The storyline of is based on an actual top-rated Iranian reality television show. In this story, a young woman convicted of the murder of her much older husband faces the next-of-kin of the victim (his daughter), who has the power to grant her forgiveness and save the perpetrator from the death penalty. The young woman must plead for her life, while viewers can vote by sms to help avoid the penalty by getting the sponsors to pay for the blood money.

The actual TV show ''Mah-e Asal'' (meaning “Honey Moon”), aired daily from 2007 to 2018 during the Islamic religious festival of Ramadan, and often collaborated with Iran’s judicial system, which is based on Islamic law and includes the "eye for an eye" principle. The film has been transposed to Yaldā Night, an Iranian festival celebrated on the night of the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

Clara Reynolds lives in a historic Connecticut home with her husband Ted, a semi-famous actor. Searching for a shoe she believes she lost on the road, she attempts to report its disappearance at the police station. Her daughters Julie and Riley, working actors and former sitcom child stars, return home to celebrate the birthday of their family dog, Ollie. Belittled by her self-absorbed family, Clara experiences unusual visions around the house, including a ghostly woman begging to be let inside.

Riley buys marijuana from former classmate Joe, whom Ted invites to stay for dinner. A magazine photoshoot of Ted, Julie, and Riley leaves Clara feeling even more overlooked. During dinner, the ghost appears and leads Clara to angrily demand that the family stop mocking her, to no avail. As the others drunkenly dance to "MacArthur Park", the ghost embraces Clara, thanking her. Joe reveals that the Reynolds’ home was built in 1862 by a sea captain for his daughter, Adelia; she was institutionalized before ever entering the house, and her father killed himself in the woods nearby.

Fed up with her family’s disrespect, Clara defaces a self-portrait Ted was painting, while Ted, Julie, and Riley bicker about their careers. Ted, having been fired from a project by Julie’s fiancé, criticizes an audition monologue he makes her perform, and nearly drowns Joe in a punch bowl. While the family performs a séance to summon the spirit of Adelia, Clara locks them in the basement and takes Joe upstairs. She kisses him, but apologizes and leads him downstairs to unlock the door, but instead tries to set fire to the basement. Joe intervenes, but leaves after Clara threatens him with a kitchen knife. She realizes the ghost is Adelia, whose spirit she has allowed into the house.

Ted breaks down the basement door but is unable to find Clara, and Riley is nearly hit by a flowerpot pushed by an unseen force. An erratic Clara confronts her family with the knife, and they discover Ollie has eaten unattended brownies. Disappearing into the woods, Clara appears to kill a coyote. Her family drives Ollie to the veterinarian, and are notified of a drunk woman at the police station, who turns out not to be Clara. Returning home, they find Clara’s bloody shirt at the edge of the woods, and discover her missing shoe in her closet. Driving through town, they discover Clara walking naked, and bring her home. As the family goes to sleep, Clara still hears the voice of Adelia.

Criminal gang leader Damien Brooks is recently out on parole. He was caught during a drug bust gone awry ten years ago. He reconnects with his old crew to find the cash they stole and buried as a result of that DEA bust. However, they are being monitored by Sheriff Tucker, a retired officer who knows that Damien and the gang are still up to no good. The retired sheriff tails the gang as they embark on a search for their loot in the desert.

A baker by day and demon fighter by night, Zhong Kui, a reincarnated deity must jog his amnesiac lover's memory of their millennium-long romance.

After the outbreak of the Somali Civil War, Nasib's family sends him to a refugee camp in Europe, but they do not have enough money to send anyone else. Years later, Somalia has become the epicenter of large-scale piracy, and there are pirates from Nasib's family. When he learns that his cousin Abdi is considering becoming a pirate, Nasib returns to his home country to dissuade him from doing so. After following his cousin closely and interacting with the pirates, Nasib makes the argument against piracy, but it carries little weight due to the lack of alternatives in the poverty-stricken country. As Abdi's first raid approaches, Nasib tries to find some hope for his family. The pirates call the hijackings "help yourself foreign aid". Nasib, humbled by his experience, realizes that he could have become a pirate had he remained in Somalia.

''3 Day Weekend'' follows the point of view of four different characters through the same events of one three day weekend. Each point of view creates a different perspective of what is happening, initially as an amateur camper stumbling across a kidnapping in progress, then a jailhouse rendezvous, a double-cross, and eventually a revenge plot, depending on which character is misinterpreting the story.

In 1967, an old prison in the south was evacuated due to its proximity to the city's developing airport. Major Nemat Jahed, the head of the prison, is transferring the prisoners to the new prison with his officers, and the major himself and his men are scheduled to leave the prison by evening. Colonel Modaber, who is superior to Jahed, goes to him in prison and says that Jahed has been promoted and is going to be his own successor. Jahed, happy to hear the news, finds out during a phone call that one of the prisoners, Ahmed, nicknamed the Indian, was not with the other prisoners. Subsequent investigations assure Jahed that the Indian is in prison and hiding somewhere. At the same time, a prison warden named Susan Karimi came to see Jahed and told him that the Indian sentence had changed suspiciously from imprisonment to death. Jahed, who sees his promotion in jeopardy, searches the entire prison with his troops to find the Indians. Meanwhile, Jahed falls in love with one of the girls who helps the prisoners…

It's time for teenage vampire Juliette to make her first kill so she can take her place among her powerful family of Legacy vampires, matrilineal direct descendants of Lilith who chose to be bitten by the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Juliette sets her sights romantically on a new girl in town named Calliope, but is surprised when Calliope who shares her romantic feelings proves to be a monster hunter from The Guardian Guild. Both find that the other won't be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for.

One day in Ostia, a charismatic watch seller manages to cheat old Ines Vismara by giving her a lousy watch for 1000 euros. This episode enrages Claudio, Ines' son, a fascist owner of a gun shop and destabilizes Ines to the point that, while crossing a street, she gets run over by a van.

Ines is saved and brought to the hospital by medic Pierpaolo Pavone, householder of an intellectual radical chic family: his wife Laura is an uncompromising film director, and their son Federico is a 25-years-old scholar passionate with Friedrich Nietzsche who gets mad once his professor Nicola tells him that he can't join him in exhuming Nietzsche's body. Pierpaolo is having an affair with Gaia, the young girlfriend of Bruno Parise, a colleague of his who enjoys in making pranks to him.

One day, Federico manages to buy from Claudio a bomb in order to use it to destroy Nietzsche's grave: Federico completes his mission, despite being injured during the explosion. Flavio, Claudio's uncle, tells him that after being arrested, Federico will tell from where he bought the bomb and, thanks to being the son of a medic and a director, he won't be sent to jail, but if the cops will find out Claudio's guns, he will surely get imprisoned. So, Flavio orders Claudio to kill Federico.

Once he reaches Federico, Claudio finds out that he is the son of Pierpaolo, the medic who saved his mother's life, and aborts the mission. Once Flavio asks for explanations, Claudio brings his 12-years-old gun-loving son Cesare at the meeting and the kid shoots and kills Flavio with a shotgun. Claudio gets arrested but doesn't lose his parental authority.

A few months later, Bruno has died for a brain cancer that Pierpaolo diagnosed him and Gaia manages to find a new boyfriend in the very watch seller that triggered the whole story.

After a plane crash during a field trip, a group of surviving classmates are stranded on an island filled with giant insects.

Charming but timid college student Mando, a typical hopeless romantic meets Barry, an out-and-proud basketball star who is practically a prince from a fairytale. The only thing spoiling Mando's happy ending is the fact that Barry already has a boyfriend. To move on, Mando goes out with liberated architecture student Krisha and the two become lovers. One fateful day, Barry walks back into Mando's life. Now, he needs to choose - will it be mind over heart or heart over mind?

In the movie, after the wedding engagement announcement by her younger, prettier and skinnier sister, Tinu (Nancy Isime), the spoilt rich successful accountant, Tishe Lawson (Zynnell Zuh), hires Jeff (Enyinna Nwigwe) to pretend to be her fiancé. The showdown stage just got ready!

The film is based on true life sceneries, showing both true and fake lifestyles lived by some residents and visitors to the city of Lagos, Nigeria.

Rudina, a married middle-aged mother, is overburdened with responsibilities. In addition to working as a seamstress in a local factory, she is taking care of her old in-laws, while her demanding husband works abroad and they only see each other once a year. She is also single-handedly raising their five year old son, Orion.

Rudina is expecting her sister Elma to come back from Italy, where she lives and works, so that they can go and visit their father in their home village, on the anniversary of their mother's death. But when Elma arrives on the ferry from Bari, Rudina is shocked to see that she is pregnant. It will certainly be a problem for the old head of the family to see his unmarried daughter with a child on the way.

The two sisters, along with Orion, get on the road and come up with the idea to enlist an old friend of Elma's to pretend to be her husband during their visit.

''Pawns of Time'' is the first in a series of four adventures involving the Legion of Super Heroes versus the Time Trapper. The player characters, each a member of the Legion, along with Brainiac 5, are ambushed by six former Legionnaires thought to have died. (The "dead" superheroes are now agents of the Time Trapper, who has summoned them from the past and brainwashed them into working for him.) Following the ambush, the agents successfully kidnap the comatose Jaxon Rugarth (formerly Legion enemy "The Infinite Man"). The player characters determine that the Time Trapper is trying to turn Rugarth back into The Infinite Man, and must act to stop him.

The player characters, members of the Justice League of America, learn that Mr. Element and Matter Master have escaped from prison. The heroes must find and stop the two villains before they can combine their signature weapons into a weapon of mass destruction. The players can generate their own superheroes using the rules in ''DC Heroes'', or they can use the pregenerated characters for Firestorm, Firehawk, Hawkman, and Hawkwoman.

Lex Luthor announces that he is taking control of Time, but Ambush Bug intervenes, and takes control of Time himself. The heroes must battle Luthor, Ambush Bug and perfect copies of themselves in order to save the universe.

''The Tower'' is a novel in which humankind has been reduced to slavery and outlawry by giant spiders in the far future.

The film portrays the ancient rivalry between the Boduas and the Shawlains, which graduated into a tensed and bloody unrest, in the midst of which two young lovers, Jerome (Chris Okagbue) and Nadia (Fella Makafui), struggle to help change the intense hate nurtured between their ethnic groups.

''The Forge in the Forest'' is a novel in which an immense perilous journey is taken.

''Evil Water and Other Stories'' is a collection of 10 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories.

In 2020, a scientist accidentally launches seven nuclear bombs across the United States, which cause the people and animals to mutate and grow feral. The player character, "the last Mexican in the U.S.", goes on a journey to Winnipeg, where there are no taco trucks, and they can open their business free of competition.

John begins to read the letter that he wrote to June. He works to protect the people of the community, and one day on duty, he finds Cameron in the fences eaten by walkers. John begins to investigate the death of Cameron and finds an earring at the scene. Virginia, on the other hand, believes this to be accidental. John joins Strand who is now on the "inter-settlement council." The next day, John explains to Janis that he has a bad feeling about what happened to Cameron.

Virginia and John discuss about the incident, and he shows her an earring that he finds during his investigation, but she asks him to keep it on guard at Cameron's funeral. Suddenly, the Rangers see Janis trying to escape and they capture her. Virginia demands that they search her bag and look for the other pendant. Later, John locks up Janis, and she claims that Ginny is trying to set her up. At dusk, John exhumed Cameron's grave and found a piece of a knife hilt lodged in Cameron's hand.

The next day, John and Strand discuss the handling of weapons. Strand shows him the armory and a knife is missing. Janis declares to Virginia and Strand that she murdered Cameron and is ready for execution. John sits with Jacob for a drink. Suddenly on the road, John hears the sound of a blaring radio and notices a group of walkers are eating someone. As John shoots them all, it is revealed that it is Janis who is devoured by walkers and is divided into two parts. John wants to find out who is responsible for Janis's death and wonders why her execution was brought forward. Strand emerges and asks John to calm down, but John hits him and the two begin to fight. Once the fight is over, Strand declares that he saved both of their lives.

Later, Virginia gives John a key and names him a Ranger, which he accepts. Later, John lies on the bed, when suddenly June arrives and they hug. Elsewhere, Morgan continues on his journey, but suddenly his truck is hit by another vehicle. He wants to make sure Emile's dog is OK, then he walks towards the other car. Two men get out of their vehicle, but as Morgan interrogates them, one of the men wants to know where Emile is. Morgan tells them Virginia knows where he is. The first man says they don't know Virginia and they just want the key that Emile was obtaining for them. Morgan warns them to stay back and that he doesn't want to cause any trouble. They try to fight anyway. He guts one of them, while the other sees the key around Morgan's neck. Morgan stabs him in the chest when he is attacked again. He looks at the key and wonders that this is the thing that the two men were going after.

Doctor Asya (Cansu Dere) lives a peaceful and happy life with her husband Volkan (Caner Cindoruk) and their son Ali (Alp Akar). This situation changes when she finds out that her husband has been having an affair with a young woman named Derin (Melis Sezen) for two years. Asya must choose between saving her marriage and taking revenge on her ''unfaithful'' husband.

Set in 1984, Anna Fedorova, a Russian epidemiologist, tries to resign after her research associate Dr. Zotoff volunteered to test a vaccine on himself without preliminary or animal testing which resulted in his death.

Later, Anna is celebrating New Year's eve with the family and friends and is congratulated on her being able to quickly develop a vaccine. She receives a call from the colonel telling her that they will leave shortly for the Kola bore hole. Sounds of an unknown origin were recorded deep beneath the surface and shortly after 20 people went missing. The bore hole is not only as the public believes it, but also a deep underground research lab. Anna is tasked with retrieving samples.

Anna, the Colonel and a squad of soldiers led by Major Sergei Makeev are flown by helicopter to the ice covered facility in Murmansk. Upon landing, their helicopter is approached by a man in a lab coat who refuses to obey instructions. He is shot several times but continues towards the helicopter. He detonates a hand grenade, killing himself and causing minor damage to the helicopter and its passengers.

Anna is told by a man named Zimin that they are being lied to. He states that it isn't a disease and that the lower levels of the facility are Hell. Anna, the Colonel, and the squad are met by the Deputy Head of Research of the facility Peter Kuznetsov and the man who reported Dr. Grigoriev′s secrecy surrounding the disease. Dr. Grigoriev wants guarantees that the remaining employees sealed in the lower levels of the facility during the evacuation be rescued. He demonstrates that the pass codes have been changed and he is the only one that knows them.

During the descent the elevators brakes don't respond and Dr. Grigoriev depressurizes the elevator and puts on an oxygen mask. The group passes out while Dr. Grigoriev escapes into the facility with the elevator key.

When the group wakes up, they find an engineer named Nikolay and a doctor named Kira in the cafeteria who were left behind during the initial evacuation. There is still no sign of Dr. Grigoriev. Anna performs tests on Kira and Nikolay in the med lab and they show no signs of infection. Anna encounters Dr. Grigoriev who begs her to evacuate the others up the shaft and that he can't give her the elevator key. Anna yells for the others and Dr. Grigoriev is wounded and flees using the elevator. A group of soldiers lead by Egorov put on temperature protective suits and are about to descend through the shaft when the doors are opened from within the shaft. A lone lab assistant named Olga is found without any protective gear and is taken back to the med lab for observation and tests while Egorov and his team descend the shaft.

Olga show signs of fever but declares that she is very cold. Her back is covered with mold-like growths which Anna takes a sample of. Dr. Grigoriev announces over the intercom that since they didn't evacuate to the surface through the shaft, that he has no choice but to seal them all within the facility. Dr. Grigoriev causes an explosion that damages the facilities pressure pump and will cause the facility to collapse within an hour. Upon returning to the med lab, Anna and the Major find the walls covered with mold with Olga half melted to the floor but still alive. Olga releases a cloud of spores and Anna is able to get to a gas mask but is soon attacked by Kira having been heavily infected and mutating in the same way as Olga. Anna discovers that the mold dies when exposed to cold and uses a fire extinguisher to leave the med lab and decontaminate herself while the Major is already showing signs of infection.

Anna discusses the situation with the Colonel and explains that the mold can't survive in cold conditions and that the permafrost surrounding the facility is what is keeping it from spreading. The only way the mold can live is within a warm bodied host but if the host dies in a cold environment then the mold dies as well.

As the group prepares to ascend through the shaft while wearing protective suits with the infected Major, they receive a radio broadcast from Egorov saying that they are under attack and not to open the door to the lower level shaft, even if it's them. Gunfire is heard shortly after and only two of the soldiers return saying they encountered something big, their weapons had no effect, and it now knows where they are. The third soldier returns missing an arm and slits his own throat before the door to the shaft closes. The soldiers, including the Major stay behind to fight whatever is chasing them while the rest descend in the elevator.

Anna, Nikolay, Peter, and the Colonel successfully make it to the lower level. The group finds a wall of infected melted together, killed by the cold. The Colonel decides to go into the 200 degree environment to try and retrieve the elevator key that Dr. Grigoriev took with him. The protective suits have all been sabotaged by Dr. Grigoriev so the Colonel must go without protection. Anna, Peter, and Nikolay agree that even if they make it back, they must not tell anyone about the mold since someone will eventually try to research it and could endanger all life on earth.

The Colonel does not return so Anna goes out into the 200 degree environment where the organism lives in order to retrieve the elevator key. She finds the Colonel dead with the key. Upon returning, Peter forces the other two by gunpoint to give him the key so he can return to the surface and become famous for discovering the mold. Peter is attacked by a large creature made up of screaming infected hosts that have all been melted into one organism. Anna hides in the cafeterias freezer, before taking the elevator key from Peter who has been absorbed. Anna finds Nikolay and together they barely escape the creature by getting on the elevator to the surface. They use the elevator key to begin their ascent but discover the Major melted into the floor. The Major begs that he not be allowed to the surface since it would cause the death of all life on the planet. Nikolay insists on escaping the facility no matter the cost and violently fights Anna over the elevators controls. The Major saves Anna by stabbing Nikolay through the neck, killing him. Anna now infected is dragged off by a hazmat team but not before being able to plummet the elevator. While being taken to the surface, Anna steals a grenade from one of the hazmat soldiers and forces them to let her go. Now outside in the cold and surrounded by soldiers, Anna pulls the pin on the grenade in order to kill the mold within her and keep its existence a secret.

Giorgio Rosa approaches the Council of Europe with a petition to protect and recognize his Island, which he later elaborates was built by him and his friend Maurizio Orlandini. The film flashes back a year to show how that after passing the state engineering exam, he met with his ex-girlfriend, Gabriella, in Bologna. While he drives them home, they are stopped by police because his homemade car lacks license plates. They also discover it was never registered. He is jailed for the night and bailed out by his father. Gabriella is fingerprinted, but not charged, and thus later must deal with having a mark on her record.

Three months later, he is working for motorbike racer Bruno Spaggiari as an engineer when he sees a billboard showing an oil platform. Inspired, he convinces Maurizio who is tired of working in his father's company, to help him build an island just outside the territorial waters and, thus, the legal jurisdiction of Italy, where everyone is free to do as they want. With money that Maurizio has stolen from his father and innovative engineering solutions that drastically reduce the cost of materials, they successfully build an island of their own with a supply of fresh water. A cast-away welder with his boat asks for shelter during a storm and becomes the first resident.

Club promoter Wolfgang Rudy Neumann visits the island. He is a stateless man of German origin and PR manager at a Rimini beach club,. He starts to promote the island as a tourist destination and more people begin to visit, attracted by the freedom it represents from the established states. Franca, a 19-year-old pregnant girl, offers to become the barmaid of the 400-square metre island's sole bar. Gabriella, who had come to the island to tell Giorgio of her pending marriage, claims that it's not a nation, and is nothing more than a disco. Giorgio argues that the island, now named Rose Island, has its own language, currency, postal system and other amenities including a citizenship process that is soon to be started. Gabriella points out that there is no official recognition of it.

A letter is written to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, who contact the Italian government. As the island's president, Giorgio is pressured by the government to relinquish control. He refuses. In retaliation, the Italian authorities arrange for his father to be fired from his job. Other members of the island are also made offers to leave, which they accept. Gabriella advises Giorgio to approach the Council of Europe for help, and accepted his case for further investigation. The Italian government threatens to destroy the island. When Giorgio refuses to back down, the other residents return and stand along with him on the island against the Italian navy. They are detained and the island is blown up. The film ends showing Gabriella and Giorgio getting back together. History notes Rose Island was, despite its short life, a landmark event of being the only nation to be directly attacked by the Italian Republic. To prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future, the UN extended the international waters territory from 6 to 12 nautical miles.

Kaito is a 17-year-old boy who grew up in Japan, living a life of abuse at the hands of his father. After one day being strangled to death by his father, he is summoned to another world by Elisabeth Le Fanu, the Torture Princess. She offers him two choices, either serving her as a butler or death. Having experienced a life of cruelty, Kaito initially chooses death only to change his decision after realizing that his death would be slow and excruciatingly painful. Kaito learns that Elisabeth is tasked by a mysterious organization known as the Church to dispose of fourteen demons and their contractors, and once Elisabeth has finished this task she herself will be put to death by the Church for her crimes.

One day Elisabeth decides to grant Kaito with a weapon of his choosing from the Treasury in Elisabeth's castle. Inside the Treasury, Kaito accidentally activates a female automaton which proceeds to chase him. Elisabeth subdues and then proceeds to reset the automaton. Kaito selects a configuration for the automaton that will not result in it betraying him. Afterwards, Kaito names the automaton Hina, and she becomes immediately enamored with him.

A mysterious figure known as the Butcher arrives one day to bring Elisabeth various meats and organs, only for him to reveal that a demon, known as the Earl, has been attacking a territory. Heading to the scene of the incident, Elisabeth and Kaito discover a means to enter the Earl's residence only for the two of them to be separated along with the Earl's other captives. Kaito attempts to protect the other child captives from the sadistic cruelty of the Earl, but is ultimately unsuccessful. Kaito tries to sacrifice himself in order to save a young boy with red hair named Neue, only for the boy to trade places with him while wishing for Kaito to one day find happiness. Elisabeth later kills the Earl, and Kaito never forgets the sacrifice Neue made for his sake.

As they continue to defeat demons, Kaito grows to come to terms with the cruel end of his first life. He begins to regard his new life with Elisabeth and Hina as precious. Kaito also learns more about Elisabeth's past and how she became the Torture Princess. Eventually, Kaito makes a contract with a demon, known as the Kaiser, in order to save Elisabeth from a powerful demon, known as the Grand King. Kaito promises the Church that he will never harm humanity as he does not want to betray Neue's expectations nor does Kaito wish to harm people like his father did. With Hina's help Kaito is able to defeat the Grand King and save Elisabeth, but Hina is left in a temporary state of sleep. Before Hina enters this comatose state, Kaito returns her affections by telling her that she is his beloved wife.

Elisabeth and Kaito receive urgent news that the Capital is under attack by the remaining three demons. At the Capital, Kaito comes to realize that he admires Elisabeth and views her as his hero. While the majority of humanity regards Elisabeth as a villain, to Kaito it was Elisabeth that finally gave him an opportunity of having a happy life by summoning him to her world. Kaito tries to convince Elisabeth to escape the Church's punishment once she defeats the remaining demons, but she insists that she will accept her fate. Unsatisfied, Kaito vows to protect this precious life with his master Elisabeth and wife Hina. During their fight with the last three demons Hina wakes up, and together they defeat them. Elisabeth is then arrested by the Church and sent to the stake the next morning to burn.

Kaito, Hina, and the Kaiser interrupt the execution, and Kaito declares himself the enemy of mankind. The Church postpones the execution and assigns Elisabeth the new task of killing Kaito, much to her chagrin. Elisabeth, Hina, and Kaito come to learn that the Church harbors dark secrets that would change humanity forever. They embark on a journey to stop the Church's secret sinister schemes.

The film tells the adventures of a young Indian orphan who lives with her grandfather, the wise old Tigê, in a corner of the Rio Negro in the Amazon. With Tigê, she learns the legends and stories of her people, living intimately with the forest and its animals.

Little by little, Tainá becomes a guardian of the forest and manages to save a little monkey from falling into the clutches of a trafficker. Nicknamed Catú, the new little friend becomes her companion after her grandfather's death.

Protected by an amulet left by Tigê, Tainá continues the fight in defense of the jungle.

Pursued by the trafficker, the guardian will stop in a small village where a biologist and her son Joninho live, who is following her mother in her scientific researches.

The agreement between them becomes difficult and Tainá decides to leave the village, but Joninho, who was already planning an "escape" to play a trick on his mother, follows her and now will have to learn from her how to survive in the forest.

As the fear and enemy of humankind since ancient times, the "Darkness" clan disappeared from the rise of civilization but did not perish and remained alive hunting but those willing to fight back are known as "Hunters". One day, a rumor was heard for those who lived in the darkness about a coffin that sealed the strongest vampire from the Middle Ages, Katatonia, had been moved from its entombment and placed in the "Dragon Palace". The sea that gathers the "Dragon Aura" in the palace weakens and will eventually break. Katatonia will awake with his power greater than before. The Darkness clan wants the power for Katatonia while the Hunters try to contain him.

After discovering that his girlfriend was cheating on him with a friend, shy Richard leaves her behind in disgust in the club only to meet Angela who had a similar encounter. On the same night, they died and on a queue to the Gate of Judgement, Angela was told to return to Earth. Richard then sought a way and escaped to fight for Angela's love, although forbidden by the guardian angel who was sent after him alongside demons to ensure he never succeeds in winning her love within seven days, failure of which would result to his soul being condemned.

1. The young Brescian Giovanni Comini, a convinced supporter of the Fascist Party, was promoted to federal governor. Shortly after his appointment, Achille Starace entrusted him with a crucial mission because of his flair for poetry: he was to get into the good graces of the great poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and spy on him for the regime. The poet had long been intolerant of Fascism, and since a new war was considered to be just around the corner, Starace feared that if a person of such popularity spoke out against the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, popular trust would be undermined.

Comini became a regular visitor to the Vittoriale, where D'Annunzio had long since retired into exile, assisted by his faithful Luisa and Amèlie. The Vate, now old, lives in complete seclusion; lost in the memory of his past glories, he limits his public outings to a minimum and is addicted to cocaine. However, he became very fond of Comini, even though he was aware of his mission from the start; the young federal also gradually began to be fascinated by the poet.

When he learns that Mussolini is about to travel to Germany to be received by Hitler, D'Annunzio asks Comini to arrange a meeting with the Duce, so that he can try to dissuade him from his intentions. The young man tries in vain. In the meantime, Comini is having a love affair with a woman, Lina, who will kill herself following the arrest of her anti-fascist half-brother. The young federal starts to doubt fascism.

In 1937, on the death of Guglielmo Marconi, D'Annunzio was appointed ex officio president of the Accademia d'Italia; the Vate, meanwhile, began to show signs of imbalance and impatience. The poet manages to meet the Duce at Verona Porta Nuova Station, on his return from his trip to Germany. Here, D'Annunzio tried to warn the Duce of the dangers of an alliance with Hitler, but the latter ignored him and treated him with extreme condescension. D'Annunzio, distraught, ends up having a mental and physical breakdown, after which he says goodbye to his friend Comini forever, revealing that opposing the war is his duty and that he will try again when he goes to Rome to accept the post of President of the Academy. On his return, however, Comini was severely reprimanded by Starace for highlighting in his dossiers the popular impatience with the alliance between Hitler and Mussolini.

A year later Gabriele D'Annunzio died in unclear circumstances. During his funeral, attended by the Duce himself, Luisa gave Comini a peacock feather that had belonged to the Vate, as a symbol of their friendship. Comini is later demoted because of his opposition to the alliance between Hitler and Mussolini, and Luisa and Amèlie have to leave the Vittoriale forever.

A couple who have been trying for a baby take a holiday to Sardinia, where they meet another couple.

A Visitor Than Lwin(Nay Toe) accidentally met Bagan tourist guide woman named Phyu Phyu (Eaindra Kyaw Zin) while bumping into each other break her camera but he'll promised to get her new one later but two became close friends as days past Than Lwin seem to fallen in love with Phyu Phyu. Time has come Than Lwin need to return home for his work in Foreign countries, during night time He told his love to wait for him as she sob she didn't how long to wait for him. While Than Lwin already left for his new job in other country she decided to leave Old Bagan to find him if he was still there but as soon she invited to Than Lwin's house she decided to think if it's okay to tell his mother that she was his girlfriend that would left mother Daw Tin(Cho Pyone) uncomfortable so tried to introduce herself to apply for job in the house so mother agreed to hire based on her identity. While doing chores she met Ye Yint(Pyay Ti Oo) one of Than Lwin's close friend, he convinced Than Lwin's mother to wanted to proposed her to saved her working life. So she tried to tell her about Ye Yint request made strong decision whether to wait for Than Lwin or start a new life with Ye Yint. After 10 years Than Lwin finally arrived home and make a suddenly surprise but confused to see his fiance as his best friend's wife. Now Ye Yint and Phyu Phyu are couple with 2 kids with one daughter and son. Mother said son look exactly like her son as if they are real biological father and son. Than Lwin now realized that the son named Thit Taw is his biological son with Phyu Phyu now things are getting messay between the family. Than Lwin tried to start a conversation with Phyu Phyu about misunderstood and what happened after he left. While they were settled he left a threatening word around her to ask if Thit Taw is his biological son, the question had big effect on Phyu Phyu's mind. After ended he gave a ride to her home then suddenly her husband saw those coming as if these two are suspicious.

