Bobby, Lola, and Juliette are three extraordinary 10-year-old girls who live a seemingly normal life. However the trio work undercover as the "Berry Bees" for the Bee Intelligence Agency (B.I.A. for short), a secret agency that selected them to carry out special spy missions. The girls, all codenamed after a type of berry, are given gadgets each episode by the head of the agency, Ms. Berry.
Usually the girls have to foil the evil plans of recurring villains such as Tara Bytes, Mirage, and the Greenthumbs. At the end of each episode, the villain escapes the confusion to fight the girls another day while things return to normal.
The plot is a fictionalized or dramatized version of William Shakespeare's young adult life.
In the early 1900s of the Wild West, Milagro Navarro-Prescott performs her trademark act in the circus until she falls from a horse during one of her performances and gets killed. Years later, her young daughter, Fortuna "Lucky" Esperanza Navarro-Prescott, has been living with her aunt Cora and grandfather James in a city on the east coast. However, after Lucky lets a squirrel in their house and ruins her grandfather’s campaign party, she and Cora head to the western town of Miradero where they will stay with Lucky's father Jim, whom Lucky has not really known of after the incident with Milagro, for the summer. On the train over, Lucky notices a Kiger Mustang running with his herd, and goes to the back of the train to meet him. Upon arriving in Miradero, the pair meet local young riders Pru Granger (and her father Al), and Abigail Stone (and her brother Snips).
The next day, Lucky goes to a corral where she sees the same horse from before trying to be abusively manhandled by a man named Hendricks. Lucky tells Jim and Cora about the horse, thinking he can be her new friend, but Jim does not want Lucky going near the horses after what happened to Milagro. Nonetheless, Pru and Abigail help Lucky win over the trust of the horse, whom she names Spirit. After a while, Spirit trusts Lucky enough to eat an apple she offers him, and allows her to pet him, sealing their bond.
Lucky attempts to ride Spirit but he escapes from the corral and runs away, while Lucky is saved by Pru and Abigail after almost falling off a cliff. Jim finds and scolds Lucky for disobeying him. They go home arguing, making Lucky think he has given up on her. She sneaks out at night through the forest where she finds Spirit and his herd together, but are interrupted by Hendricks and his men, who capture all the horses but Spirit and take them in with a stolen train. Knowing Hendricks and his men are wranglers, who are taking the horses to a boat to be auctioned off and worked to death, Lucky agrees to help Spirit rescue his herd. She enlists Pru and Abigail with their horses to embark on a journey to try and cut the wranglers off on their path by beating them to a water depot located beyond a summit called Heck Mountain. During the trip, Lucky builds up her relationship with Spirit, and becomes good friends with Pru and Abigail as they travel.
The girls reach the water depot the night before the wranglers are set to arrive, but Lucky wakes up the next day realizing the wranglers made it earlier than expected. Spirit desperately attempts to save his herd on his own, but gets taken in by the wranglers. Determined to save Spirit, Lucky and her friends follow the train to the docks, where the wranglers are boarding the horses onto the boat. The girls arrive too late to stop the boat from leaving, but they manage to save Spirit. Lucky and Spirit get on board by leaping off the docks, and free the other horses and subdue the wranglers, with Spirit knocking Hendricks off the boat. Jim, Cora, and Al (who were notified of the girls absence by Snips) show up on a fast steam train, and arrest Hendricks and the other wranglers.
On their way back to Miradero, the girls travel to a field in the middle of the wilderness, and Lucky lets Spirit go, saying that he needs to stay with his herd. When she returns home, Lucky and Cora initially plan to return to the city, but after Lucky bonds with Jim at a rodeo, she decides instead to stay in Miradero with him and her friends, as Spirit is seen riding through the fields with his herd.
In Greater Los Angeles where humans and anthropomorphic animals co-exist, cool-headed pickpocket and robber Mr. Wolf leads The Bad Guys, a gang of infamous criminal animals who commit brazen thefts and evade the authorities due to the public's interpretation of them as inherently "bad" animals.
After being insulted by Governor Diane Foxington on live television, Wolf convinces his gang to pull off a heist to steal a valuable award called the Golden Dolphin from guinea pig philanthropist Professor Marmalade, during his inauguration at a gala. During the heist, Wolf inadvertently helps an elderly woman and is praised for the good deed, leading to Wolf becoming afflicted by his wrongdoings. After the gang is exposed and arrested as result of a failed attempted escape, Wolf persuades Marmalade with Foxington's approval to reform them, planning to take advantage of the pretense to steal the award again.
Marmalade invites the gang to his home, but they struggle with his lessons, unable to adapt to good behavior. After a "heist for good" to rescue a herd of guinea pigs from a research lab fails due to Wolf's second-in-command, Mr. Snake, eating them, Foxington decides to call off the experiment but relents when Wolf confesses that he despises being hated for his species; she admits she understands and has hope for him. Wolf contemplates the matter and finds himself rescuing a cat from a tree, which Marmalade records and publishes, turning the public image of the gang around. However, Snake fears that he is losing touch with his friend.
When the gang execute a new heist to steal the award again during a gala, Wolf cannot bring himself to finish the plan. Suddenly, a meteorite on display is stolen, causing the gang to be blamed for the theft. When they are arrested, Marmalade meets them in private and reveals that he stole the meteorite and had planned for the gang to take the blame (he was the old woman Wolf had helped). In prison, Wolf explains to his gang that he does not want to be a criminal anymore and that they can improve, but Snake refuses, believing that the world will never see them as anything other than monsters. Their fight is interrupted when the Crimson Paw, a notorious criminal, rescues them; revealing herself to be Foxington, who reformed when she attempted to steal the Golden Dolphin herself, and has suspected Marmalade.
Upon reaching safety, the gang abandons Wolf for betraying them, but when they return to their hideout, they find it completely emptied of their loot, as Wolf revealed its location to Foxington earlier at the gala as compensation for his crimes. After Snake willingly gives the childish Mr. Shark his last possession (a Push Pop) out of kindness, the others realize that they can change their ways and proceed to help Wolf. However, Snake denies it and abandons them to ally with Marmalade, who plans to use the meteorite to power a mind-control device to hypnotize an army of guinea pigs into stealing charity funds.
Meanwhile, Wolf and Foxington break into Marmalade's home to steal the meteorite, only to be captured by Marmalade and Snake. They are rescued by the rest of the gang, then steal the meteorite and proceed to foil Marmalade's heist. They arrive at the police station to turn in the meteorite until Wolf decides to bring Snake back despite his betrayal. During the chase, Marmalade betrays Snake as an advantage and steals the meteorite back.
After rescuing Snake and destroying Marmalade's mind-control helmet, the gang surrenders to the authorities to prevent Foxington from revealing her former criminal past. Marmalade attempts to take credit for recovering the meteorite, but it is revealed to be a fake planted by Snake, who had faked his defection. He secretly switched it for a meteorite-shaped lamp and overcharged the real one inside Marmalade's basement, causing it to implode the entire manor from afar and exposing Marmalade as the thief. When the lamp meteorite falls on Marmalade, a diamond he stole from Foxington falls from his suit, which authorities recognize as having been stolen by the Crimson Paw years ago. Implicated as the Crimson Paw and revealed to be the meteorite thief, Marmalade is arrested.
One year later, the gang is released from prison in light of their good behavior, partnering up with Foxington to begin their new crime-fighting careers.
Once there was an old man who caught fish for a living. One day, the fisherman caught a large carp but let it go when he saw the carp shedding tears. When the fisherman went to the seashore the next day, a boy appeared, introduced himself as the son of the Dragon King of the Sea, and told the fisherman that he was the carp the fisherman had spared the day before. The boy went on to thank the old fisherman and invited him to the Dragon King’s palace. The fisherman was well received by the Dragon King and gifted with a precious marble that made him rich once he returned home. Hearing news of this, an old woman in the neighboring village stole the precious marble by secretly switching it with a different marble, which dragged the old fisherman back into poverty.
The cat and the dog living with the fisherman saw the burglary as an opportunity to express their gratitude to their master and set out for the old woman’s house in the neighboring village. The cat and the dog threatened the mouse living at the old woman’s house to find out where she hid the precious marble.
While making their way back home, the dog had to swim across a river while the cat sat on the dog’s back with the marble in its mouth. However, when the dog kept asking the cat whether it was safely holding on to the marble, the cat finally opened its mouth to answer and dropped the marble into the river. This caused the cat and the dog to fight, after which the dog left for home and the cat remained by the riverside to eat some fish. When the precious marble turned up inside the fish it was eating, the cat brought the marble back to its master. From then on, the fisherman gave preference to the cat and kept the dog outside the house, which is how the relationship between the cat and the dog turned from friend to foe.
''Gyeonmyo jaengju'' is composed of multiple parts including the part where the fisherman spares the carp’s life, the part where the old woman tricks the fisherman into losing his marble, and the part where the cat and the dog fight because of the marble. The cat and dog fight tends to be combined with different parts to create variations of this tale that largely fall under two types: one that combines the cat and dog fight with the part about the carp returning the favor, and the other that combines the cat and dog fight with the fisherman’s wife defeating a python (imugi). Variations of the second type feature a python filled with resentment toward the fisherman, which the fisherman’s wife wisely defeats. Some variations skip much of the details related to how the fisherman obtains the marble. In other variations, the person who steals the marble is not an old woman from a nearby village, but a friend of the fisherman or a peddler.Seong Gi-yeol, “[http://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Contents/Item/E0001700 The Cat and Dog Fight Over a Marble],” Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture.
Lee, Ji-young, “[http://folkency.nfm.go.kr/en/topic/detail/5724 Dog and Cat Fight Over Magic Marble],” Korean Folk Literature-Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture.
Once upon a time, a maiden became kidnapped by a monster from the underworld. When the maiden’s parents offered all they owned in addition to their daughter in exchange for her rescue, a general came forward and set out on the mission. After a series of severe trials, the general finally learned that the monster was living in the underworld and discovered a narrow door leading to it. The general tried to make his men climb down a rope to reach the underworld, but all of them gave up halfway. The general was left with no choice but to make the trip himself. Once down in the underworld, the general hid up in a tree beside a well. Shortly afterwards, a maiden came along to draw water. The general dropped a few leaves into the water jar to inform her of his presence and was able to infiltrate the monster’s house with her help. The maiden asked the general to lift a rock to see whether he was strong enough to defeat the monster, but the general failed the test. The maiden thus gave the general some invigorating water to drink and had him build up his strength. Once he grew stronger, the general was finally able to slay the monster and send all the kidnapped people back up above ground. However, the men waiting above ground snatched the maiden and took off without waiting for their general. The general eventually escaped from the underworld with the help of a deity, punished the men who betrayed him, and married the maiden he rescued.
The protagonist’s identity differs from time to time in some variations of this folktale. The protagonist is sometimes a strong man, warrior, military officer, idler, hunter, or a boy. The female abducted by the underworld enemy is sometimes a princess or a lady from an affluent family. Instead of the kidnapped maiden, a deity serves as a guide to the protagonist in some variations, or the protagonist is assisted by a magpie indebted to the protagonist. In terms of subtypes, this tale is linked to the story ''Geumdwaejigul'' (금돼지굴 The Golden Boar in a Cave), which is related to the birth story of Choe Chi-won. A variation in which the protagonist ventures down to the underworld in pursuit of the monster that killed his mother shares connections with the stories ''Kkori datbal judungi datbal goemul'' (꼬리 닷발 주둥이 닷발 괴물 The Monster With a Five Feet Long Beak and Tail) and ''Jomagu'' (조마구 The Monster Jomagu).
Years after the last fighting tournament known as "The King of Fighters", a man Antonov leads his own competition. This attracts returning fighters and most notably newcomers. The elder martial artist Tung Fu Rue wants to use this fight to test his student Shun'ei and Meitenkun's powers. Elsewhere almost nearby the stadium, an Ainu priestess from the past, Nakoruru appears in the present and sense the eerie anomaly located at the stadium. In the first team battle, Japan Team composed of Kyo Kusanagi, Benimaru Nikaido and Goro Daimon faces the Yagami Team composed of Iori Yagami, Vice and Mature. While Benimaru and Daimon win their respective fights, Kyo's and Iori's end on a double knock out following Iori's being turned into a berserker by his allies from a god named Orochi, due to the anomaly Nakoruru discovered. Although Japan Team lost one point due to Benimaru's interference, they still won the match.
For the next match, Shun'ei tries to show his powers in combat but is beat by Ryo Sakazaki, due to losing control of his powers. However, Tung and Meitenkun defeat Ryo's teammates Robert Garcia and Yuri Sakazaki, respectively, due to two latter lack of hard training. In the next match a trio of mercenaries, The Ikari Team, face the team of Mexican wrestlers. Formerly a terrorist working for NESTS, Angel loses her match against Leona Heidern when her mind is controlled by the power of Orochi like Iori. As Ralf Jones and Clark Still also win their battles against Team Mexico, but failed a mission on letting one of the Mexico Team members win, the groups asks for Kyo's, Athena Asamiya's and Sie Kensou's aid to investigate Angel's recent change.
The tournament progresses with the K' Team composed of the former NESTS experiments, K', Kula Diamond and Maxima against the Team South America, composed of Nelson, Zarina, Bandeiras Hattori. NESTS's influence in Nelson's arm causes Kula to go interrupt K' fight and try to kill him. Meanwhile, Kyo, Athena and Sie find an army of composed Kyo's replicas created by the former NESTS leader, Igniz, who aims to control one of them as his new body, including NESTS' former subject Sylvie Paula Paula, one of Antonov's Official Invitation Team member. Enraged, Kyo murders Igniz and destroys all of his replicas. This causes the Igniz behind the South America Team to escape but is killed by K', freeing Kula and Sylvie at a same time. Kim Kaphwan, who was forcibly teaming up with his master Gang-Il, and the latter's lover Luong, switch places with a criminal Xanadu, to take both of his former team members Chang Koehan and Choi Bounge back to rehabilitation elsewhere.
With NESTS defeated, the tournament is interrupted by a supernatural creature who only yells the word Verse. A criminal fighter named Geese Howard fights Verse and absorbs its power, transforming himself into Nightmare Geese, and faces both the Fatal Fury Team composed of Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi, and Team China. Nightmare Geese fights Shun'ei, while the wraiths of previously deceased villains (Hakkeshu members Goenitz and Team Orochi/New Faces, and NESTS members Krizalid and Original Zero) created by Verse's power face Kyo and other teams (except Kim, Chang and Choi) from the tournament, as well as eight spirit warriors of ''Samurai Shodown'' summoned by Nakoruru (Haohmaru, Genjuro Kibagami, Hanzo Hattori, Charlotte Christine de Colde, Ukyo Tachibana, Galford D. Weller and Poppy, and her younger sister Rimururu). Once Shun'ei defeats Geese and depower him from his Verse-powered Nightmare form, the wraiths disappear, just as Geese and his team members Billy Kane and the butler Hein escapes. However, the Ikari Team learn after Verse was defeated, its power produced the revival of more people, including the wraiths they fought and the missing Ash Crimson.
A nobleman from the countryside set out on a trip to Seoul with a young servant as his groom. The nobleman tried to intimidate the servant by warning him that Seoul was a vicious place where it was easy to have one’s nose sliced off alive. During their journey, the servant came up with cunning ways to play pranks on his master. When delivering a meal, he said his snot accidentally fell into the soup as he stirred it in front of his master, which disgusted the master enough to give the food away to the servant. With another meal, the servant presented it with a burning hot spoon that made the master yelp in surprise and pain, allowing the servant to take the food away to enjoy it himself. Once, the servant secretly ate his master’s lunch, relieved himself in the lunch box, and told his master that the food had gone stale and turned into feces.
Upon arriving in Seoul, the master went out on business. The servant left behind sold the horse and sat with his eyes shut and hands covering his nose. When the master asked where the horse was upon his return, the servant said he didn’t realize the horse was gone for he was worried that someone might slice his nose off now that they were in Seoul. The furious master wrote the message “Drown him when he returns” on the servant’s back and sent him home. On his way back to his master’s house in the countryside, the servant tricked a woman milling into giving him some green barley. He also tricked a merchant selling honey into making honey-filled rice cakes with the green barley. The servant took the rice cakes and offered them to a monk in exchange for having the message on his back corrected to “Let him marry my daughter when he returns.” The servant then went home to show the message to his master’s family and became married to his master’s daughter. When the master later returned home, he became enraged to find that his daughter had been wed to the servant. The master forced the servant into a sack and hung the sack on a tree beside a pond to let the servant die. The servant, however, spotted a one-eyed brassware peddler passing by and tricked the peddler into believing that the sack would heal his blind eye. The peddler took the servant’s place inside the sack and ended up drowning in the pond. After a while, the servant came back to his master’s house and bragged about how wonderful it was to stay at the dragon’s palace underneath the pond. Overcome with the desire to see the dragon’s palace for themselves, the master and his family jumped into the pond and drowned. The master’s daughter was also about to jump into the pond, but the servant talked her out of it and lived to enjoy his master’s wealth with his wife.
This tale’s protagonist is referred to as a servant but is sometimes given more folksy names such as Makdongi, Aetteugi, Tteogeori, Gageori, or Wangguljangguldae. The tale is also told as a story about a real-life figure such as Bang Hak-jung, Kim Bok-seon, and Jin Pyeong-gu. ''Kkoejaengi hain'' is told as a full narrative as well as in short episodes featuring a prank the protagonist plays on the master. There are diverse types of pranks, but the story commonly includes the pranks involving stealing the master’s food and selling the master’s horse. Some variations start by telling that the servant held a grudge against his master for trying to take his mother away. The tale’s conclusion also varies, one in which the master’s daughter kills her husband to avenge the death of her family. This ending is a rare variation for depicting the servant in a negative light.
In a boring summer, a group of eight friends (four male and four female) decide to find news ways to entertain themselves. They allow their sexual curiosity to run freely and engage in several sexual games, as well as commit several violent crimes. The story is told non-linearly, with four of the youths recounting what happened during their trial after they have been apprehended for the death of one of their group.
Six months ago, Jin Sang-chul (Choi Moo-sung) and Lee Mi-sook (Kim Yeo-jin) lost their son Eun-chan who drowned while saving one of his friends, Yoon Gi-hyun (Sung Yu-bin). One day Sang-chul meets Gi-hyun. Upon learning that he has been abandoned by his parents and also recently lost his job, Sang-chul offers him a job to work for his small company. Mi-sook initially is very cold towards Gi-hyun but gradually opens up to him. Feeling guilty about what had actually happened to Eun-chan on the day he died, he reveals the shocking truth behind Eun-chan's death.
"Adam" is the nickname of the novel's narrator and protagonist, the 19-year-old boy. It signifies his ignorant and immature state, like Adam of the Bible when he is thrown out of the Garden of Eden. The phrase "open his eyes" means the process of the boy entering into and learning about the world, becoming an adult. The title ''When Adam Opens His Eyes'' implies both his incorporation into the established system and securing of his own distinguishable territory.
"When I was 19 years old, all I wanted was to have a typewriter, a book of Munch's paintings, and a turntable which I can connect to a cassette player and listen to music. Those items were the only things I wished to get from the world as a 19-year-old.(p.9)" ''When Adam Opens His Eyes'' describes how the main character pays the price for the three things he wants to have, the typewriter, the book of Munch's paintings, and the turntable, and becomes an adult. He poses as a nude model in front of a middle-aged woman painter and acquires the book of paintings; gets anally raped by a gay man who owns a record store and gains the turntable. In this process of replacing and exchanging desires, his friend Hyeon-jae kills himself. In shock, the narrator realizes that he has to get away from 'the worship of objects in the modern world' and the desires of 'the false paradise.' He gives up college, buys the typewriter with his tuition fee, and starts to write sentences about 'the real paradise.'
The protagonist commercializes his body to get what he wants. The woman painter claims that, in this world where love is impossible, sex is "the only alternative." The owner of the record store attempts to dominate him with money and violence. All the characters of this novel, including the protagonist, live in 'the false paradise' where the capitalist logic of exchange rules.
At the end of the novel, the main character gives up college. Coming-of-age stories mostly end with their protagonists adapting to the world after wandering away from their life. On the contrary, in this novel, he puts off the task of adapting to the world, refuses to grow up, and decides to remain as a boy for eternity. In this light, this novel can be regarded as an 'anti-coming-of-age story.'
The narrator considers himself "Adam who opened his eyes in the false paradise," refuses to grow up, and instead, immerses himself in art. At the end, he chooses writing, as a way of standing against this corrupt world. The typewriter, unlike the book of Munch's paintings and turntable, is something he buys without bargaining his body and soul. He aims to find the 'real' paradise, through the painful job that is writing with the typewriter. ''When Adam Opens His Eyes'' is an artist novel, in that it pursues the 'real' values by means of art and writing.
The novel is viewed as the work that led the beginning of the Korean literature of the 1990s. It is set in 1988 when the Seoul Olympics were held, but it shows the general changes that occurred in the 1990s, which can be summed up as individualism, liberalism, and popular culture. The Korean literature of the 1990s started with the deconstruction of the established literary traditions and rules and the representation of the new generation's experiences and sentiments. And it was given the 'new' name, a postmodernism that has 'belatedly' arrived. ''When Adam Opens His Eyes'' stands at the head of 1990s literature, the literature of 'the new generation' and 'postmodernism.'
Right after its publication, a huge controversy was ignited due to the novel’s sexual depictions. The author was attacked by the public who claimed that he was soiling the world with his pornographic novel. However, critics from abroad voiced different opinions. The Japanese literary journal ''Shincho'' published its translation of the novel, and subsequently the newspaper ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' published an editorial, highly acclaiming Jang Jung-il as "the author who distinctively embodies the human experience of the consumerist society and represents the postmodernist literature.""1001 Korean Movies You Must Watch Before You Die: ''When Adam Opens His Eyes''," Naver Terms, accessed November 25, 2019, https://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=971483&cid=42620&categoryId=42620. Later, he once again stood in the middle of a great controversy as his novel ''Naege geojitmareul haebwa'' (내게 거짓말을 해봐, Lie to Me), similar to ''When Adam Opens His Eyes,'' was attacked and indicted for its excessive obscenities. On the other hand, some pointed out that the novel is male-centered in its sexual descriptions and neglects the reality that is unfavorable to women.
At the South Park Community Center, Sheila Broflovski becomes violently ill, and begins vomiting and defecating uncontrollably. At Hell's Pass Hospital, her doctor tells her sons Kyle and Ike that Sheila has a bacterial infection called C. diff, causing the beneficial bacteria in her stomach to be overrun by malignant bacteria, and that she needs a fecal transplant to replace her microbiome. After the transplant, Sheila extols the beneficial health effects of the procedure to her friends Laura Tucker, Harriet Biggle, and Linda Stotch, much to the embarrassment of her sons. Consulting a video on how to prevent ridicule over such a thing, Kyle is horrified to learn that microorganisms comprise half of the cells in his body. At night he dreams of bacteria and the image of a bookcase that causes him to awaken with a gasp.
Sheila's friends tell her that they would like to undergo a fecal transplant, but that their doctors would only prescribe the procedure for medical reasons, and ask her to donate a stool sample so they can perform the procedure themselves at home. Sheila declines, as she finds this inadvisable. Harriet goes to Kyle and offers to give him a copy of ''Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order'' if he procures a stool sample from Sheila. Kyle refuses, but his three friends, Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick, take her up on her offer. Stan, Cartman, and Kenny sneak into the Broflovskis' basement and access the soil pipe while Sheila uses the toilet, stealing her feces, much to the anger of Kyle, who catches them in the act.
Kyle consults his doctor to complain about microbiome swapping, and wonders if people with ideal health profiles like Tom Brady will become targets of those wanting such transplants. At the mention of Brady's name, however, the doctor becomes unsettled and begins a whispered inner monologue, a recurring gag in the episode. He notes that Kyle "knows" about Brady's microbiome, which he calls "The Spice Melange". Though Brady's microbiome (the "spice") is unobtainable, the doctor wonders if Kyle will be the one who will bring it to him.
Harriet praises the fecal transplant procedure's benefits to her friends, having performed an at-home transplant with a turkey baster, but refuses to tell Sheila where she got the stool sample from. The boys are confronted by school counselor Mr. Mackey, who offers to buy each of them their own separate copy of ''Fallen Order'' if they obtain for him someone else's stool sample, which he also calls "The Spice Melange" in his inner dialogue. At a post-game press conference, the press repeatedly ask Brady for a stool sample, which he says he will not give or sell to anyone. As Kyle's dreams about the microbiome continue, he again is haunted by visions of the bookcase, and develops the ability to see the microorganisms covering his body when awake. At another shared meal, Harriet, ill and covered in vomit stains, confronts her friends and angrily accuses Sheila of tainting her feces in some way to sabotage her transplant. Linda and Laura then become ill themselves, having stolen the remainder of Harriet's stolen sample and performed their own transplants. As Hell's Pass Hospital fills with local citizens suffering from C-diff, a doctor tells police detective Harrison Yates that the outbreak began at the restaurant where patrons became infected by Sheila's friends. He explains that because the turkey basters they used for their transplants are only used once a year at Thanksgiving, they spend the rest of the year collecting pathogenic bacteria. He then says the hospital is out of healthy donor feces, and that because enough healthy feces could not be harvested in time to give all the patients transplants, half of South Park will die.
The boys go to Brady's house, where they wait with other people hoping to acquire his "Spice Melange". Brady demands everyone leave, but Kyle appears and leads everyone to Brady's living room bookcase, which he reveals to be a secret door to a hidden room where Brady keeps his jarred feces. Brady explains that he stopped flushing it because people kept breaking his pipes to acquire them. The boys bring the feces to the hospital, where it is used to treat all the infected patients. When Sheila asks Kyle how he knew how to resolve the outbreak, Kyle explains that his microbiome knew, saying he has learned that the creatures inside him are part of him, and that he will now "trust his gut" a bit more.
A running joke purports the episode to be "one for the ladies", with a unique intro and bumpers between commercial breaks repeatedly proclaiming this.
In 2190, the space station Pangea refuels ships bound for Earth's first space colony, Europa One. Rotating crews maintain Pangea in 10-year shifts. Four American astronauts arrive to begin their term: Captain John Laine, engineer Jackie Miller, doctor Richard Valin, and Lisa Brown.
In their first year, the crew interacts amicably, and Laine and Miller begin a romantic relationship. With each passing year, the crew drifts apart. By the fifth year, isolation takes a toll. Laine experiences night terrors, and Valin has stopped showering. Valin is forced to deem the crew mentally unfit to continue the mission. As the crew comes to terms with failing their mission, shockwaves from a massive explosion damage Pangea. Laine regains consciousness and finds Miller, who informs him Brown was seriously injured. Valin is unresponsive and in shock. The crew repeatedly tries to contact Earth but, after 62 hours, receives no response. Pangea eventually locates an asteroid field where Earth once was, implying that the planet was destroyed.
Brown succumbs to her injuries. Valin is convinced the Earth was destroyed. Miller suggests using the escape pod to search for survivors, namely her daughter, but Valin notes there are not enough supplies to return to Pangea if Earth is truly gone. Laine suggests traveling to Europa instead, which Valin despondently rejects. Miller, who refuses to believe her daughter is gone, attempts to board the escape pod herself. The pod malfunctions; Laine saves Miller, but they lose the pod.
Three months pass. Pangea's life support systems reach 55%, Valin is talking to himself regularly, and Miller self-medicates with sedatives. Laine asks Miller to help him devise a survival plan. The two decide to separate Pangea's two stations with a controlled explosion, allowing their oxygen supplies to replenish adequately. Valin sinks into defeatist nihilism and sees no point to their plan.
Laine is abruptly awakened by the ship's alarm to find Valin floating away from Pangea untethered. Valin says he has accepted his fate but panics at the emptiness of space. Laine fails to rescue Valin. As Miller proposes they consume suicide pills, she sees a space shuttle float by. Laine boards the shuttle and recovers three unconscious, malnourished astronauts. Captain Diane Ures is the first to awaken. She explains her team comprises French astronauts, Vincent and Thomas. They, and two Americans, were training on the International Space Station when the explosion destroyed the station and forced them to head for Pangea, a three-month trip. The two American crew members died, which allowed them to survive on limited supplies.
The presence of survivors renews the spirits of both crews, and they celebrate together. However, Miller calculates the addition of more crew members will deplete Pangea's life support systems within one month instead of three years. She insists on traveling back to Earth in the ISS shuttle until Diane admits she saw Earth explode violently while receiving a final transmission saying, "What have we done? Do not return. I repeat, do not return. Go to Europa."
Vincent and Thomas express hostility towards the Pangea crew. Diane tells Laine her team discovered the lack of remaining life support, but she remains diplomatic. Vincent confesses to murdering his two American colleagues to ensure his own survival. He and Thomas stage a mutiny, kill Diane, then attack Laine and Miller. Laine is stabbed, and the two French astronauts escape. Miller chases Thomas into Station Two and incapacitates him when he hesitates. Vincent and Laine scuffle in Station One over the station controls. Vincent overpowers Laine and triggers the explosion, breaking Pangea into two halves. Laine opens the outer hatch, expelling Vincent into space.
Miller, still trapped in Station Two, contacts Laine over the intercom. The explosion damaged the shuttle, leaving Laine unable to travel to Miller in time. As Miller drifts beyond communications range, Laine promises her that he will find her one day. In 2198, Laine lives alone, appearing disheveled and suffering from hallucinations yet scanning space tirelessly. He locates the missing station on Day 3022. In a log entry, he explains that he finally understands why Miller always reserved hope for her loved ones despite understanding the reality. With the shuttle now repaired, he boards Station Two unsure if Miller is still alive. He finds Miller slumped in a makeshift quarters, weakened but alive.
A small-time criminal called Hoodz finds success robbing stores and small businesses, finally catches the jackpot by attacking a big drug dealer for his stash of money and drugs. Gunz, an undercover police officer posing as a member in his squad, is failing to make regular contact to his commanding officers and is increasingly becoming extremely content with the idea of being one of the members in Hoodz' crew. The police begin to view him as a suspect like all the rest.
Jay (Ghetts) has big dreams, but his hopes are maimed by his allegiance to both his crew and Hackney crime boss Beverley (Sharon Duncan-Brewster). Jay sets about setting the grounds for his own organised crime ring with the help of Mustafa (Adam Deacon). Things are progressing well until Beverley discovers his treachery, and an ill-fated burglary in North London and a trip to Jamaica rips the crew apart. Whilst their operations are being watched by an undercover Police officer Gunz (Dylan Duffus), who has been used to integrate himself into the crew.
The film follows two former friends, Manzi and Karemera, whose lives diverge during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Manzi joins Hutu Power, while Karemara's life is in danger as a Tutsi. Fifteen years later Manzi is released from prison and tries to make amends for his violent past.
In London, couple Pete and Ann are walking to a flat party when a stranger warns them not to enter the residence where the party is being held, claiming that an evil child was born there and that he has returned from a distant place in search of revenge. They ignore his warning and join their friends Patti, Mick, Monica and Shelly in the flat. Outside the party, Patti's date Albert is murdered by an assailant wearing a hockey goalie mask. Inside, Pete and Ann venture down into an unkempt room. The masked killer beats Pete to death with a shovel and fatally garrotes Ann. Mick and Monica go upstairs to have sex, and the killer impales them with a spear. The killer then murders Patti with a light fixture before dancing with her corpse while smoking a cigarette.
The killer walks downstairs, where he finds Shelly. She is blind, and believes that Patti set him up with her as her date. She brings him to her home, where he reveals that he can speak. The killer, whose name is Jackson and whose face is disfigured, says that he has never had anyone to talk to, and that people see him as a monster. Shelly and Jackson share a kiss and have sex. Jackson tells her that he was abused by his alcoholic father, and that Jackson and his mother moved to the United States when Jackson was young. Jackson was thought to have drowned at a camp one summer, but he had survived.
Jackson returns to the unkempt room in the house where he was born. His drunken father is there, and Jackson tells him about his feelings for Shelly, and that he does not want to kill any more people. His father, who was himself a murderer, berates and dismisses him. Later, Jackson and Shelly visit a Halloween mask store. Due to the goalie mask he wears, Shelly compares Jackson to a character in a film called ''The Hand of Death''. Jackson, frustrated, replies, "don't you understand? I ''am'' that guy from the movies!" Shelly purchases a goalie mask of her own and the two go for a walk together.
