A long-foretold plague called the Silver Death comes from the star Achernar to Yoros. King Fulbra is protected by a magical ring made by his loyal sorcerer Vemdeez. The ring protects its wearer from illness and from spreading the plague, but the moment it is removed the Silver Death will return. Everyone in Yoros dies except Fulbra and three slaves. They set sail for the vassal state of Cyntrom. A storm drives them to Uccastrog, also known as the Isle of the Torturers. Fulbra meets Ildrac, king of Uccastrog. Ildrac refuses to allow Fulbra to leave and strips him of his weapons. As Fuldra is escorted to his room, he passes a girl, Ilvaa, who whispers in the language of Yoros that she wants to help him. From his room, Fulbra can see the bodies of his slaves floating in the sea. The next day, Ilvaa encourages Fulbra to endure the coming tortures and says that she will try to help him escape that evening. That evening, she visits Fulbra in his room. She says her plan has failed, but she will try again tomorrow. Fulbra survives another day of torture by thinking of Ilvaa. That night, Ilvaa does not come. The next day, while Fulbra is on a breaking wheel, Ilvaa mocks him for believing that she would help him. She prepares to feed him drugged wine that will take away his memories. Fulbra, wishing to die, decides to tempt Ildrac to remove the ring. He pretends to be afraid of what will happen if the ring is removed. Ildrac removes the ring and places it on his own finger. The Silver Death is unleashed, killing everyone except Ildrac. Ildrac, afraid that the ring is the source of the plague, throws it into the ocean and dies as well.

King Euvoran of the Ustaim city Aramoam grows weary of overseeing justice for petty criminals. When one proves worthy of torture or execution, they animate the stuffed bird on the king's crown which flies far from Euvoran. Euvoran implores the god Geol in a temple about his predicament. The voice of Geol tells him he will slay the bird far from home. Euvoran then assembles a fleet of ships to find the bird as the kingdom's peoples would not respect a king without the crown. They sail east. They stop a moment in Sotar but find the so-called Gazolba is rather a local bird. They travel to Tosk where the humans were closer to apes but received no clues. They stop by an isle but are attacked by vampires. The vampires devastate much of king Euvoran's fleet. They proceed to Ornava which is full of birds. Hoping to take one as a hunting prize, the king shoots an owl but is attacked by all the birds. A giant bird takes him away to a tower where he is judged by a king bird. The king bird tells Euvoran what he is guilty of but remarks he may defend himself. However, Euvoran makes matters worse as he tells the bird his quest which involves killing a bird a second time. The king bird imprisons Euvoran so they may stuff him for their collection. Fooling a guard, Euvoran uses the guard's feathers as a disguise and leaves the tower. Returning to his fleet, Euvoran has the ships continue their quest. They are soon overtaken by a storm that leaves the king as the only survivor. Shipwrecked somewhere the Gazolba is common, Euvoran runs into someone hunting Gazolba who wears one on his head. Euvoran tells him this is a royal bird which the hunter laughs about. The hunter says he is a captain from Ullotroi and that he eats these birds for sustenance. Naz Obbamar says he will teach Euvoran how to cook Gazolba which they do as they spend the rest of their days eating the bird.

The tiefling sisters Farideh and Havilar were abandoned by their mother at birth and have been raised by their adoptive father Mehen in an isolated village. Farideh makes a pact with the devil Lorcan that gives her special powers. Mehen and the two sisters subsequently move to the city of Neverwinter to work as bounty hunters. There they find themselves pawns in a far-reaching supernatural plot.

While spending Christmas at a lakeside holiday cabin, Madison (Vanessa Marano) bickers with her mother (Gabrielle Carteris). Bored and annoyed, she and her dopey boyfriend Jimmy (Benjamin Papac) spot a light switched on in their neighbours' presumably empty house. They enter it and finding a Ouija board inside, they use it before falling asleep in a drunken and stoned state in one of the bedrooms.

Next morning on waking up, they discover that the place has been ransacked. They telephone the local police who on arrival, do not initially believe the teenager's story but have doubts about their culpability on realising that they were the ones who had dialled 911 in the first place. Thus Madison and Jimmy - as minors - are compelled by the law to stay in the immediate local area pending the conclusion of the police investigation which requires that they are placed in the custody of Madison's uncle Andy (Chris Mulkey).

When Andy's house is also broken into and burglarized, the trio retreat to the family's primary enclave, and fearful of the burglars, Madison and Jimmy set up "Home Alone"-style booby-traps.

The burglars - Patrick (Sonny Valicenti) and Christine (Abbie Cobb) - eventually show up. A hostage situation then materializes causing Madison to fight in partnership with Jimmy.

After Seren's father died at the end of the Last War, she left home to strike out on her own. She found herself apprenticed to a master thief, but when her master is betrayed by an employer and murdered, Seren finds herself joining the crew of the very airship that she had robbed. Together they begin the search for the lost item called the Legacy of Ashrem that could change the entire world.

A group of heroes, each with their own objectives, work together against the evil sorcerer-king Kalak of Tyr, who is trying to transform himself into a deadly and immortal dragon.

During the Iran-Iraq War, a disabled young woman is taken captive by Iraqi Baathist forces in Khuzestan Province (in Southern Iran). Her brother, along with his fellow combatants, tries to free his sister from the clutches of the enemy.

Spanning in time from the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) to the post World War II era, ''The Scent of Incense'' depicts the ongoing conflicts in the troubled relationship between Tomoko and her mother Ikuyo. Ikuyo, who is about to remarry, leaves Tomoko with her grandmother Tsuna, only to sell her to a geisha house after Tsuna's death. When the women meet again, Ikuyo has herself turned to prostitution. Tomoko, now a geisha, starts a relationship with cadet Ezaki with the prospect of marriage, but his family denies its approval due to Ikuyo's profession. Having become independent as the madam of her own geisha house, Tomoko loses her property in the 1923 earthquake. While her mother marries a third time, this time former servant Hachiran, Tomoko refuses the offer of Nozawa to become his mistress. Amidst the ruins of a bomb-ridden Tokyo, where Tomoko and Ikuyo live in a cellar, the mother is reunited with Hachiran who had gone missing during the Second World War. Tomoko hears of the imprisonment and death sentence of Ezaki for a war crime, but when she is finally admitted to visit him in jail after months of waiting, he pretends not to know her. After Ikuyo's death in a traffic accident while Tomoko is in hospital, Hachiran returns to his home town. The film closes with Tomoko having Ikuyo's name added to the family shrine, suggesting her coming to peace with her mother.

After the death of her husband, Yoshinao, in 1981, Noriko Kai has been managing the French restaurant Avignon in Kobe left by Yoshinao for four years. One day, Masamichi Takami, a young painter, visited the recreant and offered to give a painting called White House to Noriko, as well as to hold his own exhibition. However, a letter from Yoshinao was found on the back of this painting and revealed to Noriko that he had a hidden child. Around that time, waiters Shuichi Akitsu, Toshihiro Mizuno, and manager Naoe Hayama quit their jobs at Avignon over a scandal that happened. When Noriko consulting with her acquaintance, Doctor Wong Kin Ming, she finds out that Yukio and Misa Araki, a gambling and diamond smuggling couple, were trying to take over Avignon Noriko asks Yoshinao's best friend Kenichi Kudo, a private detective, to investigate the Araki couple, but the driver Koshiba and chef Katsuro Kaga were attacked and injured. Avignon was forced to close temporarily, but with the encouragement of Takami and the efforts of Kaga, reopened soon after. However, Misa plans to take Jill, the daughter of her neighbor Reed Brown, as a hostage to try to take the land, but Noriko sneaks into the Araki couple's cruiser party and rescues Jill. Misa then tries to reach out to Mika, Yoshinao's secret child, but Noriko confronts Misa convinces her to not go with the plan, saying that she knew her sadness. After, Mika suddenly visits Avignon, and Noriko warmly welcomes and watches over her.

''23 People'' is an adaptation of the memoirs of the 23 young Iranian prisoners who were captured by Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq war in 1982. This young group was between 13 and 17 years old.

A film based on the events and Ahmad Yousefzadeh's book, ''23 People'', was released in 2019. It was produced by Mehdi Jafari and sponsored by Owj Arts and Media Organization in Tehran. The film features actors such as Majid Potki, Reza Noori and Abolfazl Amiri (who was present in this film as a stuntman under the supervision of Mr. Bahmani).

Dorothy Drew is assisting in rescuing her boyfriend, Gaston Glass, who is an assistant district attorney, abducted by a gang of murderers. After locating the gang's hideout, by posing as the notorious female gangster, Chicago Ann, who always dresses in male clothing, Drew succeeds in having the gang leader drawn to her, but his gun moll exposes the impersonation. Drew is captured and held prisoner. The place is then raided. Glass rescued. p.176

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Dick Manning, an assistant district attorney, who is on the track of a gang of murderers, is abducted while visiting his sweetheart, Helen Grant. Helen's police dog tracks down the abductors, and Helen goes to their den, passing herself off as Chicago Ann, a notorious female gangster who dresses in men's clothing. The leader of the gang is attracted to Helen, but his jealous sweetheart exposes her as a fraud. Helen is made prisoner, but she manages to escape with the help of a friendly gangster. Helen alerts the police, and the den is raided in time to save Dick's life.

Alexander Petroski, an 11-year-old European-Filipino-American,His European blood is from his father, whilst his Filipino blood is from his mother. lives in fictional Rockview, Colorado with his mother. His brother, 24-year old Ronnie, is in Los Angeles being a sports agent. Alex has a puppy, Carl Sagan, taken from the name of his idol astrophysicist. Alex has a homemade rocket, ''Voyager 3'', where he plans to attach an iPod spray-painted in gold, on which he has been busy recording various audio, and launch it at the Southwest High-Altitude Rocket Festival (SHARF) to recreate the Voyager Golden Record.

Alex embarks with Carl Sagan to travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the festival is located. At the train, he befriended martial arts master Zed, who after taking a vow of silence only communicates with a chalkboard. Zed brings him to SHARF, where his roommate friend Steve will be launching a rocket, which their roommate Nathan designed. Miserably, Alex's rocket crashed seconds after launch. Luckily, his iPod is not damaged.

Alex receives an Ancestry.com email that his dad, Joseph David Petroski, is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Having little knowledge of his dad, Alex begs Steve to drive him there; Ronnie permits, and Steve accepts. At Vegas, Carl Sagan goes missing; the search for him prompts Alex to find his dad and ask for help. Alex asks a woman named Terra if Joseph David Petroski is around; it is revealed that Terra is Joseph's daughter, and that she is Alex's half-sister. Terra was born to Joseph and his first wife Donna, and after Joseph's death, Donna moved on to another man, Howard. Alex and Terra got along quickly, mostly due to Alex's ardent attitude.

They go to Los Angeles with Zed and Steve. Steve plans to confess his feelings for Terra (although he has a girlfriend), but seeing Nathan talking with Terra led him to believe that they are in a relationship, and an argument ensues. After punching Nathan, Steve belittles Alex, saying that creating a working rocket requires time, money, and teamwork. Alex passes out, and Terra cuts Steve off from Alex, sadly leaving Zed and Nathan.

Terra brings Alex home. Upon their arrival, Alex's mother is not present. Alex climbs up a ladder to look if his mother is around the house, but he collapses and is hospitalized. When Alex is discharged, everyone but him learns that Alex's mother, Karen, has long suffered from schizophrenia. After days of uncertainty, Ronnie reveals it to Alex. He also reveals that Joseph was an abusive husband, however Karen's disorder camouflaged his malice and considered him a good man. He traveled frequently for work, where he got intimate with Donna and made Terra. Joseph later died in an accident. Painted by her disorder, she grieved: placing Joseph's remains in her room and acting cold-blooded. Still enraged, Ronnie threw the ashes away at a construction site. Viewing it as a cursed town, Ronnie left Rockview and pursued his own life.

Social worker Juanita is tasked to decide whether foster care will be in Alex's best interest, but Ronnie rejects this, saying that he will stay in Rockview with Alex. Alex, Ronnie, and Terra gather and enjoy times together. Alex is invited by space organization CivSpace, which has been hearing about Alex's story, to witness the fictional Cloud 9 rocket carrying a satellite to Mars from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. As the rocket lifts, Alex realizes that through the love and help of others, his dream of lifting ''Voyager 3'' up will come true.

On the last day of their first year in the Wundrous Society, the members of Unit 919 partake in a class called Containment & Distraction, as an intro to the harder class they will have to take the following year. Later, at a Wundrous Society meeting, one man asks for volunteers to lower the population of the Nevermoorian Scaly Sewer Beast, a species that dwells in Nevermoor and is approaching its breeding season. Thaddea volunteers for the task force, much to everyone else's surprise, and the leader of the group, Gavin Squires, and Holliday Wu from the Public Distraction Department, try to brainstorm ideas for ways to distract the non-Wundrous Society citizens of Nevermoor from the hunt for the beast so as not to cause a panic. Meanwhile, after returning to the Hotel Deucalion, Jupiter bakes her an intricate cake for not being able to tell her about Containment & Distraction and notes that they are approaching Christmas. Later, at the Christmas parade, Morrigan sees Hawthorne, and afterwards the two—along with Hawthorne's family—go home on the bus, on which Hawthorne's toddler sister, Baby Dave, causes trouble, and is attacked by a leopard Wunimal, called a Leopardwun. Fenestra picks Morrigan up and she senses her acting unusual. At a Christmas dinner, Dame Chanda Kali reveals that her favorite fashion designer was a Wunimal who looked similar, and the hotel staff–Morrigan included—begin to worry. Later, during her first day of school of the New Year, a new teacher, Rosenfeld, confronts Morrigan and takes her to the School of Wundrous Arts, where anyone can train in skills like Professor Onstald's to stop time, and learn about Wundersmiths.

Morrigan meets her fellow students, Conall and Sofia. Later, Morrigan is threatened by a rabid Bearwun and Dame Chanda Kali is attacked by a Horsewun. Morrigan keeps noticing a strange green light in their eyes as they go crazy. Dame Chanda explains that only a few decades ago, Wunimals were treated as less than human, as if they had the intelligence of a common house pet. In the Wundrous Society, Wunimals are warned of the virus that infects only them, causing them to act aggressively and become catatonic and "hollow," which is also dubbed "Hollowpox." When the society's condition worsens, Jupiter and Jack are put to work using their Witness powers to find infected Wunimals. Meanwhile, Unit 919 is forced to continue classes, with Morrigan retreating more and more often to the School of Wundrous Arts, where she finds a book, ''The Book of Ghostly Hours'', where she can relive experiences and lessons of Wundersmiths of the past, who really weren't all evil. Unit 919's disruption and distraction classes, including What's That Behind You? and What's That Smell?, have been happening more frequently, and Morrigan later competes in a challenge in the class where they must go out into the city, and a) cause a panic, b) steal something, and c) don't get caught, during which Miss Cheery suggest that, Morrigan, Thaddea, and Mahir visit the Golbeian Library, which is really a giant library hidden in a pocket dimension.

While there, Morrigan plots to steal the first volume in the book series that Onstald rewrote, realizing that the unabridged version of the text is favorable to Wundersmiths. Morrigan and the others are attacked by insects that have emerged from a book, and while an elite team deals with them, Wunimal Colin becomes infected with Hollowpox. The children escape, but the librarian Roshni Singh is infuriated. Gideon Steed, an anti-Wunimal rights senator, begins pounding the Wunimals in the press, saying they should be locked up together or banned from city establishment, much to Morrigan, Jupiter, and the rest of the Hotel Deucalion staff's horror. When Morrigan accidentally reveals her Wundersmith abilities to the non-Wundrous Society public, Steed switches to her, provoking newspapers to claim that she is not an actual Wundersmith, and offers a large reward to anybody who can photograph her using her abilities. This leads Morrigan to spend more time in the School of Wundrous Arts, where she practices the Wundrous Art of the Inferno, and subsequently meets with The Kindling, a Wundrous deity, who dubs her a master. Upon returning to the school on level Sub-Nine of Wunsoc campus, Morrigan stumbles across Sofia, a Wunimal, infected by Hollowpox. When Fenestra reveals that she harbors Wunimals from the Wintersea Republic, Morrigan's home state, where they don't have rights, Morrigan begins to theorize that that is where Hollowpox originated, though Fenestra denies it. Morrigan travels to the Republic through the Gossamer, where she is found by President Wintersea, whose real name is Maud Lowry.

Lowry admits that her state has developed a Hollowpox cure, and promises Morrigan that she will try to distribute the cure across Nevermoor and the Free State. Morrigan decides to visit Crow Manor, her old house, and see her old stuffed rabbit, Emmett, being played with by Guntram and Wolfram, Morrigan's half-brothers. Gideon steed almost meets with Lowry, but doesn't and Morrigan learns from Squall, who comes to her, that Lowry actually commissioned him to create Hollowpox. He helps Morrigan eradicate the virus, even though she doesn't want to, and she almost dies due to exertion and the fact that multiple infected Wunimals converge on her in the moment. Morrigan wakes up two days later in the hospital, with everyone she cares about by her side, including Hawthorne, Cadence, Fenestra, and Jupiter. When she learns that more Wunimals are waking up as unnimals—normal animals—some are waking up intelligent, and some aren't waking up at all, she calls Squall to her. Squall tells her that there is no way to get the Wunimals back, but she refuses to believe him, and instead demands that he unmake the Hollowpox, as he was the one that made it. In exchange, she will become his student. Squall agrees, unmaking the Hollowpox. And Morrigan agrees to become his student, eager to learn more about the wundrous arts, signing a contract binding her to become Squall's student. Finally, she returns home to the Hotel Deucalion and rests.

The novel follows Astra Dell and her classmates at Siddons School over the course of their senior year.

Adrian, a financial philandering, has spent his entire life chasing corporate success shunning Black consciousness. His brother Buck unlike him is vocal and leads the black community through several engagement in a barbering shop. Adrian had some disappointment and discrimination and later finds himself in Africa, Ghana to be precise. He met a young woman called Akosua who engaged him and changed his perception of Africa.

After the death of her husband, Yoshinao, in 1981, Noriko Kai has been managing the French restaurant Avignon in Kobe left by Yoshinao for four years. One day, Masamichi Takami, a young painter, visited the recreant and offered to give a painting called ''White House'' to Noriko, as well as to hold his own exhibition. However, a letter from Yoshinao was found on the back of this painting and revealed to Noriko that he had a hidden child. Around that time, waiters Shuichi Akitsu, Toshihiro Mizuno, and manager Naoe Hayama quit their jobs at Avignon over a scandal that happened. When Noriko consulting with her acquaintance, Doctor Wong Kin Ming, she finds out that Yukio and Misa Araki, a gambling and diamond smuggling couple, were trying to take over Avignon Noriko asks Yoshinao's best friend Kenichi Kudo, a private detective, to investigate the Araki couple, but the driver Koshiba and chef Katsuro Kaga were attacked and injured. Avignon was forced to close temporarily, but with the encouragement of Takami and the efforts of Kaga, reopened soon after. However, Misa plans to take Jill, the daughter of her neighbor Reed Brown, as a hostage to try to take the land, but Noriko sneaks into the Araki couple's cruiser party and rescues Jill. Misa then tries to reach out to Mika, Yoshinao's secret child, but Noriko confronts Misa convinces her to not go with the plan, saying that she knew her sadness. After, Mika suddenly visits Avignon, and Noriko warmly welcomes and watches over her.

The film was a drama in which a young woman from a coastal town gets to know an artist from Paris. They start a relationship and she has a daughter. The young woman, Elise, leaves, and on the steamship home to Norway she throws the child overboard. When she returns home, she marries Lieutenant Almeng. It turns out that the child she threw overboard did not die, but was found by a fishing couple, who have adopted the child. One day, Elise and the lieutenant meet the fisherman, and Elise breaks down and tells her husband the story of what happened. The lieutenant first takes the matter very sternly, but when he sees how unhappy this has made Elise, he goes to the fisherman and retrieves his wife's daughter, and he promises to treat her as though she were his own child.

Misha the bear was chosen as the mascot of the Olympics, but Baba Yaga, together with the Serpent Gorynych and the "digger" Koshchei, seeks to prevent him from first getting to the Olympics, and then participating in it, but all their attempts end in failure. The character of Baba Yaga likely represents the United States, which led a boycott of the 1980 Olympics along with 66 other countries due to the Soviet-Afghan War.

It was written by Aleksandr Kurlyandsky, Grigory Oster, and Eduard Uspensky.