The film opens to a city plagued by human-trafficking, where an inhumanly strong Lacey enters to foil a late-night abduction, devouring the attacker in a flood of screams and allowing the victim to flee.

A tired and aging Detective Godfrey leaves the police station to continue his one-man investigation of a comfortably sinister character (Terrance), whom he suspects to be in charge of a trafficking operation. He takes up a surveillance post in an abandoned warehouse district where a disheveled Lacey has also been waiting for the suspect to arrive. With apparent disregard of the detective’s presence, she forces entrance into the compound. Inside, a young man is being forced into a game of Russian roulette between himself and a chained dog for the entertainment of a live-streamed audience. Lacey interrupts to kill the man and savagely remove his eyes for a snack, apparently unaffected by a gunshot to the head. The man behind the camera flees to find his boss, Terrance, engaged in his own game of torture. Both returning to the scene, they find the body dismembered and the incident recorded; meanwhile Lacey leaves frustrated, ignoring Godfrey as he enters to discover what has happened.

Similar to ''He Never Died'' the antisocial Lacey finds refuge in a boring diner, seeking only oatmeal and tea. With Godfrey at home in disbelief, Terrance seeks to verify his own disbelief by showing the footage to his boss and sibling, Meredith. The pair, comically comfortable in their criminal enterprise, plot to capture Lacey in order to profit off of her abilities. The next day Godfrey returns to find Lacey and the two decide to talk at the diner, Lacey is forthcoming about her cannibalistic needs that she claims to satisfy only by eating evil people; in this case, Terrance. Godfrey realises Lacey is his only hope in exacting retribution so he offers her up targets in exchange for a place to stay. Lacey promptly finds and kills two of these targets in a suspicious apartment and, after conferring with Godfrey, she returns to release their detainee, Suzzie. Though initially afraid Suzzie follows Lacey to the diner in awe of her abilities. The bubbly Suzzie is intent on staying with Lacey and becoming her friend.

Godfrey heads off to investigate the apartment where Terrance finds and captures him, winding up strapped to a chair in the company of Meredith. After a casual conversation, she then leaves Terrance to interrogate Godfrey for Lacey’s whereabouts. Terrance and a crony then track down Lacey, who is indifferent to being beaten and captured, taking her back to their compound to be heavily restrained. Suzzie, who has witnessed Lacey’s abduction seeks Godfrey’s help at the police station where only the desk sergeant is concerned enough to help; all the while, the criminal siblings are beginning to experiment on Lacey for their amusement. A concerned and reckless Suzzie finds a way into the compound, passing through a party for the rich and powerful before finding and freeing Godfrey. Together they attempt to rescue an impaled Lacey who erupts into a rage of power to decapitate Terrance and wreak havoc on the party; a rampage that concludes with Meredith being thrown off the rooftop.

Much later, a retired Godfrey runs into Lacey at the laundromat. During a friendly farewell they exchange first names, revealing Lacey to really be Lilith. After Godfrey leaves, the haunting ''man in the hat'' finally appears clearly to Lacey, so she addresses her frustration about immortality to him, assuming him to be God. The film ends foreboding an apocalypse, as revealed to Godfrey at home by yet another bulletproof character.

The ending shot is of four motorcycle license plates that reference Revelations and the four horsemen of the apocalypse. This was alluded to at the beginning by the "pantless" man in the cell that speaks to Godfrey.

A police officer daring to confront and launched investigation the corrupt politicians and their sons who committed rape of model that cause their downfall from power.

A man searches for the vampire who killed his father to prevent him from coming back to life, but to do so he must fight his army of beautiful female vampires, who lure men to their estate so they can feed on their blood.

The film shows five scenes inspired by key moments of the eponymous play by Friedrich Schiller. Three of these scenes are introduced by an intertitle.

''1. William Tell's heroism.''

A mountainous landscape with a staircase. William Tell helps a peasant escape on a rowing boat just before a group of soldiers enters.

''2. The Plot.''

Intertitle: "People and bourgeois take oath"

A clearing near a mountain lake. A group of people enter and surround William Tell. They take a solemn oath.

''3. The Apple.''

Intertitle: "William Tell is arrested".

A village square in the mountains. Several villagers enter the square followed by two heralds who sound their trumpets before a proclamation is read: Everybody must salute the hat of Governor Gessler hanging on a pole. Everybody does it except William Tell who has just entered with his son. As punishment, he must shoot with his bow an arrow on an apple placed on his son's head. He achieves the feit but is nevertheless arrested.

''4. Death of Gessler.''

Intertitle: "The people cheer William Tell".

An embankment in a mountainous landscape. Gessler arrives on a rowboat and William Tell shoots an arrow which kills him

''5. The Swiss cheer their Liberator.''

Villagers are dancing on a square. William Tell appears and all cheer him.

The storyline of ''Florian'' can be divided in four sections. First, the childhood of ''Florian'' in Lipizza (currently Lipica, Slovenia) is depicted. Second, the story follows Florian in the Spanish Riding School where he performs with great excellence to aristocrats and monarchs, becoming a leading horse and a favourite of the emperor Francis Joseph. The third section – after a short episode back in the Lipizza Stud Farm where Florian sires offspring – presents Florian's career in the Imperial Mews of Vienna where Florian and his mates pull the emperor's coach. Finally, after the outbreak of World War I and death of the emperor, Florian becomes unemployed, is auctioned, abused by a city coachman, and sold as useless. During the whole novel, the fate of the horse is set against a historical background – the dying Hapsburg empire.

''Wyrdworld 2: Wordesley'' is an adventure in which the player characters in the town of Wordesley investigate a stolen idol and an evil cult. Rather than using a specific set of role-playing rules, this adventure is generic, and includes notes on how to convert it to popular RPGs of the time such as ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', ''RuneQuest'', and ''Rolemaster''.

''Lifeburst'' is a novel in which the space-dwelling elite of the 22nd century command huge ships that open fire on peaceful contact ships.

The novel has a "double plot" in which we read about the protagonist's relation, as a son, with his father and, as a father, with his son.

John Tremont, a middle-aged American artist living with his wife and children in Paris, is summoned home to the US to his mother's bedside who has had a heart attack. This starts a long journey in which John, who is later joined by his college-aged son Bill, learns a lot about what it means to be a father and to get old as well as a new definition of love. The story deals with three generations each of which has a different way of seeing family relations as well as the world, but ultimately there is a common thread transcending generation gaps, a "love that binds generations".

''Sun's End'' is a novel in which the main character awakes in 2089 rebuilt as a bionic superhuman with telepathic powers, and the richest man in the solar system.

''The Princess of Flames'' is a novel in which King Sedry and his brother Hyrcan fight the Fegez hordes, who are allied with their sister Elfrid who seeks to revenge the overthrow of their father.

Benson lives with Mike in Houston. Mike goes to Osaka to take care of his estranged father who is dying. Meanwhile, Mike's mother Mitsuko is visiting and staying at his place in Houston, with Benson.

In April 2019, Alexandra "Alex" Chen (Erika Mori) leaves a foster care group home after eight years to reunite with her brother Gabriel "Gabe" (Han Soto) in Haven Springs, Colorado. There, Gabe shows Alex around Haven, with the townspeople being primarily employed by mining company Typhon. Subsequently, Alex meets park ranger Ryan Lucan (Eric Emery), radio DJ Stephanie "Steph" Gingrich (Katy Bentz, reprising her role from ''Before the Storm''), local bar owner and Ryan's father Jed, flower shop owner Eleanor Lethe, her granddaughter Riley, Gabe's girlfriend Charlotte Harmon and her son Ethan, the town's sheriff deputy Jason Pike, taxidermist Reginald "Duckie" McCalister III, Typhon Mining's mine safety manager Mac Loudon, and Typhon's operations director Diane Jacobs.

While Gabe shows Alex his apartment and offers it as a gift to her, they get interrupted by Mac, who wrongfully believes Gabe is having an affair with his girlfriend Riley and attacks him. The altercation causes Alex's "emotions" to snap, resulting in her beating up Mac to defend Gabe. Later, Ryan interrupts to inform them that Ethan has gone missing. The three search the mountains for Ethan, and Gabe calls Typhon to cancel a blast in the area. Alex rescues Ethan, but the blast goes off anyway and a resulting landslide kills Gabe.

Attempting to find answers about the circumstances around Gabe's death, Alex uses her powers on Mac, who was working the night of the explosion and claims not to have received Gabe's call. She discovers that Mac attempted to act on the call but his superiors at Typhon overruled and let the blast go off; Typhon are now actively covering up their role in Gabe's death and pressuring him to keep quiet. After enlisting the aid of Ryan and Steph, Alex turns her attention to Diane and steals her USB drive, which contains a recording of Gabe's call and a message from Diane's superior coercing her to ignore the situation and proceed as planned. Alex is later arrested by Pike for theft and computer fraud but is released after either signing an affidavit to drop her investigation or removing Pike's fear of Typhon with her powers.

Jed takes Alex to an abandoned mineshaft and confesses that eleven years ago, while being a foreman, he was at fault for the deaths of several of his miners, which caused him to make a deal with Typhon to cover up the tragedy to protect himself and his family. He shoots at Alex (although the gunshot narrowly misses), causing her to fall into the shaft.

Alex survives the fall; badly injured, she experiences flashbacks of her childhood showing her mother's death from cancer, her father's abandonment, and her time in foster care. Searching for a way out, she finds the site where the miners died and discovers her childhood necklace, realizing her father was one of the men killed in the accident. Escaping the mine, Alex barges into the town council meeting and reveals Jed's role in both the mining disaster and Gabe's death as well as Typhon's attempts to cover it up, while Jed and Diane attempt to discredit her. After Steph, Charlotte, Duckie, Eleanor, Pike, and Ryan either support or side against Alex based on her past choices, Alex uses her powers on Jed, resulting in Jed seeing the truth of his actions and confessing to the police, ending Typhon's operations.

Following these events, Alex visualizes a conversation with a vision of Gabe and ultimately decides whether to remain in Haven Springs or leave to seek adventure as a musician, either alone or alongside Ryan or Steph.

''Wavelengths''

In March 2018, Steph gets a job as the DJ host of Haven Springs' KRCT radio station after having lied about her work experience and manages the record store that contains the broadcasting room. She stays in Haven after breaking up with her bandmate Izzie from Seattle, where she moved shortly after the events of the first ''Life Is Strange'' game, and is forced to take the job after losing a foosball game to Gabe, preventing her from moving to Denver as she originally planned. Over a year's time, Steph modernizes the radio program and record store and uses her time to search for a date and play a tabletop game with her former best friend Mikey North (Dillon Winfrey, also reprising his role from ''Before the Storm''). If Chloe Price was sacrificed in the first game, Steph mourns Chloe's and Rachel Amber's death; if Arcadia Bay was sacrificed, Steph mourns her mother and Mikey's brother Drew's death due to the storm; both endings culminate in her lashing out at Mikey on the fifth anniversary of the tumultuous events. When Mikey professes how he needs her in his life as his best friend, Steph then apologizes and admits that she stops people from getting close because she is too traumatized from all the past pain. She admits she needs Mikey too and vows to become a better friend to him. On New Year's Eve, she searches for a new job as a DJ back in Seattle, follows her friends' scavenger hunt, and Gabe asks her about contacting his sister Alex. In April 2019, Steph sees Alex arrive in the record store (as seen in the main game).

Part 1: "Off the Grid"

Ambulance 61 is dispatched to a call, when they arrive they find multiple people down of suspected opioid overdoses. Squad 3 responds to assist when one of the victims is trapped. One of the victims boyfriend, Travis Butler, shows up but runs when questions start being asked. The Intelligence Unit starts investigating where the drugs came from and it is found all the victims have suffered from counterfeit Oxy. Casey offers to take Brett to meet her birth mom if she wants a friend to go along. Intelligence tracks down the boyfriend who agrees to help the police. Former Chicago P.D. officer Sean Roman shows up at Firehouse 51 looking for his sister Sarah, who was friends with the original victims, and went missing a week prior. Boden, Severide, Casey, Brett, Foster, along with Roman begin putting the pieces together. Boden tells his wife Donna, who is a teacher at the victims school, about the deaths who takes it hard. Brett takes Casey up on the offer and they go to meet her birth mother. Donna gets Severide and Roman a meeting with Sarah's best friend who points them to Sarah's boyfriend, Logan Peters. When Brett goes to the door of the address she was given she is told no one by that name lives there. Roman and Severide visit one of Roman's old connections from his days on the street. The two get held at gunpoint but take control of the situation and are pointed to where Peters spends time. After things begin to get dangerous Severide asks Roman to go to the police, when he refuses Severide refuses to continue with him and goes to Intelligence on his own who are all shocked by the news he's in Chicago. The next morning Brett's birth mother shows up at Firehouse 51, the two begin talking and her mother reveals that she is pregnant. Their meeting is cut short when the firehouse is dispatched to a house fire. Upon arrival shots are fired toward the first responders and Roman comes running out of the house. Roman informs them that Peters is inside the house and was firing at him. Casey and Severide go inside to search the house and find Butler suffering from a gunshot wound. Intelligence shows up at the scene of the house fire.

Part 2: "Burden of Truth"

Neighbors identify Butler heading inside the house with a can of gasoline and is assumed to have started the fire. Roman reveals to Burgess that his sister has been dealing for Peters. Halstead and Upton head to the hospital to interview Butler where a fight breaks out between Butler's father and victims parents of the fire. Butler tells Intelligence that Peters is responsible for Sarah going missing. Burgess and Roman interview Peters' ex-roommates who identifies Sarah and points them to a lake house. At the lake house they find Sarah frozen to death under snow in the back yard. Roman visits his parents and he informs them that they found Sarah's body. DNA found under Sarah's fingernails matched to Peters. Running location history Intelligence tracked suspects history to a warehouse where Peters is found dead. Ruzek and Burgess talk through their feelings after losing the baby. A witness near the warehouse at the time of Peters murder identifies a black Range Rover driving away from the scene that points Intelligence towards a house where they find another suspect. Camera feeds reveal a blue Nissan driving away from the warehouse at the same time. Burgess re-questions the witness who identified the Range Rover but he doesn't recall seeing a blue Nissan. Platt finds out that the witness used to also be a former confidential informant of Roman's. Burgess also finds that Roman's cousin drives a blue Nissan. With signs of Peters murder pointing towards Roman, Burgess confronts him but he continues to say he had no involvement. Voight orders Intelligence to bring in the witness but he's cleared out his apartment. His landlady however tells Intelligence that he paid off his debt of three grand, Voight suggests pulling cameras from the bank to see who paid off the witness. Members of District 21 and Firehouse 51 attend Sarah's funeral. Following the funeral service Roman prepares to be taken in for murder but Voight looks the other way and lets him off the hook.

A story of two men settling in discovering love notwithstanding being a congregation worker. Love comes in numerous structures, in numerous countenances, in whatever circumstance you are in. Zach (Clifford Pusing), is ordered by the educational committee to turn into an altar server as a discipline for an offense he submitted. The board accepts this will get him far from regular wicked exercises. The special stepped area workers follow a mate pal framework where the sheep (a term used to allude to amateurs) is collaborated with a senior church youth, called the shepherd. In light of his reputation, Zach is relegated as the sheep of the top of the shepherds, Christian (Henry Villanueva). Zach, albeit a force to be reckoned with tri-competitor, is fizzling in scholastics. In the interim, Christian is an achiever all around — Prom King, Mr. Nourishment Month, Ginoong Agham, Mr. Sportsfest, Campus King, and President of the Altar Servers. What unfolds among Zach and Christian is more trying than a manly relationship, making the story "courageous and freeing", as dir.

In the early 1960s, in the village of Xime in Guinea-Bissau, Iala, the father of Raul and Bedan, is worried about his two sons. The eldest, Raul, animated by desires of revolt, has joined the liberation movement, unknown to anyone. He is wanted by the Portuguese colonial authorities while he studies at a seminary in Bissau. Bedan, the younger of the two, a turbulent young man still a teenager, is almost at the age where he must reluctantly submit to the traditional coming-of-age rituals. One of these is dressing in women's clothing. Bedan is also admiring his father's young fiance. In the end, Raul is fatally wounded and stubles to the wedding, and Bedan joins the revolutionary cause.

When Christy Murphy's strict parents become suspicious that she's fooling around with boys, they send her to an all-girls Catholic school. Her boyfriend, Jerry, bluffs his way into the school disguised as a priest. Determined to have sex with Christy, Jerry attempts to avoid the nuns while maintaining his cover.

The novel opens in 1992, when Hugh "Shuggie" Bain is fifteen years old and living alone in a boarding house in Glasgow. He aspires to be a hairdresser while working shifts at a supermarket deli. He leaves work, placing tin cans of fish in his bag.

In 1981 five-year-old Shuggie is living in a tenement flat in Sighthill with his maternal grandparents, Wullie and Lizzie; his mother, Agnes Bain; his father, Hugh "Shug" Bain; his half-brother, Leek; and his half-sister, Catherine. Shuggie's father is mostly absent, working as a cab driver and having affairs with other women. Agnes is a beautiful woman often compared to Elizabeth Taylor, but she is unfulfilled by her life and takes to drinking.

The following year Shug moves the family into a council flat in Pithead for families of workers of the local mine. He ultimately abandons the family there, leaving them to live with Joanie Micklewhite, the dispatcher of his cab company. Agnes desires a life of glamour, taking pride in her appearance, but her unhappiness drives her reliance on alcohol. Meanwhile, Shuggie is bullied at school and in the neighbourhood for not fitting in and for being effeminate. Shuggie often misses school to act as his mother's caregiver during her hangovers.

Agnes' parents die and her daughter marries young, moving to South Africa. Agnes' alcoholism worsens, and she is taken advantage of by abusive men. Her future looks brighter when she starts going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and takes a job as a petrol-station attendant. She manages to stay off drink completely for a year, during which time she meets a cab driver named Eugene, whom she begins to date. Eugene often drinks in front of her during dinners. He eventually convinces Agnes to drink a glass of wine, and she relapses into alcoholism. Put off by her alcoholism, Eugene leaves her. After a sexual assault at a party she attends when drunk, Agnes downward spirals and loses her job. She makes multiple suicide attempts over the next few years.

Agnes' alcoholism continues to alienate her from her children. In one of her drunken rages, she kicks Leek out of the house. Despite her behaviour, Shuggie maintains an unwavering devotion to her. The two of them move to a more inner-city neighbourhood, and Agnes promises to stop drinking, but unable to change their circumstances, their relationship becomes strained as Shuggie grows older. In a drunken stupor, Agnes dies after inhaling her own saliva.

Back in 1992 Shuggie gives the tins of fish to his friend Leanne, who gives them to her homeless alcoholic mother.

Shortly after World War II, in a forest between Italy and Yugoslavia, a carpenter and a chestnut seller share stories.

David is a father of four in a rural Utah town who is currently separated from his wife Nikki. They have agreed to see other people during this period, and Nikki has begun a relationship with her co-worker Derek. One morning, David finds the two sleeping in their bed and contemplates killing them both with his gun, but cannot go through with it, and instead runs back to his widowed father's home where he is currently staying. He then drives off to follow Derek in his truck with the intention to kill him, but stops when he receives a message from Nikki to take his three sons Alex, Theo, and Bug to the bus stop for school. David and Nikki's relationship appears amicable; they speak about the separation and how their eldest daughter Jess appears to be reacting the most negatively to it. After seeing his sons off, he finds Jess playing truant and takes her to drop her back off at school. Before leaving, Jess, unaware that he already knows, discloses that Nikki is "cheating" on him. David tries to explain that they allowed themselves to seek other partners, but Jess accuses him of not fighting hard enough to keep the family together.

He then goes off to do work for family friend and widow Mrs. Staples, who shares her feelings towards his dad, though David implies that he's not interested in that kind of relationship. He then asks about her relationship with her late husband, and she says it wasn't a particularly happy one, but they still worked through it together in spite of a lack of real love, and that she thinks he and Nikki will work through their relationship as well. Later that week, David and Nikki are about to go on a date, but after receiving a message on her phone, she asks to cut it short, claiming she's nervous about Jess looking after her brothers in her state of mind. After an awkward bout of silence as they choose to drive around the block, they have a conversation about their future post-separation and the possibility of David finding his own place to live. They then talk about their careers, where David is revealed to be a washed-up rock artist and Nikki is currently considering a future in law. As he sings her a song he wrote alluding to his feelings about their separation, the two notice Derek arriving at their house to take her on a date, but an incensed Jess wards him off. David tries to appear supportive of her relationship, but Nikki can sense his disappointment and returns to their house. Returning to his father's house, David has an emotional outburst where he physically lashes out at a Body Opponent Bag.

David returns to his house around 2:00 in the morning to talk with Theo and Alex, where he struggles to bond over the comedy of Mitch Hedberg. Later, Nikki confronts David about his visit, where she accuses him of confusing their kids about their future as a family. This leads to a heated argument in which David expresses his wishes to get to see his children while Nikki speaks on her struggles to maintain some normalcy within the family. He then drives off with his B.O.B. and takes it to an open field where he uses it for target practice with his gun.

David goes to a hobby store and purchases model rockets for his children to fire off as a bonding experience before they spend the weekend with him. The outing turns sour when Jess's rocket fails to launch, and in her frustration, she explodes on him over his unwillingness to mend his marriage; David consoles her before taking his children back home. There, Nikki reveals to David that she refused to allow Jess to go to a concert with her friends so that she could spend time with him, but David explains his fears that Jess will begin blaming him for not getting to live her life. Their argument is overheard by Derek, who has come to spend the weekend with Nikki. David becomes angered when Derek refers to Nikki as his girlfriend and becomes increasingly confrontational with him. As Nikki leaves them alone to check on her children, Derek brutally beats David and tells him he doesn't deserve her before going inside. Nikki tries to stop a bruised and bloodied David as he drives off, sobbing and delirious. After stopping in a field, he believes he sees Derek leaving his truck and approaching him. David exits his truck and begins firing his gun, not realizing that it is actually Nikki. She cradles him in his arms as he cries, the two telling each other that they love each other.

Sometime later, David, Nikki, and their children go shopping for appliances at a hardware store holding a liquidation sale. While all involved (including Jess) appear happy altogether, the ultimate fate of David and Nikki's relationship remains unknown.

Hamza (Sambasa Nzeribe), an army colonial who found himself in a circuit of military intelligence intercepts conversation on a weapon sales deal between an unknown terrorist and an agent and in the eager excitement, he made a seriously shoking discovery while trying to get the Intel to his commanding officer.

At a border village, there is an outbreak of violence between the Royal Thai Armed Forces and the communist movement. During the conflict, Sak's wife and daughter are killed. However, unknowingly to him, his son is able to escape.

Given the name Tin, Sak's son is raised in poverty and becomes part of a gang of thieves. One day, Tin assaults a woman and steals her purse. He eludes the police by hiding in a school where Sak happens to be teaching. From that point on, Sak tries to convince Tin that the life of a criminal is not something he should pursue.

The main plot starts during the time leading up to Halloween, but the reader learns about the previous lives of the protagonists through flashbacks.

After torturous years at the university studying Art History, Judith has found a tentative peace with her husband Klaus, and her two sons, Uli and Kilian. Afflicted with crippling self-doubt, her studies left her becoming a chainsmoker and dependent on Tavor, a tranquilizer. Klaus Rapp, a doctoral student in Engineering, who had lived in the same building as hers on Stuttgart’s east side, a working class and industrial part of town, often invited Judith and tried to connect with her. He moved out after completing his doctorate, and Judith continued her semi-abusive relationship with a macho medical student named Sören and her slide into ever more severe depression and anxiety.

Parallel to Judith’s story, the novel also tells that of Leonie, the daughter of a well-to-do catholic family from Stuttgart-Heslach. At the end of the Gymnasium, she fell in love with Simon, a tall, good-looking only son of a working class single mother. Simon has left his modest background behind: he is now the sales manager at a company that he already worked for when he was still in training at a vocational academy. The reader meets Leonie and Simon one week before Halloween at a celebration of the spooky holiday at a children’s farm close to her neighborhood called “At the Wrens” where Leonie took her two daughters. Simon and Leonie’s family recently moved into a spacious apartment across from Klaus and Judith’s building. After sundown, Leonie frequently is able to look through the windows of their apartment and admires their wholesome family life. Leonie wishes she could become friends with Judith and Klaus, and her daughters with their sons.

One of the few businesses in their neighborhood is a grocery store run by Nâzım, a Turkish-German. On the afternoon when Leonie went to the children’s farm with Lisa and Feli, Judith and Kilian stop by Nâzım’s store in order to buy ingredients for the pumpkin soup that Judith wants to prepare that night. Nâzım’s nephew Murat entered the store, too, because he started an internship that day which is part of his school’s curriculum. In front of the store, three friends from Murat’s “clique” make fun of him through the window, Ufuk, Hassan, and Marco. Judith takes note of the latter and his handsome looks. The very same evening, Leonie is having a glass of wine after she put her daughters to bed, when suddenly some kids ring her bell for trick-or-treating. She buzzes them in; it is Marco, Murat, Ufuk, and Hassan. Marco flirts with Leonie unabashedly; she engages them a bit but, then, let's them go.

The next morning, Judith notices that the garden downstairs, in front of Posselt's living room, is littered with the remains of firecrackers, and that their window is smeared with mustard, toothpaste, and cracked eggs. This was obviously some adolescent Halloween prank--maybe committed by Marco, Murat, Hassan, and Ufuk? A later chapter, from Luise Posselt's perspective, recounts the incident, as well. Mr. Posselt wanted to take on the juveniles but Luise talked him out of it successfully, something about which he was resentful. Judith cleans up the mess for the Posselts, in order to "reestablish order," as the text says. For the afternoon, she also had a playdate planned for her sons with Mattis, Hanna's child. Hanna never shows.

Before Judith and the boys go up to her family's apartment, Marco and his friends walk by and shout obscene propositions at her and the kids.

This is the moment when Hahn switches the narrative perspective to Marco. In two chapters, the reader learns about his plans to run away, and the preparations for another scheme that is not yet explicitly mentioned in the text. The chapters are interspersed with Marco's past childhood story. We learn that his mother, Anita, was 16 years old when she got pregnant with Marco. He never met his father, Tobi, who ran away when he learned that he was going to be a parent. Later, Anita entered a relationship with Eino a very quiet man from Estonia. Eino took good care of little Marco, taught him a number of things, and shared his plans with him to go back to the coast in Estonia one day. Eino wanted Anita and Marco to come with him. When Marco was nine years old, Eino suddenly left for Estonia; a note with his address indicated that he wanted Anita and Marco to follow him later. Marco's interpretation was that Anita had been to weak to go with him. After a while, she had a new boyfriend, Achim, who cleaned office spaces for a cleaning company. Beginning with the first night when Achim moved in with them unannounced, Marco suffers violent abuse from the new boyfriend, whose appearance and bad taste make Marco give him the nickname "Porno." What Anita does not know: Marco has kept Eino's farewell note hidden under his mattress cover.

Four events converge at the end of the narrative that bring the novel to a turbulent close. After a long-planned birthday party for one of her friends in nearby Tübingen, Leonie is hung over having resisted at the last minute an almost-affair with a married man. Judith witnesses how Hanna’s son Mattis has one of his health breakdowns in their street, and is forced to give them a ride to the children’s hospital. Luise Posselt gets up that same day, not realizing that her husband has passed away overnight. When she finally recognizes that he has died, she frantically gets him ready for a wake, without notifying anyone else. Finally, a robbery combined with arson at Nâzım’s store shakes Leonie, Judith, and the Posselt’s upscale Stuttgart neighborhood.

In a mining village in Lapland, reindeer herders and miners worry about their future.

Seeking other Mandalorians to help him reunite the Child with its kind, the Mandalorian approaches gangster Gor Koresh, who attempts to kill him for his beskar armor but fails. Under interrogation, he reveals that a Mandalorian has been seen in the town of Mos Pelgo on Tatooine. Returning to Tatooine, the Mandalorian is reunited with mechanic Peli Motto. Although she thought that Mos Pelgo had been destroyed, her droid R5-D4 shows them an old map.

The Mandalorian finds Mos Pelgo and confronts the town's marshal, Cobb Vanth, who is wearing dark green Mandalorian armor. Vanth reveals that he is not a Mandalorian but bought the armor from Jawas and then used it to fight off the Mining Collective that overtook the town after the collapse of the Empire. After Vanth and the Mandalorian witness a Krayt Dragon eating the town's livestock, Vanth agrees to give up the armor, if the Mandalorian helps kill the dragon.

On the way to the dragon's lair, Vanth and the Mandalorian encounter a tribe of Tusken Raiders, who agree to help them kill the dragon. The Mandalorian volunteers the Mos Pelgo townspeople as reinforcements. Vanth and the Mandalorian convince the townsfolk to work with the Tuskens, who agree not to attack the town in exchange for the dragon's carcass.