One night, Jackson follows Shelly's friend Christi into a pub. Inside, patrons Nick, Mac and Barry believe Jackson to be an actor in the middle of a film production. When Jackson refuses to speak, Nick tries to remove his mask, and Jackson stabs him before fleeing the scene. Jackson returns home and kills his father by crushing his head. Later, Jackson and Shelly unsuccessfully attempt to engage in a BDSM session. Elsewhere, Christi, Mac and Barry bring Nick to a house, where they intend for Nick to recover from his stab wound.
On Friday the 13th, Jackson heads on foot to the house where Nick, Christi, Mac and Barry are staying. Mac strays into a nearby wooded area with a woman named Charlotte. Jackson confronts Charlotte, laments the dullness of his murder sprees, and advises her against running away since she will inevitably stumble and fall. As predicted, she falls while trying to flee, and he kills her with a pitchfork. Nick then wanders outside and is also killed by Jackson. Jackson enters the house, where he murders Barry with an axe and drives a cleaver into the face of Barry's partner Meagan. Jackson then pursues Christi, corners her in a shower and kills her. He later visits Shelly and attempts to break up with her, and she tells him that she is pregnant. Begging for her forgiveness, he slits her throat. He leaves and walks down the city streets, before falling to his knees in anguish when he sees a cinema marquee that reads ''The Hand of Death Part 26: Jackson Returns''.
The podcast is initially presented as a horror anthology, following the efforts of Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, to record on tape a number of statements of paranormal events that have proven impossible to record through conventional, digital means. Over the course of 5 seasons, a more complex metaplot develops, revealing the nature of the Magnus Institute, its head, Elias Bouchard, and the nature of the paranormal events recorded in the statements.
Season 1 of the Magnus Archives ran from 24 March 2016 to 13 October 2016.
The eponymous Jonathan Sims is installed as the new Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute's Archives, his predecessor Gertrude Robinson having gone missing and is presumed dead. As he attempts to digitize statements about supernatural incidents, he finds that statements can only be recorded on a tape recorder, as opposed to the preferred digital recordings. Among these statements are mentions of paranormal books referred to as "Leitners," many of them having originated from a library previously belonging to a man named Jurgen Leitner. The final conflict of the season involves a woman named Jane Prentiss, who has become the host for a mass of parasitic worms that attacks the archival staff. In the chaos of Prentiss' attack, Sasha dies and a supernatural being assumes her identity. During the attack, the body of Gertrude Robinson is found in one of the tunnels beneath the institute.
Season 2 of the Magnus Archives ran from 1 December 2016, to 31 August 2017.
Jon becomes convinced that there is a conspiracy behind the murder of Gertrude Robinson and his paranoia continues to increase as he begins working alongside Constable Basira Hussain and the police to investigate. Jon begins to explore the tunnels beneath the Archives, and discovers evidence of both Sasha and an unknown old man entering the tunnels. Jon is confronted by a supernatural being called Michael, who claims that Sasha is "lying to him." Melanie returns to the institute and insists that the Sasha currently on staff is not the same person she met on previous visits to the institute. Jon discovers that a creature is impersonating Sasha and it chases him through the Institute tunnels until Jon is saved by Jurgen Leitner. Leitner explains that he has been hiding in the tunnels since the destruction of his library in 1994, evading various monsters and people who sought to do him harm. He then explains his understanding of the entities behind the books: that they are manifestations of vast, powerful entities based on primal fears that exist just outside of human perception. He also relates that he believes that the institute's Head, Elias, is the one who killed Gertrude, who Leitner had been working with to destroy the institute, itself a place of power for one of the entities known as The Eye. Later, Elias brutally murders Leitner with a metal pipe and frames Jon, who flees from the scene.
Season 3 of the Magnus Archives ran from 23 November 2017, to 27 September 2018.
Despite being in hiding, Jon finds that statements are continually being mailed to him, and follows their trails to two individuals known as Jude Perry and Michael Crew, who serve the fear entities known as "The Desolation" and "The Vast" respectively. Jon discovers that he has the power to compel individuals to answer his questions so they decide to take Jon to the institute to use his powers to force Elias to confess to the murders of Gertrude Robinson and Leitner. Jon's powers do not affect Elias, but Elias willingly admits that he murdered Gertrude and Leitner before forcing Basira to sign an employment form for the institute. He then reveals that those employed by the institute are unable to leave without his permission and that if he were to die, anyone employed by him would die as well. In addition, those who attempt to leave the institute or refuse to work there while employed will gradually grow weak and eventually die. Forced to do Elias' bidding, they are tasked with stopping a ritual known as the "Unknowing", wherein manifestations and servants of the fear entity known as "The Stranger" will attempt to reshape reality to allow the entity to come into existence, which, if successful, would cause the entire world to suffer under eternal torment to feed the entity.
Shortly after beginning to investigate the Unknowing and how to stop it, he is threatened by a living mannequin known as Nikola Orsinov, who asks him to give them an ancient taxidermized gorilla skin, which was stolen by Gertrude Robinson several years ago. However, when Jon fails to produce said item, he is kidnapped and held at a secret location, where Nikola reveals that without the gorilla skin, she will need the skin of an Archivist to complete the Unknowing. When Jon is left alone, Michael appears, and reveals his origin: he is a being known as "The Distortion", itself a manifestation of the fear entity known as "The Spiral." The Distortion had been crucial to the success of a ritual similar to the Unknowing that had been undertaken by the Spiral. However, before it could succeed, Gertrude Robinson gave one of her assistants, named Michael Shelley, a map of the Distortion before having him devoured by it. Utilizing the map, Michael Shelley found the core of the Distortion, and the two became merged together, which caused the Spiral's ritual to fail. Michael has decided to kill Jon so that the Unknowing can not succeed, but before he can do so, Helen is merged with the Distortion. She then transports him back to the institute.
Jon follows an old itinerary belonging to Gertrude, which takes him to New Zealand, China, and America. While in America, he is approached by two Hunters named Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert, who have him use a book that summons the ghost of a man named Gerard Keay, who had traveled with Gertrude before he succumbed to a brain tumor. Gerard then describes the 14 fear entities to Jon: the Eye, the patron entity of the Magnus Institute, and the fear of being watched or having one's secrets exposed; the Spiral, the fear of madness and lies; the End, the fear of death; the Stranger, the fear of the uncanny or things that are not quite human; the Lonely, the fear of being alone; the Desolation, the fear of fire, pain, and destruction; the Slaughter, the fear of violence; the Vast, the fear of the infinite or of being insignificant; the Buried, the fear of being trapped without enough space, whether physical or not; the Dark, the fear of the darkness and what might be in it; the Corruption, the fear of rot, decay, filth; the Web, the fear of spiders and of being manipulated; the Flesh, the fear that one is nothing more than meat; the Hunt, the fear of being hunted. Gerard then directs Jon to a storage unit, where Gertrude had stored an something that could stop the Unknowing.
When he returns to London, Jon finds that the storage unit is filled with plastic explosives. He, Basira, Daisy, and Tim then travel to the location of the Unknowing to stop it. Meanwhile, Martin and Melanie execute a plan to distract Elias and collect evidence of Elias' crimes, which is sufficient to have the police arrest him. However, Nikola begins the Unknowing using the skin of Gertrude Robinson, and its effects cause the group to become incapable of semiosis. Basira is able to escape the ritual, while Daisy is trapped within a coffin-like manifestation of the Buried. Jon uses his powers of compulsion to make Tim immune to the ritual's effect, and Tim detonates the plastic explosives at the ritual site, which stops the Unknowing at the cost of his life, while Jon is left in a coma-like state. Due to his imprisonment, Elias sends a man named Peter Lukas, a servant of the Lonely, to watch over the Magnus Institute in his stead.
Season 4 of the Magnus Archives ran from 10 January 2019, to 31 October 2019.
Jon awakens from the coma he has remained in for the past six months following a visit from a servant of the End, who encourages him to make an unspecified choice. Jon then begins to refer to himself simply as "the Archivist", and reading statements has now grown into a physical need for him. Upon returning to the Magnus Institute, he is attacked by Melanie after they meet, as she does not believe he is human anymore. Basira explains that four months after the Unknowing was stopped, the institute was attacked by a servant of the Flesh named Jared, whom Melanie had fought off with a knife before being trapped by Helen.
After recording a statement in which a Slaughter-aligned book had led to an outbreak of violence in a small town, Jon realizes that Melanie has been an unwitting servant of the Slaughter due to an invisible bullet lodged in her leg from when she journeyed to India in season 2, which had been how she was able to defeat Jared. Jon and Basira extract the bullet while she is asleep, but immediately after they do so, she awakes and stabs Jon in the shoulder with a scalpel.
Shortly afterward, one of the manifestations of the Stranger that had survived the Unknowing delivers a coffin, itself a manifestation of the Buried, and states that Daisy is still inside of it before he is driven away by Jon. Basira, following leads from the imprisoned Elias, then immediately departs, leaving Jon alone. Now seeking a way to enter the coffin, retrieve Daisy, and return, Jon attempts to slice off one of his fingers to use as an "anchor", but finds that his self-inflicted injuries heal immediately. Melanie leads him to Helen, who is still holds Jared as a captive, and Jon allows Jared to remove one of his ribs to use as an anchor in return for the latter's freedom. Jon then willingly enters the coffin, and returns with Daisy.
Meanwhile, Martin has been working with Peter Lukas, the latter of whom believes that a fifteenth fear entity, known as "the Extinction", is emerging due to the growing fear that humans are destroying the world. Peter and Martin have agreed to work together in an attempt to prevent its emergence, or at least diminish its influence.
After reading a statement that helps Jon and Basira piece together that the leader of a cult that served the Dark was originally Edmond Halley, the two travel to Ny-Ålesund based on information revealed by Elias. They find the cult's headquarters abandoned, save for a single member, whom Jon compels. The cultist reveals that in 2015, the cult had attempted a ritual to manifest the Dark, but it had failed despite having seemingly gone unopposed. Jon then stares at the "Dark star", which had been the focal point of the cult's ritual attempt, which destroys it. When the cultist attempts to flee, she is consumed by Helen, who then transports Jon and Basira back to the institute.
When Martin leaves a tape describing Jon deliberately seeking out an individual and compelling a statement from them, Jon, Basira, Melanie, and Daisy travel to a known stronghold of the Web known as Hill Top Road in an attempt to discover if Jon is being manipulated. There, they find a statement left by Annabelle Cain, a servant of the Web, who reveals that she is watching the Magnus Institute and manipulating events, but not actively controlling Jon's actions.
After listening to several more statements that confirm that the Extinction is causing supernatural occurrences, Peter Lukas explains to Martin that he will soon have a map of the tunnels beneath the institute, and will therefore soon be able to execute their plan.
Once Peter acquires his map, he and Martin immediately venture into the tunnels, where Peter releases not Sasha as a distraction. Basira and Daisy then reveal that Elias has escaped from prison, and they find a tape of the moment Elias killed Gertrude Robinson. The tape reveals that Elias is actually Jonah Magnus, the founder of the institute, who has been able to transfer his consciousness to other bodies to extend his life. Martin and Peter then arrive at the Panopticon of Millbank Prison, in which is a chair where Jonah Magnus' eyeless original body rests, at which point Jonah himself also arrives. Peter then encourages Martin to destroy Magnus' original body and take its place, which will enable him to use the Eye's power to learn vital information about the Extinction. However, Martin refuses, and Peter Lukas casts him into a manifestation of the Lonely in anger. Meanwhile, Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert, who had returned to London, attack the institute at the same time that notSasha emerges from the tunnels, and Daisy willingly succumbs to the influence of the Hunt to gain the power needed to stop them. Jon makes his way to the Panopticon, and enters the Lonely to retrieve Martin. Jon uses his powers to find Peter Lukas within the Lonely, and compels a statement from him. He reveals that he had attempted a ritual for the Lonely, in which he created a hotel that intentionally isolated its inhabitants from each other, before Gertrude Robinson sabotaged the ritual by revealing the hotel's existence to The Guardian. From there, he reveals that his attempts to stop the Extinction result from a belief that its existence would directly harm the influence of the Lonely. He then states that his plan with Martin was all part of an attempt to win a bet with "Elias", which he had lost when Martin refused to destroy Jonah Magnus' original body. When Jon compels Peter to tell him what Jonah won from the bet, he refuses, as is ultimately killed when he continually resists Jon's compulsions. He then retrieves Martin, and they exit the Lonely.
As the Magnus Institute is now a crime scene, and Daisy, Julia, Trevor, and notSasha are nowhere to be found, Jon and Martin travel to a wooden cabin in Scotland. Basira sends a box of statements to the cabin for Jon, and Jon begins to read one of them, which had been written by Jonah Magnus. Jon's powers prevent him from not reading the statement, and so he is forced to read the rest of the statement. The statement reveals that Jonah, who had become fearful of being a victim of a successful ritual, sought to complete a ritual to manifest the Eye utilizing Millbank prison, the design of which he had influenced. However, when he attempted the ritual in the 1800's, the ritual failed and destroyed the prison, but gifted him his powers of limited omniscience. He then founded the Magnus Institute to enable him to protect the now underground Millbank prison, as well as plan for the execution of another ritual for the Eye in the future. However, when he had witnessed the brutal efficiency in which Gertrude Robinson had derailed the rituals of the Flesh, the Buried, the Desolation, the Lonely, and the Spiral, he began to wonder why no ritual had ever succeeded. As he could not answer this question, he began to wonder if rituals were unable to succeed due to their focus on only a single fear entity. Gertrude Robinson also suspected this to be the case, and had allowed the ritual of the Dark to go unopposed, though Jonah killed her before the ritual was completed. However, the unopposed ritual failed, and Jonah understood what he needed to do: devise a ritual that would manifest all 14 entities, a goal he hoped to accomplish before the complete emergence of the Extinction.
Upon Gertrude's death, Jonah threw his plan into motion, which would require an Archivist that had been exposed to supernatural occurences from all 14 entities. As a result, he appointed Jon to the role of Archivist due to him having already encountered the Web during his childhood. He was then marked by the Corruption when Jane Prentiss attacked the institute, the Spiral when he had been stabbed by the Distortion, and by the Stranger when he encountered notSasha. Jonah was forced to kill Jurgen Lietner before he could explain too much to Jon, which also led to Jon's ecounters with Michael Crew and Jude Perry, who had marked him for the Vast and the Desolation respectively. He was then marked by the Hunt when Daisy nearly killed him after killing Michael Crew. Jonah was aware that the Unknowing would fail whether it was interrupted or not, but sought to use it to test Jon's powers. However, when he nearly died following the ritual's destruction, he had been marked by the End. He was then marked by the Slaughter when Melanie had stabbed him with a scalpel, and by the Flesh when Jared extracted one of his ribs. When Jon had ventured into the coffin to rescue Daisy, he had been marked by the Buried, and was marked by the Dark when he looked at the Dark star. Finally, Jon's journey into the Lonely to rescue Martin marked him for the final power, at which point Jonah had sent Jon the statement to complete the ritual.
Jon, unable to stop reading, chants a ritual that brings through all 15 entities. When Martin wakes Jon, all he can say is "Look at the sky, it's looking back".
Season 5 of the Magnus Archives ran from 1 April 2020, to 25 March 2021.
The season was split into three acts due to production delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Due to the ritual unwillingly performed by Jon, the world has now been transformed by the fear entities, and is believed to be irreversible. Jon and Martin venture from the cabin, which has now become a hostile creature, and travel towards what used to be London, in which the Magnus Institute and the Panopticon have been merged into a massive tower that can be seen anywhere on Earth.
Due to the change, humans can no longer be killed nor reproduce, and no longer need to eat, drink or sleep. However, the world and its people are now divided among many "Domains", where humans are tortured endlessly in a manner that depends on the dominant fear entity within each domain. Due to Jon's power, he and Martin are able to travel through the Domains without being affected by them, though he is almost always compelled to make a statement that describes them. Among the Domains they travel through is a Slaughter-aligned trench in which a never-ending war is fought, and a Corruption-aligned village in which its inhabitants are perpetually tormented by an unknown disease.
Jon and Martin find notSasha in a Stranger Domain in which its victims are made to ride a massive Merry-Go-Round, wherein they must tear others' faces from their skulls and wear them in order to have an identity. When notSasha attempts to intimidate Jon and Martin, Jon calls upon the Eye and uses its power to destroy her.
Upon further discussion, Jon discovers he is almost completely omniscient and is able to know almost anything. While he is able to know where Basira and Daisy are, with the former hunting the latter, who is now a servant of the Hunt that is also able to travel through Domains and permanently kill humans, he is unable to locate Melanie and Georgie due to Georgie having lost the ability to feel fear and Melanie having blinded herself in the previous season. While Jon makes a statement about a Buried Domain where its victims are made to forever crawl up tight holes, before being forced back down by the rain, Martin finds a ringing phone, which he answers and discovers that the caller is Annabelle Cain, who claims to want to help.
The next Domain they travel through is aligned with the End, which is discovered to permanently kill humans. Due to the fact that humans are no longer born or created, it is believed that End-aligned Domains will eventually render humanity extinct, and with nothing to fear them, the fear entities themselves would also die out.
Jon, seeking revenge on Jude Perry for burning his hand and marking him with the Desolation, takes him and Martin to a Domain that consists of a massive apartment complex, which is almost always on fire to torment its victims. There, he uses his power to destroy Jude Perry. Next, they travel to a Flesh Domain in which Jared cuts and molds people into flower-like shapes, and Jon destroys him after making a statement about the Domain.
Jon and Martin then travel through several Domains such as a Web-aligned theater where victims are puppeteered by a massive spider, a Dark Domain where children are told that there are monsters in the darkness, a Vast Domain where a massive monster made entirely out of humans continually chases those that manage to escape, and even a Domain of the Extinction.
Afterwards, the duo arrives at a Domain of the Hunt, one of the victims of which is Trevor Herbert. Trevor reveals that Daisy had killed Julia Montauk when they attacked the institute before he is killed by Basira. Though Basira remains distrustful of Jon, she agrees to accompany him and Martin to stop Daisy. They eventually catch up to her at a Desolation Domain where its victims are forced to burn objects they love. Though Daisy injures Jon and threatens Martin, Basira kills her, and decides to separate from them to deal with the trauma.
After crossing through a Domain in which sufferers are forced to sing the praises of their abusers, Jon and Martin arrive in an area that has seemingly been untouched by the change. Inside, they find a house populated by a former seller of paranormal artifacts named Mikaele Salesa, as well as Annabelle Cain. Mikaele reveals that he is utilizing a paranormal camera to create a small part of the world that is not affected by the entities so that he does not suffer. Though Martin is rejuvenated by the return to normalcy, Jon grows weaker and weaker, and so they leave the unaffected area to continue their journey, with Jon forgetting about his time in the area shortly after leaving.
After traveling through a constantly-shifting and inconsistent Domain, and an Eye-aligned prison that incarcerates the innocent, Martin travels through his own Domain, which is aligned to both the Eye and the Lonely and feeds on the fear that one will suffer alone while mourned by no one. Jon, meanwhile, reaches the Distortion, which is itself now a Spiral Domain that takes the form of a constantly-shifting hotel, though it can still traverse said hotel in Helen's form. When Jon realizes that Helen will seek to obstruct their goal to free the world from the entities, he destroys her.
''Le Bazar de la Charité'' (''The Bonfire of Destiny'') begins with the depiction of a true event, the fire at the Bazar de la Charité in Paris, 4 May 1897, in which 126 people died. Planning to visit the bazaar is Adrienne de Lenverpré (Audrey Fleurot), an upper-class woman who seeks to escape from her marriage to her tyrant husband, Marc-Antoine de Lenverpré (Gilbert Melki), a candidate for the President of the Senate. While Adrienne's niece, Alice de Jeansin, along with her close confidant and maidservant, Rose Rivière, attend the bazaar the fire breaks out. Adrienne, who had entered the event earlier but left to meet her paramour, realizes to her horror that she, too, could have been inside. From there the plot revolves around the aftermath of the conflagration and the lives of the three women.
Kumi Kumakura transfers to a new high school and is given five special teddy bears created by her deceased mother to give to her new friends. On the night before her first day, Kumi comes across Hyō Kakizono, who she befriends and gifts one of her teddy bears. Hyō steals her first kiss, and the two become attracted to each other. When Kumi starts attending school, she is shocked to discover that not only is Hyō her new classmate, but he is also one of the most popular boys in school who is well-known for being a playboy. Hyō, however, has fallen in love with Kumi, but she is unable to believe his words at face value and struggles to accept him.
'''''Shadows of the West''''' is a 59 minutes running time American Western film (directed by Ray Taylor; written by Adele Buffinton) released in 1949 by Monogram Pictures.
The film tells about a little street musician named Ken, who meets a clown whose father is being treated in the USSR. Upon learning of this, Ken sets off to look for him...
The boy meets the girl on the seashore and love arose between them. But soon the boy left, and the girl gave birth to a child.
The Sheriff patrols Old Town while having different misadventures. He is joined by Stanley Goodman who now works as the deputy.
During the French coup d'état of 1851, all the adult men of a small rural village are rounded up, leaving the women behind to fend for themselves. After months pass with no word from the men, the women believe they are dead and become concerned that no men at all have passed through the village. The younger women make a pact that if a man should come through, they will share him equally so that they might have children. They further pledge to only sleep with the man if he agrees to sleep with all of them.
In the summer a blacksmith, Jean, arrives looking for work. The women give him shelter, at first tentatively, not willing to admit that they are alone. However Violette, the young woman chosen to look after him, admits that all the men have been arrested and learns in return that Napoleon has declared himself emperor, and that all the prisoners have either died or been deported. Violette asks Jean not to tell the other women.
Jean decides to stay to help the women with the harvest. He seems to show a preference for Violette, and the other women who have made the pact with her urge Violette to seduce Jean so that he will stay.
Violette and Jean become lovers, and soon the other women begin to pressure Violette to remember their pact and to bring up the subject with Jean. Reluctantly she does. Jean is disgusted with the idea and Violette tells him he has the option to leave. After he disappears for a day, Violette goes through his things and discovers that he is in hiding and thus cannot leave. Returning, he agrees to sleep with the other women and honour Violette's pact.
Even as he sleeps with the other women, Violette and Jean stay intimate. He reveals to her that he killed a man and is now wanted, and must leave France. After Violette becomes pregnant, the first of the women to do so, Jean asks Violette to depart with him.
After two years, some of the men begin returning home. The women realize that the returning men will judge them and their children. To keep the secret of the paternity of the children, a village elder tells Violette that Jean must leave. Violette initially intends to go with him. But Jean, realizing that his future is uncertain, and that Violette has a strong and supportive community around her, departs the village unannounced, leaving Violette a letter explaining himself and promising to write once he is settled.
Seol Chungran lived in Sunchang with a son and daughter. His daughter married but died without a child and his son Gongchan also died from illness even before he was wed. Feeling sorry for his son, Seol makes a spirit tablet for his son, mourns him for three years, and buries it next to his grave.
Seol Chungran’s younger brother Seol Chungsu has two sons, the first of whom is named Gongchim. On July 7, 1508, Gongchim visits his father. While in the outhouse, he becomes possessed by the spirit of Chungran’s dead daughter. Chungsu summons an exorcist named Kim Seoksan who tries to drive out the spirit from Gongchim’s body. When the exorcism rite is performed, Chungran’s daughter leaves Gongchim, saying that she cannot win against the exorcist as she is a woman and that she will bring her brother Gongchan.
As Gongchan’s spirit begins to possess Gongchim’s body, Chungsu calls on Kim Seoksan again. Enraged at Chungsu’s attempt to drive him away from Gongchim’s body, Gongchan transforms Gongchim’s body. Horrified, Chungsu swears never to summon Kim again, and Gongchim’s body returns to its original state.
Gongchan then sends a letter to his cousins Seolwon and Yun Jasin and tells them about the underworld: 1) The underworld is located by the ocean and about 40 ''li'' (approximately 10 miles) from Sunchang; 2) The underworld is called Danwolguk (檀越國) and is ruled by Bisamuncheonwang; 3) When people die, they are whipped by an iron whip and questioned about their lives. They are taken to the underworld if their lives are truly over. Gongchan says he was taken to the underworld but was released thanks to his great-grandfather Seolwi; 4) In the underworld, women can learn to read and write and they can also serve in government posts; 5) People’s treatment in the underworld depends on how they lived in this world; 6) Emperor Seonghwa sent his servant Aebagi to King Yeomla and requested that Yeomla prolong the life of his beloved servant by a year. King Yeomla was enraged at the request, and when Emperor Seonghwa came to see Yeomla, Yeomla brought Amugae in and ordered his servants to boil Amugae’s hand (The rest of the story is unavailable).
''So Hyeonseong-rok'' narrates the story of the life of So Hyeonseong. So Gwang and Madame Yang marry, but they are unable to have children for a long time. Years later, they finally have three children: two daughters named So Wolyeong and So Gyoyeong, and a son named So Hyeonseong. But before So Hyeonseong is born, his father passes away, leaving Madame Yang all alone to raise all three children. As the head of the family, Madame Yang raises her children with strict standards. In one incident, So Gyoyeong's father-in-law commits treason. As a result, So Gyoyeong's husband is killed and Gyoyeong is sent on an exile, where she becomes intimate with another man. Upon finding out about the affair, Madame Yang orders her own daughter to drink poison. In such a strict way, she keeps up the position and reputation of the So family. Showered with his mother's teachings and love, So Hyeonseong grows up to be a wise man. He passes the civil service exam and becomes a bureaucrat. He marries Hwa Sueun. But Seokpa, concubine to So Hyeonseong's father, is dissatisfied with Hwa Sueun's looks and personality and arranges for her niece Seok Myeonghye to be So Hyeonseong's second wife. Upset about the whole incident, Hwa Sueun finds herself at odds with So Hyeonseong and Seokpa, but Seok Myeonghye wisely manages the situation and appeases all three. But a serious problem arises when So Hyeonseong takes Madame Yeo as his third wife at the order of the emperor. Madame Yeo conspires against Hwa Sueun and Seok Myeonghye, who suffers more in particular. When Madame Yeo's evil schemes are revealed, she is kicked out of the family, and Seok Myeonghye returns home with all charges against her cleared. As a bureaucrat, So Hyeonseong continues to advance his career, serves his mother devotedly, manages the household well, and builds his family's reputation.
''Sossisamdae-rok'' tells the stories of So Hyeonseong's children and grandchildren, or the second and third generation of the So Family. The book mainly focuses on the married couples in the second generation of the So Family. So Ungyeong marries his betrothed Wi Seonhwa, who is threatened by her stepmother; So Unseong is married to his beloved Hyeong Ganga but is forced to marry Princess Myeonghyeon by the order of the emperor, which causes conflicts in his marriage; So Unmyeong abuses his virtuous wife Yi Okju when the envious Jeong Gangseon slanders her; and So Subing becomes Kim Hyeon's second wife after years of Kim's courtship, but is ostracized by Kim's first wife and family, and is only accepted by the family after years of hardship. There are only short anecdotes about the third generation of the Yu Family in ''So Hyeongseong-rok''. When So Semyeong, one of the third generation, plots treason against the emperor, So Unseong finds out and kills him to eliminate misfortune in the family. The So Family prospers afterward, giving birth to famous literary men during the Song Dynasty.
Yu Sim, who lived during the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Ming, had no child. He prayed to the heavens for a child at Yeonhwa Peak on Mount Heng, known as the southern mountain of the Five Great Mountains, and gains a son, whom he names Chungryeol. Around this time, two treacherous courtiers Jeong Handam and Choe Ilgwi frame Yu Sim for a crime, and Yu Sim is exiled. His wife Jang struggles to make a living with young Chungryeol, but the two are separated.
Separated from his mother and left all alone, Yu Chungryeol begs for a living and eventually turns 14. Around this time, he is rescued by Prime Minister Gang Hui-ju and marries Kang’s daughter. In the year Yu Chungryeol turns 15, Kang petitions the emperor about the unfairness of Yu Sim’s exile but is also banished. Chungryeol also leaves home to avoid the ensuing hardship, and the whole Kang family is separated. Prime Minister Kang’s wife drowns and their daughter is left alone in a near-death state until she is eventually rescued by a government slave.
After escaping alone, Yu Chungryeol meets an elderly monk at Baengryongsa Temple and studies under him. When the enemies from the south and the north invade the country, Jeong Handam and Choe Ilgwi surrender to the enemies and tryto force the emperor to surrender as well. At this time, Yu Chungryeol fights and defeats the enemies, chases after the enemies who took the empress and the empress dowager as hostages, and rescues them. On the way back, he also rescues his father and Prime Minister Kang from exile and reunites with his mother and wife as well. Yu Chungryeol becomes the Grand Marshal and gains great honor and riches.
There was a man named Yu Jeonggyeong, who lived in Ming China. He had two sons named Yu Yeon and Yu Hong. Yeon was a generous man and a dutiful son, but Hong was sly and prone to jealousy. When a conflict arises between Yeon and Hong due to a lawsuit handled by Yu Jeonggyeong, Yu makes a poor judgment and sides with Hong. Hong slanders his older brother, saying that Yeon takes bribes, tries to destroy Yeon’s marriage, and lies about how Yeon resents their father. Hearing all of this, Yu Jeonggyeong tries to name his younger son Hong as the rightful heir, and Yeon tries to cover for his father’s flaws by pretending to be insane.
Later on, Yeon passes the civil service examination with the highest grade and becomes a teacher to the crowned prince. However, he soon falls ill. Yeon’s wife Jeong was kicked out and had to return to her family home due to Hong’s machinations, but instead of remarrying she runs away from home disguised as a man. When the emperor deposes the empress and avoids seeing the crown prince out of his infatuation with Concubine Mangwibi, Yeon admonishes the emperor’s actions and is exiled. While in exile, Yeon reunites with his wife who is dying. However, Hong spies on his older brother and tells their father about the two of them, and Yeon and his wife are separated once again. Around this time, the crown prince succeeds the throne and punishes Mangwibi and Yu Hong’s evil deeds. Yeon is reinstated as a government official.
Yu Yeon worries about his younger brother Hong who has been exiled. He adopts Hong’s eldest son Yu Baekgyeong as his son and heir, loving him more than his own. Moved by Yeon’s brotherly love, the emperor frees Yu Hong from exile. Hong repents his terrible deeds and reconciles with his older brother, and peace finally settles on the Yu family, which prospers and flourishes.
During the 13th Century, Zakhar Berkut and his wife Rada lead a group of high-landers in the Carpathian Mountains in a village of Tukhlia (today in Stryi Raion).
Unfortunately, their tranquil existence is soon threatened by Burunda Khan, a powerful Mongolian general who leads his massive armies west in search of new lands to conquer. Forced to protect their village, Zakhar and Rada send their sons, Ivan and Maksym, to ask for help from Tugar Vovk, a wealthy boyar who has recently arrived from King Daniel of Galicia (Kingdom of Rus). After his strong-willed daughter Myroslava and Maksym survive a dangerous encounter together, Tuhar Vovk pledges to defend the villagers against the Mongols. But when a mutual attraction sparks between Myroslava and Maksym, Tugar Vovk forbids them from continuing their relationship. Meanwhile, Burunda Khan faces questions from his warriors about his motivation and military strategy for the impending invasion. As war breaks out, both sides suffer devastating casualties. Redoubling his efforts, Burunda Khan unleashes the full fury of his forces. Faced with certain doom, Maksym and Myroslava must choose to flee or make the ultimate sacrifice to save their people.
The Alliance's newest recruit is Ambassador Pleck Decksetter, a naive, gung-ho farm boy whose crew includes trusty, know-it-all droid C-53, and hulking, omnisexual security officer DAR. They travel aboard the outdated, sentient starship The Bargerian Jade - aka Bargie - who has as many ex-husbands as stories about her glory days. Their mission is nominally overseen by junior Missions Operation Manager Nermut Bundaloy, a striving, entry-level bureaucrat yearning for respect.
Mission to Zyxx returns after dealing a crippling blow to the Federated Alliance, Pleck Decksetter and his intrepid crew find their way to the Rebellion, where they are welcomed as emissaries with the missive: Long Live the Rebellion! With a little more experience and understanding of the Zyxx Quadrant, the crew make their way through the galaxy with help from Beano and The Space.
Mission to Zyxx is back. Thanks to Beano's noble sacrifice, the Crew has survived the Battle of the Planet Crushers only to find themselves stranded on the opulent planet Holowood. Zima Warrior Pleck Decksetter, with the help of his newly found acolyte AJ, brings everyone back together, and they set out to rally forces across the galaxy to face down Emperor Nermut Bundaloy, ensconced in the Zyxx Quadrant.
