The Mandalorian arrives with Grogu on Tython, and finds the ancient temple on top of a mountain. He seats Grogu at the center so that he may choose his path. Grogu meditates, and a protective Force field appears around him. Boba Fett arrives with the mercenary Fennec Shand, whose life he saved on Tatooine, and demands the return of his Mandalorian armor. Following a tense confrontation, the Mandalorian agrees to trade the armor for the safety of Grogu. Two Imperial troop carriers arrive, carrying stormtroopers who attempt to capture Grogu. Honoring their agreement, Fett, Shand, and the Mandalorian join forces to fend off the advancing stormtroopers, inflicting heavy casualties. Boba Fett retrieves his armor and uses it to wipe out many stormtroopers before firing a rocket that destroys the fleeing troop ships. As the Force field surrounding him disappears, Grogu collapses from exhaustion.

Moff Gideon arrives in an Imperial light cruiser and destroys the Mandalorian's ship ''Razor Crest'' from high overhead. Gideon sends out four Dark Troopers, who capture Grogu and take him back to the cruiser. Fett and Shand agree to help the Mandalorian save Grogu to honor their debt. The Mandalorian seeks the now New Republic Marshal Cara Dune's help in breaking out the criminal Mayfeld to help track Gideon and rescue Grogu. Impressed with the Force powers Grogu exhibits against stormtroopers, Moff Gideon shows Grogu the Darksaber and has a stormtrooper stun and shackle him. After, Gideon informs Dr. Pershing that they have the donor.

Aleksandra Pokrovskaya is a famous saber fencer, who has the last goal - to take Olympic gold. Aleksandra's path is blocked by another talented athlete - a young and unknown saber fencer Kira Egorova. Kira is ambitious, self-confident. She certainly wants to get to the Olympics. Winning competitions one by one, she firmly goes to the goal. But her rival is the experienced Aleksandra, who devoted her whole life to fencing. Aleksandra intends to go to the Olympics and take gold. The gold medal of the Olympiad is the goal of her whole life. And the sudden appearance of an opponent who can stop her makes her even stronger (and this is exactly the plan of her trainer). But in order to achieve success, you have to go for meanness, which Aleksandra cannot forgive herself. At one of the competitions in a duel with Aleksandra, Kira injures her leg. At first Aleksandra rejoices at the victory, but then her conscience begins to torment her. After all, Kira was not herself in a duel because of a meeting with her alcoholic father, whom Aleksandra had brought (knowing that Kira did not want to see him). And Kira received a leg injury after being pushed by Aleksandra. Aleksandra comes to Kira's dorm and offers her help in preparing for the Olympics. She at first refuses, but later agrees and they begin to train secretly from their coach despite Kira's injured knee. And Kira goes to the Olympics. Having defeated rivals from other countries, Kira and Aleksandra reach the final. Kira succumbs at first, but Aleksandra demands a real attack from her. Kira wins with a score of 15:14 and receives a gold medal. The next day, in the team competition, Aleksandra makes a decisive injection and the Russian team wins. Before the credits, footage is shown with real Olympic fencing champions from Russia.

A famous actor publicly declares that he loves babies, and soon a baby is left on his doorstep. As he is forced to take care of it, Katie O’Connor, an unsuccessful but stage-struck actress, pretends to be the child’s mother in order to live in the actor's house and to prove that she is a competent performer.

Hiroshi Yūki, with the player name of Hiro, is a high school boy who loves to play virtual reality MMORPGs in order to escape reality. When a game store manager named Reona Kisaragi tricks him into buying the game ''Kiwame Quest'', he soon discovers that it is not what it seems. Unlike regular games, it is a game that tries to pursue realism to a fanatical point. As such, Hiroshi struggles to eke out a niche. Despite the disadvantages, he is determined to complete the game.

''The Science in Science Fiction'' is a book featuring twelve illustrated chapters on such subjects as Space Flight, Energy, Aliens, Time Travel and Intelligent Machines.

At the time of release, the film was described as follows: "The opening scene shows an Englishman in tweed knickers running towards Kensington Station to take the boat train. Inside the station, people are pushing through the turnstile of a ticket agency. The boat train is shown leaving the station for the steamship docks. Then there are scenes of the promenade deck of a paddlewheel steamer, and of the Englishman becoming ill on board the boat. He arrives in Paris and views the streets around the administrative buildings, the Chamber of Deputies, and the Champs Elysées. The picture ends with a scene based on 'once an Englishman, always an Englishman' for our hero sits down at a sidewalk café and orders a glass of British stout." This description was not entirely accurate as the views in Paris actually showed in addition to the Champs Elysées, the Opéra Garnier, the Place de la Concorde with the Hotel de Crillon and the Madeleine Church, and the Arc de Triomphe.

Prelude

At the time when the Guardians of the Galaxy were investigating the death of Zn'rx Emperor Stote during the Galactic Council's meeting at the Proscenium and find that the Chitauri Peacekeeper and the Elders of the Universe member Profiteer were responsible sometime after the events of the "Empyre" storyline, Zoralis Gupa of the planet Silnius takes an urgent call while mentioning to the person on the other side to warn all neighboring systems. He tells Victoria that it's the End of Everything as different planets are starting to die in the planets owned by the Shi'ar, the Kree/Skrull Alliance, and the Zn'rx while rendering the galactic economy fragile enough to go bankrupt. Knowing that she won't make a profit, the Profiteer teleports Peacekeeper and the bio-bomb away. While thanking Zoralis Gupa for fooling the Profiteer with the bluff, Zoralis Gupa states to Super-Skrull and everyone present that something darker than Galactus is destroying the worlds and its name is Knull.

Emperor Hulkling dispatched Talos to investigate the Kree and Skrull bases that went dark with Av-Rom, Keeyah, M'lanz, Virtue, and Tarna. Two days later, a Kree/Skrull Alliance armada headed by General Kalamari finds Talos' escape pod. After recuperating in the sick bay, Talos recaps to Kalamari about what happened on his mission that involved an encounter with Knull. Talos then informs Kalamari that his distress beacon on his escape pod is a warning that Knull is coming. Outside the ship, Knull is riding a Symbiote Dragon as he swoops in for an attack.

At Ravencroft, Alistair Smythe is visited by a figure who is borrowing the form of Spencer Smythe so that it can speak to him and proposes that it helps it out. In the Blue Area of the Moon, Uatu the Watcher comments to the readers about the Watchers' vow not to interfere as a blue fire hits him. After rescuing a boy, Spider-Man shifts the symbiote into his work clothes and goes to meet with J. Jonah Jameson. He assigns Peter to work with Ned Leeds on an assignment where Alistair Smythe claims to have found a cure for paralysis. Uatu finds himself in a memory-scanning machine operated by Kang the Conqueror who is trying to save the universe. When the machine causes Uatu to overload it with psychic energy upon it mentioning about Knull, Kang's ship is destroyed leaving him adrift in space. As Spider-Man and Ned visit Ravencroft, the entity possessing Alistair has already hooked up a tank to Ravencroft's ventilation system while having gotten a glimpse of the Shadow Realm. Upon his spider-senses going off upon entering Ravencroft and an eclipse happening in the sky, Peter calls out to Ned only to be confronted by the entity's slaves who identifies Ned as one of them. Dodging the slaves while changing into Spider-Man, he confronts Alistair Smythe who is now being controlled by the entity and accuses him of being behind this attack. The entity introduces itself as Mister E who calls the suit on Peter Parker it's brother. As Spider-Man fights Mister E, he learns from it that he and the suit are from the same "father". During the fight, Mister E is confronted by Black Knight who stabs Mister E with his Ebony Blade. While cryptically revealing that uncreation is moving backwards, Mister E disappears. Both Spider-Man and Black Knight aren't sure what to do next. While drifting through space, Kang is picked up by a spaceship where he encounters Rocket Raccoon.

Main plot

While overlooking Manhattan's night life, Eddie Brock senses that Knull is coming to Earth. While transforming into Venom, Eddie contacts the Avengers to let them know about Knull's arrival. His son Dylan states that he can sense that Knull is coming. At Avengers Mountain, Captain America, Iron Man, She-Hulk, and Captain Marvel scan for Knull's approach as Iron Man turns the derelict Kree and Skrull warships left behind from their war with the Cotati into a minefield. When thousands of Symbiote Dragons start to arrive, Iron Man detonates the warships which kills half of the Symbiote Dragons. The Avengers and the Fantastic Four arrive to combat the Symbiote Dragons while Eddie places Dylan in the same bunker that was used by Ezekiel which Spider-Man loaned to him. As Venom is contact by Captain America telling him to go to Plan B, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four work with Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage into fighting the Symbiote Dragons while making use of lightning which weakens them. As Thor is unable to be reached, Professor X contacts the group stating that he has offered the aid of the X-Men and has dispatched Storm, Cyclops, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cable, and Magneto to Washington Square Park as Storm starts to blast lightning towards the Symbiote Dragon. After Eddie pays a visit to the ruins of the Spire that was used as Dark Carnage's lair, he notes that Knull will work to take control of the Venom symbiote again. Doctor Strange uses every method to call for reinforcements as one of the Symbiote Dragons swallows him. Breaking free from the Symbiote Hive, Eddie warns everyone that Knull is coming with the Symbiote-possessed Celestials Arishem the Judge and Tefral the Surveyor. Knull begins his search for the one called Brock. When Captain America gives the command to the other heavy hitter they enlisted, it turns out to be Sentry. He takes Knull into Earth's orbit and tried to do the same thing he once did to Carnage only for Knull to do a reversal upon being familiar with what happened to Carnage that time. Knull breaks Sentry and assimilates the Void into him upon it emerging from Sentry's body. Venom and Captain America react to this as Iron Man urges them to retreat. Knull then proceeds to have his Symbiote Dragon form a sphere around Earth to cut it off from the Sun and has the living abyss swallow some of the superheroes including Storm which Professor X reacts to. Eddie contacts Iron Man informing him that he and the Venom symbiote are going to try a hail mary plan so that he can buy Iron Man some time to come up with a plan to defeat Knull. As Venom, Eddie goes to confront Knull and offer his services to him. Knull grabs Venom as he recognizes Eddie as the one who killed Grendel, then he states to Eddie that the Brock he is looking for is Dylan Brock. When Eddie begs for Knull to take him instead, Knull rips the Venom symbiote off him and absorbs it into his body while planning to absorb Dylan into him as well. Eddie is then dropped by Knull into the symbiote-covered streets below as Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, Ms. Marvel, Storm, and Thing are possessed by the Symbiotes.

Eddie Brock slams onto a car, critically injuring himself. Spider-Man appears and tries to help him as the symbiote-possessed Avengers arrive. Human Torch shoots a fire blast and tells Spider-Man to take Eddie to the Fantastic Four lab so he can get treated. Spider-Man takes Eddie Brock to the Fantastic Four lab while Human Torch buys them time before being possessed. Valkyrie tells Spider-Man that Eddie Brock is barely alive and they need to do something quick. Spider-Man meets up with Dylan and tells him that his father is still alive but barely. The two of them go to the Fantastic Four lab where Blade is arguing with Professor X and Magneto while Black Panther is talking to Reed Richards, Sue Storm, and Jane Foster on what to do. They are even shown trying to reach Phil Coulson so that they can get aid from the Squadron Supreme. He even inquires about the locations of the Infinity Gems, the Cosmic Cube, and the Ultimate Nullifier. Namor arrives and agrees to help them much to the displeasure of Reed Richards. Iron Man tells the heroes that he has a plan which is to acquire a small part of a symbiote dragon, have Namor wake up the Black Tide (the ancient Atlantean warriors from Namor's teenage days) in the Mariana Trench, have Blade go to Chernobyl in Ukraine to persuade Dracula to help them, and persuade Mayor Wilson Fisk to hire villains to help defend New York City leading to Mayor Fisk to pay a visit to the Bar with No Name. Iron Man manages to take control of a Symbiote Dragon using Extremis and brings the symbiote to Fantastic Four to heal Eddie Brock, but the symbiote starts killing Eddie. Dylan uses his power to completely destroy the Symbiote. Reed Richards realizes that Dylan is his secret weapon. Just then, Eddie flatlines.

Silver Surfer passes by the planets that have been attacked by Knull. Invisible Woman and Blade are being overwhelmed by symbiotes and Mister Fantastic wants Spider-Man and Wolverine to escort Dylan Brock out to free the rest of the symbiotes hordes. The three of them appear to help Invisible Woman and Dylan frees Captain America from his symbiote. Knull finds out where Dylan is and is about to get him when Thor arrives. Together, Thor and Dylan help free some of the possessed heroes. Thor and Knull fight and Thor gains the upper hand until Knull distracts Thor by bringing in his symbiote-possessed Celestials and stabs Thor in the back. Iron Man arrives to use his Extremis-infected Symbiote dragon in order to take control of the symbiote-possessed Celestials. Just before Dylan is about to taken away, Silver Surfer arrives after being summoned by Hugin and Munin.

Knull plans to control Dylan since he has the Symbiote codex, but Dylan fights back freeing Cyclops, Invisible Woman, Dr. Strange, Black Cat and the Human Torch. Doctor Strange morphs into a stronger form and together the heroes fight back against the symbiotes. Namor, Thor and Storm deal heavy damage, while Jean Grey immobilizes Knull with her psychic powers. She sees Knull's past, and realizes that the God of Light (another name for the Enigma Force) is the one thing that can take down Knull before passing out. Silver Surfer arrives to where the Enigma Force is and frees it from the symbiotes. Knull reels in pain and Eddie Brock is chosen to be the new Captain Universe.

As Silver Surfer faces off against him, Knull recalls his previous fight against him. Through the God of Light, Silver Surfer assumes a chrome form and turns his surfboard into a sword while Knull transforms his armor into one that would enable him to combat Silver Surfer. As Knull begins to fight Silver Surfer, the members of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men charge towards Knull so that they can aid Silver Surfer. Just then, Venom appears having been transformed into Captain Universe stating that he'll handle Knull from here. As Knull claims that he has killed Venom many times, Venom manages to make use of Mjolnir and Silver Surfer's surfboard which he merged into a battle axe that is the shape of Venom's spider emblem. When Cyclops asks if he is hallucinating, Captain America and Captain Marvel advise Cyclops to get his head into the game as the Symbiote-controlled civilians are closing in on him. Using his battle axe, Venom starts to shred his way through the Symbiote Dragons upon noting that Knull has become afraid of him. Knull even unleashes a Symbiote-controlled Celestial to aid him as Venom beheads it. As Venom rips off Knull's armor, Knull states that the darkness is in Dylan. Venom then picks up Knull, flies into the air, and punches through the Symbiote barrier surrounding Earth where Knull states that the Void is eternal and the abyss has teeth. Venom then states he doesn't care if he rights as he plunges his hand into the sun and uses the Uni-Power to vaporize Knull. Then Eddie hears a lot of voices. The Uni-Power informs Eddie that the Symbiote Hive is celebrating their freedom from Knull. The vampires see that Blade is overpowered and try to attack only to be vanquished when sunlight hits them. With their weapons separated from the battle axe form, Thor and Silver Surfer noted that things will not be back to normal soon. Spider-Man gets confirmation from Eddie that Knull is no more as Dylan embraces him as Venom rips out the Symbiote within Dylan. The Uni-Power then leaves Eddie stating that he has become more than a human as the Venom Symbiote rebonds to Eddie. As Venom sprouts dragon-like wings and flies into the air, the hostless Symbiotes and Symbiote Dragons follow him. The Venom Symbiote translates the Symbiote language to Eddie stating that he is now the new Nexus of the Hive Mind, the new God of the Symbiotes, and the new King in Black.

Subplots

Eddie is in limbo talking with one of the symbiotes and sees Flash Thompson in his Agent Anti-Venom appearance. Flash reveals that even after he died, his Anti-Venom suit kept a codex of his conscious in the Symbiote hive mind. Flash and Eddie go see the heart of the Symbiote hive mind and Flash sacrifices himself to take control of the Symbiote mind. Knull feels pain, finds Eddie Brock, and grabs him by the throat.

Doctor Doom confronts Iron Man during Knull's invasion at the time when Iron Man was bonded with an Extremis-powered Symbiote. They are attacked by what appears to be a Symbiote-possessed Santa Claus. When the attacks from Iron Man and Santa Claus collide, it purges the Symbiote and Iron Man discovers that Santa Claus is actually a man named Mike Dunworthy who owns a Christmas decoration store. Doctor Doom revealed that he came to Iron Man because he heard about the new armor he is wearing and wants to extrapolate it to improve his own armor only for Iron Man to turn him down. As Iron Man takes off advising him to not let go of the magic in the world, Doctor Doom is left to wonder if Santa Claus could be a Sorcerer Supreme.

Mayor Wilson Fisk decides to put together his own team of superpowered operatives to beat back Knull's creatures and save the city. He secretly meets with eight of these operatives, all known criminals who have been working in the city without Kingpin's blessing: Taskmaster, Mister Fear, Batroc the Leaper, Rhino, Star, Ampere, and Snakehead. To pay Mayor Fisk back, these criminals must escort Star (current keeper of one of the Infinity Gems) into battle to kill Knull, but to do that they'll first need to make contact with a man Kingpin believes can help turn the tide against the god. The criminal Incendiary opts to take his chances in jail instead. When he's taken out of the boardroom by Mayor Fisk's guards, he's immediately shot. The remaining seven criminals then promptly agree to Mayor Fisk's plan. Despite objections, this team will be called "The Thunderbolts" (because Kingpin owns the copyright). The team sets out into the city and is promptly attacked by a giant Symbiote Dragon. Snakehead is devoured, but Mister Fear and Star are able to fell the Symbiote Dragon. The team learns that there's a limit to Star's cosmic powers (she's woozy after battle) and when Ampere exclaims that the team is doomed and he's leaving, Mister Fear murders him. Taskmaster, de facto team leader, scolds Mister Fear, but the team helps themselves to Ampere's electric gauntlets, giving Taskmaster and Batroc's abilities an extra kick. Taskmaster can't keep Rhino from walking away from the team. Then he shortly makes the call not to help the Manhattan Defenders battle more Symbiote creatures. As the dwindled team slinks away from the scene, they're attacked by a Symbiote creature that's possessed Ampere's corpse and, before they know it, are being chased by a hoard of ravenous Symbiotes. The team escapes to a fishing boat nearly leaving Batroc behind and finally reach their destination: Ravencroft Institute. Inside, they find the man Mayor Fisk believes can defeat Knull: notorious supervillain and former Thunderbolts leader Norman Osborn. Norman Osborn and the Thunderbolts make their way through Ravencroft amidst the Symbiote attacks where they joined up by Figment, Foolkiller, Grizzly, Man-Bull, and Mister Hyde. While noting that Sentry would've been able to fight Knull, it was noted that Knull defeated him and absorbed Void. Osborn then leads the Thunderbolts into retrieving Sentry's corpse so that it can be used as a nuke to destroy Knull's lair on top of the Empire State Building with it being a suicide mission. Foolkiller was taken over by one of the Symbiotes and was killed. Taskmaster used Figment's abilities to make it look like the Thunderbolts sacrificed their lives to pull off the mission. After Mayor Fisk broadcasts the Thunderbolts' sacrifice during the fight against the Symbiote invasion, the Thunderbolts arrive and blackmail him into raising their pay and giving them further missions once Knull is defeated.

Spider-Man gets a panic attack from realizing that he was the reason why the Symbiotes are on Earth. While fighting a Symbiote Dragon, Spider-Man runs into Reptil in his Pteranodon form who is carrying an old woman named Mrs. Volkov who he is trying to get home. While helping Reptil to get Mrs. Volkov to Staten Island, Spider-Man is then attacked by a swarm of Symbiote Dragons. Spider-Man was able to web some of them up as he and Reptil near the Staten Island ferry. Reptil notes that he can't turn into anything big enough to combat a Symbiote Dragon as Spider-Man notes that his Tyrannosaurus form wouldn't work either. Spider-Man then gets an idea as he helps Mrs. Volkov onto the ferry while Reptil dives into the water and emerges as a Mosasaurus which bites into the Symbiote Dragon and drags it underwater. With help from Mrs. Volkov evacuating the passengers to the lifeboats, Spider-Man jury-rigs a harpoon the ship's generators. When the Symbiote Dragon emerges, Spider-Man quotes Captain Ahab's last words from ''Moby-Dick'' and throws the electrified harpoon into the Symbiote Dragon's tongue enough to destabilize and be reduced to goo. Reptil makes it to the surface as Spider-Man states that they should work on saving people.

''Selection Project'' is an idol show in which aspiring idols from all across Japan compete to win a debut contract. In its seventh season, nine girls manage to win their regional auditions to compete on the main show. Among them are Suzune Miyama, a girl from north Kanto who had recently recovered from being hospitalized, and Rena Hananoi, the younger sister of the first season's winner, Akari Amasawa, who died three years prior in a truck accident.

Françoise Leroy is a young and beautiful novelist with the extraordinary ability to make her wishes come true. She starts the film in a relationship with Richard, a bohemian painter. Perrot, an older wealthy art lover who is fascinated by the destruction of works, decides to meddle with Françoise and Richard. Perrot causes Françoise and Marc, a publisher, to meet; the two begin trading reality-altering letters, much to the concern of Sophie, Marc's wife. Sophie, while attempting to spy on Marc's hunting trip to understand what is going on with this potential affair, is shot by her husband in an accident, possibly caused by Françoise's unconscious desire for Marc to be available. Perrot invites Françoise to settle in his house to write there, then invites both Marc, Richard, and various other artists as well. Perrot's machinations are tied somewhat to his love of chess which manifests in a three-dimensional chess game he is playing (both in reality and his subjective actions). Perrot arranges the "Death of art" in a mass suicide of the artists, as art requires destruction to be complete in his opinion; Richard and Marc draw straws to see who can stay with Françoise. Marc loses; Françoise and Richard escape through one of Richard's paintings that opens up to allow them to physically walk inside to the world within, yet turns back to paint when another person inspects the picture.

Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each other's lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away".

Rebecca “Becca” Riley, a young woman who was blinded in an accident caused by her boyfriend John imbibing drugs and alcohol. She was contacted by an estate agent, Marku, who informed Rebecca that she has inherited a castle in Albania from her mother Lavinia Whateley, who gave her up for adoption. Rebecca knows nothing of the woman, particularly that Lavinia had another child that she kept chained in the castle basement and who was freed by an unknown person. John and Rebecca's relationship has become strained after the accident and John's eagerness to sell the castle clashes with her desire to learn about Lavinia.

Once at the castle, Rebecca hears strange sounds and visions, some of which are caused by Lavinia's other offspring. John refuses to believe anything and instead continues to push for the sale of the castle and its furnishings. Things grow more tense between them after four of John's friends arrive, particularly as one of them is a woman John had been flirtatious with in the past, Shelly. Rebecca is pleased, however, to discover that one of the four, The Professor, is willing to listen to her and is also knowledgeable about the occult, having studied at Miskatonic University. The two investigate a Necronomicon Rebecca discovered and find a series of tunnels that go throughout the castle. Exploring the tunnels reveals Lavinia's journal, through which they discover that Lavinia was forcibly impregnated by her father during a ritual to Yog-Sothoth and that she gave birth to twin girls. Rebecca was put up for adoption while the other girl was born deformed and kept captive. Lavinia warns that once the two reunite and join hands, the gate to Yog-Sothoth will be opened. The Professor and Rebecca choose to leave the tunnels but are separated, during which time The Professor comes across Rebecca's sibling. He entreats her to show him "everything", as he wants to learn about the cult and the Elder Gods. She does, in doing so fully converts him into a believer.

Meanwhile, John chooses to have blindfolded sex with Shelly, during which he is unaware that the monstrous sibling has killed Shelly and taken her place for the act. He's discovered afterwards by his remaining two friends and the three of them decide to hunt the murderer. This is unsuccessful, as she slaughters the friends, leaving John alive. Desperate to find Rebecca, John discovers that the monster has kept Marku captive and frees him despite having since learned that he lied about being an estate agent. This proves to be an unwise choice, as Marku betrays John and reveals that the whole goal was to bring the two siblings together and open the gate. John kills Marku and escapes to the outside, where he is attacked.

Rebecca overhears the attack and discovers that he is prepared to kill her sibling. She begs for John to spare her sister, only for John to instead turn on Rebecca and begin to beat her. John is then killed by the sibling. Overwhelmed, Rebecca allows her sister to lead her to the ritual site, where The Professor urges her to embrace her destiny. She obediently takes her sister's hand as the gate opens to allow Yog-Sothoth into the world and Rebecca's body undergoes a monstrous transformation.

In an after credits sequence The Professor enters his professor's office at the university, where he greets a man he calls "West" as a glowing vial sits on the desk.

Nakahara Daisuke is the owner of a bento shop in Tokyo and a ''densha otaku'', train enthusiast. For their tenth wedding anniversary, his wife gives him a train ticket for traveling across Japan since he has not had a chance to travel since their honeymoon. She tells him to investigate ''ekiben'' recipes along the way to help improve the bento in their shop. Although the trip is intended to be a solo one, Daisuke often befriends other travellers along the way and shares information about trains, railway history, ''ekiben'', ''meibutsu'', and local landmarks.

At each stop Daisuke or one of his fellow travellers buys an eki-bento (ekiben), and one full page is devoted to an image of the just-opened container with all components labelled; subsequent frames highlight the history and flavors. A related theme is the "romance of train travel".

The film depicts major political events in Ireland between 1798 and 1914, including the 1798 Rebellion, the 1800 Act of Union, the 1803 Rebellion of Robert Emmet, Catholic Emancipation, the Great Famine and the Home Rule movement.

It takes several liberties with history; most notably, Father John Murphy (executed in 1798) is shown reacting to the 1800 Act of Union; Anne Devlin is depicted as the wife of Michael Dwyer, when they were cousins and not romantically involved; and Robert Emmet is shown speaking with Napoleon, when that meeting is not thought to have occurred.

Two strong, yet deeply troubled women - struggling with political and personal trauma - try to escape pasts that haunts them. Tess, the daughter of a murdered Black Panther, lives off the grid on a Sonoma vineyard, detached from any sort of human connection. Her life of solitude is shattered when she gives reluctant shelter to a desperate young woman, Anna. An unlikely companionship forms, where other close relationships have failed. But the very difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves, as not only survivors, but as heroes. Bravely reclaiming independence, and their personal life, they charge forward, towards an unknown, transformative future.

Upon feeling the death of his twin sister, Northstar flies to the mutant island Krakoa and demands she be resurrected. Lacking proof of death and not wanting a duplicate of a mutant existing alongside the original, the Five ask Northstar to prove Aurora's death. To do this, Northstar forms a new X-Factor team alongside Polaris' help, being also aided by Rachel Summers, Daken, David Alleyne, and Eye-Boy. Finding Aurora's body and proof of death, albeit under mysterious circumstances, the Five resurrects her. Following her revival, X-Factor and the Five agree to work with each other, as the latter is overburdened with requests to resurrect mutants. X-Factor agrees to help investigate reports of missing mutants, and Northstar is chosen to lead the team.

The Christmas calendar is about the 13-year-old girl Sofie (Bebiane Ivalo Kreutzmann). Her greatest desire is that her parents, who had divorced after last year's Christmas, get back together so they can celebrate Christmas as a family.

On 1 December, Sofie's paternal grandfather gives Sofie a "calendar present" (''kalendergave'', a Nordic tradition) – an invention called a "gyro", which he wants her to finish building, and which under the right conditions can warp space and time, I.E. be used as a time machine. The same day Sofie is visited by the new boy in her class, Dixie (Hannibal Harbo Rasmussen). He seems to be unusually interested in the gyro, knows many things about Sofie that he can't possibly know, and is furthermore being chased by two secret agents.

One night, where Sofie wants to find out who Dixie is and what he wants with her, the secret agents follow after her to the shack where Dixie is staying, after which he has to escape. Sofie travels back to 1984 with him, where he tells her that he is from the future, and that the secrets agents are chasing him because time-travelling is illegal in the future. Furthermore, Sofie invented the time machine that people use in the future.

In 1984, Sofie takes the opportunity to change her parents' past, so that they will remain together in the present. However, this action ends up having dire consequences.

In the mid-15th century C.E., the king of Korea, Sejong the Great wants to create a simple writing system so the general population can obtain literacy. Up to this point, the Joseon dynastic kingdom has been using Chinese characters.

Sejong calls upon a Buddhist monk, Shinmi, and his fellow monks to develop a new alphabet. The monks have unique insights due to their knowledge of Sanskrit and other languages that use phonetic writing systems. Sejong promises to build a Buddhist temple if the monks accomplish the task. Queen Soheon is secretly a Buddhist and welcomes the monks to the palace. Due to the tensions between Buddhists and the dominant Confucians, the servants are sworn to secrecy and the monks are disguised as court eunuchs.

The difficult project worsens Sejong's fragile health, as he suffers from diabetes. He loses sight in his right eye and is urged by his doctors to avoid stress. The king relocates to a health spa in the mountains. In the remote location, he simultaneously receives eye treatments and the monks continue to work in total secrecy. They soon complete the writing system, now known as the Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl.