Together, the Tuskens and the townsfolk bury explosives in front of the cave, planning to lure the dragon out and detonate them beneath its vulnerable belly. The dragon survives the explosion and spews acid at them, inflicting heavy casualties. The Mandalorian baits the dragon into swallowing him and a bantha loaded with explosives. He escapes from inside the dragon and detonates the explosives, successfully killing it.

The Tuskens butcher the carcass and recover a valuable pearl. Vanth relinquishes the armor as promised, and the Mandalorian leaves on friendly terms. Meanwhile, a heavily scarred figure watches from afar.

When a heavily-armed Marseilles anti-gang squad escorts gang patriarch Paul Maranzano between prisons, he asks to visit his wife in the hospital, who has terminal cancer. At her request, he suffocates her with a pillow to end her suffering.

A gang does a mass shooting at a nightclub party, targetting a rival gang, killing nine attendees. One of the attacking gang members, Rizzo, is knocked down by gunfire (stopped by his bulletproof vest), and cannot escape in the getaway car. He hides his machine gun and bulletproof vest in a dumpster and blends in with the victims. Given his gang connections, he is brought in to the police station for questioning. During Detective Costa's interview with Rizzo, he fakes a fight, murders him and plants his service gun in Rizzo's hand.

Detective Willy Kapellian, whose marriage is failing, is regularly drinking excessively. One night, he gets drunk and drives away with a female officer, only to get shot at by gang members (he does not see their identity). It is police protocol to take a blood sample after a shooting incident. Fearing that Will will lose his job, Captain Richard Vronski volunteers to take the blood test in his place. When the new Police Chief learns of Vronski's action, he suspends him.

The police anti-gang unit use confiscated gang guns to do an unsanctioned ambush of drug gang that is doing a major drug shipment and sale of cocaine. Unbeknownst to the anti-gang unit, an undercover narcotics agent was embedded in the drug gang, and he is killed in the ambush. The police take and hide the drugs and money. After incriminating evidence is found against Will, implicating him in the ambush, he kills himself. The film ends with the anti-gang unit's members being murdered one by one by a drug gang's hitmen.

A former Catholic priest named Menéndez is released from prison and placed into a new home. He went to prison after a failed exorcism resulted in the death of a boy. Menéndez is haunted by his failure and often has dreams of the boy, as well as his mother Marisa, whom Menéndez has feelings for. His guilt and wavering faith are further tested by Marisa's frequent visits. She does not blame him for her son's death, and cleans his house for him. A friend he met in prison, Sebas, stops by and asks for his help since he believes his daughter Raquel may be possessed. Menéndez is reluctant to get involved, but eventually agrees to meet with Raquel. Adamant that his daughter is possessed by a demon, Sebas leaves Raquel in the priest's care. A rebellious young woman, Raquel denies that she is possessed, yet seems to enjoy taunting and teasing the older man. Menéndez, on the other hand, seems to waver back & forth between enjoying her behavior, or being disgusted by it. Throughout these events, the priest often talks on the phone with an unnamed caller, speaking to the caller as if they are God.

Once he decides that the girl is indeed possessed, Menéndez has Sebas join him as they attempt to exorcise the demon. Using questionable methods which involve torturing Raquel, the two men attempt to force the demon to reveal itself. When it does not, Sebas can take no more and embraces his daughter, apologizing for the exorcism. At that moment, the demon reveals itself, easily overpowering the two men and tying them up before forcing herself on a distraught Sebas. Menéndez escapes while this is going on, and the two are able to tie Raquel up again. Continuing the exorcism with renewed vigor, the men manage to expel the demon into its physical form and Menéndez realizes that it is the same one that possessed Marisa's son. He overcomes the creature with a makeshift cross, causing it to flee. A grateful Sebas and Raquel leave, and the bloodied Menéndez reports his success to the unknown caller. However, the phone is shown to be unplugged, and in the distance a nun-like figure floats across the room towards a smiling Menéndez.

The manga revolves around Tarou Kurume, a boy who is not interested in love. One day, he is hit on the head by a baseball during a P.E. class, leaving him with a severe concussion. When he wakes up at the infirmary, he is welcomed by a pink-haired, cheerful, well-endowed and scantily clad girl who's seemingly floating in the air. Not only that, he starts to see similar "ghosts" around countless boys, and finds out that they are fantasized versions of the first girl they loved, with the floating zombie above Tarou representing his first love.

The Narumi Detective Agency receive an email from a client requesting them to find "Professor Aida" with Shotaro Hidari leaving to investigate the island-based Sector City, once a tourist hotspot until an accident made it uninhabitable while emitting a strange energy. Shotaro meets with Kamen Riders OOO and Zero-One to uncover the mystery behind Aida and stop a Foundation X scientist reviving their old enemies and fallen allies as immortal super soldiers under his control.

While looking for 5-year-old Sofia, the single mother Iva meets her neighbor Hedi. A sexual relationship quickly develops between the two. Instead of the longed-for love, however, a one-sided dependency arises, and Sofia and Hedi join forces.

After a long time, Iva's father returns and tries to rebuild the abandoned relationship with his daughter and granddaughter. He and Hedi get dangerously close and the situation escalates when they start an affair.

Dream scenes in which Hedi and Sofia visit Hedi's grandmother in Mongolia are recorded without comment.

An ex-felon returns home from prison and confronts the demons from his past.

A young adventurer goes on a journey through the joys and heartaches, and the peaks and valleys, of life.

''Unearthed & Untold'' shows the making of the 1989 film ''Pet Sematary''. It contains interviews with several cast and crew members who participated, including its main actors, director Mary Lambert, producers, etc. The film also contains several "behind the stage" scenes.

A group of wealthy, bored poker buddies decide to commit murder.

A mentally ill man named Doggie causes a disturbance while playing at a fish market when the police think that he has taken a woman hostage with a cleaver. Mr. Tsui arrives and calms the situation down enough so that Doggie can be taken into custody. Miss Lau, a Hong Kong journalist, observes this and becomes interested in the work of Mr. Tsui, a psychiatrist who donates his time to help the mentally ill, many of them living on the streets.

Together, Mr. Tsui and Miss Lau visit Tsuen, a patient who claims to be rehabilitated. Tsuen says that the Castle Peak mental health facility is nice but upon release it is easy for patients to forget to take their medication in their new environment. He has been out and living in his own place for a year but his wife has left him and only allows him one supervised visit with his young son per month. Tsuen asks Mr. Tsui to help him gain more time with his son, but Mr. Tsui reminds him that it is a court decision.

Chung, a chainsmoker who collects cigarette butts from ashtrays, flees when he sees Mr. Tsui coming. Mr. Tsui follows him back to his shanty, where his daughter has measles. They bring her to the hospital, where Mr. Tsui asks Chung about his son. Chung insists that he did not kill his son and leads Mr. Tsui and the police to a spot in the woods where his son is buried. Mr. Tsui confronts Ah Ming, a doctor who prescribed medicine for hepatitis to Chung but did not know that it was intended for his son. Ah Ming explains that he witnessed the birth of Chung's children and has always cared for them.

Tsuen attempts to take Ah Hei on an unscheduled trip to the store for his birthday but his ex-wife catches him and chastises Ah Hei's teacher Miss Li for allowing it to happen. A physical confrontation arises between Tsuen and his ex-wife's new husband, after which his ex-wife says that she will file an injunction against Tsuen's visitation rights. Tsuen returns home with a bump on his head and begins talking to himself and breaking the necks of chickens brought to him by his mother, who eventually agrees to take him to the hospital when she finds him crouching in the shower biting into a chicken.

At the hospital, Tsuen puts on a good show in front of the doctor and is released without being sent to Castle Peak, but outside the hospital he disappears for several hours before Mr. Tsui finds him. Miss Lau writes a story for the newspaper about Tsuen's routine of breaking the necks of chicken, causing his neighbors to form a mob and confront Tsuen at his apartment. They begin yelling at Tsuen's mother and Tsuen attempts to defend her with meat cleavers, leading to a chaotic confrontation in which many people are hurt, including Tsuen's mother.

Tsuen flees to his son's school and locks the door behind him. The mob bangs on the door and Miss Li attempts to open it to escape, causing Tsuen to kill her with a cleaver. A policeman breaks through a window but Tsuen kills him with the cleaver so Mr. Tsui grabs the policeman's gun and shoots Tsuen.

Mr. Tsui attempts to resign but his boss doesn't want to accept his resignation because he is the only social worker left on his side. He is then informed that Doggie's parents called to say that he wants to commit suicide. Mr. Tsui finds him at the fish market but when a photographer uses a flash bulb Doggie becomes alarmed and swings a cleaver into Mr. Tsui, killing him. Mr. Tsui's patients and acquaintances attend his funeral, after which Miss Lau begins looking after the mentally ill on the streets of Hong Kong.

Taner, Ramazan and Veysel are 3 cousins. They live in Gedelli. There is a mountain in the town of Gedelli. It is called "Mountain of Hearts". Here, whoever suffers from love, rolls and falls from that mountain.

Tanner's father died quickly. The fathers of Ramazan and Veysel, on the other hand, complain to each other about a subject they do not know or forget, and the elites talk to each other secretly. The cousins decide to build a plane. That's when Taner calls in aircraft engineers. However, aircraft engineers remain on the road. They think that the first geological engineers they see are aircraft engineers and bring them to the settlement. However, then it turns out that the engineers are not that engineer. At this time, Taner finds Diley as a geological engineer. This event, which took place a few years later, is followed by other events. In the ongoing parts of the series, the lives of the people of Gedelli are told.

Jeep Too lost his childhood friend, Bo Ma nine years ago. To this day, he is seeing Bo Ma around him. He is talking with her, arguing with her and even fighting with her sometimes. But people don't see Bo Ma. Only Jeep Too sees her. Being a medical student, Jeep Too understands his own condition and is seeing a therapist. There he meets another patient, Potae who is suffering from emotional coma. They are drawn to each other and spend some time together each day. Jeep Too starts to feel guilty for spending time with Potae and Bo Ma acts out. They fight. Everything is happening in his own mind. But very real for Jeep Too. Watching Jeep Too being very emotional, Potae envies Jeep Too as she couldn't feel any emotion since the car accident that kill her parents and brother. Potae sticks with Jeep Too, hoping she might get some emotion out of their relationship. The odd duo has to go through the puzzle called life to reach their destiny.

Three men involved with the murder of a Taiwanese man receive threatening letters signed with the initials K.M. and a skull. The first recipient, Mr. Yajima, is killed on a ski slope and the prime suspect is the Tokyo pilot Ken Mitarai, also known as "Mr. Toilet". Ballistics clear him but later a diviner tells him that he will travel to Taiwan and the next day he receives a mysterious booking from the dead man Mr. Yajima to fly an MU-2 to Taiwan. The Taiwanese photographer & journalist Koran flies along with him and in the airplane they discover the diviner's body in a trunk belonging to Tianci Rai, the President of Taiwan Tourism and another recipient of the threatening letter.

Upon arriving, they are attacked by Rai's men but manage to escape. Ken is dragged into a brothel, where a kind worker allows him to spend the night. The next day, Ken attempts to leave the country but receives a note from Mr. Kitazawa, the final recipient of the threatening letter, to meet him at the Confucius Temple. Once there, he is told by Mr. Kitazawa that Mr. Kitazawa received the same note, leading them to believe that another attack is imminent. Mr. Kitazawa leaves and his car explodes immediately thereafter.

Koran and Ken confront President Rai, who drugs their drinks to knock them out with plans to have them die in a staged plane crash, but they are saved by a rival journalist of Koran's named Fumio Kuroki, who informs them that the murders relate to 20 billion yen in diamonds seized during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Koran and Ken visit a funeral march for Mr. Kitazawa, where they are spotted by President Rai, who sends men to eliminate them. Ken allows them to believe that they have run him and Koran off the road into a gorge, but they secretly hide in the men's trunk, gaining them access to President Rai's hideout, where Koran learns that they are heading to Hell Valley.

President Rai and his men dig up the stolen gems from their hiding spot in Hell Valley but then Rai's assistant Fengying shoots the men and it is revealed that she has been working with Mr. Kitazawa, who faked his own death. They kill President Rai and escape in separate cars. Mr. Kitazawa accidentally kills Fengying while attempting to kill Ken, then escapes into the MU-2 and attempts to smuggle the gems back to Japan. Ken jumps onto the plane and climbs inside while it is in the air, then overpowers Mr. Kitazawa and throws him out.

Ken Mitarai is given a medal at a ceremony in Taiwan, after which Fumio Kuroki admits to him that he is actually the son of the murdered man. Ken and Koran take a flight back to Japan, but when it is announced that the plane will be returning to Taiwan due to bad weather, Ken parachutes out of the plane to avoid returning.

Mr. Tenka runs a detective agency. His unruly son Ichiro ends up getting mixed up in a mystery.

At the National Championship High School Baseball Tournament, the pitcher Hiroshi Kawahara leads Wakaba High School of Tokai to victory. Agent Yamada of the Nantetsu Kinki Socks, Agent Noguchi of the West Nippon Suspense, and Agent Sasaki of the Great Tokyo Towers seek to sign him, while Kawahara's signing price increases by 1,000,000 yen with each home run he hits.

Sports journalist Miyako Takeshi's conservative father tries to match her up with an aspiring plastic surgeon named Ken'ichi Nishizawa by giving her a ticket to a musical performance sitting next to him, but Ichiro Tenka follows her and sits next to her instead. When Ken'ichi is found drowned with alcohol on his shirt, Mr. Takeshi complains to the private investigator, Ichiro's father Mr. Tenka, that Ken'ichi was not the upstanding suitor that Mr. Tenka had promised him. The taxi driver Yosabura tells Ichiro that Ken'ichi had walked into the street drunk. Ichiro accepts a job from Agent Yamada of the Nantetsu Kinki Socks for 50 thousand yen.

Ichiro and Kondo visit Hamano Beach to speak with Karahara's family. Kawahara's sister says that he was excited about going to college but then his family borrowed money from Mr. Kurotani in order to open a shop. When Mr. Kurotani began pressuring them into paying it back immediately, Kawahara decided to skip college and go pro in order to get money for his family. Mr. Kurotani's secretary Mr. Iwasaki brings Hiroshi's father to meetings with various baseball teams, though Mr. Kawahara knows nothing about baseball.

Ichiro pretends to be a baseball reporter in order to gain access to Kurotani, leading Miyako to believe that he is the competition trying to take her scoop. From the fact that Kurotani's men return carrying a lantern, Ichiro deduces that they are keeping Hiroshi captive on Naval Ship Island, which can only be reached during ebb tide.

Ichiro follows Kurotani to a hotel where he is negotiating a deal for Hiroshi with Agent Noguchi of the West Nippon Suspense and Kondo bribes a bellboy to borrow his clothes and deliver flowers with a tape recorder in the vase to Kurotani's room. Miyako pays a hotel employee to deliver her own tape recorder in a vase, replacing Ichiro's. After the meeting, Kondo retrieves the vase and finds tape of Kurotani demanding 10 million yen for Hiroshi but also 10 million yen for himself at a meeting at 10 a.m. the next morning. Kurotani has a plastic surgeon quickly conceal the damage to Hiroshi Kawahara's face and valuable arm for the purposes of the meeting.

Mr. Iwasaki and Kurotani's other men trap Miyako and the plastic surgeon and admit that they killed Nishizawa because he had threatened to tell the police about Hiroshi Kawahara. Ichiro and Kondo fight off Kurotani's men until the police arrive to arrest them. Kurotani attends the planned meeting but is presented with a warrant for his arrest. Mr. Tenka tells Hiroshi that he will be taken to the hospital to check on his arm and that he can choose whether or not to go pro.

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.

Iwasaki Family Junior Div. Chief Kuroki is released from prison after eight years to find that Maeda, the new police chief of the prefecture, has declared war on the Iwasaki organized crime family and demands its disbanding. Iwasaka Family Chief Masayoshi Iwasaki insists that, without his moral organization, there will be too many hotheads on the street with no guaranteed livelihood. He appoints Kuroki head of Iwasaki Transport, a legitimate organization designed to employ such types as longshoremen, and assures Maeda that there will be no problems.

Iwasaki Projects Executive Eiji Karasawa has split from the Iwasaki Family and gone legitimate. When a government official suggests that yakuza-related companies not be given contracts, Karasawa arranges for clients to cancel multiple contracts with Iwasaki Transport so that Kuroki will have to accept a job being offered by Karasawa with a tight deadline that will cause a rift between Iwasaki Transport and the longshoremen it employs.

Koike, an upright on-site supervisor for Iwasaki Transport who spent four years in prison for murdering a laborer and later married the man's widow, gets into conflicts with Tamaru and other workers who are stealing goods during transfer at the port or otherwise relaxing. After one such argument with Yoshihara, he is killed by a suspended load in a workplace accident and Yoshihara is accused of murder. Kuroki intervenes and declares it an accident, sending everyone back to work. Karasawa takes advantage of the situation and sends multiple demands to raise the tension at the worksite. Supervisor Gondo, secretly working under Karasawa's orders, beats Yoshihara to death. The longshoremen blame their employers at Iwasaki Transport for the death and they riot, destroying the company office before Maeda breaks it up.

Without the support of the laborers, Masayoshi Iwasaki must give up Iwasaki Transport. Kuroki asks permission to open a gambling joint to pay the family's debts and challenge Karasawa. Two other supervisors, One Arm and Isao, discover that Gondo is working with Karasawa so they attack them but end up dead. Karasawa and the other executives of the family attempt to wrest control of the ports from Masayoshi Iawasaki by forcing him to disband the family. Masayoshi declares that he will never disband the family just before he dies. Kuroki announces to the executives that he is now head of the family and refuses to disband. Akiko, a woman Kuroki saved from at attack by some American servicemen years earlier, sells her bar to join him.

Karasawa pays their old friend, the heroin addict Kasai, to kill Kuroki. Kasai sneaks into Kuroki's place and confesses the plans to him, then dies in the ensuing knife fight. Karasawa and the other executives take over the activities at the port under a newly incorporated organization and hold a press conference announcing that they have no affiliation with the Iwasaki Family. Kuroki later confronts Karasawa with the bloody knife and they kill each other with their knives. Akiko sails away from the port alone.

The film is about a gang of teenage car thieves from the suburbs of Barcelona. The delinquents have various run-ins with the law and mistreat women. The main character, ''El Torete'', is 15 years old.

Act 1

The show opens with someone dancing. As the light goes dim, a corpse is shown. The next scene then shows three men, Emman, Anthony, and Hector, having problems with work. (“Poor Man’s Grave”/“Slo Mo”/“Walang Nagbago”). They are then called to inform them that Joy Manawari has died (“Waiting For The Bus”/“Sino Sa Atin”).

Three young men named Emmanuel “Emman” M. Azarcon, Anthony “AJ” F. Cruz, Jr., and Hector Q. Samala are being sent off to college by their parents ("Toyang"/“Waiting For The Bus”), who then become roommates (“Minsan”/“Alapaap (Only the chorus”/“Tindahan Ni Aling Nena”).

Back in present day, the police officer questions the connection of Joy to three of them (“Ligaya”). A flashback shows them being introduced to their CAT commandant, Arturo Banlaoi, their student leader, Andre Antonio, and a fried banana seller, Joy Manawari. Joy lives with her Tiya Dely and they run a karinderya named Toyang’s (“Lightyears”/“Pare Ko”/“Ligaya”/“Shirley”/“Tikman”).

Andre breaks up with Joy because of Banlaoi (“Ligaya”/“Tama Ka”). The trio tries to comfort her, and vice versa (“Huwag Kang Matakot”/“Sembreak”/“Hey Jay”/”Wishing Wells”/“Fine Time”). Back in present day, Banlaoi makes the trio wait for Joy's daughter (“Ligaya”) and her aunt (“Cha Dely”)

Another flashback shows them ditching their graduation rehearsals for a joyride to Antipolo (“Alapaap”/“Fill Her”). They are interrupted by drunk men who then take the trio hostage while they take advantage of Joy.

Act 2

In the midst of graduates, she tries to find the three boys but they are evasive (“With A Smile”). Joy has flashbacks of that fateful night (“Spoliarium”). Banlaoi forces Tiya Dely and Joy to sell beer and girls at Toyang's so the business won’t close (“Tikman”/“Paru-parong Ningning”). Tiya Dely confronts Joy about her late nights. They plan to go back to the province but Banlaoi makes Joy stay behind so she can become his drug mule (“Kilala”/“Balikbayan Box”/“Alkohol”).

Joy is now older, and still works as a drug mule for Banlaoi to provide for her daughter Ligaya/“With A Smile”/“Spoliarium”). Joy tries to contact the trio but they are busy: Hector with his TV series (“Maskara”). Emman with his work and wife (“Poor Man’s Grave”/“Magasin”), and Anthony about his sexuality (“Kailan”/“Torpedo”/“Kaliwete”). Several women confront Hector (“Walang Nagbago”/“Huwag Mo Nang Itanong”/“Maselang Bahaghari”/“Umaaraw Umuulan”). Joy goes back to the house and writes a letter for Ligaya (“Ligaya"/"Spoliarium”). The trio is seen fighting (“Spoliarium”). Joy calls them but no one answers, and is then hit by a vehicle (“Wating”).

Tiya Dely and Ligaya enter the morgue (“Fill Her”/“Ligaya”). Banlaoi tries to give them money but they refuse. Hector tells Tiya Dely that they would shoulder the funeral costs. Ligaya talks to the trio and they promise to take care of her (“Ang Huling El Bimbo”).

Former motorcycle gang leader Kintaro Yajima is a dedicated father to his son Ryuta and holds a white-collar job performing cost calculations at the Yamato construction company. While defending a hostess's honor at the company's 40th anniversary party, Kintaro inadvertently insults Mr. Tanioka, an influential politician, and causes a construction project contract intended for Yamato to be awarded to the rival Oshima company instead. As punishment, Kintaro is relocated from Tokyo to Tōhoku to work under Mr. Igo, an angry man who spends all day playing mahjong and drinking and who accepts bribes from competing construction companies to allow them to underbid him for projects. Kintaro and his son Ryuta stay with Kayo Nakamura and her daughter Masumi, who has done some investigating and learned that her supposedly deceased father is actually Mr. Igo.

Meanwhile, Mr. Oshima conspires with Mr. Tanioka to get all of Yamato's future construction projects cancelled and form an empire with other construction companies under Mr. Tanioka. The ambitious Takatska sees Mr. Oshima leaving Mr. Tanioka's office together with Mr. Kuramoto from the company Hokutoh Sohken. After Kintaro rescues a baby from a burning building, the baby's father Mr. Handa asks Kintaro personally for a cost estimate for the upcoming renovation of town hall. Mr. Shibamata suggests to Kintaro that he should allow the contract to go to Shibamata's company, which would the hire Yamato as a subcontractor. Kintaro refuses, breaking the old-fashioned tradition of pre-agreements for public contracts.

When the final bids are read aloud by Mr. Handa, Shibamata's bid is mysteriously 300 yen lower than Yamato's. Kintaro demands to see the bid documents and discovers that the cost estimate was left blank on Shibamata's bid and that Shibamata had forced Handa to state an amount lower than Yamato's bid. Handa confesses and later hangs himself from a bridge. Men from the Tempoh Gang kidnap Kintaro and beat him but Masumi asks for her father's help so Mr. Igo finds the men and beats them. Igo discovers Tanioka's plan to drive the larger construction companies out of business and develop a large conglomerate out of smaller companies under his control and explains it to Kintaro, Yamato, and Kayo. A mail bomb later explodes in Igo's office, leaving him hospitalized. A mail bomb sent to Kayo's home explodes and injures Kayo and Ryuta. Kintaro asks Yamato to look after Ryuta as he leaves to settle the score.

Kintaro calls together 2,000 members of his old motorcycle gang known as the Angels but the city's police force blocks their movement. Kintaro and his yakuza brother Tadashi Shiina continue alone to confront the Tempoh Gang and its leader Kudoh. Just as Kintaro is about to cut off Kudoh's head, Igo arrives and says that he will punish Kudoh and that Kintaro should go be a salaryman. Outside, dozens of police with riot shields block the street and arrest Kintaro for traffic violations, bodily harm, and burglary.

Yamato visits Kintaro in prison and calls him a hero. Kintaro is sentenced to six months in prison but the sentence is reduced to probation for one year due to the extenuating circumstances of Kintaro's family being under the threat of violence from the Tempoh Gang. Takatska provides evidence to the public prosecutor that Tanioka has been taking bribes from Hokutoh Sohken, leading to a wave of arrests. Kintaro leaves the court and is greeted by a crowd of cheering supporters along with Masumi and Ryuta.

1500 years ago, samurai invaders attack a village along the Kikuchi River near a cave in the east side of the country named Tsuiketsu where the people gather in the tenth month to receive the god Tsui. The invaders kill everyone except a little girl hiding in the cave who uses her mother's magic necklace to summon the dragon god to defeat them.

Twenty years later, more samurai invaders from the Mikado invade the country. The girl's husband gives his life fighting the samurai to protect her while standing before the cave. Facing this new threat, she sacrifices herself and save the country by stabbing herself while wearing the necklace. The dragon god Tsui arrives and sheds tears of sorrow for the fallen couple, transforming them into balls of light living in the hearts of the people to this day.

In the year 663, Prince Nakano-Oe, the future Emperor Tenji, sends his army to the Korean Peninsula to support the restoration of Kudara, which had been destroyed by the joint armies of Toh and Shiragi. His army is destroyed in the battle of Hakusukinoe and, fearing retaliation by Toh and Shiragi, the Prince builds castles in strategic defensive locations, particularly on the island of Kyushu. Soldiers from mainland Japan are drafted as Sakimori (frontline defenders) to serve at the castles.

A group of Sakimori are sent to Kikuchi Castle, 60 km south of the capital Dazaifu. Kurota, a watchman, has a dream that the city is invaded by Toh and Shiragi soldiers. Three years later, when their service period is nearly complete, a soldier from Kudara who was at the battle of Hakusukinoe dies saving some Sakimori when a building collapses on them. The short film ends by stating that many citizens of Kudara defected to Japan, bringing their technology and culture with them to help create what Japan is now.

At the end of the 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi appoints Sassa Narimasa lord of Higo Province. In 1587, Sassa orders a land value inspection of the 52 local clans, breaking an earlier agreement. Chikanaga Kumabe, head of Waifu Castle in the country of Kikuchi, refuses the order. Other clans join with him and together they wage war on Sassa in the Revolt of the Clans. Hideyoshi's army of 200,000 decimates the revolting clans within six months. The final holdouts are the armies of Chikazane Wani and Chikayuki Ebaru, 900 soldiers who hole themselves up in the impregnable Tanaka Castle against Sassa's army of 10,000. As food runs low, Ebaru's wife Yori expresses her wish to die with the castle. Wani's wife Maki says that she will die with him, as does his son. When they learn that the castle will be invaded by Hideyoshi's army the following day, they give Yori the task of sneaking the women and children away to a safe place because she was not born a Wani but rather was captured during a war as a child. After Yori has gone, Ebaru and his men murder Chikamune and his men then take Wani hostage. Maki attempts to kill herself but Yori convinces her to stay alive to perpetuate the clan. Yori finds the slain soldiers and puts on the armor of Chikamune, then rides to the castle and kills Ebaru. The remaining soldiers fight with Wani but are defeated by Sassa's army. Yori later tries to kill Sassa but is shot to death by his soldiers. Sassa is criticized for his handling of the war and commits seppuku at Hideyoshi's instruction.

17-year-old Saraka Homizu invents an infinity-shaped particle accelerator named Mugen. Meanwhile, sushi bar worker and aspiring guitarist Motokazu Watanuki takes his more confident twin brother Yoshikazu's place and attends his difficult physics classes while Yoshikazu is visiting the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand. Motozaku agrees as a means to be near his crush Shiratori, who is dating Airi, a grad student assisting with the seminar.

Believing that Motokazu is the smooth-talking Yoshikazu, Professor Hatomura asks him to convince Saraka Homizu to attend her lab course to complete her degree. Motozaku chooses the creation of the universe as the subject of his final project and Saraka joins him, telling Airi that it is possible for humans to create a universe. She plans to attempt it using Mugen.

When the sushi bar burns down, Motozaku takes a part-time job planting rice in a field underneath Mugen with Hashizume, an elderly student auditing the course. Yoshikazu continues traveling to Delhi, where his passport is stolen. Motokazu learns that Saraka dated Airi before Shiratori, making them rivals.

When the Mugen accelerator does not perform as expected, Saraka is made a scapegoat and public opinion turns against her. A nude video of her is posted on the Internet and Saraka takes advantage of this to spread a virus to computers throughout the world, allowing her to utilize them for more memory. Created through artificial insemination, Saraka cannot find meaning in her life and decides that if there is a god then it will stop her from creating a universe within our own and causing the collapse of our own.

During a powerful typhoon over Tokyo, Saraka reverses the rotation of one of the rings of the Mugen accelerator and prepares a collision, feeding off of power from the national power grid that she has hacked. Airi, who was involved in posting the video of Saraka to the Internet, crashes his car through the East Side building, allowing Motokazu to climb to the electric hut and play a rock version of Beethoven's 9th for Saraka, causing her to stop the experiment. She attempts to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge but Motozaku convinces her to come to him and eat the sushi he made and brought for her.