In this season, the crew of the Bargarian Jade must locate Leader of the Rebellion Seesu Gundu, in the hopes of reuniting the galaxy after the defeat of Emperor Bundaloy, and the formation of the Allwheat (which looks like the love child of a quasar and all your regrets). The crew must facilitate an election, come to terms with parenthood, understand their changing relationships with one another and the pliable nature of time and space, and meet weird bug creatures and stuff.
In this Final Season, the crew of the Bargarian Jade find themselves in a galaxy far, far, away. Rescued from certain doom by the pan-galactic representatives, the Themm, the crew is brought on to continue the Themm's mission of outreach and diplomacy, in exchange for resources and aid in finding their way back to home. Meanwhile, in the Zyxx quadrant, the dreaded Kor Balevore enacts his plan for galactic domination, gathering allies in unlikely places, wreaking destruction on the unwary, and throwing the balance of the space out of wack. The adventures of our intrepid heroes culminate in the final push to return to something resembling peace and prosperity, to fulfill their true selves in whatever form that may be, and meet (or become?) weird bug creatures and stuff.
The plot concerns a series of dilemmas facing the Turkish sovereign Bajazet who has been defeated and humiliated by Tamerlano, emperor of the Tartars. Tamerlane cannot destroy Bajazet because he loves his daughter Asteria; Bajazet wishes to end the humiliation of his defeat by committing suicide but fears for his daughter’s safety; Asteria would like to reject Tamerlane in favour of Andronico but cannot because of his complicity with Tamerlane; Andronico cannot openly declare his love for Asteria because of the bonds of duty to her father; Irene wants to end her engagement to Tamerlane but is obliged to wait. Finally Asteria, Andronico and Bajazet defy Tamerlane who condemns them all, bringing about a crisis that is resolved only by Bajazet’s suicide. Only a couple of arias remain from the 1711 version.
Choi Byeongdo, a rich farmer living in Gangwon-do, has a big dream of saving the country under the influence of the politician Kim Ok-gyun, supporter of an extensive reform. However, the new governor of his hometown, who is greedy for his money, arrests him and forces him to pay a bribe. He refuses the offer to be freed on condition that he hands over his fortune, and dies, giving in to torture.
Choi's daughter Ok-sun and son Ok-nam grow up with the help of his friend Kim Jeongsu and go to the United States to study. The siblings have a hard time paying for their education while abroad, but continue to study with the aid of an American missionary.
They return to their home country after ten years, after reading the news article entitled "Grand Reform in Korea," in 1907. In the country, the military men demobilized by the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1907 and militia men have begun to riot. The siblings go to a temple with their mother to pray to the Buddha, and then they run into the militia men. Ok-nam urges them to disband and claims that the country has to be developed first, but eventually he gets taken by the militia.
Many criticisms of ''Silvery World'' point out the discrepancy between the first part and the last part. Whereas the first part shows a strong disapproval of the Korean society at the time, in the last part, such criticism fades away.
Based on this discrepancy, some claim that it is a reworked version of "Choi byeongdu taryeong (최병두 타령, Song of Choi Byeongdu)." Specifically, they say that its first part is a rework of the traditional song, at the time performed by entertainers and master singers, and only its last part about what happens after the death of Choi is written by the author.
The first part of ''Silvery World'' depicts a heroic life of the rich farmer Choi byeongdo who lives in Gangwon-do. He has accumulated his wealth with a clear purpose to make Joseon a "civilized country." But he cannot realize his ideal due to the widespread corruption of the late Joseon. It was common for officials to exploit the people to get a public post and maintain their status in those days when the corrupt feudal system was spread throughout the country. The first part of the novel criticizes and denounces the society that betrays the heroic figure.
That being said, in the last part, the critical voice drastically loses its power. The 'grand reform in Korea,' presented as the reason for the siblings to return to their home country, refers to the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1907, which enabled Japan to dethrone Emperor Gojong and take over the commandership of the Korean military. However, the fiction does not have any criticism of the imperialistic invasion of Japan, but rather glamorizes it as 'grand reform,' justifying the Japanese colonization of Korea.
The author, Lee Injik, founded a press and claimed the necessity of enlightenment before he gradually turned to rationalize the Japanese colonization. Around the time he published ''Silvery World'', he was already fraternizing with pro-Japanese politicians, such as Lee Wan-yong and Jo Jung-eung. They asserted that the corruption in Joseon was one of the bad practices of the feudal system, and to solve this problem, Japan, a more developed country, had to rule Korea.A number of commentaries relate the author's pro-Japanese actions to the last part of ''Silvery World''. ("''Silvery World''," Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, accessed November 26, 2019, https://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=540590&cid=46645&categoryId=46645.
"''Silvery World''," Encyclopedia of Korean Language and Literature, accessed November 26, 2019, https://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=693372&cid=60533&categoryId=60533.)
The plot revolves around Julián (Juan Pablo Urrego), a young man from a wealthy family in the convulsed Medellin, Colombia of the 80s and 90s. Julián grows up admiring his grandfather's power and playing hide and seek with weapons, fun that can be innocent until, when he grows up and having returned from the United States, all those games become a nightmare.
Twenty-five years after the events of the original movie, Andy Okeke (Kenneth Okonkwo) is now an ordained man-of-God, renouncing his allegiance to the secret cult now known as Brotherhood of The Six. The sect has expanded into an international organisation, with most Nigerian members who survived the 1996 Otokoto riots fleeing the country apart from Chief Omego (Kanayo O. Kanayo) – now an Imo state governorship aspirant – and Mike Ekejimbe (Bob-Manuel Udokwu). The film opens with Omego's son Obinna (Enyinna Nwigwe) murdering his young daughter Kosi (Charlene Chisom Ignatus) in a forest as part of a money-making ritual, and in a nod to the original story, her spirit torments her father throughout the movie, leading to his sudden death towards the end.
Nnamdi Okeke (Swanky JKA) – Andy's secret son by his late second wife Ego – has been raised by maternal relatives Pascal Nworie (Zulu Adigwe) and his wife Eunice (Ebele Okaro), and shares a close bond with their son Toby (Shawn Faqua). Highly ambitious but largely unlucky, Nnamdi is unable to maintain a stable career as an advertising executive five years after graduation. Despite the disapproval of his uncle who is aware of Omego's occultic background, Nnamdi, who yearns for a luxurious lifestyle by any means possible, becomes acquainted with Omego's wife Nneka (Ndidi Obi) and Obinna who both offer to help him establish connections within the advertising industry.
During an office presentation where Nnamdi pitches his campaign for an upcoming rail network, billionaire tycoon Richard Williams (Ramsey Nouah) is impressed by his ingenuity. He mentors Nnamdi professionally, and the latter is catapulted into high society status, acquiring vast wealth and recognition, but his new life comes at a price. Unbeknownst to Nnamdi, Richard is the new leader of The Six on a mission to lure him into their cult, and due to Andy's past the Okeke lineage is eternally bound to the dark side.
Investigative journalist and blogger Uzoma (David Jones) grows suspicious of notable billionaires associated with mysterious murders, particularly after his sister and her daughter Kosi die in mysterious circumstances, and pays Andy a visit in search of answers. Having experienced cultism himself, Andy unsuccessfully tries to warn his son after Uzoma informs him of Nnamdi's existence to save him from The Six before time runs out. Richard eventually initiates Nnamdi, but fails to persuade Andy back into the fold after the latter refuses. Nnamdi later regrets joining The Six, especially after falling for Kelly (Munachi Abii) whom he meets at Obinna's wedding when the latter remarries seven months after his wife's death. Richard and Omego have commanded him to present her as a sacrifice, and Nnamdi is torn between appeasing the cult and sparing Kelly's life.
Toby visits the depressed Nnamdi to get to the bottom of the latter's melancholy demeanor and passes the night at his place, but Richard possesses Nnamdi, commanding him to stab his sleeping cousin in lieu of Kelly. Unable to resist, Nnamdi resorts to stabbing himself instead and is rushed to hospital where he survives and reconciles with his biological father Andy whom he had previously rejected. Members of The Six are arrested after a recording Obinna sent Uzoma before his suicide is used as evidence. However, Richard is able to dodge indictment, and is seen on his private jet before the ending credits roll.
In a photograph, three smiling individuals–Ippei Kusakado, his wife Yūko, and the youthful Kōji–are seen standing on the harbor wall in Iro Village, a rural fishing port in the western part of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. The photograph was taken on a hot summer day. It was taken only days before "the final wretched incident". It was immediately sent to the chief priest of Taisenji temple. In Iro, there are also rice paddies as well as the Kusakado greenhouses, located beside the Kusakado family home. On the mountainside lies a new graveyard, reaching halfway up the slope of the mountain from its base. In spite of opposition from the villagers, the chief priest of Taisenji temple erected the new graves with the money that was entrusted to him. Ippei's grave lies on the right, Kōji's on the left, and Yūko's in the center. Yūko's, however, is only a "living monument", reserved for her eventual death.
Kōji is released from prison. He travels by boat from Numazu to Iro Village, where Yūko is waiting for him. Kōji tells himself that he has repented and is a different person, but once he arrives he is immediately told by Yūko that he hasn't changed. Yūko had become his guarantor upon his release, but they both question whether they have made a mistake in Kōji coming to Iro. Yūko closed the Tokyo shop a year ago, moved to Iro, and started the Kusakado greenhouse, which Kōji will work in. The two of them walk through Iro to the Kusakado house. Greeted by villagers on the way, Kōji is ashamed knowing rumours of his past will spread but Yūko tells him to keep his head up. Kōji is seized by fear when he sees Ippei in front of the gate of the house.
Two years earlier, when he was a 21-year-old university student, Kōji was hired to work at a Western ceramics shop in Ginza, Tokyo. Ippei Kusakado, a 40-year-old man, is the owner and manager of the ceramics shop but also translates and reviews German literature in his spare time. While drinking together at a bar, Ippei tells Kōji about his unhappiness with his wife Yūko's lack of jealousy. He says he has tried everything to make her jealous, confessing to his numerous affairs. Kōji, jealous of Ippei's "corrupt heart", falls in love with Yūko that night, despite not having met her before. Kōji begins a secret affair with Yūko. One night, Yūko told Kōji that she knows Ippei has been adulterous, showing him documentation from a private investigator who tracked his infidelity. She cried, but told Kōji not to tell her husband of her suffering. On a summer's day, six months after he first met Yūko, Kōji is waiting for Yūko outside a hospital. He spots a black wrench lying on the ground and puts it in his jacket pocket. Much later while in prison, Kōji reflected on the wrench, viewing it as a manifestation of "will" that had become a material phenomen which sought to "upset the very foundations" of the order of his world. That evening, Yūko and Kōji walk in on Ippei and find him with a lover, Machiko. Yūko simply asks Ippei to "return home quietly". Kōji expected a grand confrontation, where "the truth of perverse human nature begins to shine". He instead sees it as "nothing other than things he had grown utterly tired of seeing: the mediocre concealment of human shame, the irony of keeping up appearances." Yūko, crying and jabbering, is struck across the cheek twice by Ippei. Kōji immediately reacts without "emotion, objective, or motive", and repeatedly bashes the left side of Ippei's head with the wrench he had placed in the pocket of his jacket.
In Iro, Kōji meets Ippei for the first time since he was imprisoned. Kōji's assault leaves Ippei with a fractured cranium and a cerebral contusion. Ippei is diagnosed with aphasia and paralysis on his right side, and is left with an "interminable smile". Kōji explains his assault as driven by an extreme unease with enduring that "world bereft of logic", and chose to impart the "cold, hard, black logic of iron" of the wrench. Kōji works in the Kusakado greenhouse with fellow gardener Teijiro. One day, Kōji, Yūko and Ippei go for a picnic at the nearby waterfall and greet Kakujin, the priest of Taisenji temple, on the way. They stop at the village shrine to make a peace offering with a lily, but Yūko is unimpressed with the shrine's appearance and size. Yūko's sacrilege scares Kōji. Yūko suddenly begins to taunt Ippei, asking him if he understands "sacrifice". Ippei replies that he does not understand and Kōji tries to defend him but Yūko cuts Kōji off and calls Ippei an idiot. Yūko throws the lily into the plunge pool, and Ippei's face displays "a look of pure anxiety born of being cut off from all understanding". She asks Ippei if he understands the word "kiss", then passionately kisses Kōji in front of him. Kōji scolds Yūko for using him for Ippei's sake. She answers, asserting she has used Kōji from the beginning and that he surely likes it. Kōji strikes Yūko across the cheek and turns to Ippei, who has a fixed smile on his face. Terrified, Kōji embraces Yūko to erase the fear from his mind, but her kiss "had lost completely its exquisite taste".
One evening, Kōji is drinking alone at the Storm Petrel, the only bar in Iro Village. He gossips with the bar's owner about Teijirō's young daughter, Kimi. Kōji has never heard Teijirō speak about Kimi, and senses that there are ill feelings between them. After Kimi's mother died, they had lived together until Kimi suddenly left for Hamamatsu to become a factory girl. Kimi has not interacted with Teijirō since returning to Iro for a ten-day vacation from her work at the Imperial Instruments factory in Hamamatsu. Kimi is strikingly beautiful and makes the village girls of Iro jealous by her presence. She carries a ukulele with her wherever she goes. At around 9:00 p.m., Kimi, Matsukichi, and Kiyoshi enter the bar and Kōji joins them at their table. Matsukichi is a fisherman and Kiyoshi is a member of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force ground crew. They are both Kimi's childhood friends, and have quarrelled with each other over her love ever since. Kōji envies Kiyoshi's "simple lyrical spirit", but considers Matsukichi "a dull-witted young animal". Looking at the three characters, Kōji thinks of Yūko, who has not permitted him to kiss her since the incident during the picnic. He realises the depth of his love for Yūko and repeats "I have repented" to himself. Together in the bar, Kōji, Kimi, Matsukichi, and Kiyoshi all get drunk and Kimi offers up her ukulele, swearing that whichever of the young men gets it will be the one who gets her love. Interested, they all leave in a small boat and travel to Urayasu where they go nude swimming. They walk into Urayasu forest and start a bonfire, where Kimi refuses to give up her ukulele. Matsukichi steals the instrument from Kimi, then passes it to Kiyoshi. The two men pass it back and forth to each other as Kimi attempts to take it back. Matsukichi and Kiyoshi take the ukulele and jump into the boat together, rowing into the bay by themselves. Kōji and Kimi return to the forest bonfire. Kimi says she purposely did not swim after the boat because she wished be alone with Kōji. Kimi says she respects Kōji's love for Yūko, but is "prepared to make a sacrifice and act as a stand-in". Kōji and Kimi have sex, but Kōji cannot suppress the thought that the experience is "nothing but a poor imitation" of the "perfect flesh" that he created and refined with his imagination while in prison. They swim across the bay and return home. Several days later, Kōji hears rumours that Kiyoshi kept the ukulele, carrying it around wherever he went to the envy of the other young men in the village. That night, after drinking at the bar, Matsukichi confesses to Kōji that he and Kiyoshi made a secret pact. Kiyoshi only cared about his reputation, and agreed to never lay a hand on Kimi. The night after they went to Urayasu, Kimi gave herself to Matsukichi. When Matsukichi told Kimi of their pact, she laughed but accepted his proposal nonetheless. Kōji is surprised that Matsukichi has no inkling that he and Kimi had sex while alone on the island together.
While working in the greenhouse, Teijirō suddenly confesses to Kōji that he raped Kimi. Teijirō then shows Kōji a pornographic photograph of a boy in a student's uniform having sex with a girl in a sailor uniform, and remarks that the girl has a similar appearance to that of Kimi. Kōji is disturbed by Teijirō's unsolicited confession, and questions what the purpose of his confession was. Kimi stops by the Kusakado house to say goodbye before leaving to return to the factory in Hamamatsu. Looking at her, Kōji theorises that Kimi had slept with him and persuaded Matsukichi to love her only in order to infect them with the "germ-like secret of her father's crime" without letting them know her truth. He imagines she was quitely picturing "the origin of her burning, rejuvenating humiliation and self-loathing" while they had sex. Kimi says goodbye and squeezes Kōji's hands, gazing in his eyes. Kōji stares only at Yūko, who takes out a hairpin from her hair and pricks the back of Kimi's hand. Kimi leaves, running down the slope laughing maniacally, while Yūko turns away with a frown on her face. In the heat of that night, Kōji is lying on his bed while covered by a mosquito net. Yūko enters Kōji's room and tells him she stuck her hairpin in the hand of the "conceited" Kimi to warn her, not out of jealously. Yūko compares her action to that of Kōji with the wrench, and reveals that she is jealous of Koji's crime. She is jealous of "not having a crime to her name" that would allow her to at least "stand beside him". Kōji and Yūko passionately embrace between the mosquito net, but Yūko sees a figure outside and loudly screams that her husband is approaching. Kōji realises Yūko wishes to be caught by Ippei, that it would liberate her from her "long-continued suffering". He is infuriated by Yūko and refuses to let her through the mosquito net, not wanting to be caught by Ippei in an adulterous position with Yūko. Ippei climbs the stairs and tells Yūko he wants to sleep there because it is cool. Several days later, after a typhoon passes and misses West Izu, Kōji speaks with Kakujin the priest at Taisenji temple. He sees Yūko and Ippei coming down the slope, and Yūko asks Kōji to accompany Ippei on his daily walk. Kōji decides to confront Ippei on their walk, vehemently questioning him and accusing him of elaborately tormenting Yūko and him under the guise of his mental incapacity. He calls him a "hollow cavern" and "empty hole" which the household revolves around. Kōji asks Ippei what he wants, to which Ippei responds he wishes to go home. Kōji is angered by this "childlike supplication" and further presses Ippei, asking him what he really wants. Ippei responds, "Death. I want to die." They meet back up with Yūko, and Kōji tells her that he feels his life is being lived solely for Ippei's sake. There is a tacit understanding between them, and Yūko says, "There's no going back now after all of this." The three of them arrive at the harbor, and Yūko says they should travel to the other side of the bay one day. She suggests Teijirō take them over in the boat in the middle of the day and that they should take "lots of pictures".
On a summer vacation, a folklore researcher travels to Iro and speaks with a priest, Kakujin, who recounts his memories of Ippei, Yūko, and Kōji. Kakujin tells of the time Yūko and Kōji appeared at Taisenji temple, confessing to strangling Ippei to death. Kakujin shows the researcher the photo described in the novel's prologue. It had been given to him the day before Ippei was murdered. Kōji testified that he murdered Ippei at Ippei's request, but Kōji's gifting of the photograph to the priest was used as indelible evidence of premeditated murder. Kōji was given the death penalty, and Yūko was sentenced to life imprisonment. While in prison, Yūko requested Kakujin to arrange their graves side by side, with Yūko in between. The researcher visits the graves, and takes a photograph. The priest asks the researcher to deliver the photograph on his behalf to Yūko in person. The researcher later travels to Tochigi prison and meets Yūko. Looking at the photograph, she thanks the researcher and says, "Now I can serve my time in peace." Yūko puts the photograph in her pocket and leaves.
Chi-chan and Tooru-san love Sakeru Gummy, but one day, they see "Long Long Man", a mysterious mustached man tearing off a strip of Long Sakeru Gummy as seductive jazz music plays in the background. Since that day, Chi-chan has been obsessed with Long Long Man and anything of great length. Her relationship with Tooru-san is strained when he discovers a pack of Long Sakeru Gummy in her apartment, indicating Chi-chan had been cheating. During their argument, Chi-chan passes out and lies to Tooru-san that she has a short life, and looking at long things relieves her of her worries. When Chi-chan's friend explains that regular Sakeru Gummy is simply Long Sakeru Gummy trimmed in smaller bites, Chi-chan reconciles with Tooru-san, despite her persistent obsession with Long Long Man. On the day of their wedding, they once again encounter Long Long Man, and Chi-chan tries to leave Tooru-san for him, only for Long Long Man to reveal that he was in love with Tooru-san all along.
Mary O'Neill is brought up in Ellan, loved and cared for by her invalid mother within a house dominated by hostile and cruel relations. Mary is sent to a convent school in Rome at the age of seven and over the subsequent ten years her mother passes away and she grows in religious devotion until she decides to enter a convent. However, her father instead decrees that she should be married. Before returning to Ellan, Mary again meets her childhood friend, Martin Conrad, who is aghast to hear that she is to marry Lord Raa, a known 'profligate and reprobate.' But they are both powerless to oppose Mary's father's wishes.
Back in Ellan, Mary is troubled to meet the foppish Lord Raa, who is clear in his opinion that their marriage is an open arrangement for kudos and money. Her feeling about the marriage is confirmed by letters from Martin Conrad which reveal that Lord Raa has a mistress in London. However, Mary's family have invested too much in the arrangement, both in money and arrangements, to change their minds. Against her better judgement, Mary satisfies her family's and the community's expectations and goes ahead with the marriage.
Lord Raa soon proves himself to be a repugnant and terrible person on their honeymoon. Having attempted to rape Mary on their wedding night, Lord Raa then begins an affair with a former school colleague of Mary's, Alma Lier. Mary eventually confronts Lord Raa about the affair, but instead of denying anything, Lord Raa blames Mary, claiming that he was forced to another woman since she was "no company for anybody but the saints and angels." Mary then happens to meet Martin Conrad, fresh back from his successful journey to the South Pole. She is instantly awash with happiness, which Lord Raa and Alma notice darkly.
Mary and Martin soon fall in love. This frightens the highly moral and religious Mary and so she flees back to Ellan. However, Alma and Lord Raa's entourage accompany Mary and her husband and their home is given over to the debauch of the drinking, gambling and immoral living. Mary makes unsuccessful enquiries about getting a divorce and returns to find the house vacated of guests, as they have ominously gone off on a cruise when it was discovered that Martin was coming to visit. Despite her best intentions and determined attempts at self-denial, she and Martin admit their love and, on the eve of his departure on another mission to the South Pole, she goes to him in his room.
After Martin leaves for Antarctica, Mary finds that she is pregnant. She flees Castle Raa secretly and travels to London. After evading discovery with the help of a schoolhood friend, Mary hears of the (ultimately false) newspaper reports that Martin had died at sea. After failing to find any better accommodation, it is in the poor area of Bayswater that she gives birth to a baby girl.
In order to earn money, Mary gives the child to be cared for by a woman in Ilford and gets a job as a seamstress in Whitechapel. However, poverty drives up the demands of her working day and lessens her ability to act against the poor care that her child is receiving. Upon learning that she has an illegitimate child, Mary's landlord and employer casts her out and she is faced with a desperate need to earn a large sum of money in order to pay for her sick child's care. Without other options, she determines to become a prostitute, but is saved from acting on this when Conrad arrives back from the Antarctic and saves her from the street.
Conrad takes Mary home to his parents' house in Ellan to recover. Lord Raa divorces her in the courts, apparently leaving the way open for her and Martin to marry. However, Mary is recalled to her Catholic vows and sees that she cannot marry again, but she is put off telling Martin this when she discovers that she is terminally ill and without long to live. Mary doesn't wish to spoil her remaining time with Martin and so pretends not to be ill until the very last. She dies peacefully at home and Martin takes back up his scientific task in the Antarctic.
The structure of Khatemeh's family, who originally came from Afghanistan and have been living in Shiraz, Iran, for more than thirty years, is rigid. A fourteen-year-old girl was married to a man double her age. He was in a relationship with her older sister, who took her own life. He says: “When she died, I wanted to marry her sister because they look alike.” According to the men in the house, mental problems are common to all the women in the family. Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge because she couldn't stand it any longer. She asks for a divorce. Some male relatives go to the refuge to take Khatemeh away with them. Her brother says: “Death is better than being a whore.” At first glance, the situation seems clear. In the course of the film, however, more and more discrepancies emerge. Khatemeh shifts unpredictably between mental states. Sometimes she curses her family and fights for her freedom, then other times she implores the women who run the refuge on her knees to let her go home no matter what. Other girls, who also took refuge in the home, are sometimes attacked violently by her. “Khatemeh” is like a desert storm which obscures the viewer again and again, then reveals a new vista when it has died down.
Three years after the final transmission of Kurupt FM and the crew moving to Essex (series 5 of ''People Just Do Nothing''), Anthony "MC Grindah" Zografos works as a postman, Kevin "DJ Beats" Bates works in a bowling alley, and Steven "Steves" Green is still based in the Brentford flats. However, their dead-end lives are changed when Chabud "Chabuddy G" Gul announces the news that their song, "Heart Monitor Riddem", has found phenomenal success in Japan on a popular game show. Furthermore, the company responsible for the show wishes to invite them to Japan for a record deal. With this in mind, the crew reconcile and travel to Japan. Miche, Grindah's wife, later joins the crew after obtaining a ticket.
In Japan, the Kurupt FM crew are assigned a manager, Taka, and a translator, Miki. The introduction of Taka proves antagonistic for Chabuddy, who notices Taka trying to replace him as their manager, which is further proved when he is ejected from a club. With Steves' eccentric behaviour and Miki acting as a weed dealer for him, the two become very close. While in Tokyo, the company plans Kurupt FM's debut to the Japanese audience, with a concert featuring them planned within a week of them arriving and a record deal. However, the exact terms and conditions regarding their deal are unknown, as Chabuddy deleted the email regarding the small print.
The Kurupt FM crew's first day in action proves disappointing. Instead of visiting a recording studio as they anticipated, the crew are led to a dance studio to perform a dance commonly featured on the game show, associated with their song, much to their chagrin. After being covertly manipulated by Taka, Grindah insists to the crew that the dances are necessary and are needed for their success in Japan.
Later on, the crew go for a photo shoot in their outfits for the concert, and it becomes clear that Taka is publicising Grindah as more important than the rest of the members, prompting an argument within the crew. During dinner with Miche and Taka, a jealous Chabuddy breaks in and berates Grindah for choosing Taka over him, offering Grindah an ultimatum between him or Taka. Grindah refuses to acknowledge the situation, leaving Chabuddy defeated.
The feud between Beats and Grindah comes to a climax when they are expected to appear on the game show under their new stage name "Bang Boys". Shortly before the show, Beats lambasts Grindah for not sticking to their garage roots and accuses him of selling out. This results in a scuffle between Beats and Grindah, leaving the latter in tears and the rest of the crew abandoning him. Grindah appears solo on the game show, feeling humiliated as he watches himself fail on the obstacle courses and later on with a disastrous recording session with a J-pop artist.
Meanwhile, Steves has become attracted to Miki but struggles to express his feelings for her. A drunk Chabuddy buys rounds for Japanese salarymen, thinking he is spending Taka's money, until he discovers from Yuta the barman that Taka's tab has been closed. Having spent several hundred pounds on drinks, Chabuddy flees from the hotel to avoid paying and is left homeless.
The day of the concert arrives, and only Grindah is there to perform. His nervousness from not having his former crew around and him realising that he has led himself astray from his roots leads him to lock himself in the bathroom. When Chabuddy G arrives after tracking a Bang Boys van to the concert, Grindah has fled. When the Bang Boys' turn on stage arrives, Chabuddy and Miki convince Taka's managers that he knows the dance routine and promptly leave.
What is left of Kurupt FM crew are sulking in a karaoke bar. Suddenly, Grindah enters and reaffirms his friendship with Beats, saying it is the "best thing to happen" to him. The rest of the gang arrive and do an emotional karaoke performance to "Heart Monitor Riddem", whilst Taka embarrasses himself at the concert. During the credits, Kurupt FM is set to release their first album, Miche is looking to publish a book, and Steves and Miki become domestic partners. However, it is unknown how Steves will return to England.
The peasant Khun-anup tricked by the unscrupulous Nemtynakht, is forced to rely on his own eloquence to convince lord Rensi's lands about his needs of justice.
In 2003, United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, is a victim of a bombing and becomes trapped in the basement of the hotel where he was working in Baghdad.
Three months earlier, Sergio is married but there is no feeling of love in the marriage. Instead, he commits to being with Carolina, his girlfriend and co-worker. Against the advice of Carolina, Sergio decides to go to Baghdad after the 2003 invasion of Iraq in order to help Iraqis achieve independence and negotiate the withdrawal of American troops. He comes to a disagreement with American diplomat Paul Bremer who opposes his methods despite the pressure from the United States, and fights against the US occupation of Iraq. He even insists on not having US guards at the UN's base camp in order to separate themselves from the U.S. occupiers.
Sergio is killed by a terrorist attack that takes place on the UN base camp. Later, the US pulls out of Iraq leading to a long Civil War, but Sergio's gravely injured colleague Gil survives despite having both legs amputated, and Carolina returns to her justice work in Rio.
Throughout her life, Sofía (Maite Perroni) has tried to stay away from commitments and routines. As one of the youngest and most successful astrophysicists, she has dedicated her attention and energy in space and the sky, without paying attention to things like love or company. Among her various investigations, Sofia begins to identify chaotic elements of space and its operation with her own personal and professional life. The situation will get complicated when she meet Gerardo (Christian Vásquez), a colleague from the institute who seems to have the opposite elements to her. However, understanding the laws of the universe, Sofia will begin to want to solve her life and her new relationship with Gerardo following the same principles she uses to solve her work. Gradually, the girl's attention will move away from space and focus on what is around her. And although everything looks like a fairy tale, she won't be able to decide between two loves that could balance her life and her work.
Napoleón (Cantinflas) is a humble street sweeper who flirts with all the maids in the neighborhood where he works (all of whom call him affectionately "Don Napo"), of which Chipinita (María Sorté) stands out. Napoleon ends up being the only witness to the theft of a valuable painting, and he is threatened by the thieves of the painting and also becomes a suspect.
The film takes place during the war. A military train and a train populated by refugees were stuck at the same station. A young lieutenant meets a young girl and spends several days with her. Before parting, they agreed to write to each other at Lugovaya station...
The film's story takes place in the backdrop of News television channels. The protagonist. Arjun Suravaram (Nikhil Siddharth), is a third-generation journalist who takes to the profession despite opposition from his idealistic but now skeptical father (Nagineedu), who feels that the fourth estate has lost its moral compass in the present times and hence his son should stay away from journalism. Arjun nurses a deep desire and dream: to become an investigative journalist with an international TV Channel of repute. However, as feared by his father, the young reporter gets himself trapped in a fake educational loan and certificate scam, which he now has to unearth in order to prove his innocence, as well as to help the society at large, to cleanse the system of such evils. Kavya (Lavanya Tripathi) is Arjun’s love interest, an aspiring journalist, and the daughter of the owner (Kedar Shankara) of a TV channel that Arjun works for. Together as they try to unravel the mystery of the scam, they discover that there is a far more sinister network beneath the surface, and their life is under grave threat from the evil forces. Will they survive to bring the truth to the fore?
On Sorgan, a sparsely populated forested swamp planet, a village of farmers is pillaged by raiders. The Mandalorian soon lands on Sorgan looking to hide from the Guild with "the Child". In a local restaurant, they come across a suspicious mercenary who identifies herself as Cara Dune (Gina Carano), a former Rebel shocktrooper who had left her position and is hiding on the planet, which she asks the Mandalorian to leave. Back at the ''Razor Crest'', the Mandalorian is approached by two of the villagers hoping to hire him to drive off the raiders. He accepts in return for lodging in the isolated village and uses their payment to hire Dune for extra help. Once at the village, a widowed mother named Omera (Julia Jones) takes them in and offers them food. Dune and the Mandalorian find a set of tracks in the mud outside the village and identify that the raiders have a powerful Imperial All-Terrain Scout Transport. Dune insists the villagers leave and make their home elsewhere, but they refuse and decide to fight, which the Mandalorian accepts.
The Mandalorian and Dune show the farmers how to defend themselves and then set up traps in the krill ponds for the AT-ST. The Mandalorian and Dune infiltrate the raiders' camp to provoke them into attacking. The AT-ST then chases them back to the village but stops short of the krill ponds. The Klatooinian raiders then attack the villagers, while the AT-ST shoots the village with artillery fire. Dune then gets beneath the AT-ST, shooting into one of the viewports. The AT-ST takes the bait and steps into the pond, sinks, and then falls over. The Mandalorian then throws a thermal detonator into the walker, blowing it up, and the raiders flee back into the forest. With peace having returned, the Child plays happily with the other children. The Mandalorian tells Dune and Omera that he plans to leave the Child there as he feels it would be a better life. However, a Kubazi bounty hunter from the Guild takes aim at the Child from the trees. Before he can fire, Dune shoots him from behind. The Mandalorian realizes the Child has to stay under his protection. He bids farewell to Omera and Dune, and leaves the village.