On the Chaharshanbe Suri day, three friends named Ramin (Saber Abr), Farid (Ashkan Hassanpour), and Javad (Shahrooz Del Afkar) after stealing the weapon of a wounded officer, rob Noori (Navid Mohammadzadeh), Ramin's childhood classmate, who has become a rich and mysterious man...

Convict Chan Sing (Simon Yam) escapes from an asylum in Kwai Chung with the help of his underlings Leung (Marco Ngai) and Hak (Philip Keung), killing the police officers who are in charge of watching him and evades arrest by hoping onto the speedboat of another underling, Wo (Roy Cheung). They meet with goldsmith Boss Chung and strike a deal to rob gold jewelry shops and split the shares. When his underlings bring him to their apartment, Sing notices Fan (Anita Lee) living next door and is attracted to her. Sing then purchases firearms from Hak's cousin, Darky, which include an AK-47, which Sing gains a fondness to. Sing later accepts two new underlings, Chung (Chin Ka-lok) and Sing but not before testing whether they are undercover police officers by beating them up. The next day, Wo brings Chung to witness the former killing a traitor who caused Sing to be arrested.

Sing, armed with his AK-47, leads his gang to rob five gold jewelry shops on Man Wah Street which leads to a major gunfight killing multiple policeman. Hot-tempered police inspector Lee (Bowie Lam) becomes determined to arrest Sing. While Sing was hanging in a nightclub with his gang, Chung, who turns out to be an undercover cop, sneaks out to call his boss, Officer Cheung, but Lee and his subordinate, Man, arrive at this time and harass Chung, unaware of his true identity. Wo and Hak notices and hold Lee and Man with knives and take their pistol while Sing taunts them and handcuffs Lee.

Later, after robbing another gold jewelry shop, Sing blows up an unmarked police car with a grenade and this time, Lee manages to find Sing and his gang's apartment hideout where he gives chases with his squad and exchanges gunfire with Sing and his gang. Eventually, Sing kills Chung in front of Lee, having known of his identity as a cop all along, before fleeing. Lee and squad starts tailing Sing and his gang, who then kills Boss Chung and stealing all his gold, so the police raises a bounty which was originally HK$500,000 to HK$1 million to catch Sing.

Due to the public attention he attracted, Sing hides in a presidential suite hotel with his gang and Fan, whom he is in a relationship with. Wo, who is traveling to China with Darky to get more firearms, is unable to make it to Beijing due to many police surrounding. Lee orders Man to keep an eye of Wo, who gets into an argument with Sing due to his lack of patience. Sing then leaves Fan to prepare for his next robbery. He goes to Darky for more firearms, but Sing has become increasingly paranoid and suspects Darky will turn him in for the bounty and kills Darky. Sing and his gang rob an armoured truck in Kwun Tong where Lee and his squad follows, leading to a major gunfight between the robbers and the police where Hak is killed, so Sing and his gang drive the armoured truck away while the police corners them in a car park, where the gunfight resumes. Eventually, Wo tries to drive the armoured truck to flee but Sing shoots him dead. Seeing what happened, Leung hops on the truck and drives it away but Sing catches up and gets on. Leung then rants how Sing does not care about his underlings and shoots him, but Sing shoots Leung back and kills him. Unable to restart the engine, Sing gets off the truck and Lee holds him at gunpoint before they both fire at each other and Sing runs and jumps into the water where he was never seen again and is rumored to be living in an asylum in the United States.

While the later film ''Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage'' (2005) deals with the last days of Sophie Scholl from her own perspective, Percy Adlon looked at her last five days from the perspective of Else Gebel, a Christian socialist imprisoned with her. The film is focused on the women's situation, exhaustion and relationship, and not on the Gestapo interrogations and the court process.

''C.L.E.A.N.'' is about four patients who all suffer from various addictions such as the addiction to alcohol, drugs and sex. In his sanatorium, Dr. Sutter offers a cure in which he uses the C.L.E.A.N. (Cerebral Lateralization Enforcement and Neuroactivation) program that he practices modifying the behavioral patterns of the brain in order to heal his patients. What looks like hope at first glance turns into chaos, which is ultimately about pure survival. Only the patient Alice, who has been plagued by fear and visions from a very young age, especially because she has witnessed the gruesome murder of her own mother, realizes that something is wrong and is ultimately in the clutches of a perfidious pact.

In 1953, the Korean War is reaching its final stage. The People's Volunteer Army is launching its last large-scale campaign, the Jincheng Campaign, in Kumsong. In order to arrive at the designated time and bring more firepower to the front lines in Kumsong, the soldiers of the People's Volunteer Army, short of supplies and with a huge disparity in equipment, withstand continuous indiscriminate bombing from enemy planes. They sacrifice their flesh and blood to repair a wooden bridge amidst the flames of war. A little-known chapter of history slowly unfolds above the surging Geumgang River, from which the film takes its Chinese-language title.

The events of the film are presented in three main segments from three perspectives: "Soldiers", "Adversaries", and "Gunners". These are followed by a final segment, "Bridge".

''In Hot Pursuit'' is an anthology of four adventures designed for use with the second edition rules of ''DC Heroes''. Each adventure is designed for the gamemaster and only one player, with a different pre-generated DC Comics superhero provided in each one. The four adventures are: "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream" by John Terra. Lex Luthor has revived the super-robot Amazo, and Superman must deactivate it. "Top Gun of Ivy Town" by Joe Pecseryicki. The Atom must take down Strobe, who has stolen a psionic battlesuit. "Enter the Dragons" by Douglas Franks. A member of the Red Dragons gang has kidnapped a young girl, and The Huntress must recover her safely. "Dopplegangers from the Past" by William Tracy. Manhunter must trail Deathstroke, who is fleeing after an attempted assassination.

A young immigrant from Ireland, Pat Keeley starts a new life in New York City. He finds off-the-books employment from an Irish restaurant owner, Joe, but after a few months is asked to deliver two suitcases for his boss. After learning that he shouldn't look inside them, and then running into different police officers on the way to the drop, he gets spooked and takes the first bus out of town.

His bus journey ends at Santa Fe where he looks for a place to stay. He finds a B&B run by a Mrs. Ortega. He asks to stay one night and she invites him to dinner, where it is discovered that Pat can't handle green chilis and Mrs. Ortega is a widow. Pat calls Joe to reassure him that he will deliver the briefcases. Joe is angry that he ran off with them and demands to know his location. Upon hanging up, Joe checks the caller I.D. for an area code, discovering that Pat is in Santa Fe. He then sends two of his top lieutenants, Jim and Seb to kill Pat and retrieve the money.

Pat opens the briefcases to find that they contain $1.3 million. He then asks Mrs. Ortega where he can go to buy some nice clothes. She suggests the mall and gives him a ride.

After buying the clothes, he calls Joe from another payphone.

Then he plays Santa. He goes on a date. He gets a visit from "Santa Claus."

In the midst of a typically hectic business day, Scrooge McDuck notices a telegram from his bank in Whitehorse, which takes him back to December, 1899:

The young Scrooge is stunned to be told that his latest deposit of gold ore into the bank has increased his holdings to $1 million. Believing it is more money than he will ever need, Scrooge decides to close down his claim in White Agony Creek, but doesn't know what to do with his life next. Outside the bank, he converses with another prospector, Casey Coot, who has also worked out his claim but can't afford passage home. Scrooge offers to buy his family's land back in the (fictional) American state of Calisota, believing he will settle down.

After loading his most prized possessions onto his dog sled, Scrooge begins an overland journey to Dawson City. Struck by the beauty of the landscape, he recites the final stanza of Robert W. Service's "The Spell of the Yukon", but realizes that he has lost his trail and wandered onto Mooseneck Glacier. A fissure opens, trapping his sled, and forcing him to cut his dogs loose. Unable to retrieve the sled, he jams his rifle into the fissure, hoping to come back for it later. Pursued by a pack of timber wolves, he falls off a cliff and crashes through the roof of Soapy Slick's gambling barge, on its return trip to Whitehorse. Disheartened by the loss of his sled, he decides that his luck soured as soon as he decided to retire from working and settle down, and resolves to keep working and accumulating even greater wealth.

He snaps back to the present with the arrival of Donald and his nephews, who open the telegram and learn that the ice covering Mooseneck Glacier has finally thawed enough to expose the marker of his sled. Elated, Scrooge says they are going "back to the Kliondike... again!"

After they arrive in Dawson City, Scrooge is surprised to see the infamous Blackjack Ballroom has been converted into a tourist hotel, and even more surprised to recognize the owner as his old flame, "Glittering" Goldie - who bought it with the money she won off Scrooge at their last meeting.

When Scrooge tries to charter a riverboat to Mooseneck Glacier, he alerts the owner, Soapy Slick, who has been waiting decades to claim whatever it was Scrooge lost - believing it to be the deed to the land in Calisota where Scrooge's Money Bin now stands. He throws Scrooge off the wharf and casts off for Mooseneck Glacier alone. Goldie offers them the use of a hot air balloon owned by the hotel to shortcut the journey over the mountains.

Reaching the glacier moments before Soapy, Scrooge hammers in a stake to mark the sled as legal salvage, but the glacier splits and an iceberg carries the ducks down the river, with Soapy in pursuit. Believing the sled will be legally his if the iceberg beaches on his wharf, Soapy orders his captain to ram it into dock, wrecking both his boat and the iceberg.

Scrooge's sled, freed of the ice, slides off the wharf and down Dawson's main street. Soapy runs after it on foot, but the sled hits a statue of Scrooge and it tips over, knocking Soapy unconscious with the stone replica of the Goose Egg Nugget in the statue's hands. Scrooge rushes to the sled as Donald wonders aloud what could be on the sled that's so valuable. In joy, Scrooge unpacks the sled, revealing his old prospector's kit: a coonskin cap and deerskin coat ("no silk topper and golden-fleece mackintosh could ever be as noble an outfit!"), his coffee pot and skillet ("no fancy meal has tasted half as fine as the beans I cooked on my own campfire under the Klondike stars!") and his old pickaxe, shovel and gold pan ("these were my tools before stock options and crop futures and compounded interest!") Regaining consciousness, Soapy is outraged to see there's nothing on the sled but "a buncha' junk!"

Huey, Dewey and Louie find one more item fallen off the sled: a box of chocolates with a card addressed to Goldie. That was the real purpose of his last trip to Dawson, and the nephews wonder aloud what might have happened if Scrooge had arrived as planned. With tears in her eyes, Goldie says Scrooge is a rich man for reasons that have nothing to do with money: rich in finding work that he enjoys, rich in the loyalty of his family and friends, and most of all, rich in memories.

Journalist Ozan is about to marry Elif who is a journalist like himself. Ozan, who is fond of investigative journalism, pursues mysterious and difficult news. His happy life with Elif ends after a terrible event: Ozan loses his life after being hit by a car. However, he finds himself resurrected in a new body again. Returning to life with another body, Ozan has two challenging tasks: to find out who killed him and to tell Elif all the facts.

In the vast Yellowstone National Park, grizzly bears and other wildlife roam free while hikers and campers abound. The National Park Service is charged with the protection of the park and its wildlife, and the rangers are always on the lookout for poachers. The park is preparing for a major rock concert to be held over three days in Grover Meadows and expects 50,000 people in attendance. At the ranger station, Chief Ranger Nick Hollister is briefing the rangers on the upcoming event.

Harvey, a poacher, is hunting for a grizzly bear and ends up killing a cub and wounding its mother. The grizzly bear, seeking revenge, viciously attacks and kills Harvey. Nick and Pete, the Head Park Ranger, relay the news to Eileene Draygon, the Superintendent of Summit. They press Draygon to halt the concert for everyone’s safety, but Draygon declines to get involved.

Back at the ranger station, Samantha Owens, director of Bear Management, is adamantly opposed to killing the grizzly bear. She insists on locating the bear and tranquilizing and relocating it with the help of Bouchard, the world famous grizzly expert from Canada. Three teenagers, Ron, Tina and Lance are hiking through the park to the concert. They enter grizzly territory, which is restricted, and set up camp without any clue of the terror they will face. Later that evening, they are attacked and killed by the grizzly bear.

The next morning, Nick, Pete and Samantha find the bodies of Ron, Tina and Lance, which heightens concern for the concert scheduled the next day. Nick demands that his men find and kill the grizzly bear. Running out of options, Nick drives to see Draygon and gives her a report on the new killings. Nick again asks for help, but Draygon again refuses. Meanwhile, back in the forest, Pete finds the other poachers and wants to take them into custody. Instead, they attack Pete, leaving him unconscious. The grizzly bear finds Pete and chases him into a cave, where she kills him.

As concert day comes, Charlie, the concert manager is making the final arrangements. Large crowds are arriving. Meanwhile, the poachers are also creating traps by digging large holes and planting sharp and deadly sticks into them. The grizzly bear roams the forest, finds the poachers and kills them easily. The chase then continues; Nick and Samantha, the rangers, Bouchard, all scatter to track down the grizzly bear. The grizzly bear finds its way to the concert grounds. The concert goes on and the crowd enjoys the cutting-edge English rock bands.

Backstage, Bouchard encounters the grizzly bear and stabs at her, but the grizzly swipes Bouchard with her arm and kills him. Nick has to act fast. He gets the grizzly bear’s attention and lures her to her side of the concert stage containing the high voltage, which the grizzly bear falls into and is killed. Draygon acts as if the dying grizzly bear was part of the action. The concert audience is cheering and applauding and does not know the truth about what happened.

A few words left on the page of a mother's notebook, found by her daughter after her death, leads the daughter to try and reconstruct the circumstances of how her parents met and their early married life. The mother was Dijon-born Maud Gonthier, daughter of a French civil servant who had died early. Maud's mother Nadine had dedicated her life to giving her daughter a proper upbringing on a small income, their annual holiday being a month spent at her affluent aunt Germaine's country house, La Gaillarderie. There she meets Edward Harrison, and his university friend David Tyler, son of the owner of an advertising agency.

Edward had just come down from Cambridge University with vague plans to travel abroad. He had first gone to Paris, staying at a flat in the Rue Laugier belonging to friends of Tyler's, then afterwards joined Tyler at La Gaillarderie. Tyler is a skilful womaniser who enthrals the repressed and inexperienced Maud and soon seduces her. Afterwards they leave for the flat in the Rue Laugier, accompanied by Edward, who realises that Tyler will shortly abandon Maud. This happens when Tyler leaves abruptly to join another house party just as Maud discovers she is pregnant.

Edward feels responsible for looking after Maud and proposes to her, then returns to England to complete arrangements. Earlier he had inherited a specialist bookshop in London and engaged Tom Cook to help him run it. Now he searches for a suitable flat. In Dijon, meanwhile, Maud miscarries and wishes to break her engagement, but her mother refuses to support her. From Nadine's viewpoint, only by marriage can Maud's reputation be saved.

Once Maud and Edward marry, their relations are more like a partnership. Maud feels no passionate bond such as she experienced with Tyler but is grateful to Edward and prepared to play the part of a dutiful wife. Edward's physical relationship is passionate but he becomes increasingly frustrated that he cannot break through Maud's inherited reticence and channels his main energies into making a success of his business. Visiting La Gaillarderie on her own a few years later, Maud again meets Tyler and resists the temptation to resume their affair, realising that the past cannot be recaptured in that way.

Following several more early miscarriages, Maud's daughter Mary Françoise ('Maffy') is born and Maud's physical and mental state goes into a decline for some years. Edward is delighted to be a father but is disappointed when Maffy seems to have inherited her mother's reticent nature and cannot return his affection as demonstratively as he would wish. With Maffy approaching adulthood, Edward conceals the symptoms of a brain tumour and suddenly dies, followed by Maud's slower decline.

The reconstruction of their life, reliant on the handful of names jotted on only one page of the inherited notebook, makes of Maffy "an unreliable narrator", as she admits. Now she prepares to sell the bookshop and join Nadine in Dijon before, perhaps, making the independent future for herself which her parents had been denied by circumstances.

Masao lives with his mother, who works as a shoe polisher, and his sister in a poverty-stricken era of Tokyo. He earns extra money for the family by repeatedly selling his sister's pigeons to passersby in the city, knowing the pigeons will escape their new owners and return home after a few days. The latest buyer, upper-class girl Kyōko, unites with Masao's teacher Miss Akiyama in an act of sympathy to help Masao get a job in the company of Kyōko's father Kuhara. Kuhara first declines, but Kyōko's brother Yuji, who has developed an interest in Miss Akiyama, tries to talk him into giving Masao a chance. Yet, when Kyōko and Miss Akiyama find out that Masao's fraud was not a single but a repeated one, both turn away from him in disappointment. Breaking all ties in a final vengeful act, Kyōko once again purchases a pigeon from Masao and has her brother shoot it with his rifle.

As described in a review in a film magazine, having squandered a million dollars, with a few thousand left, and after being upbraided by his attorney, Reggie (Talmadge) bets that he can earn his own living and support himself for six months. He tries various jobs, unsuccessfully becoming a book agent, motorcycle cop, and trying some other jobs. He tries to give up but his attorney tells him that his remaining funds were lost in a bad investment. Seeing the political boss Clint Taggart (Girard) with a young chorus singer, Reggie snaps his photograph which is later published in a rival newspaper. To silence Reggie, Taggart makes him manager of one of his own newspapers. Taggert soon finds that he cannot hold Reggie down. Reggie becomes interested in Mary Ryan (Landis), Taggart's stenographer, and they discover with the aid of a dictograph that Taggart is mixed up in bootlegging. While Mary gets the police, Reggie fights Taggart's rough gang single-handedly, even following in a boat when they attempt a getaway. Taggart is finally arrested. Reggie wins Mary's affection and his attorney tells him that his investment has not lost his money but doubled it.

As described in a film magazine review, Raoul Lesage, a great artist, lives happily in his large home with his four year old son Paul and his wife April until he is deceived by Herman Bennett, who attempts to caress April. Raoul believes his wife has been unfaithful and takes the child to another home. Paul Lesage grows to be 24 years old without having seen a woman. Bennet, who is also an artist, has spent the last twenty years forging the works of the master Lesage. Paul starts walking in his sleep. He is picked up by a band of merrymakers and is taken to a roadhouse where he meets Helen Dresden, the ward of Bennett. The two fall in love. Police raid the roadhouse and Paul prevents the arrest of Helen. Bennett engages Paul to paint for him, but Paul does not know that the name Lesage is to be forged on the artwork. Bennett buys the house where April has long been the housekeeper, waiting for her husband and son to return to her. She is bound by sentiment to remain in the house. She is put in the tower of the house; she is told that Paul will be branded in the face. Paul breaks away, takes his mother and Helen, and escapes from the house. Bennett pursues them and is killed when his car goes over a cliff. Paul and Helen plight their troth, promising to be true to each other.

In Gloucester, Massachusetts, Ruby Rossi is the only hearing member of her family; her parents, Frank and Jackie, and older brother, Leo, are all deaf. She assists with the family fishing business and plans to join it full-time after high school.

Because of her family, Ruby is an outcast at school. When she notices her crush, Miles, signing up for choir, Ruby impulsively does the same. On the first day of choir, the teacher, Bernardo "Mr. V" Villalobos, instructs the students to sing "Happy Birthday to You" to place their vocal parts. Faced with having to sing in front of the class, Ruby panics and runs away. She later returns to Mr. V and explains that she was bullied for talking differently as a child. Mr. V tells Ruby there is room for all kinds of voices in the choir and is surprised and impressed by her beautiful singing voice.

Mr. V pairs Ruby with Miles for a duet at the upcoming choir recital. Their first rehearsal goes poorly as they each prepare separately; Mr. V insists that they must practice together. Ruby invites Miles to her house to practice, but they are interrupted by Frank and Jackie loudly having sex in the next room. Ruby later hears classmates in the cafeteria mocking the incident. Miles apologizes and tells her he told only his friend Jay, who in turn spread the story, but she wants nothing to do with him. She eventually forgives him, and they resume their practice while kindling a relationship.

Meanwhile, Frank and Leo struggle to make ends meet with the fishing business as new fees and sanctions are imposed by the local board. At a board meeting, everyone is angry about the fact that more boats are disappearing from the harbor despite the fact that the counsel is trying to help. During the yelling Frank stands and announces that he is going to start his own company to get around the new restrictions and intends to sell his fish on his own, inviting other local anglers to join him. The family struggles to get the new business off the ground, relying on Ruby to spread the word.

Mr. V encourages Ruby to audition for Berklee College of Music, his alma mater. He offers her private lessons to prepare, as he is already privately tutoring Miles. Ruby agrees, but her increasing commitments to the family business—her parents are dependent upon her to interpret for them cause her to be late to their lessons. Mr. V grows irritated with Ruby's constant tardiness and chastises her for wasting his time and not caring enough about music.