Airi commits suicide and Saraka is arrested. Motozaku fights with the media and lands in prison, where he writes his final thesis on the theory of sushi relativity. Yoshikazu is deported from India and returns. Saraka is eventually released and visits Motozaku at his sushi bar.

A reward is offered for Zatoichi, who has killed some Kappo officials. He causes a disturbance at a gambling house when he discovers that the dice are being switched by a man hidden under the table. This arouses the notice of the "Twin Snakes" Cho ("Red Viper") and Ryo ("Black Viper"), who seek to obtain the reward for Zatoichi, but Zatoichi escapes with the deaf biwa player Kanbachi no Hachi. Cho and Ryo are killed by Ryunosuke. Zatoichi and Hachi collect Japanese brown frogs to sell in town as a source of medicine in exchange for money to use for eating and drinking.

They encounter the Ake-Tayu Company, a group of traveling entertainers led by Ake and featuring lead actor Ranmaru, Okon the "walking princess", Oso the shamisen player, prop master Tanesuke, white-haired Yohei, drummer Soba, and recorder player Some. The group is heading toward the inn in Hanagari to meet with Boss Asakawa to prepare to stage a comedy show in Otsuko for the fall festival. At the inn they find that the yakuza boss Asakawa's henchman Kumakichi, who had previously taken care of them when they were there to perform, left Asakawa the previous summer and became the boss of his own group.

The elderly Goroku, a Buddhist gravedigger, is treated unkindly by the mistress of the inn but is treated kindly by the younger waitress Oito before he returns to his home outside of town. Zatoichi and Hachi visit Goroku at his home so that Zatoichi can receive his blessing before dying. Goroku explains that he discovered a map on a dead traveler then showed it to Kumakichi, who took it from him. Kumakichi did not show it to his boss Asakawa but rather kept it to himself, creating a dispute that led to Kumakichi leaving the group and forming his own group. Goroku believes that the map leads to the samurai Takeda Shingen's family treasure.

Zatoichi uses his skills as a masseur on Asakawa, who is lovelorn over Ake. Asakawa is distraught that she visited Kumakichi before him but Zatoichi insists that it was merely out of necessity. When Asakawa learns that Ryunosuke has taken up work as Kumakichi's bodyguard, he challenges his own bodyguard Gonzo to fight Zatoichi. Gonzo refuses to fight the blind man so Asakawa fires him and hires Zatoichi as his new bodyguard. He is particularly distressed to learn that Ake and Ryunosuke recognized each other and appear to be attracted to each other.

Ryunosuke brings the drunken Hachi to the site of the play and encounters Ake but they barely speak to each other. Ake explains to Oso and Yohei that Ryunosuke had rejected an arranged marriage, causing the prospective bride to kill herself, and that Ryonosuke had tried to atone for this by killing himself but failed in his attempt. Ryunosuke encounters Zatoichi alone and draws his sword but is surprised by Zatoichi's speed and leaves him be.

Gonzo, who has learned of the treasure, suggests to his girlfriend Okon that he should offer his services to Kumakachi as a bodyguard to monitor Kumakachi and Ryunosuke while she goes to Akasawa to monitor him and Zatoichi. Gonzo applies to be Kumakachi's bodyguard while Okon pretends to be a medium sensing malicious spirits attacking the house of Akasawa in order to gain the attention of his guards. She warns of a "Great Fox", which they interpret to be Ryunosuke. Okon meets up with Gonzo but when Ranmaru crosses their path, Okon kills him with Gonzo's sword.

Zatoichi and Ryunosuke drink together and Ryunosuke confesses that he killed the brother of the girl to whom he was supposed to be wed when the brother came for revenge. Since then he has left the blood on his blade and his curse will not be broken until the blade breaks. He challenges Zatoichi but Zatoichi stops him, admitting that he also loves Ake but that he has a price on his head and that Ryunosuke would be a better suitor to her instead of getting a price on his head for killing Zatoichi. Ake is unable to decide between the two and discusses it with Oso and Hachi, then suggests that Oso should be with Hachi. One of Akasawa's men overhears and tells Akasawa that Ake has feelings for Zatoichi.

Yohei finds Ranmaru's body and brings the others to it. Ryunosuke says that the murderer could be someone involved in the treasure hunt that he heard Kumakachi discussing. Zatoichi visits Goroku to request a burial for Ranmaru while Oito visits Goroku to bring him some leftovers from the inn. Goroku confesses to them that there is no treasure and that he made the map himself.

Asakawa kidnaps Ake during a fight near the stage but loses her again when Okon sets fire to fuel in a store room in Akasawa Mansion. Okon finds the map, then stabs Gonzo in order to keep it for herself. She takes Ake hostage but is stabbed in the back by Gonzo. Okyo and Ocho arrive to avenge their slain brothers Cho and Ryo but Ryunosuke defeats them, then kills Gonzo and embraces Ake. She asks him to tell her his real name but he will not so she moves away from him and dies in Zatoichi's arms instead.

Asakawa's men attack Zatoichi and he defeats them all. Ryunosuke attacks Zatoichi, who cuts Ryunosuke's blade in half, breaking the curse, before ultimately killing him. Goroku asks Zatoichi to kill him as well. Hachi attempts to do it but Zatoichi stops him and kills Goroku himself, then promises to dig a grave for him.

Oito returns to the inn and Zatoichi departs from Hachi and Oso as they travel onward to Yoshino.

A man from Tokyo, Gakuen Yamazawa, passes through a mountain village while returning from a summer field trip. The source of the only stream in the small village is Demon's Pond. The locals believe that a dragon resides there and that the water is poison. There he meets Yuri Hagiwara, a woman who asks him to tell her a story. His second story upsets her and she refuses to let him stay, but her husband Akira awakens and welcomes Yamazawa, his old friend from Tokyo.

Akira had left to gather stories from the countryside but believes that he has ended up becoming one of the stories because he is now responsible for ringing the local bell for the village at matins, vespers, and the mid-watch of the night instead of wandering and enjoying his freedom. He made the promise to a dying seventy-nine-year-old man named Yatabei who had performed the same function for fifty years based on the conviction that the water from Demon Pond will flood the populated areas of Kotohiki Valley beneath Echizen's Three Province Peak if it the bell is not rung at the correct times. Akira now calls himself Yatabei, has married Yuri, and refuses to return to Tokyo despite Yamazawa's urging. Yamazawa decides to climb to Demon Pond and Akira accompanies him, leaving Yuri responsible for the bell.

The giant crab Kanigoro and the carp Koishichi are sent down from Demon Pond by Lady Myriad, the nurse of Dragon Pond's Princess Shirayuki, to tell the villagers that there will be no rain despite their offerings of broken pottery and the heads of cats and dogs. Koishichi recounts that the princess is in love with the prince of Serpent Pond by Sword Peak at the foot of Mount Hakusan but if she flies to him it will cause a flood that will kill the villagers so she remains at Demon Pond as long as the bell is rung at the proper times.

A catfish priest named Black representing the prince of Serpent Pond comes bearing a letter from the prince to the princess of Demon Pond. He received the order to deliver it while he was imprisoned, causing him to fear that the letter might include instructions for the princess to eat him. The giant crab Kanigoro cuts it open for him but there is only water inside the small letter box that the catfish is carrying.

The lovesick Princess Shirayuki is determined to visit the prince but her nurse Lady Myriad explains that she is bound to a vow made by her ancestors that she cannot leave as long as the bell is rung at the proper times or else the gods and buddhas will curse her and her kin of the pond as well, leading to their destruction alongside the humans. Princess Shirayuki rushes to destroy the bell holding her prisoner but just when she is about to strike it she hears Yuri singing a lullaby to her baby doll Taro because she misses Akira. Princess Shirayuki is amazed that the lullaby can soothe Yuri's pain of missing Akira and decides not to destroy the bell and fly away because it would destroy Yuri as well.

Villagers attack Yuri when she is alone in her house that night because they intend to sacrifice the most beautiful girl in the village to an ox for rain. They tie her up but she is freed by Akira, who explains that Yamazawa decided to return to his family when he heard Yuri's lullaby, so they called off the journey and Akira returned home as well. The villagers refuse to let Akira take Yuri away because they believe that he is an outsider but she belongs to the village. Yamazawa arrives and admonishes the villagers for their intentions, revealing himself as a priest of the Honganji sect and a professor at Tokyo University. He argues that Japan is being held back by adherence to outdated traditions such as ''bushidō''. They demand Yuri but Akira fends them off with his scythe and tells them that Princess Shirayuki was once a girl named Yuki who was sacrificed to an ox and in revenge set fire to straw placed on its back and sent it into the village to burn it. The leader tells Denkichi to fight Akira, and they battle, with Denkichi using a long knife and Akira using his scythe. When Akira is injured, Hatsuo, one of the villagers who admires Yuri grabs the scythe and fights against Denkichi until Yuri grabs the scythe and kills herself with it. Akira carries her away as he promised, asking Yamazawa to ring the bell. Yamazawa agrees and enters the bell tower just as the dragon princess arrives, bringing a wave of destruction with her. Akira tells Yuri that she was right all along, then kills himself with the scythe. The princess dragon awakens Yuri to sing a song with her before departing. The final shot shows Yamazawa as the new bellringer with Hatsuo at Yuri's home holding her doll Taro.

The leader of the Shanghai mafia, Yukishiro Enishi, arrives in Tokyo to search for the former government assassin Himura Kenshin. He and his allies, who all have a grudge with Kenshin, begin their assault on Tokyo. They first fire a cannon at the Akabeko restaurant, resulting in multiple casualties. Kenshin investigates the source of the attack, discovering a note with the written characters ''jinchū'' (人誅, lit. "man's judgment"). Later, Enishi sends one of his allies to destroy the Maekawa Dojo, and another one to the Chief of Police' home. After being alerted of the attacks, Sagara Sanosuke heads to the Maekawa Dojo whilst Kenshin rushes to check on the Chief of Police and defeats Enishi's ally. On his way back, Kenshin is confronted by Enishi, identifying himself as the instigator of all the attacks stating that his goal is for Kenshin to suffer the same pain he felt when Kenshin killed his sister, Yukishiro Tomoe.

Kenshin returns to the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu Dojo, revealing to Kamiya Kaoru, Sanosuke, Myojin Yahiko and Takani Megumi that fifteen years ago when he worked for the Imperialists he married Tomoe, who unbeknownst to him was a spy for the Shogunate. Her original intention was to kill Kenshin to avenge Akira Kiyosato, the one who gave Kenshin his first scar and Tomoe's late fiancé. However, the two fell in love, and got married. When the assassins whom she allied with tried to ambush Kenshin, Tomoe sacrificed herself to protect Kenshin, but was accidentally killed by Kenshin himself. Before her last breath, Tomoe held a knife and gave him his other scar, resulting in cross shaped scars he carries.

Oniwabanshu members Shinomori Aoshi and Makimachi Misao arrive in Tokyo to assist Kenshin while also bringing Tomoe's diary which had been left in a temple in Kyoto for safekeeping. Saito, and his police troops were sent on a trap set by Cho Sawagejo, revealed to be working with the Shanghai mafia. Hot air balloons are seen at the sky, spreading newspapers with ''jinchū'' written on them. Subsequently, Enishi's troops begin bombing various areas of Tokyo. During the attacks, Shinomori is wounded trying to shield people from an explosion, while Kenshin fights and defeats one of Enishi's allies, the man responsible for attacking the Akabeko restaurant. Meanwhile, Enishi arrives at the Kamiya Kasshin Dojo, beating up the dojo students and Sanosuke, then kidnapping Kaoru thereafter. Enishi is unable to kill Karou as she reminds him of his sister and the trauma of his sister's death.

Kenshin prepares to face Enishi and to redeem himself for Tomoe's death. Kenshin struggles as the mafia appears. Misao, Saito comes together with the police and the wounded Sanosuke to help Kenshin. Kenshin then enters Enishi's mansion where he encounters Wu Heishin and his guards, to whom Enishi has passed over the leadership of the Shanghai mafia. His former enemy Seta Sojiro appears, as he helps Kenshin instead, as he reveals that he has become a wanderer after losing to Kenshin. With Sojiro's help, Kenshi reaches Enishi. His enemy wants him to commit suicide for his sister's death and his sins as a former assassin. Kenshin relents, he will stop Enishi for his friends' and Tomoe's sake rather in order to repay for his sins. The two continue their battle with Kenshin besting Enishi. Heishin then appears and tries to kill Kenshin with a gun but Kaoru intervenes. Enishi protects Kaoru until Kenshin stops him, thanking him for protecting Kaoru.

In the aftermath, Enishi is arrested and breaks down in prison while reading Tomoe's diary sent by Kaoru as he finally understands his sister's final resolve. At the end, Kenshin and Kaoru visit Tomoe's grave to thank her, while holding each other's hands as they leave.

Legendary thief Diabolik plans his next heist: stealing a valuable diamond from heiress Eva Kant, who is dating the deputy minister of justice, Giorgio Caron. Using one of his trademark masks to impersonate his nemesis, Inspector Ginko, Diabolik tricks Eva into revealing which hotel she will be staying at. He makes another mask to pose as one of the wait staff assigned to her room, and quickly locates the hidden safe where the diamond is kept. However, upon seeing Eva, he becomes infatuated with her.

Diabolik sneaks into Eva's room to steal the diamond, but Eva walks in on him, and he has no choice but to hold her at knifepoint. Eva calmly reveals that she doesn't have the diamond, having already sold it to a dealer in South Africa, and Diabolik leaves. The next day, he returns and unmasks himself in front of Eva; disgusted by the lecherous Giorgio, she starts an affair with him. Unbeknownst to Diabolik, his girlfriend Elisabeth, from whom he has hidden the truth about who he really is, accidentally uncovers his secret hideout. Ginko is notified and arranges a sting operation, resulting in Diabolik's arrest.

At trial, Diabolik is convicted and sentenced to be beheaded via guillotine. When Eva learns of his fate, she has Giorgio use his influence to arrange a clandestine meeting in Diabolik's cell. Once the guards leave, Eva incapacitates Giorgio and Diabolik questions him to learn where he is keeping a file containing information as to Eva's unsavory past, which he had been using to blackmail her. He then dons a mask of Giorgio's face and puts on his clothes to escape, while a drugged Giorgio is fitted with a Diabolik mask and executed in his place. Ginko figures out the deception in time to stop Diabolik from retrieving the file; one of his officers finds it instead.

Needing money to flee the country, Diabolik targets a bank holding expensive jewelry and watches. He has Eva impersonate a rich widow named Ms. Morel to rent a vault. This enables her to learn about the bank's security features so Diabolik can figure out how to bypass them by flooding the bank and using diving equipment to steal the jewels and watches. Ginko, using his knowledge of Diabolik's ''modus operandi'', is able to determine his escape route and briefly holds him at gunpoint before Eva distracts him and he is overpowered by Diabolik. The two make their getaway on a motorboat while Ginko can only watch in defeat.

Sometime later, Diabolik and Eva are on a yacht. To cement their new partnership, he presents her with a gift: the diamond.

The documentary follows Numan for an entire year on his move to the US to try and become successful in that market, launch a career in Hollywood and go back to the studio to record after an absence of nearly ten years.

As described in a film magazine review, Richard Jones, assistant to the district attorney, volunteers to round up a ring of drug peddlers. He finds his rival for the hand of Constance Madison is in charge of the hop joint. He rescues Constance from the clutches of his rival and brings the peddlers in. He then learns that the District Attorney is involved in the hop ring. He becomes the new district attorney and also Constance's husband.

The story revolves around a young woman named Lenore Vance (Mabel Forrest), who loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father Silas Gregg (William H Turner). She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her elderly, reclusive, chemist uncle named Fargo (Marc Mac Dermott). She later becomes the person of interest in the murder of her father, being labelled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". A physician named Dr. Richard Taunton (Norman Kerry) meets Lenore at a party thrown by Millie Brown-Potter (Kate Lester), and becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from himself and Mrs. Potter, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself, and makes the discovery that Fargo is the one who killed Silas. The police are notified, but they discover that he has committed suicide upon arriving at his house. It is later revealed to the audience that the entire story is in a book that Lenore is reading.C.S. Sewell. “The Satin Girl”. ''Moving Picture World.'' Vol. 65. 8 December 1923.

In the Kingdom of Silvare lived the Hero-King Inglis. With the personal blessing of the goddess Alistia, Inglis became a divine knight, slaying the enemies of humanity and the dark gods to establish the Kingdom. As a last favor granted to him on his deathbed, the goddess Alistia reincarnated Inglis as his single greatest regret was not being able to reach the peak of mastering the blade. Now reborn as a woman (perhaps at the jesting whims of the goddess), Inglis Eucus strives to live a life in the far future where she can truly master the blade.

Based on the game set in the period of martial law known as the White Terror in Taiwan, ''Detention'' entwines the suffocating political situations under martial law and heart-stopping legends of local deities, portraying a labyrinth of unspeakable oppressions.

The series opens at Greenwood High School in 1992. Transfer student Yunxiang Liu (Lingwei Lee) enters a forbidden area of the school grounds, where she encounters the ghost of Ruixin Fang (Ning Han). Fang reveals the hidden history of the school over the past 30 years, including how a group of students and teachers were persecuted as they fought for freedom in the era of censorship.

The City of Legends is repeated by the great demon under a spell. Meanwhile, on the night of the eleventh, Shahrzad the storyteller has arrived in the morning and the wedding celebration of Aunt Suske and Agha Moshe is to be held by the order of the great ruler; But it does not bring happiness…. The story of the film ended in a way that strengthens the continuity of this series and the possibility of making a second season

''Gráinne'' is a novel in which Alastair Bevan sees his one-time lover Gráinne achieve fame, found a cult, and then die to achieve mythic immortality.

''Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century'' is a book in which futurologists portray a 21st century Utopia.

Dwight and Sherry spend the night and she begins to read the letters that she wrote to him. Dwight takes his last dose of medicine to combat the bubonic plague, then he receives a radio call from Hill who interrupts him, requesting that he return to Al with the tapes for Virginia, giving it a period of 48 hours. Sherry gets up and disappears, and he hears strange noises, prompting him to take his hatchet and investigate where she went. A masked individual is standing outside the front door and runs away, and suddenly more masked individuals capture him.

In a skatepark, Dwight is captive. Suddenly, the masked men appear. Dwight frees himself and holds one at gunpoint, threatening him where Sherry is. Suddenly, several men from above point their guns at Dwight, and Sherry appears and tells him that everything is okay, revealing that she is part of the masked men. Ozzie, a member of the masked men, threatens Dwight with killing Al, if he does not give him information about Virginia's whereabouts, but he honestly denies it. Rollie suddenly appears and requested from this, and they free Al. The group trusts Dwight and Sherry explains to him that her group is rebellious against the order of Virginia and that their objective is to shoot down the SWAT truck. Al explains that they cannot destroy the van and that it is better to steal it. The assault on the truck is successfully achieved with the unexpected help of Morgan.

The group meets at the skatepark and Morgan gives them information about a new community. Sherry explains to Morgan that she plans to kill Virginia to save the life of her group. Morgan refuses to participate, because he knows that there will be too many casualties, and that he had already lived this experience, referring to Negan. Dwight violently interrogates the captured pioneer using a wolf to attack him, but Morgan stops him. The next day, Dwight and Morgan discuss the plan to kill Virginia. Dwight hints that he does not intend to step back. Sherry convinces Dwight to give another report, and Dwight proceeds to meet Hill. Sherry locks up Dwight, Morgan, and Al to proceed with the attack on Virginia.

At night, Morgan convinces Dwight to stop Sherry. Dwight manages to get loose and the Virginia men arrive at the place. When they are about to attack, Dwight manages to get to where Sherry is and reluctantly convinces her. He manages to stop the attack by the men of Virginia. Later, Morgan and Al convince Dwight to go with them and he decides to accompany them outside the city center. Morgan introduces himself to the people in the center of the building. Morgan tells everyone that where they will go will require "a lot of work." Dwight leaves a clue for Sherry where she can locate him.

In Estonia in 2007, psychiatric patient Leena Klammer orchestrates an escape from the Saarne Instituute by seducing and killing a guard and hiding in the car of Anna, an art therapist. After breaking into Anna's house and killing her, Leena finds that she holds resemblance to a girl from the United States named Esther Albright, who went missing in 2003. Posing as a lost girl, a police officer approaches Leena and she introduces herself as Esther, claiming that her parents are in America.

In Darien, Connecticut, wealthy artist Allen Albright and his wife Tricia, who have since come to terms with the disappearance of their daughter, are informed by Inspector Donnan that "Esther" has been found and Tricia travels to an American embassy in Moscow where she is reunited with Esther. Tricia brings Esther home and immediately starts to have doubts when she notices that Esther has forgotten about the death of her grandmother, or that her painting skills have increased enormously compared to before she disappeared. Leena grows fond of Allen after they both start bonding over their painting skills (using UV paint), and tries to separate him from Tricia.

Whilst Tricia and Allen attend a charity gala hosted by Tricia, Inspector Donnan arrives at the house where he steals a vinyl record from Esther's room which has Leena's fingerprints on it. He takes it back to his house, unbeknownst to him that Leena has followed him, and analyses the fingerprints to find it isn't a match. Leena attacks Inspector Donnan but before she can finish him off, Tricia arrives, having followed Leena, and shoots him dead. Tricia reveals that she knows Leena isn't Esther as Esther had died four years earlier during an altercation with Gunnar, Tricia's son, which Tricia covered up without Allen's knowledge and Leena reveals her true identity. Tricia open Donnan's Laptop and write an E-Mail to the Police Station that He's taking a Vacation. Both dispose the Donnan's body and his Laptop into the Cellar Hatch in a Snowplace.

Knowing that it would be too suspicious if "Esther" were to disappear again, Tricia agrees to keep the act up for Allen's sake, and Leena and Tricia remain on guard with each other, knowing that either of them could kill each other at any moment. The pair keep the act up however Tricia eventually attempts to poison Leena. Tricia adds some form of poison to Leena’s dinner. At the table Leena refuses to eat the food and eventually asks to excuse herself. Once upstairs Leena feeds the food to the rat that lives in her room. Later that night she finds the rodent dead from ingesting the poisoned meal. The next morning Leena wakes up and cooks breakfast for everyone including a green smoothie that had the rodents dead body for Tricia. Tricia takes a sip and quickly spits it out in the sink. She also pours the remaining contents into her sink where she finds the dead rodent. She allows the contents to go down the garbage disposal, including the rat. Allen reveals he is going into the city to meet about a potential art gallery, Leena begs to go with him but Tricia stops this from happening. At the train station, Leena tries to kill Tricia and Gunnar by pushing them in front of a train but her attempts are interrupted by a passing commuter. With Allen gone, Leena tries fleeing by stealing Tricia's car after spraying Gunnar in the eyes with pepper spray but she is soon found a police officer.

That night, Leena is brought back to the Albright house and Tricia and Gunnar finally decide to kill Leena. Tricia tries to stage a suicide but Leena fights back and flees however she is thrown down the stairs by Gunnar. Distracted by a phone call from Allen, who is returning home, Tricia and Gunnar don't notice as Leena disappears. They search for her and Leena shoots Gunnar with a crossbow, then repeatedly stabs him with a fencing sword. Tricia and Leena fight in the kitchen, inadvertently setting the house alight as they do, and the pair flee to the roof as Allen returns home.

Tricia and Leena both fall from the roof and beg for Allen to save them, trying to turn him against the other, by Leena telling him that Tricia attacked her, and Tricia trying to reveal the truth about Leena. Tricia then slips from the roof and dies and Allen lifts Leena to the roof. As he comforts her, he notices as her false teeth come loose, realising she isn't Esther. Leena pushes Allen from the roof after he calls her a "monster", killing him. She then flees the burning house after cleaning off the blood on her face and dressing herself up as "Esther".

A little while later, "Esther" is moved to an orphanage where she waits for a new family to adopt her.

The reality series follows three modern-day cowboys, Bubba, Cody and Booger in Alabama. The series follows the three building their cattle business, herding cattle and breaking horses. It follows the strict codes of practice, passed down from the days of the Old West.

Following the disappearance of her mother, a 13-year-old girl is left to look after her grandfather.

While awaiting on the final custody verdict following her divorce, a mother abducts her two children, taking them to Tenerife.

As described in a film magazine review, millionaire Richard Gilmore goes west to conquor his sense of fear. At his fiancée's instigation, he turns to polite banditry. He aids a starving widow and her children, frustrates some cattle rustlers, and even overcomes an honest rancher to convince him that his life is in danger. After he succeeds in saving the rancher and his sister, the rustlers are rounded up. He hears that his fiancée has married another, paving the way for his future happiness with the rancher's sister.

A jetliner is shot down and crashes into the Black Sea, at the Russian territory. This is the beginning of an espionage conspiracy involving CIA and KGB agents. Jonathan Slade, an ex-military man who served in the Marines and champion swimmer, is given a mission to retrieve the black box from the damaged airliner. His brother, a computer genius, and a female special agent are supposed to help him complete the task.

Donald Keith is a lawyer who has recently moved to a fictional logging community in Northern Michigan. He later learns that Quartus Hembly, the town boss, has illegally conned a man named Daniel Kersten out of his property, ruining him and turning him into the town drunkard. Keith decides to help Kersten take legal action against Hembly and bring him to justice. Keith eventually succeeds and also causes the town's residents to rise up against Hembly.

In the Hurricane Alley, a strange whirlpool spins out of control. Meanwhile brave cosmonauts Belka and Strelka are in their space ship. They see rare mineral samples somewhere in the asteroid belt near Saturn. They risk their lives to extract the samples when a call receives from Soviet command. The director reports a mysterious phenomenon in the tropics of the Atlantic Ocean. Strelka is promoted as pilot because the space command director found Belka's steering to be lacking. As the ship changes course both cosmonauts become distanced due to the promotion. However the space explorers realize that this new mission will require teamwork making them friends again.

The space ship's trajectory veers to planet Earth. Meanwhile their best friend, rat Lenny is looking to get to the cyclones too, traveling to Cuba in an attempt to solve the mystery. Lenny will be accompanied by cricket Thomas. They spot the anomaly that appears to be a cyclone. As they venture down into the swirling ocean depths, their Soviet module crash lands into the Caribbean Sea. Rat Lenny hears of this misfortune. He decides to embark on a journey to find the missing cosmonauts.

Belka and Strelka perform a heroic mission to save themselves from the depths of the sea but also investigate the mysterious whirlpool effect. However, an unexpected enemy swims in the depths of the sea: treacherous pirate-jellyfish. The astronauts track the Caribbean mystery to an extraterrestrial organization that is draining the ocean of all its water. Without the use of combat, the cosmonauts and the team educate the UFO on how to preserve and economically conserve water. The mission is finished and the ecosystem is saved as the heroes resurface to the ocean.

Miss Elizabeth Mapp presides over the High Street of the seaside town of Tilling, keeping tabs on all of the gossip, and directing social activity. She competes in bitter rivalry with a neighbor, Godiva Plaistow, over dress-making, and observes the battles over golf and alcohol between Captain Richard Puffin and Major Benjamin Flint. There are further social wars over daylight saving time, bridge games, and the significance of a neighbor being recognised as a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

In Hong Kong,  former triad leader (Tin Ching) becomes intoxicated with ''Gu'', so his daughter, Lisa (Carrie Ng) hires archeologist Professor Lau (Hsu Hsia) to find a Gold Crystal located on a saintly mountain in Khon Kaen Province Thailand that can cure him. There, Lau's assistant, Peter Tam (Tony Tam), who has been stealing antique for an American criminal, Stephen (John Salvitti), gets into a dispute with the latter and ends up being killed by Stephen's henchmen. Before being killed, Peter revealed he can steal the Gold Crystal for Stephen hoping the latter will spare him, so Stephen kidnaps Lau up to the saintly mountain and forces him to take the Gold Crystal. Before being kidnapped, Lau gave a call to former police officer, Brett Chan (Donnie Yen), the estranged boyfriend of his daughter, Wendy (Takado Fujimi).

When Brett calls Wendy, he figures Lau has gone missing and informs his old partner Inspector Wu (Sibelle Hu), who is also hunting Stephen after her partner, Officer Leung (Bryan Leung) was killed during a drug bust. Lisa, unable to contact Lau, sends her boyfriend Kwong (Ken Lo) to kidnap Wendy, who tells Lisa she is also looking for her father and Lisa lets her go. Wendy goes to Thailand and reconciles with Brett when she finds out Brett quit his job as a cop to be a tour guide for her before find a map to the saintly mountain before a portrait with her father and consults Wu. Lisa, who has been failing Wendy, arrives to Thailand with Kwong to check on her while Wu warns Lisa to watch out or she will arrest them. Wu then spots her informant who runs from her, but eventually catches up to him with the help of Brett and they learned Peter was killed by Stephen.

