flim and Flam believe the party started earlier than usual, causing them to make off with salt-and-pepper water as originally planned. With their deception truly successful, Twilight and the Apples celebrate over cider.

''Winter Break-In''

The Equestria Girls go to Sunset Shimmer's storage locker to retrieve bags of toys to give out to kids at the Toys for Kids Festival. After a brief period of figuring out who has the storage locker key, Sunset realizes she left it in her locker at school, which is closed for winter break. In front of the school, some of the girls come up with heist ideas to break into the school and retrieve the key.

Sunset comes up with an idea of sneaking in through the air vents, disabling the security system, and distracting the janitor before getting the key. Pinkie Pie comes up with the idea of luring Principal Celestia outside with a plate of cupcakes and sneaking into the school while she is distracted. Applejack comes up with the idea of using her super strength to lift the building off its foundations.

Twilight disapproves of all these ideas that amount to breaking and entering, and she comes up with the far simpler idea of calling Principal Celestia's phone and asking her to open the school doors for Twilight and her friends. Once they have the key to Sunset's storage locker, they deliver the toys to the Toys for Kids Festival at the Canterlot Mall. Afterward, Sunset suggests they cash in their gift cards and go shopping. Twilight realizes she left the gift cards at school, but she has another idea for a heist.

''Dashing Through The Mall''

At the Canterlot Mall, the Equestria Girls get together for a Secret Santa-like holiday gift exchange, but Rainbow Dash has forgotten to get a gift for Fluttershy. She races through the mall to find a last-minute present, but nearly every store has a long line of people waiting to shop. Luckily, Zephyr Breeze works at one of the stores, and he allows Rainbow Dash to cut to the front of the wait line. Rainbow decides to put up with Zephyr's obnoxiousness in order to get the perfect gift for Fluttershy.

Zephyr shows Rainbow a multitude of items, none of which Rainbow considers to be suitable for Fluttershy's tastes. He eventually suggests an instant camera to replace Fluttershy's camera that broke the previous year. Rainbow Dash approves of the camera, buys it from Zephyr, and thanks him for his help.

Upon returning to her friends, Rainbow Dash gives Fluttershy the instant camera only to discover that Zephyr has already replaced the broken one. Fluttershy still enjoys the gift and quickly puts it to use, taking pictures of herself and the others as they exchange gifts. Meanwhile, Snips and Snails are overjoyed to find that they have bought extendable high-five arms for one another.

''O' Come All Ye Squashful''

At Canterlot High, Applejack meets with her friends and suggests starting a new holiday tradition. She explains her family takes a theme photo every year to send to their friends, and she suggests she and her friends do the same with a "cornucopia" theme. Despite her friends' reluctance over the possibility of publicly embarrassing themselves, they agree to do it for Applejack's sake, and Rarity offers to design the girls' wardrobe.

Rarity spends the day fashioning elaborate fruit/vegetable costumes for herself and her friends. They try to reach the auditorium for the photo session without being noticed, but when the bell rings to mark the end of class, students emerge from the classrooms and immediately start laughing at the girls. Once they reach the auditorium, Applejack laughs at them as well and says that she only meant to use the cornucopia as a backdrop for a group photo with everyone in their regular clothes. Annoyed that they publicly embarrassed themselves for no reason, the girls dress Applejack up in a costume just like theirs, and Photo Finish takes the picture as the girls wish the viewer a happy holiday.

Steve has recently retired and passed the family business over to his son Jimmy. Steve hasn't seen his eldest son Jimmy in eight years. When Steve suddenly falls ill, time is running out to repair their broken relationship.

A judge is about to retire.

Widowed hip-hop radio DJ Rashon "Rush" Williams loses his job at the radio station WMLE when it is bought by CamCom and switches to a pop format. He and his four children, who have become accustomed to a privileged life, are forced to downsize and move back into Aunt Jo's house where they lived before Rush became wealthy. Rush and his producer Roxy buy WBQL, an old radio station where they used to work, but CamCom puts pressure on advertisers to not buy advertising time from Rush and Roxy.