The king returns to the palace and contends with the power struggle between Buddhists and Confucians. Both groups want credit for the writing system's creation within a published manual. The Buddhists expect Sejong to hold up his end of their deal. The Confucians are desperate to keep their power and remain on good terms with China. The king gives in to the Confucians and sends the Buddhist monks away.

In order to reunite the Sejong and Shinmi, the queen starves herself to death. Sejong is grief-stricken and decides to fulfill his wife's final wishes. Shinmi is recalled to the royal palace and there is a reconciliation. The king builds the promised Buddhist temple and Shinmi leads a funeral for the late Queen Soheon.

King Sejong notes he has been king for thirty years and will leave only one book as his legacy. Shinmi replies with an allegory that suggests Sejong's one book will have an incalculable effect upon Korean society.

Yomogi Asanaka is just an ordinary high school boy when he encounters a young man named Gauma, who claims he is a "Kaiju User". When the city is attacked by a Kaiju, Gauma summons the giant robot Dynazenon to battle it. Yomogi, his classmate Yume Minami, and local NEET Koyomi Yamanaka are caught up in the battle and end up becoming Gauma's copilots for Dynazenon. Together, they must uncover and put a stop to whatever is behind the Kaiju attacks.

As described in a film magazine review, ranchman David Ainslee loses his cattle through bandit raids, searches for a desert mine, and is found wounded and dying by Phil Haver. Phil brings the news to David's daughter Louise. Phil gives the young woman some gold, which he pretends is from the mine. He gathers a vigilante band and captures the cattle thieves, revenging himself on the man who killed Ainslee, and wins the young woman in the process.

Criminal investigator Anders Olsen (Pilou Asbæk) begins to solve a case in which a bank robber shoots two bank clerks and runs into the streets of Copenhagen with the money. When arrested, he claims to have committed the crime alone. Some eyewitnesses say the robber seemed to have been in a trance, which makes the case even more complicated and peculiar. Olsen finds out that the accused has been in prison with the charismatic Bjørn Schouw Nielsen (Josh Lucas) and begins to suspect that Nielsen had hypnotized his fellow inmate to commit the crime for him.
But could it be possible – and if so, how can the true perpetrator be caught? Olsen seeks help from a well-known psychiatrist specialized in hypnosis (Rade Šerbedžija), with whom Olsen delves deeper into the world of mental manipulation.
Absorbed in the criminal investigation, Olsen does not realize that the mysterious Nielsen has secretly befriended his young wife (Sara Soulié). Soon the mysterious case touches him closer than he could have imagined.

The narrator is Tongius, the elderly high priest of Endovelicus, who is committed to write down the story of his life before dying. He tells how he was born to a Bracari father exiled from his tribe, Tongetamus, and the Cynete woman who accepted him into her tribe, Camala. After his father's death, the teenaged Tongius becomes a merchant like his uncle Camalus and travels through Turdetania and other places, until circumstances make him clash with the Roman authorities in Gadir. Taking refuge on the sanctuary of Endovelicus in Lusitanian lands, Tongius later joins a marauder army commanded by Curius and Apuleius, who plan to adhere a Lusitanian alliance of tribes bent on get revenge of Rome. The first battles are unsuccessful, but the coalition is saved from a Roman trap in Tribola by the military genius of a captain, Viriathus, who is elected their leader. Tongius joins Viriathus as a lieutenant thanks to his abilities as a healer and translator.

Tongius follows Viriathus in his adventures through the Iberian peninsula, defeating the Roman forces in many battles and visiting other tribes to get alliances with other oppressed tribes. Along the way, he befriends especially two veterans, Ardunus and Crissus, and meets many women and lovers, like Sunua and Crovia. He attends also to Viriathus' marriage with the daughter of a Lusitanian aristocrat, Astolpas, and is forced to work with three ambitious Turdetanian warriors, Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus, who seemingly support their cause. After an alliance with the Celtiberian tribes in Numantia, caused by the efficient attack of Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, the heroes are set on what appears to be the final stage of the war against his relative, Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus, who has arrived to Iberia to take down Viriathus. In another proof of his military skill, Viriathus corners Servilianus with his army and forces him to sign a peace accord, turning Viriathus into a true ruler of lands and an ally of Rome.

However, peace is brief, as the next Roman general, Quintus Servilius Caepio, breaks the treaty and starts waging war on the Lusitanians again. Relationships among the heroes weaken as Viriathus negotiaties with Caepio, and after the situation becomes more complicated, Viriathus is murdered by Audax and his aides, likely bribed by Caepio. Command now falls on Viriathus' second-in-command, Tautalus, who decides to surrenders to Caepio and accept his terms under the threat of waging a suicide war. After the war, Tongius lives a long life, even becoming a Roman citizen, until he settles down in the sanctuary of Endovelicus. The novel ends many years later, when a Roman lieutenant named Hirtuleius finds the memories and notes a prophecy mentioned by Tongius that seems to refer to his commander, Quintus Sertorius.

High-school student Ikkyū Sanada knows nothing about baseball, but his talents are recognized by the manager of the baseball club, and he takes up this enchanting sport. While his ignorance of the game leads him to make many mistakes, Ikkyū—who is in fact a descendant of ninja—displays his superhuman abilities and leads the team to the High School Baseball Championships.

As described in a film magazine review, Captain Jean and his daughter Hélène live in an Italian fishing hamlet. Captain André persuades him to induce the villagers to invest their savings in a project to purchase trading vessels. André embezzles the money and hides it in the volcanic crater of Mount Etna. Sandro, in love with Hélène, trails André to the mountains. A fight takes place, André is killed, and Sandro takes the money back to the villagers. Hélène and Sandro then wed.

A group of middle-aged men with their acts of unfaithfulness, shows how they attempt to acquire back their wives' trust.

Kehlmann does not narrate Tyll's story in a linear fashion. The chapter "Shoes" that serves as the novel's prologue tells a tale from the middle of the jester's life.

"Shoes." Deep into the Thirty Years' War Tyll Ulenspiegel arrives in a town where the war had not yet come, along with Nele, an old woman, and the donkey. The inhabitants of the town recognize Tyll from his widespread fame, even though they had never seen him before. Tyll and Nele perform to great applause. The performance culminates in a high-wire act, through which Tyll initiates a prank that causes violent upheaval.

"The Lord of the Air." This chapter presents the actual beginning of the narrative. The reader encounters his father Claus Ulenspiegel, the miller of their town, who is not like the others: he is able to read, loves books, and desires to study the mysteries of the world. Tyll's father is accused of witchcraft, which results in his trial, conviction, and execution. Knowing his prior life is now gone, Tyll asks Nele to join him as they leave the village forever.

"Zusmarshausen." It is nearly the end of the war, and it has come to the Emperor's attention that the "famous jester" (i.e. Tyll) has found shelter in the heavily damaged Andechs Abbey. The Emperor gives the task of finding Ulenspiegel and bringing him back to Vienna to the not quite 25 years old Martin von Wolkenstein.

"Kings in Winter." Elizabeth Stuart and her husband have suffered an ill fate as the King and Queen of Bohemia. During her and Friedrich's exile in The Hague in the Netherlands, a jester (Tyll) and his female companion (Nele) appear and ask for employment.

“Hunger.” After leaving their home village, Tyll and Nele are traveling with the cruel Pirmin, who is teaching the children the trade of a performer.

“The Great Art of Light and Shadow.” Kircher, a court mathematician, and an assistant join a quest for dragon's blood.

“In the Shaft.” A commandant tells Tyll he must join a unit of soldiers. Feeling he would be safe from bullets underground, Tyll chooses to become a miner.

“Westphalia.” The Winter Queen appears in Osnabrück to reclaim the electoral dignity of the Palatinate for her son.

During the dictatorship in Paraguay in the 1970s, two men who are secretly burying the dead, realise that one of the corpses is still alive.

The hero of the novel is the philosopher Alexei Krutorogov. He is unemployed and forced to get money for a living, working as a taxi driver. They are called bombers (bombila) in Russia. In the novel he talks about time, about the insignificance of everyday vanity and about absurdity as the basis of Russian life.

''Quest of the Three Worlds'' is a set of four stories of the hero Casher O'Neill.

''Three to Conquer'' is a novel in which a telepath battles alien invaders who infect and take over people.

''The Second Earth: The Pentateuch Re-told'' is author-illustrated.

Suzanne moves with her children Jules and Noor from The Netherlands to Belgium as she found work in a Belgian biscuit factory. During her work hours, Noël - her father in law - takes care of the children. By coincidence Jules finds in his grandfathers possessions a magical snow globe which can transfer him to any place in the world. He also discovers his grandfather is the real Santa Claus. Noël has a secret working place at some snowy place where he gets help from some elves. Noël gets health issues and is no longer able to deliver the Christmas presents over the world so Jules is forced to help him. However, Jules hates Christmas as his father died the previous year on Christmas eve and is not eager to help. This gets worse after he finds out Santa Claus does not live forever and all eldest sons in his family tree are ought to take over to role of Santa Claus once the predecessor dies or got too old. At same time, the biscuit factory is about to go bankrupt as management does not want to invest in new tastes.

''The Harvest Bride'' is a supernatural thriller.

Act I

Robert is a well-liked single man living in New York City, whose friends are all married or engaged couples. When Robert fails to blow out any candles on his 35th birthday cake, the couples promise him that his birthday wish will still come true, though he has wished for nothing, since his friends are all that he needs ("Company"). What follows is a series of disconnected vignettes in no apparent order, each featuring Robert during a visit with one of the couples or alone with a girlfriend.

Robert visits foodie Sarah and her husband, the alcoholic Harry. Sarah and Harry taunt each other on their vices, escalating toward karate-like fighting and thrashing that may or may not be playful. The caustic Joanne comments that it is "The Little Things You Do Together" that make a marriage work. Harry explains that a person is always "Sorry-Grateful" about getting married, and that marriage changes both everything and nothing about the way they live.

Robert is next with Peter and Susan, who surprise Robert with the news of their upcoming divorce. At the home of the uptight Jenny and chic David, Robert has brought along some marijuana that they share. The couple turns to grilling Robert on why he has not yet gotten married. Robert claims he is not against the notion, but three women he is currently sleeping with appear and chastise Robert for his reluctance to being committed ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy").

All of Robert's male friends envy his commitment-free status, and each has found someone they find perfect for Robert ("Have I Got a Girl for You"), but Robert is waiting for someone who merges the best features of all his married female friends ("Someone Is Waiting"). Robert meets his three girlfriends in a small park on three separate occasions, as Marta sings of the city ("Another Hundred People"). Robert first gets to know April, a slow-witted airline flight attendant. Robert then spends time with Kathy, who reveals that she is leaving for Cape Cod with a new fiancé. Finally, Robert meets with Marta, who leaves Robert stunned with her irrelevant chatter about New York.

The scene turns to the day of Amy and Paul's wedding. Robert, the best man, and Paul watch as Amy complains and self-destructs over every petty thing she can possibly think of and finally calls off the wedding ("Getting Married Today"). Robert tries to comfort Amy, but winds up offering an impromptu proposal to her himself ("What Did I Just Do?"). His words jolt Amy back into reality, and she runs out after Paul, at last ready to marry him.

The setting returns to the Robert's birthday party, where Robert wishes for someone to "Marry Me a Little".

Act II

The birthday party scene is reset, and Robert goes to blow out his candles. This time, he gets them about half out, and the rest have to help him. The couples share their views on Robert with each other as Robert reflects on being the third wheel ("Side By Side By Side" & "What Would We Do Without You?").

Robert brings April to his apartment for a nightcap, after a date. Meanwhile, the married women worry about Robert's single status ("Poor Baby"). When the inevitable sex happens, we hear Robert's and April's thoughts ("Tick-Tock"). The next morning, April rises early, to report for duty aboard a flight to "Barcelona". Robert wavers between asking her to stay and telling her to leave. April takes Bobby by surprise when she declares that she will stay.

Robert takes Marta to visit Peter and Susan, now divorced but still living together. Susan takes Marta inside to make lunch, and Peter asks Robert if he has ever had a homosexual experience. They both admit they have, and Peter hints at the possibility that he and Robert could have such an encounter. Robert uncomfortably laughs the conversation off as a joke, just as the women return.

Joanne and Larry take Robert out to a nightclub. Joanne blames Robert for always watching life rather than living it. She raises her glass in a mocking toast to "The Ladies Who Lunch". When Larry leaves to pay the check, Joanne bluntly invites Robert to begin an affair with her, assuring him that she will "take care of him". Bobby asks, "But who will I take care of?" Bobby confronts his own gnawing loneliness, realizing that he does need someone in his life after all ("Being Alive").

The opening party resets a final time; Robert's friends have waited two hours, with still no sign of him. At last, they all prepare to leave, expressing a new hopefulness about their absent friend's chances for loving fulfillment, and wishing him a happy birthday, wherever he may be.

The story ''"On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds"'' is, at first look, realism. The Medvedev couple lived together for a considerable part of their lives before perestroika. But in the last decade of the 20th century, the way of life in Russia is changing. Capitalism comes instead of socialism. Yulia, the wife of the journalist Andrei Medvedev, wants well-being in life. She decides that they need to start a radio station. All her thoughts are on it. The radio station will be ready to broadcast soon. However, these plans are a figment of her imagination. A strong desire for enrichment makes her mind bifurcated. Her husband Andrei tells about this in the second part of the story. The narrative is similar to tragic realism. However, here the author's voice turns on, again turning the content over. And the story becomes surreal. This twist makes readers think.

''"Nights after"'' is a little love story. The guy Sergey from the provinces falls in love with the Moscow girl Natasha. She came on vacation to her grandmother in the village. They meet at night on the river bank. He bathes naked. She does not see him in the dark and also strips naked. An uncomfortable situation develops, but as a result they begin to be friends. However, village hooligans rape Natasha, and they stab him. He ends up in the hospital, and she leaves for Moscow. And after his recovery, he has only a sad memory of this unfinished love.

The story ''"Silent abode"'' describes the life of ambulance workers in the province. Young Muscovite Anatoly Kiselyov comes there to practice. Doctors are often called to patients. Doctors get into both tragic and funny situations. Stories about them make up the story.

At a dinner party featuring fried chicken at the lavish Mancera house, Billy Garibaldi III proposes to Jessica Mancera. She is taken aback and says she “will think about it", angering her mother Bunny.

The next day, Bunny confronts Jessica, explaining that her marrying Billy is the only way to solve the family's financial woes. They are interrupted by their new live-in chef, a fictionalized Harland Sanders. Harland and Jessica are immediately smitten with each other. Jessica later offers Harland a tour of the grounds, and they quickly share their life stories. Harland mentions a secret fried chicken recipe that he envisions changing the world, when an angry Billy interrupts and makes a thinly veiled threat towards Jessica.

Later, Jessica's friend Lee prepares for a date at a country club while Jessica reveals that she is falling in love with Harland by phone. While Jessica is showering, it is revealed that Bunny was listening in on the phone conversation. Bunny, posing as Jessica, texts Billy on Jessica's phone, and tells him to meet her at a country club, which is coincidentally the same club Lee is on a date at. When they meet, Bunny tells Billy about Harland's secret recipe. Billy scoffs, and then it is revealed that Bunny and Billy had an affair and that they have feelings for one another. Lee sees the two meeting and tells Jessica to call her right away, but Jessica does not have her phone with her.

Later at the house, Billy searches furiously for Harland's secret recipe in the kitchen, finding it in Harland's bag. Harland walks in, and Billy offers Harland a $500,000 check to leave town and cut off contact with Jessica. Harland turns down the offer, but Billy reveals that he knows Harland's secret recipe. Billy lies to Harland, telling him that Jessica said yes to his proposal, resulting in Harland going off to talk to Jessica.

In another part of the house, Lee, looking for Jessica, confronts Bunny about her meeting with Billy. Before Lee can reach Jessica, Bunny knocks him out with a broom.

Elsewhere, Harland talks to Jessica, upset that she supposedly chose to marry Billy and also that she revealed the existence of the secret recipe. He gives her Billy's check and wishes her the best. Jessica tells Harland that she never agreed to marry and confesses her love for him, and they kiss. Bunny sees them through a window, telling Billy over the phone that they have "a problem”.

The next day, Jessica tells Bunny that she is in love with Harland and is turning down Billy's engagement. Bunny tells her that Harland left in the middle of the night, which is revealed to not be true. Jessica checks the kitchen and finds his belongings have disappeared. While walking forlornly around the grounds, Jessica hears muffled screaming coming from a storage room. Inside she finds Harland, gagged and tied to a chair. As she approaches, Billy steps out of the shadows brandishing a knife, revealing that he is planning to kill Harland. Bunny rushes in, but to Jessica's horror, she reveals she is a part of the scheme and tells Billy to kill Harland at once. Harland headbutts Billy, and while Jessica and Bunny look on in shock, Lee, who has been hiding in the room, knocks Billy out. Bunny is consumed with rage and tries to attack Harland, but she is pushed aside and knocked out by Jessica.

One year later, Jessica and Harland are being wed with Lee. Meanwhile, Bunny appears to be confined to a "health and wellness center". She is told she has a visitor by a worker. It is Billy, who says he has found "them”, referring to Harland and Jessica. He then eats a piece of fried chicken, ending the film on a cliffhanger.

On the way from southern California to a court hearing in Sacramento, private detective Lew Archer comes across a trucker who has been shot and dumped by the roadside. Archer drives him to Kerrigan's Motel and calls an ambulance from there, but the victim dies soon afterwards and Archer agrees to stop in Las Cruces for the inquest.

Archer soon finds that most people in Las Cruces know each other. The victim was Tony Aquista and trucked for the embittered Meyer; of Meyer's two daughters the elder, Hilda, is married to the town's antagonistic Sheriff Butler. The younger daughter, Anne, had been raped by her father at 15 and later had affairs with her brother-in-law, with Kerrigan and with Aquista, among others; now she is missing. So is the truck full of whiskey that Aquista was driving and Meyer hires Archer to trace it.

His investigation takes him to The Golden Slipper nightclub where Jo Summer was the singer until lately. After tracking her down, he falls foul of her lover Bozey, a vicious young thug who beats him up. Then, in following Kerrigan, Archer discovers the hiding place of the missing truck and Bozey nearly runs him down in it. Afterwards Archer doubles back to Kerrigan's motel, discovers Kerrigan has been shot and sees Jo driving away.

Archer talks to Mrs Kerrigan, who gives him the keys to her mountain cabin on Lake Perdida, where he goes to look for Anne Meyer. He learns that Anne and Kerrigan had spent a recent weekend there and also speaks to MacGowan, the only permanent resident of the resort, who turns out to be Jo Summer's grandfather.

In Las Cruces, Archer has a fight with the sheriff and is only saved from being shot by Hilda Butler. Believing that Butler does not want to get to the truth, Archer goes to District Attorney Westmore, who gives him details of Bozey's recent involvement in a bank robbery: since the notes were recorded, he needed to raise ready cash from the hijacked whiskey consignment. For Westmore, Bozey is the obvious culprit for Aquista's and Kerrigan's murders, but Archer remains unconvinced.

From Kerrigan's wife Archer learns that her husband was in financial difficulties and his motive for involvement in the hijacking was to get away with Jo, using the pay-off – not realizing that Bozey had swindled him by using the hot money from the robbery. As they are talking, MacGowan arrives with the news that Jo had been up to Lake Perdida but had left again to search for Bozey and was heading for the abandoned mining camp of Traverse.

MacGowan and Archer set out for Traverse, convinced that the stolen truck is hidden there. On their way they meet Jo driving down with the stolen bank money; she has been raped by Bozey's gang, and the gang has also beaten up Bozey, intending to steal the whiskey consignment for themselves. She also reveals that Kerrigan had previously found Anne murdered in his cabin and disposed of the body.

MacGowan and Archer now ambush the gang, who are transferring the consignment into a different truck so as to escape detection. One of the gang is killed, another is wounded but manages to board the truck as it leaves; eventually it goes off the road, killing those on board. Archer meanwhile persuades Bozey to cooperate with him as the only way to escape being convicted for the murders in which he is circumstantially implicated. Together they locate where Anne's body has been hidden.

Ballistic evidence proves that Anne, Kerrigan and Aquista were all killed by the same gun. The gun was given by Meyer to Anne, but Archer gets Hilda to admit that she had stolen it from her sister. Hilda's motive for the murders was jealousy of her sister and the men Anne had slept with, and especially the ultimate betrayal of stealing her own husband. Sheriff Butler arrives to clarify details and is ready to turn himself in for not acting earlier on the knowledge of his wife's guilt. Archer promises not to support the legal case against him and advises Butler to have his wife committed as temporarily insane.

Ken Akaba is a top-rank stock-car driver who was involved in a horrific accident, which killed 6 spectators. He was badly hurt, but he survived and promised his younger sister that he would give up racing. He goes to America to help his father develop a new Formula 1 racer, but in the testing of the car runs at speeds that set records—so the pressure is on for him to return to racing, this time in the F-1 circuit. He has supporters, but there are also those who do not want him to come back, including those who caused the original crash.

In 1943, the US Navy ship USS ''Eldridge'' disappears, due to the Philadelphia Experiment. In the present day (2012), researchers try to re-create the experiment, which has the unintended consequence of making the ''Eldridge'' reappear, apparently having traveled through time. The sole survivor of the original experiment is aboard, and meets up with his now-adult granddaughter. The ''Eldridge'' continues to drift through time and space, trapping others aboard it. The research company tries to cover-up the incident by killing everyone involved. A struggle ensues as others try to protect the survivors, and return them their original time and place.

Retired from Detroit Police Department cop Jack Harris has to protect his niece and an innocent woman from corrupt cops after the woman took a video of one of the police killing a drug dealer.

The plot focuses on a lesson on perspective given by Master Wu to the ninja. After showing off their individual elemental powers to the audience in the dojo, the ninja are scolded by Master Wu, who warns them about being proud. Master Wu then proceeds to teach the ninja a lesson about how time is experienced differently based on perception. He presents the "Scroll of the Fourth Dimension", which holds great power, and then offers a demonstration. Master Wu explains that with the knowledge of the scroll, a spinjitzu master can manipulate time and space. When Master Wu asks the ninja to once again demonstrate their elemental powers, he uses the scroll to freeze them in time and afterwards explains that only the most disciplined ninja can use the scroll. When Master Wu leaves the ninja to their training, he forgets to take the scroll with him. The ninja race to retrieve it and Lloyd reaches it first. When he attempts the second lesson on the scroll, it affects gravity and he loses his grip on the scroll. After their efforts to move around the dojo to reach the scroll fail, the ninja decide to combine their elemental powers and Jay finally reaches it. When he uses the scroll, it affects organised matter, and the ninja discover that they can no longer use their elemental powers. Nya picks up the scroll, realises that they must change their perspective, and turns the scroll upside down. After she uses the scroll, the dojo is returned to its original state. Master Wu then returns for the scroll and the ninja show off their airjitzu abilities to the audience.

Sakuya Izayoi, the head maid of Gensokyo's Scarlet Devil Mansion, is sent to a parallel universe that mysteriously resembles the mansion, by her mistress, Remilia Scarlet. Apparently, this is for Remilia's own amusement, but her younger sister Flandre Scarlet disguises herself as Nitori Kawashiro and hijacks the parallel universe in revenge for Remilia using her magical jewels to create Luna Nights without permission. After Sakuya defeats Flandre, Remilia apologizes and undoes Luna Nights.

In the game's alternate ending, the real Nitori discovers that the world is collapsing and sends Sakuya to investigate. She finds Reimu Hakurei had infiltrated the parallel universe as it is affecting the real Gensokyo. After they fight, Remilia, Nitori, and Flandre arrive and explain to everyone that the purpose of Luna Nights is to create a universe where Flandre could freely use her powers to avoid creating an incident in the real Gensokyo, but were unsuccessful leading to Reimu's appearance. The spiritual energy built up during the fight causes the universe to collapse, with Sakuya barely escaping in Nitori's mech.

Characters

With the exception of Nitori, all of the characters in ''Touhou Luna Nights'' are either the protagonists of the series or are from ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''.

Sakuya Izayoi – The main protagonist, head maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Hong Meiling – First boss, a Chinese martial artist, and the Scarlet Devil Mansion's gatekeeper. Marisa Kirisame – Second boss, a human magician. Patchouli Knowledge – Third boss, a solitary magician and librarian that resides in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's library. Remilia Scarlet – Fourth boss, a vampire, and the owner of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Nitori Kawashiro – Fifth boss, a kappa who fights using mecha and runs a shop. After defeating her, it is revealed that she is Flandre Scarlet in disguise. Flandre Scarlet – Sixth and final boss, a vampire and Remilia's younger sister. Because of her powers, she is normally forced to stay in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement. Reimu Hakurei – Eighth and true final boss, the miko of the Hakurei Shrine, and the main protagonist of the official ''Touhou'' games. *Cirno – Extra seventh boss added in an update, an ice fairy who resides at the Misty Lake, located near the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She is the only boss unavailable in the boss rush mode.

Bolin, Asami, and Iroh are taken captive by the Equalists, led by Hiroshi Sato, but are rescued by Naga, who assists them in a fight between the mecha-tanks and the bombers, both of which end up destroyed, with Asami taking down her father.

Meanwhile, Mako and Korra attempt to expose Amon as a waterbender, however he removes his mask revealing burn scarring, claiming that is was from a firebender attack. This further hypes the Equalist crowd who now truly believe him. The situation makes a turn for the worst when Amon reveals he has captured Tenzin and his children, intent on removing their bending and finally making airbenders extinct. The two free the family, but Amon confronts them and removes Korra's connection to her water, earth, and firebending through bloodbending. Amon's lieutenant however witnesses this and tries to attack, but this proves useless as Amon merely casts him aside, killing him. This allows Mako to stun Amon in an attempt to escape with Korra, but just as Amon is about to remove his firebending Korra unlocks her airbending abilities and ejects Amon out a window and into the ocean. In his attempt to survive drowning, he reveals himself as a waterbender and that the scarring was make-up to the shock of the other Equalists. Amon flees the city on a small speedboat and brings Tarrlok with him, saying that they could start a new life as brothers, but Tarrlok redeems his previously vile actions by blowing up their boat with an Equalist glove to kill Amon and himself.

Korra returns to the South Pole where Katara attempts to return her abilities, to no avail. While crying on the edge of a cliff, Korra is visited by the previous Avatar, Aang, telling her she has finally connected with her spiritual-self. With the appearance of all the previous Avatars, he then restores her lost bending abilities, after which Mako appears and the both of them admit their love for each other. Korra then restores Lin Beifong's earthbending to the amazement of the group and ends with Tenzin finally calling her, 'Avatar Korra'.

Joseph Van Aston lives a carefree life and is the son of a wealthy San Francisco real estate tycoon (his mom). He spends his time womanizing and enjoying his rich lifestyle. His mom sends him to Petaluma to close a deal to buy a dairy farm that has continuously refused a buyout to purchase the land. Callie Bernet is a hardworking and headstrong woman, whose farm is more valuable to her than any monetary value, despite being heavily in debt. She lives on the ranch with her mother Wendy, who has cancer, and her little sister Hannah.

Joseph arrives at the farm and meets Callie, who is busy with a cow giving birth to a calf. He is mistaken for the new ranch hand Manny who is set to arrive soon, and assists Callie with the birth. He decides to take advantage of this in an attempt to gain Callie's trust, and despite no experience on a farm, continues to pose as Manny.

Meanwhile, Joseph sends his butler Leo to find the real Manny and pay him not to show up at the farm. Manny capitalizes on the situation by making lavish requests in return for his silence. Manny stays at an Airbnb with Leo, where they pamper themselves, play video games, and drink fine wine throughout the day. Leo finds that Manny has an uncanny ability to determine every note in the wines. Manny also provides farming advice to Joseph, who is in over his head.

Over time Joseph becomes more adept on the farm and grows closer to the Bernet family. Joseph and Callie soon develop feelings for each other and Callie shows Joseph a small abandoned vineyard on the property—left behind by Callie’s late father. She occasionally gifts (but does not sell) the previously bottled wine, and they end up sharing part of a bottle.

As Christmas approaches, Joseph attempts to tell Callie the truth about who he is, but never finds the right moment. He also continually ignores his mother's calls for a status update on the ranch deal. Joseph’s mother takes matters into her own hands and comes to the ranch, fully exposing the con, and pressures Callie to accept the deal to pay off her mother's extensive medical bills. Callie refuses the offer and kicks out Joseph, though Joseph stands up to his mother and pleads to help save the ranch.

Leo and Manny taste the wine from the ranch from the leftover bottle Joseph had and realize it's one of the best wines they've ever tasted. The three of them bring the wine to a prominent wine expert and the wine expert agrees on the quality. Joseph goes back to the abandoned vineyard on his own and helps spruce up the area. Callie finds him working on the vineyard and although still angry at him, works with him to make the vineyard presentable. The wine expert visits the vineyard and ends up purchasing the remainder of Callie's father's wine in the cellar and also leases the existing vines for the future. With the purchase and future commissions from sales, it is enough to keep the ranch in Callie's hands.

Joseph secretly fixes up Callie's old barn and a Christmas / saving-the-ranch celebration takes place, where Callie eventually forgives him and they reconcile. Sometime in the future, Joseph and Callie are sitting on a bench in the now thriving vineyard. Wedding rings are visible on their hands.