Brett and Wendy sneak into Stephen's factory while Lisa and Kwong tail them. Stephen catches them and they both fight Stephen and his gang. Lisa and Kwong were also spotted by Stephen's henchmen and flees while Brett and Wendy are cornered until Wu rescues them in a pickup truck after having fought off one of Stephen's henchmen earlier who tried to kill her in Brett's apartment.

The next morning, Brett and Wendy decides to enter the saintly mountain but Wu tries to stop them from illegally entering there. Lisa, Kwong and their henchmen arrive with the same intentions as Brett and Wendy and forces Brett, Wendy and Wu to lead them up. As they stop for a break, Stephen and his gang arrives and attacks them with an exploding remote controlled plane and a major gunfight erupts. Brett, Wendy and Wu find an opportunity to flee and get up to the saintly mountain and enter it where they find Lau dead, having been killed by traps. At this time, Lisa and Kwong also arrive and manages to take the Gold Crystal with Kwong suffering only a minor injury from being impaled one of the traps. When Lisa and Fung run from Wu, Brett and Wendy, Stephen and his gang also arrives and Kwong is shot dead by Stephen's henchmen and Wu, Brett, Wendy and Lisa runs as Stephen and his gang gives chase. As they arrive outside, Lisa teams up with Brett, Wendy, and Wu to fight Stephen and his henchmen. Wendy is then shot in the leg and Lisa is later killed after Stephen kicks her off a cliff. Brett, having killed one of Stephen's top henchmen (Michael Woods), joins Wu in fighting Stephen but are unable to gain the upper hand until Brett swings a log at Stephen's head several times before Wu kicks Stephen's skull and Brett delivers a final blow to Stephen and kills him. In the end, Wu and Brett were arrested for stealing the Gold Crystal despite they were no responsible for doing so.

The pretentious and socially domineering Emmeline Lucas — known to all as "Lucia" — and her husband "Peppino" acquire a second home in London from a deceased aunt. While her Riseholme friends Georgie Pillson and Daisy Quantock seethe with envy, Lucia moves to Brompton Square, where she can social-climb to the highest circles. Her shameless gambits attract a group of astonished followers, including Stephen Merriall, secretly the society-column author Hermione. When Peppino falls ill, Lucia brings him back to Riseholme and nurses him back to health — and then turns her attention to reclaiming her place in her original kingdom.

Three eighteen-year-old women, Annice, Pat, and Barby, leave their rural Iowa town and move to Chicago to find jobs and an apartment together. Each falls in love and must make a decision about whether to accept or reject the contemporary morality of the 1950s, which pressures them to make traditional marriages as young as possible. The book deals with themes of rape, incest, racism, abortion, closeted sexuality, workplace discrimination and sexual harassment, and recreational drugs. It explores the Beat culture, "satirizing [its] sexism and machismo".

Srinivas Rao is a strict retired headmaster settled in Mysore. He follows rules strictly want discipline from surrounding ones and also he threw out anyone from his family who commit 100 mistakes. He already threw out his younger brother from home for committing 100 mistake and next one on line is his younger son Sumanth who commits 99 mistakes. Family went to Tirupathi for wedding of Mohana, elder son of Srinivas Rao, while everyone on train Lakshmi, wife of Srinivas Rao remembers she forget Mangala sutra and tells only to her son Sumanth to collect it and catch train because she didn't want commit mistake on her husband way.

On the rush to collect Mangala sutra from Sumanth takes auto annoyingly encounters with Prathana, who also travels to Tirupathi in train. He collect Mangala sutra from home and catch the train, which still on platform while Prathana thinks sumanth is pretty thief. In train compartment Sangya Patil hands over his Bag to Sumanth to look safely while he goto washroom. Sumanth jump of the train to stop petty quarrel in platform with bag and miss the train. Because he enter the quarrel Prathana also miss the train.

Sumanth got to travel next station in speed and whose driver is drunken Mandya Malya. While travelling to next station Malya start petty fight with local cops and theft cops vehicle and reach train and instead Sumanth, Malya got the train. Sumanth is caught by Police for thefting Police Vehicle. And escape from police after small accident and got bus where Prathana also travels to Tirupathi. After heat in argument passengers kick-out the both from bus. After series of mis-adventure reach outskirts of Tirupathi. Sumanth helps to two love-couple marriage with Mangala sutra without knowing whereabouts of couples and also he had by rescue from goons who are chasing couples. He thinks he will be kick-out from his family for committing final mistake. On the way he encounters paternal uncle who had been kick-out from family for committing 100 mistakes. He Helps Sumanth to reach final train station on time and give Mangala sutra he had. Everyone from Sumanth family thinks he is in another train compartment on the journey.

On time Wedding time Sumanth find out, he marries the strange girl is actually the bride to-be married by his brother. He tells everything to his mother and she got shocked admits the hospital. After series of events Srinivas Rao admits he was wrong ask everyone for apology. Mohana married Prathana's sister and Srinivas Rao accept his brother.

The Snail and the Whale follows the amazing journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a ride on the tail of a friendly humpback whale. A joyous, empowering story about the natural wonders of the world and discovering that no matter how small you are, you can make a difference.

A group of five young French women live together in a house in London during the Second World War while serving in the Free French Forces.

The book is about the lives of the five women, including Claude and Ursula, and their compulsive lovemaking. In the evenings, people of all ages shelter in underground stations, and young men and women pack into crowded pubs, clubs, and restaurants, while high explosives fall nearby. One of the five women has a passionate affair with a well-known and married Englishman, an episode based on a real-life love affair between one of the author’s French friends and the actor Leslie Howard. There are also lesbian encounters.

''Who Watches the Watchmen?'' is an adventure featuring the DC Comics characters from the Watchmen comics, set in an alternate world in 1966, before the Keene Act made vigilantes illegal. The player characters, representing people who have been mulling over whether to become crime fighters, have been summoned by Captain Metropolis following a series of kidnappings of retired superheroes and people associated with them.

''The Feathered Priests'' is a role-playing scenario and gamemaster's aid written for any role-playing game system — conversion rules for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', and ''RuneQuest'' are included. The setting is the Endless Plains, where the players must recover a set of tarot-like cards.

''The Illumination of Alice J. Cunningham'' is a novel in which Alice is trapped in a fantasy place created by an uncertain state of mind.

''The Hour of the Thin Ox'' is a novel in which balloons, primitive guns, and low-tech biological warfare are used.

''Science Fiction Master Index of Names'' is a guide to science fiction critical mentions.

The story follows a mysterious alien named Father and a boy presented as his son, Onnasky. Longing to become popular among women, they make bizarre plans every day in their apartment to pick up girls. Then they go to town, enact their stupid plans, and go home in vain. In this series, no detailed information is provided about the characters. Their conversation does not make sense sometimes, and Father's face is drawn intentionally out of proportion. These features generate uncomfortable, "off-key" feelings that result in a unique, peculiar humor, which is loved by many enthusiastic fans.

In an ancient tower on the outskirts of a medieval town, a lonely queen has lived since time immemorial with a devoted servant-an inventor. Local residents had long forgotten what had happened to her Kingdom. And she still feels like the mistress of the world, because in her hands is a magical object that gives money and power - a flint. But one day the queen loses everything.

As a young craftsman, Potter works as a potter and is a resident of the fairy-tale City of Masters. Potter has just set up a shop with his friends Padlock and his betrothed Ginger. Day by day he works honestly, but is trying to make ends meet. However, he has self-doubt when he always wanted to achieve his primary goal of fixing the city's fountain.

One day, Potter stumbles upon the magic tinderbox Flint. Potter realizes he just needs to make a wish, drawing a spark, and the wish will certainly come true. With three strikes a gold dog is conjured that will bid any wish to the wielder of the artifact. The Queen learns of the activation of the artifact and cracks down on Potter so that she can seize the Stone of Fire. Without thinking twice, the Potter uses magic and makes himself untold riches. The wealth blackens the soul of a craftsman. In a critical moment, a lively and sincere girl named Ginger comes to the aid of her friend.

In 1932, Hugh Legat, and his German friends Paul von Hartmann and Paul's girlfriend Lena celebrate their graduation from Oxford University. Hartmann insists Legat visit him in Munich to experience the "New Germany".

Six years later, Legat is on secondment from the British Foreign Office; working as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's private secretary. Europe is on the brink of war. Chamberlain strives to obtain peace with Adolf Hitler at any cost, even if that means allowing Germany to seize control of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain writes to Benito Mussolini in an effort to halt military action; it seemingly works and Hitler agrees, inviting Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier to Munich for a conference.

Meanwhile, Hartmann is working as a translator in the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin while secretly plotting with a Wehrmacht general in an effort to overthrow Hitler if top army officials agree to arrest him and seize control. The general believes this cannot be accomplished unless Hitler is allowed to invade the Sudetenland, while Hartmann doubts the collective resolve of the generals. Hartmann is given a stolen document by his lover, Helen Winter, that indicates Hitler intends to conquer Europe. Hartmann and the others reconvene and agree that getting the information to Chamberlain while he is in Munich is their best option; Hartmann reveals he has a trusted former classmate, Legat, who can likely help. Hartmann is handed a revolver to assassinate Hitler should the opportunity arise.

In London, Legat is approached by Sir Alexander Cadogan and Sir Stewart Menzies of MI6 regarding the document in Hartmann's possession. It is suggested that Legat accompany Chamberlain to the conference, rendezvous with Hartmann, and retrieve the document. He agrees to help, despite the dangers associated with espionage. Legat convinces Chamberlain to bring him along to Munich as a translator.

Hartmann boards Hitler's train to Munich where he shares his compartment with a childhood friend, Franz Sauer. Upon discovering that Sauer has become a ''Schutzstaffel'' officer, Hartmann hides the documents and gun in the compartment washroom. Hartmann catches Sauer rummaging through his suitcase, and realizes that Sauer has become suspicious of him. Later, Hartmann meets with Hitler, who chastises him for his Oxford education.

In Munich, Legat and Hartmann reunite, a flashback reveals they had a falling out in 1932 after a heated verbal argument related to Hartmann's then-support of the Nazi Party. Legat agrees to take possession of the document, but is unable to pass it along to Chamberlain. With the signing of the agreement imminent, Hartmann insists that they immediately present the argument to Chamberlain and convince him to not sign the Munich Agreement. Legat and Hartmann meet with Chamberlain, who scoffs at the idea of not signing based on vague German military plans for a coup d'état and refuses to take action. Hartmann takes Legat to a local nursing home to see Lena, revealing that in 1935 she attended an anti-Nazi rally, only to have a Star of David carved in her back and be thrown out of a window after she was found to be Jewish, resulting in paralysis and an inability to speak. Hartmann reveals he intends to assassinate Hitler, much to Legat's dismay. When Legat returns to his hotel, he finds his room has been ransacked by Sauer, who attacks him. Legat discovers the document is gone and panics, but he is able to get a discreet message to Hartmann informing him. Hartmann meets with Hitler but cannot bring himself to shoot him. The Munich Agreement is signed.

As Legat enters the car bound for the airport, typist Joan Menzies reveals she is the niece of a British army colonel, assigned to help Legat in his espionage activity, and that she took possession of the document to prevent Sauer from finding it. Chamberlain returns to Britain and gives his famous ''Peace for our time'' speech. Legat returns home to his wife and son, revealing that he plans to leave the diplomatic service and join the RAF. The Munich Agreement ultimately fails and World War II begins. Chamberlain resigns several months later, dying soon after. But because of the signed agreement, the start of the war is postponed, allowing Britain more time to prepare for the war.

In World War Two, a disgraced officer, Captain Adams, is ordered to lead a firing squad to execute a deserter, Jones who has been accused of murder. Jones is generally agreed to be innocent, but the army have decided to shoot him as an example.

The cadets of the Podolsk artillery and infantry schools are completing their training, and they will soon become commanders. Two friends compete for a girl. Suddenly, the command learns about the breakthrough of the front and the movement of a German tank column to Moscow. The only serious force is the cadets, they must stop the Germans at the Ilyinsky defence line and hold out until the reserves approach. In fierce battles, where many of them die, they fulfill this task.

Archibald Crocker, an American alcoholic, visits a geisha house in Japan where the scientist Dr. Anthony Ives Eckhart is staying to study Asian music. Dr. Eckhart discovers that Crocker has come to Asia to kill his wife Heloise in revenge for leaving him. After Dr. Eckhart leaves for Beijing and finds Heloise, they fall in love. After Crocker arrives, Dr. Eckhart convinces him to consider sparing Heloise and seeking a legal separation instead. However, an hour later he arrives at Eckhart and Heloise's hotel to kill her. Crocker breaks his leg after Eckhart pushes him down a flight of stairs, and he decides to kill himself. Archibald and Heloise marry afterwards.

Country girl Elinor Crawford has always had great literary ambitions but so far has advanced no further than a reporter for a New York scandal sheet. During an assignment, she meets a lawyer from her hometown named Evan Kilvert, who is shocked at her Bohemian way of life. Elinor scorns him and turns her affections to Bertie Vawtry, the editor of a racey weekly newspaper. Vawtry professes to love her, but when he suddenly goes off and marries a wealthy widow, Elinor leaves town and everyone assumes that she ran off with Vawtry. Lawyer Kilvert finds her living homeless in the streets and he marries her.

Soon after, Elinor returns to one of her old haunts where she meets Vawtry, whose wife has by this time passed away. Vawtry tries once again to seduce her, but although Elinor spurns his advances, her husband sees them talking and suspects that she has been seeing Vawtry behind his back. Seeing that her husband doesn't trust her, she leaves him. Kilvert, later learns that his wife was indeed faithful to him all along, finds her in the street in a state of depression and brings her back home. He then finds her would-be seducer and administers a vicious beating to the knave.

The film opens on Judge Brand and his secretary, Tom Reeves, lounging in their office as the Judge reminisces about his life in the Old West. Brand tells Tom about how he and his partner, Adams, participated in the Gold Rush. Brand and Adams had both fallen in love with a woman, though Adams had eventually won her affection and the two were married and had a child. This state of affairs did not last long however, as Adams' wife eventually left him for another man, taking the child with her. Not long after, Brand and Adams struck it rich, however Adams' wife never came back. Brand concludes the story by asking Tom to go out west to repopulate and rebuild the town Brand and Adams had lived in, Nugget Notch. Both so that Brand can relive some of his earlier days, and to potentially find Adams' child, and the heir to his fortune.

Tom does not initially find success in his search for potential occupants of Nugget Notch, but eventually hears about a struggling exposition troupe themed around the Old West, run by a man named J. Gordon Castle. Among this troupe is an innocent woman called Peggy Babbot, along with her parents Pa and Ma Babbot. However, Peggy is constantly watched by a mysterious Mr. Jim Rayner. Tom proposes Judge Brand's idea to Mr. Castle, who agrees. On the way to Nugget Notch, Rayner threatens Pa Bobbet not to let Tom near Peggy, Pa begrudgingly obliges. Tom also writes to Judge Brand that he has assembled a population to live in Nugget Notch, but tells Brand that Rayner seems untrustworthy.

Upon arrival at Nugget Notch, the troupe begins renovating the town and preparing for Judge Brand's arrival. When the Judge finally arrives, he remarks that the townsfolk are not quite as rough and hardy as the authentic 49ers used to be, but he seems to settle in well. It is then that Raynor learns that the Judge came west partially to find the heir to Adams' fortune, which Rayner takes an interest in. That night, at a banquet held to celebrate Judge Brand's arrival, Brand recognizes a necklace Peggy is wearing and it is revealed that Peggy is in fact Adams' daughter and heiress, with her real name being Lorena Adams. After the banquet, Peggy/Lorena informs Tom and the Judge that Raynor is threatening to have Pa Bobbet killed unless he can give Raynor $1,000 by the next day. Tom decides to confront Raynor and tells him not to harm Peggy.

Late in the night, Tom is kidnapped and blindfolded by Raynor, who lowers him via rope into a rock formation outside of town. The Judge notices that Tom is gone, and along with a man from the village go to find Tom. However, this was unnecessary as Tom was led out of the rocks by a friendly wolf. They then realize that there is, in fact, still gold in the rock formation. So the men set up a claim. The next day, as Tom and the Judge are talking, some of the townsfolk inform the two that Rayner has stolen all of the money, guns, and horses from the town during the night. It is then that Raynor himself appears and demands that the men hand over their pocket money at gunpoint. Raynor then kidnaps Peggy and makes a run for it. However, Judge Brand remembers a shortcut which allows him and Tom to ambush and capture Raynor using a rope.

The town decides to put Rayner on trial. During the proceedings it is revealed that Raynor was the man Adams' wife left Adams for, that Raynor had once been Pa Bobbet's partner and had used the death of a man Raynor had tried to steal from as blackmail against Bobbet for many years, and that Peggy was Pa Bobbet's real daughter all along. However, while all this is going on Rayner manages to undo his bindings, shoot Tom in the arm, and escape once again. But, at the last second, he falls off of his horse and is recaptured. The film ends with Judge Brand, Tom, and Peggy sitting together happily.

Catherine Black, a wealthy and extremely intelligent corporate hedge fund manager and serial killer, has a high-fashion sense and spends her money on expensive cars, clothes, artwork, and furniture. She purposely lures Tyler Jones, a thief and gamer who steals from elderly individuals, including Black's grandmother, to apply for a job as house sitter of her large home in Malibu. As he cases the home, Black roofies him to knock him out, and then gets her nails done. When Jones awakes, Black's girlfriend arrives, and after feeding him organs of a frat boy while mocking him in Mandarin, they engage in an evening of drugs, sex, and bonding.

Black, after killing a man who was making suggestive faces at her in an exercise session, comes home and orders Jones to leave her house. While she takes a shower he steals her car and jewelry. She analyzes Jones' car's tracking device, calls him, and reads off the times and locations that he and his partner-in-crime, Chad, committed recent thefts. He brings the car and jewelry back in exchange for her not giving the Los Angeles police the incriminating evidence, but she explains that promises are meant to be broken. As they physically fight, and Jones runs from Black, he discovers her freezer full of human body parts, upping the stakes and forcing Black to vow to kill him even as it becomes obvious to both that they are madly in love.

Relaxing after their final series of fights, in which Black could have killed Jones by any of several methods, they simultaneously agree to marry. Black begins taking medication to control her need to kill, and Jones gives up a life of crime, finishes engineering school, and pays back Black's grandmother and his other victims. They have become vegans.

End credits show Catherine and Tyler happily raising a dog and three children.

In 1506, Leonardo da Vinci, the most famous artist of his time, is accused of the murder of Caterina da Cremona. Questioned by Stefano Giraldi, an ambitious officer of the Duchy of Milan, Leonardo begins to tell his life, starting from the first meeting with Caterina in Andrea del Verrocchio's workshop. Giraldi, fascinated by the artist's personality, begins to suspect that Leonardo may be innocent and investigates to discover the truth.

''40 Sticks'' revolves around the story of a group of death row prisoners trapped in a prison bus that crashes, and their struggle to survive. Their misery is worsened by a wild animals in the forest and a mysterious killer that lurks in the shadows.

Rachel, a divorcee with cancer, gets a call stating that her daughter, Kylie, has been kidnapped and she is now part of The Chain. To get Kylie back she must kidnap another child. Kylie will be released when the parents of the child Rachel has kidnapped another child.

Movie producer Mary Tannenbaum comes to shoot a Christmas movie in Springfield despite her dislike of Christmas movies. While she stays with the Simpsons, Lisa tries to get behind the scenes to film a documentary about the movie, Marge tries to befriend Mary, Homer attempts to make money off her stay, and Bart is upset when Homer rents the family bedrooms out to Mary and the film crew.

In a café, Mary meets Seymour Skinner, who later tries to take down the props of the set to set up for his annual Lettuce and Tomato Festival. Mary makes a deal with the principal, offering to help make sure his festival happens on time if he helps build the sets for the movie. But when Mary is finally ready to return to the big city, she gets a call from her boss saying that she will be passed over for an important promotion unless she stays in Springfield to help finish the film. When Homer hears that Mary needs fake snow for her movie, he grinds up anything that is white into flaky powder to sell to her. Mary realizes she might be falling in love with Skinner instead of her handsome surgeon fiancé.

Soon after, Mary must use the Lettuce and Tomato festival as the set of the big finale scene in her movie and Skinner yells at her for turning his project into a Christmas-themed party. At the same time, Bart tries to get his room back by turning on the fake snow machine and spraying the set with Homer's fake snow. Mary and Skinner get trapped in a pile of the stuff and bond until Skinner digs his way out. However, when Bart reveals Lisa's documentary footage of Mary badmouthing Springfield, the town turns on her and refuses to be extras in the movie, and the set is destroyed by a fire.

Mary confesses to Marge that she has always hated Christmas movies since her father died in the making of ''Jingle All the Way'' when she was a child. Skinner convinces the town to continue work on the movie, to Mary's joy. In the end, Mary chooses Skinner over her fiancé, but Skinner convinces her to return to her fiancé.

At the borders of the Kiev Principality, three heroes and the horse Julius save Sultan Rashid from the robbers of his brother Arkan. Arkan tried to take away from his brother a Mare he bought at auction named Zvezda. Julius, the royal horse for the bogatyrs asks for the hand, that is, the hooves of the Royal princess Mare Zvezda of the East from Sultan Rashid. However, Julius cannot boast of his own pedigree, and according to the rules of royal marriages, only a candidate of equal status can marry a person of such bloodlines.

Suddenly, Julius comes up with the idea of asking the Prince of Kiev to become his matchmaker. Julius rushes to Kiev, but the Prince is engaged in other matters. Julius turns to the Prince of Kiev for help, but is refused. However, Julius does not to give up. Under the cover of the night when everyone is sleeping, Julius sneaks into the castle. He kidnaps the Prince and forcibly takes him to the Sultan for matchmaking. Meanwhile the bogatyrs also have business on the East side. Everyone will meet at the big races, where the winner will get everything.

The ''wajinru'', are water-breathing merfolk, the descendants of thousands of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard from slave ships crossing the Atlantic. The women drowned, but their babies survived, and eventually developed into their current form. They have built their own idyllic underwater society. Only one person—Yetu, the historian—holds all their often-traumatic memories, so the rest are spared the pain. The historian must suppress all their own personality and desire, and only once a year, the entire community relives the memories together.

The burden she carries threatens to destroy Yetu, so she flees to the surface, finding herself trapped in a tidal pool, and somehow able to breathe air. Here, she meets some of the dreaded "two-legs", and in particular, Oori, who is also, in her own way, a memory-keeper of her people. Oori brings Yetu fish to eat, and the two develop a bond. Yetu comes to realize that not all the two-legs are white slave traders. It becomes clear, however, that the surface-dwellers are yet again a threat to the survival of the ''wajinru'', as energy companies desire the fossil fuels lying below the ocean bed: "Below us, deep beneath the sand, there is a substance they crave. It is their life force. They feast on it like blood."

The ''wajinru'' must strike back at those threatening to destroy them, and wreak havoc on the environment.

''The Worth of Women'' depicts a dialogue between seven Venetian noblewomen over the course of two days. On the first day, the women debate whether men are good or bad and also discuss the dignity of women. On the second day, they discuss an overview of general knowledge of natural history and culture but also return to their discussion of the sexes. Both days also contain critiques and discussions of marriage and dowries.

The film opens in a small kingdom, a place in Wonderland. A castle with towers and spires stands over a small medieval village, surrounded by thick walls. The castle is home to the little royal family—the king, the queen, and their little daughter, Princess Gulltopp ('Golden Hair')—with their court. Around her neck, Gulltopp carries a beautiful golden heart she received from her mother, the queen. Then one night Gulltopp disappears from the castle, on Christmas Eve. She has gone out into the woods all alone to find the Christmas star that she desires with all her heart. Her uncle, the vain and power-hungry count, has tricked her into doing so.

When the king and queen learn that the princess has disappeared, they are sad. The queen runs desperately out into the woods to look for her. The king curses the Christmas star, which he blames for his misfortune. But the king's curse causes the Christmas star to go out, and with it the queen disappears. Grief descends over the land. A traveling entourage of jugglers finds Gulltopp freezing and abandoned out in the woods. They do not know that this girl child is the missing princess, and they take her with them.

Many years later, the same traveling group of jugglers return to the castle. It is Christmas Eve again, and in the entourage is also Sonja (i.e., Gulltopp), who has become a beautiful young girl. When Sonja hears about the king's grief, she offers to find the Christmas star for the king, so that he can get his wife and daughter back. The sages have predicted that, if the star begins to shine again, then the princess and the queen will also return. Sonja goes out into the woods to find the Christmas star. However, the count follows her. Out in the woods, she meets an old woman selling Christmas sheaves ( ). She is the queen, who has been transformed into an old woman. The old woman sees the golden heart that Sonja wears around her neck and understands that this is Princess Gulltopp. Sonja, pursued by the count, is helped by the woman and escapes Ulrich. But Count Ulrich catches up with her again. Then she is saved by little elves, who lead her to Santa's workshop. Santa says she will have her wish fulfilled, and Sonja wants the Christmas star to shine over the land again.

The wish comes true, but, as Sonja happily runs into the castle to say that the star has returned, she is seized by Ulrich's men and thrown into the castle's darkest dungeon. The old woman comes to the rescue by extracting the keys to the dungeon from the guard and leads Sonja to the king. She proves that Sonja is his daughter by presenting the necklace with the golden heart. When the king is reunited with his daughter and sees that the Christmas star has returned, there is great joy in the castle and in the country. Ulrich is captured and the old woman disappears. When the princess wants to thank the old woman later that evening, she reappears. After Sonja embraces her, the woman is transformed into the beautiful queen again, and the little royal family is reunited.

In 1954, Dr. John Wainright, a former academic-turned-illusionist, publishes a book about reincarnation in which he espouses to be the mesmerist Svengali, reincarnated. John's publisher, Sir Stephen, reveals to him privately that he himself is the reincarnation of the leader of the Society of the Bleeding Rose, a Satanic cult. Stephen convinces John that he is there to replenish the cult's psychic energy via human sacrifice: The intended goal of the ritual is to transfer Stephen's soul into the body of the sacrificed individual during a double suicide; their deaths must occur at the moment of orgasm for the transference to work.

John initially picks up Mary, a prostitute, and kidnaps her to indoctrinate her into the cult, making her a slave to Satan. He subsequently attempts to court Trilby, a naive and virginal exotic dancer whom he encountered at a nightclub where he performs his illusionist act. Meanwhile, Trilby's drug-addicted prostitute roommate, Barbara, and her pimp, Roland, have simultaneously planned to seduce Trilby, as they are both enchanted by her beauty. Trilby begins to grow suspicions of John's intentions with her. Later, Barbara and Roland convince Trilby to engage in a threesome. John arrives and interrupts the sexual encounter, and Roland insults him. John stares into his eyes, apparently putting him under a spell. Shortly after, Roland is hit and killed by a moving car while crossing a street.

Through a series of supernatural experiences in which he communes with Svengali, John comes to find that Trilby is a source of eternal energy—a goddess—and the Svengali is bent on using her for the benefit of the cult. John begins to regret his involvement, but the spirit of Svengali threatens him. John, who feels legitimate affection for Trilby, flees to the nightclub to warn her. In her dressing room, John informs Trilby that he caused Roland's death, and that it will not be safe for her to be around him, as he—under the possession of Svengali—will murder her. Trilby is impervious to his claims, and suspects he has taken hallucinogens.

After she leaves the nightclub, Trilby finds John—possessed by Svengali—sitting in the back seat of her car. He stares into her eyes, causing her to fall into a spell. That night, John stages a magic show at a high society party, performing his sawing-in-half act on Mary. The same night, the cult holds their ritual in a large mansion, using the kidnapped Trilby. The ritual culminates in Stephen and Trilby having sex on an altar, Trilby brandishing a knife to stab Stephen at the moment of orgasm. During the ritual, Mary suddenly grows jealous of Trilby, and expresses possessiveness over Stephen, her master; she interjects, and stabs Stephen herself before committing suicide.

With the ritual failed, Svengali departs John's body. John, now freed of the burden, flees the house with Trilby. From a balcony, the spirits of Svengali, Mary, and Stephen laugh and watch.

The action takes place in the early 16th century. The Tatars attacked the prosperous Belarusian lands located at the intersection of trade routes, which were part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Crimean Tatar cavalry raided all Belarusian cities without exception. The aggressors stormed fortresses, robbed and enslaved the locals leaving behind only ashes.

However, the Tatars have to face the army squad and brave residents of Slutsk, who have not been defeated yet. The defenders are led by Princess Anastasia Slutskaya after the death of her husband, Prince Semen Olelkovich (1505).

The toon cop Bonkers D. Bobcat goes on a mission to follow a trail that will take him to the casting factory where he has to rescue his partner Lucky Piquel and several toons that have encased as wax statues by the evil Madame Whosaid, who plans to open her own wax museum.

Returning from Mos Pelgo, the Mandalorian subdues bandits who attempt to capture the Child. His speeder bike destroyed, the Mandalorian walks back to Mos Eisley, finding Peli Motto playing cards with Dr. Mandible, who has information about Mandalorians.