Viveka is the Grama Sevaka of the village and is the eldest in a family of four girls. Jagath Hathurusinghe supports a politician in the area and he is interested in Viveka. But she resists his advances due to many reasons including differences in political ideology. She also personally dislikes him. But the reason for the girl's opposition to his entreaties are not understood.
The politician supported by Jagath. Jagath now basking in the rights of political power continues with his idea to even compel Viveka by force to agree to his proposal. Viveka has no power to fight against male dominance and political power of this society and all personal animosity against Jagath becomes ineffective. Her dreams to enter into a happy wedded life with the man she likes ends on her wedding day with the most pathetic experience in her life.
Would educated and headstrong Viveka be able to win her fight against male opposition and the political rivals. While the story continues the film ends in a tragedy.
Olga Dolan is a poor young woman working as a public stenographer at a hotel in New York. She allures Cyril Ralston, a nobleman, and starts to have a romantic relationship with him. Ralston promises Olga that they will get married soon. However, he returns to England leaving Olga. After being deceived by Ralston, Olga vows revenge. She goes to England and begins working as a secretary to Lady Constance Bromley. Later, Olga finds out that Ralston is Bromley's son and that he is a married man. Although Ralston still pursues her, Olga becomes interested in another nobleman, Duke of Ruthledge, and eventually becomes his private secretary impressing him. After the Duke's wife died due to heart attack caused by jealousy, there is no obstacle for Olga to marry the duke.
Morris the moose is happily strolling through the countryside, when he finds a penny, and stashes it with his others. He decides to head into town and buy something.
He mistakenly enters a fish store ("It's Mel's Fish"), and asks the cashier for candy. The cashier explains that it is a fish store, and discovers that Morris can't read, and points him to the candy store.
At the candy store, the candyman discovers that Morris can only count to four. After helping him with getting candy, he takes Morris to the local school (Wiseman Elementary School).
The candyman introduces Morris to the teacher, Mrs. Fine, and Morris takes a seat with the rest of the students. While learning the alphabet, the letter B reminds Morris of a stinging bee. The letter C then reminds Morris of how much he loves the sea. Mrs. Fine tells him that he needs to raise his hand when he wishes to speak. Morris then has to go to the bathroom, but accidentally goes into the girls' bathroom, since he can't read.
Later on, while spelling words, Morris is upset that they didn't spell "moose". The class then spells moose. It is then time for lunch, and recess. Morris plays with the other students. Next it's time for art, and they are fingerpainting. During art, Mrs. Fine explains the grammar of the phrase "this is fun".
Next it's time to count. Mrs. Fine shows Morris that he can count all the way to 12 using his antlers. Then it's music time and they all sing a song called "Feed Your Brain". After that, they play "make-believe".
When school is over, Morris decides to celebrate his first day by buying gumdrops from the candy store, this time doing all the reading and counting himself.
''The Birthday Cake'' tells the story of a young Italian-American, Giovanni "Gio", who is reluctantly continuing his family's annual tradition of bringing a cake to his Uncle Angelo's house to mark the anniversary of his father's passing ten years earlier. It's not long, however, before he witnesses a murder along the way that will force him to learn the truth behind his father's death and change his life forever.
The program has a format similar to the American version, with 24 women competing for a single man to be selected as his romantic partner. Through the series, he learns more about each contestant. At the end of each episode, the candidates will be awarded a rose by the bachelor, symbolizing their continued stay in the contest. On the other hand, candidates who do not receive a rose are eliminated and leave the program.
Karin Oriyama is a first-year high school student who has spent her entire life living in luxury and being spoiled by her father. She sets her sights on Nao Tsurugi, a popular third-year student at her school, and believes him to be the perfect candidate for her boyfriend. On her 16th birthday, Karin's father suddenly announces that she will be wed to Nao, who she had been secretly betrothed to since birth. Overjoyed with the news, Karin and Nao marry and move into a run-down apartment building to spend their newlywed life. To Karin's surprise, however, Nao confesses that he agreed to the marriage for financial independence, and he wants nothing to do with her. He proposes several rules for their co-habitance: they must not mention they are married at school; they must cook and clean after themselves; they must not enter each other's rooms; and they are allowed to date other people. Karin is crushed by the reality of her marriage, but she must overcome her ego and become more self-sufficient to earn Nao's respect.
Toby, a 41-year-old hepatologist, is undergoing a bitter divorce from his wife Rachel, a successful talent agent in New York. One day, she drops off their children, 11-year-old Hannah and 9-year-old Solly, at Toby's house while he is still sleeping and takes off. She does not respond to texts or calls from him for the following weeks. The story, narrated by Toby's college friend Libby, a former writer for a men's magazine, follows their lives over this period and the events that led to the breakdown of their 14-year-marriage, as well as reflections of Libby's own life.
Kapila is a senior executive officer of a construction company and works in head office and occasionally visits sites. On a way to a site in the rain at night, his path is blocked by a tree collapsed to the road. He goes to a close by house to request an axe and to ask whether any male is there to help him. He gets the tool but no males at the house. When he works on cutting the tree and clear the path, Theja, a young woman at the house comes to help him. As both or their clothes are wet they goes to the house to change. There they get aroused by each other's bodies and have sexual intercourse. This relationship develops with the time and Theja wants to have him so in order to that she tries to kill his wife Navoda. In the attempt to take Navoda's life, Theja is killed by Navoda. Kapila takes to blame and goes to prison. After release he is reunited with his family.
Kōchiyama Sōshun is a serves as a cha-bōzu (He is kind of tea man) in the administrative headquarters of the Tokugawa shogunate but he works behind the scene to protect powerless people from evil power of Tokugawa shogunate. Kaneko Ichinojō and Ushimatsu work for Kōchiyama.
Set in the end of Edo period in Kyoto. Sugi, a young samurai found a new father in the person of Ikemoto from whom he learned the art of the sword (Mugai ryu). Ikemoto, a spy in the pay of the Tokugawa shogun and sensing the near end of the samurai world, implores Sugi to stay away from the political struggles and violent conflicts. Sugi makes friends with four guys (samurai), but ruthless fate is waiting for them.
A rock musician Maxime moves back from Paris to his hometown of Tonnerre, Yonne. He now lives together with his father and a dog. He is interviewed by a young journalist Mélodie, who wants to write a story about him. The two become a couple, spending a good time together for a while. However, Mélodie suddenly dumps Maxime and makes up with her ex-boyfriend Ivan. Maxime steals a gun and kidnaps her.
Max (Luis Arrieta) is a nerd and designer who has Mónica (Cassandra Ciangherotti) as a girlfriend, nothing spectacular; In fact, so annoying that the protagonist is fed up with her but does not know how to end the relationship because when he tries, he always ends up in bed with her. For this reason, Max decides to hire the services of "Abaddon", an agency specialized in ending courtships with unorthodox techniques; however, they make everything more complicated than it seems.
The sleuth Miro Hetzel, who calls himself a "galactic effectuator", resolves two mysteries in this combined short novel and short story. In ''The Dogtown Tourist Agency'', he investigates a plan to deliver weapons to the fairly primitive "Gomaz" race on a distant planet called Maz. The story starts with Hetzel tracking a playboy, and then moves onto him taking a case for Palladian Micronics, a robot firm. Hetzel meets with Palladian's CEO, who cannot understand how a competitor is selling a similar robot at a much cheaper price. While the CEO does not know how the competitor is beating his price, the clues point to the primitive planet of Maz. To find the answer to the mystery, Hetzel must penetrate deeper into the primitive zones of the planet, where encounters with the aggressive Gomaz race add to his peril.
In the short story ''Freitzke's Turn'', Hetzel takes on a case for Conwit Clent, who has had his testicles stolen by a rogue doctor. To track down the doctor, Hetzel has to go to his old university, where he studied as a young man. There he encounters a former rival, the brilliant Faurence Dacre, who may be the key to resolving the mystery.
Selina Kyle and her younger sister, Maggie, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, live in a run down apartment in Gotham City. To pay the rent and Maggie's medical expenses, she fights for Carmine Falcone, an underworld mob boss, who stages fights with a group of fighters known as the Leopards. As Maggie's condition worsens, Selina accompanies her to a doctor's appointment whereupon the clinic grows weary of Selina's living situation. After a fight, two police officers along with a social worker raid Selina's apartment. The social worker details the plans to send Maggie to a run down foster home, which infuriates Selina and compels her to attack the group of officers to create a path for Maggie to escape. Before she could do so, a police officer tasers her and renders her unconscious.
When Selina comes to, she finds herself in the company of Talia, one of the leaders of the League of Assassins, offers to expunge her criminal record if she agrees to fly to Italy with her. Considering that Selina's assault constitutes her third offense, she will face a hefty prison sentence. With this in mind, she accepts the offer and flies to Italy where she would spend the next two years training to become an assassin.
Two years later, Selina returns to Gotham as Holly Vanderhees, a fake identity of a socialite she creates for herself after stealing the personal information of Talia when she fled from the League of Assassins. She moves in across from Luke Fox, a war veteran who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress disorder and who as a result of experiencing racial discrimination, works in conjunction with the Gotham Police Department to rid the city of evil. As she arrives, the Fox family has a display of an artwork that is worth a hefty sum of cash. Selina attends this event as her socialite character; however, she leaves it halfway to don her Catwoman outfit. Once the spectacle has concluded, she swoops in and steals the artwork. As she flees the venue, she stumbles into Batwing. She taunts him, and thrashes him while taking a picture of him as she makes away with the valuable. She leaks the photo anonymously to the press to further humiliate Batwing.
Selina continues her crime spree unabated before she comes across Poison Ivy during one of her robberies. As she runs into her, she finds herself surrounded by a group of Falcone's cronies. Working with Ivy, she manages to neutralize them. As she continues her spree, Poison Ivy tags along, demanding a cut of the action. Selina acquiesces and the two work in tandem as they target larger venues. To increase the amount of risk, Selina suggests that Poison Ivy should recruit Harley Quinn to tag along with them. To entice Quinn, Selina promises to break the Joker out of prison if she partakes in her robberies. As they prepare for another heist, a wraith from the Assassin's, Tigris, stuns Selina and attempts to slay her. Selina escapes with some serious wounds, but this scene arouses the suspicion of her companions.
As the stakes increase, Selina and her group stake out their next target at an abandoned warehouse. As they prepare, the tension mounts as Harley becomes impatient with Selina's attempts to stall the Joker's prison escape and aims her weapons at Selina. Selina attempts to assuage her fears; before she could do so, a group of police officers storm the entrance of the facility. The group makes a headlong dash for the exit, which results in Ivy and Harley successfully escaping from the warehouse. As Selina trails them, she winds up being cornered by some police officers, who manage to detain her. Selena ends up in front of a set of cameras where the chief prosecutor removes Selena's mask, unmasking her true identity.
Once Selina is imprisoned, a group of Joker's associates bust her out of her prison. As she escapes from prison, she makes an agreement to meet up within the center of Gotham City to divulge the formula that she gleaned from a scientist that enables the Lazarus Pit, a phenomenon that restores one's wounds. Instead of meeting with the Joker, Selina heads for the hospital where Maggie resides. She escapes from the hospital with Maggie in tow. As she approaches her escape vehicle, Harley Quinn impedes their path. Selina tries to overcome her, but Quinn severely wounds her in the process. Realizing Selina's intentions, Poison Ivy subdues her so that Selina could reach the abandoned warehouse.
When Selina arrives at the warehouse, a group of assassins ambush her. Batwing catches a glimpse of this altercation, and taking note of Selina's feeble condition, he lures the two assassins out of the warehouse to buy Selina some time. Selina places Maggie in the Lazarus Pit, which heals her condition. As she does, she passes away. After Batwing finishes off the assassin's he enters to find Selina without a pulse. Poison Ivy converges on this scene and both she and Batwing resolve to put her in the Lazarus Pit. At first, the Pit cleans her wounds, but she still remains unconscious. After Maggie begs for her to wake up, Selina regains consciousness.
Once Gotham City's peace has been temporarily restored, Selina allows Maggie to live once again with her foster parents. Selina and Luke hold hands and they agree to become a couple. Afterwards, Selina meets up with Poison Ivy and they decide to live together and to build a new warehouse for themselves. Poison Ivy informs her that the police apprehended Harley Quinn in the aftermath of Selina's prison escape. After her arrest, Harley Quinn has come to her senses and has decided to attend therapy sessions to resolve her problems.
Queen Katey is the owner of a large ranch. There is the beginning of a movement among the local homesteaders to drive Katey out, so that her land can be divided. Queen has a long-lost son, Prince, who she sends one of her ranch hands, Cannonball, to find. Cannonball arrives at the office of the Badlands County sheriff, Tex Martin. Cannonball explains to Tex that Prince has the letters "KT" on his forearm, where they had been branded when he was a youth by a man named Clem Jeter. Tex thinks he's seen that brand, and directs Cannonball to the saloon.
While Cannonball is still on his way, Wild Bill Hickok is at the bar in the saloon. He observes a man who he could be the double for, playing cards. As he watches, he sees his double cheating, eventually taking all of another gambler's money. The double is Prince Katey. When Hickok confronts Prince and demands he return the other gambler's money, Prince draws on Hickok, but Hickok is faster and guns down Prince.
Right after the gunfight, Cannonball enters the saloon and mistakes Hickok for Prince. He hustles Hickok out of the saloon, afraid that he might be charged with murder. As the two men ride off, Tex arrives at the bar and checks the body of the dead man. In so doing he discerns that Prince had been shot twice, once by Hickok, and another shot which entered his back. Tex realizes that it was the shot in the back which actually killed Prince.
As they ride off, Cannonball lets Hickok know that he thinks he is Prince, and that Prince's mother needs his help in holding off a land grab by Jeter. Jeter is instigating the homesteaders in an attempt to run Queen Katey off her land. Understanding Queen's predicament, he agrees to accompany Cannonball to the ranch, playing along with the mistaken identity. They arrive at the ranch, where Queen accepts Hickok as her prodigal son.
As they head to the Katey ranch, Beetle, the man who shot Prince in the back, arrives at Jeter's cabin, where he informs him of the demise of the Katey heir. With what he feels his final roadblock taken care of, Jeter rides off and gets a court order appointing him as Queen's guardian. However, when he arrives at the Katey ranch to serve the order, he is dumbfounded to find Prince (he assumes) alive and well. When Jeter demands that Hickok prove he is Prince, the two men fight, and Jeter is thrown off the ranch. Jeter confronts Beetle, who is adamant that Prince is dead, so this man must be an imposter.
Meanwhile, Tex has set off after Cannonball and Hickok. He comes upon the burnt out ranch of the Brown's, Dakota and her father Bert. They tell him that it was Queen who burned down their house, in an attempt to drive them out of the county. As he is having dinner with the Browns, Jeter arrives and tells Tex that the man who killed Prince is posing as him at the Katey ranch.
At the ranch, Queen realizes that Hickok is not Prince, and tells him that it has been Jeter who has been terrorizing the local homesteaders, including the arson at the Brown ranch, and blaming his actions on Queen. Hickok pledges to help Queen withstand Jeter's plan. When Tex arrives, he asks Hickok to turn himself in, which Hickok agrees to do, just later at the Brown's ranch.
When Tex arrives at the Brown's ranch, someone takes a shot at him, which misses. He takes off after his assailant, but in doing so runs into Hickok. Initially he thinks it was Hickok who fired the shot, but when he sees that Hickok is free of soot, which would have been present if he had been hiding at the Brown's ranch to waylay him, he realizes that it wasn't Hickok. The two take off trying to track down the man who fired at Tex.
The next morning, Hickok arrives back at the Katey ranch. There he finds Jeter and his men waiting for him. Jeter accuses Hickok of murder. Queen pulls a gun and a conflict ensues wherein Cannonball manages to ride off for help. Hickok and Queen manage to gain the ranchhouse, where they manage to hold off Jeter and his gang until Cannonball returns with Tex and Dakota. The bad guys are captured, and Dakota agrees to move in with Queen and look after her and the ranch.
During Ralph Dibny's fight with Ramsey Rosso, the latter drains his blood. Killer Frost gets Ralph to S.T.A.R. Labs, where Barry Allen gives him a blood transfusion, where Barry is forced to use his intangibility to penetrate Ralph's elastic skin. However, a trace of Rosso's blood enters Barry's bloodstream, causing him to pass out. The Speed Force, in the form of his mother Nora, tells him that Rosso's blood contains his consciousness and is slowly infecting him as well as grants him access to Barry's mind; including knowledge of his secret identity and impending death. Using his memories against him, Rosso tries to convince Barry to join him; promising him the power to avert not only his death, but countless others, and shows Barry a vision of him using Rosso's blood to save a woman.
The Speed Force tries to dissuade Barry, but accidentally provokes him when he realizes that not only is Rosso able to make good on his request, but that he was its pawn and he will never get what he wants while serving it. However, it is too late to warn him of the consequences, as he phases his hand through its chest not unlike when Reverse Flash killed Cisco in an alternate timeline. Cisco and Frost eventually revive Barry, but when Iris West-Allen comes to check on him, she quickly realizes it is not him; it is revealed that he has succumbed to Rosso's temptation. Fully infected, Barry attacks his friends and reports to Rosso, who is ready to enact his masterstroke and calls himself "Bloodwork." Elsewhere, Iris, Kamilla Hwang, and Allegra Garcia investigate the organization that turned Esperanza Garcia into a killer. They learn the group's name, Maelstrom, but their only other lead is mysteriously killed.
With Barry under his control, Rosso attacks Central City and converts most of its citizens into zombie-like creatures. Cisco and Iris argue over how to save Barry and stop Rosso, but both of their plans fail. However, Rosso chooses not to convert them in favor of enacting the final phase of his plan; taking the Particle Accelerator in S.T.A.R. Labs to spread his blood across all of Central City. As he makes his way inside, Cisco and Iris realize that during their last encounter, Barry used his connection to Rosso to save them and secretly tell them how to beat him. Using a combination of Rosso's blood, the particle accelerator, and Allegra's powers, Team Flash subvert Rosso's plan to cure Central City of his influence.
With his plan foiled, Rosso transforms into a blood monster to kill the Flash and begin anew, only to be distracted by a hallucination of his mother induced by Barry long enough for the speedster to trap him in Chester P. Runk's prison. With Rosso remanded to A.R.G.U.S.'s custody, Team Flash spend their last moments before the upcoming Crisis together just as red skies loom over them. Meanwhile, Nash Wells uncovers a wall of symbols before a blinding light pulls him inside.
Aside from bombing the London Stock Exchange, the plotters planned the establishment of a jihadist training camp in Azad Kashmir on land owned by one of the suspects, Usman Khan. The plotters were monitored by covert listening device and found to be engaged in Holocaust denial by claiming that fewer than 100,000 Jews died in the Holocaust. Other targets included: the US Embassy in London, two rabbis each from a separate synagogue, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, and Boris Johnson; the plotters had procured their addresses. All the conspirators envisioned returning experienced, together with future recruits, from their Kashmiri training camp to execute terror attacks in the UK
The conspirators further reconnoitred several additional targets, including Big Ben, the London Eye, and Westminster Abbey.
The terrorist network was composed of individuals from Birmingham, Cardiff, East London, and Stoke-on-Trent. The main focus of the East London group was to attack targets in the UK. The most active was the Stoke group, which had as primary goal to set up the terrorist camp to be disguised as a madrassa, though bombing pubs in Stoke was also discussed. The Stoke cell was described by the prosecution as having "well developed" field craft, and being concerned about being arrested on account of the other groups' naiveté. The Stoke group's sophistication disturbed authorities the most.
Tomás (Hoze Meléndez), is a young man with autism who is taken unexpectedly by his brother-in-law (Leonardo Ortizgris), a versatile group musician, to a wedding. Along the way, Tomás will discover a world he did not know.
After the events of the previous episode, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) agree to confess their romantic relationship to their boss Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe). Chris reluctantly launches an investigation between Leslie and Ben and holds trials for possible ethics violations. To lighten his depressed state during the hearing, Chris takes an extreme amount of vitamins and supplements. In the first trial, Leslie admits her relationship with Ben to the ethics committee, but denies any possible corruption or wrongdoing as a result of dating her superior. Unfortunately, Chris announces that he has numerous character witnesses to prove her and Ben's special treatment toward one another, as well as possible bribery.
Leslie manages to deflect most of the witnesses' arguments brought to the trial, but one of the witnesses is rumored to be extremely important to the case. Leslie and Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) initially believe that the important witness is Ron's ex-wife Tammy Two (Megan Mullally); it is revealed to be George Williams, an electrician who was bribed by Leslie and Ben with a gift certificate to ignore their kiss at Li'l Sebastian's memorial service. Knowing she risks being fired, Leslie asks the Parks Department to help her find a loophole out of the situation. When the team is unsuccessful, Ron convinces Leslie to concede to the committee. Surprisingly, Leslie is only suspended for two weeks with pay. Chris reveals that Ben held a private meeting with the committee and took full blame for the bribery, effectively resigning as Assistant City Manager.
After the trial, Chris apologizes to Leslie and explains that he was only doing his job. He and the court stenographer, Ethel Beavers, reveal that Ben said his relationship with Leslie was worth losing his job; he also declares his love for her. Leslie does the same for Ben by hiring Ethel for an addendum to the court transcript later that night.
During the credits, Jerry Gergich (Jim O'Heir) admits during the trial that his real name is Garry, catching both Leslie and Chris off guard.
Atiye is a young woman who has been drawing a fertility symbol since her childhood, without knowing the meaning attached to it. She is a part-time teacher as well as an abstract painter. She has always drawn that symbol, but never seen it anywhere other than in her own art. She is in a relationship with a man named Ozan, the son of a very wealthy businessman named Serdar, although Atiye does not find peace in her relationship. She hosts her first exhibition which showcases the same symbol she has been drawing since her childhood in different colours and sizes. All her paintings are loved by people and hence her exhibition is a success. On the same day, an archeologist named Erhan, discovers something strange in Göbekli Tepe: an unusual artifact which has laid buried for millennia. Atiye recognises that it is the same symbol that she has been attached to since childhood. She makes an immediate decision to go see the symbol the next day herself. On her way there, she sees a girl with a star mark on her forehead with some cattle on the road. She asks the child for directions but she can not understand her language. However, upon hearing Göbekli Tepe, the girl understands and leads her to the site. There she meets Erhan and tells him about her association with the symbol, but he thinks either she is making up the story to get fame or has lost her mind altogether. She asks him to let her see it but he refuses, saying that it is not open for public. After her failed attempt to see the symbol, she checks in to a hotel. The girl with the star mark comes knocking on her hotel room door. She leads her to the cave and she sees purple stones; that is when Erhan and one of his crew men pull her out of the site and ask her to leave. Atiye tells Erhan that a little girl with a star mark is still inside and that there are purple stones. He does not believe her and again asks her to leave. However, on the next day Erhan and his crew go further inside and sees the purple stones and a drawing of a girl with a star mark on her forehead. Erhan later contacts Atiye. Upon her return, Ozan proposes to her and she accepts. Atiye frequently sees an old woman approaching her and that scares Atiye a lot. Erhan and Atiye's fates are connected by some mysterious duty that they have towards the world, and it is up to them to find out what their purpose is meant to be... They try to find out what this is all about. That's when Erhan's father's old colleague gives him the diary and some documents that belonged to his father since he recalled the symbol Erhan discovered from his father's notes. Erhan's father left many messages for Atiye and Erhan many years ago, before the birth of Atiye, and the messages too have to be found and solved like riddles. Ozan's father Serdar Yılmaz and Erhan's ex girlfriend Hannah work for some mysterious mafia that needs Atiye.
'''Season 3'''
Atiye and Erhan continue to search for their daughter. Seeking to reach her daughter Aden, Atiye faces a wrenching dilemma as dark forces attempt to harness Aden's cosmic powers to bring about destruction.
When her missing classmate and close friend Kyung-min (Jeon So-nee) is suspected of committing suicide, Young-hee (Jeon Yeo-been) becomes the prime suspect because she was the last one seen with Kyung-min on the night of her disappearance. Young-hee faces accusations from Kyung-min's mother (Seo Young-hwa) as well as her quick-to-condemn classmates. She insists on her innocence and tries to find out the truth on her own. When the school and her family offer her no support with the bullying she is experiencing, she decides to commit suicide herself.
The actual state adviser Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky had the idea that if he is humane, then people will love him, they will believe him, and therefore they will believe in state reform and will love it. Consequently, his personal qualities acquire important social significance.
On a winter evening, while he was a guest, Ivan Ilyich, without waiting for the crew, went home on foot and accidentally went out to the house of Pseldonimov, one of his small servants. A wedding was celebrated there, and the general, full of noble intentions, went to congratulate the young.
The film tells about the scientist Vladimir Bantikov, who decides to create his double in the form of a robot, but this robot suddenly began to live its own life...
The film tells about the Soviet counterintelligence, trying to find and neutralize the spies who were sent to the USSR in order to obtain secret information about the construction of a large military-industrial complex...
A young, stubborn and undisciplined man goes to serve in the army, where he will understand the need for military service...
A woman is looking forward to settling into a long retirement with her husband. But she quickly grows restless, and when an old flame suddenly turns up, she comes to reassess her past.
Pianist Garvey goes on tour. He gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from the saleswoman that the cities that Green invented (the author of the eponymous novel) are real. Moreover: they are a short bus ride away. Harvey, without hesitation, decides to visit such a city...
The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The film tells about Major Lubentsov, who gets acquainted with military physician Tanya Koltsova, with whom he is selected from the environment, and then broke up. And suddenly, in April 1945, he meets her in Germany...
The film takes place during the Second World War. The Germans are preparing sabotage groups from Russians to send them to the Soviet Union. One of them decides to interfere with their plans...
The film tells about the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, which are united by an incredibly strong desire for victory...
The film tells about a girl, a girl, Tanya, and her faithful dog, nicknamed Friend, who always comes to her aid and does not leave her when she gets sick...
The film tells about the 7th grade students Kolya and Alyosha, who do not like each other. And suddenly they decide to run away from their lessons and spend the whole day together, which changed their attitude both towards each other and towards the world around them...
The film tells about a girl who grandmother calls Dubravka. She plays football with other children, climbs trees and swims in the sea. But childhood ends and she enters adulthood. She wants to be alone, dream and think about life. And suddenly she falls in love for the first time in her life...
The film tells about a girl named Katya, who rescues a little boy during the bombing and decides to take him under her care in Siege of Leningrad. Suddenly, Captain Voronov, in search of his family, meets them, recognizes his son and adopts Katya.
High school student Valentin Kuzyaev is invited to shoot a TV show about youth. For preparation, he is given a questionnaire. The questions in the questionnaire are the simplest, but it is difficult for Vale to answer them. To understand himself, he begins to keep a diary.
The film consists of two short stories. In the first story the Russian sailor Nikolay and the former bullfighter Spaniard Jose Maria take a boat, the owner of which plans to flood him in order to get insurance. In the second short story, friends become sailors on the Jupiter ship and are given the task of delivering an underground newspaper to Odessa...
The film tells about the revolutionary Nikolay Bauman, one of the creators of the ''Iskra'' newspaper.
The film takes place in the Far East in 1921. The surviving White Guards, with the help of Japan, make a coup, while the Bolsheviks meanwhile go underground.... Is based in the same title novel of 1966 of Yulian Semyonov.
Fourth grader Scott Malkinson asks his father Clark, a technician for Park County Cable, if they can subscribe to the streaming service Disney+. Clark rebukes him for again making this request, telling him that the cable television they have is sufficient, and that he is tired of the growing popularity of streaming media. As Clark storms off to work, Scott, who has type 1 diabetes, realizes that the stress of his father's rant has caused his blood sugar to rise, and self-administers a shot of insulin.
At South Park Elementary, the fourth grade class learns that the newest student, a girl named Sophie Gray, also has diabetes. As Scott's friends are always ridiculing him for having diabetes, Scott believes she is perfect for him, and declares that he is in love with her. When the other boys also express an interest in her, Scott angrily resolves that he will not allow them to ruin this opportunity for him. He begins sabotaging the efforts of other boys to court her in order to woo her himself. When he learns that she is an avid fan of the Disney+ series ''The Mandalorian'', he feigns interest in it. When she suggests watching the next episode at Scott's house, Scott agrees, despite not having Disney+.
Clark receives word of a job. Despite the fact that business has been suffering in part because of customer complaints of slow service, Clark spends his day engaging in activities such as leisurely eating his lunch at the park and going bowling. This laxness and procrastination in the face of important obligations serves as a recurring gag in the episode. When he arrives at the residence of Stephen and Linda Stotch 15 minutes after the end of a five-hour estimated service window, an irritated Stephen Stotch complains and threatens to quit cable in favor of streaming. When Scott again asks his father for a Disney+ subscription for his date with Sophie, Clark again refuses, and contacts his coworkers to conspire to sabotage the streaming services in South Park, though he arranges to meet with them at some point during a four-hour window.
Clark rallies his co-workers about the damage that streaming has done to their business. He also points out that the streaming services use the cable that they laid throughout the town, and says they should disrupt that infrastructure in order to show the townsfolk how much they still need them. When Clark's coworkers agree, he delegates assignments to each of them, but says they should meet at a designated point sometime during a three-hour window. The cable repairmen take advantage of this window by engaging in a number of personal activities. This angers Clark, who repeatedly tells them that they should not make a practice of keeping appointments at the very end of windows several hours long, but Clark nonetheless continues this habit himself.
Scott buys a black market Disney+ login for his date with Sophie, but as Clark and his colleagues vandalize the cable lines running throughout town, Scott's account stops working. Sophie suggests going to Jimmy Valmer's house, where their other classmates are gathered to watch the show, though Scott fears this may threaten his attempts to woo Sophie. However, Jimmy's streaming service also malfunctions, as do those of everyone else in town. When the boys attempt to ingratiate themselves to Sophie, Scott threateningly brandishes several hypodermic needles, warning the other boys to stay away from his "girlfriend". Sophie, however, informs Scott that having diabetes does not make her his girlfriend, as she is more than just that condition. This prompts a dejected Scott to retreat to a playground to mope. A sympathetic Sophie follows him to commiserate with him over the difficulties diabetics like them live with each day. She tells him that she is glad she now has a friend who understands these issues, and that even though she missed the latest episode of ''The Mandalorian'', she somewhat likes ''The Scott Malkinson Show''.
A closing title card informs the viewer that the streaming rights for ''The Scott Malkinson Show'' are now available, complete with an actual phone number with which prospective buyers can contact Trey Parker, much to the frustration of Clark.
The film tells about a modest saleswoman of a greengrocery store named Nastya, who dreams of becoming beautiful and happy. And suddenly the dream begins to come true.
The action is set in the Gothic Wars and is based on the conflict between king Totila of the Ostrogoths and the Byzantine general Belisarius. In reality Totila sacked Rome twice, in 546 and again in 550 but the libretto is not specific about whether the action is meant to take place in either of these two events or in an amalgam of them.
In the first act, set in Rome under siege, Clelia, wife of the consul Publicola, plans to resist Vitige and shows that she is willing to kill her sleeping child to prevent him falling into the hands of the invaders and then to commit suicide. There is a spectacular scene in which the Goths put Rome to the torch. Marzia throws herself from a window and falls into the arms of Totila, who falls in love with her and has her father senator Servius arrested. A comic interlude follows in which the servant Desbo mistakenly informs Publicola that Clelia is dead; he then loses his mind and rails against poor Desbo, who tries to defend herself. Clelia, meanwhile, has decided to offer herself to Vitige in return for her freedom, but he is moved to spare her. The first act ends with spectacular stage effects as a trumpet sounds, a giant elephant opens, and Belisario, Lepido and Cinna come out.
The second act opens with a scene of Publicola’s melancholy and madness. Another scene depicts Marzia boarding Totila's ship. The woman makes fun of Totila but when he tries to kiss her, she rejects him. Totila, furious, then has Marzia bound to a ship's mast. Belisario and Lepido arrive and battle with Totila as a storm rages. Totila’s ship sinks and Marzia is rescued by Lepidus. Clelia, disguised as a soldier, challenges Vitige to a duel but he recognizes her and declares his love; she rejects him again. Belisario imprisons Vitige and frees Servius, while Totila is believed to be dead.
In the third act Totila, in disguise, orders Vitige to kill Belisario but he refuses, moved by the general's magnanimity. Publicola and Desbo appear in another comic interlude: in his delusion Publicola mistakes Desbo for Narciso and tries to seduce him. Desbo escapes, pursued by Publicola who, armed with a bow, wounds Totila. Belisarius arrives but, instead of killing Totila, helps him. Clelia and Publicola reunite, while Belisario and Lepido declare themselves willing to renounce their love for Marzia, if Totila will become a vassal of Giustiniano.