Rush and Roxy develop a romantic relationship but when Rush announces this to his children, Rush's son Jamal, already angry that he will not be able to afford Harvard anymore, runs away from home. Rush finds Jamal at his deceased mother's favorite location in a nearby park and Jamal expresses his discomfort living in their old house without his mother but comes to accept the new situation and his father's new relationship.

Rush finally manages to sell his large expensive house that he cannot afford anymore and Marshall from WMLE quits his job at the station and invests in WBQL, enabling them to broadcast during the Christmas season.

The player character wakes up in a trashed hostel room in Martinaise with a severe hangover and no memory of his own identity. He meets Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, who informs him that they have been assigned to investigate the death of a hanged man in the cafeteria's backyard. His identity is unclear and initial investigation indicates that he was lynched by a group of people. The detectives explore the rest of the district, following up on leads while helping residents with a variety of tasks.

The player character gradually learns that he is a decorated RCM detective, Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor (meaning he twice declined promotion from his current rank) Harrier "Harry" Du Bois. Harry experienced an event several years ago that began a mid-life crisis, and on the night he was assigned to the hanged man case he finally snapped and embarked on a self-destructive bender around Martinaise. Through Harry and Kim's work, they discover the killing is connected to an ongoing strike by the Martinaise's dockworkers' union against the Wild Pines corporation. They seek out representatives of the dockworkers and the Wild Pines corporation, meeting up with union boss Evrart Claire and Wild Pines negotiator Joyce Messier. Joyce reveals that the hanged man, named Lely, was the commander of a squad of mercenaries sent by Wild Pines to break the strike and warns that the rest of the squad has gone rogue and will likely seek retribution.

This leads them to discover that Lely was killed before the hanging. The Hardie Boys, a group of dockworkers who act as vigilantes, claim responsibility for the murder. They assert that Lely attempted to rape a cafeteria guest named Klaasje. The detectives then meet with Klaasje, who reveals that Lely was shot in the mouth while the two were having consensual sex. Unable to figure out the origin of the bullet and fearful of the authorities due to her past as a corporate spy, Klaasje enlisted the help of a truck driver and union sympathizer named Ruby, who staged Lely's death with the rest of the Hardie Boys. The detectives find Ruby hiding in an abandoned building, where she incapacitates them with a Pale device. She claims that the cover-up was Klaasje's idea and has no idea who shot Lely. The player manages to either resist or disable the Pale device and tries to arrest her. Ruby, who believes Harry to be a corrupt cop, either escapes or kills herself.

The detectives return to find themselves in a standoff between the mercenaries and the Hardie Boys, the former seeking revenge over Lely's death. A firefight breaks out and the player is wounded, blacking out and waking up a few days later. Most or all the mercenaries are killed and Kim may be hospitalized, in which case street urchin Cuno offers to take his place. The detectives begin chasing down their last leads, determining that the shot that killed Lely came from an old sea fort off the shore of Martinaise.

The detectives explore the fort and find the shooter, a former Commissar from the Revachol communist army named Iosef Lilianovich Dros. Iosef reveals that he shot Lely in a fit of anger and jealousy; his motivations are born out of his bitterness towards the capitalist system Lely represented, as well as sexual envy for Klaasje. The detectives arrest him for the murder. At this point, an insectoid cryptid known as the Insulindian Phasmid appears from the reeds. The player may have a psychic conversation with the Phasmid, who tells Harry that it finds the notion of his unstable mind to be fearful, but is in awe at his ability to continue existing. It comforts Harry, telling him to move on from the wreck of his life.

Harry and his partner are confronted by his old squad upon their return to Martinaise. They reflect on Harry's actions during the game, whether he has solved the case and how he handled the mercenaries. Harry's usual partner Lieutenant Jean Vicquemare confirms that Harry's emotional breakdown was the result of his ex-fiancé leaving him years ago. Depending on player choices, the squad expresses hope that Harry's state will improve in the future, and invites him and either Kim or Cuno to a special RCM unit.