The Mandalorian must transport a passenger, the Frog Lady, to an estuary moon called Trask where her husband will fertilize her eggs, and has information about other Mandalorians. Her spawn are fragile and must be transported at sub-light speeds, despite the risk of being attacked by pirates. The Child surreptitiously eats some of the eggs. They encounter a New Republic patrol and the ''Razor Crest'' is forced to flee to a nearby planet and hide in an ice canyon. The ship crashes through the ice and is severely damaged. The Mandalorian wants to wait until morning to make repairs, due to the extreme cold.

The Frog Lady uses the severed head of the droid Q9-0 to translate and says they cannot wait, admonishing the Mandalorian for breaking his word, and he reluctantly begins repairs. Later they find the Frog Lady in a nearby hot water pool, bathing with her eggs. The Mandalorian warns her that it is not safe and collects the eggs. The Child explores the ice cave, finding another kind of egg, which he eats. Nearby eggs hatch, and soon the cave is filled with white spiders of various sizes. They are chased by a cluster of spiders, and a giant spider attacks. The spiders surround them from all sides, but they make it to the ship's cockpit. A spider climbs onto the Child but the Frog Lady vaporizes it with a tiny blaster.

As they take off, the giant spider attacks the ship, trapping them. They are saved by the X-wing pilots, who kill the spiders with blaster fire. There is an arrest warrant on the Mandalorian for freeing a dangerous prisoner. They also note that the Mandalorian confined three other criminals and defended the prison guard, and so they are willing to overlook the incident. The Mandalorian asks for their help but they leave, warning that next time they might vaporize his ship. He finishes the repairs and the severely damaged ship continues the journey. The passenger and the Mandalorian fall asleep; the Child has somehow sneaked another egg which he happily gulps down.

Women's magazine, "Ladies", and Men's magazine, "Gents" were acquired by renowned writer Michelle Chan (Flora Chan), who merges them into a new magazine, "Boku". Alice (Miriam Yeung) is a journalist for "Ladies" while Ryan Li (Louis Koo) is the vice chief editor for "Gents". Alice falls in love with Ryan at first sight, but Ryan has a crush on Michelle. One time during an assignment where she travels up a mountain to interview an extraordinary person, Alice loses her glasses and calls the "Boku" office for help, where Ryan answers her call and proceeds to help her but he gets hurt from a fall. From that day on, Alice makes double-stewed soup for Ryan to heal his wound and later also helps him set up his new home. When Ryan finds out Alice's feelings for him, he purposely avoids her and Alice sadly resigns her position. However, one day while looking at the designs in his new home, Ryan misses Alice.

The film is based on the true story of Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, two prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp who manage to escape with details about the camp's operation including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon-B, used in the murders there. Once across the border into Žilina, Slovakia, they are asked by the resistance to type up their recollections, which later becomes known as the Vrba-Wetzler report. The pair are eventually introduced to a representative from the Red Cross, who despite disbelief at their claims agrees to pass on the report to the allies.

Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Valentina. His son, advertising photographer Pavel, who has driven out to his childhood hometown from the city where he works, arrives late to her funeral. Sidling apologetically to the graveside through the thicket of more respectful mourners, he joins his stiffly resentful father Vasil by the open casket. And then his phone, set to a frog-ribbit ringtone, goes off in his pocket. When a woman at the funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cell phone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to contact his wife.

With the very best of intentions, Pavel has lied to everybody: to Vasil about the reason for his wife's absence from the funeral; to his wife, whom he only speaks to on the phone, about where he is and why; and to his assistant at work who is running down the clock on an advertising job with a tricky client. The evasions and falsehoods snow down thicker when Vasil’s unexpected interest in the gimcrackery of a local guru/charlatan, who claims to be able to commune with the dead, means that Pavel has to delay his return. Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way. Eventually Pavel is trapped in a blizzard of white lies.

Martin Lowery is a scientist sent to a government-controlled outpost while an unspecified pandemic has ravaged the country. The outpost is located in an unusually fertile forested area outside Bristol to help in the studies and experiments of his former colleague and ex-lover Olivia Wendle regarding using mycorrhiza to increase crop efficiency. After passing a physical examination and meeting his park guide Alma, he learns of the local legend of Parnag Fegg, a woodland spirit. The following morning, Martin and Alma begin their two-day hike toward Olivia's site.

Alma informs Martin that Olivia has not been heard from in months. The next night, Martin discovers a rash on his arm before he and Alma are assaulted by unknown assailants who also raid their camp, destroy their equipment, steal their shoes, and loot some of their supplies. Without his shoes, Martin badly cuts his foot.

They are approached by Zach, a man living in the woods who offers to lend the pair some shoes. Taking them to his own campsite, Zach disinfects and stitches Martin's wound and gives them both food and a drink. Martin and Alma begin to lose consciousness and realize they have been sedated. While they are unconscious, Zach takes ritualistic photos of them in strange clothes and positions and stitches a strange symbol and animal gut into Martin's arm.

Upon waking up Zach describes the symbol as a mark to be seen by a presence in the woods, claimed by him to have once been an ancient sorcerer who placed his essence in a standing stone somewhere in the forest. Martin's foot becomes infected from his injury and Zach sloppily amputates some of his toes with a hatchet.

Alma acquires a discarded blade to free herself and Martin before attacking Zach. Martin and Alma flee but become separated, with Zach pursuing Martin. After encountering the standing stone, Martin is found and rescued by Olivia. Alma independently makes her way to the camp, and Zach is driven away by the amplified sound and lights set up around Olivia's camp.

The next morning, Olivia cauterizes Martin's foot as she explains her project. With Zach's help, they attempt to communicate with the presence inside the stone using the lights and noises from an electronic soundboard. Unable to trust Olivia and fearing that Zach is still after them, Alma tries to convince Martin that they need to leave, but Olivia refuses to abandon her research.

The next morning, Olivia's site is surrounded by a thick mist containing fungal spores, trapping them. They send Alma through the mist in a hazmat suit, but the spores make it through and subject her to horrifying visions. That night, the mist encroaches closer to the site as Zach arrives to speak with the others, telling them to communicate with the standing stone using the sounds and lights as well as to consume a "sacrament," a mixture of ground mushrooms alluded to in the book.

Martin agrees to drink the sacrament and waits for it to take effect. Zach ambushes Alma and prepares to sacrifice Martin. Alma makes her way back to camp, where she finds Olivia in her tent surrounded by more photographs of her and Zach's victims. Olivia attacks Alma, but she fends her off. Zach hears their struggle and rushes back to camp, where Alma kills him. She then pursues Olivia back to the standing stone as the mist overtakes the camp, and they are all subjected to more visions from the spores.

By morning, Alma and Olivia suddenly find themselves far from the stone, broken out from their trances. Olivia, overcome with awe, collapses on the ground. Alma then approaches a waking Martin by the stone and, speaking with a distorted voice, she offers to guide him out of the woods.

Long ago, Texas Ranger Jim Dillon accidentally wounded his partner during a hostage situation. Ever since the incident, Jim has elected to keep the peace in the small town of Horse Cave without a gun, joined by Deputy Matt. Learning of his former partner's death, Jim has fallen into a depression, eased back into the light by Catie, a café server and part-time preacher who has a crush on the lawman. Settling in for an average day, Jim's plans are ruined by the arrival of Diablo, the head of a motorcycle gang looking to rob the Horse Cave bank and empty an armored truck due to arrive in town. When Diablo takes control of the town, prepping his big move to grab the loot and escape, Jim is left with his wits and a desire to bring the invader to justice, trying to play an extended game of hide and seek with the burly villain, who isn't afraid to kill civilians.

In a short prologue, a hunter armed with a double-barreled gun, accompanied only by his dog, walks through a snowy landscape, while a narrator describes his appearance. The film then switches to a flashback which takes up the rest of the film.

Misugi, the hunter of the opening sequence, and a company director and art collector, is newly married to the much younger and inexperienced Midori. Midori's older cousin Saiko has been married for a few years to successful physician Kadota. One day, a woman named Hamako shows up with her young child in Saiko's house, claiming that she is Kadota's former mistress and the child his extramarital daughter Shoko. When Hamako dies in an accident shortly after, Saiko agrees to adopt Shoko, but divorces her husband. Saiko visits Midori, making a great impression on Misugi with her sophistication and education. Misugi falls in love with her, and soon the two start a passionate affair. Saiko feels guilty for her betrayal of her younger cousin, referring to Misugi and herself as "criminals" and vowing that she will kill herself if Midori ever found out. Unknown to her, Midori finds out about the adultery but decides to keep calm about her discovery. She has short affairs with other men while her marriage with Misugi deterioates into coldness and loneliness. Years later, during a visit to the ill Saiko, Midori finally tells her that she knows all about her and Misugi's affair. Saiko, who also learned that her former husband Kadota has married again, asks Shoko to burn her diary for her and commits suicide with poison. Instead of destroying it as told, Shoko reads her mother's diary, shocked about its content, lamenting the "sad and terrible world of adults". The film closes with the prologue's image of Misugi in the snowy landscape.

Nineteen years after Ryoma Nagare, Go Ichimonji and Messiah Tyr left Earth in the Shin Getter 1 to Mars, the world is recovering from a previous conflict that almost changed the planet forever. Upon that time, the conflict between Earth and an unknown entity known as the Andromeda Stellaration is escalating as swarms of technorganic insect-like aliens almost brought the planet to its knees. However the Saotome Institute, now under the command of Hayato Jin, is doing its best to repel the enemy while training new pilots for protecting Earth against extraterrestrial threats both from within and beyond the planet. All for to pilot a new Getter unit meant as the final legacy of Professor Saotome: Getter Robo Arc.

In the midst of the conflict, Takuma Nagare, a teenage boy and the only son of Ryoma is searching for answers about his own legacy guided by his friend Baku Yamagishi. During a battle between a metal beast and the Saotome Institute's Getter Team, Takuma and Baku hijacked a fallen Getter D2 after its pilot has died. Much to the dismay and curiosity of Hayato, he sent the Getter Arc piloted by Sho Kamui to assist Takuma on defeating the metal beast and was brought in to the institute. Seeing Takuma and Baku's potentials, Hayato assigned both alongside Sho to operate Getter Robo Arc as humanity's last hope against the Andromeda Stellaration to protect humanity from its own extinction.

''Saints and Villains'' recreates the life and martyrdom of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who participated in a plot to kill Hitler and was executed at Buchenwald in the waning days of World War II.

Raised in a privileged, upper-middle-class German family at the beginning of the 20th century, Bonhoeffer is a sheltered and dreamy loner, indulged and protected by his family. After failing to develop as a musician, he turns to theology, initially as an academic pursuit, not a spiritual calling. His studies lead him to Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he meets Reinhold Niebuhr and social activist Myles Horton. He befriends an African American student, Fred Bishop, who introduces him to the endemic racism in the United States, and takes him to visit both Harlem and Appalachia, where he witnesses racism and poverty first hand. The most impactful of these experiences is the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster of 1927, in which hundreds of mostly Black men mysteriously die after being pulled off bread lines to help dig a tunnel. Bonhoeffer disguises himself as a worker, actually and symbolically stripping himself of all articles of selfhood: He must hide his glasses, pretend to be mute because he has an accent, and don ragged clothes to fit in. This sense of being depersonalized foreshadows what happens to Jews in Germany upon his return.

Bonhoeffer returns to Germany, and soon after, Hitler and the Nazis come to power. When attacks on Jews became open public policy after the Reichstag fire of 1933, Bonhoeffer's writings and sermons take on an increasingly anti-Nazi tone. When the Nazis set up a state church, he helps found another pastoral movement in opposition, and speaks as a representative of that movement at the 1936 Olympics.

As the Nazis become increasingly violent, anti-Semitic and anti-intellectual, Bonhoeffer feels compelled to act. He takes a job as a low-level military intelligence agent in the Abwehr, working with a group of upper-echelon Nazi officials who plot to kill Hitler. He uses his position to gather counterintelligence and to help Jews flee Germany. Bonhoeffer struggles with the moral dilemma of justifying taking one life to save others. In April 1943, Bonhoeffer is arrested and imprisoned. There, he faces the interrogator Bauer, who mocks his faith, and is a foil for all Bonhoeffer's doubts and moral quandaries.

Bonhoeffer spends the rest of the war in jail, and as the war nears its end, his fate hangs in the balance—will he be saved by the approaching Allies? However, he is hanged in April 1945, only a month before Germany's surrender.

Each novel in Smith’s seasonal series is juxtaposed with a work of Shakespeare – in this one, it is ''Pericles''. All of the books also examine everyday life in Britain. ''Spring'' follows a string of characters and explores themes like immigration and human nature in general, as well as the aftermath of the EU referendum and growing tensions in the UK.

The novel has two central narratives, the first is the story of Richard, an older man who is dealing with the loss of someone close to him. He boards a train to Scotland, with no particular destination in mind, to try and escape or solve his emotional turmoil. The second narrative is that of Brittany, or Brit as she is named in the book. Brit works at a detention centre for migrants where she unexpectedly meets a young girl named Florence. Like Richard, Brit and Florence also happen to board a train up north to Scotland. All of the characters in the novel eventually meet.

''Teardown'' s story is primarily told through emails that the player character receives. The game takes place in the fictional Löckelle Municipality and the player controls the unnamed owner of Löckelle Teardown Services, which is facing financial hardships due to a lack of clients. In desperation, they accept a suspicious job from Gordon Woo, who requests an old building to be destroyed during the night to make way for the construction of his Evertides Mall. The morning thereafter, Tracy, the owner's mother and Löckelle Teardown Services' head of sales, alerts the owner that the building had been under cultural heritage protection and that a traffic camera had caught the company vehicle entering the site. While she persuaded the officer in charge—Löckelle Police Department criminal investigator Parisa Terdiman—not to pursue an investigation, Terdiman in return asks for help investigating Lawrence Lee Junior and his company, Lee Chemicals. Under Terdiman's guidance, the owner repeatedly breaks into the Lee Chemicals premises and Lee's private properties at West Point Marina to retrieve information about a mystery client.

In the meantime, Woo makes further requests to Löckelle Teardown Services, including the stealing of classic cars from Lee, who, in retaliation, orders the company to sink several of Woo's cars. The alteration between them escalates and Woo eventually orders Löckelle Teardown Services to destroy the power generator at Lee Chemicals with a bomb he provides. Unintentionally, the resulting blast also destroys the nearby dam and floods the area. By this point, Terdiman has discovered that Lee Chemicals' client was BlueTide, an energy drink producer run by Mr Amanatides. As no official records exist on Amanatides, Terdiman asks the owner to break into the BlueTide premises on Hollowrock Island and retrieve communication data by hacking into satellite dishes. She then hears of the flooding at Lee Chemicals and additionally requests the retrieval of accounting data from that company.

Months later, having heard of Löckelle Teardown Services from Woo, Amanatides contacts the company because he requires better security for BlueTide. RoboSec, a producer of autonomous guard robots, offered him a discount in exchange for information on its competitor, Quilez Security. Amanatides thus requests Löckelle Teardown Services to break into the location of Quilez Security and take photographs of the in-development robots. Meanwhile, Tracy buys a new van for the owner. Thereafter, Terdiman states that she found that BlueTide's drinks contain an unknown, highly addictive substance and she requires clean samples thereof to be retrieved from the Hollowrock Island facilities. A leftover shipping label leads Terdiman to uncover that the Evertides Mall is also controlled by Amanatides and is being used as a repackaging hub for the unknown substance. The owner recovers the shipping logs from the Evertides Mall, which reveal the distant Muratori Islands as the intermediate shipping target. Terdiman sends the owner there and instructs them to steal several barrels of the substance as evidence and then destroy the local supply chain before returning to Löckelle.

As a result of the disruptions on Hollowrock Island, at the Evertides Mall, and on the Muratori Islands, Amanatides fires Woo as the mall's manager and begins a revenge plot against who he believes disrupted BlueTide's businesses. Under his orders, the owner retrieves a truck and steals autonomous robots and nitroglycerin from Quilez Security. While Terdiman and the Löckelle Police Department raid Hollowrock Island and apprehend Amanatides, he reveals to the owner that the machine that he built from the retrieved components, the Truxterminator, is being deployed. He located the former Löckelle Teardown Services company vehicle in Tracy's driveway in Cullington and thus intends to destroy the town using the machine. Tracy is unaware of her fate as she is trying out her new tanning bed, so the owner arrives in Cullington and safely guides the Truxterminator through the town and into the sea.

After an Uber-Apocalypse wipes out civilization, only one person miraculously survives: 12 year-old Andrew. With the last working TV and VCR in existence, he invites a motley group of apocalyptic creatures into his house to watch weird cartoons and old movies.

In a fantasy kingdom, all magic is regulated by the Secret Magic Control Agency (S.M.C.A.). One day, the king is abducted by sentient food enchanted with black magic. To keep the rest of the kingdom calm, the prime minister agrees to keep the abduction confidential and have the S.M.C.A. investigate. The S.M.C.A. appoints agent Gretel with her disowned brother and con artist Hansel, who the agency believes could contribute with his knowledge and abilities to track down the king.

The siblings identify a local pastry shop with a pantry that has sentient baked goods. Gretel discovers a potion room in the pantry, which includes a beaker of enchanted vanilla extract. Hansel and Gretel are turned into children after a chase with a dog-shaped cookie destroys the building. Unable to get help from the S.M.C.A. as no one believes that the children are Hansel and Gretel, they seek the assistance of Baba Yaga, a witch rumored to eat children. They learn that the enchanted vanilla extract came from the swamplands.

After escaping from Baba Yaga's, the siblings make their way to the swamplands, where mermaids live. However, the Lake Witch mistakes them for spies for Ilvira, the witch of the gingerbread house and former chef of the king. They are spared from being turned into fish when her daughter recognizes Gretel as the one who saved her from a previous incident. Hansel and Gretel discover that the mermaids have imprisoned some of Ilvira's goons. Gretel frees the goons who lead them to Ilvira's lair and the king's whereabouts. The spies learn Ilvira's intent was to make the sovereign and the whole kingdom fall in love with magic to become queen and gain the magical power imbued in the noble title itself. She captures the siblings and imprisons them in an oven.

Hansel and Gretel argue with each other: Gretel is disappointed in her brother's occupation as a con artist while Hansel is saddened that Gretel prioritized her career as an agent over her own family. Hansel reveals to Gretel that while their parents did advocate for their children to be honest, their jobs as agents for the S.M.C.A. were not enough to fund Gretel's education and that Hansel had given up his chance at an honest life to pay for Gretel's tuition, which he told Gretel was a scholarship from the king. They both reconcile and escape the oven.

The siblings prepare an antidote and go to the wedding. Gretel gives the king the antidote, but the marriage is sealed before they can stop Ilvira. Before Gretel can pour the antidote into Ilvira's cookie-making machine, Ilvira takes the antidote back and shoves the children into the batter to be baked into cookies. Using an S.M.C.A. gadget Hansel stole from the agency earlier, Hansel and Gretel manage to escape, get the antidote back, and drop Ilvira into the cookie batter.

Having saved the king and the kingdom from Ilvira, Gretel is awarded the title of "Best Agent" by the S.M.C.A. and Hansel is given an official license to perform magic, which he declines since he is incapable of using real magic. Gretel decides to work with her brother on all her future assignments.

D'Vana Tendi, an ensign who is new to Starfleet, arrives on the USS ''Cerritos'' and is immediately met by fellow ensigns Bradward "Brad" Boimler and Beckett Mariner, who give her the full tour of the lower decks of the ship. After that, Boimler is asked to meet with Captain Carol Freeman specifically. Worried, Boimler enters her office, where she tells him to keep an eye on Mariner, who has been acting up, e.g., getting drunk with Romulan whiskey while at work. But, unbeknownst to Boimler, Mariner is actually Freeman's daughter. Sure enough, while making "second contact" with a very cut-off planet, Boimler catches Mariner smuggling much-needed equipment to humble farmers who live on the planet.

While Boimler and Mariner are arguing, they're attacked by a giant spider. Boimler and Mariner just escape, and Mariner suggests that they use their uniforms as decoys for the monster. When they costume dummies in their clothes, the spider tears apart Boimler's clothes while leaving Mariner's completely untouched. Soon after, the spider gets a hold of Boimler and begins to cover him in slime. Mariner is initially scared, but the farmers tell her that the beast is an herbivore, and is only playing with Boimler. Meanwhile, on the ''Cerritos'', Commander Jack Ransom unknowingly contacting a virus from the planet's surface, and quickly spreads it around to most of the crew, turning them into raging bloodthirsty monsters. Sam Rutherford is on a date with Ensign Barnes at the time, and they fight the monsters together until Rutherford realizes Barnes isn't into the mechanics of the ship, in which he specializes in.

Then, chief medical officer T'Ana (who is Caitian as a reference to ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'', in which there was also a Caitian character) finds Boimler and Mariner and quickly deducts that the slime the giant spider beast the monster spread on him is actually an antidote for Ransom's contracted disease. She cures all the crew members, thought Boimler chooses to let Mariner off the hook and not report her to Freeman, due to Freeman only wanting Mariner off the ship. Later, Mariner decides to mentor Boimler in hopes that he might become a captain someday.

The film is set in a rural U.S. state. Former Marine Kyle Snowden wakes up from a battlefield flashback nightmare. Snowden left the military after a frightening incident and works in Child Protective Services. He now lives with his young daughter, Angel, after his wife left them both.

A rogue group of mercenaries plans to attack Congressman Sam Nelson. The leader of the group, Eagan Raize, hates the Congressman. Eagan's father, Luther, was Nelson’s business partner and was sent to jail for eighteen years in a fraud case. Eagan believes that Nelson ruined his father’s life to take over the business. Sam Nelson is Kyle’s stepfather.

After an accidental shooting on the battlefield, Kyle Snowden's remorse was heavy and his sanity deteriorated. Following that incident, in which he unintentionally shot his partner, he was unable to pick up a gun again.

Eagan attacks Nelson's store by planting a bomb while Kyle, Angel, and many others are in the store, taking them hostage. Kyle is reluctantly required to take up arms again. Eagan had planned to destroy Nelson and set an example for the town, but he ends up stealing money from the store and taking Sunshine at gunpoint because he is infatuated with her. After the murder of Kyle’s companion, Clove from Child Protective Services, a Spanish boy, Manny, becomes Kyle’s responsibility. Overcoming his fear, Kyle raids the store and saves the day.

Nelson tries to convince the police that it was a planned robbery and not an act of terrorism, planned in order to claim insurance money. However, his efforts are futile, when Mikki steals Nelson's money for herself and Sunshine. Kyle plans to request temporary custody of Manny from the court. Kyle and Nelson make peace at the end.

Seven adventurers meet in the town of Trostenwald in the Dwendalian Empire and form an adventuring party after they are wrongly accused of a crime. Once they clear their names, they make their way to Zadash, become involved with a local rebellion and make the acquaintance of a crime lord named the Gentleman. They also encounter a covert drow raiding party from the neighboring region of Xhorhas and come into possession of a magical artifact called the "Beacon of Luxon".

The Empire declares war on the Dynasty and the Mighty Nein avoid the fighting by continuing their journey northwards outside the Empire. Along the way they complete several tasks for the Gentleman, one of which sees them come into possession of a relic linked to Fjord's patron Uk'otoa. During their travels Fjord, Jester and Yasha are captured by a slaver group. During the first rescue attempt Mollymauk is killed, so the survivors recruit more allies, including Caduceus Clay, to attack the slavers' base. The second rescue is successful and the slavers are destroyed.

The party heads south to Nicodranas which gives Fjord the opportunity to learn more about Uk'otoa. They are forced to steal a ship and flee as inadvertent pirates. On the open water they meet Avantika, a pirate captain who shares the patronage of Uk'otoa. Avantika joins the party on an expedition to unlock a shrine to Uk'otoa, but relations turn sour when the Mighty Nein make port in the pirate haven of Darktow. The party realize that Avantika plans to overthrow the pirate leader, the Plank King, and rule the oceans of Exandria. Avantika is executed by the Plank King when the party exposes her treachery, but they are banished.

The Mighty Nein return to land to discover that Felderwin, Nott's home town, was attacked by the Dynasty. During their investigation, they learn that Nott's husband Yeza was abducted by the Kryn Dynasty so they secretly cross into Xhorhas to search for him. After completing a job in Asarius, the Mighty Nein are granted an audience with the Bright Queen in the capital. During this meeting, the party's Empire origins are exposed, but Caleb earns the party the favor of the queen by handing over the Beacon. They make the acquaintance of Essek Thelyss who releases Yeza to them and grants them a house in Rosohna. While carrying out mercenary work, the Mighty Nein uncover a conspiracy to break down the barriers between the Prime Material Plane and the Abyssal Plane. The Mighty Nein identify Obann as a key figure in this conspiracy and discover he intends to awaken the champions of the Betrayer Gods. Although Obann is defeated during their confrontation, he turns Yasha against the party and releases one champion. The party flees and Yasha revives Obann. The Mighty Nein return to the Empire to research Obann's cult, the Angel of Irons, as the Dynasty is unwilling to take the threat seriously. Their pursuit of Obann leads them to the Empire capital Rexxentrum where they prevent him from releasing Tharizdûn, the god of uncontrolled madness, from his prison. Yasha rejoins the party when Obann's control over her is broken.

The Mighty Nein receive an audience with King Dwendal which allows them to broker peace negotiations as they have connections in both nations. During their downtime, the Mighty Nein spend time with Essek, the party frees the Clay family from petrification in the Whitedawn Lagoon and Jester tricks a hag into releasing the curse on Nott that keeps her in goblin form. This allows Caleb to attempt the transmogrification of Nott returning her to halfling form. In Nicodranas, the party confronts Essek on his role in stealing the Beacons for the Empire. On the way to the negotiations, the party is attacked by minions of Uk'otoa and they make acquaintance with Lady Vess DeRogna of the Cerberus Assembly.

They then carry on to Rumblecusp, a remote island where they plan to host a gathering of followers of Jester's god, the Traveller. However, the Traveller reveals himself to be the archfey Artagan; the Mighty Nein agree to use the gathering to end the fledgling religion building up around him. Upon arrival, they find the island is already home to a false deity named Vokodo, who is controlling the people living there. The party defeats Vokodo whereupon they receive visions of an insane, sentient city in the Astral Sea. They carry on with their plans for the Traveller's gathering where they narrowly avoid incurring the wrath of an actual god, but successfully disband the cult.

The Mighty Nein are hired by Lady DeRogna to support an investigation of the crashed floating city of Aeor. Before they depart, the party learn that Mollymauk has been resurrected. En route to Eiselcross, the party is once again attacked by minions of Uk'otoa including an undead Avantika. At the Empire's base of operations, Lady DeRogna is murdered by the resurrected Mollymauk, who now goes by the name Lucien. The Mighty Nein pursue Lucien and his party, the Tombtakers, as Lucien is planning to summon the last remaining survivors of Aeor. Realizing that these survivors hail from the city in their visions, the Mighty Nein enter into an uneasy alliance with the Tombtakers in the hopes of stopping them but are eventually betrayed. They pursue the Tombtakers through the city of Aeor and into the Astral Sea, finally killing Lucien and the sentient city of Cognouza and ending the threat it posed to Exandria.

''Surprise Attack'' tells a cautionary tale of a young unvaccinated girl who contracts smallpox from a rag doll brought for her by her father, an army N.C.O. on leave and who had recently returned from the Far East. John Le Mesurier played the role of the family general practitioner physician who contacts the local MOH upon suspecting smallpox. The film shows how control of a hypothetical smallpox outbreak in an ordinary English town takes place, co-ordinated by the MOH. Although the girl survives the disease, she has to be sent away to an isolation hospital and is left severely scarred. Eleven further cases of smallpox occur of which four children die.

Towards the end of the film, the MOH reveals striking images of real cases of smallpox and calls on parents to have their children vaccinated. The film's message to parents of the early 1950s was that by the time their children are grown up, air travel would be common, creating an opportunity for infectious diseases to enter Britain. File:Surprise Attack (1951) film- caption from scene of unvaccinated child later diagnosed with smallpox.png|thumb|Unvaccinated child later diagnosed with smallpox File:Surprise Attack (1951) film- caption from scene of the recruitment of nurses for isolation hospital.png|thumb|Recruitment of nurses for the isolation hospital File:Surprise Attack (1951) film- caption from scene of policeman putting up vaccination notice.png|thumb|Vaccination notice File:Surprise Attack (1951) film- caption of infant receiving smallpox vaccine.png|thumb|Infant receiving smallpox vaccine

In Queens, teenage El works in his late mother's shoe store "Laces", now run by his stepfather Trey, who overworks El instead of his stepbrothers Zelly and Stacy. El closes the store early to join his best friend and fellow sneakerhead Sami at the release of a new sneaker, where they meet Kira, who is impressed by El’s insight into people from looking at their shoes. They miss the drop, but El shows Kira around his neighborhood, losing track of time as they fall for each other.

El is forced to rush back the store without a way to contact Kira, and is grounded by Trey, to his stepbrothers’ delight. Kira returns home, and is revealed to be the daughter of sneaker mogul and former basketball star Darius King. Inspired by El, Kira suggests that her older sister Liv’s shoe design is too “basic” and convinces their father to let her look for another original design before the upcoming SneakerCon.