While fishing one day, when Ruby is off swimming with Miles, Frank and Leo sail with a federal fishing observer on board, who does not know in advance that Frank and Leo are deaf. The boat is intercepted by the Coast Guard, after failing to respond to ship horns and radio calls. Frank and Leo are fined and have their fishing licenses suspended for negligence. When they tell Ruby that she should have been on the boat with them, she tells them she can't always interpret for them and this was not her fault at all. Frank and Leo appeal and manage to get their license back, on the condition that they have a hearing person on board at all times. Ruby announces to the family that she is forgoing college and will join the business full-time. Her parents are supportive, but Leo reacts angrily, insisting that they can manage without Ruby as she truly has talent. He and Ruby later have an argument where he tells her that she will regret not going to college forever if she doesn't go.

Ruby's family attends her choir recital, and while they cannot hear her sing, they notice the positive reception from the surrounding audience. That night, Frank asks Ruby to sing for him while he feels her vocal cords, growing emotional. The entire family then drives to Boston with Ruby for her Berklee audition. Before her audition, she sees Miles, who reveals that he failed at his audition and wishes her luck. Ruby's family sneak up to the balcony while Mr. V comes to accompany her on piano, in spite of the general prohibition on outside attendees for auditions. Ruby is nervous and unprepared at first, but after Mr. V deliberately makes a mistake on his accompaniment, she's allowed to start again and gains confidence when she sees her family. Ruby signs along while singing "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell, so they can understand what she is singing. The adjudicators notice the family, and surmise the particular family situation.

Some time later, Ruby is accepted to Berklee. Her family and Mr. V are delighted with the news. She invites Miles to visit her in Boston. Meanwhile, the hearing workers in the family's fishing business have been learning sign language, enabling them to communicate with and interpret for the family. Ruby's friend Gertie drives her to Boston for college as her family sees them off; Ruby signs, "I love you so much" (literal translation: "I really love you") to them as they drive away.

The novel opens in Heyst, Belgium, where 21-year-old Harriet Brandt meets two English women, Margaret and Elinor. Harriet reveals that she was raised in a Jamaican convent, following the death of her parents ten years prior. When she came of age, she used her inheritance to move to Europe to start a new life. Although one of the women find Harriet distasteful, Margaret Pullen likes Harriet. Harriet is fond of Margaret's young child, but Margaret is cautious about letting Harriet hold her. Harriet reminisces about her childhood on a plantation, saying that she misses its overseer because he let her whip the slaves when they were lazy. After Harriet touches her, Margaret suddenly feels drained and begs Harriet to let her go. After finding out that she is wealthy, a local aristocrat, the Baroness Gobelli, invites Harriet back to England. Harriet spends more time with Margaret's child, who becomes severely ill.

A medical professional—Doctor Phillips—is summoned. He does not know what is wrong with the child, but recognises her surname because he knew her father. The baby grows ill and dies. Harriet travels to England, and Harriet begins spending many hours with the Baroness' young son, Bobby. She also meets and falls in love with a socialist, Anthony Pennell. Bobby also becomes ill, and the Baroness accuses her of being cursed with both "black blood" and "vampire blood". Harriet, frightened, returns to Doctor Phillips, who tells her about her family history. Her father was a doctor who performed experiments on his plantation's slaves until they revolted and killed him, and her mother was the daughter of a slave of the Judge of Barbados. He advises Harriet that she should never marry, and instead withdraw from society. Shortly thereafter, Bobby dies.

Harriet returns to Anthony, who tells her that Dr Phillips' theory is ridiculous, and that they should ignore him and marry. For their honeymoon, they travel to Nice. The next morning, Harriet wakes to find Anthony dead beside her. She leaves a written will bequeathing her possessions to Margaret Pullen, and then kills herself by taking chloral.

''Brond'' is a thriller set in Glasgow, Scotland. Stratford Johns plays the titular Brond, an amoral leader of the Scottish Liberation Army. Robert, a student at Glasgow University, played by John Hannah in his first screen role, witnesses Brond murdering a small boy on a bridge. Robert later meets Brond at a party, and gradually gets drawn in to a sequence of violent events.

Jay and Gail Perry are parents grieving the death of their son Evan, a victim of a high school shooting. Richard and Linda are the parents of the teenage perpetrator Hayden, who killed himself after his shootings. Six years after the tragedy, both couples agree to meet and talk in a private room at an Episcopal Church. The couples had met previously, in which Jay and Gail made hurtful comments toward Richard and Linda when they were all going through the public legal procedures that resulted from the incident. Jay had since publicly advocated for gun control and against gun ownership, causing a brief debate between him and Richard.

After talking about their sons when they were innocent children, the two couples partake in various lengthy discussions over how the tragedy had come to be and how the tragedy impacted their lives. Jay and Gail ask for information from Richard and Linda about Hayden's upbringing that they do not already know from public information about the incident. Richard and Linda tell that they knew that he became more depressed due to their family moving houses, lack of friends, and bullying at school. The couples briefly debate whether video games had influenced Hayden's violent thoughts. While acknowledging that Hayden's schools and therapists did not respond appropriately to their findings, Richard and Linda express their guilt and regret over how their failure to see and react to any signs that their son could have become violent. Jay and Gail admit that they wanted to see Richard and Linda in as much pain as they and the other victims' parents were. Richard and Linda admit that being the parents of a murderer meant that they did not know how to navigate being public figures, since they also could not speculate about why Hayden did what he did. Richard and Linda reveal that Hayden had made friends in high school, who were also victims of bullying, and that one of his friends had access to guns. Jay and Linda become furious, causing Richard to warn against jumping to conclusions about Hayden, only for Jay to speculate that Hayden was a psychopath who was incapable of being dealt with.

Jay eventually has a short angry outburst, leading to him breaking down as he describes how Evan was killed by Hayden. Both couples reflect on the other victims and their families, and when they visited the crime scene in the aftermath. Linda reveals that she found a notebook in her son's room after learning of the shooting, detailing his plans for the shooting and his suicide in the school library. She and Richard explain that while they understood that the grieving parents would not mourn the loss of Hayden, they still wanted and held a funeral to memorialize and mourn their once-innocent son who they loved before his horrible actions. Linda expresses that she wants to remember the good memories about Hayden before his actions, rather than ignoring and condemning Hayden completely. When Linda asks Gail to tell a story about Evan, Gail recounts a positive memory of Evan when he was 12 and expresses how much she and Jay miss him. Having come to an understanding of all the pain they felt, Gail forgives Richard, Linda, and Hayden, wanting to move on from all the deep pain and grief.

The couples hold hands in silence to end their meeting, all having reached a state of empathy for each other. Richard leaves first for a business meeting. Linda follows, only to come back to speak to Gail and Jay once more. Linda recounts the moment she and Richard were the most terrified of Hayden when he angrily threatened to beat her up. She confesses that she wishes she was beaten up by him so she could truly see what he became, leading Gail to comfort her before they finally part ways. Jay becomes emotional when he overhears a choir practice in another room of the church. Gail comforts him before they finally depart.

As described in a film magazine review, Jimmy is tried and convicted of murder based upon circumstantial evidence after the shooting of Ronsard, an admirer of Jimmy's sweetheart Carol. After a second trial, where Jimmy is proved innocent, the Butler confesses having shot the man in self-defense on the night the young woman was dining quietly with Ronsard. Bookkeeper Jimmy's accounts had come up short, and Ronsard had promised to help if she would dine there.

In 1998, on the soundstage for the sitcom ''Gordy's Home'', the titular chimpanzee animal actor attacks several of its co-stars after being startled by the pop of a balloon. The show's youngest actor, Ricky "Jupe" Park, hides under a table and is unharmed, though traumatized by the experience. The chimp finds Jupe and extends his hand for a fist bump, before being shot dead by authorities.

In the present day, ranch owner Otis Haywood Sr. trains and handles horses for film and television productions. When he is killed by a nickel through the eye that falls inexplicably from the sky, his children Otis Jr. ("OJ") and Emerald ("Em") inherit the ranch. OJ tries to keep the business afloat and maintain his father's legacy, while Em seeks fame and fortune in Hollywood. The Haywoods claim that the unnamed jockey in "Plate 626" from Eadweard Muybridge's ''Animal Locomotion'' series of photographs was their ancestor.

Six months later, while filming a commercial with prominent cinematographer Antlers Holst, one of the horses reacts violently when the crew startles it, and the Haywoods are fired from the project. The ranch's financial woes have forced OJ to sell horses to a grown-up Jupe, who operates the nearby Jupiter's Claim, a small Western theme park where he exploits his story of the ''Gordy's Home'' massacre for profit. Jupe offers to buy the ranch from the Haywoods, an offer which Em encourages OJ to accept. That night, the Haywoods notice their electricity fluctuating and their horses vanishing and violently reacting to an unknown presence. They discover an unidentified flying object (UFO) shaped like a flying saucer that has been devouring their horses and spitting out any inorganic debris, which caused their father's death. Motivated by a desire for wealth and fame, the siblings decide to document evidence of the UFO's existence, and recruit Fry's Electronics employee Angel Torres to set up surveillance cameras. Electrical interference from the UFO and a praying mantis on one of the cameras prevent them from getting clear footage, but Angel notices a nearby cloud that never moves. They deduce that it is the UFO's hiding place.

Jupe introduces a live show in Jupiter's Claim and plans to use a horse as bait to lure out the UFO, having fed it the horses he bought from the Haywoods, in front of a paying audience. The UFO arrives but devours Jupe and the entire audience. OJ deduces that the UFO is not a spaceship, but a predatory, territorial creature which eats anything that looks directly at it. Utilizing similar methods to those used to break and train horses, OJ believes they can influence the creature's behavior to capture footage of it without being killed. Dubbing the creature "Jean Jacket", the Haywoods decide to hire Holst for assistance. Holst initially refuses, but eventually reconsiders after hearing about the Jupiter's Claim incident.

To circumvent Jean Jacket's effects on electronics, Holst brings a hand-cranked film camera to capture footage. With Angel, the group work out a plan to bait out Jean Jacket and watch a field of scattered tube man props for electrical malfunctions to deduce its location in the sky. However, a TMZ reporter trespasses onto the field and is thrown from his electric motorcycle when it shuts down near Jean Jacket. He is devoured by Jean Jacket while begging OJ to film the event. Though Holst captures footage of Jean Jacket, he lets himself be eaten along with his camera, forcing the remaining three to flee. Angel survives an attack from Jean Jacket by becoming entangled in tarp and barbed wire, causing the creature to unfurl from its saucer shape to a jellyfish-like form.

OJ lures Jean Jacket away from Em, while she rushes to Jupiter's Claim on the motorcycle and untethers its giant balloon mascot. She uses an attraction's analog camera to photograph Jean Jacket as it flies overhead and attempts to eat the balloon, which explodes and seemingly kills it. With the picture as proof of the creature's existence and reporters arriving nearby, Em sees an unharmed OJ ride to Jupiter's Claim.

During the Battle of the Somme, a wounded French captain is brought into a medical tent with three bullet wounds to his abdomen. During surgery to remove the German bullets the surgeon discovers and removes an additional fourth bullet made of silver and not of German design.

Thirty-five years earlier, in the late Nineteenth Century, in 1881, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent, upon the advice and with the endorsement of the village elders, leads a slaughter of a Roma clan who have a claim to his land and settled there. The night before, foreseeing their impending danger, the Roma leaders cast a set of silver dentures in the form of a wolf's fangs for their protection. During the slaughter, the Roma leaders are captured and killed. One has his hands and feet cut off and is then lashed to a cross and erected as a scarecrow to serve as a warning to others who may try to settle the land. The other is buried alive with the silver fangs clutched in her grasp.

Soon after, the townspeople, including Seamus' children Edward and Charlotte, are plagued by nightmares of the Roma scarecrow and the silver fangs. While playing one day, Timmy reveals to the other children he knows the location of the nightmare scarecrow. Swearing them all to secrecy, particularly Edward and Charlotte (whose father would banish Timmy's family if he discovered their actions), Timmy leads the children to the scarecrow. Upon arriving at the scarecrow, Timmy is overcome with the urge to dig up the silver fangs. Edward attempts to stop Timmy, but before he can, Timmy has retrieved the fangs and placed them in his mouth. Timmy then attacks Edward, viciously biting Edward's throat as the other children flee in terror. Charlotte flees to her family's manor, though, in shock, she can alert her parents and their staff. Seamus quickly recovers Edward, who is seriously injured, but not dead. Timmy is nowhere to be found. The doctors believe Edward was attacked by a wild animal. Charlotte, fearing for Timmy and his family, does not reveal what occurred. Edward grows seriously ill. During the night, Charlotte awakes to Edward's screams and finds him ensnared by wood-like vines emerging from his body. Charlotte flees to her parents but when they return Edward has disappeared into the night. The next day, Seamus organizes the town men into a search party for Edward but is unsuccessful.

Charlotte goes to the local church to pray and encounters Timmy, who claims he has no memory of what happened after digging up the silver fangs, and fears for Edward now that he has disappeared. Charlotte reassures Timmy no one has spoken of his actions, and his family is safe from exile. When Charlotte asks Timmy what he did with the silver fangs, he reveals he's hidden them in the church. He then reads to Charlotte from The Book of Ezekiel and suggests the silver molded into the fangs is sourced from the same thirty pieces of silver paid to Judas for his betrayal of Jesus. When Charlotte's maid discovers the children in the confessional, Timmy flees. As Timmy runs into the forest, he is pursued by an unseen beast into an abandoned shack where he is soon slaughtered.

Meanwhile, pathologist John McBride visits the town, seeking information on the traveling Roma. He meets and befriends the local law enforcement: Alfred Molière, who enlists John's help with the missing Edward. Molière and John unite with Seamus, who reveals the situation has grown more complicated with the discovery of Timmy's corpse which is also deemed the result of a wild animal. Molière, believing nothing more can be done, returns to the town, but John offers to stay to assist Seamus. Seamus hosts John in his manor as John investigates what happened to Edward, including examining samples of Edward's blood that dripped on the door as he fled. Examining Edward's blood, John finds they bond with and convert his blood cells confirming his suspicions. He instructs Seamus to have all the first-floor doors and windows of his house boarded and that no one in the house or village should go outside alone without an armed escort. Despite his doubts, Seamus agrees. That night, Seamus' house is visited by a strange wolf-like creature that unsuccessfully tries to gain entry.

Later, three townspeople who drew short straws enter the fields to work despite their misgivings and fears of attack. Their fears are soon quickly validated as Jacob and Caleb are killed and the third, Anne-Marie, is critically maimed. Anne-Marie manages to return to the town and warn them of what occurred. Upon hearing Anne-Marie survived her attack but was bitten, John rapidly heads to the town, but is too late to prevent an already transforming Anne-Marie from escaping. Realizing that the infection is out of control, John has the town elders gather everyone to fortify inside the local church as he sets out to hunt the beasts. By the abandoned shack that Timmy was killed in, John traps and kills one of the beasts. He brings the creature's corpse to Seamus' stable where he has Seamus and the town elders witness the autopsy. Cutting open the creature reveals Anne-Marie, who seemingly still alive begins to emerge from the corpse, screaming in a murderous rage. John insists that she cannot be saved and desperately implores a town elder to shoot and kill her. Horrified by this unbelievable event and Anne-Marie's death, a sceptical Seamus fears the same transformation has befallen his son but pleads for John not to tell Isabelle of Edward's probable and horrific fate.

That night, John talks with Seamus' wife Isabelle and reveals years earlier he lost his wife and daughter to a similar wolf-like creature. A band of Roma arrived soon after the slaughter and pronounced the curse on that land had been fulfilled and John had been pursuing them ever since. Isabelle is moved by John's story and reveals her husband's atrocity and thus the origin of the curse, much to Seamus' ire. Charlotte finally informs John of the silver fangs' location - after which, he retrieves and melts them into four silver bullets. Seamus leads a hunting party to track down the final beast but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, the beast attacks and bites Seamus' maid Anais while she is outside retrieving the laundry sheets. Anais bandages and hides her vicious wounds from the family as Seamus returns from his failed hunt. John prepares to shoot the beast from the second floor of the manor and notices the bloody linens outside, left behind from the attack on Anais. Before he can pursue this lead he falls into an argument with Seamus who orders John to leave the house the next day. During the night as John waits for the beast, Anais transforms in her bedroom on the top floor. Seamus investigates the noise and is ambushed by a transformed Anais, knocking his candlestick over and setting the room ablaze. Seamus successfully kills the Anais creature but not before he is bitten and retreats to the stables, with John in pursuit leaving the manor doors open in their haste. In the stables, Seamus knows he is doomed to transform and attack his family and sets himself on fire in front of John. Meanwhile, the fire in Anais's room has spread and the manor is beginning to burn down. Isabelle and Charlotte attempt to escape, but encountering the final beast, John and the two women narrowly escape the fiery manor to the town church.

At the church, John, Isabelle, and Charlotte take refuge, planning to hunt the creature again in the morning. During the night after everyone has fallen asleep, Isabelle goes to pray and hears Edward's voice calling to her from outside the barricaded church doors. A grief-stricken Isabelle lifts the barricade, letting the rampaging beast into the church where it proceeds to massacre town elders and townspeople alike. John attempts to kill the beast with the silver bullet, but Isabelle intentionally stands between his aim and the beast, calling out to the transformed Edward. As the raging beast mauls her, John has no other choice but to shoot through Isabelle into the beast. Both fall to the floor, and as Isabelle dies, Edward reverts to his human form. Isabelle dies embracing her weeping, reanimated human son.

With both their parents dead and their manor destroyed, John becomes the guardian of Charlotte and Edward. Charlotte returns to John the three remaining silver bullets she recovered after the attack in the church. It is revealed that the opening war sequence (from thirty-five years later), the mortally wounded Captain is the adult Edward, having had the silver bullet lodged inside him ever since he was shot as a creature/child in the church. Edward dies on the operating table and some time later an aged Charlotte returns the final and fourth recovered silver bullet to a much older John on his death bed.

Nani, who suffers from dementia, believes a supernatural entity called Sator speaks to her in her mind and compels her to make automatic writings. Her daughter mysteriously vanishes. Nani’s grandson Adam withdraws to a remote cabin to search for Sator, by exploring the surrounding woods with his dog and a hunting rifle, and by reviewing footage from a deercam installed near the cabin. Adam's sister Deborah tries to manage the family, Adam’s brother Pete has a mental breakdown while with a friend named Evie, who loses her memory of the brothers following an accident.

Wearing fur and an animal skull mask, a disciple of Sator comes to Adam’s cabin. She passes him a photograph, depicting several Sator disciples standing in a dark forest. Meanwhile, Adam’s dog goes missing in the woods. While helping his brother look for the dog, Pete tells Adam that he thinks their grandfather Jim sacrificed himself to Sator, endorsed by Nani.

Adam finds Evie tied to a tree. He frees her, but feels suddenly compelled to choke her. Evie runs away and disappears into the sky.

Several Sator disciples visit Adam’s cabin. He flees to a nearby cave and is drawn inside, where he becomes possessed encountering Sator.

Pete revisits Adam at the cabin. He sees Evie sitting silently in a chair. Adam stabs Pete in his throat and burns his face in the fireplace. Possessed now, Adam levitates.

Back at her house, Nani laughs when she sees Adam, whose head is now bald, standing in the hallway. Nani disappears and Deborah searches for her outside. Adam chokes Deborah, and Evie pours gasoline on Deborah as she and Adam burn her to death. Sator disciples gather around the fire.

Adam reenters the house, where he walks past a room where a bald woman sits silently with Adam’s dog. Adam joins Nani in a different room where she sits with another Sator disciple.

The film explores the men's experiences and includes interviews with locals about how they feel about homosexuality.

A princess and her knight, Sir Harold, vow to be reunited after they reincarnate, as the difference in their social statuses cannot allow them to be together. In present-day Japan, the princess has reincarnated as Yuko Himemiya, a 39-year-old Japanese woman. One day, she reunites with Sir Harold's reincarnation, only to find out that he's a 17-year-old high school student named Haru. The two may be together again, but they must face a new set of issues regarding their relationship.

Maraşlı is a retired soldier turned bookstore owner. For Maraşlı, life changed drastically after his daughter was shot. One day, a photographer named Mahur enters Maraşlı's bookstore and on that same day, she involuntarily gets involved in an incident involving the mafia. Maraşlı saves her life and from that day onwards, their fates become linked.