The film tells about the young physicist Belov, who works in the field of atomic tests at a secret research institute. He successfully submits his project, but suddenly two soldiers die at the training ground, and Belov is forced to go to the training ground to understand the reason for their death...
The film tells about Soviet intelligence agents who infiltrated the ''Saturn'', German espionage center, engaged in subversive activities against the Russians. They gained access to classified information that would help them fulfill their mission...
Upon discovering that the management is closing down the factory, a desperate employee kidnaps the toddler of the director in order to negotiate.
''The Kingdom of Gods'' takes place about 100 years after the events of ''The Broken Kingdoms'' and centers around the godling Sieh. The god of childhood and mischief, he is suddenly transformed into a mortal in the presence of twin Arameri children, Shahar and Deka.
The shock destroys part of the underpalace of the city of Sky, and sends Sieh from the mortal realm to recover for around eight years. When he wakes up, he re-unites with Shahar, who is now poised to become heir to the Arameri family. The two quickly fall in love, and Sieh begins to age quickly as he takes on adult situations and responsibilities.
Sieh must uncover the reason he has become mortal, as well as a string of assassinations of Arameri family members.
In 1769, Uiyudang moves to Hamheung with her husband after his appointment as an official in the region. She is told that the moonrise and sunrise in Dongmyeong are worth seeing, but is unable to watch them due to her husband's objection and the fact that Dongmyeong is 50 ''ri'' away from Hamheung. Two years later, she receives permission from her husband and visits Dongmyeong. However, when she climbs up to the Gwigyeongdae Cliff (龜景臺), she is unable to see a sunrise due to a cloudy weather.
Uiyudang begs her husband again, and in 1772, accompanied by her husband, woman entertainers, and servants, she takes a trip to Dongmyeong once again to see a moonrise and a sunrise. After arriving at her destination, she first enjoys boating, and then when the dusk is falling, she climbs up to the Gwigyeongdae Cliff. There, waiting for a moonrise, she enjoys listening to "Gwandong byeolgok" (Song of Gwandong) sung by a woman entertainer before finally watching a moonrise.
After staying up all night to see a sunrise, Uiyudang climbs up to the Gwigyeongdae Cliff once again and waits for it. However, women entertainers feel sorry for her, thinking that she won't be able to see a sunrise due to a cloudy weather. Uiyudang is also worried about it, but the sun looms above the horizon, and she describes the scene in great detail. After having breakfast, she tours around the Bongung House, the former residence of King Taejo of Joseon. She expresses gratitude for royal blessings and dedicates a piece of writing.
''Jagirok'' describes the author’s own childhood; her marriage and the illness and death of her husband; and her life afterward. Regarding her childhood, even though she mentions her father and elder sister, she mostly talks about her mother. She depicts in great detail how her mother had become weak after a series of childbirths and eventually passed away as a result.
Her childhood story is followed by the story of her marriage, mostly the illness and death of her husband Kim Gi-hwa, who was of the same age with her. She illustrates the cause of his illness, his suffering and treatment, the aggravation of his illness, her attempt to prick herself and shed blood, her suicidal thoughts, her husband’s funeral, and her life afterward.
Johann is sad because Embla, the cow of his family, has died. It was the only cow that the family had. Soon it will be Christmas, but without the cow and its milk, it is going to be a very sad one.
Meanwhile, a rich farmer buys a calf in the town. Afterwards, he goes into a pub and gets drunk. On his way back to the farm, he falls asleep on the carriage. But his horse keeps running, it knows the way back. When the farmer wakes up, he hears a loud roar of the calf. He believes it is the devil and throws the calf out of the carriage. Then he continues his way home.
Johann discovers the calf in the snow and he is overjoyed. He believes that god has sent him this Christmas present and he can keep the calf, but his father says it may belong to someone and wants to find out to whom.
Johann and his father find out that the calf belongs to the rich farmer and visit him. The farmer realizes how important the calf is to Johann. That's why he gives the calf to Johann. In return, Johann and his father should not tell how they got the calf. Johann is happy, this is a wonderful Christmas present.
Rintaro Noe, a clumsy high school student, dreads being around his tutor, Kaede Sumizome, who teases him incessantly. However, he doesn't realize that he's attracted to Kaede and that the reason for Kaede's playfulness around him may be because he returns those feelings.
Big game hunter Bill (Richard Brake), owner of Avex-Bio Tech, leads a hunting party with his partner Dr. Richards and best hunter Anna (Cassie Clare), where he takes wealthy participants to hunt down Graboids on Dark Island, a private area where he operates his company. Dr. Jasmine 'Jas' Welker (Caroline Langrishe) and colleague Jimmy (Jon Heder) work on the research site next to Dark Island where they were experiencing unnatural seismic vibrations. When Jas sees Bill leaving Dark Island, she along with Jimmy and friend Ishimon set out to investigate what Bill was up to and find a dead Graboid. They attempt to flee when they realize it has given birth to Shriekers, but the Shriekers kill Ishimon. Jas, knowing what Graboids are, instructs Jimmy to use coordinates provided by her son Travis to find Burt Gummer (Michael Gross). She visits Bill at his camp and learns Bill genetically bred the Graboids on the island and made them more powerful and intelligent for his hunt. He also cut off communications so nothing would stop him and his hunting party.
Jimmy finds Burt, who has now lived in isolation as a survivalist away from the government and content on being retired from anything related to Graboids. Jimmy informs him they need his help and Travis is unavailable due to being arrested in Mexico for smuggling shrooms. Burt reluctantly agrees when Jimmy convinces him it is his destiny. When he learns Jas is there, he nearly refuses to help due to their history and keeping Travis' birth a secret from him for so many years.
Having cleaned himself up, Burt gets to meet the crew, including tomboy Freddie (Jackie Cruz) who has a crush on Jimmy. Bill shows up to intimidate Burt and tell him to back off his hunt, but Burt is not afraid and warns Bill that the Graboids are a strong threat no matter what planning is implemented against them. Burt tries to gather weapons only to find out that they have no firearms to defend themselves, only a bunker from World War II which has machetes, two M2 flamethrowers, and dynamite that is unstable.
On Dark Island, the Shriekers Jas and Jimmy encountered have begun killing off members of his hunting party. Eventually, they find the Shriekers, but they, like their parent Graboid, are also superior to the originals and can now use their screams as sonic emitting weapons allowing them to pick off Bill's crew one by one. They are saved when Burt and the others arrive killing the Shriekers and one Graboid, leaving two remaining Graboids. Returning to Jas' research site, they are shocked to learn one of the Graboids made it to their location, showing signs it is much more powerful than they all realized. Burt warns Bill to call off the hunt and turn the communication system back on, but he refuses. Bill shoots Burt with a tranquilizer dart locking him and the others in the bunker.
Awakening in the bunker, everyone has been bound with zip ties. When Jimmy remembers that the boots he loaned to Burt had the laces replaced with 550 Paracord, Burt is able to saw the zip ties off. Meanwhile, Bill's hunt continues but goes wrong when the Graboid that made it to the site earlier has shown up and is subsequently dubbed "The Queen" due to its superiority. Anna quits when Bill's lust for the hunt proves too dangerous and insane.
Anna frees Burt and the others from the bunker, but they are attacked by a Graboid before they can leave. They use the dynamite to blow it up leaving only The Queen. Burt locates Bill to reason with him but is unable to convince him to give up his hunt. Bill meets his demise when The Queen finds them and devours Bill. Burt realizes The Queen is killing the weakest off until Burt, who Jimmy points out must be the Alpha, is left remaining. Burt gathers the remaining survivors and, inspired by the way his friends Valentine McKee and Earl Bassett successfully killed off an intelligent Graboid in his very first encounter with the creatures (''Tremors''), they plan to lead The Queen to an inactive volcano dubbed Devil's Punchbowl and lure The Queen over a plateau onto a bed of spiked dynamite.
Burt and Jimmy leave to kill off the remaining Shriekers, while Jas and the others set up the trap for The Queen. Burt and Jimmy make it to Dark Island and begin killing off the Shriekers with just machetes, one flamethrower, and a chainsaw.
They return to the research site, but find out The Queen is there waiting for Burt. The team heads to Devil's Punchbowl to execute the plan with Jimmy following behind with Burt. The pair are successfully leading The Queen into the trap, but Burt, at the last second, pushes Jimmy out of the way and lets himself be swallowed by The Queen to ensure her demise. The Queen dies from the dynamite and spikes, and Burt does not survive, much to the sadness of Jas and the others. In the end, they make a memorial for Burt, leaving behind their weapons with his signature hat and sunglasses.
During the credits, scenes of Burt Gummer from all the previous ''Tremors'' films are montaged.
A mother tells a story about the very first Christmas to her child. Although it had happened a long time ago. in a distant land, the child imagines that it had happened on his parents' farm.
A man and a woman are very tired after a long journey and want to sleep. But there is no light in the courtyards around them. Therefore, the two travelers go into a stable. When the couple is in the stable the animals walk around the woman and warm her up. A short time later, the woman gets a baby. All stars suddenly light up, one is particularly bright and stands directly above the stable. The shepherds in the fields wonder why there is a star above the stable. When they see the newborn child, they realize that the star is shining for the child. Since there is no bed, the woman puts her child in a crib. The child sleeps and is watched by the shepherds and animals. The poinsettia is shining in the sky above the stable.
Leslie Lamont is a deranged transsexual woman who lives in isolation in a rural farmhouse. Leslie spends her time studying the occult, grave robbing, and collecting the corpses of biological women, whose bodies she aspires to possess. Late one night, young professor Alma Frost, along with three of her students, Lily, Martha, and Roy Sanders, are forced to stop their drive back to Boston due to a torrential downpour. They seek shelter in Leslie's house, and she agrees to let them stay. Leslie is visibly disturbed by Martha, whom she says resembles a woman who worked in her mother's doll factory, also named Martha, who died two decades prior in a fire; the fire also claimed the life of Leslie's mother.
In a room in the basement, Roy finds a small stage with what appears to be multiple lifelike female mannequins posed around a goblet of fire. Disturbed, Roy brings Lily and Martha to see the room. Leslie enters the room with Alma, and explains that the room is a place of worship for her own self-constructed religion. Leslie prepares a meal for her guests, consisting of sandwiches, coffee, and wine, the latter two she has drugged. As the four eat, Leslie listens in on their discussion, in which Roy chastises Alma for being uptight.
As the group retire for the night, Martha and Roy begin to have sex to the chagrin of Lily, who is sharing a room with Alma. Alma, a repressed lesbian, attempts to make a sexual advance on Lily, who declines. Alma persists, and the two have sex. After, Alma complains that she feels she has been drugged. After Alma falls asleep, Lily confronts Martha and Roy in bed, and asks to stay in their room. Meanwhile, Leslie preserves a woman's corpse in the basement before communing with her dead mother's skull. Leslie chastises her mother, accusing her spirit of causing Leslie's various attempts to possess a female corpse to fail. She also reveals that she murdered her mother to prevent her from having Leslie committed to a psychiatric hospital. Leslie unveils her plan to be reincarnated in the young Martha's body.
Roy goes downstairs to obtain more wine, and is followed by Lily. In the kitchen, Leslie strangles him unconscious with the handle of an axe. Lily walks in on the murder, and is attacked by Leslie, who hacks her to death. The screams stir Martha, who rushes downstairs and stumbles upon the scene. Leslie attacks Martha on the staircase and hypnotizes her with her pendulum necklace.
Meanwhile, Alma has a nightmare in which she is chained in Leslie's altar room, and the mannequins come to life and torment her. Alma awakens from the nightmare and stumbles through the house, finding her students missing. In a chamber in the basement, Alma finds Lily's bloody corpse. Leslie confronts Alma, and in a struggle, Alma removes a prosthetic mask, revealing Leslie is in fact a man with severe burn scars. Alma flees outside, while Roy awakens in a locked cage. Leslie chases Alma into the woods and to a graveyard, where Alma collapses. There, Leslie's body suddenly disintegrates, and her spirit successfully inhabits Alma's body. Now possessing Alma's body, Leslie returns to the house and seduces Roy.
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Dave (Shearsmith) has seen his marriage break-up and finds himself living in a storage unit called the Storage Garden, where his belongings are also being kept. He is accompanied by fellow self storage inhabitant Geoff (Heap) and security guard Ron (Goodman-Hill).
The second series finds Dave living in the Storage Garden with his sister after her marriage breaks down.
Following attacks on intelligence agents around the world, the Doctor, Yaz, Graham, and Ryan are called in by the head of MI6, C, to investigate. The victims' DNA has been altered into something extraterrestrial. Their only lead is Daniel Barton, the CEO of the search engine media company, VOR. Additionally, the Doctor contacts Agent O, who was tasked with monitoring extraterrestrial activities before being struck off by C. C is killed by mysterious lifeforms, while the Doctor and her companions manage to escape.
While Yaz and Ryan investigate Barton (whose DNA they discover to be 93% human), who invites them to his birthday party the following day, Graham and the Doctor find O in the Australian outback. In their separate investigations, both groups encounter the same luminescent alien entities, who appear to be cooperating with Barton. In Australia, the Doctor is able to capture one of the lifeforms, who reveals their intent to occupy the universe. While sneaking into VOR's headquarters with Ryan, Yaz is attacked by one such entity and transported to a strange environment. The captured alien frees itself by swapping with Yaz, leaving her in O's base. Ryan is brought to Australia and regroups with Yaz, Graham and the Doctor.
Joined by O, the four investigate Barton at his birthday party. After being confronted by the Doctor, Barton denies all accusations put to him and angrily leaves in his car. The Doctor and her companions pursue Barton on motorbikes to his private jet. Leaping aboard said jet, O is revealed to be the Master – having been in control of Barton and the aliens the whole time. Barton then disappears from the pilot seat, leaving a bomb in his place. The Master says to the Doctor, "One thing I should tell you in the seconds before you die: Everything that you think you know, is a lie". The device detonates, shattering the nose of the plane and sending it into a nose dive. The Master teleports to his waiting TARDIS and two of the aliens cause the Doctor to disappear from the plane, reappearing in the same environment Yaz was in earlier; leaving the others in the falling plane.
In the dimension of the aliens, now revealed to be Kasaavins, the Doctor meets computer pioneer Ada Lovelace and grabs her hand when a Kasaavin appears, transporting them to an invention exhibition in 1834, where they encounter the Master. Though the Master knows the aliens' name and intentions, the Doctor realises he does not fully understand them when he asks her how she escaped their dimension. Ada takes her to the residence of polymath Charles Babbage, where the Doctor summons a Kasaavin via a figurine identical to the one in Barton's office, hoping to return to the 21st century. Ada suddenly grabs the Doctor's hand as she fades and they accidentally travel to Paris during World War II instead. They are rescued by British spy Noor Inayat Khan, though the Master continues to pursue them, posing as a Nazi officer through the use of a perception filter. The Doctor meets with the Master atop the Eiffel Tower, where the latter reveals that he had the Kasaavins kill spies in order to get the former's attention and claims that Gallifrey has been destroyed. With help from Ada and Noor, the Doctor destroys the Master's filter and turns the Nazis on him while her group uses his TARDIS to return to the present.
Back in the present, Ryan finds instructions to safely land the plane with help from a recording of the Doctor. By the time the companions land, Barton has branded them persons of interest, setting off a worldwide manhunt for them. Despite this, they manage to steal one of Barton's cars, which takes them to a warehouse containing the figurine. Speaking at a conference, Barton reveals that the Kasaavins will rewrite humanity's DNA to utilise its storage capacity as hard drives. The Master, forced to live through the 20th century without his TARDIS, arrives in time to see the figurine device activate, only for it to fail after the Doctor planted a virus in it in the past. Just before the Kasaavins are forced back to their dimension, the Doctor exposes the Master's treachery and they take him with them while Barton escapes from the conference.
After setting up the means for her companions to survive the plane crash, the Doctor returns Ada and Noor to their respective time periods and wipes herself from their memories. She also visits Gallifrey's ruins to confirm the Master's claim, where she discovers a recording of him confessing to destroying their home planet after realising their understanding of Time Lord history was a lie based on the "Timeless Child." Afterwards, her companions bluntly request the Doctor explain who she is, so she tells them of what she believes to be her backstory.
"The Timeless Child" had been mentioned briefly in the previous series' episode "The Ghost Monument", where the Remnants taunted the Doctor about her knowledge of the Child.
The king is dead, and a combat tournament is being held to determine a new ruler. The player faces twelve opponents sequentially in one-on-one combat, and upon defeating them all, is crowned ruler of the kingdom.
Mela Katende, an illegitimate child is raised by her step mother, struggles to live up to the expectations of her family, society and culture.
The nation of Mendev has been fighting a series of wars against the Worldwound, a magical anomaly that allows demons to travel from their home in the Abyss to the mortal world. These wars, called crusades, have been slowly losing ground, primarily because demons killed in the mortal world simply return to life in the Abyss.
The player controls a citizen of the city of Kenabres, on Mendev's border. After surviving an attack on Kenabres by the Demon Lord Deskari, the player-character discovers that they have strange magical "mythic powers" from an unknown source. After driving the demons out of Kenabres, the player-character is appointed Commander of the Fifth Crusade by Queen Galfrey of Mendev.
The Commander must deploy armies against the demonic forces while also trying to find out how to close the Worldwound. They retake territory around the Worldwound and recruit various individuals to their party. Their mythic powers grow, setting them onto one of several "mythic paths" such as becoming an angel, trickster or lich. The chosen mythic path significantly affects the Commander's abilities, leadership style, and personal fate.
The Commander eventually discovers that their mythic powers come from an experiment conducted on them by Areelu Vorlesh, a half-demon mad scientist who created the Worldwound. Vorlesh attempted to place her murdered child's soul in the young Commander's body, but ended up creating the source of the mythic power. Vorlesh then erased the Commander's memory of her interference. The mythic source was activated by the stress of the attack on Kenabres and has been fueled by the Commander's battles with powerful beings. After learning this, the Commander can choose to abandon their mythic powers, becoming a "Mortal Legend".
Vorlesh tells the Commander that the Worldwound is bound to her and the Commander's souls, and that one of them must die in the Worldwound for it to be closed. The Commander confronts her near the entrance to the Worldwound, where they fight. After Vorlesh is defeated, she attempts to commit suicide to spite the Commander, but can be talked down. The Commander can then choose to push Vorlesh into the Worldwound (if she is still alive), jump in themself, or use various other solutions based on their mythic path. If the Worldwound is closed, Mendev and the surrounding area are finally peaceful. However, some mythic paths can co-opt the Worldwound for their own purposes.
There is a secret ending that requires specific actions and research throughout the story. The Commander learns more about Vorlesh's experiments and realizes that she is trying to become a demigoddess. The Commander gathers the materials and knowledge necessary for the ascension and finally completes it after defeating Vorlesh, gaining more power and near-immortality. They can choose to do it alone, or let Vorlesh and/or their party members also become demigods.
Black Bart, the notorious stagecoach robber, has reappeared after serving 7 years in prison, so the Range Busters are sent to investigate. They find out that this Black Bart is an impostor, since the original Black Bart is now an honest citizen. Now they have to set a trap and get the impostor.
Beth has just lost her husband Owen to suicide. Devastated, she spends her nights drinking and going through Owen's belongings. She tries to appear stable and in control, but her friend Claire and neighbour Mel are concerned for her. Owen's ominous suicide note — "You were right. There is nothing. Nothing is after you. You're safe now." — perplexes her. She begins to suffer from strange supernatural events at night and finds a strange reversed floor plan for their house.
One night, she discovers a photo on his phone of a woman who looks similar to her, and suspects Owen was having an affair. After a night out with Claire, a drunken Beth reveals that she had been clinically dead for four minutes after a car accident years ago and saw that there was nothing when she died. Owen had always disagreed with this and was close to changing her mind before he died. Beth says that when she suffered from depression a year ago, Owen began sleepwalking, and she thought she had passed her negative emotions to him. That night, she is awakened by a supernatural presence and witnesses several frightened women fleeing through the woods and jumping into the lake. She finds blood on the boat where Owen shot himself and feels an invisible presence.
Crossing the lake to investigate a strange set of lights, she discovers a reversed copy of her house and sees ghostly figures of women with Owen. She passes out and awakens in her own house. She looks for the reversed house again and finds it, although this time it is unfinished and empty. She retrieves a strange statue from it and confronts Mel, who claims he never saw the house but once saw Owen in the woods at night with a woman who looked like Beth. Searching Owen's laptop, she finds more photos of women who look similar to her, identifies the statue from one of his books as an occult voodoo doll, and determines that Owen was trying to learn how to trick and trap demonic entities.
Beth finds the bookstore where Owen bought the books and encounters Madelyne, one of the women from Owen's photos, who denies sleeping with him. Beth visits Claire who asks her to spend a few days away from the house. She agrees and heads home to pack, where she threatens the ghost in the house. Madelyne arrives and tells Beth how Owen invited her to the reverse house. When Owen kissed her, he attempted to choke her, but apologized after she panicked and drove her back home. A drunk Beth visits the reverse house, and under the floorboards finds the bodies of the women Owen had photographed.
An invisible force caresses Beth and she hugs it, mistaking it for Owen's spirit. The spirit reveals that it is not Owen and shows her visions of Owen attacking and murdering the women. The entity drags her through the house, reveals that it is what Beth saw when she died in the car accident, and identifies itself as "Nothing", implied to be the personification of death. It explains that it tried to convince Owen to kill Beth to bring her back to the afterlife, but he resisted. Instead, Owen built the reverse house and murdered the Beth-lookalikes to try to trick Nothing, but Nothing realized the trick. It then traps Beth in a position like the statue that she had retrieved from the reverse house earlier.
In the morning, Claire arrives and sees evidence of a fight in the house. Discovering the gun Owen used to kill himself is gone, she rushes out to the dock with Mel, where they find Beth floating out in the boat with the gun. In Nothing's dimension, the demon tries to convince Beth to join it by killing herself, but Beth decides to put the gun down and not commit suicide. As soon as she moves the gun away from herself, Beth returns to the real world, where Claire is swimming toward the boat to save her. Once ashore, Beth sees the outline of the demon in the boat. Mel asks her what she is staring at and says, "There's nothing there," to which Beth replies, "I know".
The film tells about the pioneer Andrew and his friend. They imitate the accident in front of foreign tourists on the water. The young correspondent Egor noticed this, and as a result, the portraits of the pioneer hang wherever possible, he receives an invitation to the radio, people shot a movie about him. And now, when friends wanted to retreat, they began to realize that it would not be as easy as it seems...
The film takes place in Petrograd. The film tells about the organization of the first working youth organization...
The film is a continuation of 'The Communist' film. The son of Vasily Gubanov goes to Moscow with the hope of stopping the construction of his chemical enterprise, despite the huge amount of money and labor resources spent on the project...
When a top secret Black Ops facility is breached from within by genetically modified Monolophosaurus, a final shipment is re-routed to a nearby prison to secure a half dozen of the beasts.
A trio of sorority girls (who are temporary 'guests' after getting busted for high-jinx after a particularly obnoxious party) find themselves trapped in the prison when these dinosaurs escape and go on a vicious rampage killing 90% of the prison population including the guards.
Forced to team up with the remaining prisoners they find themselves pushed deeper and deeper into the bowels of the prison to find a way out. Only they aren't sure if their new 'friends' are any better than the Monolophosaurus who plan on eating them.
And to make matters worse the Black Ops organization enters the prison not only to collect their 'property', but also permanently silence anyone with knowledge of the situation.
A lost earless seal finds himself in the company of a polar bear. The polar bear falls in love with the seal, but the fearful seal constantly misinterprets his romantic advances as a strong desire to eat him.
Sarah is a shy, introverted young woman who lives a quiet life and works at a crafts store. In her spare time she visits the grave of her mother, who died by suicide the year before. She also frequents the horse stable where her former horse Willow is boarded, and where she rode in her childhood; Sarah's recurrent visits visibly annoy the owners. On her birthday, she makes a feeble attempt to ask her Zumba class instructor to go out with her but fails to make her point. When her roommate Nikki finds Sarah home alone on her birthday, she invites Darren, her boyfriend Brian's roommate, over for a double date. The four smoke marijuana and have drinks. Sarah listens eagerly as Darren reveals details about himself and his past relationship, but the date is interrupted by Sarah getting a nose bleed. After Darren leaves, Sarah has a bizarre dream in which she is lying in a white room with a man and woman also lying down some distance away from her, unaware of their surroundings.
The following morning, Nikki awakens to find Sarah sleeping on the living room floor and large scratch marks running across the wall. Darren returns to the apartment to retrieve his car and asks Sarah on a date. At work, Sarah has another nose bleed. While recovering, she recognizes a man walking outside who resembles the one from her dream. Later, Sarah spends an afternoon with her childhood friend Heather who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a riding accident causing her to have recurrent seizures and short term memory loss.
A series of bizarre incidents soon befall Sarah. While driving home, Sarah stops at a red light near a water facility then finds herself in her kitchen with the tap running, unable to account for the elapsed time. She hears a woman talking indistinctly in another room when no one is home. She finds her car has been stolen from her apartment's garage.
Gary, Sarah's wealthy stepfather, notifies her the car has appeared at a tow yard as the registration is still in his name. He brings Sarah to retrieve it, and the tow driver informs them the car was abandoned near a water facility in the middle of the road.
Later, Sarah apparently sleepwalks out of her apartment and awakens standing on a sidewalk with an unexplained time loss. Her boss, Joan, suggests that Sarah visit a doctor given Sarah's familial history of mental health problems.
Sarah becomes convinced she is experiencing alien abductions and might be a clone, the latter triggered by a subplot in ''Purgatory,'' a fantasy television series Sarah watches regularly. Due to her striking resemblance to her deceased grandmother, Sarah worries she may be a clone of her. Meanwhile, she tracks the man from her dream, Ron, to a plumbing store that he owns. While on a date with Darren, Sarah manically confides her belief that she is a clone and has him drive her to her mother's grave to dig her up and retrieve her DNA. When Darren becomes disturbed, Sarah accuses him of plotting against her, and threatens him with scissors, forcing him to leave her there.
After Sarah strips nude at work having imagined that she was inside the shower, she is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. There, she recognizes another patient as the woman from her dream; when Sarah describes it, the woman reveals that they share similar elements in their dreams, such as an alien ramp in the middle of the ocean. Sarah takes this as confirmation of her belief that they are both alien abductees and soon joyfully tells her social worker that she is not delusional. Despite the social worker's reservations, Sarah is discharged after 72 hours in the hospital.
At home, Sarah dresses in her grandmother's dress. She covertly steals Willow from the stable and walks with her into the woods. In a clearing, Sarah stops and lies on the ground. Moments later, a spaceship appears; she levitates toward the sky and disappears.
Civil War. Virineya is a despised creature in the remote village of Nebesnovka. Clever, beautiful, desperate head, she herself, out of a sense of contradiction, multiplies her notoriety. The acute social and everyday drama tells how the unlucky Virka found her way to personal happiness, participation in a new life, to feat.
The film is told from the point of view of the narrator, an artist, who paints scenes of rural Kyrgyz life. These scenes are based on his childhood, which he reflects back upon for the bulk of the movie. The main part of the film takes place during the Great Patriotic War in what is now Kyrgyzstan. Jamilya, a young woman, follows her parents orders by marrying Sadik, a man who she does not love. After marrying Jamilya, Sadik lives with her for only four months, then he is taken to the front, to fight in World War II. During this period, women, old people and children went to the fields and sent wheat to the front lines where the men were fighting. Jamilya misses her husband. However, Jamilya falls in love with the front-line soldier Daniyar, who has already returned from the war. After Sadik is wounded, he writes in a letter that he is returning home in two months, which makes everyone happy, except for Jamilya and Daniyar who are forced to confront the reality of their relationship.
The film tells about the spoiled attention and arrogant scientist who meets a young woman, interested in him with her extraordinary and unpredictability. Can they get along with each other?
Fyodor Protasov as a result of unwillingness to live dishonestly sinks to the bottom of society.
The film takes place after the war. Surviving soldiers return to their native village. Among them was not Martha's husband, whom she had been waiting for all these years, but nevertheless she remained faithful to him.
The film is set in Greece during the period of the Greek junta. The soldier Vangelis is ordered to take part in the execution of a young communist, after a fellow soldier, Dimitris, refuses. Feeling guilty over his role in the execution, Vangelis tries to confide in his girlfriend Maria, but finds himself unable to do so. Instead he gets into a fight with a drunken passer-by, and flees from a military patrol, taking shelter in a local church, where he confesses to the priest. The priest tells Vangelis that he killed many Gestapo men during the Second World War in order to avenge the death of his parents, but was not able to find peace of mind. He is of the opinion that killing people is a terrible thing.
Vangelis's guilt deepens after time spent with friends, realising that in the event of a future civil war, he would likely find himself fighting with and killing his friends. At dawn he finds Maria and confesses what he has done to her. The two reconcile, and after escorting Maria to work, Vangelis allows himself to be arrested by the patrol for the previous night's fight, but is no longer prepared to submit to unjust orders. He is placed in the same cell as Dimitris, who was arrested for disobeying the order to join the firing squad. Vangelis asks if the person who was executed was his relative, but Dimitris replies no. Vangelis recognises that Dimitris's principles are the same as those of the priest. Killing is unjust.
The film consists of four short stories, each of which asks the audience a question: "What is love?"
The film tells about the famous Tatar poet Musa Jalil, who ended up in the fascist prison of Moabit, where he wrote over 100 verses.
Located in a world of anthropomorphic animals, ''Rimba Racer'' takes place at the Rimba Grand Prix, a major competition among drivers in high-tech vehicles. Tag is a talented young newcomer to the competition, full of ambition. However, as Tag delves deeper into the world of the Rimba Grand Prix, it becomes clear that it's not what he imagined. Some determined competitors are cheating, and a "hidden power" is the true power behind the Grand Prix curtain. It's up to Tag and his teammates to challenge the evil team, to save the sport they love from the conspiracy and corruption.
When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of Felix, a disabled pensioner, Ana, a single mother struggling with her move and Seydou, a young man passionate about dance intertwine towards an explosive ending where their limits will be tested.
The film tells about a 7th grade student named Olya, who enjoys a happy life. She has not only good parents and friends, but also a talent for writing wise verses.
The Snow Maiden is the daughter of Ded Moroz and the Beauty of Spring. Her icy heart has never known simple human joys, never known love before meeting Lel. His spiritual warmth gave the girl the wealth of the surrounding world, melted the heart of the cold beauty.
The film tells about the doctor Sedov, who is forced to make a difficult decision about heart surgery of the famous mathematician.
The film is starring writer Martti Hongisto (Lasse Pöysti), who goes out to meet Anna (Liisamaija Laaksonen) after loving her youth and reminiscing about his past youth. Meanwhile, Hongisto's wife Laimi (Tuula Nyman) is searching for her husband in restaurants.
The Mandalorian defeats a pursuing bounty hunter in a dogfight, but the ''Razor Crest'' is damaged and he lands at a repair facility run by Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris) in Mos Eisley on Tatooine. While seeking work to pay for the repairs in a local cantina, he meets Toro Calican (Jake Cannavale), a young bounty hunter looking to join the Bounty Hunter's Guild by capturing Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), a well-trained mercenary. Despite misgivings, the Mandalorian agrees to help him for the bounty, while Calican will take credit for the capture. Peli, meanwhile, has come across "the Child" and begins to take care of it while working on the ship, growing slightly fond of it.
The Mandalorian and Calican travel into the Dune Sea on speeder bikes, looking for Shand. They come upon Tusken Raiders; the Mandalorian barters with them by trading Calican's binoculars (which are apparently brand-new) for safe passage. They eventually come across a Dewback with a dead bounty hunter attached to it, which turns out to be bait laid out by Shand to attract anyone looking for her. The two manage to avoid her attacks and capture her, but she manages to destroy one of their speeder bikes in the fight.
The Mandalorian goes to get the Dewback to replace the destroyed speeder, while Calican watches Shand. She tells him that the Mandalorian is a traitor to the Guild and that the bounties on the Mandalorian and the Child are worth a great deal more than her own. Calican is unconcerned with the bounty, but Shand points out that taking out a Mandalorian would make him a legend. She offers to help Calican capture the Mandalorian if he frees her but Calican, assuming that she would betray him, shoots her and heads to the repair facility on the speeder bike, where he captures Motto and the Child. The Mandalorian arrives, uses a flash grenade to stun Calican, and shoots him dead. The Mandalorian then gives Calican's money to Motto to pay for the repairs on his ship and he leaves Tatooine. Out in the desert, a mysterious figure is seen approaching Shand's body.