Learning Kira’s identity, Sami and El plan to sneak into King’s charity gala to find her. Overwhelmed by running the business alone, Trey has decided to sell the store, leading El to draw on memories of his mother and create a unique shoe design, with inspiration and help from the neighborhood. The night of the gala, Zelly and Stacy trap El in the stockroom, but he is rescued by Gustavo, the community garden’s magical caretaker. He provides El and Sami with outfits, tickets, and a classic convertible to reach the gala, but warns that they must leave by midnight.

At the event, El’s custom-made shoes become the talk of the crowd, as Sami inadvertently spreads rumors that El is a sought-after independent designer. El reunites with Kira, who prepares to introduce him to her father as the designer everyone is talking about, but he and Sami are forced to flee at midnight. El loses one of his shoes on an escalator, which is found by Kira. Determined to track down the young mystery designer, Kira and Liv launch a viral campaign to find her “prince”.

El is unsure how to explain the truth to Kira, but Sami convinces him to reach out to her and arrange a meeting with her father. Realizing El’s plan, Zelly and Stacy steal his other shoe, and El arrives just after his stepbrothers have informed Darius that El is merely a stock boy. El tries to explain himself, but Darius and Kira rebuke him for breaking their trust and send him away. As Trey prepares to close the store and move the family back to New Jersey, El throws away his designs, which are found by Gustavo.

Kira’s mother suggests that her disappointment in El comes from trying too hard to meet her father’s expectations, leading her to realize that she put just as much pressure on El herself. El wakes up to find a pair of sneakers from Gustavo, created from his design inspired by Kira. While Sami distracts his stepbrothers, El races to the King brand sneaker drop, where he and Kira apologize to each other.

Zelly and Stacy take off in the moving truck to confront El, and Sami urges Trey to see how unfairly he has been treating El since his mother’s death. El convinces Darius of his good intentions, his talent, and his feelings for Kira, but is interrupted by his stepbrothers. Trey arrives, reining in his sons. He apologizes for being so hard on El, and asks for a second chance to be a real father to El, while Darius declares El his new designer.

One year later, El is in a relationship with Kira, and has transformed Laces into “El-evate”, his own sneaker store pushing new and creative designs for all of Queens.

The film deals with tragedy of the 11-year civil war in Sierra Leone. The film has used natural brutal events and tragedies along with the narratives and other international discussions as well as footage from the Sierra Leone, United Nations, and European community. The film also described the life of Sierra Leone and its people eleven years later, where about 70 000 men, women and children had been killed during the civil war. The civil war in Sierra Leone is also described as one of 20th century's most brutal conflicts, and one of the UN's most inglorious humanitarian failures.

June and Sarah are now running a mobile clinic, but they aren't having much success in saving people, including the death of a man from a burst appendix that they tried to operate on. June is reunited with John, who tries to convince her to flee to his cabin with him, but they are interrupted by a message from Luciana about a disaster in Tank Town due to the explosion of a new well.

Virginia, John, June, Sarah, Luciana and the Pioneers fight to save survivors of the disaster, but a spray-painted message that reads "THE END IS THE BEGINNING" convinces Virginia that it was not an accident. Upon realizing and finding the art supplies of an injured Wes, Virginia tortures him for answers, believing he is responsible before being taken away by June.

However, June and Virginia get caught in an explosion, and Virginia gets attacked by a walker who manages to bite her hand. June hesitates to amputate her hand, blaming Virginia for the deaths of the workers, but Virginia insists there is a greater threat than her and that her methods are oriented to protect the people of her communities. June decides to save Virginia, who agrees to give June her own hospital. Tank Town is destroyed, and as a consequence, June refuses to leave with John and instead intends to build her hospital with the help of Luciana, Sarah, Wes, and Wendell. Though devastated by June's choice, John decides to implement his escape plan on his own.

''Death Arms'' is a novel in which a scheme involves assassinating humanity's collective unconscious.

''The Dream Wall'' is a novel in which the two main characters dream of their 22nd Century Soviet Britain counterparts.

''Dinner at Deviant's Palace'' is a novel in which Rivas rescues members from a cult in post holocaust America.

''Arrows of Desire'' is a novel in which future Britain is administered by the benevolent Euro-African Federation.

''The Fall of the Families'' is a novel in which oppressed aliens free themselves from rule by humans.

''Master of His Fate'' is a novel in which psychic vampirism features a scientific rather than supernatural rationale.

The plot of ''The Railroad Porter'' revolves around a wife who, after not seeing her husband come home at his regular time, assumes that she has been temporarily abandoned. In response, she invites a well dressed waiter to dinner at her home. When her husband comes home, and sees his wife having dinner with another man, the husband pulls out a revolver and begins to threaten the waiter with it. The waiter, in turn, pulls out his own gun, and a commotion ensues in which nobody gets hurt and everything ends happily.["Colored Pictures A Hit,"] ''New York Age'', September 25, 1913

Two parents begin to grow separated from one another following the death of their preteen daughter. Though they refuse to speak to one another in person, both parents are watched over by shadows expressing their true emotions. While the father goes outside, the mother thinks about entering her daughter's old bedroom, though she stops herself due to overpowering grief and sadness.

While doing laundry, the mother begins to cry after realizing she has washed her daughter's shirt. She sits near the washing machine, causing a soccer ball to fall down and open her daughter's bedroom, which also rolls onto a record player, playing the song "1950". The mother decides to enter the room, where she later reunites with her husband. While "1950" continues to play in the background, a shadow representing their daughter pops out of the record player, and the parents begin to remember events in their daughter's life.

In a series of flashbacks, the parents see their daughter grow up: developing a love for soccer, celebrating her 10th birthday, and experiencing her first kiss. In the final flashback, the daughter leaves her parents to attend school. Knowing what is about to happen, the shadows of the parents attempt to stop her from entering the premises, but, this being a memory, they fail. Inside the school, the daughter is shot and killed during a school shooting, with her final text to her parents being "If anything happens I love you".

As the shadows of the parents grow apart, the shadow of the daughter brings them together, forcing the real parents to see the good memories they were able to experience with their daughter when she was alive. In the present, the parents hug, and the daughter's shadow becomes a bright light in between the shadows of her grieving parents.

In December 1992, Mona Juul at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls her husband Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen, who is in Jerusalem, goes to talk to Yossi Beilin. Beilin explains to Terje that the peace talks are in a dead end, because everybody demands everything at once, and Terje offers a new approach. An Israeli meeting a Palestinian on neutral ground.

Mona Juul has a meeting with Ahmed Qurei, the minister of finance of the PLO, in London, where Mona and Terje introduce him to Yair Hirschfeld, an Israeli professor for economics. The secret meeting, since Israeli officials were not allowed to talk to Palestinians, starts cold but warms up and they agree to meet again.

The followup meeting is held in a manor near Oslo, with Qurei and Hassan Asfour as representatives of the Palestinian government and Hirschfeld and Ron Pundak as Israelis representatives. The meeting starts formal and cold, but warms up over time and through socializing and smaller hiccups results in a first series of drafts for a Declaration of Principles (DOP).

As neither Hirschfeld nor Pundak are Israeli officials, talks are about to come to an end there. After some back and forth and Terje making unfounded claims that he would get an Israeli official to join the talks, Mona decides to break the secret to Johan Jørgen Holst, the Norwegian minister of foreign affairs, who facilitates a meeting with Uri Savir from the Israeli foreign ministry to review the DOP.

This meeting starts very aggressive with Savir and Qurei accusing each other of terrorism and murder, but again warms up over time with Savir expressing willingness to give up the Gaza Strip and Jericho―a city 20 miles outside of Jerusalem―to the Palestinians as an autonomous region.

Uri Savir then presents the result to Joel Singer, the legal adviser of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who meets with the group to finalize the document with official backing. Instead of finalizing the document, it almost leads to a breakup of the talks over Singer's attempts to rewrite the document. At the request of Hirschfeld, Mona finally breaks her "facilitate only" doctrine and gets involved. She can defuse the situation by sharing her own story about the conflict, which was hinted by flashbacks throughout the movie.

After that the Oslo Accord is meant to be finalized through a telephone conference between Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat. After some trouble getting Arafat, who is residing in exile in Tunis, on the line, they manage to talk to Qurei, who speaks on behalf of Arafat and the rest of the government because he claims to be more proficient in English. After a long conference, they agree to accept each other's legitimacy and postpone the controversial question on Jerusalem, thereby finalizing the negotiation.

The movie ends with a montage of archival footage of the events after the Oslo agreement, such as Yitzhak Rabin saying "We who have fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to you today, in a loud and clear voice: 'enough of blood and tears, enough'" at the White House in September 1993. It also references Rabin's assassination in 1995 and that the status of Jerusalem remained a sticking point, as well as the Second Intifada starting in September 2000. Nonetheless, it still affirms the importance of the Oslo meeting and the dialogue to facilitate a chance for peace.

Three prostitutes who work at the border between Belgium and France bury a body.

Juan María Brausen, a 40-year-old copy writer from Buenos Aires, is experiencing a midlife crisis when his wife of 5 years, Gertrudis, overgoes mastectomy. Brausen's longtime friend, Julio Stein, tells him the agency's boss, MacLeod, is about to fire him. In an attempt to save himself from financial ruin, Brausen, advised by Stein, attempts to write a movie script he could sell. Brausen, alone in his apartment in Calle Chile 600 (and later with his recovering wife) starts imagining the 40-year-old doctor Diaz Grey, in his clinic in the fictional town of Santa Maria, as he is visited by the seductive Elena Sala de Lagos, seeking morphine prescriptions for her addiction. Meanwhile, a prostitute nicknamed La Queca moves into the neighboring apartment. Brausen start listening to her conversations from across the wall and begins to imagine her apartment and life, until he eventually breaks in to her apartment and leaves without being seen. Brausen's life begins to dissolve as he keeps imagining Grey and Elena Sala in Santa Maria; his marriage falls apart and his wife, Gertrudis, leaves him, he is fired from the agency and slowly wastes his compensations. As his sanity fades away, Brausen enters La Queca's apartment and starts posing as Arce, a man who is a friend of La Queca's ex-boyfriend and later, using a different lie, as a man who saw La Queca at a bar and followed her home. The two begin a violent affair, during which they get drunk on gin and "Arce" beats La Queca. At some point, Ernesto, one of La Queca's lovers, finds him in her apartment and beats him up. Throughout their romance, Brausen's true identity as her neighbor is not revealed to La Queca. At some point, he hires an office space, steals one of La Queca's family photos and asks his friends to call him there during the day. A fictional "Onetti", modeled after the real author, briefly appears as an office-mate. Brausen begins to have more violent thoughts, imagining how he would kill Gertrudis and La Queca. He buys a gun and waits for the right time. However, before Brausen gets the chance to execute his plan, Ernesto kills her first. For an unknown reason, Brausen decides to help Ernesto escape, and the two flee Buenos Aires by train. However, Brausen leaves a note in La Queca's apartment, implicating Ernesto in the murder. The two escape to the fictional Santa Maria, where police agents find them. In an open ending, it is unclear what happens to Brausen.

In the meta-diegesis, Diaz Grey is convinced to help Elenea Sala and her husband, Lagos, find her missing paramour Oscar (The English), who escaped with their money. The two embark on a month-long journey, visiting a hotel, a country house and a bishop's house where Oscar has been. Grey lusts Elena, who taunts him and then sleeps with him for the first time the night before she mysteriously dies in bed. Following her death, Grey joins Lagos and Oscar in a plot to revenge her death by selling morphine prescriptions. The 3, accompanied by a young violinist, the daughter of the country house owner, finally appear in Buenos Aires the night before the carnival, using disguises to flee the police. Eventually, they are discovered and realize Lagos has not planned for their boat escape as he promised. Grey and the violinist, Annie, walk away into the night together, hinting at a possible new love affair. This conclusion, where Brausen loses himself in the fiction he created, and Grey takes his place in the real Buenos Aires, completes Brausen's desire to "become fiction".

Other characters include Julio Stein's longtime lover, the ex-prostitute Mami (Miriam), Gertrudis' sister, Raquel, and the "others"; fictional citizens of Santa Maria who appear at the end of the novel. The history of the characters is slowly revealed throughout the novel; Stein and Mami's life in Paris, a possible affair between Brausen and Gertrudis' younger sister Raquel in Montevideo, etc.

Two high school student cohorts, Drea and Eleanor, have their lives upended and become rejected by their high school. After a topless video of herself originally intended for only her boyfriend Max is leaked, Drea feels shame. Eleanor becomes an outcast when a rumor about her holding Carrissa down and attempting to kiss her begins to spread. Drea and Eleanor form a friendship and agree to go after one another's bullies.

High school student Asuka dies by suicide by jumping from the rooftop of her school wearing a rat mask. Forty-nine days later, six of Asuka's classmates—Misato, Kengo, Takashi, Ryota, Ryota's girlfriend Saki, and Kanako—receive text messages reading "Please come to classroom 3B at midnight tonight. I'll be waiting. Asuka". That night, Takashi, Ryota, Saki and Kanako gather in classroom 3B. At midnight, a figure wearing a schoolgirl uniform and a rat mask arrives. She writes the names of the six students on a chalkboard. Communicating through text written on notebook pages, she declares "Let's start the vengeance", and crosses Kengo's name off. She brings a blood-covered Kengo into the room, and announces that she will kill them.

Before Asuka's death, Asuka suggested to her six classmates that they perform a modern version of a traditional rat-themed dance for their school's cultural festival. Though Misato is supportive, the others are reluctant and are repelled by a rat mask Asuka had crafted for the performance. In the present, the masked figure drags Takashi outside and kills him with a metal baseball bat.

Kanako attempts to escape but is attacked by the figure with an electroshock weapon. Kanako awakens to find herself restrained to a chair. Her attacker challenges her to attain 100 points in a round of karaoke. It is revealed that, aside from Misato, Kanako and the other classmates had skipped Asuka's dance practice to do karaoke. When Misato and Asuka found them, they derided Asuka for always smiling. In the present, Kanako achieves a score of 52 points, and the figure electrocutes her to death.

Misato goes up to the rooftop, where she is confronted by the figure. Inside the school, Ryota and Saki encounter another person in a rat mask, armed with an axe. Ryota knocks off their mask to reveal Kengo. On the roof, the figure attacks Misato, and she trips her assailant down the stairs, causing them to land fatally on their own blade. Their mask is shed, revealing them to be Asuka's older sister Akane. After Asuka's suicide, Akane met with Kengo and enlisted him to help her get revenge on the others. In the present, Ryota dons the rat mask and bludgeons Kengo.

Saki, who had thrown Asuka's rat mask in the garbage in front of Asuka and Misato, encounters Misato, who is now wearing the mask. In the past, Kengo suggested to Ryota that Ryota should "clear things up with Asuka", but Ryota preferred to be with Saki. Misato asks Saki why she "stole her friend's boyfriend", and kills Saki with an axe. Ryoka attempts to escape on his motor scooter, but the vehicle explodes, killing him. Misato sits down on the steps as emergency vehicles arrive.

The fourth volume of the Karas series begins when students at Colégio Elite are on holiday at the end of the year and Magrí, the only girl in the class, is in New York preparing for the World Gymnastics Championship. The book, is the continuation of ''Angel of Death'', ''Swamp of Blood'' and ''The Drug of Obedience'', and after ''The Drug of Love'', it is still published ''Drugs of Americana!''. As the members of the group begin to fight for Magrí, which was the reason for the group's creation, they end up deciding that it is time to dismantle the ''Karas'' group. To make matters worse, ''Doctor Q.I., the king of criminals'', escapes from the Maximum Security Penitentiary. Magrí, the only girl in the class, is the one who faces all the risks to unravel the mystery.

The prison has been led by two powerful prisoners, who are triad leader Big Roller (Patrick Tam) and life imprisoned inmate Scar (Justin Cheung). The steady life in prison changes with the arrival of wrongly accused inmate Mak Kin-tin (Adam Pak).

First, Kin-tin was constantly being threatened by Scar, which led Kin-tin to give up on his appeal request and was later bullied by other inmates when they found out he was involved with destroying the storage unit with the belongings Big Roller's presumed deceased daughter, when in actuality, Kin-tin was framed. In order to protect his life, Kin-tin takes the suggestion of his cellmate, Ho-ching (Louis Cheung), and they work together to plan a precise escape from prison.

In order to avoid the strict supervision of Warden Tang (Kenny Wong), Ho-ching persuades Big Roller to help them but informing him that his daughter is alive and they work together along with Kin-tin to devise an escape plan utilizing each one of their strengths. However, Scar also discovers the plan and the trio reluctantly let him join. As a result, these four inmates put aside past rivalry and work together to breakout of prison.

As a child, Abe Applebaum was a local celebrity as a "kid detective," solving minor mysteries and crimes for the residents of the town of Willowbrook. When he was twelve, his close friend, Gracie Gulliver, disappeared. Despite his investigation, neither he nor the police were able to find her, leaving him traumatized.

Now 32, Abe continues to operate his detective agency, despite the concern from his family and derision from his peers for his failure to "grow up." Depressed over his struggling business and the complete lack of respect he is given, he abuses alcohol and drugs to cope. An orphaned high school student named Caroline approaches him for help investigating the murder of her boyfriend, Patrick Chang. Despite never having investigated a murder case before, Abe sees this as a chance to prove himself and agrees to take the case for free.

Their investigation leads to the discovery of several secrets that Patrick had kept from Caroline, such as his involvement in drug dealing and his affair with an older girl named Melody. They also learn that his friend Calvin is in love with Caroline, and resented their relationship. However, Abe's clumsy style of work also leads to several mishaps, such as angering Patrick's father and being arrested for sneaking into Calvin's house. He eventually reaches a breakthrough when he realizes that a series of origami roses given to Caroline were not from Patrick, as she assumed, and are identical to ones that were received by Gracie shortly before her disappearance. When he also learns that the person he implicated in the theft of school fundraiser money as a child was actually innocent, he is able to deduce the identity of both Gracie's kidnapper and Patrick's killer as being high school principal Erwin.

Abe confronts Principal Erwin at his home and reveals what he has learned. Erwin had become obsessed with Gracie and plotted to kidnap her. The theft of the school fundraiser money had been a test to see if Abe really was as good a detective as people thought, and when he failed to solve the case correctly, Erwin felt confident in carrying out his plan. Caroline is, in fact, the product of Erwin's rape of Gracie and had secretly been left at a church by Erwin after her birth. When he found a lewd picture of Melody in Patrick's locker, he mistook it for Caroline and killed Patrick in revenge for "ruining" her. With his crimes revealed, and confronted by the fact that he murdered Patrick over a mistake, Erwin kills himself in front of Abe. Abe subsequently discovers Gracie, still alive, locked in a shed in Erwin's yard.

Abe is hailed as a hero for solving the case and rescuing Gracie, restoring his respect in town and greatly boosting his agency's business. However, he is haunted by the recent events, and when his parents come to check on him, he breaks down sobbing as the movie ends.

Conjoined triplets Juan, Toto, and Ricky search for their father as they try to get a job in the city, only to fail every time. Eventually, a quack doctor is able to separate the three, but later they realize that they are better together.

''Green Eyes'' is a novel in which modified bacteria revive newly dead people.

''A Storm of Wings'' is a novel in which an invasion of alien locusts brings a worldview incompatible with that of humanity.

''Other Edens'' is a collection of 14 British science fiction/fantasy stories.

A boy puts on concerts in poor neighborhoods, playing to a hidden camera and making a fuss for comedic effect.

Former Marine and Afghanistan veteran Will Sharp, desperately in need of $231,000 for his wife Amy's experimental surgery, reaches out to Danny, his adoptive brother and a life-long criminal, who talks him into taking part in a $32 million bank heist. Though initially hesitant, Will agrees after Danny reaffirms that he is doing this for Amy. The plan nearly succeeds until Officer Zach Parker, who goes to the bank to ask out a bank teller, discovers the situation and is held hostage by Danny. A shootout then occurs between one of the heist members and Zach's partner Officer Mark. The Special Investigation Section (SIS) of the LAPD arrives and shoots and kills the whole crew except Will and Danny, who retreat towards the garage. Zach attempts to escape and during a scuffle between him and Danny, he is accidentally shot by Will. Leaving Zach to die, the brothers attempt to exit through the back of the building but find it surrounded by police. They then hijack a Falck ambulance with Paramedic Cam Thompson on board, who is treating the injured Zach. After a chase that leads them into an alleyway, Cam makes a desperate attempt to escape using a fire extinguisher, but decides to stay when Zach starts flatlining.

SIS Captain Monroe arrives on the scene and deploys helicopters to chase after the ambulance. Cam gets Danny to help her use a defibrillator and Will to transfer some of his blood to Zach, much to his confusion and frustration. Danny then calls Papi, one of his adoptive father's criminal friends, for help losing the police in exchange for $8 million. When Cam stops Danny from shooting Mark, who has been chasing them, Danny threatens to throw her off the ambulance. The police are forced to retreat when it is discovered that Monroe's dog is inside Mark's police vehicle. FBI Agent Anson Clark, a past friend of Danny's, is put on the case.

As Zach begins to bleed out, Cam, with Will's assistance, begins to perform surgery on Zach, whose spleen ruptures. Despite her inexperience, Cam successfully performs the surgery. Cam tries to convince Will to stop Danny, to no avail. Monroe, unaware of the surgery's success, moves forward with the operation and prepares to snipe Will and Danny without negotiating for Cam's life. Clark calls Cam and tells her to get down. Cam, wanting to save Zach's life, alerts Will and Danny about the snipers. Danny, having had enough of Cam, decides to shoot her, but Will intervenes, causing the brothers to fight about their predicament. They later partially reconcile and listen to music together to ease the tension.

In the Los Angeles River, helicopters chase the ambulance as Danny shoots at them. Will and Danny then drive on the opposite lane of the interstate, creating multiple accidents. On Papi's orders, his son, Roberto, drives an empty ambulance towards the police after filling it with C-4 explosives and deploys machine guns on separate cars to cause additional damage, which ends up killing Monroe in the crossfire. Mark chases down Roberto and kills him after a scuffle, leaving Papi angry and distraught. Will and Danny escape to Papi's hideout, where Papi demands the brothers to leave Zach and Cam with them to deal with; Will refuses to cooperate and teams up with Danny to kill Papi and his crew. In the chaos, Cam accidentally shoots Will using Zach's gun.

Danny takes the ambulance to a hospital, but discovers Zach's gun and becomes enraged when Cam reveals that she was the one who shot Will. Danny vows to kill Cam along with himself on live television, before confronting the police. Will, left with no other choice, shoots Danny in the back. Danny apologizes to Will before he dies from his injuries. The police arrest a heavily injured Will and take him inside for surgery, Cam secretly gives some of the heist money to Amy for her surgery, and Zach, when questioned by the police about his injuries, tells them that Will saved his life.

Cold and childless houses, beyond the splendor of a dream, rain falls, couples and cold houses are fighting over rain in the rain. Shahrokh is satisfied and the butterfly is upset, the story there, the dream hotel, takes everyone with it, now the butterfly is satisfied with the rain and Shahrokh is unhappy on the verge of deception whether the rain comes or not, depending on the border he made and paid…

Lucy and Josh, two executive assistants who are forced to work together after their respective publishing companies are merged, can't stand each other. Complete opposites in every way possible, their never-ending rivalry comes to a head when they go face-to-face for the same promotion: managing director. Resolved to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy decides to embark on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against Josh. This game quickly becomes more complicated than she anticipated when an innocent elevator ride becomes romantically heated in a matter of seconds. As the attraction to Josh, her supposed nemesis, grows, Lucy begins to question everything about her relationship with him, including the fine line drawn between love and hate.

Since long ago, in the African country of Burkina Faso, the people of the small village of Kalsaka had mined and used gold for their economic sustenance. With the coming of a British multinational mining corporation, however, that was brought to a close as the people were zoned out completely of the mining benefits from their own land. The village commune, nevertheless, led by Jean-Baptiste, fights hard to take back what belongs to her.

On Halloween night, Hannah Marie, dressed as a fairy princess, is about to go trick-or-treating with her spoiled cousin, Jimmy, wearing a devil hoodie, and his friends Katie, dressed as a black cat, Daryl, in a candy piece costume, and Bert, pretending to be a baseball player driving inside a powerful SUV that can shoot atomic lasers. Jimmy, annoyed with having to go with Hannah, conceives a prank to scare her home. While near an abandoned house in a graveyard, Jimmy concocts a myth about residents at the house (the "spook house") not feeding candy to monsters surrounding its exterior and being eaten as a result; ever since, candy has to be in the basement every year to prevent the monsters from killing other children in the world. Jimmy tells Hannah to go in the house and leave some candy. A frightened Hannah walks in the front door while the other kids lock her inside.

Inside, a friendly witch, along with her ghost cat, magically appears in front of Hannah and introduces herself as the Scary Godmother. She takes her on a broomstick ride to the Fright Side, a place where the Godmother's other friends live: Mr. Skully Pettibone the skeleton, Harry the werewolf, a fuzzy monster that works scaring kids named Bug-A-Boo, and a vampire family of parents Count Max and Countess Ruby, and son Orson. They are having another annual Halloween party, described by Pettibone as the most "spooky phantom fest in the whole realm." Although at first frightened of the monsters, Hannah eventually warms up to them and parties. Antics include dancing, a chase throughout the house by most of the guests, bonding between Orson and Hannah, and Harry annoying the other participants by eating most of the food and talking a lot.

Outside of the "spook house," Jimmy, Katie, Bert, and Daryl have waited for hours for Hannah to get out. The typical trick-or-treating time has passed, and Bert, Daryl, and Katie all become worried about Jimmy's legend being true and Hannah's life in danger. They demand to go in and get Hannah, but Jimmy, out of nowhere, insists there's no monsters, declares himself the "leader" by winning a rock, paper, scissors game, and temporarily rules they all wait for Hannah longer. However, Jimmy's attitude quickly changes, and all four kids enter the house to look for Hannah.

Near the end of the party, Hannah tells the guests about the myth Jimmy told her. Jimmy's name rings a bell to Bug-A-Boo, who scares Jimmy every other Thursday; the monster is angry with Jimmy because he spreads rumors that Bug-A-Boo eats little girls. Scary Godmother and her friends decide to play a prank on Jimmy and his goons in response, which ends with Hannah pretending to scare away the monsters. The kids take the monsters as real and bolt out of the house. Before Hannah leaves, the Godmother gives her a skeleton key to go back to the Fright Side anytime.

A married couple must confront their long-neglected relationship when the wife is diagnosed with brain cancer.

Valentín Terrazas (Infante) and Felipe González (Cardona) are candidates in an election for president in a fictional town in the state of Chihuahua that involves a shoot out between the two candidates, Valentín and Felipe. Valentín is injured in the shoot out, having been shot in the left arm and Jesusita, takes Valentín to the home of Tula Tulares de Tulancingo (Roldán) and Tula's daughter, Teresa Marroquín (Cora). Valentín wakes up with the three women standing near him, he is unhappy that Jesusita brought him to that particular house, but he's most unhappy that Teresa is engaged to be married to Felipe.

Valentín discovers that Macario has been sending flowers to Teresa in Valentín's name for several days without his knowledge which causes Teresa and her mother to visit Felipe's hacienda, where Jesusita lives and works. Teresa gives Jesusita a gown to wear at an upcoming party, and asks Jesusita why she doesn't dress like a woman and tells her she should dress more feminine or she'll never find a man. Jesusita rushes out of the room on the verge of tears. Before going in to dinner, Jesusita overhears Felipe tell Teresa and Tula that she should've been born a man because of the way she acts, but also says he envies her for her strength of character. He also says he doesn't think she will ever fall in love, and that's not who she is. Jesusita is again brought to tears, and while alone in her room decides to dress up for the party.

Felipe and Jesusita go to a canteen, another woman takes an interest in Felipe and wants to sit with them. Jesusita becomes jealous and eventually punches the woman, knocking her out. Later Felipe chastises Jesusita for her behavior and calls her a "butch" which causes her to cry. Felipe apologizes and she asks him not to call her that again.

Felipe goes to town to pay the municipal taxes for Tula, but the amount has tripled. Felipe confronts Valentín who tells him that he will waive the amount if Teresa agrees to marry him, otherwise Felipe has to pay it since he will be her husband. He also tells Felipe that it's going for a good cause, electricity, running water, schools and public parks, but Felipe is reluctant to pay it. Doña Tula pays Valentín a visit at his office, she asks him to lower the amount but he says the only remedy is that he become her son-in-law, or Teresa's future husband will have to pay it.

Valentín serenades outside Teresa's window, she appears but goes back inside before the song is done. Jesusita appears at the window and asks if he'll play a song for her, but Valentín tells her that he won't because she has the heart of a man, and the men all laugh. Jesusita is brought to tears again. Teresa tries to console her, saying that Jesusita cries like a woman just like her. Jesusita tells Teresa that she does love just like a woman, and she suffers because of it.

At the party Jesusita surprises everyone, she has transformed into a beautiful, elegant woman. Valentín crashes the party and sings to Teresa while Jesusita clings to Felipe's arm. Later he proposes to her but she asks him to leave. The next day Felipe tells Jesusita he plans to marry Teresa, and she runs out of the room. Felipe looks baffled. Valentín sends for Jesusita and proposes a deal in which they work together so that Jesusita can marry Felipe and he can marry Teresa.