The film starts with Will (Kevin Quinn) running from the police because he stole a cop car. This time his actions have landed him in a situation where he's facing juvenile hall. But as his saving grace, a foster mother Kristin (Sherri Shepherd), with her son George (Jahbril Cook), visits officer Mark (Ed Amatrudo) handling Will's case and Will gets to choose between juvie and a summer camp. Will ends up choosing the camp and from there he starts quite a journey. When he reaches there, a girl named Avery (Bailee Madison) catches his eye. George and Will share a cabin and there Will finds out that George likes a girl named Presley (Kat Conner Sterling). Will makes a deal with George that he’ll help the latter with Presley if George helps him with Avery. At night all the campers attend The Tribunal to compete in the camp’s war games. After the truth about his situation starts to surface among the campers, Will leaves the camp. Avery drives after him and tries to get him to return without succeeding. He struggles with the thought of there being a loving God after what happened to his family. In the end, Will decides to return to the camp and he and Avery share a moment and a kiss together. When he didn't expect it, he discovers people who care about him.

The film opens with a flashback scene in which Edh is in a car with her daughter, Vanja, waiting in a traffic jam. Civilians are attacked by approaching enemies and the pair are forced out of the car.

A few years later Edh, now a soldier, is disembarking from a train. A lieutenant drives her to the base through a dangerous neighborhood and strands her there. Edh is attacked by refugees, and manages to fight her way out. Upon arriving at the base, she is taken for a briefing with Colonel Raad and she meets the other soldiers recruited for the special mission: Karimi, Malik, Granvik, and Captain Forsberg.

The Colonel explains that the team must cross the ice-covered Stockholm Archipelago on skates and deliver some canisters to a research base, named Ödö, which he says could lead to victory in the war. The team will skate across the ice, as it is too thin for vehicles. Edh points out that this appears to be a suicide mission, but she is given a reason to try to make it: the chance to be reunited with Vanja, who has been found in a refugee camp.

The team leaves as the base is attacked the next day, and is joined by the lieutenant who abandoned Edh earlier, Nylund. Before they can be properly briefed on the mission, Forsberg falls through the thin ice and drowns. Edh jumps in after her, saving the two packages from Forsberg’s backpack but leaving her body behind.

The group takes Edh to a house on land, where they warm her and themselves by fire and Nylund is selected to be their new commander, according to the chain of command. This gets some pushback from Edh as she wonders whose place he took on the mission, as he was a last-minute substitute for an unnamed missing person.

The following morning, Edh hears the thrum of rotors and she catches Karimi using the radio. The helicopter fires a missile into house as the team escapes, leading to the suspicion that Karimi is a traitor. He claims he was calling his girlfriend, a radio operator at the F28 base, bombed when Karimi was making his way to it.

Later, the group finds it difficult to skate across the thin ice and decides to travel over land. They find an elderly couple hiding in a home, having refused to leave during the evacuation. As they eat, Edh spots a machine pistol mounted under the table, and she silently pleads with the man not to attack. He nevertheless fires, and the soldiers return fire, leaving Karimi and the couple dead. Malik, injured, downplays the severity of his wound. As they prepare to leave, a voice claiming to be Karimi’s girlfriend from F28 base radios in and asks to talk to him. They answer evasively, and ultimately close the connection.

While resting on a ship they find frozen in the ice, Granvik opens the packages, which contain vials of liquid with a biohazard warning, suggesting they could be some sort of biological weapon. This leads to a crisis of conscience amongst the team. As Malik slowly dies from his injuries, he insists that the virus would not be the end of the war, but instead the end of everything. He shoots himself in the head.

After spotting lights on the ice, which could be enemy forces, Edh leaves alone to continue the mission with the vials. She comes across dangerously thin ice and attempts to skate across, but it cracks and leaves her stranded. Granvik and Nylund rescue her with a rope before all three attempt to cross. Granvik shoots a lone machine gunner in a pillbox on a rocky hill overlooking the ice, before the trio comes across his comrades, frozen to death.

Granvik recounts why he enlisted in the military: after being forced by the enemy to dig a mass grave with his childhood friend, he fell in as his friend was shot and the soldiers didn’t realize he was still alive. Forced to push his way out from under the corpses, he witnessed them being eaten by rats and enlisted soon after.

The next morning, awoken by memories of her daughter, Edh realises Nylund has run off with the capsules. She and Granvik are attacked by a group of enemy soldiers. The two kill them all, but Edh is shot and Granvik killed. Edh continues her journey on the ice, catching up to Nylund. When he refuses to stop, they begin shooting at one another. Edh fires a sniper rifle at him, injuring him, and recovers the capsules. She leaves Nylund on the ice, but soon experiences visions of Malik and Forsberg before collapsing on the ice as some soldiers arrive on horseback.

She awakes in an infirmary with frostbite to her extremities. She finds out that she has reached her objective, the military base. Edh is congratulated, awarded medals, and promoted to Second Lieutenant for succeeding in the operation, by the base commander, Nordh. An injured Nylund watches with other soldiers. She asks to see her daughter, but is told that this was a ruse to increase her willpower to get the packages to the base. On learning about this, Edh attacks the commander but is restrained by Nylund, who holds her as she cries.

Edh makes a last-ditch effort to dispose of the weapon with Nylund’s help. They make their way to the laboratory where the virus is being held. After forcing a scientist to give them the vials, they escape with it by triggering the evacuation alarm and hiding in hazmat suits as everyone flees.

Edh, after insisting Nylund find seats on the fleeing helicopters, is found by Nordh, and reveals that she has secured the vials to an unpinned grenade. Nordh tries to encourage to think of her daughter, Edh says that’s all she ever does, and she ends her life by stepping off the cliff and detonating the grenade. After her fall in the sea, the dead Edh reunites with her dead daughter under water and they embrace each other.

The show follows the adventures of Dorg, a normal kid, living in the very normal town of Normill. That is, until he meets the Magicals; Jet Lazor, the super-cool unicorn; Patronella, an ancient witch; RD, a curious alien; and Yooki, an eerie ghost. They all escaped from Area 52 and are in desperate need of help and refuge.

To have them blend in with the citizens of Normill, Dorg disguises them as teenagers and hides them in the basement in the local shopping mall. With his new best friends attempting to help navigate life's challenges, Dorg's world just got a whole lot less normal and a lot more fun!

At the time of release, the film was described as follows: "A Railway Tragedy is about a robbery and assault on an attractive young woman in a train compartment. During the attack, the young woman is thrown from the train. The film ends with the capture of the villain on a station platform as he attempts to make his getaway."Kemp R. Niver, ''Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress'', Library of Congress, 1985, p.267

Set in the mid-1970s, the story follows Charles Sobhraj, a French serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese descent, as he drugs and robs travellers, particularly young backpackers, travelling through Bangkok, Thailand, along the overland. He steals his victims' passports and identities to travel the world and sells stolen gems with girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc. Charles Sobhraj is at the height of his crimes when a Dutch diplomat, Herman Knippenberg, begins investigating the murders of Dutch tourists and uncovers clues leading to Sobhraj.

Despite being the subject of bullying and discrimination because of the big scar on her face, Magda refuses to let criticisms get to her and strives hard to secure a comfortable life for her family. Using her skills and intelligence, she hits the jackpot when the soap she created quickly gains popularity in the town of Salvacion. However, the young lady's success does not sit well with the Narciso family, the owners of Royal Wellness, the biggest surgical and cosmetic company in the country. When Magda refuses to sell her formula to the Narcisos due to their contrasting views, a string of bad luck comes her way. Losing everything dear to her, Magda returns with a new face, armed with determination to retaliate against the powerful clan who ruined her life.

Sherry is seen entering a testing lab as she is working on a suspicious experiment for the Black Organization. As she views some live footage of test subjects on a computer screen, she calls her sister Akemi, telling her to come over, saying she will show her something interesting. A man walks into a bar called "Black Widow" and sits next to Vodka. Gin appears and says the Organization was having a rat problem. He also says the drink they were drinking was called "XYZ", a drink made from rum and lemon juice, which is mentioned to imply an "end". The man tries to flee by getting into his car, but it immediately explodes upon startup.

Ran and Shinichi see Genta, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko playing soccer. Ran questions why Shinichi left soccer, as he explains he wanted to develop the reflexes needed for being a detective and cites Sherlock Holmes whom he wants to emulate. At Sonoko's home, a guest, Takanori Sewa has been receiving threatening letters before his New Year's party. Shinichi offers Sewa his assistance, but he declines saying that he has already increased the number of guards.

During Ran's karate competition, Shinichi gets a call from the Inspector regarding a case and he has to leave urgently. Sewa's party has been interrupted by a murder: one of the guests, President Yamazaki of Yatsubishi Bank, was found dead with a knife that pierced through his heart. The police, led by Inspector Megure, investigate the crime scene, where Shinichi concludes the killer to be Sewa himself.

While Shinichi and Ran are enjoying themselves at Tropical Land, Shinichi runs off to inspect two suspicious men in black making a shady business deal. Gin knocks out Shinichi from behind, then forces him to take an experimental drug, which shrinks his body. After making it home, Shinichi asks Professor Agasa for help. Agasa warns that to stay safely hidden from the men in black, Shinichi can tell no one of his true identity–even Ran, who coincidentally shows up, intending to check on Shinichi. Agasa convinces her to look after Shinichi, who tells her his name is Conan Edogawa. On the way to her house, Ran's father Kogoro rushes outside on the trail of a case. He brags that he's been hired to find a CEO's daughter who was kidnapped by a "man in black". In the hope that it is a lead, Conan sneaks along, followed by Ran, who explains Conan's situation to Kogoro. Hoping each case he solves with Kogoro and Ran will lead him closer to the Black Organization, Conan stays with them going forward.

At Shinichi's House, Sherry and her team members search for whereabouts of Shinichi and Sherry finds that she already saw Shinichi when she came across in her car near the park. She also discovers that his childhood clothes are missing. In a busy New York street, Vermouth is talking to Gin while she is being followed by Jodie Starling and Shuichi Akai in a car behind them. Back at the lab, Sherry checks the list of persons need to be investigated and finds Shinichi's name where she enters "dead" in place of "unknown" and signs the sheet "SHERRY".

''The Delta'' is a novel in which a vital spiritual force causes insects to grow large, so Niall heads for the Delta where it originates.

''The Dorbott of Vacuo'' is a novel in which surreal landscapes form hazards.

''Sabella or The Blood Stone'' is a novel in which a lady vampire is on colonized Mars.

''Game of the Pink Pagoda'' is a novel in which a game is featured.

Two years after the alien invasion, the human resistance in Sydney learns about an alien operation called "Rainfall" related to a location, Pine Gap. No details are known but a team of three, including one Alien, sets out to learn more. The human resistance in Sydney is attacked and destroyed, along with Sydney itself. Survivors flee to a military mountain base but it too is attacked and destroyed. The recon team arrives at Pine Gap which turns out to be a US intelligence base hosting two goofy survivors despite being destroyed on the surface. "Rainfall" is an artificial asteroid of sorts hidden below the base and created by the aliens, with potential high tech capabilities. A hasty plan to destroy the asteroid is made but to no avail, the asteroid falls in the hands of attacking aliens.

A group of former high school friends reunite for a camping trip. The group includes valedictorian Rian (Reine Swart) and her boyfriend PJ (Cameron Scott), a rock drummer; popular Ezra (Steven John Ward), wallflower Erin (Liesl Ahlers), couple Shay (Suraya Rose dos Santos) and Bobby (Michael Lawrence Potter), best friends Amber (Paige Bonnin) and Cici (Kayla Privett), and the brooding Kato (Russell Crous). As the group attempts to turn in for the night, they are knocked out by gas placed by a mysterious figure and Erin, who discovers the gas, is knocked out. The nine awaken and find themselves strapped to suicide bomb vests.

The man responsible is Mr. Peterson (Sean Cameron Michael), the group's former science teacher. He confronts the group, as he holds them responsible for the death of his son Caleb, who died of a drug overdose at a party. He sets off various timers on each student's vest and proceeds to kill himself in front of the group. When they find a battered Bobby, who had been separated from the group, it's revealed that he helped Mr. Peterson and was responsible for the group going to the woods. Bobby apologizes, explaining that he was blackmailed by Peterson, but it is too late and the vest explodes, killing him.

After Bobby, PJ has the lowest time and begs Rian to help. However, when he is startled by Shay, he accidentally kills her with a high impact blow to the head with his flashlight. He and Rian discover Shay's time has been added to PJ's vest, thus giving him the highest time. Rian tells the group about what had happened and that he got the time because of "proximity sensors". When Cici has the next lowest score, she goes insane and goes after the group. When Cici learns Amber had been sleeping with Ezra thanks to Kato telling her, Amber defends herself and kills her best friend. Kato convinces Amber to ally with him to kill the others so they can be the last ones standing.

Ezra convinces Erin to team up with him and the two find a man bloodied and tied up in the forest. Erin recognizes him as Detective Miller, Rian's father. Miller tells the two that Peterson forced him to reopen Caleb's case and had strapped him to a vest as well. As he is mortally wounded, Ezra kills Miller, but since Erin is the closest one, she gets his time. Ezra did it as the first selfless act he's done as he has had a reputation as a selfish playboy type. As Erin looks for Rian, Kato, now gone insane, kills Ezra as revenge for Amber. Erin finds Rian and tells her about her father's ordeal.

Meanwhile, Kato shoots PJ in the head and then betrays Amber for sleeping with Ezra and chops her repeatedly with an axe. When Rian attempts to turn the vest off, it leads to a sudden death situation between her, Erin, and Kato. Rian then is ready to kill Erin but breaks down and confesses that she is the one who killed Caleb. She admits to slipping ecstasy given to her by Kato at Ezra's party five years ago because he had a higher GPA than her and she was desperate to be valedictorian. She only meant to give him a small dose but gave him too much. She even convinced her father to cover it up. Kato, upon hearing the confession, sneak attacks and kills Rian. However, Rian falls in Erin's arms and thus, she gets the time, which angers Kato.

Kato taunts Erin, who has always been the quiet one. However, Erin gains the confidence she desperately needed and incapacitates Kato, who gives his final words as his timer goes off and explodes. Erin’s vest glows, revealing a message that reads: "All your friends are dead! Have a nice life!"

A mid-credit scene shows Erin escaping to the road and flagging down a passing car. However, he sees her gun and drives away. Erin screams, and then slowly begins to smile.

A grandfather wakes up alone on left of the bed with empty space on the right side of bed after losing his wife. He wheelchairs himself outside to greet his granddaughter who is dropped off by his daughter. The granddaughter gives him a drawing and he gives her a hug. His granddaughter spends the day drawing and trying to get her grandfather to paint again. However, the grandfather is still grieving and doesn't feel like painting. At night, his daughter picks up his granddaughter. The next day, his daughter drops his granddaughter off at his house again. The granddaughter is curious what is behind the closet. She opens the door behind the closet and finds her grandfather's art studio. Inside the studio, she finds a painting of her grandmother. The grandfather wheelchair himself in the studio and is angry to find his granddaughter holding the painting. He snatches the painting out of her hands. As he touches the painting, a memory of his wife appears and they are dancing. He suddenly finds the inspirations to paint again.

Michael is a high school graduate living in North Hollywood, California with dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder. After being noticed by two professional skaters, Michael quits his water polo team to focus exclusively on skating. This leads to tension within Michael's relationship with his friends and his father. Michael thinks that his friends, Jay and Adolf, are not taking skating as seriously as him and he does not want to waste time with them. For this reason he starts to skate with them less and more with the professional skaters, which adds to the tension in their relationships. His father does not see skating as a realistic career and wants him to go to college and pursue stable employment. Michael is ultimately faced with the decision between choosing the future his father wants, or following his dream of becoming a professional skater.

The story is a high-speed chase that follows a Lego City police officer as he pursues a criminal through the streets and skyscrapers of the city. There are many twists and turns along the way that involve the officer getting wet, flying and getting "bubbled", which are enhanced by sensory 4D effects.

The poor Kayı newcomers face Ural of the rich Çavdar trade-veterans. Although Ural isn't the Bey of his tribe, he seeks more and more power, becoming jealous of the Kayı whenever something good happens . Meanwhile, the Templars who have infiltrated Hanlı Pazar, led by Hancı Simon, seek to kill Ertuğrul as he did to the Templars years back. Ertuğrul defeats Hancı Simon and conquers Hanlı Pazar, leaving Ural more jealous than ever. When Ural is accused of killing the Tekfur of Karacahisar, Andros, and causing problems for the Kayı, Ural is sentenced to death, however, he is saved by the devious Emir Saadettin. After the death of Candar, the Çavdar Bey, and Ural's father, Ural seeks help from the new Tekfur of Karacahisar, Vasilius, who lays an ambush for Doğan and Dündar which results in Doğan Alp being martyred and Dündar being seriously injured. Ural is later killed by Ertuğrul in an attempt to become the Bey of the Çavdar. When Vasilius attempts to ambush the Selçuk Sultan, he fails and is killed by Ertuğrul. Because of this, the Sultan makes Ertuğrul the Uç Bey angering Emir Saadettin who vows to end Ertuğrul. At the end of the season, Ertuğrul falls into an ambush set by the new Tekfur of Karacahisar, Ares.

It is believed that Ertuğrul is dead despite the truth being that he is actually captured by some slave traders. Meanwhile, Emir Sadettin convinces Dündar, Ertuğrul's brother and the new Kayı Bey, into selling Hanlı Pazar and moving back to Gündoğdu's tribe but is stopped upon Ertuğrul's return and is forthwith banished. After Ertuğrul's son, Gündüz, is kidnapped, Ertuğrul declares war against Karacahisar and is successful in conquering it. Following Ares' capture, Ertuğrul takes him to the Sultan and tells him to confess to the Sultan about Sadettin Köpek's misdeeds. The plan nearly works but Köpek is saved by the Sultan's wife, Mahperi Hatun and leads to an event turning Tekfur Ares, later killed by Noyan, into a Muslim. Soon after that, the Sultan is killed and Köpek's increase in power in the palace creates problems for the new Sultan, Gıyaseddin. Gıyaseddin allies with Ertuğrul and with the help of Hüsamettin Karaca, Köpek is beheaded. After this, Ertuğrul faces the return of Noyan but is successful in defeating him and his devious sister, Alangoya, who attempted to kill Ertuğrul's son, Osman, who was born on the same day as his mother's death. Noyan prepares for a battle, historically known as the Battle of Köse Dağ and the Kayı move to Söğüt.

After 10 years in Söğüt, in a Mongol-controlled Selçuk state, Ertuğrul faces many Mongol commanders including Alıncak and Subutai, along with the Selçuk assassin working with the Mongols, Beybolat. Beybolat is disguised with the name, Albastı who is a brother of İlbilge hatun and he arrives following the death of his father, Umur Bey, Bey of the Umuroğlu tribe, who was sent to become the new tax collecter of Söğüt. Umur Bey was killed by the disgraced Byzantine commander, Dragos, disguised as the Söğüt Zangoç ( ), who seeks to take over the town. Beybolat, who becomes his father's successor, and Dragos, who takes control over Lefke Castle after killing the innocent Tekfur Yannis, cause many problems for Ertuğrul including Beybolat's control over Söğüt for a while. İlbilge, Beybolat's sister, is the only person in her family supporting justice. With her help, Ertuğrul, defeats and kills both Beybolat and Dragos. Following Beybolat's death, Ertuğrul faces Arikbuka, a feared Mongol spy and Alıncak's blood brother, along with the spy, Qiyat, who works for Hulagu against Berke, Ertuğrul's ally and the Han of the Golden Horde. The season ends with the death of Arikbuka and Qiyat along with Ertuğrul's marriage to İlbilge Hatun.

In 19th century Macedonia, Maria - a "Wolf-Eatress", or witch, with a horrible burned appearance - enters the home of a newborn baby. The child's terrified mother says that if Maria spares the girl's life, she will give her up once the girl is 16. Maria agrees, but robs the girl of her voice before leaving. The mother hides the child, Nevena, in a cave, and raises her there with no knowledge of the outside world.

On Nevena's 16th birthday, Maria arrives in the form of an eagle; the mother chases the bird out of sight, where Maria kills her and takes her form. She tells Nevena to follow her. Outside the cave, Maria kills a donkey, scratches Nevena's chest and spits the donkey's blood onto her before burning her wound with fire; this transforms Nevena into a witch, giving her retractible black talons on her fingers and palm. Maria then pulls Nevena's mother's guts from a hole in her chest, causing her to resume her previous, burned form.

Nevena, not understanding what has happened, believes the witch is still her mother. Maria kills a shepherd who takes a liking to Nevena, warning her that humans will hurt her, and tries to teach her to catch and kill rabbits and fish, whose blood witches consume for power. But Nevena would rather play with the creatures, and Maria, disgusted, tells her to fend for herself. Nevena follows her for a little while until she sees Maria kill and assume the form of a wolf before disappearing into the forest.

Nevena comes across a village, where she sees a young woman, Bosilka, giving birth to a baby. Shortly afterward, Nevena finds the baby in a crib in the barn. Bosilka attacks her, and Nevena accidentally kills her. Copying Maria, Nevena puts Bosilka's organs into her chest and assumes her appearance; the spell also causes Bosilka's body to disappear.

Nevena, who is still mute, assumes Bosilka's life. Her family believe that she has gone mad, but Nevena slowly learns how to live as a human: how to cook and wash, how to communicate non-verbally, and the differences in how men and women treat her. All the while, Maria watches her from afar.

One night Boslika’s abusive husband tries to have sex with her. The unfamiliarity of the process, along with the rough nature of her husband, causes her to panic and kill him. She removes Bosilka's entrails from her chest cavity, reverts to her old self and flees.

On the road once more, she transforms herself into a dog and comes across a group of men. She follows them to their village, then assumes her naked human form and lures one of them away. The man attempts to seduce her, but she kills him and assumes his shape. Now a male, Nevena returns to the village, where he learns to plow the fields and thresh, but still acts in a confused and childlike way. His peculiar behaviour attracts the attention of the women of the village, who believe he is possessed. They attempt an exorcism, which they believe is successful, but say that the Wolf-Eatress that bewitched him will one day come back and spirit him away. Again, Maria appears to him and warns that growing close to normal humans won’t end well.

But Nevena persists, and enjoys his life in the village, even having a pleasurable sexual experience with a local woman. That changes when he discovers the body of a dying girl who has fallen from a cliff. Crying for the first time, Nevena sheds her male form and assumes that of the little girl, leaving only the man's bloodstained clothes behind. Now appearing to be a little girl, she integrates herself back into the village. As time passes, she grows close to a boy who is seemingly also mute, and one night she and the other children are told how, according to local legend, Maria came to be a witch.

Centuries ago Maria, ageing and unmarried, happened across a witch and begged her for a husband and child. The witch scratched her chest and spat blood in her face - the first two steps of creating a witch - before walking away. Later, Maria is approached by a man who offers his son's hand in marriage. She accepts, but upon arriving in his home discovers that the son is dying of disease. She is made to have sex with him, because his mother doesn't want him to die a virgin.

Maria falls sick herself, and attempts to drink a cow's blood to give her strength, but is discovered and burned as a witch. The fire completes the witch's spell and transforms Maria into a witch herself - but only after her body has been left horribly burned and scarred.

For Nevena, many years pass and she decides to marry the boy from her youth. As they grow closer, she reveals her witch's talons, but he is not afraid. They make love, and she becomes pregnant, but tragedy strikes when her husband is killed by a boar - implied to be Maria in disgusie. Nevena shuts herself away, afraid that Maria will take her newborn child, but the women of the village promise to protect it.

However, one chilly morning she discovers her midwife has been killed, and that Maria has seized her baby. The witch ridicules the child before cutting its throat with her talon. Without stopping to think, Nevena kills a goat, takes a mouthful of its blood and performs the Wolf-Eatress spell on the dying infant, turning it into a witch and saving its life. Maria is astonished that Nevena could love the child so much that she would use up her one chance to make a witch without thinking. Nevena then kills Maria.

As Maria dies, Nevena looks at her baby and remembers all the lives she has led, and thinks that despite all the violence and cruelty of the world, there is always hope.

''Introducing the Kujus'' tells the story of five Nigerian siblings who are at crossroads. They do not want to return to their hometown in Badagry for the five-year remembrance of their mother's death. Mausi Kuju (played by Bisola Aiyeola) with the help of Maugbe Kuju (played by Timini Egbuson) orchestrates a plan to bring their other siblings together. For the plan to succeed, she must trick her siblings, but the volatile nature of their relationship means she does not know how exactly it'll go.

The story concerns a four-year-old boy who arrives in heaven but is unable to adapt to the heavenly life. He cannot sing, he is always late for prayers, and his robe and halo are always dirty. The other angels are bothered by him and he is miserable and lonely. Finally he is introduced to an Understanding Angel who asks what he really wants. He asks for a box of childhood treasures that he kept under his bed on Earth, and when he gets it he becomes happy and angelic. Then the birth of the Christ Child is announced and all the angels prepare their finest gifts for him. The Littlest Angel decides to give the child his own box of boyhood favorites. This gift pleases God so much that he causes it to mount into the sky, and it becomes the Star of Bethlehem.

The aged Uhtred wants nothing more than to end his days in peace in his beloved Bebbanburg and pass it on to his second son, also named Uhtred. However, inexorable fate has other ideas.

Many years before, Uhtred had taught the young Æthelstan, a grandson of King Alfred the Great, how to be a king and, by winning a crucial battle, placed him on the throne of Wessex. Æthelstan had given Uhtred his oath to never fight him or invade his native Northumbria while Uhtred lived.

For many years, Æthelstan kept his word, but having gained control of the Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia, the only thing standing in the way of fulfilling Alfred the Great's dream of uniting all of the Ænglisc-speaking peoples under one monarch is a Northumbria ruled by a weak king named Guthfrith. Furthermore, Æthelstan's Christian advisors have told him that an oath to a pagan is not binding.

Finally, he breaks his promise and invades Northumbria. He orders Uhtred to capture the fleeing Guthfrith and turn him over, which Uhtred does. (Guthrith is allowed to keep his throne, but Æthelstan places a strong garrison in Eoferwic, Guthfrith's capital, to keep him in line.) Constantine, king of Alba, Northumbria's northern neighbour, grows concerned and starts forging an alliance against Æthelstan. He sends an envoy to Uhtred, trying to gain his support, but Uhtred does not want to be dragged in on either side.

When Uhtred neglects to inform Æthelstan of the meeting, Æthelstan distrusts his old friend and mentor, and sets into motion a plan to seize Bebbanburg. He summons Uhtred and others to a gathering, then sends Aeldred, one of his advisors, and 200 men to Bebbanburg with a letter with a forgery of Uhtred's seal. Uhtred's estranged eldest son, Bishop Oswald, warns him, and Uhtred is able to race home before Aeldred arrives. Remaining hidden, he watches as Aeldred tries to bring his men into the fortress using the forgery, then sends Aeldred away.

Later, he spreads rumours that he has found a treasure trove of gold. As he had hoped, this lures both Guthfrith and Aeldred into his trap. He captures and kills them, then blames their deaths on a Scottish raiding party. Æthelstan is not fooled. He brings an army to (seemingly) besiege Bebbanburg. However, this is just a ploy to deceive Constantine. Æthelstan, after reaching Bebbanburg, keeps marching his men further north, into Alba. However, though he advances all the way to the northern end of Britain, Constantine avoids meeting him in battle, and Æthelstan eventually has to return home.

There is peace for three years. Then Anlaf, the most powerful Norse leader in Ireland, joins Constantine, Owain of Strath Clota, and others in invading Cumbria. There they challenge Æthelstan to a battle at a site they have chosen. Uhtred examines the spot carefully and realises that, while it favours the invaders, it also makes their battle plan obvious, and Uhtred believes Æthelstan can win if he follows Uhtred's advice. Æthelstan does, and though outnumbered, crushes his enemies after a hard-fought battle.

Just before the battle, Æthelstan orders Uhtred to marry a rich, young widow so that he will have a strong, loyal man to guard his northern border. While Uhtred is content to be Lord of Bebbanburg, with his new wealth and lands extending from coast to coast, others start calling him the Lord of the North.

Prisoner Migs Mayfeld is working on the Karthon Chop Fields, and is remanded into the custody of Marshal Cara Dune. The Mandalorian needs Mayfeld, a former Imperial soldier, in order to acquire the coordinates to Moff Gideon's ship. Mayfeld directs them to a hidden Imperial rhydonium refinery on Morak. As all the others are known to Imperial security, the Mandalorian must accompany Mayfeld into the refinery to access a terminal and steal the coordinates. Mayfeld and the Mandalorian hijack one of the transports and disguise themselves as soldiers. The highly explosive rhydonium shipments are attacked by pirates, and the Mandalorian is almost overwhelmed fighting them off. Two Imperial TIE fighters swoop in and kill the pirates as they reach the facility, the only transport to survive.