''Reluctant Persuaders'' follows Hardacre's, 'the worst advertising agency in London'.
The film takes place after the war. The film tells about the former butler of a count who returns to his native village with the hope of finding a treasure and taking possession of it.
The family of an abused child accepts hush money from a famous filmmaker to remain silent.
''Se rentan cuartos'' follow the story of a wealthy family that ends in bankruptcy and they have no choice but to start a new life in a house located in one of the most popular neighborhoods of the Mexico City. There they will learn valuable life lessons about the people they once despised.
Two small-time criminals and longtime friends, as Deuce (Theo Rossi) and Chucky (Clive Standen), graduate from robbing pawn shops and jewelry stores and become involved in a plan to rob a mafia vault.
They are recruited with a group of small time criminals by Gerry “The Frenchman” Ouimette (Don Johnson), the right-hand man for Providence Mafia boss Raymond Patriarca (Chazz Palminteri). Patriarca is a notorious gangster and executioner who although in jail, continues running his crime empire from inside his well-appointed jail cell.
The crew pull off the biggest heist in American history: stealing over $30 million from a fur dealer's vault that the Mafia uses as its unofficial bank to store cash and stolen goods.
After the heist, they turn most of it over to Ouimette to fence while they lie low and hope for the heat to dissipate. Deuce hides out in a rural motel with his girlfriend Karyn, growing increasingly anxious. One by one, members of the crew are killed.
Deuce and Chucky become suspicious and turn on each other. Deuce is arrested and told Chucky was killed by the Mafia. He's told he might qualify for witness protection if he gives enough information. After confessing, he learns that Chucky is still alive.
The movie follows Alison Grant who is a former figure skating champion. She is now teaching ice skating lessons to children at a local rink. However, her boss cancels her classes for not bringing in enough students. After being let go by the rink, Alison starts out on her own by teaching skating lessons on a friend’s pond. Alison and her nieces hand out Christmas coupons for the new class to bring in students. One of the girls who joins brings her uncle Ivan to class with her. Ivan was Alison’s old high school sweetheart who left her years before when he received an offer to play major league hockey. Initially the two are at odds with each other, but after the cold reunion passes they start to become friends again. Eventually they rekindle their relationship and fall in love.
Sugi is a navigator of the ship Suzuran Maru. He returns to Yokohama while his she is under repairs, and after getting into a brawl over a prostitute who calls herself "Sally," is informed of the death of his old friend, Hamasaki. Police call it suicide, but Sugi doubts it, and he starts to investigate by himself.
Detective Morimoto tells Sugi that his friend was a drug dealer. When he returns home, he discovers that Sally had called him, but when he goes to her apartment, he discovers that she has been murdered. Sugi goes to speak with Hamazaki's girlfriend, Miyako. She tells him that she and Hamazaki were being targeted by the manager of the nightclub "35 Knots," where he had brawled and met Sally the day before. His name was Watanabe, and had also been targeting Sally, and her friend, Kazuko.
Sugi hides Kazuko on the Suzuran Maru ship. Kazuko tells him that Sally's pimp had been missing since the night of Hamazaki's drowning. He suspected that Hamazaki isn't dead at all, and goes after Watanabe. Hamazaki tells Sugi to stop meddling. He shows Sugi a photograph that proves Hamazaki is a drug dealer. Discovering that his friend is indeed alive, he insists on knowing his whereabouts, so that he can hear it from his friend's lips.
Hamazaki has been hoarding drugs and planning his escape. He returns to his hideout, ready to leave, and finds Sugi and Miyako there waiting for him. They confront him. He pulls out a gun. Just then, detective Morimoto knock on the door. Doing his arrest, however, his accomplice in the elevator attacks Morimoto and allows Hamazaki to escape. Morimoto shoots the both of them as they run away, and Hamazaki dies from his injuries.
The movie ends with a saddened Sugi leaving Yokohama Port forever.
The Range Busters chase a group of outlaws shooting at the occupant of a wagon. When the outlaws flee the Range Busters discover the wagon's driver is dead but there is a live baby in the wagon. They discover that the villains are trying to abduct the child to get their hands on a valuable piece of property.
In a rural village in Sri Lanka, the family well becomes poisoned by agricultural chemicals. This subsequently leads to the untimely death of Ruwansiri's father who develops chronic kidney disease, leaving his mother works to support the family. At school, he struggles to understand his lessons in a rigid educational system that cannot go beyond rote learning. As an escape from the toxic environment around him, Ruwansiri finds solace in music.
Susan Thomas has emigrated from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and has recently moved to Mississauga, Ontario. Susan is passionate about art, but she knows that her parents expect her to pursue a career as a doctor or an engineer and that they would not allow her to attend art school.
Smoky Moore is riding to Cheyenne to see his stepfather Bill Hastings, whom he has not seen in fifteen years. His father is the town sheriff. Smoky witnesses Dan Blodgett, the town's mayor and Mort Saunders, head of the Cattleman's Association, robbing the bank at night. During the robbery, a guard is killed, and Smoky somehow winds up getting arrested for both the robbery and the murder! Tom Cameron (The Lone Rider) and his faithful sidekick Fuzzy Jones break their pal Smoky out of the prison, and weeks later, the three of them sneak back into town disguised, and attempt to expose the so-called good upstanding citizens who were really responsible for the crimes.
The film is set in China's Sichuan province, and is based around the ancient Sanxingdui ruins in Guanghan.
Thousands of years ago, a large civilization existed deep underground. There, an artificial sun called “skylight” brought light to its people. In ancient times, the “Masked King” Sheargan appeared, sealed the "Kukuri" that plagued the underground world, and turned on the skylight to release people from the darkness. Sheargan was worshiped as a savior and became an absolute being. Serving the Sheargan and managing the skylight is a family whose mission is to illuminate the dark. Siblings Lilyn and Sauda are searching for the fuel for the skylight, "Raige", as it is getting less and less. While doing so, Lilyn meets a man names Masala, who resides in a village where the skylight has been turned off after angering Sheargan. While working with Masala, Lilyn and Sauda get to know the existence of a world that they had not seen. The story will change the fate of the brother and sister, as well as the underground world.
The opening lines of the ''New York Times'' review summarize the complexities of the novel:
CHARLEY PARTANNA, underboss of the Prizzi crime family, has a problem. He's just bumped off a traitor in Vegas who'd fleeced the organization to the tune of $720,000 - and now he's discovered that his new girlfriend, Irene, was the dead man's wife. As if that weren't enough of a headache, Charley's also learned that she's been augmenting her income as a tax consultant by working as a freelance hitter, and that she's now been offered a contract by a family rival to ''do the number'' on him. ''What a business for a woman!'' Charley grouses. ''This is a serious thing. We were going to get married.'' ''You think she decided what business?'' asks his father, Angelo, consigliere to the Prizzis. ''She's an American! She had a chance to win even more money so she grabbed it!''
Complexity builds upon complexity, irony builds upon irony, murder follows murder, and tension mounts as the improbable story of the two married killers races to its climax.
Henry, a 12-year-old boy, finds out his family's dark legacy when his mysterious grandfather suddenly dies leaving him alone on an isolated farm.
Detective Brian Larson must recapture James Whitley, a psychopath who victimized him and three other boys as children, when Whitley escapes from prison.
The story of Jim McNeely who, in 1939, struggles to make it in the oil business.
At the end of the Sengoku period, While other Daimyo are joining Tokugawa Ieyasu's army one after another. but only Uesugi clan is brave enough stand in Ieyasu's way. Kuruma Touzo is a ronin who left Kobayakawa Hideaki. He is impressed by the Uesugi clan's courage and tries to help. His target is Tamonyama castle under construction by Date clan.
The British Prime Minister calls Sir Adrian Weston, former Deputy Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, and asks him to handle a sensitive case. The computers of the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked by a young British teenager, Luke Jennings, who was subsequently captured in an SAS raid in London. Weston, an ex-Parachute Regiment soldier-turned-MI6 officer, devises a plan to take advantage of Jennings' skills in order to cripple Iran's nuclear program, Russia's intensification programs, and North Korea's nuclear program. Weston is assisted by Special Air Service Captain Harry Williams, and Avigdor Hirsch, Mossad operative and former Special Forces soldier. Yevgeni Krilov, head of the SVR, recognizes Weston's fingerprints on the operation and tries to thwart the operation.
The film takes place in the 15th century in the Ural, which Moscow troops want to capture. Mikhail, Prince of Great Perm with the help of local residents and old gods will try to fight back.
According to the authors, the epic drama ''Heart of Parma'' is the history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the conflict of civilizations is the fate of the Russian prince Mikhail, who fell in love with the young Tiche, a witch-lamia capable of taking on the form of a lynx. Passion for the pagan and fidelity to forbidden love, a campaign against the Voguls, bloody battles and a short peace, the battle between Muscovy and Parma, the hero will face trials in which it is not so terrible to part with life as to commit treason.
The book's plot opens after the Gulf War when a government minister approached a British businessman to execute a plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein. The businessman recruits Sir Peter Dartington, the owner of the international construction company. The latter tasked the mission of preparing and executing the job to Security contractor Ed Howard, an ex-Royal Marines and SBS officer. Howard recruits his men at X.F Security firm, all of them are special forces veterans, including his best friend Mike Ziegler, former officer at the Navy SEALS. In addition, Howard is recruiting a Scottish hunting guide to serve as a sniper of the force. The assassination operation requires the team to deal with Iraqi military on the one hand and successfully evade the US and UK intelligence organizations on the other.
What happens in fairy tales after the wedding of the prince and princess? Figure skater Nadya Lapshina and hockey player Sasha Gorin got married and more than anything else they dream of a child. True, the price they will have to pay for this dream will be unimaginably high. After such upheavals, it seems impossible to count on a happy ending. But if you think so, you do not know anything about real tales...
A reckless, on-the-lam punk rock singer named Simon goes home with Beth, a girl he met while volunteering at a clinical trial. He and Beth's mother begin to flirt, and after getting caught, Simon lights the family's front yard on fire. Meanwhile, track athletes Derrick and Brandon bully the young and awkward Patty, who goes to work at a pet store before returning home. She eats dinner with her parents, Norman and Connie, and brother Kevin, and is unsuccessful in asking for permission to go to a rock show with her friends, Sissy and Karen. For the past two years, Patty has been sending postcards containing nude photos and lyrics to her original music to John Q, the lead singer of her favorite band PSYOPS, who will be playing next week with the Alliance. She is unaware that John Q is Simon, who performs wearing a ski mask.
The following morning, Simon begins to sell drugs around town. A police officer spots him and gives chase buts fails to find him. Simon crosses paths with Patty, who recognizes him from a college course on music appreciation. She tells him that she was just fired from the pet store by the owner, Mr. Hanley. She takes him back to her place, where they flirt. Simon and Patty later eat dinner with the rest of her family. Simon convinces Norman and Connie into giving him a place to stay for the week and tells Kevin he is adopted. Patty tells Simon about her fascination for John Q. Simon runs away and confronts his band members for setting up the rock show without his knowledge. He returns to Patty's house and smokes weed with Kevin.
The next day, Simon and Patty make plans to demand an overdue paycheck from Mr. Hanley. Derrick and Brandon come across them and beat up Simon. In a rage, Simon convinces a friend to lend him his truck. He goes home to retrieve a dead cat from Patty's front yard before tracking Derrick and Brandon down. Patty acts provocatively to throw them off as Simon knocks them unconscious, strips them, burns their tracksuits, and places the dead cat on their bodies. The smoke alerts the other track athletes, who find them as Simon and Patty make their escape and drive away. They get the check from Mr. Hanley and eat lunch at a fast food restaurant. There, they kiss passionately. Simon and Patty spend the rest of the day on a date at an arcade. Simon breaks into a ticket machine to win Patty a desired stuffed teddy bear. They return home and find the rest of Patty's family completely stoned.
The following day, Simon prevents Patty from going to a job interview to be a dish cleaner and instead takes her to the basement of his mother's house. He tells her that he is John Q and proves it by giving her back her postcards. He praises her songwriting abilities. They have sex and later perform one of her songs. Her singing brings him to tears. Simon's family arrives home and invites the pair to dinner. When the family starts to criticize Simon and accuse him of being a drug addict, Patty confronts them, but they mistake her awkwardness for drug use. The family kicks them both out. When Patty asks Simon if she is retarded, he tells her to stop undervaluing herself because she is a "total punk rocker." When Simon tells his music manager that he refuses to play with the Alliance, his band members decide to call the police and turn him in for a reward. Simon takes Patty on another date to a "secret" rock show. He sings one of her favorite songs, "Dinner in America," and dedicates the performance to her, cementing their relationship. The police arrest Simon as Sissy and Karen notice Patty kissing him before he goes. The trio decides to start a riot girl band. Sometime later, Patty reads a letter from Simon that includes a nude photo of his. She punches a bully that calls her a retard, walks away, puts on a ski mask, and listens to the song she recorded with Simon.
Early Spanish crime film, with fashion shows in the background, in which the camera delights in the protagonists, with a slight erotic touch.
14-year-old May is married off as the third wife to a middle-aged landowner of a rural village where silk is harvested. She soon finds that, having given birth to a son, the first wife exerts greater influence in the family than the second, who has only had three daughters, and that the only way to gain security and independence is to give birth to a male child. Her husband's wives are welcoming to her and when she expresses that she finds sex painful they urge her to experiment sexually with herself in order to understand her own desires.
May conceives a child. While this brings further intimacy between May and her husband, she continues to find him unappealing and rejects his sexual advances. She discovers that Xuan, the second wife, is having an affair with her husband’s son from mistress Ha, his first wife. Due to May rejecting her husband, he returns to his first wife and conceives a child with her as well. May prays her own child is a son who will secure her position within the family.
Mistress Ha has a miscarriage and May blames her prayer for a son as the reason for it. She is reassured by Xuan who tells her that throughout her pregnancies, she too prayed for sons. May realizes that she has burgeoning feelings for Xuan and kisses her. Xuan rejects May's advances, brushing it off as a symptom of her pregnancy and telling her she loves her like a daughter. May gives birth to a girl.
Mistress Ha's son is of marrying age and his parents conceive of a match for him. In love with Xuan, he tries to refuse marriage, threatening suicide. He is nevertheless pressured to marry a young girl around May's age. Son is disgusted with the marriage and refuses to touch his new bride. After begging his father to annul the marriage, his father attempts to do so but is rejected by the bride's father. Ashamed, the young bride commits suicide.
May contemplates poisoning her daughter with a plant she saw being used to euthanize the family's livestock. The film ends with one of Xuan's daughters, who had once expressed desire to become a man and have many wives, cutting her hair with a pair of scissors.
Two years have passed since the events of the last film. Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) is now a cynical 13 year old who is unhappy spending a family Christmas in Cancún, Mexico with her mom Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis), her mom's new boyfriend Bob Booker (Tyrese Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno). She wants to be back home where it's snowing and more like a real Christmas. Kate decides to run away and get an early flight back home to Boston. She catches a shuttle that Jack sneaks on to. They are unexpectedly transported to the North Pole by the driver Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), a nefarious Christmas elf.
Kate and Jack are discovered and saved by Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) who brings them back to his house and Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn). The Clauses give the kids a grand tour of their village and all it has to offer. The four of them go back to the house for dinner. Jack and Kate go to bed as Belsnickel and his follower Speck (Debi Derryberry) begin an attempt to destroy the village. Mrs. Claus tells the kids the origin story of Santa in Turkey and how he saved the elves from extinction, and received the Star of Bethlehem, a magical artifact that stops time in and provides power to Santa's Village. The Claus' adopted Belsnickel. As he grew up and they had less time for him, he became naughty, causing him to be transformed into a human as a curse, and ran away.
Belsnickel releases Jola, a yule cat, into the reindeer pen, injuring Dasher. Belsnickel releases a potion into the village that causes the elves to go insane. He steals the Star of Bethlehem on top of the village's Christmas tree. Santa and the others confront him. Santa attempts to take the star back and in the struggle between him and Belsnickel, it is accidentally destroyed, causing the power to go out in the village. The maddened elves start a snowball fight that gives Belsnickel time to escape. Santa and Kate leave for Turkey in order to get the forest elves led by Hakan to build a new star. Jack leaves to get a root to cure the crazed elves while Mrs. Claus stays behind to tend to Dasher. Kate and Santa find the elves as Hakan (Malcolm McDowell) leads them into building a casing for a new star and Santa captures the power of the Star of Bethlehem inside it.
While flying back to the village, Belsnickel catches up to them on a sleigh pulled by his jackalotes (a hybrid of a jackal and a coyote) which he created, steals the star so he can stop himself from aging long enough to figure out how to replace Santa, and transports them back to 1990 Boston via a time-travel device he planted on Santa's sleigh. Jack finds the root and brings it back to Mrs Claus. Kate attempts to buy AAA batteries for Belsnickel's time travel device, which she and Santa now possess, at the Boston airport to transport her and Santa back to the future. However, she is detained by an airport security member (Patrick Gallagher) due to an apparent counterfeit (the money was marked 2020). Kate is taken to a locked security room with kids who have lost their parents. When Kate becomes upset about her wrongdoings at Cancun, another kid named Doug (Sunny Suljic) comforts Kate and helps her escape the room. After Kate joins Santa, she realizes Doug Pierce is her late father. With help from a worker named Grace (Darlene Love), Santa gets everybody singing a Christmas song as the weather clears up. With Christmas spirit high enough for the sleigh to fly, Santa puts the batteries in and they transport back and recover the star.
Mrs. Claus makes the root into a powder. Jack fights his way to the snow cannons, places the powder inside, and shoots it onto the elves, curing them. Santa and Kate race back to the village evading Belsnickel as he chases them. Mrs. Claus throws an explosive gingerbread cookie in between both sleighs before they can collide in a game of chicken. Dasher recovers and assists Santa in defeating Jola, the latter hurling the yule cat out of the village. Kate places the star on top of the tree, restoring power to the village. Santa gives Belsnickel the first toy that they built together, and Belsnickel reconciles with them, transforming back into an elf.
Santa flies Kate and Jack back to Cancún where they inform an excited Teddy about their adventure and Kate becomes more accepting of Bob. At the end of the day, Kate, her Mom, and Teddy, along with Bob and Jack sing "O' Christmas Tree" as Santa, Mrs. Claus, Belsnickel, and the elves sing the same song in the North Pole.
Departing for Bangkok, Joanie Clark (Kathryn Newton) bids her mother Donna Emerson (Kerry Bishé) farewell at the airport. At the startup company Comet, several months after the death of his business partner Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) prepares for the relaunch of their website as a web portal, for which his girlfriend Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) led the software development. Joe wants to optimize Comet for the yet-to-be-released web browser Netscape Navigator and hopes to become its default search engine. Diane Gould (Annabeth Gish) stops by Donna's house to tell her she must decide whether or not to succeed Diane as managing partner at their venture capital firm AGGEK. Haley Clark (Susanna Skaggs) lashes out at Joe for profiting from Comet. Donna is reluctant to become the new managing partner at AGGEK; however, both Cameron and Haley convince her to take the job. After receiving a clean bill of health, John Bosworth (Toby Huss) tells his wife Diane that he wants to travel the world together.
While Joe and Cameron review a beta version of Netscape Navigator that her financier Alexa Vonn (Molly Ephraim) had sent her, they find a hyperlink to Yahoo!, an upstart web portal, is prominently placed on the browser's toolbar. Joe realizes that Yahoo! has struck a deal to become Netscape's default search provider and that Comet is doomed. After one last night together, Joe and Cameron break up. When Donna is announced as the new managing partner at AGGEK, Trip Kisker III (Charlie Bodin) informs her that Yahoo!'s rise will mean the end of Comet, while AGGEK is selling Rover's search algorithm off so it can revert to its original purpose, indexing medical records.
Joanie calls Donna from Bangkok and tells her mother a story of her travels. Realizing Comet cannot compete with Yahoo!, Joe sells the company. He visits a tarot card reader, Denise (Carol Kane), hoping to understand what the future holds. As he leaves, he is nearly hit by a car before encountering a former colleague from IBM, Dale Butler (David Wilson Barnes), who tells Joe he is excited to see what he does next. Donna renames AGGEK to "Symphonic Ventures" and revamps their work culture to be more relaxed and inclusive. After an unsuccessful overseas business trip, Cameron ends her professional relationship with Alexa. Planning to leave California, Cameron begins to pack up her Airstream trailer; Bosworth offers her words of encouragement. She stops at Joe's apartment to drop off his belongings but finds that he has already moved out.
Saying her goodbyes, Cameron stops by Donna's house, where Donna is preparing to host a gala for women in the tech industry. When Haley's computer hard drive crashes, Cameron stays and tries to help Donna recover a school project from it. Cameron proposes that she and Donna work together again, which catches Donna by surprise. Later that evening at the gala, Donna refers to Cameron as "my last and best partner". The two later visit the former office of Mutiny and Comet, and envision what it would be like to work together again at a hypothetical company named "Phoenix"; dreaming up the history of the venture, the two decide it would ultimately fail but that their friendship would endure this time. Haley listens to her father Gordon's self-affirmation tapes in her bedroom. The following morning, before Cameron's planned cross-country road trip, she has breakfast with Donna at a diner. As she pays the check, Donna has an epiphany; rushing out of the diner, she tells Cameron, "I have an idea".
Joe returns home to Armonk, New York, to become a humanities teacher at a school. Addressing his students with the same words he spoke to Cameron's college class in the series pilot, he says, "Let me start by asking a question."
Jim Reed lives in an RV near the woods of Maine during the winter. He is a former Marine who served in the Vietnam War and a recovering alcoholic, being a year sober. He is divorced and his ex-wife is now dead, while his daughter died in a freak accident at a young age (which Jim is thought to have caused due to drunk driving). He is also estranged from his son. One afternoon, while changing a tire, he begins to spit up blood and passes out, indicating he may have cancer. Jim hunts "game" (deer) for meat, and goes into town for his other supplies. Having few relationships, he eats breakfast regularly at a diner where he shares a friendship with Debbie, a waitress and working class mother unhappy with her marriage and general life. One night, after going to the local bar and considering drinking, he goes to the VFW's A.A. meeting, where he meet George, an Iraq war veteran and, as Jim finds out, Debbie's husband.
One evening, while hunting, Jim shoots what he thinks is a deer, but discovers that he's accidentally shot a young woman who says to Jim "you are a dead man" before dying. Panicked, he flees the woods and goes to town's bar, where he orders shots of whiskey, then yells at the bartender when she jokes about him falling "off the wagon." Watching the television, he discovers that the woman was part of a five-person crew that robbed $1.2 million from a casino and viciously killed three security guards and injuring twelve civilians. Realizing he left a cigarette butt near the dead woman's body, he hurries out back into the woods.
Jim gets the cigarette butt and takes the bag of money that is near the dead woman's body. He soon runs into George, who is hunting game. Jim tries to convince George to turn back, but George refuses. The other four members from the robbery crew are near at hand, armed with semi-automatic rifles. They search the dead woman's body, but not finding the money now notice that Jim and George are fleeing. George is shot in the leg. While hiding behind some trees, Jim watches helplessly as George is executed when Jim, knowing nothing about the money, cannot tell them where it is. Jim hides, moving again during dusk. He hides the money in a cave. He returns to his RV, only to find that the robbers have set it ablaze. He is shot in the shoulder and barely escapes. Jim finds a logging site and rests for the night in the office. The next day, he leaves a note for the foreman, takes a revolver and leaves, going into a section of the woods where he can't be tracked. Soon after Jim gets away from an attack by one of the robbers, whom he kills with the revolver, he discovers that the robber's machine gun has been emptied, but takes it anyway. He finds another robber at the river and hides. He attacks the robber and gets into a brief scuffle, killing the man by knocking him into the river with the gun he took from the other robber. However, Jim falls into the river also, losing the second robber's rifle.
Jim spends the night in the cave, burning some of the money to keep warm. He wakes up the next morning and tries to start another fire, only to discover that the lighter doesn't work. He finds Debbie's car on the road, but it won't start. Venturing further, he stumbles upon the last two robbers: a father and son. The father heads out to find Jim, but the son stays at the vehicle to urinate. Jim ambushes him and shoots him with his revolver, which causes the young man's semiautomatic to shoot and disable the pickup truck. The young man let's Jim know that the girl Jim accidentally shot was his girlfriend, and despite his plea of "being even" with Jim, Jim kills him with the revolver. Jim takes the robber's semiautomatic, but again finds that the gun has been emptied while shooting.
Without any further bullets for his revolver, Jim tracks the father and calls him out. The father captures Jim, forcing him to take him to the money at gunpoint. The father taunts Jim about his daughter's death and his divorce, and threatens to kill Jim's son after he gets the money from Jim. Jim responds by telling the father that he killed his son. The father goes into a fit of rage. As he goes to shoot Jim, Jim spits up blood into his face, and uses the distraction to tackle the man and push them both off a steep hill. The fall leaves the father incapacitated, having broken an arm and a leg. Barely alive, Jim gets up and starts walking, but he has been severely wounded from the combination of the fall and blood loss after being shot two days earlier. Jim accepts his fate, and lies peacefully on the ground. A heavy snow starts to fall, which will bury both men.
The next day, the manager at the logging site finds Jim's note at the office and drives to town, leaving it at the restaurant where Debbie works. When Debbie starts reading and sees that Jim sketched a map for her to find the cave where the money bag is hidden (together with the line "this is for you and for your kids") she apparently believes it to be a prank or otherwise worthless, so she rips it in half and throws it away. Seconds later, she comes back and recovers it from the trash can.
Eight-year-old Mike Hillary (Marc Donato) dreams of fire and a fire breaks out in his room. His mother (Carmelina Lamanna) perishes trying to save him. At the home of his grandparents (Dennis O'Connor and Jennifer Higgin), when his duvet begins to smoulder, he gets into a drawn bath to sleep in.
Now 24, unemployed minor league baseball player Mike Hillary (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) still sleeps in a drawn bath. After reading a short note from an old friend of his mother's which says "I believe you", he drives to her hometown to meet town sheriff Jimmy Masterson (David Nerman), who suggests considering the athletic counsellor job at the community centre. Mike asks why his mother left. Masterson says she was pregnant and unmarried but says no more. Frustrated and angered, Mike leaves just as a fire starts in Masterson's trash can.
Mike starts working at the community centre. He notices children painting the number 11 surrounded by flames. Some "troubled" children respond to swimming, except James (Jared Durand), who fears the water. Mike seems to give the boy an emotional boost, to the delight of instructor Jessica Randall (Ingrid Kavelaars). Later, she catches up with him while jogging. They are accosted by her bully of an ex-boyfriend Blaine (Mark Lutz) and a fight ensues, Mike manifesting super strength and an unfocussed power of remote or tactile spontaneous combustion: objects ignite and Blaine suffers burns to his chest from Mike's pyrokinetic touch.
During a baseball game at the community centre, Mike has a vision of James being hurt and bullied by another boy, Bart (Kevin Zegers). Mike finds them and puts a stop to it. Meanwhile, at the sheriff's office, Blaine (his son) claims that Mike attacked him and has "superhuman powers." Masterson is skeptical — until Blaine shows him a hand-shaped burn on his chest. Later, Mike swims in the community centre's pool with Jessica, who notices the water getting warmer. Then, at her house apartment, he opens up a bit, they kiss, and another fire starts. Mike puts it out with his hands, which are not burned. Jessica now knows his secret. He warns her to keep away and runs off.
Meanwhile, on two successive nights, two powerful-looking men emerge from a lake — aliens in human camouflage bio-suits: the bounty hunter Eleven ( ), and Sixty-Six (Andrew Jackson).
Masterson pays a visit to Mike and reveals what he knows about Mike's mother: she believed that she had been impregnated by an alien and that she left town before Mike was born. Mike is appalled and angered, a lamp bursts into flames, and he orders Masterson to leave. That night, Blaine sneaks into Mike's vacated motel room and is apprehended by Eleven, who kills him once he learns of Mike's connection to Jessica.
The next day, Eleven goes to interrogate Jessica at the community centre, where James is intoning "Eleven" repeatedly, which Mike hears and then sees through extrasensory perception and precognitive visions. Jessica runs from Eleven when his interrogation of her turns aggressive. He corners her with a wall of fire. Mike arrives calling for her, sees her helpless in the pool and jumps in, only to be ambushed by Eleven who tries to drown him. Suddenly, Sixty-Six intervenes to save Mike. He tells Eleven he is in charge and subdues him with a burst of flames.
Mike awakens in a car being driven by Sixty-Six, who explains that experiments on humans and other terrestrial life have gone on for thousands of years, his mother was one, and that to them Mike is a mere "viable specimen", but he refuses to allow anything to happen to Mike — his son. Mike becomes upset and the car ignites. He runs into the woods. Eleven catches up to Sixty-Six and they fight a fiery duel to the death. Eleven wins, but Mike returns and challenges him. Holding nothing back, Mike's powers prove greater than Eleven's, destroying him utterly. Sixty-Six, wounded and dying from exposure to Earth's atmosphere, leaves Mike's questions about himself or others like him unanswered. Mike sets his body adrift and ignites it.
Mike and Jessica leave town together, despite his misgivings about hurting her. She says they can "take precautions" and produces a fire extinguisher. Back at the community centre, Bart bullies James again, and discovers a fire in his hall locker.
The season begins 20 years in the future when an alien being abducts the last elephant on Earth, Tuko, from the African wildlife refuge where she's lived since she was orphaned as a baby. But before the Alien can leave Earth's atmosphere, its ship malfunctions and crash lands on a farm in North America. The crash happens just as Mr. Leopold, the foster parent who owns the farm, is about to take in Julia, a new foster kid, to join his other wards: Johnny, Tabby and Finn.
Almost as soon as she arrives, Julia runs away but finding the last elephant on Earth in one of Mr. Leopold's cornfields makes her turn back. While Julia, Johnny, Tabby and Finn are not fast friends, they do learn to work together when they discover that an alien ship has crashed into the barn with an injured alien inside and another escaped insect alien loose on the farm.
Julia, though initially wary of her newfound family, slowly learns to trust her fellow foster kids. But just as she grows more comfortable opening up to the others about the struggles she experienced prior to ending up at the Leopold farmstead, Johnny, Tabby and Finn start to reveal painful memories from their pasts.
At the same time, the Alien, unfamiliar with Earth's natural environment and unable to communicate directly with its new caretakers, is steadily growing weaker. Fortunately, Abiona Maina, the wildlife activist who cared for Tuko at the refuge, manages to track the elephant down to Mr. Leopold's farm. After she's convinced that the Alien isn't evil, Abiona uses her knowledge of animals to save its life.
The kids have a lot to deal with but, luckily, they also have each other to rely upon. This growing bond is especially helpful as it will take their combined talents to recapture the endlings released when the Alien's ship crashed into their barn. These include endlings that communicate in a variety of different ways, like frequencies too high or too low for humans to hear, endlings that are more bark than bite, as well as endlings that the kids want to keep forever, even though they shouldn't.
The year is 2041; Julia, Johnny, Tabby and Finn continue to help their extraterrestrial friend Ling save fantastical endlings. With the aid of their foster father Mr. Leopold and animal activist Dr. Abiona Maina the group is getting closer to receiving the remaining 'last of their kind' creatures and completing their mission.
But when Ling accidentally shows Tabby a vision of their quest failing, the team learns that Ling's powers don't just shows their pasts but also their futures. This glimpse of what's to come reveals Tresa Hewes CEO of Infinitum Corporation, who has been tracking them on her own illusive reasons, capturing Ling and the endlings and tearing the foster family apart.
Together, the group makes the choice to confront the pain of their pasts in order to change their futures and save Ling. This decision to fight fate, kicks off a season of high-octane adventure where four wounded teens must learn to let their hopes, not their hurts, shape their future.
In the old west, someone is killing people in the middle of the night. Multiple murders by a mysterious killer known as "the Whispering Skull. It's up to Tex Haines, played by good-guy Tex Ritter, to lead the Texas Rangers and capture the midnight marauder.
During their youth, Cade and his identical twin brother Cale were abducted by an unknown power and modified to become Humanoids, secret agents who are out to stop evil. Cale didn't fit in with the program and was fired. Cade, as an adult, is introduced on a mission where he is protecting troops. He returns to headquarters and meets with his boss, who suggests that he take a vacation. Cade laments not having seen his brother since before he became a Humanoid.