Luana, a Hawaiian princess, is in love with a beachcomber who is also a doctor. He dies after saving the people of Hawaii by isolating the bacterium which is the cause of leprosy. Luana then redeems his soul by sacrificing herself to the volcano goddess Pele to save her people again.

The play includes more-or-less authentic Hawaiian music, dancing, and a simulated volcano in the third act.

To support his wife and child, a Maltese fisherman enters the world of black market fishing.

Lok, a kind-hearted and forthright primary school teacher, which was being treated to recovery from Psychosis. He never dare to fall in love although he was longed for a burning love, he also had an imaginary girlfriend, Yan. The girl fill his heart to full and he also knew it was all just his hallucinations.

One day, Lok met a beautiful and refined young girl Yip-Lam by chance, who looks exactly like Yan, and he fell in love with her at first sight. Another day, Lok was attend to a support group for Psychosis patients, and he met Yip-Lam again as a psychological counselor. They fell in love after getting to know each other deeply. The two developed a forbidden love with suspense and twists, which seemed to be true.

Unfortunately, Lok was haunted by his hallucinations and being sick again while hesitating, and he also discovered that she had utilize him for the sake of her programme. However, Yip-Lam also had her own unpleasant past experiences... Can the two overcome their difficulties? However, the forbidden love was exposed and forced them to separate. Can the two overcome the difficulties again?

After suffering a stroke at her 70th birthday party, Judith Albright, a professional dancer in her youth who is now a dance instructor, is moved into a nursing home after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Her 17-year-old grandson, Josh, whom she is very close to, opposes the move, while his mother, Judith’s daughter, Barbara, tries to comfort him. Judith assures Josh that the move is best for everyone. But soon she notices strange behaviors and the deaths of other residents. She imagines a tree like figure looming in her room. Eventually it is revealed that three of the other elderly people living there are much older even and have been using witchcraft to suck the life forces out of victims (patients of the Manor). This allows them to become young every nightfall, returning to their old forms when the sun rises. Judith decides to join them in the end so that she may live longer to have time with Josh, who, also comes to work at the Manor.

A traumatized woman seeks the truth behind mysterious knocking noises from the apartment above her.

12-year-old Tinja practices gymnastics, an activity imposed upon her by her mother, a former figure skater. Mother is an influencer who runs a popular blog centering on the lifestyle of an average Finnish family. After she summons Father and their young son Matias to join them for a video, a crow flies through a window and destroys the living room. Mother captures the crow and snaps its neck. Saddened, Tinja disposes of the crow in the trash can, not noticing that it is still moving. Afterwards, she meets a new neighbor, a girl named Reetta and her French Bulldog. That night, Tinja is awakened by cawing. She discovers the grievously injured crow in the woods and puts it out of its misery, then notices an egg - presumably why the crow returned there. Guilty, she brings the egg home and incubates it underneath a pillow, and, as it grows, inside a stuffed animal.

At practice, Tinja struggles but is encouraged by her coach that if she improves, she can participate in an upcoming competition. When Tinja returns home, she catches Mother in an intimate embrace with another man. Mother introduces him as Tero, later explaining her actions as needing to do something for herself. Reetta joins Tinja at the next practice, and proves to be very talented. This causes Mother to pressure Tinja into practicing until her hand is blistered and bleeding. That night, Tinja pets the egg with her injured hand.

Not too long after, the egg hatches into a strange skeletal creature resembling a baby bird. Tinja hides until it escapes through her window, but the next evening, the creature returns, still injured by a piece of window glass. Tinja removes the glass and bathes it, inadvertently angering Matias when she won't let him in to use the bathroom. She names the creature Alli and lets it sleep underneath her bed. As Tinja sleeps, she becomes annoyed by Reetta's dog's barking, and dreams of jumping out the window and going to the other house. She wakes to find Alli beside her with a gift - the dog's decapitated corpse. When this makes her vomit, Alli eats it the way baby birds are fed by their parents' regurgitated food. Tinja hides Alli in the wardrobe and buries the dog in the flower bed, unknowingly witnessed by Matias.

At school, Tinja and Reetta begin to become friends, even putting up missing posters for the dog together. That evening, when Mother gives Tinja a hairbrush and does not give Matias anything, the brother gets angry and digs up the dog's corpse, blaming Tinja. Matias then sneaks into Tinja's room, wearing a mask, to try to find out what's under the bed. Alli slashes the mask in fear. Downstairs, Tinja begins to have a seizure, indicating that they are psychically linked. Mother checks Tinja's room and finds her slashed competition outfit, but fails to find the hiding Alli. Later, Tinja eats birdseed and regurgitates it to feed Alli, noticing that the creature is growing hair. That night, Alli explores the house, scaring Matias and Mother, who nearly attacks him with a knife. He tells her that Tinja is a monster, but Mother brushes it off as a nightmare.

The next day, Mother is displeased when Reetta wins the competition spot. Sensing Tinja's unhappiness, Alli breaks out of the closet where Tinja has imprisoned the creature and brutally attacks Reetta on her way home while Tinja has another seizure. Tinja finds Alli's molted beak and realizes the creature is beginning to look more like her. Later Tinja brings Reetta flowers but is horrified by the severity of her injuries and amputated left hand. When Reetta sees her, she screams until Tinja flees. Tinja returns home and punishes Alli by slapping herself, knowing the slaps will hurt Alli. Instead, Alli comforts her, holding her to its breast while she cries. In the morning, Alli looks fully human save for the pupils.

Because Tinja gets the competition spot after that Reetta is hospitalized, Mother suggests she and Tinja stay with Tero to relieve Tinja's pre-competition stress. Father reveals that he knows about Tero, and says he respects Mother for knowing what she wants, despite looking miserable. At Tero's, Tinja learns that he is a widower with an infant named Helmi. Spending time with Tero, Tinja begins to become happy, as Tero does not need his life to be or look perfect. Unfortunately, when Tinja is feeding Alli by throwing up, Tero interferes and the creature attacks him, injuring his hand. Despite this, he forgives Tinja and covers for her, suspecting that she doesn't really want to compete or be a gymnast. When Mother fusses over Helmi and makes Tinja jealous, she becomes fearful that Alli will attack them while she is gone, but cannot convince Mother to let them attend the competition.

At the event, Mother records Tinja's performance for her blog. As Tinja begins her routine, she becomes linked to Alli, who has taken Tero's axe to kill Helmi. Tinja sabotages herself and falls, injuring her wrist, which stops Alli. Tero, who has witnessed Alli's attack, throws them out, telling Mother that Tinja has serious problems. Before they leave, Mother rams her head into the steering wheel, screaming and giving herself a bloody nose while she blames Tinja for destroying her happiness. At home, Father ignores Mother's bloody nose, happy that she is home, while Matias gloats over Tinja's competition loss. Tinja tries to prevent Alli from coming home, pushing her out of her bedroom window, then promises Mother she will be better. Later, Mother finds what she thinks is Tinja huddled in the closet and forcibly brushes her hair, unaware that she's caring for Alli. After brutally ripping a chunk of Alli's hair out with the brush, Alli attacks her. Tinja intervenes and Alli flees, screaming so loud that the sides of her jaw rip open.

Tinja explains that all the recent chaos is because of Alli. When Father and Matias return, the family comes together as Mother and Tinja hunt Alli. In Tinja's room, the creature overpowers Mother, who stabs it in the leg, also injuring Tinja. Tinja tries to explain that she hatched it, but Mother attacks again anyway, only to realize she has instead stabbed Tinja, who has jumped in front of Alli to protect her. Tinja collapses onto Alli and dies, her blood entering the creature's mouth and completing her change. Alli pushes Tinja's corpse to one side, her eyes now fully human and mouth once again healed. Then she croaks out "Mother" and stands up, looking down at her.

A dark comedy short film that follows Matt and Jeff, two hapless local paranormal investigators in the wake of a community becoming more skeptical of the supernatural. When Robert hires them to take on a wild case, the Ghost Searchers must separate fact from fiction and help the troubled specter cross over to the other side.

Celia, an 11-year-old girl, studies at a nuns' school in Spain in 1992. Celia is a good girl: a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate opens a small window through which Celia discovers a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia enters a new stage of her life: adolescence, a period of firsts. She feels the need to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that once meant comfort and security.

Inge Sargent, an Austrian student and Sao Kya Seng, a young mining student from Burma fall in love. But it is only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of Hsipaw, a princely state in Burma. After a coup is staged by the Burmese military, Sao is imprisoned. Inge does everything she can to free him.

During the annual religious festivities at Mount Osore, widow Kikuno joins a medium to contact the spirit of her deceased daughter Ayako and ask her for forgiveness. The film switches back to 20 years earlier when in 1937, Ayako, a poor fisherman's daughter from Ōma, is sold to a brothel as her ill father can't support the family anymore. She is violently deflowered by rich merchant Yamasan, who becomes her regular customer. One year later, she meets Kanjiro, a young student, who becomes another regular customer and to whom she develops an emotional bond. It turns out that Kanjiro is Yamasan's son, but while Yamasan has no problem sharing her with his son, Kanjiro is reluctant to her meeting his father. After Yamasan dies of a heart attack during a visit to Ayako and Kanjiro commits suicide in the military service, Ayako is stigmatised as bringing bad luck. Kanichi, a new customer, reveals himself as Kanjiro's older brother, who insists that the rumours surrounding Ayako are pure superstition. Ayako and Kanichi become lovers, but before his plan to go to Tokyo together is realised, he is killed by an army truck driver who refuses to stop for him. When the brothel's owners demand her leaving the house because she might be possessed by an evil spirit, Ayako, out of desperation, agrees to have an exorcism performed on her. Severely beaten during the brutal exorcism ritual, Ayako finally dies.

Set in 2083, Neo Hong Kong, heroine Mei-Lin Mak must explore the ruins of Chong Sing Apartments, discovering the history of its 14 lost souls, as well as her own family's past.

Rosa, about to turn 45, combines her job as a movie seamstress with the pressure of helping her demanding family. She reaches breaking point and realises she has always lived her life to serve everyone else. Desperate, she is compelled to take the sudden decision to leave everything behind and focus on herself. She plans to symbolically marry herself, and pursue her dream of starting her own business. However, many obstacles, including her father, siblings and daughter, stand in the way of her joining herself in holy matrimony and beginning to live her life.

Henriette has a strained relationship with her guardian, Col. Johnnie Paxton, whose life was saved by Henriette's parents during the war. Upon returning from a party, Henriette and her boyfriend are surprised by an intruder. The intruder says he is here to kill the man who collaborated with the Nazis and caused the death of his fiancée.

In 1985, Enid Baines works for the British Board of Film Classification during the height of the Video Nasty controversy. Enid's co-workers call her "Little Miss Perfect" due to her strictness in recommending that violent content be cut or banned. While Enid is having dinner with her parents, they discuss the disappearance of Enid's sister Nina when the two were little. Enid's parents have since declared Nina legally dead, but Enid is convinced that her sister is still missing.

Shortly after a man murders his wife and children, a tabloid newspaper links the killings to a film Enid had rated several months prior, naming her as the censor who approved it. Enid starts to receive phone calls threatening and insulting her on a regular basis. One day, Enid is approached by Doug Smart, a film producer who claims that a veteran horror director named Frederick North has personally requested that she screen one of his old films, ''Don't Go in the Church''. During the screening, Enid notices that events depicted parallel her memories of her sister's disappearance.

Investigating North further by acquiring a copy of one of his banned films, Enid notices that the film's lead, Alice Lee, bears a resemblance to her missing sister. Enid soon becomes obsessed with meeting North, believing that Lee is her missing sister, and needs to be saved from the exploitation film industry. When Enid visits Smart, hoping to learn North's whereabouts, he tells her that North is making a sequel to ''Don't Go in the Church'' near his home, and attempts to rape her. Enid rejects Smart, causing him to become more aggressive before Enid pushes him back, tripping and accidentally impaling him on a film award. Smart dies as Enid stares in shock, unable to process what has happened.

After stealing North's address from her work, Enid finds the set of North's latest film, where he and the crew assume her to be an actress. During a climactic scene, Enid kills an actor named Charles with an axe, thinking that he was going to hurt her "sister". A terrified Alice flees from Enid as she begs for Alice to "please be her" before collapsing in the woods. A remote control appears in Enid's hand, and she presses a button.

Enid is awoken by a seemingly happy vision of her sister, thanking Enid for finding her. Nina and Enid leave the woods and drive to their parent's home. During the drive, the car radio announces that all violent films have been banned, crime has been eradicated, and unemployment no longer exists. Enid's fantasy is sporadically interrupted, revealing that she has kidnapped Alice, who is begging Enid's parents for help as Enid smiles.

A school teacher, Alan 'Hoaggie' Hoaganraad, is on a road trip with his wife Jill and their two teenage sons, Maika and Jordan. While hiking, Maika notices two men in the distance watching them before disappearing. While the family picnics by the road, they are interrupted by the two violent drifters, Mandrake and Tubs. The pair robs them at gunpoint and forces them to lie down, but before they leave, Mandrake overhears Maika call Alan 'Hoaggie'. Mandrake suddenly murders Maika and Jordan and abducts the parents after night falls, breaking Alan's arm and knocking Jill unconscious.

As Mandrake questions the pair, he reveals that he knows Alan is a teacher and was once an assistant teacher at a group home for troubled boys, one notorious for physical and sexual abuse. Alan guesses correctly that both were enrolled at the school, but he insists that he was completely unaware of the abuse; Mandrake does not believe him and implies that they are driving to the boy's home. Alan pretends to accidentally hit himself with the door while entering the car but as he kneels next to the car to "recover" he presses a nail into the back left tire. When they stop at a gas station, Alan attempts to secretly alert the station attendant, however Mandrake suspects this and kills the attendant by bludgeoning him with a fire extinguisher.

Jill attempts to escape, but is quickly caught and later forced to kneel underneath an overpass. Threatening to shoot her, Mandrake forces Alan to admit that he was aware of all of the abuse, but stopped and reported nothing out of cowardice. Alan relays a story of a young boy who tattooed a swastika on his arm; at roll call, an admin painfully and forcibly scrubbed it from his skin with a nylon brush, which traumatized the rest of the students. Jill is shaken by this admittance, and later rebuffs Alan's attempts at contact. When it's clear that Mandrake will not let her go, she escapes from the moving vehicle and then chooses to jump into the nearby river rather than return to her abductors; her fate is left ambiguous.

Alan briefly escapes when they stop to replace the tire Alan pressed a nail into, and reaches a car with a group of teenagers, however Mandrake finds them and convinces them to let Alan out of the car, before murdering them all but one, who manages to escape. With Alan recaptured they finally reach the home.

Walking through the now-abandoned building, Alan admits that he was not just a coward, but also privately believed that the boy with the tattoo deserved his punishment. Believing Mandrake to be that boy, he apologizes for not stepping in. Mandrake reveals that the boy wasn't him. He then shoots Alan in the chest and taunts him, but Alan hits him with a rock and bludgeons him. Mandrake survives, though wounded and disoriented, and tries but fails to kill Alan. Tubs finally arrives and kills Mandrake with the rifle, but leaves Alan, telling him that "I hate this place". Tubs goes to an undisclosed location and looks out at the rising sun.

''Good Morning, Midnight''’s narrative voice alternates between two main characters and ambiences.

One is Augustine, an astronomer in his late 70s who lives and works on Barbeau's Observatory, a research station in the Arctic Circle. The others is Sullivan, one of the astronauts aboard the Aether, a Space station that's returning from an expedition to Jupiter.

On Earth, rumors of an unexplained war begin to spread and Augustine's research facility is evacuated. He refuses to leave and remains in the frozen station hoping to die alone.

One year after the evacuation, Augustine has lost all connection with the outside world. At the same time, he discovers that a little girl named Iris has also been abandoned there, after a possible confusion during the evacuation.

Meanwhile, the astronauts on Aether also lose communication with Mission Control and are frightened and anxious with the fact that the entire planet has suddenly gone silent. There are six other astronauts aboard besides Sullivan: Devi, Harper, Thebes, Ivanov, and Tal.

Halfway through the story, Devi dies in an accident: her suit's breathing system fails while she and Sullivan make repairs to the space station's exterior.

Near the end of the book, Augustine and Iris take a near-suicide journey to another station farther away from their current one, where there's a more powerful radio antenna to try to communicate with the rest of the world.

By sheer accident, he finally manages to make contact with the Aether. He explains the planet's situation to Sullivan, leaving the astronauts wondering what to do.

In an ironic coincidence, it's revealed on the last page that Augustine is Sullivan's biological father and the astronaut is the daughter he abandoned in the past.

Sullivan is the girl's last name; her first name is precisely Iris, making the little girl in the Arctic a hallucination of Augustine.

The book begins in November 1999, with Adrian and his two children Glenn and William living at his mother's house in Ashby-de-la-Zouch following the fire that destroyed his house at the end of ''The Cappuccino Years''. His mother Pauline is now living at the Mole family home in Wisteria Walk and marries Ivan Braithwaite, father of Adrian's childhood sweetheart Pandora. Adrian's father George is living at the Braithwaite family home 'The Lawns' with Ivan's ex-wife Tania, who he has recently married.

Adrian continues to write his 'serial killer-comedy' "The White Van" and briefly finds work as a turkey plucker. His mother forces him to leave Wisteria Walk after he fails to visit her in hospital, and he temporarily lives at The Lawns before being allocated a council house on the rough Gaitskell Estate, where he becomes neighbours to the notorious Ludlow family. He also begins an on-off relationship with his housing officer Pamela Pigg, but is still in love with Pandora, now a Labour MP for Ashby.

His father spends several months in hospital with a series of infections he contracts while recovering from falling off a ladder. Adrian ends up looking after an elderly woman, Mrs Wormington, but she dies from hypothermia as a result of a trip to Mablethorpe. He also begins working in a burger van in a layby although he takes numerous days off and eventually resigns. After Ivan returns to The Lawns following his sectioning, George is released from hospital; he and Pauline subsequently reconcile and announce plans to marry each other for a third time.

Adrian becomes curious about his half-brother Brett, but this develops into jealousy after he discovers Brett is a successful student at the University of Oxford. Brett visits and ends up staying with Adrian following the September 11 attacks. He spends his time filming documentaries on reactions to the attacks and on poverty. The book ends with Adrian being arrested in a dawn raid after planning a rally to protest about the arrest of his schoolfriend Mohammed, who works at a local BP garage.

Kimiko, a young modern Tokyo woman, lives alone with her poetress mother Etsuko. Etsuko still grieves for her former husband Shunsaku, who left the family for ex-geisha Oyuki fifteen years ago, although Kimiko remembers their marriage not as a happy one. The only contact between Shunsaku, Etsuko and his daughter are money orders without personal messages he sends them. Kimiko travels to the countryside to talk Shunsaku into returning to the family, as her boyfriend Seiji's father wants to meet him before giving his admittance to Kimiko's and Seiji's marriage. Contrary to her expectations, Shunsaku is happy with his new wife and their two children, and Oyuki turns out to be a warm-hearted person instead of the calculating woman Kimiko was sure to meet. Not only does she support her husband, whose business is going badly, but it is also she, not Shunsaku, who is sending the money to Etsuko and Kimiko. Shunsaku agrees to go to Tokyo with Kimiko, but after a short discordant time spent with his ex-wife, he returns to Oyuki and his children, while Kimiko finally accepts that the past can't be reversed.

Sumireko Usami, a magician high-school student from the Outside World (Earth), has the ability to visit Gensokyo, but only during her dreams. She has a recurring dream in which she is attacked by Reimu Hakurei without reason. Sumireko prepared to photograph the ''danmaku'' of Reimu and other residents of Gensokyo'','' for the purpose of uploading it to social media.

Anne Boleyn is locked in Beauchamp Tower in the Tower of London. Falling asleep, she dreams of her past days as Queen of England; then, the vision shifting, she dreams herself condemned to death, and executed in the Tower courtyard. When she awakes, she is indeed sentenced to death, and led out to the scaffold.

An absurdist comedy, the film centers on the story of a mother and daughter facing eviction in post-crisis Spain and scamming their way to a more comfortable lifestyle. The film is loosely based on the real-life Spanish mother-daughter petty-crime duo Justina and Ana Belén.

The film tells the story of a gay porn actor. Eulália, a conservative 65-year-old mother, finds out that her son who emigrated to Germany became Fostter Riviera, the internationally awarded first Portuguese gay porn actor. From shock and disgust to desperately trying to understand him, Eulália embarks on an emotional journey that puts her values, expectations and perceptions to the test. With the computer and Facebook as her main sources of information and communication, Eulália's quest to get closer to her son makes her click on unexpected websites, meet unlikely people and challenge herself to see her son perform a live sex show in the annual Portuguese erotic fair.