The terminal Mayfeld needs is in the officer's mess hall, but Mayfeld sees his former commanding officer, Valin Hess, and fears being recognized. The Mandalorian goes instead but the terminal requires a facial scan, forcing him to remove his helmet and break the "Way of the Mandalorian" creed that he lives by in order to acquire the codes. He is confronted by Hess, but Mayfeld intervenes. After a tense drink where Hess callously dismisses the Imperial soldiers and civilians who died in Operation Cinder, an angered Mayfeld shoots Hess dead. Mayfeld and the Mandalorian fight their way to the roof, while Fennec Shand and Dune provide covering fire, and Boba Fett arrives aboard ''Slave I''. Mayfeld destroys the refinery with a well-placed sniper shot. The ship is pursued by two TIE fighters, but Fett obliterates them using a seismic charge. Dune lets Mayfeld go free as thanks for his aid, and the Mandalorian sends Moff Gideon a threatening message, vowing to rescue Grogu.

''Haven'' focuses on Yu and Kay, two fugitives in love that have escaped from an oppressive authoritarian society called "Apiary", one which forces couples into forced marriages. Running away to a mysterious planet called Source, they navigate through the strange world in search for resources while fighting hostile inhabitants along the way.

Yu and Kay successfully flee through the flow bridge that connects the planets and begin a new life on Source together, but as their floating island crumbles, their ship is damaged. They begin to explore Source to work on repairing it, and realize that the Apiary had colonized Source at some point. There is also a mysterious spreading contagion called Rust. After the Apiary sends drones after them, the pair decide to video call Yu's mother, who reveals Source's strange floating island state is the result of Apiary's disastrous experiments to harvest Flow and study Rust only 20 years ago. After Kay's pendant opens a door on Source, they realizes their parents probably died on Source during that incident.

Eventually the pair are contacted by Lord Ozias, Yu's assigned spouse before they fled with Kay. Ozias announces his intention to come to Source and bring Yu back - and wipe their memory if they refuse him. The couple decide they have only one option: sever the connecting bridge from Source that allows the Apiary to travel there. They must repair their ship and fly into the source of both Flow and Rust.

The game has several endings. If the pair have misgivings about severing the flow bridge, they decide to make a last stand against Ozias' drones, which eventually capture them. The pair are shown being brainwashed and memory wiped, but eventually content in their separated assigned lives on Apiary. If the pair decide to close the flow bridge, one of them is blasted with Rust, but they succeed in closing off Source from the Apiary and can begin their lives on Source without fear of the Apiary's interference.

Josée (Han Ji-min) lives in a house where she and her grandmother live alone, reading and imagining her own world. Young-seok (Nam Joo-hyuk), who starts to feel special feelings for the woman he met by chance, begins to approach her slowly and sincerely.

The two begin a relationship and experience first love and heartbreak in all its pains and joys.

''Open Roads'' stars actors Keri Russell and Kaitlyn Dever as a mother-daughter duo on a road trip where they learn more than they bargained for.

During one of her bounty hunter missions, Chateau Dankworth comes across Song Ryang-ha, a professional hitman, who begins stalking and brokering her information in exchange for a date. Though reluctant, Chateau complies yet refuses to open up to him. Despite this, Ryang-ha continues to save her when she is under attack and seems to know her past.

After Chateau and Ryang-ha both become targeted by Donald Bachman, the two are forced to confront their common past: Chateau is the daughter of the heir to the Nobel family, a lineage of French aristocrats, who becomes targeted by Nelson Nobel, her father's stepbrother. The real Song Ryang-ha was ordered to escort her to safety, but she accidentally inflicts a fatal gunshot wound on him out of fear; meanwhile, the current Ryang-ha, a nameless victim of child trafficking saved by the real Ryang-ha, adopts his name after the latter dies.

In 2006 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Nugget Gordon, a precocious ten-year-old girl, gives a presentation to her class about Henrik Ibsen. Her presentation is interspersed with scenes of Ibsen, his wife, their maid, and Ibsen's rival, August Strindberg. There are also scenes of Nugget's family as her father and uncle attempt to make a documentary. As the first act progresses, it becomes clear that Nugget's pregnant mother, Jane, has been kidnapped by robots and taken to the rainforest. In the second act of the play, the robots force Jane to play the role of Hedda Gabler in their performance of the play of the same name. Cubby and Rick attempt to rescue Jane from the robots and Jane tries to commit suicide by shooting herself in the head. In the third act, the family has returned to Michigan and must deal with the aftermath of Jane's suicide attempt. Nugget finishes her presentation on Ibsen.

Amanda and Clay drive out to a remote luxury Airbnb in Long Island for a vacation, along with their kids Archie, 15, and Rose, 13. They are a middle-to-upper-middle class family who live and Brooklyn. It's an idyllic and peaceful vacation until an older black couple shows up at night, identifying themselves as the house's owners, G.H. (or George) and Ruth. They explain that there's been a blackout.

Amanda is initially suspicious of them and is surprised that they could own a home such as this one. But it turns out George and Ruth are a wealthy and highly educated couple. Their main home is in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but they drove back to their vacation home to wait out the blackout. It's arranged that they will stay in the in-law unit in the basement until things get sorted. At the house, the wi-fi is out, along with the landline, TV and cell service. But they have power. Amanda also catches a news alert on her phone confirming a large-scale blackout across the east coast.

The next morning, Rose notices a herd of a few dozen deer outside (what she doesn't see is that there are actually thousands of them). Clay heads to town to assess the situation, but gets lost. He runs into a scared woman, but she only speaks Spanish and so he leaves her. Meanwhile, Rose and Archie go exploring in the woods. They find a shack and a house in a clearing, and Archie gets bitten by a tick. Then, a thunderous noise is heard, loud enough to crack the glass on some doors, which scares everyone. (Unknown to them, not too far away, the deer are scared and trampling everything in their wake.) Clay eventually finds his way home, but doesn't mention getting lost or the woman.

The adults try to prepare for an extended blackout, filling a tub with water in case the water stops running and checking on the food stores. But soon, Archie is sick with a fever. Amanda and Clay decide they need to leave to get him to a doctor the next morning. That night, a flock of wild flamingos appear on the lawn. Then, a few more loud noises sound out, breaking more glass and scaring them all. Amanda starts to think it would be better to stay here, where they have power, food and water, but in the morning a number of Archie's teeth have fallen out. They all also notice that Rose is missing.

Alarmed, Clay and George plan to drive immediately to a nearby hospital with Archie. Amanda will stay behind with Ruth to look for Rose. On the way, Clay finally admits to getting lost the day before, and he says that he did see a woman, but left her despite knowing she needed help.

George decides to make a stop to talk to Danny, his contractor, who he thinks can help them. However, Danny views George as merely someone he's done some work for in the past (as opposed to a friend) and greets them stiffly. He tells them what he knows, he says that there's a mass migration of deer going on which is a bad sign, and he advises that they go home and hunker down. George, Archie and Clay decide to just head back to the house.

Elsewhere, states of emergency have been declared, and the U.S. President is stowed away in a bunker. The world is falling apart. Levees have broken, resulting in floods. Some people worry about food. In the woods, Rose has made her way to the house she'd located the day before. The occupants are not home (they are stuck in San Diego and will never see their home again). She makes note of the useful things, grabs various supplies and heads back to inform the others of her findings.

Christina lives with Vitaly, but their views on the world do not coincide. She devotes a lot of time to household chores, while he, meanwhile, is more and more at work, especially after a new assistant appeared in his office.

The series takes place in the DC Universe and follows ''Scribblenauts'' characters Maxwell and Lily, and features numerous DC Comics characters. The series' main antagonist is Madame Xanadu, who's plotted a plan to "demise" the Justice League. Throughout the series, Maxwell and Lily travel to multiple locations in the DC Universe, including Metropolis, Watchtower, and the Phantom Zone.

During a trip to a soccer tournament, four suburban dads and their sons are teleported into the Forgotten Realms. When their children are kidnapped, the dads begin a quest to rescue them. Season two takes place 25 years later, in a post-apocalyptic version of San Dimas, California. The teenage grandchildren of season one's characters are tasked with finding their fathers, who have disappeared with little explanation. Season two loosely follows a "Monster of the Week" format.

Kaori (Kaori Ikeda) is the host of an English language show that takes place in the world of The Benza. She is assisted by Maria (Maria Papadopoulou) and Hamilton (Aver Hamilton) who introduce English phrases. The ghost Tamura (Masahito Kawahata) occasionally appears to explain difficult grammar. Each episode focuses on a different theme and utilizes different characters from The Benza, like Inko Sensei (Haku Inko) and Alena Treasurehunter (Janni Olsson), to help introduce additional words and phrases related to the lesson. The Benza main characters Chris (Christopher McCombs) and Kyle (Kyle Card) end each episode with a recap of the lesson.

About 600 years ago, the God of Destruction Mag Menuek, one of the , was summoned to Earth by the , but was sealed away in a crystal by the . In a remote beachside town in the present day, middle school student Ruru Miyanagi finds and accidentally releases Magu from the sealing crystal. Although Magu tells her of his Godly status, Ruru is unimpressed and the two form an unlikely relationship; the lonely Ruru looks at him as a friend of equal status, while Magu considers her his lowly human disciple. Having sensed Magu, the God of Madness Naputaaku breaks out of his sealing crystal and the two continue their rivalry to rule humans, although both have lost most of their power. After learning that they both hate Magu, Naputaaku and Ruru's friend Ren Fujisawa form an alliance. The young Holy Knight Izuma Kisaragi makes occasional appearances in the town trying to stop Magu from taking it over. Izuma is often accompanied by Uneras, the God of Providence who betrayed her fellow Gods of Chaos and sided with the Holy Knights, leading to their sealing 600 years earlier.

Main story

After Spider-Man threw Norman Osborn off the ship and left him in the wreckage, Sin-Eater returns to normal and shoots Norman Osborn with his rifle, knocking him out. Kindred uses a centipede to communicate with Sin-Eater and calls him a hypocrite, stating that Sin-Eater hates people who have sins in them, yet he is full of sins and kills Sin-Eater, absorbing his sins. Kindred used Sin-Eater's sins to create constructs that attack the ship Spider-Man is on a ship underwater with Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, Anya Corazon, and Julia Carpenter. The sins possess the other spider heroes, and they attack Spider-Man.

The possessed spider heroes brutally beat down Spider-Man, with Spider-Man realizing that him throwing out Norman Osborn caused him to lose control and not be aware of what was happening. Spider-Man tries to hold back, fearing he might kill his friends, but the possessed spider heroes brutally attacked him. The possessed Miles breaks a window, which causes water to flood in. Spider-Man uses his webbing to lift the ship on land, but the spider heroes ambush him, with Kindred mocking Spider-Man for trying to save his enemies. Kindred uses a possessed Anya to inject a spider venom (that can kill an elephant) to watch Spider-Man suffer before ordering the possessed heroes to swing away.

Spider-Man starts swinging through the city and crashes through trash cans before walking to Sanctum Sanctorum and knocks on the door. Doctor Strange opens the door, and Spider-Man collapses in front of him. Upon recovering, a downcast Peter tells Strange about something that had occurred, with the doctor being upset that Peter made a deal with a demon and didn't expect any consequences. Aiming to help rectify the evil, as Strange inquires about the Order, a demon-possessed Silk invades from the window directly above them. As Norman revives under Ravencroft newly cleansed of his evil, after telling the guards he needs no help, Dr. Kafka (who was a clone of a dead person in the Clone Conspiracy) views his now visible evidence of villainy as more than ample reason for her brand of help. While Sin-Eater's followers are arrested by the NYPD, Norman pleads for her to help him find Stanley's master, "Kindred", who aims to enact a worse event upon the city. Despite the clear presence of his crimes and the description of danger Norman made Kindred out to be, when Kafka asks to know his reasoning for saving such a person, Norman answers that Kindred is his son.

Norman discusses with Doctor Kafka about his original psychological fears of the Green Goblin, once fearful of his own reflection as a result. He equates this to selling his soul to a demon, now feeling the guilt for all the evils he inflicted on the world, especially upon Spider-Man. Kafka tells Norman that making amends is a painful process, and inquires more on Kindred, who Norman said was Harry. Norman blames Kindred's evil on the cruelty he inflicted on Harry, warning that he knows the next phase in his plan to destroy Spider-Man and New York. Norman realizes the full impact of what he's done, crying in frustration at wanting only to hold his baby boy again, and the destruction he'll bring. Aiming to help, Kafka asks the repentant Norman that an intermediary between them would help build a dialogue, asking if he knows someone Harry would listen to. At John F. Kennedy International Airport, Mary Jane Watson returns to New York for a short duration in her filming schedule, happy to be home.

Spider-Man and Doctor Strange manage to hold down the demon-possessed Silk. Spider-Man admits that Sin-Eater is not the ones controlling his friends, but another villain named Kindred. Kindred uses Cindy to escape, and Spider-Man tells Doctor Strange that he didn't tell him the truth because he felt Kindred is his responsibility and admitted that he felt relieved that he threw Norman Osborn the ship and left him to die. Spider-Man tells Doctor Strange that he will take on Kindred, but he needs Doctor Strange's help since demon possession is not what Spider-Man is used to fighting. Doctor Strange agrees to Spider-Man's offer, and gives him the Hand of Vashanti (a magic weapon that Spider-Man used to fight off a mystical villain named Shade in the past) to allow him to go to the astral plane. However, the Hand of Vashanti does not work because Spider-Man made a mystical agreement with someone (although Doctor Strange does not know this). Doctor Strange tells Spider-Man he can't help him, and casts Spider-Man outside so he can deal with the possessed spider heroes. However, its revealed that before Spider-Man collapsed in front of Doctor Strange, he contacted the Black Cat beforehand. The Black Cat manages to steal the Hand of Vashanti, while also recording Doctor Strange's chants. Spider-Man uses the Hand of Vashanti once more, but finds the astral plane in ruins and sees a projection of Mary Jane being swallowed by centipedes. Spider-Man wakes up in the middle of the grave and digs himself out. He explores the grave, and enters a room where Kindred is waiting with the corpses of Gwen Stacy, George Stacy, Richard and Mary Parker, Flash Thompson, Uncle Ben, Ned Leeds, Jean DeWolff, and Marla Jameson (J. Jonah Jameson's wife).

Sin-Eater wakes up and sees his gang making sure he's okay. Sin-Eater sees footage of the possessed spider-heroes attacking and wreaking havoc across New York City. Meanwhile, Doctor Strange arrives in Black Cat's apartment and asks her where the Hand of Vashanti is. The Black Cat tries giving Doctor Strange a fake version of the Hand of Vashanti, but Doctor Strange sees right through the Black Cat and agrees to take her with him to save Spider-Man. Mary Jane is on a cab when a car slams into her, knocking her out. She awakens to see Norman Osborn trying to save her, and she passes out. Sin-Eater begs Kindred's forgiveness and says he will not renounce his master's name. Sin-Eater kills a dissenter who was planning on leaving, and reveals that he is planning to kill Morlun (who escaped from his prison in ''Spider-Geddon'') in order to steal his powers to kill the spider-heroes.

Spider-Man fights against Kindred, remembering that Kindred killed Mendel Storm and Mysterio, and revived Sin-Eater. Spider-Man is angry that Kindred desecrated the corpses of his loved ones, and manages to gain an upper hand by punching through Kindred's chest. But Kindred uses his tendrils to surprise Spider-Man, and brutalizes him before sending him in front of the Brooklyn Bridge where he sees the possessed spider-heroes causing mass havoc. Spider-Man sees Spider-Gwen about to throw Miles Morales off the bridge, and starts begging to Kindred. Spider-Man says his friends didn't do anything, and that if Kindred lets them go he can have him. Kindred agrees, freeing the spider heroes but snapping Spider-Man's neck.

The spider-heroes regain consciousness, but everyone is running from them. Doctor Strange and the Black Cat arrive, and say that Spider-Man is in danger and that he was kidnapped by Kindred. Meanwhile, Sin-Eater orders his followers to rob from a vault which contained the Queen's Spider morphing bio-weapon, which transformed New York into Spider-Island a while back. Although eradicated, Sin-Eater needed the last few vials they kept for study to ready his trap for Morlun. He does so by exposing his followers to the samples, mutating them into Arachnoids. Miles Morales, Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen, Anya Corazon, Julia Carpenter, and the Black Cat head back to the Sanctum Sanctorum where Doctor Strange will create a spell that allows them to go to the astral plane, and the Black Cat stands in the real world to make sure nothing happens to them, as well as protecting the Hand of Vashanti. At Ravencroft, Mary Jane recovers from her injuries in Kafka's office with Norman Osborn, and beats him with a lamp in response to his approaching her. To have her understand, Norman explains Sin-Eater cleansing him and Kindred is really Harry. With Ashley Kafka confirming Norman's honesty of goodness, Mary Jane still distrusts them, as last she saw Harry he was a good guy. But Norman asserts it is him, yet he explains the full truth would only hurt them more. Norman cites Peter's nightmares and Mary Jane's own feelings of a looming threat at night, as those feelings were Kindred and their only way to stop Harry was to rely on Mary Jane's help.

Peter Parker is dreaming about the day Harry Osborn returned from Europe, but he also sees Mary Jane Watson leaving the party. Peter tries going to her but a group of people block his path. Harry Osborn introduces his girlfriend Lily Cooper and Peter's future girlfriend Carly Cooper while saying ""You know the worst thing about '''Hell''', fellas? The parties suck." Peter starts to realize what is happening, as Harry demands Peter repeat what he had said that day before he gave his toast: "Speak of the devil and he appears." Kindred visits his sleeping son before returning and revives Peter Parker. Kindred tells Peter that he knew who he truly was, but just did not want to accept it. Kindred tells him to accept it because the two of them have work to do, because what's even more important than who Kindred is, is what he ''wants''. Kindred removes the bandages over his face and Peter is shocked that Kindred is actually Harry Osborn.

Morlun kills the mutated Sin-Eater followers and confronts Sin-Eater. Morlun gains the upper hand easily due to his overwhelming super-strength, speed, and durability while noticing that Sin-Eater has something "unholy" behind his mask. Fueled by survival instinct and unsure if he still has the power to takes Morlun's abilities without Kindred's blessing, he triggers a trap shotgun before he can be killed that shoots Morlun in the back, seemingly killing him. As the spider-heroes and Strange navigate Peter's Dreamscape in the Astral Plane, Strange notes the desolate realm only reflects the state of Peter's soul. As Peter only recently passed by, his recent path is hidden, so they split into groups to find an exit to Peter. Spider-Gwen talks to Julia Carpenter, where she feels guilty on how she indirectly made Peter drop his guard and cause all of them to be possessed, but Julia Carpenter consoles her by saying all the death and loss made Peter feel responsible for with each defeat, driven by instinct to win and save more lives next time. Spider-Gwen saves her from a demonic sniper (the same sniper who shot Aunt-May in ''Back in Black'') while Miles and Silk are attacked by a kaiju Kingpin and a demonic Aunt May. After Doctor Strange and Jessica Drew save them, they are confronted by a demonic Mary Jane Watson. Doctor Strange tells the spider-heroes to leave to give them time, and the spider-heroes escape the Astral Plane. The spider-heroes arrive at Kindred's graveyard, unaware that Sin-Eater is hiding them behind a tombstone.

Peter tells Harry that he can't believe he's evil, and Harry knocks him down. Peter gets angry and starts attacking Harry, but Harry easily beats him up and kills him over and over, each time reviving him. Harry Osborn reveals that he plans to show Peter what Hell is, that Hell is the absence of light and hope, and is worse than death itself. After many kills and revivals, Harry shows Peter that dying is easy but the punishment in Hell is suffering your personal sins. Harry explains he didn't even hurt Peter's friends; that was all on him due to his actions on being close to them. Harry explains that he revived the Sin-Eater to reform his father, but Peter stopped him because of his self-righteousness. Harry explains that Peter Parker's fatal flaw is that he always thinks he knows what is best for everyone, and that his hubris causes his loved ones to either get hurt or die. But instead of Peter accepting his mistakes, he chose to bury them or ignore them, like what he did to Norman Osborn in "Sins Rising". Harry is also disgusted that Peter tried to bargain and make the deal with him while also not revealing the truth to his allies like Doctor Strange. Peter sees Sin-Eater shooting Morlun, and also sees Sin-Eater waiting for the spider-heroes. A frantic Peter brings up their deal, to which Kindred notes that he had kept his end of the deal, that their arrival was an unintended consequence of Peter's actions and thus doesn't absolve him. Since they came for Peter, Kindred asks his confused old friend what else he did to bring unintended suffering onto others. Kindred urges the begging Peter to answer quickly, presenting on a large mirror display that Mary Jane Watson is entering his cemetery.

A few minutes earlier, Mary Jane is talking with Norman Osborn and says that she will never trust him because he is pure evil, but goes out in the cemetery. Meanwhile, Miles Morales, Julia Carpenter, Anya Corazon, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Woman, and Silk go out in the cemetery when they are attacked by Sin-Eater. Spider-Woman realizes that Sin-Eater absorbed the powers and abilities of Morlun. Realizing that her precognitive abilities could be the key, Julia willingly allows her to get shot by Sin-Eater. Sin-Eater absorbs her abilities, but also gains her precognition abilities. Sin-Eater sees Kindred is really Harry Osborn, and realizes that he was working for someone who was full of sin. Sin-Eater shoots himself, and disappears in a flash of light. Just then, Kindred uses his abilities to kidnap the spider-heroes. It is later revealed that Norman Osborn did not have his sins cleansed and is still evil; and he is working with the Kingpin to kill Kindred.

Kindred has Peter tied up in a crypt with all of the spider-heroes unconscious, and Mary Jane Watson appears in the front door. Peter attacks Kindred because he was being too close to Mary Jane, but Kindred easily overpowers him and nearly kills him again before Mary Jane tells him to stop. They both sit down at a table, while Norman Osborn tells the Kingpin she's in. Kindred unmasks himself as Harry Osborn, and he reminisces the past where Peter was supposed to be a great scientist, Mary Jane was going to be a famous actress, and Harry was going to inherit the Osborn company. Harry blames Peter for not telling him that his father was the Green Goblin, stating that the only reason why Peter didn't tell Harry the truth was not because his father lost his memory, but because he forgot Peter's true identity. Harry Osborn calls out Peter's selfishness and fear, stating that all his friends and family died because of it and he needs to confess. Peter says he's sorry but he doesn't know what Harry wants him to confess, but it causes Harry to be even more angry and Harry beats him up. Mary Jane tells him to stop, but Harry explains that he needs to kill Peter because Peter will bring death and suffering to everyone else. Mary Jane offers herself up, but just before Harry is about to make a move, the Green Goblin appears, shocking Kindred. The Green Goblin reveals that ever since Harry infected him with a centipede, turning him into Carnage, he has taken precautions, which is why he's still evil. He throws a bomb, mortally wounding Mary Jane, and during the chaos Harry/Kindred and the Green Goblin attack each other. The Green Goblin tells Kingpin to activate something, and darkness slowly creeps toward the people. Peter asks Mary Jane if she's okay, and before everything goes dark Mary Jane says "I'm going to be okay... just trust me."

Epilogue

It is revealed that Green Goblin threw only a flash grenade, which didn't injure Mary Jane. Kingpin used Spot to create a Darkforce Dimension similar to what Hydra did to New York City in Secret Empire. Mary Jane Watson takes the rest of the spider-heroes to safety while Spider-Man, Green Goblin and Kindred confront each other. During the chaos, the sins that Kindred took were freed and returned to their original hosts in Sins Rising, which also revives Morlun and the Juggernaut. Kindred tells the two of them that he wanted Spider-Man to remember what he did, while he also wanted Green Goblin to leave Norman Osborn, but realized that failed and both Peter Parker and Norman Osborn don't remember what happened, before Kindred is encased in a black cube. Peter escapes while Kingpin and his soldiers take Kindred into custody. While Carlie Cooper (Spider-Man's ex girlfriend) goes to take a taxi, she meets a reformed Overdrive who woke from his coma and asks Carlie to go on a date. While Aunt May is helping one of her coworkers, she meets Martin Li who says someone is going to kill him before he collapses in front of her. Later that night, Kingpin wants to beat Kindred to death for embarrassing him in the past (by reviving Kingpin's wife and taking away from him) but Norman Osborn convinces Kingpin to let him talk to Kindred. Norman Osborn tells his workers to leave, and is revealed that he was just faking being evil and had his sins cleansed. Norman Osborn is confused on why he's still good and wants to change for the better and promises to find out what Kindred is talking about. Just then, Spider-Man crashes through the window and tells Norman Osborn that they need to talk.

Before Spider-Man confronted Norman Osborn, he reunited with Mary Jane and the Spider-heroes. Spider-Gwen is angry that Spider-Man won't tell them whats going on and calls out Spider-Man's hubris but Mary Jane calms everyone down by saying that he will tell everyone when he's ready, and Julia Carpenter agrees with Mary Jane. The spider-heroes decide to take down the villains who got back their sins, and calls themselves The Order. In the present, Spider-Man angrily confronts Norman Osborn since he let Mary Jane be in the way of danger when Spot used his powers. Norman Osborn explains that he's genuinely good, but Spider-Man doesn't believe him, saying that everytime Norman Osborn does something he hurts Spider-Man and his closest friends. Norman Osborn admits he has done bad things and wants Spider-Man and him to team up to fix Harry Osborn. Spider-Man tells Norman Osborn to let Harry rot in prison because Harry is too far gone ever since Harry killed Spider-Man and brought him back to life multiple times. Spider-Man says he is done with the Osborns, and if Spider-Man hears Harry escape, he will bring down Norman Osborn. When Norman Osborn tries holding Spider-Man back, Spider-Man punches him and nearly beats him to death but after remembering what Kindred did he stops and swings away. It is revealed that Kindred wanted to be captured all this time. Meanwhile, Carlie Cooper looks at the graves Kindred exhumed to torture Spider-Man, and uncovers something which shocks her. She contacts Mary Jane and tries to leave her a message, but is struck by one of Kindred's centipedes. Spider-Man goes back to Mary Jane exhausted, he tells her that nothing is over.

The story follows 17-year-old Nubia Johnson, who "attempts to conceal her superhuman strength and speed". Nubia is put to the test when she attempts to keep her friend safe.When Diana was formed from the blessed clay of Themyscira, she was actually the younger of a set of twins. Diana’s elder, Nubia, was formed of darker clay and by accounts is the true heir to Hippolyta’s throne. As Diana’s better in combat, she may also have inherited the title of Wonder Woman had she not been abducted by the war god Mars as a baby.

Third-year elementary school student Shota Aikawa's pet Japanese rhinoceros beetle, named Moriking, finally metamorphoses into an adult, but for some strange reason he looks like a male human. Aside from the horn on his head and wings on his back, he looks perfectly human but maintains his beetle traits, like walking on walls and flying. As an Insect King, which are said to be born once every one hundred million years, Moriking announces that he is destined to be and rule over all insects. To prove their worth would-be kings must leave their homes and survive in the world beyond, this is how Moriking came into Shota's possession and becomes a member of the Aikawa family. However, he is but one of five insects competing to become King of the Forest.

In Japan, monsters known as ''kaiju'' regularly attack the populace with the Japanese Defense Force tasked with killing them. After their town was destroyed by kaiju when they were children, childhood friends Kafka Hibino and Mina Ashiro both vowed to become members of the Defense Force. Mina has become famous as commander of the Defense Force's Third Unit, but Kafka has failed the examination numerous times and is a member of the clean up crew, Monster Sweeper Inc., whose job is to dispose of the monsters' dead bodies after battle. After a small talking monster flies into his body via his mouth, Kafka gains the ability to turn into a monster himself, which gets dubbed "Kaiju No. 8" by the Defense Force. Kafka remains fully cognizant while in the form, but gains superhuman strength, and becomes the first monster to escape the Defense Force.

Young swordsman Dogtanian dreams of joining the legendary Muskehounds. After proving his ability and earning their trust, he and the Muskehounds must battle the wicked Cardinal Richelieu to defend the King and stop the villain's plot to seize power.

Aaron Powell returns home from the Naval Postgraduate School to his grandfather, a brilliant psychiatrist, Lawrence Powell. Dr. Powell and his colleague, police detective Roy Harris, are investigating a recent suicide of college professor Stephanie Hancock, who suffered of nightmares involved the infamous urban legends of Buckout Road. While they think she was mentally unstable, Mrs. Hancock's student Cleo Harris starts to show the same symptoms as she was working on an assignment about Buckout Road urban myth. Cleo and Aaron realize that they have to solve the mystery of how to stop the evil before it takes their souls as well.

Sgt. Morton and Cpl, Anderson are sent to find the murderer of another Mountie.

Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts to get through the holiday despite comedic misunderstandings, while also uncovering the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.

The film centres around 9-year-old Ngemba girl Gemma "Gem" Daniels (played by 11-year-old Rhae-Kye Waites) who lives in the remote New South Wales town of Brewarrina.

Following a fishing trip on the banks of the Barwon River with her mother Darlene (Spearim) and older sister Valerie (Boney), Darlene unexpectedly collapses. Despite sprinting into town to get help from her father Jay Jay (Blair) and older brother Ecker (McHughes), there is little they can do.

As the family grieve following Darlene's death, Gemma finds comfort by spending time and bonding with a wild emu, her mother's Totem animal.