Kemal is a renowned businessman who lives an enviable life in Istanbul, along with his wife Suzan and sons Mert and Cicek, whom he loves very much. Suzan, for her part, believes she lives in a 20-year marriage that cannot be more perfect, along with two children and a devoted husband whom she is hopelessly in love with. However, following a tragedy that shows even the most perfect of hidden marriages that they prefer not to discover. An accident takes Mert to a hospital bed and a kidney transplant is all that can save his life. Without compatible parents, the time comes when Kemal admits that another family and two more children, which may be Mert's only salvation.

The junior hockey team is the backbone of the small town of Beartown, where a win in the national games would mean more resources given to the team. The star of the team is 17-year-old Kevin Erdahl, whose talent is so outstanding that the entire junior team has been built around him since he was about seven years old. Peter Andersson is the General Manager of the team, and the new coach is David, after the previous coach was fired by the council for not focusing on winning enough. Peter's family consists of his wife Kira, and his children Maya and Leo. Maya is close friends with another girl, Ana.

The novel opens with the team and the community preparing for a key semi-final game. Recognizing that lack of speed is a weakness, Sune and David agree to add underage junior Amat to improve their chances. Amat is grateful to be on the team, especially for his mother, who works as a cleaner. Beartown wins the semi-final, at least partly because the opposing team was not prepared to defend Amat's speed.

On the night of the semi-final victory, Kevin's parents are out of town. This gives Kevin the opportunity to host a big party for his team and many other teenagers from the community. At the party, many of the teenagers are drinking and indulging in marijuana use and the team members boast about having sex with the supportive female fans. Maya and Kevin sneak off to an upstairs bedroom to make out. Maya resists Kevin's advances, and he proceeds to rape her. Amat, himself drunk and harboring feelings for Maya, stumbles in to witness the rape. Maya takes advantage of Amat's intrusion to free herself from Kevin.

Maya has had a crush on Kevin for some time and is devastated by his attack. She struggles to cope for a week, knowing that reporting the crime will tear the town apart. After a week from her rape, she tells her parents, who are furious and immediately report the crime to the police. Kevin is pulled from playing in the final happening that day, to the anger and shock of the rest of the team. They play the final without Kevin and lose.

As the news spread of Maya's accusation and the team's loss in the final, many people in the town turn against Maya's family. Kevin's father believes that Maya's accusation is a lie and that Peter, out of jealousy, intentionally reported it the day of the final to cause the team to lose. Kevin's father pushes the sponsors and the council board to fire Peter. He also attempts to bribe Amat into silence by giving his mother a better job, but his mother refuses, telling him to be honest.

The hockey club holds a vote to decide whether Peter should be fired from his position as General Manager. Amat testifies as a witness on how he saw Kevin rape Maya, much to the anger of the rest of the team. The town’s barkeep believes Maya and Amat’s story and convinces a large group of hockey fans to vote in Peter’s favor, resulting in Peter keeping his job. However, David is frustrated with Peter’s “mixing of politics and hockey” and moves to a neighboring town, bringing with him Kevin and most of the team, along with the town's sponsors. Only Amat, and three other players stay back to support Beartown.

The rape case against Kevin is dropped due to insufficient evidence. Maya continues to suffer distress and decides she must either kill herself or kill Kevin to be relieved of the pain. Late at night, Maya surprises Kevin with a shotgun and forces him to kneel in front of her. Maya thrusts the gun to a whimpering Kevin's forehead and pulls the trigger, but he doesn’t die as she intentionally didn’t load the gun. Maya reasons that the fear Kevin felt at the moment she pulled the trigger will continue to haunt him for the rest of his life, just as the rape will haunt her.

In the end, the events of the subsequent ten years are sketched out. Maya is a popular guitarist, and has a chance encounter with Kevin (who is now married). Maya recognizes Kevin and realizes she can expose him in public, but chooses not to. When he leaves shaken, his wife asks him who Maya is, and Kevin tells her the whole truth.

A thief named Tom steals an envelope from a safe and escapes from guards, but is thrown off a building by an unseen assailant. The envelope is stolen while Tom is left to die.