Babak Naderi and his wife Neda, an Iranian couple living in the United States with their one-year-old daughter Shabnam, are driving home after visiting some friends. However, the car's navigation system starts malfunctioning, and they end up getting lost. After driving around for a couple of hours, they decide to spend the night at the Hotel Normandie. Babak almost gets into a physical altercation with a homeless elderly man while entering the hotel, but the man vanishes after Babak and Neda check into the hotel. The receptionist informs them that only one suite is available, and that the hotel doors are locked at night.

Babak and Neda begin to notice strange events during their stay at the hotel. Neda is woken by Shabnam, and someone knocks on the room door, saying "Mommy". Upon checking the hallway, Neda sees a small child, who disappears after going down a hallway.

Babak is also woken by Shabnam, and prepares a bottle of milk with the help of the hotel receptionist, who tells him about the various tragic events he has witnessed. Babak sees the homeless man again outside the hotel, and sees the reflection of a strange woman next to him. When he turns around, he is confronted by Neda, who tells him to go to sleep and that she will bring Shabnam up to their hotel room. However, he later finds Shabnam still on the ground floor, and Neda tells him that she was asleep.

Later, Babak is startled upon seeing the woman from earlier standing in front of him. After Babak and Neda hear thumping noises above them, Babak goes up to the hotel roof, but does not find anyone. He calls the police, saying that someone is harassing them.

A police officer arrives, but he is skeptical of the couple's claims of people disturbing them, and asks Babak if there is something he is not telling him. There is a knock on the room door, and Babak finds the same police officer there when answering the door. The incident unnerves the couple so much that they decide to leave the hotel. However, Babak forgets the car keys, and he returns to the hotel room to get them while Neda waits near the car.

While waiting near the car, Neda is confronted by the homeless man, who tells her in Farsi, "They hear the truth, morning comes." Babak gives the keys to Neda from the room. As Neda waits for Babak in the car with Shabnam, the child from earlier asks her to let him play with his sister.

Meanwhile, Babak finds a dead woman in the room's bathtub after noticing a wedding ring on the floor, and gets to an elevator. The elevator is briefly jammed while Babak is still inside, and the woman from earlier asks if he remembers. Neda returns to the hotel and Babak lets her in after getting out of the elevator, but he finds that he is unable to unlock the hotel doors from the receptionist's desk. The power then goes out. Babak tries to signal passersby for help, but the only people outside the hotel are the child and the woman seen earlier.

In their room, Babak calls his friend Farhad to get help, but Farhad tells him that "there is no way out". Neda is then confronted by the child, who asks her why she hasn't told Babak what she did, and repeatedly demands that she "say it". Neda breaks down in tears and confesses to Babak that she realized she was pregnant five years earlier while Babak was away from home, and that she aborted the child because she didn't want to have a child without a father. The hotel's power is then restored.

Babak tries to unlock the hotel doors again, but is unsuccessful. Neda demands to know his secret; she has realized that the power came back on because she revealed her secret, and that Babak must divulge his secret as well if they are to leave the hotel. Babak refuses to do so, and he heads deeper into the hotel to find another way out.

While searching for a way out, Babak is confronted by the woman, whose name is Sophia, and it is revealed that he cheated on Neda with her, and lied that he would leave Neda to be with her. In a panic, he ends up stabbing Neda in the stomach by accident. While looking for Shabnam, Babak gets transported to a hospital, where he finds Sophia's body in the morgue. He stabs himself at his arm's tattoo with a scalpel, and heads towards the exit, which leads into a forest, in search of Shabnam.

Babak then wakes up in the hotel room at around 3 am, and finds Neda and Shabnam sleeping peacefully next to him. He goes to the bathroom and sees that his reflection in the mirror is acting independently of him; the reflection turns around so that its back is facing him, reproducing a hotel painting seen earlier in the film. As Babak looks at his reflection, a tear falls from his eye.

In 1609 in the Basque Country a group of five teenagers are captured and arrested as main suspects of witchcraft, as they celebrated a party in the woods. Judge Rostegui, given the task of purifying the region by the King, arrests the girls and accuses them of witchcraft. He decides to do whatever it takes to make them confess, and tell him what they know about the ''akelarre'', a ceremony with magical connotations, during which the Devil is said to initiate his servants and mate with them.

Even though they deny it, and there is no evidence against them, they are arrested and tortured in order to force them to sign a written confession. After another of their friends is arrested, one of the girls, Ana, confesses to be a witch, claiming she cast a spell on the rest of her sisters and friends. Ana's plan is to gain enough time for the girls to organise an escape when the men of the village return from their fishing. As a result she spends a whole day confessing a detailed sabbath festivity - in reality a twisted version of the party she and the girls held before their arrest. 

Judge Rostegui postpones the girls execution when Ana says she can only use her magic in every full moon night as she feels Lucifer's calling. Her portrayal convinces Rostegui who offers to deliver every item for the sabbath which causes some of his men to distrust him. One of his allies warns him that after the full moon, the village men will return and the girls will be set free. Rostegui rushes the girls execution and takes them to the woods for the ceremony with all of Ana's specifications. Understanding their situation, Ana leads her friends in a dance demonstration as they play along as witches and sing in the Basque language. Rostegui is entranced, but all of his men, along with village's priest are frightened of the "sabbath". 

Ana and the rest of the girls flee as Rostegui and his men have an argument; a chase through the woods ensues until the girls are cornered at a cliff. As they join hands, one of the village women elders sings in Basque about the tide brought by the full moon which motivates the girls to jump off from the cliff to Rostegui and his men's surprise. 

Sara (Juana Acosta) is offered a perfect luxurious apartment at low rent. But there is one condition that she can't move in until the current owner Lola (Kiti Mánver) dies.

''Cellars'' is a novel in which a journalist in New York becomes attracted to a woman with extra-sensory powers.

''The Steven Spielberg Story'' is a book about Steven Spielberg.

The film is composed of five scenes introduced by title cards: * ''Refusal of arbitration''. The scene is in the Director's office. The workers' delegation is introduced and submits the wishes of their comrades, but the manager, despite his son's intervention, refuses any compromise. * ''The Director's murderess''. The factory is guarded militarily. The delegation goes out and announces the refusal of the Director. The workers, angry, try to invade the factory but an officer orders to fire. Several men and children are wounded or killed. The manager try to parley with the workers. A woman, who had just seen her husband killed before her eyes, grabs a brick and throws it at the head of the manager and kills him. * ''Arrest of the culprit''. In a poor slum, the dead worker lies on the bed surrounded by his wife and children. Suddenly gendarmes enter the house and arrest the poor woman. She is taken away in spite of the cries and tears of her children. * ''Acquitted''. The unfortunate woman pleads for her freedom and to be allowed to look after her children. The Director's son, knowing that his father was wrong, asks for the accused's freedom. The judges, due to the circumstances, acquit her. * ''The Future''. An apotheosis shows Labour as a worker and Capital as a rich man determined to unite their efforts to give happiness and fortune to all in the future. Justice appears and presides over this loyal alliance.

19 year old Linnéa, working under the stage name "Bella Cherry," is a naive, confident girl from a small town in Sweden who travels to Los Angeles in the hopes of becoming the next big porn star. Under the guidance of her manager, she begins to navigate the challenging world of the porn industry and is determined to land more significant roles and video views by pushing herself to ignore personal boundaries and limits. Bella shares a house with a group of other young actresses attempting to become famous, and though she is standoffish and private at first, she eventually bonds with one of her housemates, Joy, who supports her and helps Bella build her brand. At a party, the girls spot Mark Spiegler, one of the most successful and demanding agents in the porn industry; he is joined by Ava, one of the biggest names in the local porn scene. Bella attempts to start a conversation with Ava, who ignores her. Joy tries to flirt with a famous male actor, Caesar, but when he cruelly rejects her, she retaliates by pushing him into the pool.

Bella works on several shoots, including a BDSM scene with a female director who encourages Bella in positive, healthy ways, enforcing safety and consent on the set. However, Bella is determined to push herself further, and she requests hardcore scenes from her manager. While filming a rape scene with two male actors, she becomes overwhelmed and breaks down, repeatedly interrupting filming. Initially, her co-stars and the director seem encouraging, but they quickly grow hostile and dismissive when she struggles to finish the scene. Bella reluctantly agrees to complete the shoot and later confronts her manager, who reminds her that she requested harder material. Upset, Bella fires him as her manager.

Now working independently, Bella attempts to acquire Spiegler as her new manager, but he turns her down, saying she has a weak social media following and insisting he only accepts actresses willing to do extreme scenes. In order to prove herself, Bella participates in an interracial threesome, which includes a first-ever "interracial, double anal penetration", boosting her following considerably. Spiegler is impressed and agrees to hire Bella. As a way to repay her friend, Bella requests that Joy be part of her next scene. Joy is initially thrilled, but hesitates when the lead actor withdraws at the last minute and is replaced by Caesar. Bella implores Joy to go through with the shoot, but soon observes Caesar harassing Joy off-camera. During the scene, which involves degradation and humiliation, Caesar begins to legitimately abuse Joy, who stops the scene in anger. Joy insists to the director that Caesar is harming her, but when she asks Bella to confirm Caesar's earlier harassment, Bella, worried about her reputation, balks. Furious, Joy upbraids Bella for her betrayal and storms off the set.

Bella is given a chance to film a scene with Ava, but Ava humiliates her when she refuses to perform oral sex on Bella, claiming she has a yeast infection. The scene is changed so that Bella will penetrate Ava with a strap-on, but Bella quickly lets her anger and frustration take over, acting violently and aggressively towards Ava without warning or consent, just as many of her male co-stars and directors did to her since her arrival. When Bella tries to apologize to Ava later en route to a party, Ava nonchalantly dismisses her as if nothing had bothered her, which disturbs Bella. Bella is further disillusioned when she spots her old housemates at the party, all of whom are enjoying their time at the party opposite of Bella who is essentially now locked in the VIP area. On the ride back from the party, Bella abruptly asks the car to stop so that she can get out.

One day, a stray dog roams the streets of Indonesia, before being chased by a group of kids. The dog eventually runs into a graphic designer named Aya, who fends off the kids and feeds the dog her snack. The dog takes a liking towards Aya and follows her home. She takes the dog inside, and with the help of Aunt Ika, cleans the dog. The dog eventually meets Aya's own dog: a pit bull named Kopi, who takes an interest in her. Aya's husband Ale, however, does not like her and demands the dog be sent to the shelter; Aya reluctantly agrees. At the shelter, Aya names the dog June when seeing a dog-themed calendar. June does not behave well there and is taken home; Ale reluctantly agrees to let Aya keep June.

June begins adjusting to her new life by imitating Kopi's actions. She is also shown to have a fear of kids due to trauma. Stakes rise as Aya gives birth to a girl named Karin, and to everyone's surprise, June comforts Karin while she is crying. As time flies, the family learns that Karin suffers asthma. June is able to take care of Karin, while Kopi is proving himself to be rather lazy, but also willing to help get June out of trouble. Aya works on her next comic, ''June and Kopi'', and is nervous to submit it. Seeing this, Ale offers to take Aya and Karin on a vacation to a forested villa. Unfortunately, the policy prohibits dogs, so June and Kopi are left home with Ika. The pair, missing Aya and Ale, escape the house while Ika is asleep. June runs out of the gate to go to Aya, and Kopi catches up.

After getting bullied, Karin escapes and runs off into the forest. Meanwhile, June and Kopi arrive at the forest and split: Kopi to Ale and Aya, and June going to Karin. June finds Karin, injured and tired, and they both shelter until the rain stops. Kopi finds the opening to the forest, and Ale goes into it, while Kopi and Aya stay behind. Karin has an asthma attack, and June finds Ale, bringing him to Karin. As they escape, an animal trap was set; June knocks Ale and Karin out of the way, but gets mortally wounded by it herself. With the help of Kopi, they all make it out of the forest. Karin is healed, but June, having lost too much blood, and been poisoned by the trap, will die soon. Ale tearfully thanks June for saving Karin and shakes her paw, something he always does with Kopi. Back at home, the family is watching the sunset by the lake to give June some peace in her last moments. Aya thanks June for taking care of Karin and June, and allows her to rest; she soon does.

As ''June & Kopi'' becomes a big hit, many fans worldwide send heartfelt condolences for June. Kopi replaces June as Karin's protector and guides her up the stairs. One day, Ale and Karin go to the shelter to buy a dog for Aya, and Karin picks a white dog with identical looks to June.

Casey is a lonely teenage girl who lives with her widower father. One day, she decides to record herself taking the viral “World’s Fair Challenge,” in which she states, “I want to go to the World’s Fair,” four times on camera, smears some of her blood on her laptop screen, and watches a short video of strobing lights before saying she’ll make updates on any “changes” she notices.

Other World’s Fair challengers record and post their own psychological and physical changes. Casey’s next video recounts bouts of sleepwalking she experienced when she was younger, saying she’s begun feeling similarly since taking the challenge. Late one night, she sneaks into her shed, where she finds her father’s shotgun. She then watches an ASMR video of a young woman calming someone after a nightmare before a disturbing video made to her from user “JLB” plays, featuring Casey’s distorted face along with the messages “YOU ARE IN TROUBLE” and “I NEED TO TALK TO YOU.”

Casey reaches out to JLB, a collaborator with other World’s Fair challengers, and speaks with him over Skype. JLB claims to worry about the symptoms Casey reported in her last post, and he encourages her to keep making videos so he can monitor her wellbeing. JLB is revealed to be an equally lonely middle-aged man who spends his time watching other people's World's Fair videos.

JLB watches another video of Casey’s that she recorded while she slept, during which she appears to pull herself out of bed with a menacing smile. JLB informs her through another personal video that the forces behind the World’s Fair are taking over her, and that she should continue posting videos. Casey’s mental state begins to deteriorate, which becomes apparent in the stream of videos she continues posting online, including one where she inexplicably screams in terror while recording herself singing and dancing to a song, and then another later one where she states her intention to either murder her father with his gun or kill herself.

In her next video, she covers her face and arms in glow paint in her blacklit bedroom and tears apart the stuffed animal she’s slept with since she was a newborn. She then appears to come to, becoming distraught over her doll’s destruction. In her next conversation with JLB, he asks "go out of game" and admits he continues to worry about her and says he once considered calling the police over her videos’ content. Casey seems surprised by JLB's statement that the Fair is just a game, but quickly regains her composure and angrily asserts that her videos were not real, that she was only playing along with the challenge, and that Casey isn’t even her real name. She cuts off contact with him, and he tries in vain to convince her to continue making videos.

One year later, JLB recounts having been reached back out to by Casey, whom he meets in person and eventually befriends in New York City where she’s currently living. It is not confirmed whether this meeting actually happened or not.

Christie is having trouble collecting the American royalties on her published works and decides to kill off her most famous character, Hercule Poirot, in a bid to make a private cash sale of the manuscript. She hires a low-life man to accompany her as a bodyguard for a cut of the price. The action takes place in a hotel where Christie expects to complete the transaction. Christie and her bodyguard encounter the prospective buyers and a varied group of hotel guests. The suspense builds as a series of murders takes place in the hotel.

After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York City returns to his hometown nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán after many years. The journey forces him to face the traumas of the past and reflect on his new hybrid identity, launching him into a personal and spiritual metamorphosis.

In 2035, society's dreams are taxed by the government, which has mandated increased surveillance measures upon the general public. Government agent James Preble travels to the countryside home of the elderly Arabella Isadora, an artist who lives alone with her pet tortoise Sugar Baby in the self-titled Strawberry Mansion. Arabella's dreams are stored on a vast library of VHS tapes, which Preble reviews to conduct an audit; at Bella's insistence, he stays in her guest room. In his dreams, he regularly spends his time in a pink room with Buddy, who presents him with commercial products; one such session is interrupted by a younger apparition of Bella. During his audit, Preble begins to fall in love with the younger Bella; he grows closer to her in the real world, and she reveals that the government allows advertisers to transmit ads to a person's dreams. She presents him with homemade headgear designed to hold them off; it successfully defends against Buddy. Sometime later, she dies peacefully and is discovered by Preble.

Bella's estranged son Peter Bloom arrives with his wife, Martha, and son, Brian, to handle Bella's affairs. Peter suggests to Preble that he is finished his audit and may now leave. A suspicious Preble discovers Martha and Brian destroying the VHS tapes mid-audit and declares it a federal offense, angrily informing Peter that he will have to notify his superiors; Peter responds by later knocking him unconscious with a bowling pin. Preble vividly dreams of himself being chased around the house by exaggerated incarnations of the Blooms before he is rescued by the younger Bella. They escape to a small island, where they sustain and entertain themselves for a long time. Eventually, Bella reveals that Peter is the CEO of the country's largest advertisement corporation and that his knowledge of the dream-infiltrating advertisement scheme has placed him in danger. Various incarnations of Buddy appear and Preble wakes up; Peter knocks him out a second time and sets the room on fire; he and the family leave Preble to die.

Preble reawakens in his dream as the captain of a ship, helmed by two humanoid sailor rats, Richard and Marcus Rat. For the next seven years, they sail the seas in search of Bella, but the Rats eventually begin to question the mission's viability. As the fire in his room picks up, a giant Blue Demon attacks the ship at sea. Preble's surroundings dissolve around him and he dines with the normal-sized Blue Demon, who is keeping Bella in servitude. After the Demon goes to bed, Preble frees Bella and they escape back to the island. Bella warns him that he cannot stay with her for much longer, as he will soon die from the fire if he does not wake up. At her insistence, Preble turns into a caterpillar and spends the next several centuries traversing the earth, finally arriving at his pink room. He is confronted by a wrathful Buddy, but Bella arrives to help Preble overpower and ultimately vanquish him.

Preble and Bella are bid farewell by a sendoff party of all of the dream's characters; an apparition of Peter warmly greets and apologizes to both of them. They float off into space but find themselves disintegrating as Preble's mind continues to feel the fire's heat. Preble awakens and escapes the house, but reenters to retrieve the headgear, Sugar Baby, and a tape. Preble sorrowfully watches Strawberry Mansion burn down.

Upon returning home, Preble reminisces on the VHS tape, the contained dream of which shows Bella on a date with a mysterious grass man; Bella eventually brushes off the grass to reveal Preble underneath. The film ends with the two of them walking hand-in-hand to Strawberry Mansion.

Sara Dunn is a young woman with a troubled relationship with her mother, whom she avoids for unknown reasons. Essentially homeless, she steals food from her mother’s house and sleeps in a hammock outdoors or at friends’ homes. She is also plagued by strange, surreal nightmares of a dark maze and a shadowy figure with glowing eyes.

In need of money, Sara agrees to be a test subject in a sleep experiment, the goal of which is classified. At first, Sara sleeps well but, after two sessions, her nightmares worsen and she has a panic attack when one of the scientists shows her a picture of the same shadowy figure from her dreams. She is also troubled by the only other woman in the study dropping out and the fact none of the scientists will divulge the purpose of the study.

One day, after passing out in a laundromat and being robbed, Sara confronts one of the scientists, a young man named Riff, insisting that the study has had a negative impact on her and she will only continue as a test subject if he divulges the study’s purpose. He informs her the experiment involves monitoring subjects’ dreams using a brain scanning device that converts brainwaves into images.

During the next session, Sara and the rest of the experiment volunteers are shown to all dream of the same shadowy figure at the same time. Riff states that, across the world and throughout history, people have all dreamed of a similar figure, which has also haunted him since childhood. As their vitals spike, Sara wakes up in a panic, bleeding from her left eye, and runs away after telling the other scientists she knows what they’re studying. Riff pursues her as she runs to a club in search of her friend and passes out, forcing him to carry her unconscious body to his apartment.

Back at the lab, the two remaining volunteers dream again of the shadowy figure, before becoming semiconscious and seeing it standing at the foot of their beds. The scientists are deeply unsettled as the figure moves around and appears to have entered into the waking world.

Sara wakes up from a surreal nightmare involving the shadowy figure and finds herself in Riff’s apartment, where she discovers he straps himself to his bed and monitors his own dreams. After seeing a dream sequence in which she and Riff kiss and he grows fangs, she now believes he has the same dream and wakes him. Traumatized and exhausted, they end up having sex, during which Sara sees two shadowy figures and passes out again, motivating Riff to take her to a hospital.

As Riff waits for a report of Sara's status, he begins to have visions of a dark maze and humanoid figure made of hands. He then learns Sara has left her room and realizes that she is a somnambulist as she wanders out of the hospital. He calls his colleague, Anita, and asks her to join him in monitoring Sara´s dream as she sleepwalks through the city.