Despite having great potential at being a junior athletics champion as a talented runner, Gemma begins to wag school to spend time with the emu, stealing food for the emu to eat, which brings her to the attention of local police officer Stan (Carlton) and social worker Heidi (Blizzard) who make their own assumptions about Jay Jay's ability to look after his family. Gemma's older brother Ecker is facing issues of his own when he develops an alcohol problem, gets involved in drugs and is hospitalised after being assaulted, which leads to Jay Jay becoming involved in a scuffle outside the local hotel and arrested for affray.

Heidi attempts to remove Gemma from her family but after being forced to take a detour on an unsealed backroad due to an accident on the highway, she and Gemma become stranded after almost colliding with an emu, which damages the car. After spending the night together on the deserted road, Heidi begins to understand Gemma's behaviour and realises that she belongs with her family. The following morning, Gemma sprints the long distance back into town to get help for Heidi.

Kanto is a 14-year-old Ainu boy living in a small town in Hokkaido. His mother runs an Ainu gift shop after his father’s death. Kanto is disgruntled with life in the town and wishes to move away from it to a big modern city, away from his Ainu heritage. The town itself is a traditional Ainu community, essentially carrying on the traditions and surviving through the tourism industry.

After the death of his father, he is taken under the wing of an Ainu Elder, Debo (Debo Akibe), a friend of his father's, who shows him the ways of the Ainu. The Ainu residents are bringing back a lost tradition called Iomante, a controversial ritual killing of a bear, which some of them agree with and others see as a practice that should be changed. Around this time, Kanto discovers a bear in the forest. A Japanese journalist (Lily Franky) visits, interviewing the Ainu people about the current situation, including the Iomante ritual. Kanto keeps visiting the bear in the forest, befriends it, and then has to decide how he feels about the bear killing, ultimately coming to the conclusion that he does not agree with it.

Kanto finds videotapes of the Iomante rituals and watches them. He begins to discover more about his culture, including some of the more mystical elements, and eventually comes to appreciate some of the rituals.

When a kind-hearted prison officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon gets involved in an inmate's personal affairs.

The young student Steffen Berg has difficulty adapting to society's laws and rules. After interrupting his medical studies, he starts working in a shop to support his family together with his brother Jørgen and his sister Gerda, and to keep his mother from moving to a retirement home. One of Steffen's friends is going to America with his wife and needs money. Steffen takes 500 kroner from the store's cash register. The next day there is an audit, and Steffen's theft is discovered. His brother pays back the money in exchange for the store dropping the charges.

Steffen starts working in a greenhouse, and in the evenings he studies art history. A paper he writes about the Parthenon is well received. Steffen decided to continue his studies. His past, however, makes it impossible for him to receive a scholarship and, after a conflict with his brother, he wanders the streets of Oslo. When Steffen passes Henrik Storm's office, he hears a shot fired and sees a man leaving the place in a car. Some time later, Steffen saves a little girl from being run over by a car. The girl's parents are very grateful and, when they hear that he is unemployed, they offer him a job as a gardener.

At his new employer's, Steffen recognizes a man from Storm's office named Konrad. In the newspapers he reads that Storm has been murdered. Steffen wants to go to the police, but he changes his mind at the last minute after being persuaded by Konrad's wife Marit. Marit is much younger than her husband, and she is attracted to the young Steffen. Steffen also learns that Storm was attracted to Marit and that Konrad killed him out of jealousy.

One night Konrad unexpectedly finds Steffen and Marit together. He later takes Steffen on a trip to the mountains. It soon becomes clear to Steffen that Konrad intends to kill him. Steffen jerks the steering wheel of the car they are driving, and the vehicle drives off the road. Konrad dies and Steffen survives.

The story revolves around Tupe, Rita, and Peterson — and their love triangle marred with political drama and clashing dreams.

An aspiring doctor, Tupe gets falsely accused as being involved in the corrupt activities of his government official associated father, wrecking his relationship with Rita. Years after Tupe’s apparent disappearance, Rita finds a new love in Peterson, who credits her for becoming a changed man as he pursues political office.

Rita and Peterson’s relationship began to deteriorate after Peterson was rendered impotent due to a car accident. Believing that having a child will revive their failing marriage, Rita and Peterson decided to hire a sperm donor — in the form of Tupe, who is now a resident barrio doctor. Unbeknownst to Peterson, Tupe is Rita’s greatest love. Complications will soon arise when Peterson unravels that truth behind Rita and Tupe's past, igniting his rage.

Peter is searching for his long-lost sister Adel. A fortune teller tells him to find a magician with an elephant.

A group of pensioners (Elizabeth Best; Ron Ritchie; Joyce Meadowcroft; and Ibrahim Arif) set about solving the mystery of the murder of a property developer in the luxurious Cooper's Chase retirement village near the fictitious village of Fairhaven in Kent.

A young boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. He must go through three horrible nightmares to become happy once again.

When a meteorite is found to be on a collision course with Earth, a young woman (Lister-Jones) takes stock of her life through a conversation with her "metaphysical" childhood self (Spaeny).

Van Pao-Te, who is now 60 years old, finds himself suffering from a serious illness. Instead of getting treatment, he decides to go to Japan to look for his father who abandoned him 50 years ago with the company of his son. At the same time, a young man from Hong Kong who is somehow related to Van Pao-Te's past comes to Taiwan. Two unknown journeys of self-reconciliation begin.

''Kuro no Kiseki'' is set in the Calvard Republic in the year 1208. Thanks to postwar reparations, Calvard experiences unprecedented economic growth while continuously dealing with public unrest caused by immigration and new governmental reforms. In a corner of the city of Edith, a young man known as Van Arkride works as a Spriggan in his Arkride Solution Office, which is a mix of a bounty hunter and detective.

One day, Van is approached by Agnes Claudel, a high school student and the daughter of Roy Gramheart, Calvard's new president. She asks for his help to find a type of orbment called Oct-Genesis, the last creation of her late great grandfather Claude Epstein, one of the greatest scientists in history. Along the way they are joined by Feri Al-Fayed a Jaeger of the Khruga clan, Aaron Wei a performer in Langport, Risette Twinings an employee of a private military company, Quatre Salision a pupil of professor Hamilton who is one of professor Epstein's disciples, Judith Ranster a famous actor who has a secret identity as the Phantom Thief Grimcats and Bergard Zeman (Gunther Barkhorn) Van's mentor and a knight of the Church who was presumed dead. Their search for the Oct-Genesis brings them into Conflict with the terrorist group Almata led by Gerard Dantes, who is planning a revolution. The Arkride Solution Office align themselves with other factions such as the Bracers, the government and even criminal organizations like Ouroboros and Heiyue against Almata, Van also reunites with Elaine Auclair a bracer who is his childhood friend and former lover and Rene Kincaid a government secretary who is his and Elaine's childhood friend.

It is revealed that Van has become the host of a demon lord when he was young, as such he became a test subject of the D∴G cult in Crossbell under the supervision of Gerard Dantes who was a member at the time. Learning of his power, Gerard indirectly contributed to the cult's extermination in order to seize that power for himself and get away, he then took over the leadership of Almata to spread fear and strengthen the demonic power. It is also revealed that Gerard is actually a descendant of the Eldarion family, Calvard's former monarchy which was overthrown a long time ago.

Van and his team face and kill Gerard, but he and other deceased members of Almata are revived by one of his subordinates named Melchior. The Spriggans face Gerard again who transforms into a demon, Van takes the demonic power back from him, killing him for good. Giving the last Oct-Genesis they found back to Agnes, Van becomes the demon lord and imprisons himself in another plain to save humanity, but his team, with the help of his orbment's artificial intelligence Mare, reach Van's prison realm, save him and together, defeat the demon lord.

Construction of a light railway has begun between Odawara and Atami, two towns in east Japan. At the construction site, workers are using minecarts for transporting earth and sand. Ryōhei, aged eight, is interested in these minecarts. One day, he pushes one of the minecarts with a construction worker. At the beginning, he is very excited. But as it gets late in the day, he starts to worry about how he will get home. After a while, the construction worker tells him to go home because it is late. Ryōhei runs down a dark hill road thinking “I just don’t want to die”. As soon as he comes back home, he bursts into tears.

He becomes an adult and moves to Tokyo. He looks back on that time. He is tired of everyday life. Without any reason, he sometimes dreams of the dark hill road.

The story is set between Odawara and Atami. The boy describes seeing the sea on his right as he heads away from his home, and on his left on the way back. Because of this, it seems that he was moving toward Odawara from Atami.

The monologue is performed by the reading out of letters written by Emily Wilbraham to her lover Edward. Each day for twelve days, Edward sends her one of the gifts mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol and Emily responds with a letter for each day. The gifts eventually cause a breakdown in their relationship, with Emily's house and gardens being ruined by all the birds, animals, and personnel that Edward sends. For the final letter, after Edward has sent members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to her, Emily's solicitor G. Creep writes to inform Edward that Emily is seeking an injunction against him for harassment and would be seeking to return all the animals that were sent.

''Giants'' chronicles the trials and tribulations of three African American friends as they approach their thirties, each battling their own inner "giants" as they navigate adulthood.

U.S. Secret Service agent Don Lawson goes on an undercover assignment as Don Armingo in a Mexican smuggling ring. Before he can make arrests, his love interest Doris is kidnapped, and Don is captured. Carmelita, a tango dancer enamored of Don, releases and tries to seduce him, but he rebuffs her. Don rescues Doris by picking her out of an automobile in an airplane as it crashes off an embankment.

Alma Rivera is a six-year old young girl who lives in the Bronx with her family and friends. She faces lots of problems every day, and always stops, listens, looks, and thinks and explain to help her solve everyday problems.

Found in Rome twenty years ago, ''The Reincarnationist Papers'' follows Evan Michaels, a troubled young man who struggles with having memories from two other lives. Believing that he is the only one in the world burdened with other people's complete memories nearly leads to his self-destruction, until he meets a mysterious woman named Poppy. She understands Evan's struggle because she is exactly like him, only she remembers seven lives. Poppy changes Evan's world forever when she invites him into a centuries-old secret society of 28 others who are like them and he realizes that he is not alone. The Reincarnationists, collectively known as the Cognomina, recall all their past lives and experiences and find one another over and over again in each new incarnation. But to become part of this secretive group, Evan must first prove that he is truly one of them.

The movie surrounds the true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtsson's (Erik Enge) time as an 16-year-old professional footballer at the Italian club Inter Milan.

As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a perambulator. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage. Soon afterwards, another mother is playing with two children in the park, and when she leaves one of them unattended, her child is also seized by the same woman. These are only two of a number of children that an unscrupulous couple has captured for their own purposes.The Child Stealers (1904) :

Rui's world has been destroyed and her family kidnapped. In order to save them she has to embark on a journey through the four islands, which include forest, desert, ice, and clockwork environments. On her journey she collects Everlight and fights against the Shadows and other enemies. In order to restore everything to normal, the so-called Conduit has to be fixed. Depending on the overall completion one out of two endings can be unlocked.

As described in a film magazine review, Tom Butler becomes an outcast when he displeases his father. He goes West and, while convalescing from a broken ankle, he is told to guard certificates for valuable stock. The rival gang, however, gets possession of the certificates. Tom is suspected. He rides away when the Sheriff’s posse arrives and captures the crooks in their cabin and recovers the certificates.

"Lightning" Carson and a chance acquaintance, Jim Hampton, drift into a little town in the West. Desperately in need of money, Jim suggests that they hold up the Wells-Fargo office. The suggestion is overheard. By chance, the express office is robbed and the two are suspected. Hampton is thrown into jail and "Lightning" pursued by the Sheriff. He meets Jim's sister and falls in love with her. When the Sheriff finally traps "Lightning" it is found he is a Texas Ranger. They join forces and the battle follows between them and the real outlaws. When the bandits are captured "Lightning" claims Jim's sister, Betty. ''-- Motion Picture News Booking Guide''

In Egypt calling 122 is the equivalent of calling 911 in the US or 999 in the UK. '''''122''''' is an Egyptian film that follows the story of Nasr (Ahmed Dawood) and Umnia (Amina Khalil) who are in love, they're married as well. The problem is since they couldn't afford a proper wedding they snuck off and eloped. They are trying to keeping their marriage hidden until they can afford it. Unfortunately, Umnia has become pregnant, something even more scandalous for an unmarried woman. In order to come up with the money quickly, Nasr returns to his shady past, agreeing to transport a package of drugs for an old associate. Umnia insists on coming along. And when their car gets hit by a bus wake up in intensive care in a hospital in the middle of nowhere. The couple faces a catastrophe inside what appears to be a hospital, and attempt to escape and run for their lives.

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Öykü Tekin Göktürk is an eight-year-old girl that lives with her mother's (Asu Karahan) friend, Zeynep Kaya, or, her aunt, who upon discovering that the girl has the only case of a rare genetic disease called Niemann-Pick in Turkey, decides to abandon her. She leaves Öykü a note with the address of her father, Demir Göktürk, who is an irresponsible law offender that had just been arrested on the morning of the day that Zeynep abandoned her. At the court, the judge lets Demir go on the condition that he takes custody of Öykü as her father, which had been proved by a false paternity test conducted by Demir's best friend (brother), Uğur Adıgüzel, although that false test was unnecessary because Demir was Öykü's biological father. At first, Demir accepts the deal, but he does not want to care for Öykü. Then Demir finds out that Öykü has Niemann-Pick, so he decides to change to help her through the situation.

As described in a film magazine review, Certain Lee, a Texas Ranger, is trailing an outlaw band headed by Macklyn Vance. Lee falls in love with Rose Trimball. She is convinced by Vance that Lee is responsible for the jailing of Harvey Bates, the man she had promised to marry. Rose betrays Lee into the hands of the gang. He escapes after his horse assists in untying his bonds. Bates breaks out of jail and tells Rose that Vance is his enemy. Bates and Vance meet, fight at the edge of a cliff, fall over and are killed. Lee then wins the affections of Rose.

The animals of the Frankfurt zoo become violent and dangerous when they drink water contaminated with Phencyclidine.

Sanem is a young woman who aspires to be a writer and live on the Galápagos Islands. Despite working at her father's grocery store, she is forced by her parents to choose between an arranged marriage with her neighbor Muzaffer and finding a suitable job. Sanem lands a job at Fikri Harika, one of Turkey's leading advertising agencies, where Leyla, her sister, is an executive assistant. The owner of the advertising agency, Azizi, has two sons, Emre and Can. Emre wants to take over the company, but his father believes Can is a better fit for the job and he is appointed manager. Can has what his father wants for the company, but he prefers to take photos in remote locations. Upon learning of his father's health problems, Can eventually agrees to run the company. Aziz also tells Can to find the spy in the company who is helping their rival, Aylin. Emre doesn't like the idea of his brother being the manager, and believes that he should have the position. Emre's plan is to make him fail, as well as becoming the spy himself. Sanem bumps into Can on a dark balcony at an opera party celebrating the company's 40th anniversary. Can thinks she is his girlfriend Polen, so he kisses her. Sanem realizes that she loves the stranger who kissed her, and gives him the codename Albatross, but hates Can, and Emre makes her believe that Can only wants to increase the value of the company so that it can be sold. Can soon falls in love with Sanem, and finds out that he kissed her that day at the opera, which begins the inevitable story of love.

The company of seven friends gathers together again in a house outside the city in order to celebrate the New Year. The holiday will give them a lot of surprises.

''Paradise Killer'' takes place in a pocket universe in which a group of immortal alien beings, the Syndicate, are trying to create a "perfect society" to reawaken their ancient gods. Paradise Island is an experiment intended to bring this society about; the Syndicate kidnaps humans from Earth and allows them to live as Citizens on the island. However, when the island inevitably fails, the Citizens are all ritually slaughtered and their souls used to build the next iteration of the island. Paradise Island 24, the setting of the game, is the 24th iteration of the experiment.

On the night of the regular sacrifice, the entire Syndicate Council is found murdered and the transfer to island 25 is put on hold. Initial evidence points to Henry Division, an imprisoned Citizen possessed by a demon. However, the Syndicate Judge believes there's more to the mystery, and sends for Syndicate detective Lady Love Dies, who has been in exile for 3,000,000 days. Love Dies is given authority over the case and authorization to summarily execute any parties proven guilty in court. She sets out to uncover the murderer, soon realizing that nearly everyone on the island has something to hide.

Shay is attending a purity ball with her father Kyle and her rebellious half-sister Jo. She knows neither person very well, as she only met them after the death of her mother two months prior. Jo is dismissive of the retreat, seeing it as patriarchal, antiquated nonsense, while Shay hopes to use it to grow closer to her dad. At the retreat Shay and the other girls listen to sermons by conservative Pastor Seth about Lilith, who he portrays as lusty and sinful due to being created equal, and Eve, who he depicts as symbolic of women's weakness.

Later that night Shay is included in a ritual to summon Lilith, which Jo secretly holds every year with her cabin mates. This year's ritual appears successful and Shay starts experiencing strange phenomena, prompting her to investigate the ritual. She discovers that it would be successful as long as one of the participants wasn't a virgin and that the ritual would culminate with Lilith possessing the woman's body. Shay also finds that she strongly disagrees with the retreat's ideals and methods, telling her cabin mates, one of whom is Seth's daughter Lacey, that they should exert control over their own bodies and sexuality. Jo decides to lose her virginity to her boyfriend, only to be caught and captured by her father and Seth.

At the purity ball the following day a distraught Jo admits to a worried Shay that Kyle had known about her since birth, but deliberately chose to exclude her until now. She'd kept this secret due to wanting her father's approval. This angers Shay and when Seth tries to gather everyone to sign a purity contract, Shay refuses. She confesses to lying about her virginity for Kyle's approval, but that she's not ashamed of her sexuality.

Other girls stand up to their fathers and Lacey admits to not upholding her father's commands before shooting herself with a gun Seth carried, unable to live with the torture he put her through and her conflicting emotions. Lilith enters the body of a pleading Shay and uses her powers to control and then kill the men before setting the retreat on fire, stating that she's watched women suffer for long enough. The girls' bodies are shown huddled on the floor before a scene shows them walking away to the woods, led by Lilith.

The Mandalorian boards an Imperial shuttle with Cara Dune and captures Dr. Pershing. He and Boba Fett then visit Bo-Katan and Koska Reeves, who clash with Fett over the purity of his Mandalorian lineage. Bo-Katan agrees to help rescue Grogu from Moff Gideon in exchange for the Darksaber, which Gideon is in possession of. Having learnt from Dr. Pershing that the cruiser is defended by Dark Trooper droids, Fett deceives the Imperials into allowing the others to crash-land in the cruiser's fighter launch tube. Bo-Katan, Reeves, Fennec, and Dune fight through stormtroopers to the ship's bridge, while the Mandalorian attempts to seal off the Dark Troopers. Although one breaks through, he manages to defeat it after a prolonged struggle using his beskar spear, and ejects the others out of the airlock.

Gideon, who is guarding Grogu, tries to bargain with the Mandalorian when confronted, but immediately reneges and attacks the Mandalorian with the Darksaber. The Mandalorian overpowers the Moff and brings him and Grogu to the others on the bridge. Gideon attempts to goad Bo-Katan into attacking the Mandalorian for possession of the Darksaber and a better claim on Mandalore, since he won the right to own the weapon in combat. The Dark Troopers return and begin to slowly cut through the bridge's defences.

A single X-wing lands, piloted by a Jedi Knight who engages and destroys all of the Dark Troopers. Gideon seizes his opportunity and shoots Bo-Katan with a hidden blaster, but the Mandalorian protects Grogu by blocking the shot meant for him; refusing to surrender, Gideon tries to shoot himself but is disarmed by Dune. The Mandalorian, overruling the others' objections, opens the blast doors to the Jedi, who is revealed to be Luke Skywalker. Grogu hesitates to leave with Skywalker, until the Mandalorian gives him permission to go with the Jedi to complete his training. The Mandalorian removes his helmet to allow Grogu to bid a proper goodbye and tearfully looks on as Skywalker, accompanied by R2-D2, departs with him.

In a post-credits scene, Fett and Fennec invade Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine, and kill Bib Fortuna and his guards.

Wendy Williams is a teenage girl growing up in New Jersey.

Cathy Hughes hires Williams to work in Washington, D.C., at the WOL radio station. Williams takes cocaine to suppress her appetite. She also gets a weekend job in New York City as an emcee. By 1990, she's working full-time in New York City. Hot 103.5 becomes Hot 97.

Williams remains addicted to cocaine during her marriage to Kevin Hunter. However, she finally quit cocaine.

Cinema Purgatorio

"Cinema Purgatorio" focuses on an unnamed and unseen female protagonist who is in a dreamlike state where she sits through strange films in a run-down theatre. The protagonist becomes frustrated with this agonizing loop, and the films she watches are strange and often focus on dark and surreal subject matter.

Code Pru

"Code Pru" is a series of tales about Pru, a paramedic for the FDNY, in a world where literary and film monsters (such as vampires and Frankenstein's Monster) exist. The story has a dynamic similar to a buddy cop film, where Pru and her colleague solve various mishaps across the city of New York.

Modded

"Modded" is a cyberpunk parody of the popular Pokemon franchise. Monsters and demons are captured and forced to fight, much like the original series, albeit with a darker (but still comedic) tone.

A More Perfect Union

"A More Perfect Union" is an alternate history science fiction story about the American Civil War, if the Southern United States had been invaded by large insects. It is written by Max Brooks, a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute

The Vast

"The Vast" is a Kaiju story where humankind has been at war for years with a species of giant monsters. The tides begin to turn when a woman discovers a creature willing to fight alongside the humans.

'Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head while spring cleaning. The bullet lodges in her brain, and begins to have some strange effects. In a stroke of 'luck', the bullet does not kill 'Becka, but her severe brain damage causes her to begin to hallucinate that the picture of Jesus on top of the TV is talking to her. Over the following weeks, Jesus proceeds to tell her the deepest secrets of everyone she comes into contact with, including that her husband, Joe, is having an affair with Nancy Voss, who works at the local Post Office. Under the instruction of Jesus, 'Becka opens up the television and rewires it to fatally electrocute whoever touches the knob. After Joe's afternoon nap, he walks into the living room and goes to turn on the television, resulting is a gruesome scene where his body starts to burn to a crisp, turning black with his hair starting to smoke. As 'Becka watches Joe burst into flames, and the picture of Jesus explodes, she realizes that everything Jesus had told her was made up and all in her head, caused by the bullet she had shot herself with. 'Becka, with a sudden change of heart, jumps up to try to save Joe, electrocuting herself in the process, and the two fall dead, the victim of a tragic quirk of fate that was in the end far from lucky.

A noble by the name of Sir John Dunfern makes a sudden decision to marry Irene Iddesleigh, an orphan adopted by a nobleman. Despite her being in love with her tutor, Oscar, she marries Dunfern and has a child, Hugh. However, Dunfern finds love letters Irene received from Oscar dated after the marriage. He flies into a frightful rage and imprisons Irene, intending for her to be in captivity the rest of her life. She is only there for a little more than a year, before Oscar and one of her maids helps her to escape. Oscar can not go back to the job he previously had, since his boss is acquainted with Dunfern. Oscar and Irene quietly sell the house they had previously on loan and move to America. Soon after, they get married.

Dunfern is devastated, but finds solace in Hugh, and sends him to the same school Oscar worked at. At that time, he learns from his friend, Oscar's former boss, that Irene and Oscar were married. While Dunfern felt remorse for Irene's imprisonment and intended to include her in his will, when he learns of their marriage, he cuts Irene out entirely.

Meanwhile, Irene and Oscar are facing difficulties. Convinced they could live entirely off the money he got for selling their Canterbury house for the rest of their lives, Oscar did not see fit to get a job until he and Irene are on the brink of total ruin. When he is fired, he comes home and beats Irene, who leaves and gets a position as a duenna. Later, Oscar feels regretful about hitting Irene, but he can't find her to tell her. He drowns himself, leaving a note for Irene with his apology and begging her to return to Dunfern and apologize. When Irene finds the note, she decides to do so.

However, as Irene decides to return, Dunfern lies dying. He sends for Hugh so that he can tell him about Irene's wrongdoings against him. However, when Hugh arrives, Dunfern has lost his speech capabilities. Mysteriously, he regains them, where he goes into a long monologue about the numerous sins of Irene and reveals for the first time that he originally planned to release Irene on the day she escaped.

Irene arrives in time to see Dunfern's grave, kneels down, and grieves deeply, entirely remorseful for her actions. Hugh, also visiting the grave and not recognizing her, asks what she's doing. She replies, saying she's grieving her husband's death. Affected deeply by his father's deathbed speech earlier, Hugh shouts at Irene, ranting about her wickedness and depravity, and tells her to leave forever.

Having no money and no place to live, Irene commits suicide.

María, a young woman, finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to Maria’s feelings. The animals transform slowly into humans, and the house becomes a nightmarish world. Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, “The Wolf House” masquerades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers.

Emily discovers that Lorelai (Lauren Graham) is dating Luke and insists on meeting him. Lorelai anxiously approaches Luke, looking for a way out, but Luke agrees to come to dinner. Emily makes comments about Luke, including his job and recent divorce, which Lorelai interprets as pointed attacks. As the night continues, Emily's comments become more vicious and Luke sees Lorelai's point. Richard later calls Luke to arrange a golf game, confirming it before Luke can properly reply. Lorelai tries to make both of them cancel it, but it goes ahead.

Richard convinces Luke to buy golfing equipment. Luke plays poorly as Richard attempts to convince him to begin a franchise of diners. Luke calls Lorelai, beyond his depth, as Richard has set him up with numerous business contacts. She convinces him to leave. Emily is angry at Richard for the excursion, viewing Luke as completely unsuitable for Lorelai.

Doyle (Danny Strong) talks to Rory about her lead to uncover information about the secretive Life and Death Brigade. Rory hears a message from Dean (Jared Padalecki) to schedule a date between their busy schedules. Meeting Logan, she is blindfolded and enters a car with Colin (Alan Loayza), Finn (Tanc Sade) and Stephanie (Katherine Bailess). When they arrive in a forest with tents and camping equipment, Rory's blindfold is removed. She quickly calls Dean to say that she is not free tomorrow. The first people she approaches are conversing rapidly without using the letter "e". After a while, she has filled up two notebooks with details, though Logan talks to her about off-limit information to keep the group anonymous.

The next morning, Rory is told to wear a ball gown. The large cohort gather and ceremonially drink champagne after declaring "''In omnia paratus''". Rory observes men carrying women by cart as they play polo and a man discharging a paintball gun at another man jumping off a table. The main event is a group of six jumping from a great height; Logan convinces a reluctant Rory to join him as two of the six. They jump while holding umbrellas and attached to a band, Logan holding Rory's hand.

Zach (Todd Lowe) awkwardly approaches Lane (Keiko Agena) to arrange their first date, but they fail to pick a time. Later, they meet in the living room. Deciding against leaving the house, they watch a movie. Brian tries to join them, but Lane lets him go in her room. At the end of the movie, Zach and Lane kiss.

When the U.S. is on the brink of invading Panama, a former marine Becker is hired by a CIA operative Stark for a top secret arms trade mission. Alone and among the most dangerous arms dealers, Becker learns the true nature of political power.

The wandering student Channon arrives in the town of Brinitz, where he intensively studies the Kabbalah and fasts every day except Shabbat in an attempt to gain such purity that his prayers will be heard. While studying in the synagogue, he overhears Sender enter and announce that his daughter, Channon's love Leah, has been betrothed to Menashe. Channon kills himself in despair before the altar.

When Leah visits Channon's grave to invite him to the wedding, she becomes possessed by his malevolent spirit. When Sender brings her to Rabbi Azrael to ask for his help, Rabbi Azrael asks whether Sender has done anything to offend the dybbuk. Sender claims that he has not, but upon further questioning Rabbi Azrael learns that Sender indeed had a personal relationship with Channon before he died. Rabbi Azrael speaks with Channon's spirit through Leah but he refuses to leave because he wants to remain with his destined love.

Rabbi Azrael seeks the permission of Rabbi Samson, the great rabbi of the city, to exorcise the dybbuk. Rabbi Samson tells him that Nissen, who died twenty years earlier, has appeared to him three times in his dreams to tell him that Sender has not fulfilled a contract with him. Rabbi Azrael sends Mikoel to the graveyard to notify Nissen's spirit that he is being summoned to the supreme rabbinical court in nearby Miropol.

At the trial, Nissen's spirit reminds Sender that in their youth they were great friends and they married their wives on the same day, after which they agreed that if they had children then these children would wed. Nissen's spirit continues that Channon sought Leah's hand but was rejected by Sender, who sought a better life for his daughter with a wealthier suitor. Rabbi Azrael rules that the agreement is not binding because it applies to objects which did not exist yet when the agreement was made, but explains that the idea was put in Channon's mind that Leah was his destined bride and that Sender's actions have caused Nissen and Channon to be unable to find peace in the afterlife with no one to say Kaddish for them so he rules that Sender must give half of his possessions to the poor and every year light a candle and say Kaddish for the two deceased men as if they were his own family.