Years before, a boy named Oliver lived with his mother Molly and their hobby was painting. After Molly dies from unknown causes, Oliver runs away being scared due to not knowing anyone else. He teaches himself to free run and gets the nickname "Twist". One day while graffiti spraying on a traffic warden's van, the police chase him and he meets Dodge and Batesey (The Artful Dodger and Charles Bates). They escape to their den near the Truman Brewery where Twist meets Fagin their carer. The next morning, Twist draws a giant graffiti painting on a building. Fagin sends Red (Nancy Lee) to invite Twist (who is smitten with her) to his for dinner. Meanwhile, Fagin meets with a friend of his named Sikes (Bill Sikes) revealing she pushed Chitling. Twist stays with the family and Fagin reveals his plan to steal from art dealer Dr. Crispin Losberne who took everything from Fagin. They then steal his phone and Batesey makes a copy. Meanwhile, Red, as a distraction, asks to be an intern for Losberne, so the next day Fagin gets the blueprints to Losberne's gallery. Twist meets Sikes and her dog Bull's-Eye. Fagin explains that Losberne once went into partnership with a Mr. Issac Solomon who Losberne also betrayed.

Red plants a small bomb in Losberne's bathroom to steal a lost painting by William Hogarth. The bomb floods the basement and causes the painting to have to be moved. Back at base, Twist finds out that Red and Sikes are a couple upsetting him. At a pub, Red appears and Sikes’ goons attack the group while Dodge plays Ever Fallen In Love in the jukebox. Twist and Red escape to a pool where the two kiss and run through the park. Twist is arrested by the traffic warden from earlier and is interrogated by Detectives Brownlow and Bedwin who tell him about Chitling. Twist is let free and gets back to base. Batesey is planning to get in a box to steal the painting while it's on the move but because he's claustrophobic, Twist switches places with him.

Losberne finds out about the thieves and this causes Twist to fall out the van. Sikes picks Batesey up and apparently kills him. Twist gets back to base and asks "What happened to Tom Chitling?" and Sikes reveals that she killed Tom. Fagin makes a plan to break into the auction building. Disguised, the group sneak in and Fagin plants a gun in Losberne's chair. This causes a big evacuation. Twist steals the painting and escapes with Dodge. Batesey, who is still alive, reveals that Sikes tried to kill him and meets them at the base where Twist reveals he made a duplicate of the painting and has hidden the real one. He and Red escape and Sikes shoots Fagin. She then chases them to a rooftop and is shot by Fagin and falls off the building.

A week later, Twist meets Bedwin and Brownlow at a café and leaves them the envelope and a key. He then calls Brownlow hinting that the painting was right next to them the whole time. The envelope reveals the true owners of the painting and the key leads them to a locker owned by Losberne (who is arrested) which houses many stolen artwork. Fagin is revealed to be Issac Solomon and leaves the gang. It’s also revealed that when Twist was in the van, he snuck a painting by his mother and it goes on display at the National Gallery.

The film ends with Twist telling the gang to stop stealing and start selling paintings while he and Red start a relationship.

Amber Appleton is in high school in Portland, Oregon with her mother Becky. They are temporarily homeless after Becky leaves her abusive boyfriend Oliver, sleeping in the school bus Becky drives.

Amber is very busy, including teaching an ESL class and working in an old age home, where she has bonded with Joan, a resident. She also plans an annual school variety show, the proceeds going to charity. Amber is invited to audition for the drama program at Carnegie Mellon University, her deceased father's alma mater. At Becky's encouragement, she spends rent money for a plane ticket. Becky is fired when it's discovered that they have been living in the bus. She decides to return to Oliver, but Amber refuses to join her, sleeping on a park bench and subsequently getting robbed.

She confides about her situation in her friend Ty, who takes Amber to his family's vacation house to stay and help her prepare for her audition. She tells him that her father's death caused her mother to struggle and for them to be evicted and move in with Oliver, who eventually became abusive. Becky, who is an alcoholic, frequently suffers relapses while with Oliver. With the help of Donna, the mother of her friend Ricky, Amber tells Becky that she does not feel safe living with Oliver. They have an argument, and Becky leaves; Amber stays at Donna's house. The following morning, Amber meets with police officers at school, who inform her that her mother and Oliver have been killed in a drunk driving car accident.