Anita arrives and they attach a mobile monitor to Sara’s head as she unconsciously leads them to a remote, wooded area. Sara’s dream appears to mimic the path she’s taking, with shadowy figures manifesting on the monitor, seeming to flank the trio. As they enter a field, Riff finds a cellphone ringing in the grass. When he answers the phone call, Sara wakes, screaming and bleeding from her eyes.

Riff apologizes to Sara and she identifies the phone as hers despite the fact she has never been there before. The phone screen grows staticky and, though awake, Sara sees multiple shadow figures in the trees. The trio flee, but both Riff and Anita are swallowed by darkness as Sara is approached by a shadowy figure.

Suddenly, Sara wakes up again in Riff’s apartment, naked and straddling Riff’s dead body, having apparently gouged out his eyes in a somnambulist episode. She goes to the bathroom, where she receives a text message that makes her laugh and examines her reflection, discovering she has fangs.

The message says she has been in a coma for twenty years, as she is being studied using a new technique, and the scientists are not sure where in her dream the message will reach her. It begs her to wake up before the screen cuts to black.

Prologue, Chapters 1-38

After his family died in a vehicular accident, suicidal 18-year-old boy Cha Hyun-soo moves into Room 1410 of an apartment complex called Green Home. He and the people around him start being afflicted with strange symptoms, including malevolent talking voices and nosebleeds. One night, through his video door-phone, he witnesses his girl neighbor from Room 1411 transform into a human-eating monster.

Two days later, Hyun-soo realizes that the world around him has fallen into chaos as people turn into monsters in what the Internet calls a "monsterization" apocalypse (''goemulhwa''). Downstairs, his fellow residents, led by Lee Eun-hyuk, fend off the first monster from outside to attack the apartment but not before it claims its first victim. Multiple residents are killed in the struggle against the monsters. To survive potential monster attacks, Hyun-soo arms himself with a makeshift spear with a knife as a spearhead and, upon the advise of Room 1408's Han Du-shik, uses his phone as a monster tracker: if he makes a phone call and hears a beeping noise, it is a sign of a nearby monster. He sneaks himself to Room 1408 where Du-shik modifies his spear so that an electric charge passes through the knife and Hyun-soo can both stab and shock a monster.

Hyun-soo extracts two bereaved children, 9-year-old Kim Soo-young and 6-year-old Kim Young-soo, in Room 1210. His return to Room 1408 is impeded by his inner monster's attempt to fully monsterize him and another monster attack, which separates him from the kids. Room 1510's Yoon Ji-soo and Room 1506's Jung Jae-heon rescue him. Soo-young and Young-soo become trapped in the midst of a fight between two monsters, but another half-monsterized woman Im Myung-sook defends the children. Hyun-soo, Ji-soo and Jae-heon come to her aid.

After staying for a day at Room 1408, Hyun-soo, Ji-soo and Jae-heon decide to join the survivors in the ground floor; the trio entrusts Myung-sook, Soo-young and Young-soo to Du-shik. Hyun-soo gets knocked out in a battle against a monster. While unconscious, his inner monster gives him a taste of a parallel world where Hyun-soo's desire—watching his best-loved film ''Maria From the Sky'' —is fully met. Sensing that he is just inside a hallucination, Hyun-soo rejects his inner monster's temptations and finally wakes up. By his side are Eun-hyuk and his younger sister Lee Eun-yoo: he had survived the battle and reached the ground floor.

Chapters 39-85

A meeting is convened in order to discuss whether or not the Green Home residents must expel Hyun-soo for being half-monsterization. Eun-hyuk suggests resolving the issue through voting, telling the group that indiscriminately expelling Hyun-soo would be tantamount to murdering him. The voting results in a tie; when an imperious elderly man Kim Seok-hyun expresses objection, his nose bleeds, unintentionally exposing his impending monsterization to his fellow residents. Later, Eun-hyuk asks Hyun-soo and a gangster-like man Pyeon Sang-wook to extract the survivors in Room 1408 so that they can take advantage of Du-shik's technical skills. While Hyun-soo and Sang-wook leave the ground floor for the mission, Myung-sook finally succumbs to her inner monster, but her strong desire to be reunited with her lost baby turns Myung-sook into a harmless, giant fetus monster inside the Room 1408 bathroom

Along the way to Room 1408, Hyun-soo and Sang-wook meet other survivors, an elderly man Ahn Gil-seop and his caretaker Park Yoo-ri, after battling against multiple monsters. Hyun-soo and Sang-wook return to the ground floor with Du-shik while Gil-seop, Yoo-ri and the children remain in Room 1408. Du-shik fixes one of the apartment's elevators but it inadvertently leads to the fully monsterized security guard to enter the ground floor and killing a few survivors, including Jae-heon. The shock of seeing Jae-heon's dead body makes Hyun-soo's inner monster to temporarily manifest. Upon regaining control, Hyun-soo kills the monsterized security guard. The remaining survivors in Room 1408 use the elevator and reunite with Hyun-soo and the survivors in the ground floor.

A team consisting of Hyun-soo, Sang-wook, Ji-soo, Gil-seop and Yoo-ri successfully reclaims the underground parking lot from the monsters. Du-shik revamps a car into an armored vehicle. Hyun-soo, Sang-wook, Gil-seop and another survivor Byung-il use this car to venture outside Green Home in an attempt to gather food and medical supplies. A monster attack jeopardizes the party's mission; Gil-seop is killed while Byung-il escapes from the scene. Eun-hyuk and the other survivors prepare to step out of Green Home to help Hyun-soo and Sang-wook. Just in time, a prison bus suddenly arrives and drives into the monster, killing it. Byung-il emerges from the bus accompanied by a group of outsiders, the first four recognized by Sang-wook to be criminals—group leader Shin Joong-seop, con-man Im Hyun-shik, rapist Seo Kap-soo, gangster Baek Ho-yeon, and a young man Jo Yi-hyun.

Chapters 86-111

The Green Home survivors are forced to take in the outsiders; tensions rise as the outsiders implement their secret plan to take over the apartment. As Hyun-shik attempts at spreading fear and discord among the Green Home survivors, Joong-seop tries to invite Hyun-soo to join their group and reveals Yi-hyun to be a strong half-monster. The criminals soon assume superiority, leading to some Green Home survivors to join their side, including Hyun-soo. After not sharing any plans to the criminals, Eun-hyuk is locked up with Sang-wook. Eun-hyuk reveals to Sang-wook that he actually has a plan that only he and Du-shik knows; his nose starts to bleed and he faints. Du-shik is forced to reveal to Joong-seop a large box containing what appears to be a rope made of a chain of clothes; when Joong-seop dismisses it, Du-shik is relieved: the rope is actually over 100 meters long and has a grappling hook attached in the end.

On Joong-seop's orders, Hyun-soo and Yi-hyun search the upper levels of Green Home for other monsters. By letting his inner monster communicate with Hyun-soo's, Yi-hyun discovers the harmless giant fetus monster in the Room 1408 bathroom and, controlled by his inner monster, intends to kill it. Hyun-soo battles against Yi-hyun to defend the fetus monster and manages to knock Yi-hyun back to his normal self. Hyun-soo and Yi-hyun goes to Room 1408 to check on the monster and, to Hyun-soo's shock, discovers in its place a human-sized cocoon-like structure. Hyun-soo deduces that the thing is alive when he hears its heartbeat. Fearing it could be a threat, Yi-hyun tries to destroy the cocoon but his half-monsterization abilities strangely fights back and knocks him out.

Ji-soo goes to Room 1408 and finds Hyun-soo who is hesitant to destroy the monster-turned-cocoon. Though she also perceives it as a possible threat, Ji-soo is just as hesitant to destroy the cocoon, and reveals to Hyun-soo about Eun-hyuk and Sang-wook being locked up. Yi-hyun wakes up in his inner monster's personality and tosses a lighter to the cocoon, setting it on fire. All monsters in the vicinity sense the destruction of the cocoon and angrily swarm to the apartment. Yi-hyun rushes to the rooftop where he apparently sees a naked woman standing on the parapet. Sang-wook escapes from imprisonment, carrying Eun-hyuk with him. Eun-hyuk wakes up and suggests going to the outsiders' prison bus, where they find coolers containing chopped up human cadaver. Sang-wook tries to lure the monsters away from the apartment using the human cadaver as bait and ends up in a grove where four cocoons stand. While in hiding, he witnesses to his shock a naked human being emerge from one of the cocoons.

Chapters 112-139

As the enraged monsters start to breach the front door barricade, Eun-hyuk confirms to Du-shik that they have to proceed with their plan: the survivors shall escape from the apartment by launching the grappling hook from the rooftop and using the rope to zipline to a hill 80 meters behind the apartment. The survivors flee to upper floors as Eun-yoo uses Ji-soo's smartphone as a distraction for the monsters. Sang-wook uses the prison bus to block the front door and flings Joong-seop to the monsters. The monsterizing Du-shik decides to stay behind in the underground parking lot and starts a fire that burns multiple monsters. As Eun-hyuk and the other survivors climb to the rooftop with the escape equipment, Hyun-soo goes to the parking lot, only to find Du-shik dying. A naked man, one of the emergent humans, appears to Hyun-soo, declares "[their] time has finally come," and puts his hands on Hyun-soo's shoulders, instantly triggering another hallucination with Hyun-soo's inner monster.

The inner monster reveals the nature of the monsterization phenomena, which he calls a "revolution" and a "new beginning." An inner monster—revealed to be a malevolent form of the host's soul—takes advantage of its host's. When the host succumbs to the inner monster's calling, the inner monster transforms the host into a monster reflecting that desire, while the host's subconscious is held in a parallel world where those desires are fully met ("a paradise of desires"). After the host exhausts his or her desires, they transform into a new human being (i.e. the emergent humans) void of desires and emotions and thriving on a "sense of futility." Hyun-soo firmly rejects the inner monster's temptation, deciding to stay as himself and continue the fight against the monsters.

Sang-wook and Hyun-sik joins Hyun-soo in the underground parking lot and kills the fully monsterized Du-shik. As Eun-hyuk's party reaches the rooftop, Ji-soo leaves the group and goes back to her room where she uses her bass guitar and amplifier to lure the monsters away from the rooftop, leaving a manageable number that the survivors can fight against. Hearing the bass guitar, Hyun-soo lets his inner monster control him and rescues Ji-soo in his near-monsterized form. After Eun-hyuk and Byung-il successfully install the escape equipment, Eun-hyuk decides to stay in the building due to his ongoing monsterization.

The women and children zipline to the hill first using all available pulleys. Eun-hyuk, Sang-wook and Yi-hyun join Hyun-soo and Ji-soo's battle against the monsters in the building. They all go to the roof afterwards but their escape from the building is thwarted by the overwhelmingly powerful, fully monsterized Joong-seop. Left with no other choice, Hyun-soo makes the ultimate sacrifice by fully succumbing to his monsterization, which turns him into a powerful monster in the form of his favorite character from ''Maria From the Sky''. The monsterized Hyun-soo defeats the monsterized Joong-seop with one blow. Ji-soo tries to communicate with it, but the true Hyun-soo inside the "paradise of desires" responds only faintly to her voice and the physical monster reacts to her with utmost hostility. Eun-hyuk decides also to let himself be fully monsterized in order to subdue the monsterized Hyun-soo. As the remaining survivors zipline to their haven, Eun-hyuk's monsterization turns him into a large tangled mass that completely covers the monsterized Hyun-soo, killing them both.

Soon after, rain falls over the dead remains of the monsterized Hyun-soo and Eun-hyuk. Most of the tangled mass disintegrates and two cocoons materialize; one of them hatches and a new Hyun-soo emerges from the cocoon. He descends the building and, upon reaching the ground floor, he notices Ji-soo's smartphone which Eun-yoo had used earlier to distract the monsters. It is already unlocked and displays a music player app. Hyun-soo picks it up and plays an audio file: it is the musical piece that Ji-soo composed and was supposed to have lyrics written by the old Hyun-soo. Strangely, the new Hyun-soo listens to the music and sheds tears.

Chapter 140 (Epilogue)

Winter, in the post-apocalyptic world—the Green Home survivors live in a military camp. Byung-il, who guards the perimeter, suddenly sees something. Ji-soo is fetched from one of the tents. She rushes to the perimeter and sees the new Hyun-soo clad in thin clothing and walking towards the camp, barefooted on the snow. Upon seeing Ji-soo, the new Hyun-soo smiles teary-eyed. Ji-soo steps out of the camp in tears and hugs Hyun-soo tightly as the other Green House survivors rush out to meet him.

Set in the late 2000s and early 2010s, ''Later'' is narrated by its main character Jamie, a young boy living with his single mother, Tia, in New York City. Jamie has the ability to see and talk to the ghosts of dead people. These ghosts must answer all his questions truthfully. When he was very young, Jamie was traumatized after a man who was killed in a car accident near Central Park waved at him, despite being dead. When he is a few years older, he also talks to Mona, the late wife of Professor Martin Burkett, a neighbor and friend of the Conklins. At the beginning of the story Jamie's mother is the only one who knows about his special skills. Jamie's uncle Harry (the older brother of Jamie's mother) lives in a care home due to having early onset Alzheimer's disease.

Jamie's mother Tia is a literary agent. Her star client, Regis Thomas, writes best-selling romance novels set in the Roanoke Colony. After the Great Recession, Jamie and his mother lose much of their money, but are still able to get by thanks to Thomas's work. Around this time, Tia begins dating Elizabeth "Liz" Dutton, a New York City Police Department detective. When Regis suddenly drops dead before finishing the final book in his Roanoke series, Tia fears her literary agency will face bankruptcy. She and Liz drive Jamie out to Regis's house, where he talks to the deceased author's ghost and tells his mother the plot of the final book. Tia writes the final book herself and publishes it. The book is a massive success and the Conklins earn much of their lost money back. Soon after, Tia finds drugs in the pocket of Liz's jacket. Outraged that she would bring drugs into her home, Tia breaks up with her and kicks Liz out of their apartment.

After about one year, when Jamie is in middle school, Liz, who is at risk of losing her job with the NYPD, picks up Jamie after school one day. Out of desperation, she has him use his ghost related skills so she can thwart the plot of the serial bomber Kenneth Therriault aka "Thumper". Therriault committed suicide after planting one final bomb somewhere in the city. So, Liz has Jamie talk to the ghost of Therriault, who reveals the bomb's location. After the incident, Jamie is haunted by Therriault, who does not vanish after a few days, unlike all the other dead spirits Jamie has talked with. Therriault follows Jamie and makes false prophecies about how his mother will die from cancer and how Jamie will develop Alzheimer's like his Uncle Harry. Jamie talks with his former neighbor, Professor Martin Burkett, who tells Jamie about an ancient Tibetan/Nepalese ritual, the "Ritual of Chud", he could use to combat the demon possessing Therriault. Later, when Jamie sees Therriault again, he lunges at the ghost of the dead man and refuses to let go. Therriault, terrified, promises to leave Jamie alone. Jamie also makes the mysterious force that is possessing Therriault's ghost (what Jamie calls the "Dead Light") promise to come to him if he whistles for it. Soon after, Professor Burkett dies. Before departing, the ghost of Burkett speaks to Jamie and warns him not to ever summon the Dead Light.

After some months, Jamie is kidnapped by Liz, who, now a drug addict, admits she used her position as a cop to participate in drug trafficking. Liz forcibly takes Jamie to the mansion of her boss, a drug kingpin, who is hiding what Liz believes to be a giant supply of Oxycontin pills. Liz wants to find the pills to sell them and then use the money to move to the West Coast and change her identity. After murdering the drug kingpin, Donald Marsden, Liz forces Jamie to ask Marsden's ghost where he hid the drugs. Marsden leads them to a panic room in his library. Liz is enraged when she finds the pill supply is much smaller than she expected. Fearing for his life, Jamie whistles and summons Therriault/the Dead Light, which kills Liz. The Dead Light, now stronger, tries to break free of Jamie's control over it and make Jamie its slave. Jamie, refusing to give in, retains control of the Dead Light before forcing it to leave again. After the Dead Light vanishes, Jamie calls the police and is returned home safely.

Years later, when Jamie is about to finish high school, Tia calls him and tells him that Uncle Harry has died of pneumonia. Jamie travels to the care home, talks to the ghost of his dead uncle, and asks him who his father is. Harry says that he is Jamie's father. Jamie refuses to ask for the details of his incestuous conception and does not say anything to his mother. Jamie tries to remain hopeful about the future, but is troubled by the fact that he might develop early onset Alzheimer's like his uncle. This could be found out by a simple test, which, however, he wants to have carried out only "later".

*'''Section 1 – Jenna:''' Jenna Hoolman and her brother, Del live in Sapphire, a former gas town in southeast England. The draining of the nearby Romney Marsh through fracking and the recent war has left the town destitute. Smartdog racing has become its only source of income. Smartdogs are greyhounds enhanced with human DNA to connect "telepathically" to human "runners" with neural implants. Del is actively involved in racing and has his own smartdog, Limlasker, but Jenna is frightened of her brother's drug-running and violent outbursts. He has a daughter, Luz Maree (Lumey) who, at three, starts to show signs of being an empath. Empaths are able to communicate with smartdogs without an implant. Lumey is kidnapped, ostensibly to force Del to settle his drug debts. He enters Limlasker in a race the dog is not ready for, hoping for a win to secure his daughter's release, but the dog is assassinated.

*'''Section 2 – Christy:''' Christy Peller lives in present-day Hastings in south England and is a writer. Some of her stories are set in the future in a fictional town called Sapphire where smartdog racing takes place. Christy lives in fear of her brother Derek, who once raped her. When Linda, his girlfriend, disappears after he discovered that she was planning to return to her previous boyfriend, Alex, Christy begins searching for her. She suspects that Derek may have murdered Linda.

*'''Section 3 – Alex:''' Alex Adeyemi grew up in Hastings, and twenty years after the events in Section 2, Christy invites him to come and visit her in Hastings to help her locate his former girlfriend, Linda. Alex discovers that Christy is a writer and begins reading her stories. He is particularly interested in ''At the Cedars Hotel'', a collection of stories that includes "Dogs", and "Brock Island", a sequel to "Dogs".

*'''Section 4 – Maree:''' Maree is a young woman who lives in a secret government facility in Crimond She has no memories of her childhood, except those of a smartdog, Limlasher. She later learns that Derek Hoolman was her father and that she was kidnapped because she is an empath. She is sent to Thalia across the Atlantic Ocean by ship to a research facility called Kontessa. During the journey Maree learns of the real reason she is needed in Kontessa is to assist in translating extraterrestrial messages a SETI programme has intercepted.

*'''Appendix – Brock Island (Christy's story from ''At the Cedars Hotel'' :''' After working at Kontessa for several years and not making much headway on the alien messages, Maree retires to Brock Island off the coast of Thalia. There she learns that an enigmatic artist Laura Christy has disappeared. Laura maintained that she has a twin sister, Sidonie who communicates with her in her dreams. While there is no record of the twin, Laura insisted that Sidonie is real and resides in a parallel world. Laura wrote that Sidonie told her they are reflections of one another, and that Sidonie and others in her world have been trying to communicate with their counterparts here for centuries. Maree finds some portraits Laura had painted of Sidonie, and in one of them, her twin is holding an abacus. Maree copies the bead pattern on the abacus, and later compares it with the patterns she had been working on in the alien transmissions. The bead pattern on the abacus matches the patterns in the alien transmissions.

Sampath, Thushara and Keerthi are batchmates. Sonia is a relation of Sampath. Thushara is Sampath's girl friend at campus. Sonia and Thushara are friends. Sonia's father and Sampath's mother tries to make them marry but Sampath doesn't have any romantic feelings for Sonia. So Sonia and specially her father does things to put apart Thushara and Sampath. One is to tell fake things to Thushara's father about Sampath and make him disappointed. Another one is attacking Sampath at a club. The story goes on as Sampath persists those challenges and finally marries Thushara and at the end of the film we get the feeling that Sonia and Keerthi find love between them too.

Jess, a separated mother and nurse, moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten by the family dog, resulting in a mysterious infection from the bite. When Jess discovers a disturbing cure, she is tested on how far she's willing to go to save her child.