Rabbi Azrael performs a ritual to exorcise the dybbuk, during which he instructs Sender to say Kaddish for Channon's departing spirit. After being comforted by her mother, Leah holds a final conversation with Channon and promises to remember him. She begins to see him and asks him to come to her, but he cannot. She then says that she will come to him and dies on the spot.

One month ago, a strange phenomenon suddenly fused the human world with the parallel world of Kikaitopia. Despite this, the inhabitants of both worlds, humans and Kikainoids, quickly got along and live peacefully together.

In the present, however, their lives are threatened by Kikaitopia's evil rulers, the Tozitend Dynasty, who seek to conquer all parallel worlds. To face this new threat, a brave and energetic young man named Kaito Goshikida inherits the powers of all previous Super Sentai. Transforming into Zenkaizer, he joins forces with the Kikainoids Juran, Gaon, Magine, and Vroon to save the multiverse from Tozitend and find Kaito's missing parents as the Zenkaigers. The conflict later intensifies with the arrival of the World Pirates. Led by Zocks Goldtsuiker, who can transform into Twokaizer, the World Pirates oppose Tozitend in pursuit of their own objectives and occasionally ally with the Zenkaigers for the sake of it.

Reese, a poor girl who only wants a happy ending was lured by the guarantee of cash, consents to pretend to be a princess of a kingdom so the real princess who looks like her can finally run away.

It is late 1921, the 10th year of the Taishō era. Tamahiko Shima, second son of the wealthy Shima family, has his life turned upside-down after his right arm is paralyzed in a car accident that also claims the life of his mother. Now seen as worthless to his calculating father's long-term plans for his business empire, his family treats him as “dead”. But since it would bring shame to the family were they to disown him outright, he instead finds himself shunted off to a villa in the mountains of Chiba, out of public view. Though he quickly resigns himself to the idea that he will die alone and forgotten, one snowy December night a girl appears at his doorstep and announces that she is there to be his live-in caretaker, and when she is old enough, his bride. The girl, named Yuzuki Tachibana, or “Yuzu” for short, was purchased from her impoverished home by Tamahiko's father, and while she too finds herself uprooted from her home and family, she throws herself into her new role with gusto.

Tamahiko is initially extremely cynical and depressed due to his exile, and Yuzuki's irrepressibly sunny disposition grates on his nerves at first, but her presence gradually helps brighten his mood. In time, Tamahiko and Yuzuki fall in love. In 1922, Tamahiko's younger sister, Tamako, visits the couple, and, though initially cold, warms up to Yuzuki. They also meet Ryō Atsumi, the older sister and caretaker of a number of younger siblings, who teases, picks on and steals from Tamahiko. However, she grows close to him and Yuzu, and Tamahiko helps her younger siblings with school.

In 1923, Yuzuki and one of Ryō's brothers, Ryotaro, leave for Tokyo - the former to see her friend from school, and the latter to pursue an apprenticeship. However, they are caught up in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, leading Tamahiko and Ryō to walk to Tokyo, with Tamahiko leaving his house open as a temporary shelter for the affected population in his town. Tamahiko finds Yuzuki, bringing her to a temporary hospital run by his estranged uncle. After the earthquake, the famous singer Kotori Shiratori visits Chiba and plays a show with Yuzuki and Ryō attending. Later on, Tamahiko returns to school, passing the entrance exams and making friends with Kotori's twin brother, Hakaru. Kotori visits Yuzuki and Tamahiko and asks them about love to support her songwriting.

Yuzu suddenly leaves one day, and Tamahiko falls back into his depressed state. It is revealed that the heir to the Shima family, Tamaki, has died, and Tamahiko, despite being previously ostracized, is invited back into the family to serve as heir. As a result, Yuzuki is assigned to become the wife of Tamahiko's brother Tamao. Tamahiko goes back to Tokyo, gets Yuzuki back, and cuts ties with his father, with Tamako and Tamao following him, leaving only the oldest sister, Tamayo, to succeed the Shima family. In preparation for their wedding, Tamahiko and Yuzuki visit Yuzuki's family in Iwate. Eventually, Tamahiko takes Yuzuki's last name, Tachibana, and becomes a teacher. Tamao and Tamako are adopted by their uncle.

In 1858, Charles Darwin thinks about publicly releasing his ideas despite knowing that he would receive backlash from the Christian community. Another major concern for Darwin is that British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace had the same theory of evolution existing through natural selection and upon the arrival of Wallace's letter to him in June 1858, Darwin becomes worried that he will not be able to publish his own similar theory. While Darwin ponders if he should publish his theory, he discusses the matter with his wife Emma for two weeks while also telling her about the events that led to his theory of natural selection. During this time, their youngest son catches scarlet fever and dies shortly after. The events that Darwin discusses with his wife include his expedition on the HMS ''Beagle''. Interspersed between their discussions are flashbacks of their family life which includes the time they spent with their children, the experiments that Darwin completed teaching his children, and the death of their 10-year-old daughter Anne. Despite Emma coming to terms with how her husband's research could affect her faith and them both knowing of the backlash that would soon happen, Darwin decides to publish his work under the title of ''On the Origin of Species'' in 1859.

After the recreation of the infinite Multiverse, and a look into a possible future of her universe, Wonder Woman, who has ascended after the defeat of The Batman Who Laughs, is offered a role by the Quintessence (Ganthet, Hera, Highfather, Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, The Wizard) in return for saving the Multiverse. The Spectre takes her to a journey where it's revealed that Roy Harper is resurrected as well as Batman dealing with a mysterious group of enemies. Wonder Woman rejects becoming a part of the Quintessence since she wants to live it rather than just witness it. As she leaves, the Quintessence go to Earth Omega, where they are attacked by Darkseid, who has finally achieved his true form after his past versions were combined into one.

On Earth, everyone is now aware of the multiverse (as a result of events in ''Dark Nights: Death Metal''), and Alan Scott (who came out to his children) is struggling with living in this new world. He talks with his son Obsidian when the Justice Society of America headquarters explodes in green flames, and Alan asks where Jade is. In Paris, as Director Bones is talking to Cameron Chase about the recent events that have transpired, Batman (from the Flashpoint era) crashes on Earth 23, where he meets the Justice Incarnate (Calvin Ellis, Mary Marvel from Earth 5, Machinehead from Earth 8, Aquawoman from Earth 11, and Captain Carrot from Earth 26) and asks where Barry Allen is. While running throughout the multiverse, Barry Allen vibrates through the worlds and arrives in Earth Omega, where he is attacked by Psycho-Pirate, who wants Barry to find someone. In a diner, Roy Harper deals with an angry customer when an enemy named X-Tract attacks him. Roy Harper wards off the attacker, realizing that he has a Black Lantern ring.

Cameron Chase contacts Batman and Superman about the public being worried about the Multiverse, but Superman and Batman dodge her questions. Thomas Wayne admits that seeing his whole world turned him evil and doesn't want his son to know he's alive. Magog of Earth 22 attacks Calvin Ellis and Thomas Wayne, having gone back to his villainous roots. Back on Earth-0, Mr. Terrific tells Vandal Savage, Obsidian, and Alan Scott that there are still people who don't have their memories restored or are missing after the restoration of the DC Multiverse. Roy Harper starts training with his Black Lantern Ring but gets overwhelmed by its power. Meanwhile, Cameron Chase confronts Captain Atom but after realizing this Captain Atom is an imposter, the imposter blows himself up.

Psycho-Pirate puts The Flash on a treadmill in Earth Omega and uses his power to take Barry somewhere else. Obsidian and Alan Scott meet a man named Shade and they realize that an enemy of Obisidian has stolen Jade. The duo goes to Command D, where they are attacked by Director Bones, X-Tract, and Cameron Chase. The Justice Incarnate calm down Magog and after Magog allows them to touch a mysterious spacecraft, Calvin Ellis tells everyone they need to go back to his Earth. Roy Harper regains control of his Black Lantern ring but is captured by Hector Hammond when he is saved by the Infinite Incorporated (Power Girl, Jade).

Thomas Wayne and Calvin Ellis go to his office to find Lex Luthor of Earth 23 to get a transmatter symphonic array to travel through universes. They find Lex Luthor of Earth 23 dead, while Cameron Chase is saved by X-tract from the fake Captain Atom and meets with Detective Bones, who then shoots him in the leg when he finds out that he plans to leave other universes to die. The Infinite Incorporated arrived on Earth Omega but they are soon attacked. Likewise, Thomas Wayne and Calvin Ellis plan to go to Earth Omega when Machinehead attacks them. Machinehead reveals his world was destroyed when Earth-0 invaded his home and plans to keep the universes separate before calling in the Injustice Incorporated.

On Earth Omega, Psycho Pirate explains his world was the original Earth-Two before "Crisis on Infinite Earths", and his world was replaced by a new version. Detective Bones was revealed to have shot down Cameron Chase's ship and says that he made a deal with Darkseid to spare their Earth in exchange for others. Jade knocks down Detective Bones, and X-tract reveals she was Cameron Chase from original Earth-Two, and Psycho Pirate explains that Flash is running so Darkseid can cross-dimension to gain enough power to control the Multiverse. Machinehead attacks Calvin Ellis, explaining that when The Flash created Flashpoint, it caused changes to his Earth which made it darker and restrains Calvin Ellis. Psycho-Pirate nearly persuades Roy Harper to join his side but slips out that Roy's daughter is still alive. Roy Harper frees everyone, but his overuse of the Black Lantern Ring causes Darkseid to appear.

Obsidian frees Roy Harper from Darkseid, while Thomas Wayne and Calvin Ellis defeat Machinehead. Calvin Ellis destroys the treadmill Flash was on, which causes The Flash to disappear. Darkseid kills Machinehead and teleports everyone back home while Psycho Pirate flees in terror of his failure. X-tract acquires Roy's Black Lantern ring and meets up with Darkseid, Granny Goodness, DeSaad, Grail (Darkseid's daughter), Steppenwolf, Kalibak, where Darkseid reveals to his elites that Earth-0 is not on Earth but a place where The Great Darkness rests, which he vows to find Flash and crack the omniverse to take control of The Great Darkness believing that there are other dark forces who were seeking to control it. X-Tract swears her allegiance to him. Director Bones was mentioned to have gotten away. The Flash arrives in The Multiverse-2, the ruins of the first crisis, where he meets Pariah, who transports Flash to a different Earth for sinister reasons.

The story is told over one week during a hot summer in Ohio. Protagonist Justice Douglass is dealing with the fact that her mother is attending college and has to spend time away from the home, leaving Justice to the care of her twin older brothers, Thomas and Levi. Levi clearly cares for Justice, both with domestic tasks and emotionally, while Thomas is antagonistic toward Justice.

Thomas has established the Great Snake Race, a competition for the boys in the neighborhood, and Justice prepares by seeking out the snake that is both the largest and the fastest. Concurrently, Justice notices that Thomas seems to be able to mentally control his twin brother Levi. Fear of Thomas brings Justice to the home of Mrs. Leona Jefferson and her son Dorian Jefferson, mother and child. Mrs. Leona Jefferson teaches Justice about her own psychic abilities, both to protect Levi and to practice her own power.

Justice learns that the object of the Great Snake Race is not to actually race snakes but to catch the most. Justice, thinking she will lose, ends up winning over Thomas, as her snake was pregnant and had offspring. After the Race, Thomas probes Justice's mind and tries to control her. Justice and neighbor Dorian battle against Thomas, defeating him. The children then link minds and Justice transports them to the future, briefly, where they learn that as a group, they are the "first unit," a new kind of human.

Jam is a teen girl living in Lucille, a town in the US. Lucille is a type of utopia; its official historical record saw angels defeating monsters. In Lucille, there are no more monsters. Or so everyone believes. One day, Jam trips and falls onto her mother's painting (a type of assemblage with sharp objects incorporated within.) Jam's blood releases the creature that her mother painted: Pet. Pet informs Jam that the creature is here to root out a monster living in Lucille.

The story takes place among the hills of Monferrato, in the early Middle Ages. The beautiful Odilia, of the noble family of the Counts of Agliano, from a very young age is destined by her relatives to the convent, so that she can follow in the footsteps of her aunt of the same name, an abbess who died in the odor of sanctity but without having been able to perform, either alive or dead, a miracle, so as to give her relatives the glory of having a saint in the family.

Before saying her vows, Odilia attends a tournament of knights leaving for a Crusade to the Holy Land. A young man with blue eyes and a turquoise cloak stops in front of the stage where she is sitting, waiting to receive a sign of homage and goodwill from her. Odilia threw the little crown of flowers she wore on her head on her white novice's veil. Years go by. The young woman, not yet twenty years old, is already abbess and demonstrates that she knows how to wisely administer the revenues of the convent as well as how to be faithful to all the sacred duties of a nun. To counteract the melancholy and loneliness that assail her in the long evenings without activity, she embroiders with her sisters a magnificent tapestry that, with threads of precious colored silks, depicts a Lady with a Unicorn. When the tapestry is finished, Odilia realizes that the lady has her own face and the eyes of the liocorn are those of the knight she has never forgotten. One day, pilgrims come knocking at the door of the convent: among them is him, the knight who, in turn, has never forgotten Odilia: he is tired, gray and sad. The Crusade was not an adventure of glory but only an enterprise of robbery and infamy. From that day on, at the request of the abbess, the knight will remain a permanent guest in the convent, making himself useful to the community in many ways. This will also allow him to remain close to his beloved and protect her, with a chaste, platonic love made up of friendly evening walks hand in hand and sweet glances that are as silent as they are eloquent. Other characters become part of the story: Ser Francesco, the neighbouring nobleman who supplies the abbess' cellars with fine wine, but who also proposes to Odilia that she herself should cultivate vines in the excellent land surrounding her. The convent soon becomes a building site where agricultural and hydraulic work is carried out, with the active collaboration of the knight and above all of Gerardo Biondo, Ser Francesco's servant, a young man with a good character and a mysterious past. But also a swarm of children from the nearby village arrived to fill the monastery's days: a small school was set up where the children, clothed and fed, learned to read and write, to carry out useful trades, to sing in a choir and play flutes and flutes. Even Bishop Zeno, a somewhat diffident but good-natured man, came to visit the convent to see and admire its cheerful fervour: it was a world of happiness, purity of purpose, productivity and even good food. The cook, Sister Buccia, is one of the most characteristic characters: simple and grumpy, she works every day, among pots and pans, to bake bread and cakes, meat and vegetables, always fearing that the excessive generosity of the abbess, towards the poor but also towards her guests, will one day lead to a shortage of provisions and destitution. In such industrious joy, in such care for the goods given to mankind by the earth, in the end, with a mysterious ringing of the whole valley, on the tomb of the old aunt abbess the hoped-for "miracle of Saint Odilia" takes place: the doubt remains whether by divine will or only by passionate human perseverance.

Trouble-making police detective Boyle Samejima, who is not averse to breaking rules to get the job done, is transferred from Shinjuku, Tokyo to the laid-back Ogasawara Islands. Now at the Anegashima Police Department, Samejima investigates the bizarre unsolved case of , where a religious cult who worshiped a little girl as their oracle suddenly vanished. That little girl, Chako, has recently returned with a humanoid dolphin named Orpheus, whom she calls "Papa." Orpheus joins the police department on the same day as Samejima, as his partner and superior.

Sure, our man has a name, but he never gives it. He works from home. His neighbors are all idiots. He doesn't really "do" friends. But all that changes when a mis-delivered package arrives in his post office box bearing a horrifying secret—one that will set him on a collision course with a predator, the man's disillusioned daughter, and his own dark past.

Set in a future where every household owns maid robots known as OrderMaids, average grade-schooler, Bondo Taira, dreams of having his very own robot because of his friends, Gachi Gorilla and Motsuo Kaneo always brag about Kaneo's OrderMaid, Meico. With some convincing, Bondo manages to make his mom agree and get them one, but what he received is an unable to compute maid named Roboco, the most powerful clumsy maid ever created. With Roboco's arrival, Bondo's life starts to get a whole lot weirder.

Lawyer Hugo Spencer returns home to Milwaukee with best friend Madelyn McKay over Christmas. His mother, Kate Spencer, immediately sets up a list of chores and Christmas activities for her sons, Hugo and Aiden, who returns later that week. While there, Hugo runs into Patrick Ryan, a boy he crushed on in high school. Kate sets Hugo and Patrick, trying to match them up, much to Hugo's embarrassment. Hugo finds out the neighborhood's landmark train station will soon be demolished and rushes to save it. Hugo and Patrick connect and finally have their first kiss under the northern lights.

Hugo receives a call from his boss regarding the senior partner position he had been hoping for. His boss gives him the promotion, on the condition that he relocates to London to open their new office. Hugo takes the opportunity into consideration, distressed by the idea of leaving his home country, family, and Patrick. While at family Christmas trivia game night, Madelyn accidentally tells everyone about Hugo's new job, forcing Hugo to seriously reconsider his decision. Aiden and Maddy become a couple while Hugo finds the paperwork needed to save the train station. At the train station's party, Hugo decides to decline the job and begin a long distance relationship with Patrick.

The movie ends with Kate filming Hugo and Patrick as they kiss outside the train station.

Ashikaga Takauji cooperated with Emperor Go-Daigo and overthrew the Kamakura shogunate. The emperor began the Kenmu Restoration, but the samurai are more dissatisfied than before. As the leader of samurai, Takauji is worried about whether to establish a new shogunate.

Hanabi Yasuraoka (Miyu Yoshimoto) and Mugi Awaya (Dori Sakurada) look an ideal high school couple, but, they both like someone else. Hanabi Yasuraoka has liked Narumi Kanai (Kouki Mizuta) since she was a kid and Mugi Awaya likes his private tutor Akane Minagawa (Rina Aizawa).

As a couple, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awayai have 3 conditions: they are not supposed to like each other, they will break up if either of them succeed in love with their secret crush and they will fulfill their physical desires.

Pinkfong and Hogi are two magical, best friends who can help anyone in Wonderville.

Alexander Finn is a high school student, sticking with friends Darius and Stuart, never socializing with others. Alex has a crush on a girl named Lo, whom popular student Cole Winnard has a crush on too. One day, multimedia teacher Mr. Eskin announces a presentation project, with the theme 'you.' Alex also has a big brother named EJ, who works at a venture company that is participating in an innovation challenge to make an app using General Electric's cloud to enhance everyday lives. EJ keeps encouraging colleague Ellie to use his ideas, wanting to be the next Mark Zuckerberg.

One day, while Alex and EJ's parents go on a honeymoon out of town, Stu encourages Alex to impress Lo by throwing a party, so that he can give a good impression of himself in his presentation. Meanwhile, Ellie accepts one of EJ's ideas that prevents phone addiction and climate change, and tells EJ to submit the prototype on Thursday. After he and Alex get scammed on Craigslist, Alex reveals to EJ about their plan and agrees on a quid pro quo, so EJ asks Alex to create the prototype. He also wants the party comers to install it and turn their phones off as a test run. After failed marketing attempts by EJ's party organizer friend Nine, EJ invites students directly, and the party becomes trending on Twitter. The prototype, Coud Maximizer 2.0, is finished and accepted. With the tweets, the trio becomes popular.

The party is thrown, and everyone agrees on the phone rule. EJ invites colleague Owen Reed, Ellie, and envious colleague Jonathan to the party. Due to the boisterous mood of the party, Cole, who was known for organizing parties, lost his social rank. As a revenge, he gaslights Lo by revealing the mission behind the party after he eavesdropped Darius slamming Alex and EJ for telling himself to just monitor the comers' devices, a job he says is boring. Jonathan secretly calls the cops for underage drinking. After a chaotic raid, EJ and Owen are arrested but released the next day. Lo dumps Alex.

Mr. Eskin tells the class that the presentation is tomorrow, and Alex quickly makes it. As part of his presentation, he apologizes to everyone mad at him for his ego, and realizing that pretending to be others does not make him look better. EJ then appears on stage, announcing the app: IRL (Internet acronym for 'in real life'). After the presentation, Mr. Eskin, Nine, and EJ teams up as the founding fathers of IRL. Lo and Alex reconcile, and they, Darius, and Stu become friends.

The plot of the series revolves arounds a story of a freezer van driver in Dhaka named Taqdeer (played by Chanchal Chowdhury) whose whole life turns upside down when he finds a dead body inside his van. A trail of chaotic events thereby follows which pushes Taqdeer and his best friend Montu (played by Shohel Mondol) into bigger difficulties.

The film begins with Wendy Mallet recounting her tragedy when her son, Jackson Mallet, broke into the abandoned Abaddon Hotel and never came out more than a year ago. A video is showed in which Jackson runs frantically around the hotel begging for help before having a mental breakdown. A cult follower is seen slowly approaching him.

On October 6, 2017, Suzy McCombs is presenting a Hell House LLC special program, with Arnold Tasselman, Mitchell Cavanaugh (Diane Graves' coworker from the first film) and Brock Davies as guests. They start discussing the veracity of the Hell House documentary. Arnold points out that he tried to take down Mitchell's documentary, arguing that it is a hoax that is causing damage to the town's reputation, while Mitchell reiterates that Diane and her cameraman died inside the hotel, and it isn't a safe place to go. A journalism team from an online blog is watching the program. Its presenter, Jessica Fox, claims that with the help of Mitchell they can break into the Abaddon in hopes of a spike of popularity for their website.

They meet with Mitchell outside the Abaddon hotel, who says that breaking in won't be easy as the police is patrolling around the hotel to prevent any more disappearances, such as the one of a teenager who broke into the hotel and disappeared while livestreaming his adventure. On another video, a couple picks up a strange woman asking to be dropped off at the hotel, only to be revealed as the ghost of one of the tour-goers that died in the haunted attraction back in 2009.

Four days after their break-in, a distressed Jessica Fox is questioned by the Rockland County police. She can't remember what happened and has a panic attack.

Mitchell, Jessica, Molly and David intend to break in, joined by Brock Davies and his cameraman Malcolm to investigate the hotel in a paranormal style. However, Molly can't bring herself to enter and stays outside. Mitchell, Jessica and David head for the basement, while Brock and his cameraman go into the dining room where Andrew Tully, the hotel owner, committed suicide along with several cult followers of his satanic cult. When they try to communicate with Tully via a Ouija board, they see the ghost of a woman.

Molly enters the hotel at David's request. The group finds out that Alex from the original Hell House team went to the Abaddon in April 2009, way before the Hell House disaster. He is seen making a deal with an unseen man. When the group reunites with Molly and find out that David never asked her for help, they try to leave, only to be trapped inside. They begin to experience paranormal events including the ghost of Melissa, a Hell House actress that died in 2009, and the hanged bodies of Brock and his cameraman. They are then captured and sent to the dining room.

Back at the Morning Mysteries show, Mitchell claims that the hotel lures people inside in order to kill them and trap their souls there. Once the show ends, a crew member tells Suzy that Arnold Tasselman called to apologize as he couldn't make it to the interview. Suzy is shocked as "Tasselman" has just left after the show.

At the hotel, when Mitchell wakes up, he finds Jessica and Molly tied up, along with the ghostly figures of Mac and Alex, two of the original Hell House staff. Tully himself shows up, taunting Mitchell about how he lured him into the hotel despite Mitchell saying he would never enter it, revealing that "Tasselman" was Tully all along. Then, he sees the ghost of Diane playing the piano. Tully tells him that, in order for the dominoes to keep falling, he must choose one of them to walk out of the hotel to lure more people into it. Molly gets killed and Mitchell, having a breakdown, gets up. Jessica cries desperately for help.

In the present, Jessica is in the police station. When the officer questioning her turns around, it is revealed that she died inside the Abaddon as well, as we can see her ghost staring at the camera.

Mickey Kelley, one of the first American black belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, gets pulled away from everything he loves and into an unsanctioned MMA tournament.

The story follows Iori Katanagi, a shaman who is very unmotivated to do his job. However, upon meeting Riku Aibetsu, he may have a chance to find a long lost foe.

Crisbell is an orphan girl who lives in the Narim orphanage. While she picked up a rose for Mother Superior, it is snatched from her by Matias, a talking frog, whom she follows to Narim Cathedral (inspired in the Las Lajas Shrine), in order to unleash her powers. After the events, Matias asks Crisbell to accompany him to visit his friend Willhelm, a time mage, who explains more about her powers.

Later, Crisbell is commended in a series of missions, until she finds the village farm in flames and invaded by goblins under the command of the Empress of Time, whose aim is to take over the Crystallis Kingdom. To avoid a disastrous future, Crisbell returns to Willhelm to ask for help, and he tells her about the Sword. Crisbell is determined to use the powers of the Sword, becoming a time mage herself.

With the Sword in hand, she returns to the farm to battle the goblins. During the battle, Cristopher, an elemental mage warrior who has been fighting the goblins, joins her. After a couple of battles, they are faced by the Empress of Time's minions, the Volcano Sisters. Crisbell must use the power of the time crystals to help defeat them. After receiving several attacks, the sisters retreat.

Reiko, a young, disabled woman (she suffers from a limp left arm after a joint inflammation in her childhood), and member of an amateur theatre troupe, starts a passionate affair with the much older and married architect Katsuragi. Katsuragi's wife in turn has an affair with medical student Tatsumi, who is obsessed with her and refuses to break off the relationship. Fascinated by Mrs. Katsuragi, Reiko manages to make personal contact with her. The women get acquainted with each other, but Reiko develops a deeper affection for Mrs. Katsuragi which might be the love for a substitute mother (Reiko's natural mother has died), or even beyond. Reiko, always feeling incomplete due to her disability and torn between her feelings for Katsuragi and his wife, accuses him of not loving but only pitying her. When she finally tells Mrs. Katsuragi of the affair with her husband, the older woman refuses to scold her despite her pleas. After Mrs. Katsuragi commits suicide, Reiko leaves her lover and joins the theatre troupe which is on the way to another stage show.

The game revolves around two nuns, the main character, Sister Semilla, and her companion Sister Fran. They are sent into the ruins of the Kingdom of Ramezia to rescue Princesses who were captured by heretical witches.

Norvin is a young boy that resembles anything, even a shark and he starts learning to swim, although he ends up bumping people near Caramel Cove (the beach where he lives near) and getting humiliated, so he decides to create a plastic dorsal fin to scare people away from the water at Caramel Cove. He scares about one person and 3 days later, he scares another person. Both don't know what to do if they encounter a great white shark and give them news about the shark. Everyone stays out of the water, out of fear, for several days. The plan backfires on Norvin when a female shark confuses him for a real shark and wants to marry him. The shark states that she would lose her temper and bite Norvin if he does not marry her, leading Norvin to swim away for his life. When Norvin appears on land while shaking, the others realize that he was never a shark. The swimmers put up a net to stop the actual shark from entering Caramel Cove, but Norvin develops aquaphobia and is too scared to enter the water ever again.

The novel is set in Georgian-era England, and centers around Jessie Fox, the daughter of a prostitute, being taken in by the old Marquess of Belmore to be raised as a lady. The Marquess intends to have the Jessie marry his son Matthew, a Navy captain, so that they can both inherit the Belmore title after he passes. Matthew, knowing Jessie's reputation as a street child, believes that Jessie is manipulating his father into treating her like a lady, while Jessie fears that her true backstory will be discovered by the public and tarnish the Belmore name.

Newlywed couple Wanda Maximoff and Vision move into the town of Westview, New Jersey, during what appears to be the 1950s. They attempt to blend in, despite Vision being an android and Maximoff having telekinetic abilities. One day they notice a heart drawn on a calendar but cannot remember what it signifies. Vision amazes his co-workers at Computational Services Inc. with his speed, but is unsure what the company actually does. Their neighbor Agnes introduces herself to Maximoff, and the pair conclude that the heart represents Maximoff and Vision's anniversary. Agnes helps Maximoff prepare for the occasion. Vision's boss Mr. Hart reminds him that Maximoff and Vision are hosting Mr. Hart and his wife for dinner that night, which is what the heart on the calendar actually represents.

That night, Maximoff and Vision struggle to hide their abilities while making a last-minute dinner for the Harts, with help from Agnes. As they sit down to eat, the Harts ask Maximoff and Vision about themselves, but the couple are unable to explain where they came from. Mr. Hart grows furious and chokes on his food, at which point the episode's sitcom format subsides. Vision uses his powers to remove the food from Mr. Hart's throat at Maximoff's request. The sitcom format returns and the Harts thank Maximoff and Vision for dinner before leaving. As Maximoff and Vision reaffirm their love for one another, these events are revealed to be occurring on the fictional sitcom ''WandaVision'' that someone is watching using 21st-century technology.

A commercial during the ''WandaVision'' program advertises a Stark Industries ToastMate 2000 toaster oven.

After his reassignment to Osaka due to an argument with his superior, Tokyo businessman Mita is residing in a cheap inn as his salary won't allow for better accommodation. Though rather a reclusive person, he tries to help the housemaidens with their monetary problems (including a solitary mother and the wife of an unemployed worker), while geisha Uwabami tries to awaken his interest, but to no avail. In the end, Mita, who is critical of his new superior's reckless business practices which result in a business partner's suicide, is transferred again. During the goodbye ceremony, Mita reminds the participants, who all missed their intended goals in one way ore another, to "have the dignity to laugh in the face of unhappiness".