On the day of her audition, Amber discovers that her dog Bobby is sick; she misses her flight to take him to the vet, where she learns he requires expensive surgery. She drops out and begins working full-time in order to afford the surgery, forgoing a rescheduled audition and losing contact with her friends. Ty confronts her and accuses her of rejecting help from others, and the two stop speaking.

She plans to skip the variety show, but Ty surprises her at work, revealing that the proceeds will go towards paying for the dog's surgery. All of Amber's friends perform in the show, including the students from her ESL class. At the end of the evening, the fundraiser is still $2,000 short, but suddenly receives an anonymous donation of $200,000. At the home, Joan reveals that she is the one who made the donation, as she considers her as family. Amber gets another audition from Carnegie Mellon, and she and Ty share a kiss before she leaves.

Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke takes a pregnancy test at school and is interrupted by her former best friend, Bailey Butler who sees that the test is positive. Initially, not knowing whose it is, Bailey offers to give a ride to a clinic where she can get an abortion if she needs one. Then, she assumes Veronica will be keeping the baby, subsequently disposing of the test.

Veronica decides to get an abortion and then discovers it is forbidden in Missouri without parental consent. She quickly formulates a plan to get to Albuquerque, New Mexico where clinics will perform abortions without parental involvement but lacks funds to make it all the way. Meeting with her boyfriend Kevin, she is shocked when he reacts to the pregnancy news by proposing. He also confesses he realised the condom had broken. Veronica pretends she will consider the proposal, taking the ring with her. She then goes to Bailey who agrees to drive her to Albuquerque.

At their first stop Veronica tries to pawn her engagement ring and is stopped by Kevin, who has been stalking her. Learning that Veronica needs the money for an abortion, the sympathetic pawnshop broker agrees to buy her ring. Veronica and Bailey head to Texas though they fight over their former friendship which Bailey fails to realize is because Bailey's father was ashamed of her nerdy pursuits as a child.

While stopping at a diner Bailey is frightened by the arrival of local sheriffs. She reveals that the car they are driving belongs to her mother's boyfriend. The girls escape detection when a fellow patron named Jarrod creates a scene. Jarrod later gives them a lift, introducing them to Matthews, a race car driver, who offers to drop them off at the closest bus station. Matthews turns out to be a woman, who Bailey is immediately attracted to. Bailey then reveals herself to be a lesbian and later has her first kiss with Matthews.

Before Matthews can drive them to the station a young couple, overhearing their need for a ride to Albuquerque for the abortion, offers to drive them all the way.

Bailey and Veronica wake up in the morning at the couple's house, where they discover that the couple are actually pro-lifers trying to stop Veronica from having the abortion. They manage to escape the pro-lifers by stealing their GMC Yukon and faking their own deaths.

Arriving at the nearest bus station they discover it is out of order but stumble across a mechanic shop run by anti-government survivalist Bob. Hearing Veronica needs an abortion he agrees to drive her to the clinic in an old Lincoln Town Car limo. During the ride Veronica's friends call her to say the pregnancy test belongs to Bailey. Wanting to protect herself Veronica agrees that Bailey is the most likely suspect. Bailey overhears, triggering a fight between them about the dissolution of their friendship. Bailey leaves while Veronica continues on to her appointment. When Veronica realizes Bailey has gone to see her estranged father, she re-schedules the appointment and follows Bailey. Arriving at a flower shop Bailey's father works in, Veronica witnesses their awkward reunion, and comes to Bailey's defense when her father treats her coldly.

At the clinic, Kevin surprises them and threatens to tell everyone about the abortion unless Veronica stays with him, but she tells him to go ahead and do it. After the abortion, they realize they have no more cash and make calls to their respective mothers who get them plane tickets home. At home Veronica's mother admits to being confused by her choice but reiterates her love for her daughter.

At school the next day Veronica learns that Kevin never revealed her abortion to her friends, but she decides to tell them anyway. She also decides to continue her friendship with Bailey and goes to sit with her at lunch.

Some time later, the two go on another road trip to Roswell.