Matt is a forty-something successful app developer, and is interviewing Anna, a twenty-something who works at a coffee shop, to become his surrogate. Matt wants to become a father without getting married. Anna wants to get into college and get her bachelor's and master's degrees, which requires money. During the first trimester, the doctor tells Matt and Anna that everything is going well, which makes Matt very happy. He asks Anna to go to dinner with him as a celebration, to which she agrees. Afterwards, Matt tells his brother and his parents about the pregnancy; his mother in particular seems very unhappy with his decision. At dinner, Matt and Anna talk about pro-life and pro-choice life philosophies and how nervous they are in making conversation with each other. While ordering dinner, Matt makes a weird, annoying sound when Anna chooses to order potato over salad, saying it is not good for the baby, as what she eats the baby eats. He orders pasta with bacon. After the waitress leaves, Anna says that "she matters only for the next nine months, but he matters for next 18+ years, so he should also be eating healthy food". Matt agrees and asks why she didn't made a weird sound, to which she responds that "she is not annoying". Next, both are shown attending therapy, where Matt says that he is very excited and wants to share the news with everybody; he is surprised when Anna says that she is not going to tell anyone about the pregnancy. Coming out of therapy, Matt asks if she wants a bite of candy and tells her that he once went to couple's therapy with his ex, and after coming outside they would hold hands and eat candy.

At the coffee shop, Matt brings special pregnancy tea and clogs for Anna. She takes the tea, but says that she doesn’t need the clogs. Matt takes the clogs to Anna's house, where he meets a guy Anna hooked up with. He gets upset as he thinks it's not safe for the baby. Both then go to the hospital, where Anna makes it clear that he cannot stop her from having sex for a whole year, and it is safe as many married women have sex while they are pregnant, which the technician confirms. The technician asks if they want to hear the heartbeat. Matt is very happy listening to the heartbeat. At therapy, Matt says that it was very exciting and he wants to hear that sound all the time, while Anna says that it was nice to see Matt so happy. The therapist asks them if they are having any conflicts other than the clogs, and they share Matt's concern over Anna having sex. The therapist tries to clear any doubt, but Matt is still skeptical. During the second trimester, Anna tells Matt that she is going to use the money to get into an accelerated degree program so she can complete her bachelor's and master's degrees within three and a half years. Matt shows her the to-be nursery, and she helps him pick a color for the nursery, which she enjoys. Next, both have a deep conversation about why they are alone. They start hanging out with each other more and decide that they should use a gender-neutral name to refer to the baby until they get to know the birth gender. They agree to call the baby "Lamp". At the mall, shopping for maternity wear, Anna meets her sister's friend and lies that she works there. She doesn't want her sister or her parents to know that she is pregnant, as they would get mad at her, like they did the first time.

Matt asks Anna to move in with him until the baby is born, as he wants to get all the possible time with the baby, to which Anna agrees. Anna and Matt go crib shopping, where the salesgirl calls them a couple, to which Anna says, "Ew, no". Her reaction upsets Matt a little. When Anna asks him the reason, he says that her reaction at the store bothered him. She replies that she reacted that way not because "he is gross, but because it would be gross if they were a couple", as he is twenty years older than her. At the baby shower, Anna feels odd when Matt's mother calls her unrelated to the baby. Anna realizes that despite trying so hard, she is getting attached to the baby and Matt. She leaves Matt's house after the baby shower, saying "they should have better boundaries". Into the third trimester, Anna and Matt attend a birth center class, where they get to learn various techniques to prepare mothers for childbirth. After some days, Anna feels mild cramps at night and calls Matt, thinking that the baby is coming. The doctor says that it is normal to have such cramps and the baby is healthy, but not coming right now. After visiting the doctor, Anna confesses that she loves Matt in a adorable way and she doesn't want to lose him, but that she can't stay, as she got accepted to Vermont. Matt says they are not going to lose each other, as he loves her too and that he is proud of her for getting into college. This time, after attending therapy, Anna asks if Matt wants to hold hands and eat candy, which they do in the park while sitting on a bench. One week before the due date, Anna has contractions. Then, they do all the things they have learned at the birth center and take Anna to the hospital, where she delivers baby Lamp. The movie ends with Matt consoling a crying Lamp.

Mrs. Koyama, a young female doctor working at the Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium, travels the islands of the Seto Inland Sea to talk leprosy patients into moving to the sanatorium where they can be treated and live together with other people affected by the disease. Many patients and their relatives are reluctant to the move; while family father Yokogawa is still trying to work to support his wife and children, others are hiding in their family's homes or in deserted shacks. In the end, Yokogawa gives in to the doctor's advice and follows her to the sanatorium. His saddened and angered son Kenzo watches his departure by boat from the island's harbour.

A young boy finds a tiger caged in the woods near where he lives. Together, they plan to head toward its home-to-be.

Sithura and Thasleema are two orphans and exemplary siblings who unconditionally love each other. Thasleema treats her younger sister like a mother. Javid, a law graduate, returns to his island and starts a romantic relationship with Sithura, while Thasleema is smitten by him but too timid to reveal her feelings. Javid’s mother arranges his marriage with Thasleema. The latter shares the news with Sithura, who rejoices in her sister’s happiness with a broken heart. To pave the way into her sister’s joy, Sithura marries a thug, Ajuwad, despite Thasleema’s disapproval. The two sisters separate and walk in their own path until fate brings them together ruining Thasleema’s gleeful life.

A chronological view of Jerry Lewis' career beginning with his 10-year partnership with Dean Martin to his career as a producer, director, writer, and actor. Archival clips, interviews with friends and family, as well as Lewis himself are included.

Julio (Javier Cámara) and Ana (Griselda Siciliani) are a couple who spend most of their time arguing. One night, Ana decides to invite their upstairs neighbours, Salva (Alberto San Juan) y Laura (Belén Cuesta), for dinner, despite the fact that Julio is not their biggest fan, not least because of the noise they make while having sex. As the night goes on, various secrets about the couple come to light.

The story focuses on the next King of Fighters tournament held after the appearance and defeat of Verse. Following Antonov's early retirement, new tournament commissioner Anastasia sends out invitations to fighters to join the tournament; the mayhem caused by Verse's powers resurrects various long-thought deceased fighters from past tournaments as well. Chizuru Kagura gathers Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami in order to look after the seal of the snake demon Orochi. Shun'ei, a teenager with mysterious powers resembling Verse's, enters the tournament again alongside Meitenkun and Benimaru Nikaido to better understand his powers, the Amplified Specters. During the tournament, they encounter a rival team led by a girl with similar powers to his own and also another Amp user, Isla. Isla is being mentored by a woman named Dolores who wishes for her and Shun'ei to stop the appearance of more Amp-related creatures like Verse, believing Ash Crimson's time-traveling in a previous tournament, which Dolores' disciple, Kukri confirms it to have caused their appearances and connected to distortions across the multiverse. However, a new Amp creature born from Isla's Amp power, labeled as Re Verse manifests as the tournament progresses and targets the fighters, pulling them into another world. Following Re Verse's defeat, the mysterious goddess Otoma=Raga appears and attacks the teams. Upon Otoma=Raga's defeat, the fighters escape back to their world and are crowned the new King of Fighters champions, whereas Isla finally warms up with Shun'ei at the same time their respective Amps are fully under control, such as Shun'ei can finally take off his headphone safely. As confirmed by Kukri earlier, defeating Otoma=Raga and Re Verse does not erase the revived fighters’ existences once they survive the two entities’ rampages.

A mother sets down her child in the front yard and goes back into the house for a brief moment. As soon as she is gone, the child walks into the doghouse. When the mother comes back outside, she does not see where the child has gone, and when she sees a man in the street with a basket, she runs after him. Soon she has the whole neighborhood in turmoil.

Context

Eve, the novel's narrator, belongs to a group of children staying at a large, rented estate with their parents for the summer. The children, mostly disgusted by their parents' hedonistic behavior, spend most of their time on the property of the estate, until a hurricane interrupts their activities. The parents are never named, and the book filters their activities through the perception of Eve and the other children.

During her shift at a remote gas station, a female clerk ventures in the night to fix a man's broken car, unsure if she should have trusted him.

The series follows Alice Ginor (Ayelet Zurer), a 48-year-old esteemed filmmaker who feels stuck professionally, old externally, no longer relevant and tired in the face of the endless energy of her three daughters, whom she raises together with David (Gal Toren), a successful and coveted actor. One day, in a chance meeting on the train, Alice meets Sophie (Lihi Kornowski), a promising young femme fatale screenwriter in her 20s, who introduces herself as a fan of Alice and dreams that Alice will direct the script she wrote. Sophie's talent, youth and erupting sexuality arouse Alice, who develops an obsession with her and puts her into her professional, family and sexual life. In what appears to be a conscious choice, Alice is drawn into Sophie's dark and destructive world, and as the plot progresses and twists it is no longer clear who has penetrated whose life, who takes and who gives, and who will lead whom to the fatal end.

In 1921 Canada, a young British man, Henry Buchanan, is a teacher at a local boys' school but his pacifist views, and his record as a conscientious objector during World War I, stir up controversy.

As a fireman, Zachary is always ready to help people, but since his parents' relationship was marked by conflict, he is opposed to commitments. He buys houses as an investment, fixes them up in his time off, and uses the profit he earns from selling them to invest in more properties. He likes dating and has been dating a model, but does not see how anyone could possibly know you are with someone you could commit to for life.

Marilee has a very romantic view of life, even though it has not worked out that way for her. She is responsible and very capable. She is also the owner of a cat named Queenie, even though the apartment complex where she lives has a strict, no-pet policy. Working her way through veterinary school, she has promised herself not to get involved with anyone until she has started her career. Zach comes across a homeless cat named Ambrose who has been cornered by a large dog. After he rescues the cat, the cat decides to move in with him, uninvited. Somehow the cats play a role in the two getting to know each other better.

Jack is an internet gambler who lives in New York and becomes obsessed with Scarlet, a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes into reality after Jack spots Scarlet on a rainy street in Chinatown.

In the distant past, there was man name Edwald Olaffson who developed ice powers after saving his son from a polar bear attack in Greenland in the 10th century. Edwald was a metahuman who initially used his powers for good, however, not knowing how to control his powers, he accidentally brought cold weather which caused famine and less exposure to the sun which caused his villagers to mistrust him and be angered. The villagers tried attacking Edwald but he fought back. During the chaos, his son was killed and Edwald grew angry to the point where his village was completely encased in ice and became a being known as the Frost King. In the 10th Century, Hippolyta, Swamp Thing, and the Viking Prince had freed Black Adam in the past to deal with the Frost King when his magic nearly destroyed the world. Black Adam found out Frost King's true identity and used his family as bait to distract the Frost King, but the Frost King accidentally kills his family and escaped Hippolyta to go in hiding. The Justice League (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and Aquaman) thwarts a villainous plan devised by Multiplex, Icicle, and Catman to rob a bank. Meanwhile in Greenland, Simon Stagg's son Sebastian Stagg discovers a new ice strain which can achieve cold fusion. The workers on the Snow Crawler inform Sebastian that a great storm is going to hit them in an hour and he orders them to pick up the pace despite their reluctance. Flash and Superman talk about their personal lives, specifically Iris West, Superman's son and public identity while running over the Atlantic Ocean. Superman has to leave to go to Sri Lanka because there's trouble, and Flash goes talk to Black Lightning in Metropolis to talk about how Black Lightning balances his superhero life with family. Meanwhile, Sebastian Stagg's workers get attacked by ice wolves in the Snow Crawler. The Justice League arrives to help deal with the ice beings, but suddenly a being named Frost King comes out of the Snow Crawler and attacks the heroes causing a huge explosion.

Flash runs around the world trying to help everyone while the other heroes deal with the Frost King's monsters in different cities and no one has heard from Aquaman yet. Flash passes out after being ambushed by the ice monsters, but Black Adam rescues him and Flash saves Iris West from ice monsters.

In the present, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane are about to be killed by some ice monsters on top of the Daily Planet when Superman saves them. After making sure they're safe, Superman goes out to help people and is soon overwhelmed by the ice monsters. Superman flies off to his hometown Smallville to save Krypto and his adopted parents Jonathan and Martha Kent. After getting a reassuring pep talk from them, Superman leaves to help more people. Back in Metropolis, Lois writes an article for the people of Metropolis, inspiring them not to lose hope, even during these harsh times. Meanwhile in Gotham City, Sebastian Stagg and his research team are still trying to uncover the secrets of the ice sample that Stagg Enterprises took from the Arctic Circle. They have discovered that the ice contains Kryptonian crystals and a mysterious energy signature. They have also discovered that there are people buried underneath the ice and they are still alive.

In the present day, Aquaman, Mera and their daughter go to Amnesty Bay to deal with the ice monsters in Atlantis to persuade the Fire Trolls to help them

John Stewart helps out civilians before going to Washington D.C to meet with Detective Chimp when he's attacked by the Frost King, but the Justice League saves him. The Frost King realizes that the thing he is trying to find (the preservation of his family) is in Stagg Industries Research Facility in Gotham.

Meanwhile, the Teen Titans allow kids to stay in their Titans Tower to wait out the snowstorm. The Teen Titans decide to go to Brooklyn to deal with ice monsters and help a sleeping metahuman name Summer Zahid deal with an ice monster. While recovering, Flash, Cyborg, and Starfire teleport in the Titan Tower using a Boom Tube to check on the heroes. Donna Troy realizes the Frost King is the story that Hippolyta told her when she was in Themiscyra and tells Cyborg to teleport her and Flash there to help the Amazons.

Zatanna tells Wonder Woman that they need to go to New Myria to find where the current Swamp Thing is. They find Swamp Thing, but Swamp Thing says his powers are weakening due to the Frost King's powers. Back on Earth, Queen Hippolyta summons the spirit of the Viking Prince for help, and the Viking Prince explains that they need to find Frost King's family to find Frost King. Wonder Woman and Zatanna arrive holding an empty vessel of the Swamp Thing. The vessel possesses the Viking Prince, turning him into the new Swamp Thing.

Silver Banshee, Icicle, Catman, Rampage, Black Adam, and the Frost King arrive at the Stagg Enterprises facility to take the frozen Frost King's family who is in stasis right now. Multiplex tries helping Black Adam, but he over exhausts himself and Frost King kills Multiplex. Black Adam threatens to kill Frost King's family. While Frost King is distracted, Sebastian Stagg sends out a robot that can fire cold fusion cannons, but it makes the Frost King stronger instead. Just before Black Adam is killed, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Batman, and Green Lantern arrive.

Batman reveals that he let Sebastian Stagg be used as bait to find the Frost King, the heroes start fighting against him. The Viking Prince/Swamp Thing arrives in battle and realizes this is just an avatar of the Frost King. Batman and Hippolyta find the Frost King's true body in the Fortress of Solitude where it was revealed that in the past, Edwald was trapped in the Fortress of Solitude. Once Sebastian Stagg indirectly freed him, he absorbed the powers of the Fortress of Solitude to create avatars and wreak havoc. Black Adam nearly kills Frost King, but Superman stops him and they both fight while the Frost King regains his strength. Aquaman arrives with the Fire Trolls to help turn the tide. Hippolyta and Wonder Woman nearly convinced the Frost King, but his avatar starts raging out of control and causing chaos across the battlefield. There is a huge explosion and the Frost King and his horde are seemingly destroyed. Black Adam leaves while swearing vengeance on Superman, and the rest of the world celebrates the Justice League's heroics. Sebastian Stagg is arrested for his crimes, The Viking Prince returns to the afterlife while the Swamp Thing finds another avatar, and Superman starts rebuilding the Fortress of Solitude. It's revealed that the Frost King is still alive, and he decides to go into cyrostasis until his family is freed once more.

A group of former porn stars gathered to teach aspiring teen actress to be a porn star and will receive cash each if the actress will be launched.

A young Maggie de la Riva finishes filming a new scene for a movie. While she and her family celebrate her big breaks in the film industry, several sex crimes involving wealthy socialites, actresses, and TV and radio hosts take place within the Metro Manila region, then part of Rizal Province. The crimes, committed by young men from wealthy and influential families, are done by taking the victims to a small hotel where they are sexually abused and raped by the perpetrators. Later, Maggie falls in love with her best friend, Albert, and the two hang out on several occasions.

With the sex crime rates increasing, Maggie's family and friends, as well as the movie industry become concerned following rumors. Albert calls Maggie one night and informs her of his conversation with the production team about another rape victim, a socialite and actress. The next day, Maggie and the production team discuss filming another scene due to the absence of a cast member. During a break, a fellow cast member and Maggie theorize that little of the crimes' details are known possibly due to the shame the rape victims suffer while the perpetrators are influential. While driving home that evening, Maggie and her maid Mameng stop for refueling while a Pontiac carrying a quartet of influential men coming home from a long night of drinking followed them at the distance. After refueling, Maggie drives but the Pontiac follows them again, making swerving and dangerous moves. As both cars stop at the de la Riva household, Mameng tries to alert the inhabitants only for the four men to get out of their car and abduct Maggie while Mameng and their mother Pilar watch in horror.

The quartet, consisting of Jaime Jose, Edgardo Aquino, Basilio Pineda, and Rogelio Canal, intimidate Maggie and drive her to a motel where they silence the staff and take her to a suite. They then intimidate and abuse Maggie further, including physically beating her when she refuses to comply. The quartet undress her until she breaks down and all four men leave the room. Taking turns, Jose, Aquino, Pineda, and Canal rape Maggie and revive her with cold water as well as torture her when she goes into a state of shock. Meanwhile, Pilar calls her son-in-law and Medy's husband Ben Suba, to call in journalists and authorities and inform them of Maggie's abduction.

Back at the motel, the four perpetrators redress Maggie and threaten her with death if she breaks her silence. A taxicab takes her to her home where she is greeted by authorities and the press and comforted by Albert. In the next days, her family convinces her to file a case against the perpetrators, which she willingly does. A manhunt operation was set to find the four suspects wherein Jose becomes the first to fall into the authorities. While Pineda and Canal are arrested in Batangas, Aquino surrenders days later.

Lawyer Estanislao Fernandez offers his services to Maggie after the latter meets Imelda Marcos. Maggie then moves to a heavily guarded police safehouse in Camp Crame wherein failed attempts and threats against her continue. The trial then takes place in Quezon City wherein Maggie, the witnesses, and the suspects give their testimonies. The court, presided by Lourdes Paredes San Diego, find the suspects' testimonies contemptuous. Attempts to have the four perpetrators sentenced to death by electric chair become difficult due to monetary bribes and other influences.

The court ultimately reaches a guilty verdict and sentences the four to death by electric chair. As more evidence on the sex crimes surface after the Supreme Court upholds the verdict of the lower court, Canal dies of a drug overdose in New Bilibid Prison. The surviving accused submit their appeals but are then denied. The plan to carry out the death sentence becomes more difficult when executives of the justice department decide that only two will be executed. Ben Suba meets with Vicente Abad Santos, who asks him to find more hard evidence, which he eventually does. After Abad Santos receives the said evidence, which are photos of the perpetrators committing their crimes on the wealthy female victims, he calls Ferdinand Marcos in Malacanang to ask him for approval to carry out the execution.

On the day of the execution, as Maggie visits a church to pray, Jose's mother, Dolores, visits Malacanang and asks Imelda Marcos to help spare her son from death row and instead place him under life imprisonment, adding that he was only inadvertently involved in the crime. Imelda however, denies this appeal despite showing mercy to Dolores. While Aquino showed remorse as he walks to the death chamber and has his head shaved, Jose and Pineda are forcibly dragged to the chamber; Jose weeps and calls for his mother while Pineda freaks out and enters into a state of insanity. After a woman, a rape victim, is forcibly dragged from the death chamber, the three accused are brought to the electric chair and are electrocuted.

Maggie and Albert meet up at their hangout spot at a beach wherein they break up their relationship due to her ordeal. In the end, the real Maggie de la Riva comforts her daughter and tells her to be strong in times of danger.

In an introduction, the film's director explains that the main character was chosen by drawing names from a hat. The name that came up was Artemis, a goddess from Greek mythology. The director introduces himself as the story's omniscient narrator, and throughout the film sometimes intervenes to make characters act in certain ways.

Artemis, the daughter of Zeus and twin sister of Apollo, is a 23-year-old literature student at the University of Caen Normandy. She meets Kalie Steaux (pronounced like Callisto), an exuberant student of performing arts who is looking for a roommate, and Artemis invites her to live in her apartment. Artemis is misanthropic and reluctant about meeting boys, which is in stark contrast to Kalie.

After knowing each other for a few weeks they go on a road trip together. They are nearly arrested for illegally camping on a beach, but Artemis uses a pendant to summon lightning which scares away the policemen. Fernando, a young man Artemis approached after pressure from Kalie, invites them to a concert at a bar and a party in Cherbourg. Artemis tries to converse with Fernando but excuses herself and stays in the bathroom for two hours; when Fernando tries to seduce her, she transforms him into a stag.