A psychologist attempts to civilize a child found in the forest.

The film is about a man in financial ruin who becomes involved in pearl smuggling, but conceals the fact from his sister.

In a black-and-white 1960s setting, Wanda Maximoff and Vision hear strange noises outside their house. The next day, they prepare their magician act for a neighborhood talent show to help them fit in with the neighbors, before Vision attends the neighborhood watch meeting with the male neighbors. Maximoff sees a colorful toy helicopter outside the house, but is distracted by Agnes, who invites her to a women's gathering hosted by Dottie Jones, the snooty leader of the neighborhood. There, Maximoff befriends Geraldine.

The men in the neighborhood watch meeting welcome Vision, who accidentally swallows a piece of gum that is offered to him. Vision's android system is unable to digest the gum, and it causes him to become "intoxicated". Maximoff speaks with Dottie after the gathering, and a voice calls out to her through a radio asking her who is responsible for causing her situation. Once again, she is distracted as Dottie asks who she is before the radio breaks and Dottie's glass shatters. She bleeds in color but quickly ignores this event.

When the "intoxicated" Vision arrives at the talent show, he inadvertently reveals his superpowers. Maximoff uses her own abilities to make Vision look like he is performing simple magic tricks. Their performance is well received and they are awarded Comedy Performance of the Year by Dottie. When they return home, Maximoff inexplicably becomes pregnant. As she and Vision are about to celebrate, they hear the noise outside again and walk out to find a beekeeper climbing out of the sewers. Disturbed by this, Maximoff "rewinds" the events on-screen to her pregnancy reveal and the world around them suddenly changes to a 1970s color-filled aesthetic.

A commercial during the ''WandaVision'' program advertises Strücker watches with the Hydra logo on them.

In Tallinn, an elderly priest and niece are looking at a red bicycle as a possible Christmas gift. The girl says she wants to wait and get a blue bicycle instead. The shopkeeper makes a phone call. A van stops in front of a train station where a blue bicycle is chained to a post. Men cut the chain, put the bicycle into the van, and drive away.

Markus is a soldier in Afghanistan. He calls his wife, Emma, who says their daughter Mathilde's bicycle was stolen at the station and the family car won't start. Emma and Mathilde walk to the station.

Otto and Lennart are at work presenting a worthless algorithm they claim can be used to predict future events. Otto says all events are products of preceding events, but because we often have insufficient data, we categorize events as coincidences. Their bosses aren't impressed and fire them.

As Otto is riding the train home, he notices a tattooed man in the same car. He sees another man get up, throw a sandwich and drink in the trash, and exit the train. Mathilde and Emma get on. Otto insists Emma have his seat. The train crashes which rakes the right side and kills Emma.

Markus returns home to console his grieving daughter. Mathilde and Markus find it difficult to come to terms with the tragedy, causing strain in their relationship. Mathilde thinks her father needs counseling, but he refuses.

Otto goes to the police, stating the accident was actually planned. The police dismiss his thoughts on the ‘accident’. Otto and Lennart track down Markus to inform him the accident wasn't a coincidence, but a murder to eliminate a witness about to give evidence against the head of the Riders of Justice gang. Otto's friend Emmenthaler uses facial recognition software to identify the suspicious man who left the train seconds before the accident as an Egyptian from Cairo. Otto and Lennart make Emmenthaler lower the threshold of facial recognition to 95 percent and look for matches with Danish addresses. The person with the highest match in Denmark is Palle Olesen. Otto recognizes him from the train.

Otto, Lennart and Emmenthaler go to see Markus. Lennart is fascinated with Markus's huge barn. They tell Markus that Palle Olesen is the brother of Kurt, president of Riders of Justice, and the tattooed man on the train who was also killed was about to testify against him.

The group goes to Palle's house, intending to interrogate him for information about the accident, but he pulls a gun on them. Markus loses control and kills Palle. Lennart enters the house to dispose of the evidence and sees a young Ukrainian, Bodashka, naked and gagged, but says nothing and leaves him there.

Mathilde and her boyfriend try to get Markus to speak to a psychologist about his grief and violent behavior, but he refuses. He sees on the news that Kurt Olesen was not convicted because the witness died in the train crash.

Markus summons Otto, Lennart, and Emmenthaler to the barn and tells them to get all the information they can about Riders of Justice. He plans to avenge his wife. Otto agrees but says they won't kill anybody. Mathilde sees Markus and his group leaving the barn together. She recognizes Otto as the man on the train and questions her father as to who they are. Lennart lies and says they are a therapy group helping her father with his trauma. Lennart offers to be Mathilde's therapist, Mathilde agrees. It becomes obvious Lennart was sexually abused in a barn in his childhood.

The Riders torture Bodashka for information, leading to their identification of Emmenthaler. The Riders attempt a drive-by shooting on Markus and his group when they go to Emmenthaler's apartment, but Markus is able to kill the attackers and rescue Bodashka. Markus collects the attackers' automatic weapons. They all return to Markus's house where they hide from the rest of the Riders of Justice who are looking for them. Mathilde has been making a timeline on her bedroom wall of events relating to her mother's death. She gradually works her way back to the day her bike was stolen at the train station.

Markus, Otto, Lennart, and Emmenthaler drive to a restaurant where Kurt and his associates are. Markus manages to kill Kurt and three men with him. Otto sees Mathilde's wall with all of the events. He sees that it all started when her bike was stolen. He explains to her that there is an infinite number of moments that led to the crash and trying to find one reason to explain it is fruitless.

Bodashka explains to Lennart that Palle was not on the train that crashed because Palle and he were together and out of the country. Lennart and Otto had convinced Emmenthaler to accept a less accurate facial recognition result, and the suspicious man was actually an innocent Egyptian tourist who resembled Palle, meaning their crusade against the Riders of Justice was in error. The evidence they relied on was a coincidence that two men resembled each other. Markus breaks down in anger and frustration, finally lowering his stony facade and crying.

The remaining Riders use information from social media posts by Mathilde's boyfriend and attack the group at Markus's house. Mathilde is taken hostage, and Markus disarmed by the Riders. Otto, Lennart, and Emmenthaler, using weapon training Markus gave them earlier, ambush and kill the Riders, saving Markus and Mathilde.

The movie flashes forward to Christmas, when the group have joined to celebrate and exchange presents. Markus and Mathilde have reconciled. Her Christmas gift is a new red bicycle. At another house, the niece from the opening scene receives Mathilde's blue bicycle as her Christmas gift from the priest.

Samurai Hikokuro returns home to his wife Tane after a full year at his shogun's residence in Edo. Rumours have it that Tane committed adultery with a musician in his absence, so the family clan summons for an interrogation. In a series of flashbacks, Tane is first cleared from the charges pressed against her, but after Hikokuro's sister renews the accusations, she finally admits her guilt. In her confession, she recounts how she had first escaped a rape attempt by the very samurai responsible for the rumours about her and, being drunk and in fear, had later spent the night with the musician. In compliance with the samurai honour, Tane is required to commit suicide, and her lover declared fair game. Although Hikokuro has forgiven his wife whom he still loves, he first kills her as she is unable to do so herself, and then the adulterer.

The story of the series is about an old family in Tehran called Sabouri who has been cultivating decorative flowers and various flowers for many years. The Saburi family consists of three brothers and a sister, all of whom work for the company and follow in their family's inherited occupation. The only son is Fariborz, who is now 58 years old and is an intelligence officer and life story. He wrote himself unaffected by his family. At a young age, Fariborz decides to become a policeman and goes to a city to undergo a training course.

The Sabouri family still lives together in peace in old houses, but the arrival of a young man in this family changes the life of the whole family, which ...

The film has no narrative, no professional actors or intrigue. Various Lithuanian folk traditions, agriculture works and rituals are presented by folk artists and dancers. Folk songs performed by Veronika Povilionienė, poems of Marcelijus Martinaitis and traditional Lithuanian instrumental music make a sonic ambience of the movie.

The film opens up with the protagonist Chang Jia-han (Edward Chen), also known as A-han, meeting his school priest and band leader Father Oliver (Fabio Grangeon) to discuss the fight he had just gotten into. Father Oliver assumes the fight was over a girl that A-han likes; A-han does not respond, glancing at Father Oliver in silence.

Taking place in Taiwan as martial law ends in 1987, Wang Po Te (Tseng Jing-Hua), known as Birdy, transfers to the same all-boys Catholic high school as A-han. Their first encounter takes place during a training session in the pool where they tell each other what classes they are in. As they test their lung capacity by holding their breath underwater, A-han secretly glances at Birdy, indicating his interest in him.

Birdy is seen sneaking into A-han's room to ask him for soap. Meanwhile, A-han and his other friends get ready to sneak out of the dorms. As they are about to jump the wall Birdy returns from outside, coming back after buying food and scaring the group of boys. A-han and his friends end up in a cemetery where they play band songs for a group of girls they intend to hook up with. All of A-han's friends have already begun hooking up while he is sitting there alone. He is suddenly approached by one of the girls, who puts his hand on her breast. She then proceeds to sit on him in an attempt to seduce him. Disappointed at his inability to get an erection, A-han apologizes to her.

Another day in band class, Father Oliver gives a lesson to the students to live in the moment (“profiter du moment”) and discusses the concept of youth and love with the class. The class asks Father Oliver of his first love and as the story is being told, Birdy and A-han exchange glances and smiles at each other.

In the evening, Birdy is caught by the dorm head sneaking out for food and disciplined with corporal punishment. A-han goes to the showers to give Birdy ointment for his wounds. As A-han waits for Birdy to finish showering, A-han's friend Horn and his groupies are shown bullying and assaulting a homosexual student. A-han and Birdy are hiding in the shower stall together but as soon as the bullies take off the boy's pants and try to put a lighter to his genitals, A-han runs out of the stall to stop the boys. They try to peer-pressure A-han into beating the boy because of his homosexuality and explain that sinners must be punished. Just as A-han freezes, Birdy steps out of the stall, helps the victim up and both walk away. Horn asks A-han if him and Birdy were in the same stall but he brushes it off after A-han denies this. The same night, Birdy sneaks into A-han's bed, where he shares snacks stolen from the dorm head's office.

After the death of president Chiang Ching-kuo is announced, the two travel to Taipei to mourn on behalf of their school. They grow closer through their adventures in the capital. While in Taipei, Birdy and A-han see a protester (Chi Chia-wei) on a footbridge, holding a sign saying “Homosexuality is not a disease!”. Police violently detain the protester, while A-han restrains an outraged Birdy and prevents him from intervening. At a video-salon room while the movie ''Birdy'' is playing on the TV screen, A-han leans in to kiss Birdy as he sleeps but is interrupted by room service who tells him not to fool around. They spend intimate moments and have deep conversations throughout their trip but never act on their attraction.

The summer following their trip, A-han remains melancholic due to conflicting thoughts about his identity and feelings. He asks his parents to buy him a scooter, which creates tension with his father. A-han waits by the phone until he receives a call from Birdy. After meeting up, the two boys ride on A-han's new scooter his mother buys for him to cheer him up. The pair watch films together at the cinema and steal movie posters from the wall. They sneak into a projection room where Birdy voices his desire to become a filmmaker, asking A-han to go to film school with him in Taipei. They are discovered by the cinema owner and chased out of the room. The next morning, A-han has a wet dream of Birdy.

In the following semester back to school, the introduction of a co-educational policy adds a wrinkle as the presence of female students irrevocably changes school dynamics. Despite allowing the matriculation of girls, school officials are still strict on intermingling between the sexes. In band class, a school disciplinary official gets into an argument about keeping girls and boys separated. A female student, Wu Ruo-fei (known as Ban-Ban), stands up for herself after the official berates her. Birdy also chimes in, sparking a growing interest between the pair.

Along with increasing homophobic accusations and humiliation after performing an effeminate song at a military song competition, Birdy seeks comfort in the arms of Ban-Ban and the reassurance and stability she provides to him in relation to heterosexual norms. As Birdy and Ban-Ban begin to spend more time together, A-han starts to become increasingly jealous and helpless. A-han enters a chapel and prays for clarity; Birdy walks in and taunts him for his lack of a girlfriend and offers to introduce him to someone. A-han becomes furious at Birdy's nonchalant attitude and accuses him of toying with his feelings. Birdy asks if A-han can stop trying to hang out with him alone. A-han then goes out with a girl he previously met with and she tells him a way to profess love over a pager. A-han immediately sends this message to Birdy, but does not receive a response as Birdy is out with Ban-Ban.

At night, A-han helps Birdy steal a giant balloon for a surprise prank. The next morning, the surprise turns out to be a love confession to Ban-Ban from Birdy which upsets A-han. Leaving for some solace, A-han meets an older man who tries to comfort him. When the old man makes a sexual advance, A-han pushes him away and leaves. The scene cuts back to A-han's conversation with Father Oliver where the protagonist says he would rather go to hell. He says that if all gay people go to hell, then more people might understand him there.

A-han finds Birdy after he has gotten into an accident and wrecked the scooter. Birdy insists he will fix the scooter but A-han says not to worry. Back at the dorms, A-han helps Birdy shower due to his injury. They soon become intimate, and A-han begins to give Birdy a handjob. Birdy resists but then gives in to his desire. As Birdy climaxes he kisses A-han, but then apologizes. The pair cry and embrace while sharing an intimate moment filled with conflicting emotions of love, pain, shame, and desire.

Soon after, Birdy begins to ignore and avoid A-han, confusing him. It is also revealed that Ban-Ban has been expelled from the school with Birdy only being given detention because of the balloon incident. Birdy's father arrives at the school and proceeds to beat him for being disobedient and not focusing on education. A-han tries to stop Birdy from getting hit. The two boys begin fighting with each other. The fight gets broken up by the teachers and Father Oliver. Reconnecting back to the present in the conversation between A-han and Father Oliver, Father Oliver talks about his youth and how he used to rebel but tried to stay on path. He then offers to pray for A-han which is interrupted by Horn, who tells A-han to go home. A-han outright refuses but Horn tells him that Birdy is there, so A-han immediately runs out of the room to go home (and see Birdy).

When A-han reaches home, his parents tell him not to fight with his best friend over a girl but A-han is frustrated that he cannot say the truth. After a heated argument with Birdy in which he almost comes out to his parents, A-han runs away from home with Birdy following him. They arrive at an island in Penghu where A-han tries to take out his frustrations by screaming, only to be calmed down by Birdy. They have intimate conversations and go skinny dipping. Laying naked on the beach together, A-han touches Birdy softly then kisses him which Birdy reciprocates. The pair don't see each other after that again. Birdy moves away to focus on his university entrance exams and A-han calls him one last time to confess his love for him by playing him a song (Your Name Engraved Herein theme song by Crowd Lu). The pair both break down and sob longingly due to heartbreak.

Many years later at the school's marching band reunion, a middle-aged A-han attends in hopes of meeting Birdy again, without success. A-han then reconnects with Ban-Ban, who is now Birdy's ex-wife and mother of his children. A-han asks how Birdy is to which Ban-Ban responds that they rarely see each other. Ban-Ban notes that Birdy's stubbornness to keep his secret has ruined everyone's lives while wishing Birdy told her earlier on, and remarks that men loving men is innate. A-han later travels to Canada to pay respects at Father Oliver's grave and meets with Father Oliver's former lover. He tells A-han about Father Oliver's struggle to accept his identity as a homosexual man and how he turned to religion to suppress his desires. A-han is still distraught about him being unable to meet with Birdy, only for them to run into each other outside a bar where they reminisce about their love, struggles and relationship. Birdy finally admits that he really loved A-han then and was just unable to accept it himself. As they arrive to A-han's accommodation, he offers Birdy to come inside for a drink to which Birdy declines but accepts an offer to walk together back to his hotel. As they walk together, a younger version of A-han begins singing Your Name Engraved Herein to which younger Birdy joins in. The film ends off with the older pair watching their younger selves singing with each other and skipping through the alley together.

It is a film with erotic overtones in which a gentleman falls in love with an sex doll. The short ends with the man "born aloft by the flocks of dolls" as a deliberate parody of Disney's ''Peter Pan'', ''Dream Doll'' is cited as one of Godfrey's most prominent works. although it also could be an homage to Albert Lamorisse's ''The Red Balloon''.

The film tells about firefighters and rescuers who stand in the way of a cruel element.

Christine is the daughter of the owner of a menagerie. She does not fear Nero, a lion grumpy with everyone, who is always docile and kind to her. She manages to make him do the most difficult exercises, enters the cage without fear, cuddles him like a kitten and he lets her do everything. One day, however, Christine meets Basil McDermott who begins to court her until he becomes engaged to her. Basil dislikes the lion and Nero dislikes the newcomer, even though he is forced to accept him as his master. On the day of the wedding, Christine wants to go greet her lion and enter the cage. Basil goes to look for her to bring her back among the guests, but she asks him to leave her alone to say goodbye to Nero. When Basil returns, he finds his wife lying dead between Nero's paws.

Over some weeks, Penny watches her father (a prominent New Age guru) slowly die. After the funeral, which is attended by many of his followers, her mother Amalia and brother Matt push Penny to assess the condition of a house in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has been abandoned since her grandparents died there in a fire. She discovers that it has been squatted in the meantime and is named Nicotine because the activists who live there all smoke and promote smoking. Instead of evicting the squatters, she spends time getting to know them better and falls in love with two of them (Jazz and Rob). Her brother Matt then visits the house since he is eager to sell it, only to fall in love with Jazz as well.

Penny likes the anarchist subculture she finds herself in and moves into another housing co-operative called Tranquility. After an environmental protest which goes wrong and with tensions rising due to the love quadrangle, there are quarrels at the Nicotine house which culminate in Matt attacking Rob, and Jazz almost shooting Matt. The squatters flee in different directions and Matt takes possession. He decides to convert the house into an anarchist community centre named after his father, hoping that it will lure Jazz back to him. She has escaped with Rob and Sorry in a van, reaching the West Coast. When Matt's direction of the centre hits problems, he abandons New Jersey to pursue Jazz in Hawaii, allowing the reunited couple of Penny and Rob to squat the freshly constructed penthouse suite.

Dylan Forrester, a psychopath and former assassin, is suppressing his instincts through depressant drugs supervised by Dr. Alderwood. He dodges his parole to travel to Guardian Island, an Island owned by his family, to reconcile. His mother, Linda Forrester, despises him for his true nature and encourages him to leave. Meanwhile, Agent Shaughnessy is trying to track Dylan down for dodging his parole believing he's too dangerous. Sheriff McCoy, Guardian Island's Sheriff discovers Dylan is a wanted fugitive and arrests him and locks him in the island's bunker.

A fixer named Cole lands on the island with his crew of mercenaries and kills Sheriff McCoy. A hotel employee named Jo hears the attack and teams up with Dylan to escape, letting him go. When Cole's crew raid the house, one of his crew is knocked out by Dylan after calling the crew informing them Dylan escaped. The crew leave the house to search for Dylan. Dylan returns to the house and helps his family protect themselves. Dylan kills two of Cole's crew and has suspicions that Sean was hiding something in the house that led Cole to the island. Cole claims that nobody on the island is of importance to him and that he only wants what's on the island. Dylan and the survivors find a secret passage set up by Sean. Dylan realizes that Sean partnered with Cole to buy the island believing something valuable is there. The family enters the passage and discovers a Japanese submarine containing Yamashita gold stolen during World War 2.

Cole's mercenaries find the secret lair and a shootout begins; Pike and Dylan fight back against the mercenaries using one of the submarine's deck guns. Cole holds Linda at gunpoint and forces Dylan to help him steal the gold. Pike tries to shoot Cole with the deck gun but Cole kills him instead. Dylan refuses Cole and throws the gold he tried to steal into the water. They are ambushed by Agent Shaughnessy, who's shot and wounded by Cole. Cole tries to throw Linda into the water and she's left hanging from a platform. Dylan stabs Cole to death and throws him into the water and saves his mother. The survivors leave the island and Dylan takes some of the gold. Dylan bids farewell to Dr. Alderwood in a phone call and dumps his depressant pills into the ocean.

Henry Warburon (portrayed by Henry Van Bousen) is a wilderness dweller; his wife, Nola Warburton (portrayed by Edna May Sperl) is a taciturn individual, devoid of any social graces and refinement. A friend, Grant Hamilton (portrayed by Edgar Jones), recruits a chaperone to assist him in kidnapping Nola and together, the two attempt to tutor her in efforts to improve her deportment. While his wife is missing, Henry receives frequent correspondence describing his improvements in his wife's attitude and mannerisms. He attempts to locate his wife, but his efforts are unsuccessful.

In the final letter Henry receives, he is notified that he has become a father. One year later, Henry travels to New York to claim an inheritance and is reunited with Nola, who is markedly refined, and eager to become the perfect consort for her now-wealthy husband.

The novel follows two related stories of repressed love connected via a giant taxidermied aardvark. One strand of the novel is set in modern-day Washington, D.C and chronicles freshman Rep. Alexander Paine Wilson's receipt of the stuffed aardvark via a mysterious FedEx dropoff. This event sets in motion a satirical chain of events for the neo-Reaganite congressman preparing for a reelection campaign. A separate thread set in Victorian-era London tells the story of Titus Downing, the taxidermist that originally the stuffed and displayed the aardvark. The two stories weave together similarities and secrets the men share across time and space.

In 1963, a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban Army use weapons left behind by the Soviet Union to seize the United States military base at Guantanamo Bay and then plan missile strikes against America. US President John F. Kennedy tries desperately to retain his leadership and to keep the war from escalating into World War III.

As described in a film magazine review, Richard Boyd comes into possession of the Boyd Shipping Company through inheritance. The company has an option to obtain a huge fleet of ships much sought after by Young, a scheming Asian shipping magnate. Boyd, a habitual idler, is disinterested in the matter until Pauline makes him get down to business and save these ships for America. Young kidnaps Richard and Pauline on a ship and puts out to sea. The ship becomes stranded. Richard's uncle demands that Young return them. Young takes Pauline captive on his ship while Richard is rescued by a battleship and pursues them in a Navy hydroplane. Young wins this race, but Richard goes to his house and rescues the young woman, Young being killed in the fight.

Riley (Alexandra Shipp) and Chris (Nicholas Hamilton) are two high school graduates madly in love, but a tragic car accident separates them. She blames herself for the untimely death of her boyfriend while he remains stuck in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to reconnect.

In a world decimated by the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, Sarah Street is relentlessly hunted by religious fanatic Aaron Ramsey who miraculously survived the virus. Aaron seeks Sarah because she is supposed to be immune to the virus and could thus hold the key to a potential cure. Escaping a refugee camp in Pennsylvania where 20,000 people died of the virus with her brother, who sacrifices himself to protect her, Sarah makes her way to the home of Ben Grant, a former FBI cartographer turned survivalist following the murder of his father. Ben protects Sarah against Aaron and his marauders, slowly killing them all off. However, Sarah eventually reveals that she's not actually immune: she's simply an asymptomatic carrier of the virus. After Sarah's presence infected the refugee camp, the doctors had lied about her immunity rather than admitting to their mistake. Ben eventually defeats Aaron who is then killed by Sarah. Ben and Sarah decide to leave and search for other survivors who might be working on a cure, particularly as Ben has likely caught the virus himself due to his extended contact with Sarah.

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Kovich, a mysterious Starfleet operative born in the 3100s, explains to Hugh Culber that because Philippa Georgiou has travelled through time and dimensions, her molecules have become too unstable and will decay. Culber learns from Zora, the ship's computer, that Georgiou has a possibility of survival if she beams down to the surface of an uninhabited planet named Dannus V to find a cure.

Paul Stamets and Adira can trace the Burn to a specific nebula's source and recognize it as a Kelpien starship's distress call. Now on Dannus V's surface, Georgiou and Michael Burnham encounter a mysterious stranger who reveals himself as Carl. Carl shows Georgiou a door, which he says is a portal, prompting Georgiou to hesitate about going through initially. Carl convinces her to cross, and Georgiou finds herself in the Mirror Universe, on board the ISS ''Discovery'', during the time before she visited the Prime Universe.

After resuming her duties as Emperor of the Terran Empire, Georgiou discovers that her time in the Prime Universe had changed her. Michael Burnham betrays her, but Georgiou decides to spare her life under the guise of ordering subordinates to torture her in an agony booth.

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Georgiou tries to convince Burnham to rule the Terran Empire faithfully by her side, but Burnham ignores her, refusing to speak or eat from her prison cell. Georgiou resolves to torture Burnham until she pledges her alliance to the Empire. Initially, this does not work, but Burnham decides to go along with her adopted mother. Georgiou orders her to kill all of her former co-conspirators and Gabriel Lorca's spies. After finding one of Lorca's henchman in orbit of Risa, Burnham executes him in the brig and reveals her guise to assassinate Georgiou.

The two engage in a fight. The battle mortally wounds Georgiou and Burnham. Upon closing her eyes for the final time, Georgiou finds herself back on Dannus V. Carl then informs them that he is the Guardian of Forever and that he closed his portals to normal humans during the Temporal Wars. He also claims that Georgiou's experience was a test that she has passed and can be given a second chance in life.

The Guardian opens up another portal for Georgiou to go through, and she and Burnham bid farewell; Georgiou is sent to a time when the Prime and Mirror Universes are more aligned so she can survive. On ''Discovery'', Book wishes to be useful aboard the ship and provides Emerald Chain technology to assist the crew with locating the nebula where a Kelpien distress call is originating. Later, the crew holds a small service for Georgiou.

The story starts with a grandmother narrating the story to her children as the children prepare a toy theatre for their annual performance of ''A Christmas Carol''. The movie enters the imagination of Emily - the young girl in the family, and the cardboard stage transforms to reveal a magical world.

A close adaptation of the book's prose, this version of ''A Christmas Carol'' opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an elderly miser, despises Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred, the son of Scrooge's long-dead sister Fan. He turns away two men who seek a donation from him to provide food and heating for the poor and only grudgingly allows his overworked, underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit, Christmas Day off with pay to conform to the social custom.

That night Scrooge is visited at home by Marley's ghost, who wanders the Earth entwined by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness. Marley tells Scrooge that he has one chance to avoid the same fate: he will be visited by three spirits and must listen or be cursed to carry much heavier chains of his own.

The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of his boyhood. The scenes reveal Scrooge's lonely childhood at boarding school, his relationship with his beloved sister Fan, and a Christmas party hosted by his first employer, Mr Fezziwig, who treated him like a son. Scrooge's neglected fiancée Belle is shown ending their relationship, as she realizes that he will never love her as much as he loves money. Finally, they visit a now-married Belle with her large, happy family on the Christmas Eve that Marley died. When Belle speaks of Scrooge with pity, demands that the ghost remove him from the house.

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to a joyous market with people buying the makings of Christmas dinner and to celebrations of Christmas in a miner's cottage and in a lighthouse. Scrooge and the ghost also visit Fred's Christmas party. A major part of this stave is taken up with Bob Cratchit's family feast and introduces his youngest son Tiny Tim, who is seriously ill. The spirit informs Scrooge that Tiny Tim will die unless the course of events changes. Before disappearing, the spirit shows Scrooge two hideous, emaciated children named Ignorance and Want. He tells Scrooge to beware the former above all and mocks Scrooge's concern for their welfare. A short, heavily-edited dance number demonstrates what the two children might become; Ignorance, a street fighter, and Want, a prostitute.

The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge a Christmas Day in the future. The silent ghost reveals scenes involving the death of a disliked man whose funeral is attended by local businessmen only on condition that lunch is provided. His charwoman, laundress and the local undertaker steal his possessions to sell to a fence. When he asks the spirit to show a single person who feels emotion over his death, he is only given the pleasure of a poor couple who rejoice that his death gives them more time to put their finances in order. When Scrooge asks to see tenderness connected with any death, the ghost shows him Bob Cratchit and his family mourning the death of Tiny Tim. The ghost then allows Scrooge to see a neglected grave, with a tombstone bearing Scrooge's name. Sobbing, Scrooge pledges to change his ways.

Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning a changed man. He makes a large donation to the charity he rejected the previous day, anonymously sends a large turkey to the Cratchit home for Christmas dinner and spends the afternoon with Fred's family. The following day he gives Cratchit an increase in pay, and begins to become a father figure to Tiny Tim. From then on Scrooge treats everyone with kindness, generosity and compassion, embodying the spirit of Christmas.

Emily is delighted by the performance and the grandmother finishes her narration.

When British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she comes across Sultan, a talented archaeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.

The novel is set in a dystopian future in which some children are genetically engineered ("lifted") for enhanced academic ability. As schooling is provided entirely at home by on-screen tutors, opportunities for socialization are limited and parents who can afford it often buy their children androids as companions. The book is narrated by one such Artificial Friend (AF) called Klara. Although Klara is exceptionally intelligent and observant, her knowledge of the world is limited.

From the window of the store in which she is for sale, Klara learns about the world outside and watches the Sun, which she always refers to as "he" and treats as a living entity. As a solar-powered AF, the Sun's nourishment is of great importance to her. On one occasion she notices that a beggar and his dog are not in their usual position; they are lying like discarded bags and do not move all day. It seems obvious to Klara that they have died, and she is surprised the next morning to see that they are living and that the Sun has with his great kindness saved them with a special kind of nourishment.