Teresa is kidnapped and taken to a remote cabin, Valentín sings to her from outside to try to soften her heart. Felipe arrives to rescue Teresa and shoots Valentín with blanks that Jesusita has loaded in his gun. Valentín pretends to die, and Teresa tells him she loves him with all her soul. Valentín then reveals the ruse and tells Felipe that Jesusita is in love with him, which he didn't realize until then.

Korics and Q at long last choose to get ready for marriage. However, as Korics' enormous freed family goes to Q's critical and nouveau riche family for the ''pamamanhikan'' (courtship), the government abruptly declares a total hard lockdown. The couple should live with one another and their fighting families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A tourist visiting Cairo witnesses a murder and after that sees a man in a brown suit fleeing the scene. She boards a ship and assumes that one of her fellow passengers is the criminal and that they also plan to steal a cache of diamonds. However, all of her traveling companies appear to be potential suspects.

Troubled LAPD officer Joe Baylor is working the night shift at a 911 call center while he awaits a court hearing for an incident that occurred on duty eight months prior. He answers a call from a woman named Emily Lighton who reveals she has been abducted. Joe learns that she and her abductor are traveling in a white van, but Emily is forced to hang up before she can provide more details. Joe relays the information to the California Highway Patrol but they are unable to locate the van without a license plate number.

Joe calls Emily's home phone and speaks with her six-year-old daughter Abby, who tells Joe that her mom left the house with her dad, Henry Fisher. After getting Henry's cell phone number from Abby, Joe is able to retrieve the van's plate number, which he relays to the CHP. He also sends a patrol car to check on Abby and her baby brother, Oliver. Joe learns Henry has a record of assault. He calls Henry and demands to know where he is taking Emily, but Henry hangs up. Joe then calls his former partner Rick, who is off-duty, and asks him to visit Henry's house. Rick expresses concern about Joe's hearing, at which he is set to provide testimony.

Joe receives a panicked call from Abby when two officers arrive at her home; he instructs her to let them in. The officers notice blood on Abby and, upon searching the property, find Oliver in the bedroom either gravely injured or dead. Joe then calls Emily back and convinces her to pull the handbrake of the van, which she does, but it fails to crash the vehicle. Henry puts Emily into the back of the van. She tearfully tells Joe that she believed Oliver had "snakes in his stomach" and that she "took them out". When Henry stops the van and tries to remove Emily from the back, she hits him with a brick and flees.

Meanwhile, Rick breaks into Henry's apartment and finds documents from a psychiatric treatment facility in San Bernardino where Emily had been a patient. Joe calls Henry again, who explains he was taking Emily back to the facility; she had been off her medication for a number of weeks because they could not afford them and, during a psychotic episode, unintentionally hurt Oliver. Henry says he did not report the incident to the police because he does not trust the criminal justice system.

Emily calls Joe back from a freeway overpass, implying that she is preparing to die by suicide. Joe directs the CHP to her location while attempting to talk her down; he tries to distract her by revealing that he killed a 19-year-old while on duty because he was angry with him for hurting someone and "because I could". Joe tells Emily that Abby needs her and that he promised Abby she would come home. As officers arrive, Emily says she is "gonna go be with Oliver", and the line goes dead. Joe thinks she has jumped, but later he gets a message from the CHP, saying that they got her to come down safely. He also learns that Oliver is alive and in the ICU at the hospital.

In the restroom, a distraught Joe calls Rick and asks him to recant his previous statement about the incident. He asks Rick to tell the truth at the hearing, even if it means he will spend years in prison. Joe then calls the ''Los Angeles Times'' apparently to inform a reporter that he will plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter, as it fades to black.

In a mid-credit scene, a news report is read detailing that officer Joe Baylor has indeed pled guilty to manslaughter in an officer-related shooting.

Arlo Beauregard, a boy who is half-human and half-alligator, is placed in a sewage drain under New York City shortly after his birth, where he is taken by a stream of water into the ocean. Arriving in a swamp, Arlo is adopted and raised by a woman named Edmée. As a teenager, Arlo wishes to interact with other people but fears his alligator appearance will not be accepted by society. Edmée gives him his birth wristband on his fifteenth birthday and reveals to Arlo that he is from New York, and unaware that he was actually abandoned, Arlo decides to travel to the city to find his biological father, Ansel Beauregard.

While traveling, Arlo is spotted by a person who contacts two alligator hunters, Ruff and Stucky, to retrieve him using a creature known as "the Beast". After the hunters find him, Arlo is rescued by Bertie, who is also a teenager. At a wrestling club, the pair meet Furlecia, Teeny Tiny Tony, and Alia, who agree to drive Arlo and Bertie to NYC after they help rescue their friend Marcellus from an aquarium.

Arriving in NYC, the group spots Ansel Beauregard, an entrepreneur who announces his plan to rebuild part of the city near the seashore. Leaving his group after finding a way to talk to him, Arlo is told by Ansel that he is not his son, but Arlo disagrees. In an attempt to help, Ansel reveals his project to remodel the seashore environment of NYC into a large city, and tries to get Arlo to change his image, shocking him, and sends him away. Disappointed and alone, Arlo enters a sewage drain and is later found by the rest of his group at the same seashore site for Ansel's project, who then teach them that no matter how different he is, his flaws are what makes him who he is.

At the Met Gala that evening, Arlo and his friends break in but are secretly followed by Ruff, Stucky and the Beast. Soon after, Arlo interrupts the gala and Ansel tries to tell him the truth. However, Arlo is then captured by Ruff and Stucky. After Ansel manages to rescue Arlo, he reveals to an audience that he is, in fact, Arlo's father and also half-bird. He explains he only gave him up just to hide his half-animal identity and wants Arlo to forgive him to start over their kinship. Delighted, Arlo hugs his father and forgives him, but turns down living with him in favor of living with his friends instead, and accepts Bertie as a member of the group as well. Additionally, Ansel decides to let them move to and rebuild the seashore part of the city as it was in better condition, and Arlo officially accepts it as where he truly belongs.

In a mid-credits scene, Edmée receives a postcard and learns about Arlo's new life.

Regina Rueda (Eva Cedeño), is a woman with clear goals and has the strength to achieve them. She is an executive assistant to the president of a major clothing and footwear company. Due to a sentimental failure, she does not believe in love. Patricio Iturbide (Mané de la Parra) is the director of one of the most important fashion and footwear companies in Mexico. Upon meeting Regina, Patricio 's life takes a big turn, leading him to live a love story with her.

After being abducted along with 245 other girls from her school, the brilliant young Salma (Asabe Madaki), the only child of her parents aged 17 and the others were made to live with the terrorists in their camp. This brought about a disturbance to her dreams but she, however, despite the present conditions stayed true to her life ambition. Goni, one of the insurgents, comes along her way and the two fell in love and soon were married. As life gets difficult, with the encroachment of death and sorrow, insurgents and their lovers soon part ways.

Mrs. Emmeline Lucas — known to all as "Lucia" — has lost her beloved husband Peppino, who has died since the previous book. Coming out of mourning after a year, she finds that Daisy Quantock has taken over the Elizabethan fête that Lucia originally planned. Determined not to stick around in Riseholme while Daisy plays Queen, Lucia and her friend Georgie Pillson drive down to the quaint seaside town of Tilling, where Elizabeth Mapp lives. Mapp is renting out her house, Mallards, for the summer, and she's delighted to have Lucia as her tenant, since she visited Riseholme several summers before. Lucia convinces Georgie to rent the nearby Mallards Cottege, and he joins her for the summer.

As Lucia was the social leader in Riseholme, Mapp is the queen bee of Tilling, and Mapp intends to use Lucia's visit to bolster her own social standing. Lucia, naturally, has no interest in being bossed, and she easily charms the Tillingites — Diva Plaistow, Major Benji Flint, Mr. and Mrs. Wyse, the Padre and wife, and Quaint Irene — who were sick of being under Mapp's thumb. In addition to this, Lucia used a strong chain on the front door to prevent Mapp from barging into her house whenever she likes, and she insists that the gardener whom she has contracted to pay should work on the lawn and the flowers, rather than grow and harvest Mapp's garden produce for sale.

Now the undisputed society leader, Lucia organizes dull musical parties which consist of listening to her play the first movement of the ''Moonlight Sonata'' on the piano. The Tillingites grow restless, and Mapp thinks that she can regain the upper hand when Mr. Wyse announces that his sister, the Contessa Faraglione, will be visiting Tilling, and is looking forward to speaking Italian with Lucia — who pretends to be a fluent Italian speaker, but actually knows only a few scattered phrases. Suspecting the truth, Mapp is thrilled at Lucia's imminent exposure. But Lucia suddenly comes down with imaginary influenza during the entirety of the Contessa's visit, and Georgie comes up with a trick to help Lucia prove that she can speak Italian fluently just as Mapp hopes to make her score.

Energized by this social combat, Lucia decides to stay in Tilling permanently, and buys a house on the outskirts of town called Grebe; Georgie will stay as well, taking a long lease on Mallards Cottage. Mapp is horrified that her rival is staying, but still hopes to gain the upper hand. She tries to wheedle out the recipe for "Lobster á la Riseholme" from Lucia, who refuses to comply. In a rage, Mapp sneaks into the kitchen at Grebe to find the recipe herself — but a storm floods the house, leaving both Mapp and Lucia stranded on top of a kitchen table, which floats out to sea.

Believing that the pair have drowned, the Tillingites grieve, in their own way. Georgie is informed that Lucia has left him Grebe and a large sum of money in her will, which he appreciates but refuses to collect until Lucia is officially pronounced dead. Major Flint, similarly informed that Mapp has left him Mallards, decides to move in right away, and take possession of Mapp's wine cellar. Mapp and Lucia do return to Tilling after several months, having been saved by an Italian fishing ship, and Mapp is enraged to find Major Flint in residence. She kicks him out of the house and refuses to speak to him, but then decides that this is an opportunity to marry Flint, whom she has always had her eye on. She manages to get Flint to finally propose to her, and the novel ends with her wedding party, where she serves "Lobster á la Riseholme", based on the recipe that she stole from Lucia.

''Esaú e Jacó'' begins with the visit of Natividade, pregnant with twins, and her sister, Perpétua, to a cabocla in Morro do Castelo. The future mother wanted to know the fate of her twin sons, Pedro and Paulo. The prediction of the cabocla is encouraging, as she says that they will be big. This, however, is not enough to undo the restlessness of Natividade, who worries about the possible fights of the brothers still in the womb.

Upon arriving home, the woman reports the predictions to Santos, her husband. Pedro and Paulo grow physically identical, but completely different in personality. Paulo, a republican, enters law school, and Pedro, a monarchist, is studying medicine. Both are enchanted by Flora, daughter of the opportunist politician Batista and Dª Cláudia. With the appointment of Batista as president of a northern province, the young woman, divided among the twins, despairs, without wanting to leave Rio. With the Proclamation of the Republic, the girl ends up staying in the city. However, still undecided, she decided to go to the house of Rita, sister of Conselheiro Aires, and thus have more time to choose one of the brothers. Before deciding, the young woman falls ill and dies. The brothers suffer, but they soon begin their careers.

The two face each other in political life as deputies on opposite sides of parliament. With Natividade's death, given her last request, disagreements cease. Peace is short lived, so the brothers exchange barbs and end up separated.

Characteristics

Machado de Assis, throughout his work, never failed to touch on issues of a social nature, in a profound and ironically biting manner. It is in the narrative of Esaú and Jacó, however, that the Wizard of Cosme Velho goes deep in the criticism of the country's political conformation, denouncing the set of interests that preceded the proclamation of the republic in Brazil.

What is most significant in his work is the way in which he exploits this apparent political divergence to transcend simply political criticism. In this way, he manages to reach the aesthetic treatment of the question of falsely contradictory dualisms, but which are nothing more than appearance.

Manuscript of the book Esau and Jacob In the book, the author also deals, in a very subtle way, with the conflict between faith, science and religion, in vogue at the beginning of the century. At the time, the discoveries of experimental science, the advent of materialism and the redefinition of man ended up causing a sense of disenchantment, instilling desperate skepticism.

In the first chapters, the conflict presented, albeit ironically mild, revolves around belief. It can be inferred that, between the spaces of belief (the cabocla shack and the church), spiritism is placed in the figure of Plácido, as an attempt to establish the union between faith and science, which, due to the emptiness of their positions, does not is achieved.

Machado, a relativist, shows that man's destiny remains a matter of faith, both for religion and for science itself. The same occurs with the republic and monarchy, since the dispute between the two is raised here as a mere party issue, of interest to political groups that are not different in appearance and represent a mere exchange of power. Pay attention to how Machado composes Pedro and Paulo in this perspective, different, but analogous, and how, in this game of contradictions, Flora, Brazil's metonymy, gets confused and languishes. The narrator's direct dialogue with the reader accentuates his awareness of version, of fiction.

Due to the interactive nature of the film, the film offers various possible "endings" that lead to the movie ending earlier depending on choices the viewer makes. However all early endings result in the audience being re-routed to a choice that extends the story with the final shape of the film resembling the following plot points:

Kimmy Schmidt, now a hugely successful children's author, plans her wedding to Prince Frederick (Daniel Radcliffe), 13th in line for the throne of England. Joining her are her friends Titus Andromedon, Lillian Kaushtupper, and Jacqueline White. When looking in her backpack, Kimmy finds a Choose Your Own Adventure-style book she's never seen in a hidden pocket. After reading the book and realizing it wasn't one of hers she decides to travel to the prison in Durnsville, Indiana to question Richard Wayne Gary Wayne, the man who kept her captive for 15 years, with Titus coming with her as support.

After realizing that Prince Frederick has never had a girlfriend before Kimmy, Lillian suggests he spend the night before his wedding coming to terms with his past and realizing how amazing Kimmy is. Left alone on the set of Titus' new action film Jaqueline attempts to keep the secret that Titus is gone from the production staff.

In Durnsville Richard Wayne Gary Wayne reveals to Kimmy that he had a second underground bunker. Using information Richard had accidentally disclosed and the name of the library the book was taken from, Kimmy and Titus go looking for the second bunker, their journey made even more imperative when they learn Richard has escaped from prison and is headed to the bunker himself.

Kimmy and Titus are eventually separated when Kimmy finds Richard and chases him. She manages to catch up to him when he trips on a branch and severely injures his ankle. When he claims that he cannot remember where the underground bunker is located Kimmy decides to fashion him a splint and help him return home only to discover the door to the hidden bunker. She manages to free the women inside.

Later on Kimmy marries Prince Frederick in a wedding officiated by Jacqueline's ex-stepdaughter Xanthippe.

In 1886, the French diva Sarah Bernhardt came to Brazil to perform. The public bows to Sarah's talent, including Emperor Dom Pedro II, who tells her a secret: a valuable Stradivarius violin, a gift from Baroness Maria Luiza, has mysteriously disappeared. Sarah then suggests that the emperor invite the famous detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the case. Dom Pedro II accepts the advice and soon the English detective agrees to travel to Brazil to solve this mystery.

At the same time, a murder shocks the city and leaves Chief Mello Pimenta in a panic. A prostitute had been murdered and had her ears severed and a violin string placed on her body by the killer. While the deputy searches for clues, Holmes and Watson disembark.

In this story, Sherlock Holmes, dr. Watson and police chief Mello Pimenta will walk the streets of the Brazilian capital looking for information to discover the mystery of the violin and find the perpetrator of the crimes that are shocking the city.

The result is a delightful book, in which the fashions and customs of the imperial capital in the 19th century are accompanied by some bolder assumptions, such as that Brazil was the birthplace of history's first serial killer. In turn, the text goes from the playfulness of the dialogues and the enjoyment of Brazilian Frenchism at the time to the hilarious of several scenes, and terrifying revelations about the food, pharmacological and sexual life of the famous detective on Baker Street.

The game revolves around a human teenager, Jun, who wins a ticket that allows her to visit a parallel universe called Emrys, the path to which only opens up for a few days every 20 years. However, she gets marooned there when she fails to return to the portal before it closes. Since humans can only last a short time within Emrys, she teams up with Liza, an Emrys native and her pen pal, to find a way to reopen the portal and return home.

Robert Atkinson, a bank employee, is left feeling worthless after an afternoon fling with his boss's wife. The same day, he closes a lucrative deal with a bank client, placing the money in a safety deposit box. Robert plans to use the money to turn his life around but he succumbs to one of his various vices instead, and proceeds to gamble all the money away, while borrowing even more. Unaware that he is under surveillance, Robert is approached by a stranger, Lau Hoi Ho, at a gambling hall. Ho offers to pay off his debts, under the condition that Robert agrees to transport a briefcase from London to Amsterdam. Finding himself in a desperate situation and attracted by the offer, Robert agrees to the deal.

US DEA agent Herbert Summers, who is seated next to Robert on his flight to Amsterdam, reveals his true identity and discloses that he is on the trail of Triad leader Lau Hoi Ho. Robert is placed in a compromised position and forced to assist the DEA in Ho's capture. After arriving at his hotel, Robert finds out that it is overbooked and his room is no longer available. The hotel manager, Gerrie, summons a favour from Vera Tribbe, who happens to have a room available nearby. Robert and Gerrie proceed to Vera's house, unaware of being followed by the Chinese mafia. After settling in, Robert makes Vera's acquaintance and they seem to develop a fondness for each other. From here, events spiral out of control. Robert goes missing and his brother Steve goes searching for him. DEA agent Summers is enmeshed in the shadowy waterways of Amsterdam as he follows the thread of his investigation to the story's final denouement.

Dr. Kelenna (Michael Uchegbu) and Dr. Oluchi (Keira Hewatch) are behavioral psychotherapists confronted with mostly bizarre clinical cases that put their skills on trial while trying to grow their relatively young business in an environment that seldom defies logic. Having worked hard and successfully in separating their business and personal life, the fabric holding it together comes apart at the seams with one wrong move creating a domino effect.

During the Bakumatsu in Kyoto, and a carnage of killings, Himura Kenshin, also called ''Hitokiri Battosai'' is a political assassin, who is part of the revolution that is poised to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate and which eventually leads to the Meiji Restoration. He joins the Chōshū clan and soon works for their leader, Katsura Kogorō, as an assassin alongside Iizuka, the examiner of executions.

During one of the assassinations, a member of the Kyoto watch refuses to die, which results in Himura receiving a cut on his face. In contrast to the cold demeanor with which he kills the person, as he walks away, Himura is clearly disturbed. It is Katsura who later notices that Himura has a scar on his face, and from his response, that despite having killed 100 people Himura is still uncomfortable with killing people. Katsura recalls the day Himura was recruited. Himura had stated that he had not killed anyone at that time but that he could kill provided that the new age they believe in could bring about a peace of mind to all. Katsura realises that Himura is still pure at heart which is why the killings still make him uneasy.

One evening, as Himura is out having a drink on his own, he steps in to intervene with supposed members of the revolution who demand to be treated as heroes by a woman named Yukishiro Tomoe who had come in to drink alone. After leaving the establishment, Himura is attacked by an unknown assassin but manages to slay him. In the aftermath, Himura finds a shocked Tomoe watching him, drenched in the blood of the assassin he has just killed, and takes her back to his hideout, an inn for Choshu revolutionaries. The next morning, Tomoe decides to stay and work at the inn, seemingly grateful that Himura had protected and looked after her, and he is unable to persuade her to leave. He is stunned particularly when she questions and twists his philosophy on who he chooses to kill.

Despite their silent nature, Himura and Tomoe seem to bond. Although remaining elusive, Himura accepts and co-exists with her as she serves him food during the day reminding him to finish his food, helping him to wash the blood off his hands when he returns from his slaughters, keeping watch over him during the day so that he can sleep. When Katsura is informed of the odd relationship, he visits Tomoe, and asks that whatever she intends, she does not stop Himura from performing his role in the revolution.

During the Ikedaya incident (1864), an armed encounter between the shishi which includes masterless samurai (rōnin) formally employed by the Chōshū and Tosa clans, and the Shinsengumi, the Bakufu's special police force at the Ikedaya Inn in Sanjō-Kawaramachi, Kyoto, Himura rushes to the site to protect the Choshu and rescue Katsura who is believed to be attending a meeting there but is delayed by the Shinsengumi captain Okita Sōji. As reinforcements from both sides arrived, Katsura is said to be safe, Himura and the Choshu are forced to withdraw from the area.

When the Shinsengumi track them down and arrive at their hideout, Himura and Tomoe manage to escape along with the other revolutionaries. Before Katsura also goes into hiding, he arranges for Kenshin and Tomoe to hide in the village of Otsu, outside Kyoto, asking Tomoe to look after Himura and pretend to act as husband and wife so that Himura would not be suspected. After Katsura leaves, Tomoe states that she has no where else to go. Himura doubts her statement but nevertheless asks her to come and live with him for real and not just as an act. Tomoe agrees.

During their time in the village, Himura learns to be a farmer and starts to understand the meaning of peace and happiness which he had never encountered before. One day, when Himura is out, Tomoe's brother, Enishi, comes to meet his sister, revealing both the siblings as spies working for the Yaminobu who are pro-shogunate and have been planning to entrap and kill Battosai this whole time. Tomoe refuses to continue working with them, and asks Enishi to return home to Edo, causing Enishi to run off in anger. When Himura returns, he learns from Tomoe that she was previously engaged to be married, however her fiancée was assassinated before the wedding. She breaks down as she blames herself for allowing her fiancée to leave Edo, who had joined the Kyoto watch for her sake, rationalising that if he had stayed in Edo he would not have been killed. Himura consoles her and tells her that she has done enough and that she should no longer carry the pain. As they bond as husband and wife, Himura promises her that he will find a way to stop killing in the new age and that he will protect her happiness.

The next day, Tomoe meets with the leader of the Yaminobu but realises too late that she was used as a pawn by them to weaken Himura. Despite learning that Tomoe is a spy, Himura goes to the Yaminobu to rescue her. As intended by the Yaminobu, Himura is visibly distressed and distracted as he has also found out that Tomoe's fiancée is the member of the Kyoto Watch he had assassinated. Upon reaching the abandoned temple, at each stage, he is met by a member of the Yaminobu. Despite his emotional state, he is skillful enough to instinctively fight and defend himself. Himura manages to defeat his enemies but each time he is weakened by the explosions that end each fight. The first explosion takes away his hearing by virtue of loud sound it produces. The second explosion takes away his vision due to the use of certain yellow powder it throws up in the surrounding. Upon reaching the leader Tatsumi, Himura has reached his limit and can temporarily neither see nor hear. As Tatsumi is about to defeat Himura, Tomoe intervenes by restraining Tatsumi. Unaware that Tomoe was right in front of him, Himura deals a death blow, killing Tatsumi as well as fatally wounding Tomoe. In her last breath, Tomoe carves another scar on a distraught Himura's cheek with her dagger, thus completing the cross-shaped scar that her fiancée had started, whilst apologizing to him for the pain she has caused.

Shortly after, Katsura visits Himura at the village house to inform him that they found out Izuka was also a spy, and someone who is as skillful as Himura would be going after him. This person would also continue to be used as an assassin for the Choshu to replace Himura. However, he still needs Himura to join them on the battlefield. Himura agrees to continue fighting, as all the killing he has done would have gone to waste if they do not bring in the new age. However, he declares that once the new age arrives, he will never kill again. After Kastura goes off, Himura goes to Tomoe who is lying in wake inside their house. Himura finishes reading Tomoe's diary which explains how she changed from seeking revenge for her fiancée to falling in love with her fiancée's killer and finally resolving to do all she can to preserve him. After having a last meal, he sets fire to his house, cremating Tomoe's body within it.

The film ends with the Battle of Toba–Fushimi (1868) where the Choshu are victorious over their rivals. With the Bakumatsu finished, despite being challenged to a last sword fight by Saito Hajime, Himura abandons his sword as he leaves the battlefield. The narrative tells us that Battosai disappears for the next 10 years on an unknown journey as Japan enters the Meiji era.

The squad is called into Central Park to investigate a call to police in regards to an alleged assault where they arrest a Black man named Jayvon Brown (Blake Morris) on the spot after a jogger calls 9-1-1 on what later is investigated as a false claim. As the squad continues their investigation they realize they arrested the wrong man for the assault that did occur. Deputy Chief Christian Garland (Demore Barnes) comes to the squad room to tell Benson and Fin Tutuola (Ice-T) that Brown was suing the NYPD in a wrongful arrest lawsuit and that they both were named personally. Benson is later summoned to make a statement to Internal Affairs where Benson is forced to question decisions and arrests she made over her career that might have an unconscious racial bias. Meanwhile, with the SVU squad in pending litigation, it causes ADA Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. (Peter Scanavino) problems with getting justice for the victim who was actually assaulted in the park.

In the not-too-distant future, Thomas Malone, an ex-cop, is a prisoner serving a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. He's offered a chance at freedom if he wins a secret game on a private island as "prey" to five ultra-rich "hunters." One by one, the hunters turn on each other due to egos & grudges. The final hunter alive, Samuel, the "Apex Warrior," gets outwitted in the end. Malone wins his freedom so he can see his family again.

The ''Razor Crest'', severely damaged, crash lands on the moon of Trask. The Frog Lady is reunited with her husband, who directs The Mandalorian to an inn, where he learns three Mandalorians have been seen, and the captain of a trawler of Quarren offers passage to find the Mandalorians.

Out at sea, the Captain shows them a Mamacore they are transporting. As he suddenly throws the Child's carrier into the beast's cage, the Mandalorian dives in after and is trapped inside. The captain promises to kill him for his armor. Mandalorians come to their rescue, killing the entire crew. The leader (Bo-Katan Kryze) and her teammates (Koska Reeves and Axe Woves) supposedly break taboo by taking off their helmets. The Mandalorian immediately distrusts them, but she explains her Mandalorian heritage and that he is a Child of the Watch, a group consisting of zealots who follow "the (ancient) Way (of the Mandalore)", which mainstream Mandalorian society does not. The Mandalorian leaves, stubbornly refusing Bo-Katan's help.

The Mandalorian is attacked by the brother of the dead trawler captain. Again, Bo-Katan comes to his aid. She later explains that Imperial remnants still plunder Mandalore and her team is raiding cargo ships to steal weapons to retake their homeworld. She promises the information he needs in return for his help in their next raid. The Child stays with the Frog Lady.

The team make short work of the stormtoopers on board the freighter and take control of the cargo. Bo-Katan alters the mission, deciding to take the whole ship. She also reveals she seeks a Mandalorian relic which had been stolen from her: the Darksaber. The Mandalorian is reluctant. Bo-Katan mocks him saying, "This is the Way." The Captain alerts Moff Gideon, but it is too late for help. Gideon tells the Captain to sacrifice the ship to kill them all. The Mandalorian makes a dangerous charge at a group of stormtroopers, allowing the rest of the group to take control of the ship in time. She presses the Captain to tell her the location of the Darksaber, but he tells her she must already know and commits suicide.

Bo-Katan thanks the Mandalorian and invites him to join them in future missions, saying his bravery will be remembered. He declines, saying he must continue his own quest. While stating that the offer still stands, Bo-Katan directs him to the city of Calodan on the forest planet of Corvus, where he will find a Jedi called Ahsoka Tano.

In a small New Mexico town, Joe and Shelia are a seasoned married couple grieving alongside their daughter Audrey, after the unexpected deaths of Audrey's Army physician husband and subsequently, her toddler daughter.

With his faith in God greatly diluted, especially so after the loss of his beloved granddaughter, current bank president / former amateur golfer Joe becomes bitter and angry with God. He begins to take out his frustrations on his office punching bag. Joe also attempts to verbally spur with his wife Shelia, who wisely deflects these verbal assaults. Audrey is three months behind on her home mortgage, and is struggling to maintain her financially draining nonprofit school for children, which happens to be $300,000 in arrears. Shelia remains strong in her faith, supports her husband and daughter and looks forward to maintaining and nurturing her flower garden for an upcoming judging event. Adding to Joe's problems, the bank examiner is breathing down his neck for not aggressively pursuing the foreclosure of his daughter's nonprofit school, "Jardin Del Sol".

Joe meets up with Herb, a motorcycle riding emissary of God with individualistic fashion sense on a makeshift golf course in the middle of nowhere. Of interest is his messengering service—a lovable dachshund named, "Sand Wedge". Herb explains to Joe that God has chosen him for a special mission, and that he is here to help Joe. Of course Joe is initially suspicious and distrustful of Herb. One rainy night, Joe contemplates suicide at the edge of a cliff. After an intense heart to heart, with Herb offering to let Joe have his way and end it all, Joe starts to mellow out and their relationship deepens. Herb's conversations are gleefully peppered with humor, nuggets of wisdom, common sense, and of course Bible verses. Herb becomes Joe's confidante, coach, spiritual guide and caddy.

Joe's special mission boosted his faith level. Joe's willingness to complete his mission (despite his initial and ongoing doubts) allowed him to grow his existing God given talents, which ultimately encouraged him to step away from his comfort zone and get the job done. Joe exhibited "stick-to-itiveness" on his journey, with the benefits reaching far beyond whatever Joe could have planned or imagined.