Cale meets with a lawyer, an executive and the President of The Bank and interrogates them for a while before he shoots one of them in the leg and leaves to do pills with his girlfriend Donna. Cade's boss tells him about programmable virtual reality and how a man named Cuzzx is going to use it to conduct the biggest cyber and terror attack ever. Cade decides to investigate, but while investigating around town he bumps into Alana. He offers to buy her a drink to apologize, but she says she's very busy and leaves. Cade attempts to make a date with the woman, before she departs. She doesn't come back but later he sees her and decides to follow her home. Cade breaks into her house and they fight, before they abruptly stop fighting, revealing that they'd been in a relationship the whole time.
Cade breaks into a Cuzzx lab to find clues for his mission. Cade finds four guys wearing VR goggles who are in some kind of trance, and in the next room, a very old person dressed like Cuzzx meeting with people. The men disappear, due to the programmable virtual reality and Cade reports back to his boss. Cade takes Alana, his girlfriend, out to dinner, and a mysterious man stabs Cade's homeless friend, taking his cell phone. Meanwhile, Cale tracks down and murders a rich executive, but the police find no evidence because Cale picked up the shell casings. He did, however, drop a syringe. Cade pretends to be a rich investor who wants to give money to the Cuzzx Empire, which gets him a tour of Cuzzx' house. Donna, Cale's pillhead girlfriend, breaks up with him and then runs into Cade, demanding to know where she can get more drugs and why he shaved his beard. Cade responds by going "I never had a beard" repeatedly. He gives the girl some money to find a place to stay and they hug. Alana sees and gets jealous.
Cade then decides to take down the Cuzzx Empire and goes into the boiler room to enact his plan. After his empire is destroyed, Cuzzx flees the country. Cade goes home and Alana pulls a gun on him, as she was working for Cuzzx the whole time. They shoot each other, and Alana dies in his arms. In the virtual reality forest, Cade and Alana reunite, they embrace and Alana tells him she loves him, and then disappears. The film ends with Cade addressing the audience, accepting the loss of Alana, and stating that humanity will eventually live in a virtual universe. Before the credits, the message "Cade Altair will return" appears onscreen.
Santa warns people about driving drunk during Christmas, and encourages everyone to enjoy the holiday responsibly. His advice is promptly ignored as the residents of South Park dangerously drive around the city while impaired. The next day, they discover alcohol sales are banned until January 2, upsetting the townspeople since they must endure their families while sober. Without alcohol to drink, the streets are empty and the mayor feels South Park has lost its Christmas spirit. She asks Randy (who has now grown a white beard) to resume selling marijuana to the citizens, despite the marijuana season being over. Randy and Towelie try to think of something new rather than repackaging old products. The falling snow inspires Randy to create "Christmas Snow": marijuana laced with a white substance. The people love it and resume driving under the influence.
The Mayor is shocked to find that Christmas Snow contains cocaine. Surprised, Randy quickly launches a protest and easily gets cocaine legalized in several states. Santa is upset that people continue to drive under the influence, now due to drugs, and marijuana sales are subsequently banned until after the holidays. Randy decides to sell pure "organic, local" cocaine, without the marijuana "impurities". It proves popular and people continue to drive impaired.
On Christmas Eve, Santa steals all the Christmas Snow from people's houses. People begin to panic as they wake up to discover their drugs are missing. Determined to save Christmas Snow, Randy chases Santa until he crashes his sleigh, and argues over the benefits of cocaine. Santa tries the drug and is impressed with the quality. Jesus arrives to settle the dispute, is convinced to try the cocaine, and is similarly won over. In order to return the Christmas Snow to South Park, Jesus levitates it into the air, causing it to snow cocaine over South Park. Everyone celebrates by consuming the drug and returning to driving under the influence.
The TV show includes Osman Ghazi's internal and external struggles and how he establishes and controls the Ottoman Empire. It portrays his struggles against Byzantium and the Mongol Ilkhanate and how he was able to secure independence from the Sultanate of Rum to establish a sovereign state that would stand up to the Byzantine and Mongol Empires and would honour the Turks.
The character of Osman faces many enemies and traitors in his quest and the show illustrates how he was able to overcome these obstacles and fulfil his mission with the help of his loyal companions, family, and friends.
The series follows ''Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' which was situated around Osman's father, Ertuğrul, and how he faced enemies and traitors. It began in December 2014 and season 5 of the show concluded with Ertuğrul convincing Berke to start a war with Hulagu Khan. This war was known as the Berke-Hulagu war and resulted in the division of the Mongol Empire into four khanates. In ''Kuruluş: Osman,'' Osman faces one of the khanates called the Ilkhanate.
10 or 15 years after the Berke-Hulagu war, Ertuğrul Ghazi goes to Konya and he leaves his brother, Dündar Bey, in charge of his tribe. Dündar Bey is easily swayed by others into doing their misdeeds, he falls into the trap of the devious Selçuk Sançak Bey, Alişar, and the merciless princess of Kulucahisar, Sofia, who seeks to kill all the Turks. Osman, Dündar's nephew, can see through Alişar and Sofia's plans and warns him about them, despite his refusal to listen. As they continue to build more tension against the Kayı, Geyhatu sends Komutan Balgay to cause more trouble and stop the Kayı, especially Osman, from rebelling against the Mongols. Dündar, who bows down to the Mongols becoming the Sançak Bey, can't see Alişar's anger over his position being given over to him and he believes him when Alişar blames Osman for his son's killing. Soon after, along with the threat from Kulucahisar, Dündar is shown the truth, Alişar is beheaded by Osman, and Osman has married his love, Bala. Following this, after many difficulties, Balgay is presumably killed by Osman while Kulucahisar is conquered by the Kayı with Sofia's death happening in the process.
Aya Nikola is sent by the Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos II to become the new Tekfur of İnegöl followed by Ertuğrul's return in the tribe. Meanwhile, Yavlak Arslan, the new Uç Bey, seeks to create his state and sees Osman as an obstacle, later on, they unite against the new threat created by the new Ilkhan of the Ilkhanate, Gaykhatu who allies with Nikola against the Turks of Anatolia. Nikola recaptures Kulaca Hisar by poisoning the alps. Bala also faces the arrival of Targun, Nikola's spy who allies with Osman to save her father, İnal Bey. Along with these problems, Osman is elected as the new Bey after his father's death, whilst he decides to marry a second wife according to his father's will. After Targun's death, Osman meets Malhun Hatun and initiates a major battle with the Byzantines, historically known as the Battle of Mount Armenia, as well as trying to find the traitor in the Kayı, as his jealous uncle Dündar helps the Byzantines stir traps for him. Dündar is eventually executed by Osman for his betrayal. Following the arrival of Ömer Bey, father of Malhun Hatun, Geyhatu sends Kara Şaman Togay, son of Baycu Noyan, to eliminate both Osman's Kayı and Ömer's Bayındır, but after a series of conflicts between the two tribes, Togay fails and is killed by Osman. Nikola is later defeated by Osman, with the support of Seljuk Sultan Mesud II, though he survives. Osman also marries Malhun Hatun, who gives birth to Osman's son Orhan whilst his first wife Bala Hatun becomes pregnant.
Malhun Hatun learns of Bala Hatun's pregnancy and is thus jealous of her. Osman Bey faces Harmankaya Tekfur Mikhael Kosses (Köse Mihal) and Bilecik Tekfur Rogatus Laskaris for Papaz Gregor, a priest who was imprisoned by Byzantine Emperor and he later escaped with help of Tekfur Rogatus. Turgut Bey is a brave alp and Turk Bey who opposes the Byzantines and later forms strong alliances with Osman Bey.
Osman Bey has conflicts again with his old enemy Tekfur Aya Nikola who is helped by the Catalan Company which includes Diego and the leader Anselmo. Osman Bey eventually manages to defeat the Catalans. Tekfur Aya Nikola wants to marry Mari [Sister of Mikhail Kosses] who in turn has fallen in love with Turgut Bey. She escapes the forced alliance and soon with her brother's blessings marries Turgut Bey. Later Osman Bey and Bala Hatun are blessed with a baby boy who is named Alaeddin Ali. A huge feast is held to celebrate this joyous occasion. Meanwhile Osman and his alps capture and bring both Alemshah and Geyhatu to the tribe to hold them accountable for their actions and Alemshah is executed by Osman despite Sultan Mesud's disapproval. Later, Turgut Bey's pregnant wife Maryam Hatun (Mari) dies due to poisoning and Gunduz Bey comes under suspicion for the same. Osman faces a lot of hurdles in his quest to prove his brother's innocence along with encountering a new enemy determined to cause harm to his people and his plans in building a future state. He successfully conquers Inegöl and Yenisehir but faces tragic losses among his close ones including his elder brother Gunduz, his adoptive mother Selcan and his cousin Aygül.
António Lopes (Miguel Guilherme) and Margarida Marques (Rita Blanco) are a married couple that have emigrated in the 1960s from Ermidão, a (fictional) small village inland, to a (also fictional) working-class suburb in Lisbon, along with her mother Hermínia ( ) and their three children, Isabel ( ), Tóni ( ) and Carlos ( ) seeking a better life away from the hardships of an impoverished countryside. António works as a clerk at the Ministry of Finance in the mornings and at Eng. Ramires' (José Raposo) printing house in the afternoons. Margarida and Hermínia make trousers for a department store at home while doing the housekeeping. Isabel works at Clara's (Maria João Abreu) hair salon along with Náni ( ), Tóni is starting a master's degree in Law making him the first Lopes going to university and Carlos spends his school days with his best friends Marinho (Manuel Alves) and Luís (Francisco Madeira). With great effort and hard work they are able to purchase in installments their first television set, their first washing machine and even their first car.
The Lopes' story is narrated from an indefinite present by an adult Carlos (voiced by ). Their story is directly and indirectly affected by the events and the social, economical and political changes occurring in Portugal since the late 1960s until the early 1980s. The Lopes are also direct and indirect witness of the historic acts occurring those days.
Prince Aladdin (Kev Adams) is bored at the palace. His old life as an adventurer is missing and he does not feel legitimate in his luxurious clothes of a monarch. Shah Zaman (Jamel Debbouze), a ruthless dictator who decided to marry the Princess Shallia ( ), seizes Baghdad and the palace. Aladdin is forced to flee and recover his former genie. This is his only chance to save his princess and deliver Baghdad. Taking advantage of the absence of his rival, Shah Zaman will try everything to crack the princess; from intimidation to seduction, he will stop at nothing to become her husband. After a long journey full of pitfalls, Aladdin is finally back in Baghdad where he will have to face armed guards, the men of Richelieu, a bad genie in the pay of Shah Zaman, and Shah Zaman himself. He will above all have to fight an obstacle which he did not expect: the doubts of the princess.
Martha and Sean, a young Boston couple, are expecting their first child. Sean resents Martha's mother Elizabeth, a wealthy Holocaust survivor, who is buying them a minivan.
Martha goes into labor at their home and Sean calls their midwife Barbara, who is unavailable and sends another midwife named Eva in her place. Martha struggles with nausea and pain during contractions and, when she reaches ten centimeters, Eva realizes the baby's heart rate has dropped dangerously low. Sean asks Eva if they are safe to continue and Eva tells Sean to call an ambulance. Martha soon gives birth to a baby girl who at first seems healthy. Eva then notices the baby is turning blue and attempts to revive her, but she goes into cardiac arrest and dies.
The following month, Martha and Sean attend an appointment with a coroner; Sean is eager to find out what went wrong, while Martha is reluctant. They learn the cause of death has not yet been established but are told they were able to determine that the baby was in a low-oxygen environment and start proceedings against Eva. Sean leaves, overcome with emotion, while Martha remains and decides that she wants to donate the baby's body to science.
The relationship between Martha and Sean continues to be strained, as is Martha's relationship with her mother, who wants to bury the baby and have a funeral. Both Martha and Sean remain deeply depressed. Sean returns the car that Elizabeth bought for them. He later has sex with Martha's cousin, Suzanne, and uses cocaine after being sober for almost seven years. Suzanne, who is also the attorney prosecuting Eva, informs him that a potential lawsuit against Eva could be very lucrative.
At a tense family gathering at her home, Elizabeth tells Martha that she has to attend Eva's trial and blames Martha for her baby's death because she decided to have a home birth. Elizabeth then tells Sean that she never liked him before offering him a check for a large sum of money to leave and never return. Martha drops Sean off at Logan International Airport and he leaves for Seattle.
Months later, Martha testifies at Eva's trial. After her testimony, the judge allows her to address the court, and she states that Eva is not at fault for the death and that she does not blame her. Back home, she discovers that the apple seeds she stored in her refrigerator have started to sprout. A month later, Martha scatters her daughter's ashes into the river from the bridge that Sean helped to build.
Years later, a little girl climbs an apple tree, picks an apple, and eats it. Martha calls her name, Lucianna, then helps her down. The two go inside together.
The series is set in a world where humans co-exist with a branch of humanity called Beastmen, who face persecution due to their ability to turn into humanoid animals through a trait in DNA called "Beast Factor". The series centers on Michiru Kagemori, a young teenage girl who suddenly turned into a tanuki beastman after her best friend Nazuna Hiwatashi was abducted following a blood transfusion. Michiru ran away to seek refuge in Anima City, a haven made for the Beastmen, and meets the mysterious wolf beastman Shirou Ogami who works for the city's mayor Barballet Rosé. The two work to investigate the circumstances of Michiru's transformation while keeping the peace in Anima City, only to stumble into a conspiracy involving Sylvasta Pharmaceutics-a prestige medical research center in Anima City-whose unsavory employees were responsible for accidentally providing the blood used in Michiru’s transformation along with Nazuna’s, who the company placed in a cult to claim herself as the Beastmens’ guardian deity known as the Silver Wolf. But Michiru learns the real Silver Wolf is Shirou, who forced to reveal his true power when dealing with the Sylvasta researcher Yata, who mutated into a berserk monster following his arrest.
Michiru learns Shirou is an immortal who gained his powers as sole survivor of Nirvasyl, a city of Beastmen that was destroyed a millennia ago by humans, and dedicated himself to protecting his kind. Alan Sylvasta, the owner of Sylvasta Pharmaceutics, reveals the Beastmen of Nirvasyl were actually victims of a stress-induced phenomenon called Nirvasyl Syndrome that caused them to kill each other before being finished off by the humans. Alan also explains that he is resolving the issue with Nazuna pretending to be the Silver Wolf to reduce stress while he developed a drug to render Beastmen human should they go berserk. But Alan’s actual plan is induce Nirvasyl Syndrome, having Nazuna exposed on stage while revealing himself to be a Beastman from a pure bloodline. The pair also learn that the cure to Nirvasyl Syndrome is Michiru and Nazuna’s blood, averting the crisis with Michiru accepting her condition while remaining in Anima City to help Shirou protect it.
Buck Crosshaw, a lone and amnesiac outlaw, awakens in the Arizona desert and heads west in search for the nearest settlement. Nearing a ranch, he sees a woman and her ranch being attacked by bandit raiders. After fending them off, the lady offers Buck a horse for his troubles. As he rides away, the lady suddenly triggers Buck's memory of his wife mysteriously dying. Unsettled, Buck heads to town to drink and repress further memories of his wife.
As he enters town, the sheriff recognizes Buck as an outlaw and holds him at gunpoint, but a large group of raiders arrive and start to plunder the town. Proving his honor, Buck helps the sheriff fight the bandits, who then turns a blind eye to let Buck escape. Buck slowly gains back more of his memory, and instead decides to visit her grave to pay his respects. At the graveyard, Buck witnesses a group of grave robbers digging out and stealing his wife's corpse, prompting him to further investigate into her death. He tracks the bandits down and discovers they are hired guns employed by a local barman. After a confrontation, the barman confesses and reveals a ruthless gang of criminals who forced him into their work after kidnapping his son. Buck makes a deal with the barman to go up against the gang in exchange for information on the whereabout of the gang's leaders. After tracking down and defeating the gang leaders, a mysterious monster hunter known as the Exorcist confronts Buck and reveals the true nature of the gang.
The Exorcist explains that the barman is actually the founder of the gang, and that he never had a son but was instead cut from the gang. The Exorcist further explains that this gang is a secretive cult bent on performing a powerful ritual to summon supernatural entities and the devil himself into the world. In addition, Buck's wife was a powerful witch in the cult, and it was Buck who shot her upon realizing her witchcraft intentions. The Exorcist reveals that the witch survived, and that he needs Buck's help in stopping her from conducting the ritual.
Discouraged, Buck resumes his drinking habits, becomes intoxicated, and is imprisoned for his rowdy behavior, but escapes shortly after. He overhears and follows the barman and his men to an abandoned mining town, renewed in his quest to stop the barman and the witch. Within the mine, Buck finds the barman with Buck's wife, where the barman reveals that he is infatuated with Buck's wife and intends to be in "unholy matrimony" with the witch, before he starts to cough blood and quickly dies from the witch's poison. The witch declares that Buck never really loved her, and that she had to use love potions to get Buck to love her, but this use of witchcraft only enticed her to the devil for empowering her. The witch then advances towards Buck to kill him but is suddenly shot by the Exorcist. Enraged, the witch turns and attacks the Exorcist, fatally wounding him. Buck fights the witch and is stabbed with a ritual knife before defeating her. Buck succumbs to the puncture wound from the knife and is abruptly teleported to a mystic, etheric dimension, standing before the devil incarnated as a shadowy form of Buck.
The devil unveils that it was he who temporally took over Buck's body so he could shoot his wife, using Buck's drunkenness' to cause him to forget the details surrounding his wife's death. After a fierce battle, Buck and the Exorcist's spirit finally defeat the devil, and Buck emerges from the mine before burying the Exorcist's body. Standing in front of the Exorcist's grave, Buck dedicates himself to ridding the land of the rest of the demonic entities in honor of the Exorcist.
In 2053, Indra Chaudhari, founder and CEO of the Globe 3 megacorporation, purchases Hammond Corp after its owner Elizabeth Hammond vanishes while carrying out research in Jones Station, Antarctica. The acquisition includes Hammond's original prototype for ansibles capable of zero-latency communication. Upon powering up the prototype, Indra receives a message from an unknown source telling her to come to Antarctica if she wishes to see her missing daughter again.
Indra explores Jones Station and is teleported via a cargo lift to a reality she does not recognize. She drowns in rising water, but finds herself reconstructed at a mysterious altar by an entity that introduces herself as Amashilama. Amashilama is an "Arm" – "an intelligent collection of machines" – that has bonded with Indra's body.
Indra finds the base camps of Hammond's research team. The researchers explain that they were studying this world – Kiengir – with Hammond until robots appeared and attacked the researchers, killing most of them and leaving the survivors isolated from each other. Furthermore, the cargo lift was destroyed so that it could no longer be used to leave Kiengir, and a group of Kazakh scientists from nearby Sagimbayev Station were never heard from again.
Indra acquires more Arms such as the sentient Damu, who can transfer Indra's consciousness to a small drone. She is horrified to learn that Damu was converted as a young child. The unknown person behind the ansible messages eventually reveals herself as Hammond. Indra also encounters the Lamassu, a highly advanced AI that released the robots to exterminate all humans on Kiengir and destroy the cargo lift. It explains that its actions are to prevent cross-contamination between separate universes, such as those of Earth and Kiengir.
Amashilama tricks Indra into giving the former control over the latter's body and trapping Indra's consciousness in Damu's drone form. Indra later acquires a humanoid replacement body and does battle with Amashilama, but both parties find that the advanced technology built by the native Sagiga will always prevent them from dying. The Lamassu explains Amashilama's plans: she will acquire an army of war machines known as Siuna and use them to raze the mother world A'ansur. Amashilama believes this will liberate Kiengir, but in actuality it would destroy both worlds and many others including Earth. Although it still distrusts Indra, the Lamassu decides Amashilama is a bigger threat, and gives Indra the mission to stop her using a single Siuna on Kiengir.
Indra finds both her daughter Samara and Hammond between universes, where they are trapped in a form of detention with countless other people. Hammond lets Indra speak with her daughter, but does not tell Indra how they ended up there out of concern for her mental health. Indra later finds Hammond's body on Kiengir; she had become trapped during the Lamassu's initial assault and died long before she could send her initial message to Indra. Amashilama assumes control of the Siuna Indra was pointed to and leaves the latter's original body limp on the ground. Seeing the apparently dead original Indra, the new one questions her own identity.
The new Indra prepares to a rig a powerful Breach bomb that will destroy the portal from Kiengir to A'ansur, but Amashilama intervenes and traps her in a force field after a battle. The original Indra suddenly arrives and attacks Amashilama, giving the new one time to arm the bomb and escape. The resulting explosion completely destroys both Amashilama, her Siuna, the old Indra, and the portal to A'ansur. The new Indra realizes she only wants to turn Damu back into a physical being and no longer cares about returning to Earth, and so joins the Kazakhs, who unbeknownst to the Hammond Corp team have transcended humanity. Pondering the death of the old Indra, the new one decides she can no longer call herself by that name but has become something else.
If the player finished the game with a high completion percentage, a post-credits scene shows the old Indra reuniting with Samara in the afterlife.
Kazuya Kinoshita is dumped by his girlfriend Mami Nanami after dating for a month. He decides to use an online dating app to rent a girlfriend named Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful girl. However, because he thinks she was inauthentic, he gives her a low rating. When Chizuru berates him for that during their next meeting, he realizes she is meaner than he expected. Just then, Kazuya learns that his grandmother has been hospitalized following a collapse. Chizuru comes along and his grandmother is smitten with how great she is. Kazuya continues renting Chizuru in order to keep up appearances with his family and friends, but things get complicated when they discover they are next-door apartment neighbors and attend the same college. Later, other girls from the rental girlfriend business also join in.
Hutch Mansell seems ordinary, having two children with his wife Becca and an unremarkable office job in his father-in-law Eddie's metal fabrication company. His marriage is strained, and his working life seems tedious.
One night, an armed man and woman break into his house, and his teenage son, Blake, tackles one of them. Hutch is reluctant to intervene and pleads with his son to release the man, who punches the boy. The thieves leave, but the incident causes everyone to think he is a failure. Hutch contacts his brother, Harry, on a hidden radio in his office and explains that he held back because the burglars were desperate, scared, and using an unloaded gun.
Later that day, his daughter, Abby, asks for help finding her missing kitty cat bracelet. Without a word, Hutch leaves to see his father, David, and borrows his father's old FBI badge and gun to track down the burglars. He finds their apartment and threatens them, but when he discovers their sick baby, he leaves. Thugs stop the bus he takes home, and Hutch, looking for an opportunity to release his frustration, beats them under the pretense of protecting a young woman from sexual harassment. At home, he realizes he hasn't been communicating with his family and tries to reconnect with them.
Harry persuades him to see "The Barber", who provides Hutch with information about one of his victims: he is the younger brother of Yulian Kuznetsov, a Russian crime lord. In retribution, Yulian sends a crew led by his right-hand man Pavel to capture Hutch at home. Hutch hides his family and kills most of the attackers before Pavel tases him into unconsciousness and captures him. Finding a fire extinguisher in the trunk of a car he is locked in, Hutch uses it to blind the driver, causing the car to crash, killing Pavel and his remaining crew. Hutch sends his family to safety before setting his house on fire to destroy any evidence.
Hutch reveals that he is a former "auditor" ("the last guy any organization wants to see at their door"), an assassin employed by intelligence agencies. After letting one of his targets go free, Hutch found him a year later, reformed and happily living with his new family. Wanting a similar life, Hutch retired, against the wishes of his superiors.
After buying Eddie's company with a stash of gold bars, Hutch burns the Obtshak money that Yulian was protecting for the mob, along with Yulian's art collection. Yulian pursues Hutch to the factory with his men, where David and Harry show up to help eliminate the gangsters using a variety of weapons and deadly traps that Hutch had set up, and kill all the gunmen until only Yulian is left.
Out of ammunition, Hutch charges Yulian with a Claymore mine attached to a pane of bulletproof glass and detonates it, killing the Russian mobster. After ensuring that his father and brother escape, Hutch is arrested before his police interrogators are notified, to their surprise, that he should be released with no charges filed.
Three months later, while buying a new house with Becca, Hutch receives a call suggesting that his services are still required. In a mid-credits scene, Harry and David are shown driving to an undisclosed location in an RV filled with guns.
It was 1898 in one province in the Visayas region, the people began rebelling against the Spaniards towards its independence and the story begins at the Sagrada household, while Felipa is playing the piano, a man silently intrudes the house and looks at her infant son sleeping on his bed. However, when their house helper returns, he kidnapped the baby and they left. Twenty-two years later, the year 1920, the Americans became the colonizer of the country but the dreams of an independent Philippines have not yet been forgotten. On the other side, the Pulajanes have revived and they began to instigate violence against the landowning clans.
On that day, a group of Pulajanes ambushed the anti-revolutionary army and this was witnessed by Celina and her family who were returned from Manila.
Tom Hazard has just moved back to London to take a job as a high school history teacher. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but due to a rare condition, he has been alive for centuries. He was born in 1581 in France and has lived history alongside famous historical characters such as Shakespeare, Captain Cook, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Tom is constantly under the supervision of the Albatross Society, a secretive group which claims to protect people like him, and its leader, Hendrich. As the story unfolds, he has to decide whether to remain safely in the past, or to risk living in the present.
''Boneworks'' is set in Stress Level Zero's shared alternate universe, which incorporates other titles like ''Duck Season'' and the upcoming title ''Bonelab.''
In the 1990s, the global conglomerate Monogon Industries discovers a strange dimension known as the Voidway, which exists outside of space and time. This dimension contains a strange quantum particle (known as void particles) which can exist in multiple places at once. Using void particles, Monogon is able to creates the BONEWORKS engine, which uses artificial intelligence and void particles to create infinite instances of virtual space, accessible via VR headsets.
Monogon uses the BONEWORKS engine to begin work on MythOS City, an infinite cityscape simulation designed as an endless source of virtual living space. By 1997, it is nearing completion. The player takes the role of Arthur Ford, the cybersecurity director for the MythOS project. Ford theorizes that the BONEWORKS engine could function as a entry point to the Voidway, which would allow for immortality by severing the connection between mind and body, leaving him to exist outside of space and time forever.
The game begins with a real-world cutscene showing an armed Arthur Ford retreating into a panic room and entering MythOS City with a virtual reality headset. In MythOS, Arthur Ford releases a virus which causes the leakage of void particles into MythOS City. This initiates a lockdown, booting everyone from the simulation and freezing the System Clock. Ford remains in the simulation and is shortly contacted by a fellow employee, Hayes, who requests that he reboot the System Clock to fix the leak, unaware that Ford is the cause of the problem.
Ford takes a shortcut through the unfinished Museum of Technical Demonstration, which acts as a tutorial for the game. He then passes through the greyboxed streets of MythOS City. He discovers that the nullbodies, non-sentient AI workers, have become aware and violent, attacking him on sight. To combat this, MythOS releases antivirus agents known as the Cleanup Crew, who automatically target Ford as well as the rogue nullbodies.
After fleeing the City, Ford ends up in the runoff sewers, where he discovers zombified versions of himself. These undead Fords are hostile and attempt to stop him from progressing to the System Clock. However, Ford is able to fight them off. He is later contacted by a BONEWORKS developer, Alora, who has realized his true goal of entering the Voidway. She commends him on his initiative, admitting to plotting something similar herself, and requests that he leave the gateway open for others to enter as well.
Ford manages to leave the sewers and takes a train system to the heart of MythOS City - the Time Tower, a massive building which hosts the System Clock. Fighting off the full strength of Monogon's virtual forces, as well as his alternate zombie selves, Ford makes it to the System Clock, where he discovers a cult of sentient nullbodies who worship the System Clock. Killing them, Ford is able to destroy the Clock and enters the Voidway as MythOS dissipates into white light.
Ford finds himself in the Voidway, where a strange Void entity watches him and beckons him through a white door from ''Duck Season''. Upon opening the door, Ford is suddenly pulled out of the Voidway and into a different BONEWORKS simulation.
He awakens in an unfinished, medieval-themed simulation called FantasyLand, where he meets many non-zombified variants of himself from alternate timelines, who were also successful in resetting the Clock and who were also pulled into FantasyLand, where they have remained trapped. These Fords have adopted FantasyLand as their home, and have constructed a massive castle out of various assets left behind by the developers. Here, Ford encounters King Ford, who challenges him for the throne. Our Ford is victorious and becomes the new King. With the help of all Fords, our Ford is able to escape FantasyLand and breach into the Voidway once again, after being warned by Hayes that Monogon has located Ford's body in the real world.
In the Voidway, Ford travels a vast distance to a massive building labelled 'Chamber 02'. Upon entering it, he finds himself in the cutscene room where all previous game cutscenes have taken place. Here, he is treated to one last real-world cutscene. Ford's panic room is broken into by Monogon security agents, who secure the space and remove Ford's headset. A business executive (whose face is obscured by static) arrives and pulls out a gun, executing Ford while he is still unconscious. However, since Ford still exists in the Voidway, his goal was successful, having disconnected his mind and body. Ford watches the credits as various void entities approach and watch him.
High above the clouds, young shepherdess Spring descends into the frozen forest below. The atmosphere is dark and misty, in direct contrast with the sunny springtime weather above; the clouds causing this surround the heads of ancient spirits that have been freezing the forest, who take the form of anthropomorphic creatures bearing four tree-legs. She calls them by banging on a large rock with a wooden staff. She pays respect to the Alpha, the one that lowers its head from the clouds. It strikes its antennae against Spring's staff to play music, and she, in turn, finishes the melody. The creature sheds one of its musical antenna parts (a chime), which she plugs into the eye of her staff to activate it a glowing red color. With the power she now has, the other spirits awaken and begin moving towards her.
However, a tree gets knocked to the ground by one of the creatures, knocking the staff and throwing the chime afar, upsetting the Alpha, who chases for it. Just as the chime is about to be stepped on, Spring grabs it and reattaches it to her staff. She immediately regains control of the spirits, using her staff with the glowing red chime to direct the creature away from her. Turning around, the creatures are herded like sheep up out of the clouded valley, causing the clouds to disperse and healing the land from its deep freeze. Flora blooms, and ices melt.
Numerous chain-strings cascade from the top of a rock wall, with the chimes of years past lodged, alternating perpendicularly, into each chink of the chain. Spring sticks the newest chime into the first available slot.
Princess Maleen and her childhood friend, Landgrave Konrad, have fallen in love. They ask for her father, Prince Theodor's permission to marry. Her father refuses, and insists that she marry one of his sinister courtiers, Baron Raimund. Princess Maleen refuses and, as punishment, is locked up in a tower for seven years. She frees herself after seven years to find that her father has died and his principality is in ruin. She travels to the county ruled by Konrad. Konrad, who believed Princess Maleen had died, is betrothed to marry Walpurga of Schwarztal. Walpurga, who only wants to marry Konrad to ensure that her inheritance does not go to her brother, plans to poison Konrad after the wedding. Maleen, searching for a new life, unknowingly begins working as a maid in Konrad's household. Walpurga, captivated by her social grace and beauty, bribes her into standing in for her at the wedding, but wearing a veil so that Konrad does not know it is not Walpurga. The plot fails and Walpurga is sent away. Konrad and Maleen are reunited.
Honest "Mr. Universe" winner Tommy Tompkins struggles when he is told to lose a wrestling match.
''Drowning'' is made up of only three scenes. It is a relatively short play.
Pea and Roe sit in a cafe in Europe during the afternoon. They are sitting at a table, waiting for Stephen. On the table lies a folded newspaper. When Pea looks at it, he and Roe begin a dialogue about the paper, with Pea having not previously known what a newspaper is. Roe, the more knowledgeable one, informs his friend what it is. Pea spots the picture of a woman in the paper and a snowdrift and asks Roe what these things are. After defining what snow is, Roe then points to a snowman in the paper for the benefit of Pea. Pea is confused about what word to use for the snowman, at first describing it as "awkward," and then, after Roe differs, saying he meant to say "strikingly wonderful" and "very well-made." Pea is additionally confused about how the snowman is not a real man. Roe corrects him, saying that "he is an imitation of a man." This ultimately leads Pea to question his own identity and what he is made of, as well as what Roe and the woman in the paper are made of.
Pea decides he wants to meet the woman in the paper. Roe says her name is Jane Spivak. He knows her, but is uncertain if he would be able to introduce her to Pea.