Klara comes to fear and hate what she calls the "Cootings Machine" (from the name printed on its side) which stands for several days in the street outside, spewing out pollution that entirely blocks the Sun's rays.

Klara is chosen by 14-year-old Josie, who lives with her mother in a remote region of prairie. Soon after joining them, Klara learns that the lifting process carries some risk: Josie's older sister Sal had earlier died, and Josie herself is gravely ill.

Josie's only near neighbour and childhood friend is Rick, a boy of about her own age. Although academically able, Rick has not been lifted and faces discrimination and reduced career prospects. In spite of this, Josie and Rick have always known that they will be together forever.

From Josie's bedroom Klara has a good view of the Sun's progress across the sky, and comes to believe that he goes to his nightly rest within a farmer's barn that stands on the horizon. With Rick's help, she makes her way there one evening across the grasslands. Although surprised to find the Sun's resting place is not actually in the barn, she pleads with him to pour his special kind of nourishment onto Josie and to save her life, as he did the beggar. She offers in return to find and destroy the pollution-creating Cootings Machine.

Josie's mother unexpectedly asks Klara to imitate Josie, which due to her exceptional powers of observation she can do almost perfectly. The mother regularly takes Josie to sit for her portrait, although unknown to her daughter the artist is making not a painting but a highly-accurate AF body. She intends that Klara will integrate her intelligence into it if Josie dies, becoming not simply a facsimile but Josie's true continuation.

When Klara next accompanies Josie into town, she finds and destroys a Cootings Machine, sacrificing in the process some of the P-E-G Nine solution she carries in her head and accepting that the loss may result in a reduction in her abilities. But Josie's condition worsens and the Sun does not respond. Klara returns to the barn to make another plea, reminding the Sun of Josie and Rick's genuine and everlasting love. Several days later as Josie seems near death Klara suddenly sees the dark clouds part, and the Sun sends his special nourishment flooding into her sick room. Josie seems better immediately, and over the following months recovers her health.

As Josie grows older she starts to drift away from Rick. Klara worries that she has misled the Sun and Rick comforts her, explaining that although his and Josie's paths in life may differ, their love really was genuine and they will always, at some level, be together. Josie leaves for college, and says goodbye to Klara.

The novel closes with Klara settled in a yard for scrapped AFs. She is no longer able to move around, but says she is content with her spot in the yard and declines to socialise with other AFs. The manager of her old store visits, and Klara tells her of happy memories and of the Sun's great kindness towards Josie.

A high school is in crisis, the students are under-performing and preoccupied with non-academic activities. Henry Chen, aka Big Brother, a teacher with rather rusty writing skills yet armed with the most knowledgeable fists and heart of steel, comes to enlighten and inspire the students with his unconventional teaching methods. Just as the kids are improving their work and enjoying the merits of the educational system, trouble follows. An opportunistic entrepreneur creates havoc by sending in a motley gang of fighters to win over the land in order to turn the all ready failing school into an apartment complex. Their approach is not all that persuasive with Chen as he and his beloved class are going to give the unwelcome guests the benefits of a real education.

When the spoiled son and newest wife of a billionaire patriarch plot to murder him, they form a psycho-sexual bond with their brutally handsome hitman as they kill and kill (and kill) in their quest for wealth and recognition.

The book is about two boys, one black and one white, that meet each other and talk in sentences that have one or two words. The black boy wants to become friends, but the white boy is nervous about making friends. With less than 35 words being spoken between the two of them, they both form a friendship at the end of the book.

The friendship of Sunako and Dora, both mixed-race teenagers attending a Catholic school in Yokohama, is at stake with the appearance of careless playboy Henry. After a short-lived affair, Henry leaves Sunako for a third girl, Yoko. In an outburst of jealousy, Sunako shoots Yoko with Henry's revolver in a church's prayer room.

A few years later, Sunako, whom according to the intertitles "God hasn't forgiven", lives with unsuccessful painter Miura and works as a prostitute in a bar, while Henry and Dora are married and expecting a child. When Sunako is re-united with Henry and Dora, new tensions arise, while Miura is acquainted with a young woman from the neighbourhood who turns out to be Yoko, who survived the shooting. Sunako decides not to interfere with Dora's marriage and convinces Henry to stay with his wife and become a responsible father. After Yoko dies of illness, Sunako and Miura decide to start anew elsewhere and leave Yokohama by ship.

Detonator is forced to flee from his home at "Metal Land" after it is entirely ravaged by zombies, subsequently shipwrecking in the shores of Brazil, where he is rescued by two fishermen. He then decides to turn Brazil into a second Metal Land, and summons creatures of Brazilian folklore (and Saquito, a testicle-shaped mascot used by a Minas Gerais-based cancer association who acquired infamy after becoming an Internet meme in 2013) to his aid. Despite accomplishing his mission, he eventually stumbles across Gemini Saga, angering him; in retaliation, Saga beats him up relentlessly. Furious, Detonator promises to get his revenge on the "next album".

Lionel Macomb (Coogan) is an abrasive conservative talk personality, who hosts a popular eponymous daily radio show in which he regularly lobs insults at callers and politicians who disagree with his views. Long estranged from his addict sister Laurie (Tina Benko), her half-African American/half-Caucasian 16-year-old daughter, Tess (Russell), seeks out Lionel—as he is her only living relative not afflicted by substance abuse—at his upscale Manhattan apartment following her mother's relapse, which sent Laurie back to rehab. After introducing herself to her uncle, whom she never previously met, after walking in on him having a sexual affair with his maid, Tess convinces Lionel to let her stay by threatening to tweet about his heartless actions when he tries to deny her a place to stay; forgoing his "pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps" beliefs against providing charity or any outside help, he relents and gives Tess the spare bedroom in his apartment. Tess receives support from Lionel's publicist and girlfriend Val (Campbell), who tries to see the good in Lionel despite his gruff, hardline persona. Tess reveals to Val that, after expressing hesitance to leave her ailing mother, she had made a deal with Laurie to attend the prestigious Harper Academy if her mother enters and completes rehab.

Ratings for Lionel's program are beginning to decline as viewers begin to tire of his abrasive style and flock toward his former protégé, Gareth Whitley (Astin), whose show promotes a kinder, more religious-based approach and encourages debate between liberal and conservative viewpoints. After Tess receives a job as an intern on her uncle's show and she criticizes his take on a "clean slate" bill to expunge liabilities for undocumented immigrants, Lionel has her rebut his points on-air. Lionel receives a call informing him that Laurie checked herself out of rehab with no knowledge of her whereabouts, resulting in Val revealing the deal Tess made with Laurie.

During a discussion with his producers about accepting an on-air showdown with Whitley, Tess convinces him to extend an invitation to Whitley to do the debate on the latter's show. During an argument when Tess discovers that her uncle has arranged to have her emancipated, Lionel reveals that he has never forgiven Laurie for abandoning him and stealing money he saved during his sophomore year of high school, in order to live with Laurie and her boyfriend at the time to escape their troubled mother; he also tells a disappointed Tess that Laurie has left rehab.

During his appearance on Whitley's television program, Whitley invites liberal senator Judith Montefiore-Salters (Judith Light) to discuss her immigration plan, only for Whitley to confront Lionel about his past and how it negatively shaped him. Lionel rounds on the studio audience and blames them for fissures in common decency through worshipping false prophets, arguing "the American Dream is dead and buried, and you're dancing on its grave." After the show, Tess criticizes Grayson (Pico Alexander), a fellow intern on Lionel's program with whom she developed a friendship, for revealing details about her family she told in confidence for Whitley to use against Lionel.

Lionel's assistant, Tyler (Griffin Newman), locates Laurie and reunites her with Tess, who expresses to her mother her worries about whether Laurie will commit to getting her life together. Val castigates Lionel about his on-air and off-air behavior, and breaks up with him. Lionel skips out on his first broadcast since the incident on Whitley's show, leaving producer Wendel (Jin Ha)—who has no on-air experience—to nervously fill in for him last-minute, to talk to Laurie about her daughter holding back her life for her mother and asks Laurie to stop running from her problems so Tess will stop holding herself back to tend to them. On his show, as Tess is listening after moving into her dorm at Harper, Lionel apologizes for his tirade and encourages his audience to respectfully disagree on personal views and have the courage to confront their past. Tess opens a box gifted by Lionel with pictures of her and Laurie that he had kept, and decides to call her uncle.

Siblings Mimi and Luke discover a strange, glowing gem while digging in their garden. That night, an alien monster emerges from the hole. The monster enters an old shoe factory and brutally kills a group of thieves hiding out there. The next day, Mimi and Luke follow a trail to the shoe factory and discover the monster. The monster identifies himself as "Arch-Duke of Nightmares", a deadly alien warrior imprisoned on earth after attempting to destroy the galaxy in a rampage. Before he can kill them, he realises Mimi has the gem, which allows her to command him. Mimi dubs the alien "Psycho Goreman" (or "PG" for short) and begins commanding PG around despite Luke's concerns. A group of aliens called the "Planetary Alliance" discover PG has escaped imprisonment, and send the warrior Pandora to Earth in the form of a human woman to kill him.

PG tells the children he was a slave to the Templars, Pandora's religious order on his home planet Gigax until he discovered the gem which bonded with him, giving immense power. He assembled an army called "The Paladins Obsidian" and battled the Templars, and began a rampage across the galaxy until the Planetary Alliance defeated him and imprisoned him on Earth. When the children leave, PG broadcasts a call for help to the Paladins Obsidian. Mimi and Luke's parents Susan and Greg see PG and Mimi introduces him to them, showing how she can control him. Mimi forces PG to accompany the family on activities and become a reluctant friend to the family.

While out with PG, the group is approached by two police officers who attack PG. PG mutates one of them into a deformed slave while the other officer escapes. Pandora arrives at the police station and interrogates the officer that escaped PG for information. In the woods, the Paladins Obsidian arrive in front of the group. PG orders them to kill Mimi and Luke only for the Paladins to reveal they are now allied with the Templars. PG is injured by them when Mimi keeps him from fighting back until he apologises, but kills them easily when he is released. He then collapses from his injuries.

PG comes to Greg in a vision demanding he collects him and the children from the woods. Greg does so and they drive back to the house where Pandora is waiting with Susan. Susan suggests they hand over PG to Pandora, and Luke agrees. Greg sides with Mimi and drives away with PG, hiding in the shoe factory. Pandora reveals her true form before transforming Susan into an armored warrior to help take down PG. PG states giving him the gem is the only way to heal him, and Mimi agrees on the promise he will spare her and her family in his crusade against the galaxy, but realises Luke has stolen it.

Pandora, Susan, and Luke arrive and battle Mimi, Greg, and PG. Luke convinces Mimi that the power of the gem and PG have corrupted her. Before Pandora can kill PG, he challenges her to a battle of Mimi's choosing. She chooses Crazy Ball, a game she and Luke made up with extremely complex rules. Mimi's team wins but Pandora moves in to attack Mimi and PG anyway. Susan uses her powers to save Mimi but is reverted to her human form by Pandora. Luke and Mimi reconcile and hand the gem to PG, healing him. PG defeats Pandora and devours her. PG returns the now powerless gem to Mimi, stating that after witnessing the family's affection for each other, he is now powered by love. He will use that love to destroy the galaxy, but promises to spare the family. The family bids farewell to PG and watches as he begins to destroy their town. The news shows PG in giant form devastating the Earth, and in deep space the Planetary Alliance debates killing themselves before he can reach them.

The story of one of the greatest sporting upsets in history, when Japan, the team with the worst record in rugby World Cup history, win against South Africa, the two-time champions.

An office boy at Biograph learns how to operate a camera, and secretly films the boss kissing his secretary. Later, the boss and his wife go to the pictures, and see the kissing scene on the screen. The wife runs out of the theater. The wife replaces the secretary with a young man.

Newspaper editor Nakanuma sends out his reporter Rentarō to find Itsuko Kitaura, a politician's wife who left her husband, for an exclusive interview. Nakanuma had been in love with Itsuko as a student, but didn't propose to her due to his poor financial situation. He now has a mistress, Suzue, whom he treats rather carelessly. Rentarō succeeds in finding Itsuko, who hides at a friend's place, and talking her into the interview. Itsuko admits that she married her husband to gain social status, but was increasingly repelled by his corrupt schemes. During his research, the reporter falls in love with Itsuko's younger and consumptive sister Mikako, and vows to marry her despite her illness. Rentarō, a good-hearted man, but tending to outbursts of rage when confronted with what he considers immoral behaviour, verbally attacks Itsuko's husband during a meeting between the politician, Nakanuma and himself. While Nakanuma and Rentarō make preparations to meet Itsuko and Mikako, Suzue realises that Nakanuma will never return the feelings she has for him, and moves out of their flat. Moments before the men arrive at the house of Mikako and her father, the young woman dies. Rentarō, shattered by Mikako's death, scolds Nakanuma for his indifferent behaviour towards Suzue, shocking Itsuko with his unrestrained anger. Mikako's father, a former buddhist priest, performs a wedding ceremony for his deceased daughter and Rentarō. Nakanuma leaves after Itsuko declares that too much has happened for her to give in to anything more than a friendship.

A travelling Shakespeare troupe arrives at a lodge for their latest production of ''Macbeth''. Untalented, but wealthy soap opera actor Alex Pankhurst portrays the lead character, while Lady Macbeth is played by his wife Liz Beth Stevens. Liz is secretly having an affair with Thomas Ingram, the actor playing Banquo, who desires the role of Macbeth. Both dismiss the superstitious curse surrounding the play, openly stating its name as they are alone on stage.

The next day, Alex is struck on the head by a metal rod, but develops a newfound acting ability upon awakening. Thomas and Liz soon find their lives paralleling those of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, with a reluctant Thomas being encouraged by Liz to kill Alex in order to become the play's lead and Liz hallucinating her husband's blood on her hands. Tensions between the two are exacerbated by Thomas developing an attraction to Juliet Miller, a backpacker who joins the cast as one of the witches.

As the production begins in front of a sold-out crowd, it becomes afflicted by supernatural events. Thomas and Liz are killed during their characters' death scenes, while lodge caretakers Eloise and Edna Levesque infiltrate the cast to join Juliet as the witches. When the visions conjured by the witches cause Alex to leave the stage, Thomas' ghost replaces him as Macbeth. The rest of the cast and crew finds themselves trapped in the dressing room as the production is taken over by ghosts of other actors, with the audience also revealed as ghosts. Once the play is completed, Thomas and Liz's ghosts join the rest of the supernatural entities in the final curtain call before disappearing alongside them.

With the ghosts gone, the troupe manages to escape the dressing room, where they discover the theater to be completely empty. The real Eloise and Edna arrive, leaving the troupe at a loss for words.

Traveling in Europe, Mary Ward fascinates Count Darius of Ruritania who asks her in marriage. Promising him an answer, Mary returns to the United States via Manila. Passing through the Philippines, he learns that New York was unexpectedly attacked by Ruritania and, in the course of the attack, his mother and sister were killed. Paul Strong, an American politician, takes Mary back to her homeland and in New York opens a campaign to reorganize the army. Paul's sister Jane, who shows up at the rallies impersonating Joan of Arc to inflame the souls of the patriots, is killed. Mary uses her fascination with Dario, whose father is in charge of the forces of Ruritania, to steal military secrets from him. Count Dario is shot by his father, The Marshal Prince Dario for disobedience of orders. Among wounded veterans - like Philip, Mary's brother, blind from the war -, espionage and battles, the United States manages to win the war led by Paul to victory and defeat the Rurite army. He and Mary, hugging each other in New York, now happily observe a once again prosperous and peaceful city.

As described in a film magazine, Sidney Page (Valli), glorious in the beauty and charm of young womanhood, awoke one day to the dazzling realization that she was the object of the affection of two mature men. Masculine affection was nothing new to her: from her schooldays she had been courted by two youths of her own age, and she had been considered the belle of the small city where she lived. “K” Le Moyne (Marmont), quiet, distinguished, mysterious, his presence in the city a mystery, intrigued her. Dr. Max Wilson (Roche), recently come to assume direction of the new hospital, swept her off her balance by the swiftness of his wooing. Herself studying to be a nurse, she came in close contact with him, even as she had with Le Moyne, who was a boarder in the home of the aunt with whom she lived. It was her interest in Le Moyne that was responsible for her breaking off sentimental association with two youths of her school days, George “Slim” Benson (Keith) and Joe Drummond (Ryan). Slim did not take his conge much to heart, although he and Joe had engaged in fierce quarrels concerning their position in the regards of Sidney. However, Joe was deeply affected; in time he was to do an act of desperation that had vital consequence in the lives of Sidney, Le Moyne, Dr. Wilson, and Carlotta Harrison (Fischer), who had come with Dr. Wilson to the hospital as his special nurse. The complications that came into the lives of these men and women brought tragedy in their wake, but they also brought happiness to two and the sad penalty of mourning over cold ashes of vengeance for another.

As described in a review in a film magazine, a boarding house in Hollywood shelters a variety of persons who are seeking success in the movies. Among them is John Smith (Marmont) who is writing what he hopes will be the screen's greatest story. Filled with enthusiasm, he visits the studios but without result. The landlady tells him his rent is overdue, but allows him to stay in the room for seven more days if he does not take meals. He determines to end it all by taking poison, but notices the room has seven glasses, so he gambles with death by filling the glasses with wine and one with poison, and drinking one each days. The first six days of despair is nothing to the seventh day when, with the final glass remaining, there is no longer any element of chance. He drinks the last glass just as a friend walks in, bringing a letter saying the story has been accepted. Mary Brown (Pitts), the young woman who cleans his room and is his friend comes by and finds John apparently dead. Then he opens his eyes and she explains that one day she accidentally knocked a glass of wine off the mantel, and to hide it got a replacement glass of wine. She was just about to leave for home, but he persuades her to stay and share in his success.

Fiona’s true feelings towards her stepbrother Alfie is her most guarded secret. Her love remains undeclared even after their parents separated. Meeting again after three years, she discovers that her feelings towards him never waned and are stronger than ever. However, it gets more complicated with their feuding parents, a girlfriend, and band problems that are getting into the mix of emotions that is about to explode into a sweet symphony of love.

In pastoral Cincor, the young Xeethra wanders his goat herd to an unknown plain. Despite it being late in the day, Xeethra decides to explore. Finding a cave, he follows it through a tunnel to a hidden valley. There he finds a weird field with unusual flora and two giants guarding it. Amid the flora, Xeethra takes a bite of strange fruit and realises he was long ago King Amero of the far-off Calyz. Returning to his guardian Pornos, he admits this realisation while admitting he strayed too far and quite late. While Pornos refutes this thought, he admits there are certain passageways to the underworld of Thassaidon, an evil god. The next day, Xeethra begins his journey to find his lost kingdom. Eventually stumbling across ancient ruins, he discovers the lepers amid the decay. The lepers tell him about the lost kingdom Calyz which passed ages ago. Wrought with grief and gazing at the star Canopus, the evil god Thassaidon shows himself to Xeethra. Offering a deal for his soul in return to living out the heyday of Calyz, Xeethra takes it up and relives that lost age as King Amero. While enjoyable at first, King Amero finds disaster ravages Calyz and grows weary of rule. Instead, he takes up entertainers as distraction. One musician plays a song about a far-off land called Cincor that is less traveled and more serene. Enamoured with this story, King Amero asks for passage to this land. Thus the cycle of story is closed as King Amero relives his life as Xeethra.

Nomad prince Yadar finds his betrothed Dalili taken up by bandits during his hunt for gazelles in the "half-desert" region Zyra. Yadar begins a quest to find Dalili. With four of his men, they search the capitals of Zothique. While fever takes Yadar's men, Yadar finds that Dalili was sold as a slave girl to the king of Yoros as settlement for a treaty. Taking passage on a galley carrying grain and wine to Yoros, the ship is whisked off in a current called the Black River. Far from shore, Yadar learns from the galley crew that between there and the edge of the world is a land called Naat ruled by necromancers. As the galley shipwrecks onto Naat, Yadar is rescued by an undead woman. Yadar learns that the undead woman is Dalili. Initially happy, Yadar finds that undead Dalili does not reciprocate. On the beach, Yadar meets three of the necromancers (elder Vacarn and his sons Vokal and Uldalla) amid incantations. The necromancers invite Yadar to dinner where he finds the undead as servants. During the meal, he learns he was chosen rather than by chance he survived. A cannibal joins the dinner as a guest but a weasel-like creature named Esrit drinks his blood. The prince wonders if a similar fate waits for him. Two of the necromancers (Uldalla and Vokal) offer a deal for Yadar to kill their father. In return, they offer Yadar a galley, an undead crew, and Dalili. Yadar accepts. However, the murder goes awry and Yadar is mortally wounded. Reanimated, Yadar finds that Vokal and the father are burning on a funeral pyre. Undead Yadar works under the remaining necromancer Uldalla who succumbs to madness and later disembowels himself. While both are undead, Yadar works alongside Dalili which is some consolation.

Two necromancers Mmatmuor and Sodosma from the evil land of Naat travel to Tinarath to exhume and reanimate the dead. However, they are soon shunned by its inhabitants and the two have to go elsewhere to continue their necromancy. Thus they go to Cincor where they continue their practice. They begin with a dead traveler and his horse they find on a road. Later, they begin reanimating more of the dead as they travel through Cincor until they arrive at what was once its capital Yethlyreom. There they take refuge in its palace as they reanimate everyone who died. While the dead serve them, one begins to remember their past life. Illeiro, who was Cincor's last emperor, starts to realize his past and his current subjugation under the two necromancers. As his self-awareness grows, Illeiro notices Mmatmuor and Sodosma growing lazier as they rely on the dead as servants and forgetting their necromancy in the process. Meanwhile, Mmatmuor and Sodosma plan to use the dead as an army to take Tinarath and continue their necromancy across the rest of Zothique. When the two are asleep, Illeiro seeks counsel with Hestaiyon who was a great wizard during Illeiro's reign as emperor. While Hestaiyon struggles initially due to being undead, he recalls a prophecy that foretells the future. In this foretelling, Illeiro learns what must be done: he must shatter a clay image of an earth god so that he may retrieve a steel sword, a bronze key, and brass tablets. The brass tablets have instructions for Illeiro as what to do with the sword and key. The sword to slay the necromancers, while the key unlocks a passageway to a hidden abyss. Hestaiyon beheads both Mmatmuor and Sodosma in their sleep, while he further quarters them. Hestiayon then orders the dead that they no longer serve the two necromancers and these orders are relayed to the rest of the dead. After learning this, the dead use the unlocked door to enter the final abyss while Hestaiyon guards the remains of the two necromancers so they may remain dead. Hestaiyon casts a curse on the remains of Mmatmuor and Sodosma so they continue to be animate but in pieces. When all this was over, Hestaiyon and Illeiro enter the abyss and seal the door shut from the inside.

Amid festivities, Ilalotha who is next in succession to Queen Xantlicha dies of fatal passion. Lord Thulos who is in love with the queen discovers the body. Thulos is suspect since the queen poisoned King Archain and other lovers who do not please the queen. While servants dispatch the body to a necropolis near the palace, the queen and Lord Thulos plan to meet later. However, Thulos is concerned Ilalotha might be a witch. Later that night, Thulos awakes and remembers his appointment but worries he might be late. When he finds he is early, he decides to check the necropolis as he has suspicions Ilalotha might not be dead after all. Something dispatches Lord Thulos. Later, Queen Xantlicha goes to meet Lord Thulos but finds he is absent. Deciding he may have gone to check on Ilalotha, she goes to her tomb. There he finds an undead creature above the body of Lord Thulos. She then flees the tomb.

The king of Tasuun, Famorgh, sends three henchmen (Yanur, Grotara, Thirlain Ludoch) from Miraab to Chaon Gacca to deliver the remains of King Tnepreez. As they journey from the city in a caravan of camels, they note in the past a similar task. Yanur notes two centuries ago King Mandis asked two of his men for the golden mirror of Queen Avaina as a gift for his favourite leman. However, those two never returned and the king offered a different gift instead. The three remark that Chaon Gacca is occupied by shadows from the desert Dloth. Thirlain Ludoch points out that the shadows would appear in palaces and when touches would render the skin withered. King Ameni suffered an injury to his hand due to this. Yanur remarks Chaon Gacca was also besieged by earthquakes. The three find the task before them arduous as Famorgh was requested by his queen Lunalia, a princess of the desert Xylac; when other mummies would do. One night they camp in the shrine of Yuckla, the god of laughter. Later, as they approach the tomb, they drink a vintage which renders them unafraid amid the gloom. In the tombs, they find that the mummies are missing while they are also wrecked by earthquakes. One kills Yanur and Thirlain Ludoch while living is Grotara. Despite being alive, Grotara is not well as he finds an orb floating from the chasms and draws power from the dead. It waits for Grotara to die as it weaves a web before death befalls him.

Sabmon lives in a house made of bones on the edge of a northern desert of Tasuun. He was famous for his dark arts and many sought his advice and divination. Amalzain, a great nephew of Sabmon, visits him and he tells that he will be chosen as cupbearer for king Famorgh in Miraab. Sabmon recommends an amulet that contains the ashes of Yos Ebni who weathered temptation until death. Sabmon tells him to abstain from temptation but should it prove too great he should return to Sabmon and work as his apprentice. Amalzain travels to Miraab and finds much decadence in the court of the king Famorgh. Amid his work, he finds that princess Ulua has inherited some of the sorcery from her mother queen Lunalia. While princess Ulua seeks after Amalzain, Amalzain refutes her advances. However, at night, Amalzain is visited by undead things. These visitations drive Amalzain towards madness. Asking the king for a leave of absence, Amalzain returns to Sabmon. Sabmon understands what Amalzain has been through. Sabmon then procures a magic mirror. Through the mirror, Amalzain witnesses the destruction of Miraab. Since then, Amalzain remains Sabmon's student.

The innkeeper tells Phariom, an outlander from Xylac traveling with his bride Elaith to Yoros, about the god of Zul-Bha-Sair, Mordiggian. Mordiggian devours all the dead in Zul-Bha-Sair. However, Phariom points out that Elaith is not dead but suffers from a malady that renders its victim near deathlike. Despite this, the innkeeper already informed the priests as they prepare to deliver her to the temple. Phariom tries to defend Elaith but is quickly matched by the priests in his defences. Phariom pays the innkeeper for his stay and decides to try to find where Elaith is kept. He learns from merchants in the bazaar that she is in the temple of Mordiggian. On his way to the temple, he notices a beautiful but dead woman is being delivered to the temple. He learns that the victim is princess Arctela. Planning on stealing Elaith from the priests, a sorcerer named Aenon-tha also plans the same. Between his two assistants Narghai and Vemba-taith, they debate whether to carry out the theft and how to do it. Later that night, while he tries to steal Elaith, Phariom finds the three in the process of their plan. Hiding from their sight, he then notices both Elaith and Arctela are missing. Following their footprints, he finds that three have reanimated Arctela and Vemba-tsith takes credit for reviving Elaith. When Phariom confronts them, Aenon-tha offers for them to join forces so they may escape together. Phariom declines the offer. Meanwhile, a great shadow appears which turns out to be Mordiggian. Helped by the priests, Mordiggian takes back Arctela and deals with three sorcerers. One of the priests admits to Phariom and Elaith Mordiggian is fair and the two are spared.

In Yoros, Zobal the archer and Cushara the pike-bearer are assigned by king Hoaraph to retrieve the maiden Rubalsa from Izdrel for the king's harem. They are accompanied by the eunuch Simban. While they retrieve Rubalsa and head off for Yoros, a darkness envelops them. Surrounded by darkness, strange sounds haunt them. Eventually they are met by a black man Ujuk, who is an abbot for the monastery Puthuum. Ujuk invites them to a feast, but Zobal and Cushara are skeptical of his intentions. Later that night, Zobal finds an animate mummy named Uldor. Uldor tells Zobal he was the last survivor of a monastery. However, in the final days, Uldor was visited by a lamia and they had a son, Ujuk. Uldor pleads with Zobal to kill Ujuk. Zobal does this and Puthuum disappears. Meanwhile, Sibman dies. Deciding this is outside the deal the king made with them, Zobal and Cushara draw lots to decide who will take Rubalsa for their own. Instead, Rubalsa chooses Cushara.

Nushain the astrologer in Xylac charts a new horoscope which he copies down in a book. The horoscope foretells of a journey involving three guides to the house of Vergama, a god. A mummy appears in his written horoscope. Soon he is visited by a mummy who leads Nushain from his abode to the underworld. Nushain is accompanied by his black servant Mouzda and his dog Ansarath. Initially, he is overwhelmed by the underworld and flees back the way he came but ends up getting lost. The mummy finds him and leads Nushain to the shore of an unknown ocean. There they are visited by a merman and an uncrewed ship. The ship follows the merman as it sends them over a boiling ocean. The ship brings them to a wall of fire. A salamander beckons them to follow it through the wall and they do so. The salamander sends them to a staircase that ends with a house of great height. They find that it is the home of the god Vergama. Vergama shows them they are all characters in her book as she points to the three guides that led them here: the mummy, the merman, and the salamander. Turning a page, a great wind sweeps up the three as they find that they too are merely characters in Vergama's book.