Stephen arrives.
A few minutes after Scene 1 takes place. Pea, whose head is leaning on the table, is sleeping. Stephen and Roe talk about how Pea could not harm anyone and how they hope no harm comes to him.
A month later. Pea is in the same seat, his shirt collar open and hat pushed back. He looks as if he has not slept well. Roe stands. Pea talks about all the qualities of Jane Spivak which he adores. He describes looking at her "as one looks at an animal." He says that he loves her. Pea then laments how he looks, saying that he is a bat rather than a human. He tells Roe of the meeting with Jane Spivak. According to Pea, she had invited him to touch her, and when he did, she pushed him away and said, "You rub against me like a piece of meat." She then told him not to rub against her anymore.
Roe sympathizes with his friend. He touches Pea and says he is cold. He says how terrible it is to see such a young man destroyed and suffering like this. Pea takes out the newspaper from earlier from his jacket. He had thought having her picture would provide him with relief, but now sees that it does not provide relief. He puts his head on the table and questions why they came to live, love and hurt.
Roe puts his hand on Pea’s back. Stephen enters and looks at Roe. Roe says, "He’s drowning. He hurts too much."
New York, Tokyo and Mumbai all have their own nightlife. And so does Tehran; a nocturnal underground world unlike any other - A girl looking for her happiness within the chaos of this swallowing world gets into a night cab, unaware of how her life is going to change forever.
Unfolding over three acts, the play centers on the life of one of three Chicano lawyer brothers initially struggling with maintaining his morals and ethics, and eventually succumbing to the needs of family as well his own desires. The play begins as young Tomas Santos returns to his hometown in El Paso after spending some time working as a San Diego district attorney. He joins his older brothers Miguel and Fernando, who operate a flashy, community-minded private law practice. However, this brief indulgent of Mexican-American swagger is short-lived. Recruited by a federal judge, Tomas becomes an undercover informer tasked with spying on his brothers’ illegal drug trafficking business, foolishly thinking he’ll be able to save the family. Repercussions are as immediate as they are violent, misguided and shocking.
As several disasters strike, various loyalties begin to trouble Tomas, making him question his own morals and consequently leading him towards making increasingly destructive decisions. Tomas eventually blows the whistle on his brothers’ corrupt business. He is then faced with the chance of redeeming himself at the cost of committing another horrible act; murdering the presiding judge assigned to his brother’s trial. He questions if the betrayal of kin can be excused on a higher moral ground. Solis makes the audience question whether Tomas has been a victim of the racist U.S. judicial system. ''Santos & Santos'' presents such dilemmas as a huge gray area.
Mycroft Holmes and Cyrus Douglas, of whom the latter now runs a school for boys, are joined by Mycroft's younger brother Sherlock to investigate a series of killings dubbed "the Savage Gardens murders."
Allison Pike is an angel who receives smartphone notifications for miracles to perform in exchange for points (the Miracle on the Hudson earns her 70 points). She has been trapped in New York City for 9 years trying to earn 10,000 points to be admitted into heaven for having led a life that was "good but not too good" as Megan Dorsey. As part of her cover, she works as a waitress and regularly has sex with her boss James Barker.
Leonard, another angel in New York who competes with her for miracles, tells her she would get more points if she shows initiative, so when she gets a notification to save a college student's computer, she asks the student about his crush and unites him with her. She is awarded over 11,000 points for helping them find true love, and her angel mentor, Jason Biggs, congratulates her personally and tells her she will be transported to heaven by Greyhound.
At the bus station, she finds Patrick Dorsey, her husband from her past life, and his new love Jill, arriving from Nebraska to spend the holidays in New York. Knowing that if she reveals her identity she will lose all her points, she offers to be their tour guide as an excuse to spend time with him before leaving Earth. Despite Jason Biggs warning her of the risk, she invites them to a Christmas party with Barker and his barista Connie.
As she slowly gets drunk on eggnog, it becomes harder for her to hide her jealousy towards Jill. Barker notices and tries to ask her about it. Jason Biggs, watching from the gates of heaven, tries to get her to stop via SMS. She runs from Barker and her phone and tells Patrick the truth. They kiss but are seen by Jill.
Pike faints and awakens the next day to be told by Jason Biggs she needs to make up her lost points by "cleaning up [her] mess", so she finds Connie, Barker, Jill, and Patrick and tries to apologize to each in turn. Patrick is able to get closure by talking to her and accepts Jill as his new significant other, which allows her to recover all her points.
She travels to heaven with Leonard but keeps watching the miracle requests that appear on her phone. Two weeks after her ascension, she sees a request for Barker, who is about to get crushed by a falling pipe. She steals Gandhi's afterlife car and manages to stop Baker just in time. Before she can let him know it was her, a French jogger comes check on him, and it is implied he will travel with her to France to fulfil all the dreams he's been holding back on to be with Pike.
For stealing the car, she is sentenced to 100,000 points, and begins by trying to replicate the Miracle on the Hudson, this time in San Francisco Bay.
The novel follows two narratives; the first is the story of orphaned teenage sisters Ahalya and Sita. The siblings formerly lived near the coast of Chennai with their family, but decide to go live in a convent after a tsunami leaves them homeless and orphaned. A friend of their dead father offers to take them safely; however, he betrays them and takes them to a trafficker who sells them to a brothel in Mumbai. Ahalya agrees to sleep with the clients at the brothel to protect her younger sister from having to suffer the same fate and allows the son of the brothel owner to sleep with her almost every night. The sisters are disheartened and discouraged; a woman in the brothel tells them that this is their karma and they need to accept it, not fight it.
The second narrative of the novel follows a lawyer named Thomas, who lives in the United States. Thomas is at a low point in both his career and home life. He and his wife Priya have divorced after the death of their firstborn to SIDs. Walking in a park one day, Thomas witnesses a kidnapping and attempts to chase the kidnappers, but he is unable to catch up and the kidnappers get away. This, along with the state of his life, motivates him to take some time off of work and go to Mumbai to help out in an anti-exploitation organization, CASE.
Back in India, the sisters are separated when Sita is purchased in order to transport drugs from India to France. She is forced to be a drug mule and swallow drugs wrapped in condoms and board a plane to Paris. Once there, the drugs are retrieved and Sita is put to work without pay in a restaurant, where the owners of the establishment treat her poorly. Ahalya is rescued by Thomas and CASE after the organization discovers and raids the brothel, freeing the workers. She is sent to live in a convent, while Thomas vows to find Sita. During his work he discovers that his ex-wife is also in India, living with her family. He manages to extract a confession from the brothel owner as to Sita's whereabouts and travels to Paris, only to discover that Sita has been moved once again; she is now living in forced domestic servitude to a wealthy family who mistreats her. Sita attempts to escape, only to be recaptured and once again trafficked.
Thomas manages to track Sita to the wealthy family but only barely misses meeting her, as he catches a glimpse of her in a vehicle as it speeds off. He learns that Sita is being sent the United States and informs the FBI. In the United States, Sita has a difficult time adapting to American culture and to the demands forced upon her by her traffickers. She is forced to pose for porn but is able to avoid being raped by her captors. Her images are discovered on the dark web and the FBI manages to match Sita’s face to a picture. Thomas is able to successfully rescue Sita and reunites the two sisters. He also reconciles with Priya; the two remarry and are soon expecting another child as Thomas continues his work with CASE.
While Esra prepares for marriage with excitement, her best friend Didem starts to panic because she is the only single girl among the group and starts to utilize various tactics to convince her lover Cem to marry her. While Didem waits for a marriage proposal, Cem meets Gözde, who is starring in his new film and becomes focused on his work. Didem, upon entering into crises of jealousy, begins to monitor Cem closely. During this follow-up, she learns that men are at a bachelor party in Antalya "Adam & Eve Hotel". So a funny and romantic adventure begins. Girls infiltrate the hotel in oriental disguise to see what the boys are doing at the bachelor party.
''Ruined King: A League of Legends Story'' takes the player on a journey through Bilgewater and the Shadow Isles, regions of the world of Runeterra, the canon setting of ''League of Legends''.
Bilgewater is a port city on the Serpent Isles, a town of outlaws, opportunity and anarchy. The only law is that of the pirate captains - chief among them Gangplank the Saltwater Scourge, ruthless captain of the Dreadway and leader of the Jagged Hooks gang. Sarah Fortune saw Gangplank kill her mother with the selfsame pistols he commissioned from her: now a grown woman and a captain in her own right, Fortune has taken back the pistols that are her birthright and with them her revenge, blowing up the Dreadway with Gangplank on it. Fortune seeks to rule Bilgewater, but as we see at the beginning of the game there are still some captains who oppose her rule. Fortune is torn between her desire to be a fairer ruler than Gangplank and the anger she has nursed over the long years of plotting her revenge. Unbeknownst to her, Gangplank yet lives: Illaoi of the indigenous Buhru people, Priestess of Nagakaboros and his former lover, pulled him from the deep. Gangplank schemes and bides his time, making unusual allies in a bid to reclaim the throne that was usurped from him.
The nearby Shadow Isles are Runeterra's domain of the undead, a land in which tormented spirits are trapped by a supernatural force called the Black Mist. Every year the Mist roils across the sea, seeking fresh souls to damn in an event known as the Harrowing. Bilgewater is close to the Shadow Isles and so is the Harrowing's first port of call - and over the years the Harrowings have been growing worse. But the Shadow Isles were not always thus: in times long past they were known as the Blessed Isles, a civilization of enlightened peoples living in a land of lush nature, all of it sustained by a well of magical life-giving waters. King Viego of Camavor came to the Blessed Isles, seeking the waters to revive his love Isolde. The natives denied him: the waters could cure any illness or injury, but no power could reverse death without dire consequences. In a fit of grief and rage Viego commanded his army to slay whoever stood in his way and had Grael (later Thresh) lead him to the waters. Isolde was revived, but as a ghostly image of herself; realising what Viego had done Isolde killed him with his own sword. Viego died, still deluding himself that Isolde loved him - and was soon after resurrected as the Ruined King, his defilement of the waters corrupting the Isles in an event that was later known as the Ruination, a cataclysmic event that killed everyone in the Isles, turning them into tormented shades. Viego, currently in a weakened state, thinks himself ruler of the Isles, desperately seeking a way to bring back Isolde. Thresh pretends to be his loyal servant, but the arrival of a vengeful Gangplank may be exactly the opportunity he needs.
Gangplank listens to Thresh and collects many artifacts to revive Viego on the Shadow Isles. Most of the artifacts belong to the Buhru people on the Serpent Isles. Illaoi, a Buhru Priestess, receives a vision from her goddess that she must travel to the Shadow Isles. As she looks for Captain Fortune, Illaoi meets Braum and Yasuo, two travellers from far-off lands, who have their own reasons to travel to the Shadow Isles: Braum seeks the life-giving waters to cure a plague in his homeland of Freljord; Yasuo was hired to protect Ahri, who has since run away from him to the Shadow Isles. As they travel, they found out Bilgewater was again attacked by the Black Mist from the Shadow Isles and Illaoi's temple invaded by Gangplank. They meet Fortune and, after some tense discussion, resolve to set sail for the Shadow Isles together.
On the way they meet Pyke the Bloodharbour Ripper, an undying murderer of mysterious origin and motivation. Although he normally targets pirate captains, he says that he now wishes to kill only Gangplank; although the rest of the team is wary, Illaoi says that this is the will of her goddess and allows him to join them. As they reach the Shadow Isles, they travel through the Coastal Academy and reach the Grove. Maokai, a living tree who is guardian of the Grove, mistakes them for intruders and attacks - but before they can cut Maokai down, Ahri intervenes. Ahri reveals that she is the last of the Vesani, a race of fox-like people who have ties to the Isles. She entreats the party to help Maokai purify the corruption in his roots; to do so they travel to an underwater Buhru temple, and by overcoming the trials within gain the power necessary to help Maokai. In return, he clears the way deeper into the Isles and gives Braum some of what little remains of the untainted waters of life.
Meanwhile, Gangplank has assembled enough artefacts to revive Viego. Viego is restored, but still requires time to gather his power. Thresh keeps Gangplank interested by promising him Viego's throne. Thresh soon has a showdown with the party, who invade Thresh's dungeons and release many of the souls trapped inside: although the party is victorious, Thresh tells them that this fight was just a distraction and that his plan is already in motion. They rush to Gangplank and Viego, their pleas to Gangplank falling on deaf ears: attempting to take Viego's power Gangplank is himself possessed by Viego, forcing the party to fight him. Gangplank is defeated, but Viego remains at large and extends the Black Mist to Bilgewater, convinced (by Thresh) that the key to resurrecting Isolde is there - and that anyone in his way deserves to die for keeping him from his love.
The party imprisons Gangplank and sets about finding a way to stop Viego. The Black Mist that protects him proves impenetrable, so to defeat him they need a way to weaken his resolve. They travel to a Vesani research institute on the Isles: there Ahri learns much of her heritage, including how her people were skilled in the art of emotion and memory manipulation - but is forced to make a choice between saving the memories of her people or acquiring Viego's memories. Making peace with her past, Ahri sacrifices the Vesani records to get the memories they need - and they learn that Viego's relationship with Isolde was not as perfect as his delusions say.
On the way back, the party is forced by the storm Viego has caused at sea to land at a remote island. The island houses secrets of Yasuo's past, forcing him to confront the memory of his older brother Yone: Yasuo was falsely accused with the murder of an elder he was supposed to protect, and when Yone chased him down and confronted him, Yasuo killed Yone in the ensuing duel. By reliving the memory, Yasuo is finally able to come to terms with his guilt and resolves to stop running from his problems. The party returns to Bilgewater and prepares for the final fight with Viego.
They sail out to meet the Black Mist at sea. Ahri uses her Vesani magic to return Viego's memories to him, reminding him of how possessive and cruel he was to Isolde, causing his resolve to falter and weakening the Black Mist that protects him. Viego resists as best he can, possessing members of the party to turn against their allies, but is ultimately defeated. Before the final blow is struck, Viego pleads with Fortune, saying he can give her the power she wants - but she turns him down, trapping him inside a Buhru artifact.
Bilgewater is saved. The party discuss what they will do next before going their separate ways: most of them seem to have overcome their inner demons, but Illaoi worries that Fortune's second brush with Gangplank has reawakened her darker side, especially given that Gangplank escaped during the final fight. Her worries are later proven true, as Fortune goes after Gangplank and his followers with unrelenting bloodlust. Pyke, too, has unfinished business: his target has switched from Gangplank to Viego who, for now, remains in the artifact.
Sagara Toru proposed to his girlfriend Kitazawa Akiko. She was intended to accept it but she was in a traffic accident on the way to the promised place. Sagara waited her for a long time without knowing it and considered his proposal was rejected. Four years later, Akiko suddenly appears in front of Sagara. She asks him to leave her new boyfriend Kuen secretly from Japan.
Matt and Kate, a young couple, move to Upstate New York, having purchased a home. While renovating, they discover a large hidden room and that a murder occurred on the property decades before.
That evening, Matt learns that the killer is a "John Doe" and that he is still alive and in a psychiatric hospital. He also inadvertently discovers that the Room can grant any wish. He tells Kate and both quit their jobs with the Room providing everything they desire.
Kate falls into depression when she realizes that nothing they wish for has any real value. To cheer her up, Matt tells her he wants to try for a child, but she becomes angry, reminding him of two previous miscarriages. She exclaims that she can't put herself through that pain again and storms out of the room, but ends up using the Room to create a baby, Shane. Matt wants her to use the Room to uncreate the baby, but neither she nor Matt are actually able to bring themselves to do so. Later, Matt goes to visit "John Doe."
At the hospital, Matt speaks with the "John Doe," who warns that he and his wife should leave the house and forget the Room. Matt finds out that Room-created items age to dust when crossing over the threshold of the house. Kate tells Matt she is taking the baby out for some fresh air; he tries to dissuade her but ultimately does not stop her. Once the baby is outdoors, he ages to a young child in seconds; Kate screams for Matt, who runs outside and brings Shane back inside the home.
The couple's marriage deteriorates as Kate attempts to parent Shane, while Matt ignores him. Shane grows impatient and bored since Kate will not allow him to leave the house, telling him that he is sick and that there are germs outside. Soon Shane discovers the Room and makes an outside area inside it, causing an argument between the parents. "John Doe" calls the home and reveals to Matt that he was a child wish granted by the Room and he is alive because his parents died, which allowed him to become part of the real world. He tells Matt that if Kate dies, Shane will be able to live outside the house. Kate overhears the conversation and attempts to crash her car but cannot bring herself to do so. When she returns, the couple reunites and have sex, unknowingly watched by Shane.
The next morning, they discover that Shane has gone outside and aged himself into a man, though he still has the mind of a child and is angry with Kate for lying to him about the germs. This causes an altercation, and Kate and Matt are knocked out. Shane uses the Room to enlarge the outdoor area even further and duplicate the house inside it. He shapeshifts into Matt and kidnaps Kate to the cloned home.
Matt awakens a short time later and searches for Kate. He discovers the cloned house and breaks in as Shane rapes Kate. Kate and Matt knock out Shane and try to escape, but they realize Shane used the Room to make a labyrinth in the cloned home. Shane finds them in the house and stabs and kills Matt, but realizes that Matt and Kate have used the Room to replicate themselves, and that the real Matt and Kate have escaped. Ultimately, they trick Shane into going outside, where he rapidly ages into a duplicate of "John Doe" and dies, deteriorating into a pile of dust.
A month later the couple has abandoned the home and are living in a motel. Kate stares in horror at a positive pregnancy test, unsure if the child belongs to Matt or Shane and whether they are in fact still in the Room.
20 years after the events in No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Miss Blandish's daughter and John Blandish's teenage grand daughter Carol Blandish is lodged in a lunatic asylum. John Blandish refuses to have anything to do with her as she is an illegitimate child born to his now deceased daughter and Slim Grisson when she was held captive by the latter 20 years ago. Carol is sent to the asylum when she begins to display homicidal tendencies like Slim Grisson and a tendency to attack people's eyes. Nevertheless, Mr Blandish, before his demise, puts his entire fortune in her name and in the care of a trust that wishes to keep the fortune and ensure that she is confined in the asylum as an 'insane person', lest Carol decides to claim her due inheritance one day.
Unfortunately Carol escapes from the Asylum one night, and this sets off many people on her trail - Sheriff Kamp and the psychiatrist who want her back lest she be kidnapped for Blandish's fortune, by the trust lest she become de-certified as a psychiatric patient after 14 days out-of-asylum by law and then come to claim her money, a journalist Phil Magrath who wants to make it big for his paper by grabbing the news first, and soon by ruthless murderers who also want her to claim money.
Carol is found by a speeding truck driver in the storm, which she takes over and topples over a valley, killing the driver and going unconscious. She is then found by estranged brothers Steve and Roy, who take her to Steve's cabin. Roy is hiding from Max and Frank Sullivan - the Sullivan Brothers, two dreaded hitmen whose existence is unknown, out to kill him on contract for betraying Roy's boss. Steve nurses Carol to health, who becomes amnesic and falls in love with him.
The Sullivan brothers find and attack Steve's cabin and kill Roy. Steve and Carol escape but Steve gets shot. She seeks help, with the Sullivans behind them. Both are found by Phil Magrath and given shelter. Steve recuperates. The Sullivans hunt for him and Carol as they are now witnesses to Roy's murder. Eventually they locate them lodged in Phil Magrath's mistress home. They attack and kill Steve and break away before the cops arrive, but not before Carol manages to blind Frank Sullivan. Carol is now in custody of Phil who looks after her. But she is aggrieved over Steve's death, and vows revenge against the Sullivan brothers.
Months later the Sullivans are in another city. Frank Sullivan is blind and having a nervous breakdown, and Max Sullivan is getting tired of him. He continues to work, leaving Frank in a house to take care of himself with a maid. Frank is one day visited by a lady, who befriends him and convinces him to relieve his maid. This lady happens to be Carol Blandish in a new 'Avatar', who has been hunting the Sullivans and has found Frank, who cannot recognise her. She pretends to look after him, takes him and drops him midway in the city traffic, getting him killed by speeding vehicles. Max learns of Frank's death but is remorseless. He eventually learns that Carol Blandish is behind him and Frank for revenge.
The Mandalorian contacts his old friend Ran. Ran has hired a crew consisting of ex-Imperial sharpshooter Migs Mayfeld, the Devaronian strongman Burg, the droid pilot Zero, and the knife-wielding Twi'lek woman Xi'an to rescue her brother Qin, a prisoner of the New Republic. Upon arrival on the prison ship, they fight through security droids and make it to the control room where an inadvertent escalation causes a New Republic soldier to trigger a beacon alerting the New Republic. The crew rescues Qin, but double-crosses the Mandalorian.
The Mandalorian escapes, isolates and defeats each crew member, then captures Qin, whom he delivers to Ran in exchange for the money. Ran attempts to send a gunship after the Mandalorian to kill him, but the New Republic beacon had been placed on Qin, leading a trio of X-wing fighters to Ran's station. The X-wings open fire on the hangar. Lastly, Mayfeld, Burg, and Xi'an are shown in a cell on the prison transport, nursing their wounds, having been spared.
One day, Mondo Nakamura's colleague (Kiyohara) of Minamimachi Bugyo-sho is killed. Kiyohara was blackmailing Masuya. When Mondo visits Masuya, he senses Masauya is something to do with Kiyohara's death.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends Shiranui Shōgen to Iga in search of the Momochi clan's hidden gold. Momochi clan is destroyed by him. But Momochi Sandayū's child Momochi Ganmaru narrowly escapes and he goes to Ming dynasty. 10 years later, he goes back to Japan.
Former detective Jun Mizuhara and former Journalist Shunsuke Ryuzaki set up office as a private detective agency " M&R Tantesha" in Yokohama. Their cases are always dangerous but not profitable.
The film depicts events around the German reunification of 1990 and focuses on a group of East-Germans who cross the border to visit West-Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic West German cannibal family with chainsaws who want to turn them into sausages.
Stewart Stardust lives in an apartment in Vesterbro with his wife Vivian. Their son, Danny, is a drug addict just released on parole, and he moves in with them. A sociologist for the public authorities, Arne Nougatgren, is checking up on Danny, as a condition for his parole is that he has a well-functioning home, and that somebody can provide for him. Stewart own a mobile hot dog stand (''pølsevogn'') placed on Christiansborg square, but his income is threatened when its engine is stolen. The family's financial troubles increases when Danny make Randi, a drug-addict prostitute, pregnant, and she starts demanding child support from Danny after giving birth two days later, and when their landlord Greta threatens to kick them out if they do not pay the rent they are behind on. A Muslim named Kafir offers to repair the hot dog stand for free, and have a Russian, Igor, providing him spare parts. At the same time, a news speaker reports of fear of a terror attack against an international summit held at Christiansborg, specifically from a terror organisation called "Yellow Crescent" that seemingly cooperates with weapon smugglers from the former Soviet Union.
While Stewart and Danny attempts to convince Arne that family is bonding, Arne decides to get more involved with the family, much to Stewart and Danny's dismal. The repair of the hot dog stand is delayed, as Kefir's spare parts keep getting stolen. Danny sells some "firecrackers" found in the garage (where the hot dog stand is located) to some scouts, and Arne gives them a Christmas decoration made of plastic explosive (thinking it is clay); in both instances the news report of explosions involving scouts. Kefir buys spare parts from Igor for two million kroner, who is handed to him in a red suitcase. While Igor passes out from drinking, Stewart opens the box with spare parts and finds something that resembles a bomb or a missile, and he and Danny concludes that is must be a new engine. Shortly thereafter, news report that nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union cost several millions kroner on the black market. Danny can not unlock the suitcase, and sells it locked for 300 kroner. When Igor finds out, he demands it back and threatens to kill Danny.
Danny finds out that Randi have not actually given birth, thought she is still pregnant. Arne reveals that there are public grants for young families, so Stewart sends Danny on a date with Randi so he can make amends. Greta gives Stewart respite on the rent, in exchange for Stewart working as caretaker, and a share of the income from the hot dog stand, once it has been repaired. Arne have sex with Stewart's wife Vivian, and Stewart becomes angry and beats both Arne, the scouts, Randi, Kefir, Igor, and Greta. He kicks Arne out of the apartment and quit the agreement with Greta, so Arne demands that Danny return to jail and Greta that Steward leaves the apartment. They instead decide to "fight the system", and barricade themselves in the apartment with heavy weapons provided by Kefir. After multiple earlier failed attempts by Igor, he returns again to kill Danny and Stewart, but is met with a grenade. Randi is allowed in, as she and Danny have become close.
When the police demand to enter the building, Stewart, Danny, and Randi plans to flee in the hot dog stand, but is stopped by Kefir and his group. Igor joins and demand to be given either his suitcase or his nuclear bomb, and Kefir shoot and kill Igor. Kefir admits to be part of Yellow Crescent, and that their plan is to blew up Christiansborg with the hot dog stand. He orders his men to kill Stewart, Danny, and Randi, but Arne shows up before the order can be carried out. He sings a song about Christmas peace and love that moves everybody. Kefir and Stewart become friends again, and Stewart forgives Arne for sleeping with Vivian. Kefir's wife, who wears a Niqāb, remove the veil and reveal himself as an Israeli Mossad agent named Ibrahim who have infiltrated Yellow Crescent. He is killed by Greta, who show up in full Nazi uniform and announce her intention to build a new world order based on pork. She picks up a sausage from Stewart's disgusting pack of sausages, take a bit, and demand that everybody else do the same. Kefir is about to take a bite, but then Greta dies of food poisoning. The police raid the garage and arrests Kefir and his men.
With all problems solved, Stewart, Danny, Randi and Arne returns to the apartment to celebrate Christmas Eve together. They run out of pickled cabbage and Stewart go to the hot dog stand to fetch some more. The story ends with Stewart accidentally detonating the nuclear bomb when he tries to heat the pickled cabbage in the microwave oven, blowing up all of Copenhagen.
The show have a number of recurring elements. Each episode starts with an archeologist in the future recapping the story, and finding an artifact relevant to the story of the episode. They end with a narrator listing some unanswered questions, and the characters interrupting and comment on the voice's words. Every day Stewart opens his Advent calendar, and is always surprised when it turns out to be a beer. Other recurring elements include Stewart mixing up Kefir's name with other dairy products (kefir is a dairy product), Vivian loudly yelling "go away" every time somebody opens the door to her room (only her hand is shown on screen), Stewart offering his increasingly disgusting sausages to the other characters, and Stewart having fond flashbacks of wise words from his "Papa", when he used to beat Stewart.
At the end of Chameleon In A Candy Store the anonymous narrator is selling his books through a fake dating profile he created using intimate photos of his ex-girlfriend. At the beginning of Eunuchs And Nymphomaniacs, that profile is removed due to complaints of cat-fishing. He then sells books from a table on Prince Street. Street vendors, con artists, vagrants, fashionistas, Instagrammers, celebrities, and locals all make an appearance. Meanwhile the narrator determines to win his exr back but she, glad for the opportunity to avenge herself proceeds to torture him with hope. This continues for three years. One day a celebrity rapper stops the table and posts a photo of Diary of an Oxygen Thief on his Instagram. The book goes viral. But this success is dampened by the discovery that the narrator’s ex has been seeing someone for the preceding three years. He is humbled to discover she resumed a long-term relationship she was been in before they met. He still need to produce a new book. To do this he harnesses the talents of a glamorous artist/model/photographer and invites her to co-produce the book of photography first mentioned in Diary Of An Oxygen Thief. This is the coffee table book of true-life, true-love, photo-essays Diary of An Oxygen Thief was written to prevent.
Jordan and Aileen moved to a very old house. Unknown by Aileen, Jordan cheated with Monica but Jordan doesn't love her. One night, while Monica tries to kiss Jordan, Jordan accidentally kills Monica and buries her in a house where they just moved in. Now, Monica is trying to get justice to her unlawful homicide incident. While trying to do this, Monica tries to get revenge by haunting the whole family. Their daughter, Angel, is being haunted by Monica whilst having a disease and when Jordan and Aileen saw it, they immediately rushed her to the hospital. While Angel is healing, Monica came back to see her and took her. While Monica is still trying to haunt the family, she took care of Angel and a few years passed by when Jordan and Aileen found her again. Angel doesn't remember her real mother and father so she writes bad things about them. After Angel saw the truth, Monica became very angry and tries to capture her. Meanwhile, Aileen and the police are trying to investigate about Monica. When they found out that Jordan was the killer, they immediately tried to arrest Jordan but Jordan fights back and gets shot. Meanwhile, Monica successfully captures Angel and Jordan also didn't notice very soon that he is already dead after he got shot. Angel falls to the ground but is saved by her dead grandma. Monica also got justice and is now in peace. After another incident, Angel celebrates her birthday. While her birthday is going, Jordan's ghost is just behind there, crying, also celebrating her birthday.
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
The series will follow a group of high school boys who participate in a fictional type of competitive figure skating known as “skate-leading”. After suffering a humiliating loss to his (unrequited) rival, Maeshima Kensei swears off figure skating at the young age of 11. Fast-forward five years, and he's going nowhere in school or in life, sought after by all manner of sports teams but committed to none--until he learns his former not-rival now-skating-legend Shinozaki Reo has switched from singles skating to the new team-oriented skating style of 'Skate Leading'. He then with help of Shinozaki's half-brother Hayato Sasugai, who holds enmity towards Shinozaki, and members of skate leading club of Ionodai High School joins the competition against Shinozaki.
Cowboy Tex Haines is forced to escape bad-guys Bart Rawlins and his gang try to accost him for trespassing while Haines is rounding up some horses on Peggy Barlow's (his boss), land. Rawlins claims the land belongs to John Rankin's stage line, and tries to punctuate that with his six-shooter. Haines is aided in his escape by Dave Wyatt, and eventually Wyatt's partner, Panhandle Perkins. Haines offers Wyatt and "Panhandle" a job at Barlow's ranch, the Tin Cup, after explaining how Rawlins and Rankin have been strong-arming local ranchers by violently claiming land for the stage line.
Back at the Tin Cup ranch Rankin is bullying Barlow by claiming that a state-sanction gives him legal access to her land, and offers to buy the entire ranch for $10,000. Peggy Barlow refuses to sell, even after being threatened with a lawsuit. When local ranchers plead for help from the Texas Rangers, and get none, Haines wants to administer some vigilante justice, but Wyatt tries to advise him against it. A rancher's meeting at the Jim Manning trading post is darkened by a local deputy when he serves Barlow with an eviction notice. Her ranch foreman, Dan Brown, tries to produce the petition the ranchers hope to present to governor, but Rankin's henchman, Bill Dugan, draws and murders Brown. Haines then draws and kills Brown. Manning publicly condemns the violence, but privately hatches a plan with Rankin to get rid of Haines.
The next day Manning spins his tale of events to the sheriff, who then heads out to arrest Haines for the murder of Bill Dugan. Haines escapes, and receives support and food from Panhandle and Barlow. Haines devises a plan to ambush Rankin during Rankin's return trip from the capital. Panhandle and Wyatt, who are secretly Texas Rangers, thwart the plan by stopping Rankin's stage ahead of schedule. Wyatt confiscates Rankin's papers which detail a plan to sell all the ranchers land with the help of an unnamed partner to a large land syndicate. Panhandle begins to investigate, while Wyatt returns to talk to Peggy Barlow. Haines is with her, and Wyatt tries to make a citizen's arrest when Haines refuses to return to his hideout, but Rawlins shows up to arrest him. Wyatt then reveals that he is a Texas Ranger and forces Rawlins to stand down. Wyatt declares his intent to have a grand jury investigate Rankin. Rawlins defers to Wyatt, but rushes back to town to warn Rankin.
Rankin and Manning think they can outmaneuver everyone and still manage to evict Barlow, and collect on the land deal, and flee before the grand jury meeting. Dimwitted Rawlins is ordered to kill Panhandle, who has now been exposed, but Rawlins is tricked arrested. Haines joins Panhandle and Wyatt, and with a little help from the sheriff head to the Tin Cup to save Barlow. Manning and Rankin try to escape, but are eventually captured and arrested. Wyatt and Panhandle then bid farewell to Haines and Barlow, leaving the later pair to attend to the Tin Cup, and perhaps a more interesting future.
November Tear tells a story of Anenda (played by Daphine Ampire) who is forced out of home by her stepmother. While on a journey to find her late mother's kinsmen, she is engulfed in a harsh reality of sex slavery. The film covers the silent but dangerous activity of trafficking of women that became common in 2018 and early 2019