Artemis returns home alone and watches a film on her laptop. The narrator explains that she is a virgin and that she admires the women in the films of Howard Hawks, the subject of her thesis, because they use charm as a weapon against men. Kalie returns and slips into bed with Artemis.

The movie tells a story of a woman called Naana Akua Quansah is a politician and is seeking to become first female president, as she campaigns with her team citizens in the country bought into her ideology letting her have the mass majority of voter on her side. Things unfolded when she had an accident and she fell into coma, the team had to device a new strategy by using her twin sister in her place to win power.

Chris (Christopher McCombs) and Kyle (Kyle Card) are about to head to the set for their first day of work on series 2 of ''The Benza'' when Inko Sensei (Haku Inko) appears. She uses a dark magic to turn all of Higashi Nakano into a retro RPG and kidnaps Lee. Chris and Kyle must battle through fifty floors of their Japanese school with their friends Alena (Janni Olsson), Stephanie (Hannah Grace), David (Alexander Hunter), and more to put a stop to Inko Sensei's evil plan.

The series features Lucas Silva e Silva (Luciano Amaral), a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandparents, parents, sister and maid in a townhouse in São Paulo. His father, Rogério (Antônio Fagundes), is a teacher who works hard, and his mother, Carolina (Mira Haar), works at a boutique. His older sister is called Juliana (Mayana Blum), and the maid is called Rosa (Ana D’Lira). Lucas is given a tape recorder by his grandfather, Orlando (Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), for his birthday. Lucas uses the tape recorder to record his childhood fantasies, which feature prominently in each episode.

Russian teenager Zhenya Prokhorov returns home from military service and his friend Kostya from a corrective labor colony. They try to stay out of trouble and find a place in the world.

The action takes place at the Busy Bee Beanery, a small cafe where a notice asks "Don't Flirt withe the Cashier". The cashier is arguing with the owner. A Chaplin-esque customer arrives, downs some sauce, and sits staring at the cashier. The cashier is chewing gum and the customer gets her to stretch it far enough that he can steal a bit to eat.

Two large plates arrive but the food is too rubbery to eat. The owner calls the chef and hits him with the food when he appears at the serving hatch. The chef then traps the owners head by sliding the hatch and gets a frying pan to go round and scald the owners backside. The cashier rescues the boss.

A new customer arrives and orders a frankfurter sandwich. The chef says he has none so the owner puts his finger in a glove and puts it in a bun. He shows the customer then withdraws his finger as he puts it down. The customer complains and the owner claims he ate it. The customer stomps off without paying.

The cashier shows the owner the empty cash drawer. The owner goes to try to sell his business while the chef flirts with the cashier. The owner brings back enough men to fill the cafe, offering them a free meal. The cashier is told to ring up $1 each time one leaves even though they pay nothing. A prospective buyer and his wife are fooled into thinking that business is good and offer to buy the cafe. The buyer goes to the kitchen and counts out his cash. He tells the cashier she can stay and his wife starts to get annoyed. The wife takes over as cashier and the original cashier goes to the kitchen to collect her wages.

However, the new buyer's wife does not let the remaining customers leave without paying. The customers explain the deal they were offered and the buyer tries to get the owner who is hiding in the kitchen. The chef defends the door with two meat cleavers. A fight breaks out in the cafe. The wife goes outside and calls over two policemen. At the same time the buyer uses a telephone to call the Keystone Cops in their police station. He asks for the riot squad.

The two nearby police enter first. The owner and cashier escape by the kitchen door and go to the front. He tries to crank start the buyer's roadster. Once it starts the cashier jumps in and they speed off. The Keystone Cops arrive in their car and the angry crowd tell them to chase the stolen car. They give chase firing their revolvers in the air. The cars pass each other repeatedly then the roadster hits the end of the pier and owner and cashier are thrown into the sea by the inertia.

The Cops the chef the buyer and his wife assemble on the pier and throw the cashier a lifeline. She is pulled out. The buyer hugs his wife and the chef hugs the cashier. The owner is not seen again.

In the cheerful Latin America of the 70s an ideological struggle is waged that involves all sectors of society. Dictators and revolutionaries use the kidnapping of people as their preferred methodology to impose their ideas. Valente, the son of a powerful businessman, makes a living working for an insurance company specializing in kidnappings. Your mission is to bring the victims to safety.

Lide, a young mother, works as a security guard for an engineering project that has part of her community up in arms. This drama pales into comparison when, one day, she gets up to find that her daughter Ane is not in the house, nor has her bed been slept in.

Neither the film's characters nor the viewer sees Ane and the heightened tension in the community seems to magnify the void she has left behind. As Lide turns to her ex-partner Fernando (Mikel Losada), Ane’s father, for help, it becomes apparent that she is somehow afraid of this unseen daughter.

A corporate fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. When he learns that the prosecuting counsel is led by a particularly brilliant barrister, he attempts to undermine the barrister's credibility by employing a shady individual to use smear tactics against him.

Ben and Tina are a young engaged New York couple and passionate YouTube contributors who are travelling Europe and seeking out reputedly haunted houses to live-record their experiences. One day, they go to south-west France to seek out a sanatorium submerged in an artificial lake, only to find it a crowded vacation spot. A local, Pierre, offers to take them to an isolated branch of the lake in the forest of Chanteloup, an area which was artificially submerged in 1984 to prevent frequently recurring, devastating floods. The area he is leading them to contains a mansion which he claims has remained perfectly preserved.

Reaching the spot, Ben and Tina submerge, finding the house in a short while, with its contents strangely well-preserved. However, eerie things begin to happen after they enter the house; they hear strange voices and noises, the motion tracker on their drone indicates movement while there is nothing to trigger it, and their electronic equipment inexplicably begins malfunctioning. In addition, in some of the rooms they find lots of photos, posters and news articles showing missing children, as well as satanic symbols and a score of violent scratches at the front door post. In the kitchen, they discover a door blocked by a large crucifix, and opening it, they enter a room containing two corpses in chains and torture masks suspended above a satanic pentagram, and a side room filled with pickled human body parts. Ben and Tina try to flee the house, but the window they entered through is suddenly blocked off by a brick wall, and their frantic search for other exits is in vain.

While trying to open a grate in the cellar with the two bodies, Tina is suddenly attacked. The assault ceases abruptly, but strangely Ben denies that anything unusual has happened. Curious, Ben removes the masks from the corpses, revealing them to be the Montégnacs, the family who owned the house. The two corpses suddenly come to life and chase them through the house. As they try to escape through a chimney, the shaft collapses, trapping them on different floors. In an upstairs bedroom, Ben finds a family tree featuring Pierre, revealing him as the Montégnacs' son and indicating that he lured them to the house on purpose, before he is attacked by an undead girl - the Montégnacs' daughter Sarah - and possessed by her. When Tina finds him, he leads her to a hidden sitting room in the basement where Sarah, through Ben and a gruesome film reel, reveals that Mr. Montégnac and Pierre kidnapped children from the surrounding area to use as satanic sacrifices. The elder Montégnacs and Sarah were eventually killed by an avenging mob, but Pierre managed to escape.

Under Sarah's influence, Ben tries to convince Tina to join the family. Panicked and with her air supply depleted, Tina flees into a secret satanic chapel, where she finds a shaft leading out. Ben catches up with her and tries to kill her, but she wounds him with a diving knife, shocking him out of his possession. Before they can escape together, Sarah stabs Ben to death. The Montégnacs then turn on Tina, but she escapes up the shaft, which leads back into the lake. But just below the water's surface, the remaining air in her lungs gives out, and she drowns.

After the credits, there is a brief scene in which two new divers look out over the lake, accompanied by Pierre.

Three teenage childhood friends invoke the spirit of Aïsha Kandisha, the avenging creature of a Moroccan legend. When one of them Amélie suffers at the hands of a former boyfriend, she asks Kandisha to punish him. The game turns into a nightmare when the people in their closest environment start to re-appear dead as Kandisha not satisfied with one sacrifice starts venting out her rage on any male in her vicinity...including their nearest and dearest. Then, the three friends must do everything possible to contain this evil creature who is demanding to be reborn by using one of them as a human host with Amélie and her two friends turning to an Islamic father and son spiritualists for help, when Kandisha herself starts targeting their male family members with Amélie's precious younger brother Antoine being a special interest to Kandisha.

What started as a flirtatious encounter at a bar turns into a life-or-death struggle as Eve (Lucie Debay) becomes the unknowing target of a misogynistic plot against her. Forced to flee as two men pursue her through the forest, she’s pushed to her extremes while fighting to survive in the wilderness—but survival isn’t enough for Eve. She will have revenge.

Comic Book Guy and his wife Kumiko enjoy a lazy Sunday while Marge and Homer attend multiple children's birthday parties. Desperate for adult company, Marge and Homer leave the kids with Ned Flanders and go to Moe's for trivia night. Teaming up with Comic Book Guy and Kumiko, they win first place, and Marge and Kumiko relate over having overweight husbands. When Kumiko visits Marge, she bonds with Maggie and tells her husband she wants to have a child. Comic Book Guy, who works with children at his store every day and knows that he is an emotionally distant man, does not want to become a father.

Kumiko arranges for her husband to attend a movie with the Simpsons, and he finds he truly enjoys introducing Bart and Lisa to classic movies. When the children become upset, however, he is unable to comfort them, and returns to his family home, where his philatelist father and other obsessive relatives live alone with their collections. It is then revealed that Comic Book Guy took solace in comic books as a child solely because his father never attended any of his beloved baseball games, causing him to choke during the championship. His father later admits that he did not go to the game for fear he would not know what to say if his son lost, but produces a ball autographed by his son's hero, Sandy Koufax, that he had intended to give him. The pair play a game of catch, and Comic Book Guy returns to his wife, telling her that he is now ready to start a family.

''Comme dans l’espace'' is fiction-based and tells the story of two adolescents, Alex and Joaquim. These two vloggers discover a former secret space agency station (the bunker). With the assistance of an android, Mia, an apprentice astronaut, data from the Canadian Space Agency and various experiments, they explore the phenomena of the science of space.

In each episode, Alex and Joaquim are assigned a new mission from Frédéric Gallant, an apprentice astronaut. Each mission explores a new space-related subject such as black holes, weightlessness and the movement of the planets. Their objective is to learn about the science of the cosmos all the while conducting experiments on Earth. They vlog these experiments and share their experiences with their viewing public.

The location of the bunker is unknown to the public and no-one other than Frédéric and Mia know they are using the bunker to do their vlog. They have several close-calls with the information support technician and a few false alarms to add to their challenge.

The concept of this television series, ''Comme dans l'espace'', is to provide an educational experience for the young, but in effect, it is a show for all ages.

Unhappily married Fumiko, mother of two children, divorces her drug-addicted husband after an incident which she regards as an act of unfaithfulness, and moves back to her mother. At the same time, she tries to find her voice as a poetess, regularly attending a poetry circle, encouraged by her married tutor Hori, whom she loves with a respectful distance. While struggling with the divorce and the fact that she could only take her daughter with her, she is diagnosed with late stage breast cancer. She undergoes a double mastectomy, which she writes about in a series of widely noticed and prize-winning poems, and tries to live her life as freely as possible and as her illness allows. She has a short affair with journalist Ōtsuki, who writes about her in a newspaper series, before she finally dies.

After falling asleep in class, a student named Youngho awakens at night to find his school transformed into a terrifying landscape filled with monsters.

A cop (Auðunn Blöndal) in denial of his sexuality, falls in love with his new partner (Egill Einarsson), while investigating a string of bank robberies where nothing seems to have been stolen.

The Russian Empire during the First World War; two sisters in Petrograd pursue romance in the runup to the Russian Revolution.

The film is told from three perspectives: “present-day” interviews with ''I Love Lucy'''s lead writers Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, and Bob Carroll Jr.; flashbacks throughout Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s relationship; and preparations for filming an episode of the show in 1953.

In 1939, Ball is an actress contracted to RKO Pictures, earning the moniker "Queen of the B-Movies." Cast in the failed comedy ''Too Many Girls'', she falls in love with her costar, Cuban singer Arnaz. He assures her of her talent as a physical comedian, and she confides her dream of simply making a home with someone. They marry and buy a house in Hollywood, but struggle to spend time together, with Arnaz busy fronting his Desi Arnaz Orchestra while Ball continues her film career with little success.

After serving in World War II, Arnaz resumes touring with his orchestra, and Ball lands a starring role in 1942's ''The Big Street''. She meets with RKO President Charles Koerner, expecting to become an established star like Rita Hayworth and Judy Holliday. Instead, he terminates her contract, largely due to her age, and suggests she use her voice for radio. In 1948, she is cast in the radio show ''My Favorite Husband'', which becomes a massive success.

CBS suggests turning ''My Favorite Husband'' into a television show, sponsored by cigarette company Philip Morris. Hoping to bring her and Arnaz closer together, Ball agrees on the condition that he plays her on-screen husband; the executives initially refuse to have an “all-American” star with a Cuban husband, but are forced to concede. By 1953, the show is renamed ''I Love Lucy'' and becomes a smash hit with nearly 60 million viewers each week.

Ball and Arnaz produce the show in Los Angeles through their company Desilu Productions, with a three-camera system designed by Arnaz allowing East Coast viewers to watch live without static, while accommodating a studio audience. Dealing with friction between her costars William Frawley, who is often drunk, and Vivian Vance, who resents Ball’s attempts to make her less attractive, Ball clashes with the directors and writers over her exacting demands.

Walter Winchell’s radio program claims to have evidence of Ball’s Communist ties, alarming ''I Love Lucy''’s crew that their show will be shut down. Ball admits to registering with the party when she was young and influenced by a relative, and Arnaz frustrates her by announcing that she innocently marked the wrong box. They inform the writers she is pregnant with their second child, planning to integrate this into future episodes, but executives refuse to allow even the word “pregnant” on the air.

Ball confronts her husband for often staying out late, but he proves that a tabloid photo of him with another woman was taken months ago. After Frawley suggests that Arnaz’s behavior stems from feeling emasculated by Ball taking over many of the show’s business and creative decisions, she asks Oppenheimer, the official showrunner, to help save her marriage. Instead of offering him a producer credit, Oppenheimer assures Arnaz he has top billing as the "I" in ''I Love Lucy'', but he rejects the patronizing gesture. Arnaz reaches out to the head of Philip Morris directly, securing permission to introduce Ball’s pregnancy into the show.

The night of filming a new episode, a newspaper article declares Ball a Communist, though she was cleared during an HUAC hearing. Arnaz addresses the studio audience about the accusations, and takes a live call with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who confirms that Lucy was cleared of all charges. Celebrating backstage, Ball confronts Arnaz with a lipstick-stained handkerchief, which he claims is hers, but she shows him another handkerchief with her own lipstick, and he finally admits to his infidelity.

As filming begins, Ball momentarily loses her concentration, triggered by Arnaz's catchphrase — “Lucy, I’m home”. An epilogue reveals that Ball filed for divorce after the taping of their last show in 1960.

Mostly fine. I don't know what an "Ultranationalist" is (is it just the name of a political party?). What does "loyalist" mean in that concept? It means something very specific in the UK, and I don't think that applies here. : Essentially it's referring to ultranationalism, and it's the name of the political party in the game, one of the antagonistic factions. Similarly, I presume "loyalist" also refers to loyalism (which I didn't know was a UK term until now) as it's only used by the SAS in-game. I can always link these in the article as necessary. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 21:09, 14 January 2021 (UTC) : Linked to respective articles, along with some other terms used. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 18:24, 15 January 2021 (UTC) :: AHHHHHHHH!! Ben! You don't need to ping me all those times—just once is enough to summon me from my dark resting place. I got 7 emails! :: Don't worry much about Plot, imo. ''Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'' is already at FA. You could just replicate the plot section completely with some tweaks to bring the length down. Just make sure you attribute that you took it from there in the edit summary and, to go to the full mile, put it on the Talk page. — '''''ImaginesTigers''''' (talk) :::I mean, I'm not sure how I could replicate the exact wording without then making notable changes when I tweak it. I personally don't see a problem with how its currently worded. There's nothing mentioned that isn't already included in the ''Call of Duty 4'' plot. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 17:49, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

In 1165, the witcher Vesemir saves a noble child from a leshen in a forest in Kaedwen. Before dying, the creature says something in an archaic elven dialect to Vesemir, leading him to think it was under someone's control. Vesemir is visited by the elf Filavandrel, who thinks the leshen was controlled by Kitsu, one of many elven girls who have gone missing. Meanwhile sorceress Tetra Gilcrest tries to convince the Kaedwani king to wipe out the witchers, but Lady Zerbst, another courtier, is sympathetic to the witchers and speaks in their favor.

Vesemir reminisces about his youth when he, along with his best friend Illyana, were servants for a noble whose mistress was saved from a mahr by a witcher named Deglan with Vesemir's help. Enticed by promises of coin and riches, Vesemir traveled to Kaer Morhen and underwent the training and mutations to become a witcher.

In the present day, Vesemir and another fellow witcher, Luka, are arrested for killing two knights in a bar fight. Lady Zerbst persuades the king to send Vesemir along with Tetra to rid the forest of Kitsu. She personally delivers the mission order to Vesemir who recognizes her as the now 70-year old Illyana. Vesemir and Tetra set out and she tells him the story of a young sorceress wrongfully killed by a witcher as part of a con, and that she is convinced that all witchers are corrupted. They find Kitsu, mutated and now able to cast powerful illusions, and fight her basilisk. They kill the monster, but Kitsu escapes.

Following Kitsu, the pair come across an old and abandoned elven school where they find the bodies of the other missing female elves. They rescue the captured Filavandrel, who explains that Kitsu tried to replicate the experiments that were done on her, and they come to the conclusion that witchers were responsible, creating new monsters to keep them in business. Vesemir surmises that the monsters he encountered were probably created in Kaer Morhen and leaves to confront Deglan. As he departs, Tetra destroys Kitsu's den, finds Kitsu later surveying the destruction, and blames the witchers. Back at court, she likewise tells the king of the witchers' responsibility in the recent monsters attacks and is given authorization to lay siege to Kaer Morhen. The King has Luka wrongly executed despite Lady Zerbst's protests. She then escapes to warn the witchers.

Deglan admits to Vesemir to creating the monsters, including Kitsu, to protect their way of life and are alerted by Illyana of Tetra's assault. Tetra and the local townsfolk attack Kaer Morhen with Kitsu and her monsters. Illyana helps the witcher recruits flee into the mountains. Vesemir confronts Tetra, who has captured the mages and is holding them hostage in the basement. Kitsu arrives and plunges Vesemir into an illusion where he married Illyana and had a family. However, Vesemir is able to break out of the illusion and engages in a fierce battle with Tetra and her forces. He seemingly kills Tetra and Kitsu, only for it to be revealed as another illusion, and he had killed the mages and mortally wounded Illyana instead.

Tetra reveals she is the daughter of the sorceress killed by the swindling witcher from her story before being killed by a dying Deglan. He asks Vesemir to find the recruits and make them into "better men" before succumbing to his wounds. At the behest of Illyana, Vesemir allows Kitsu to flee, and he carries a dying Illyana from the burning castle. Vesemir takes Illyana to a lake, where she always dreamed of living by. The two share a brief moment before she peacefully passes away. He then sets out and catches up to the recruits, including a young Geralt, taking them under his wing.

Sara (Binoche) and her husband Jean (Lindon) swim in the sea while on vacation, kissing and caressing one another. They return home to a wintry Paris, where Sara works as a radio presenter. Jean, a former professional rugby player with a prison record, is an absent father to his mixed-race teenage son Marcus (Perica), who lives in the custody of Jean's mother Nelly (Ogier) in the banlieue of Vitry. One day, Sara glimpses her estranged ex-boyfriend François (Colin) on the street, flooding her with emotion. François, who was also once a close friend to Jean, is opening a sports agency to recruit young rugby players and contacts Jean to work with him as a talent scout. The re-entrance of François into their lives threatens the relationship Sara and Jean have had for ten years.

A couple living in a quiet suburb soon have their lives turned upside down by a mysterious tunnel in the basement of their new home.

92-year-old Marian Leatherby lives in Mexico with her son Galahad, his wife Muriel, and her grandson Robert. Upon being gifted a hearing trumpet by her friend Carmella, Marian discovers that her family is planning to put her in an institution.

Gintoki, Takasugi and Katsura fight past the Tendoushuu forces, who have taken over the Terminal. The mothership at the top of the terminal is absorbing large amounts of Altana and channeling it into the body of the child Shouyou in order to resurrect him and obtain true immortality. As the group is attacked, they split up into two, with Katsura holding on to Shouyou's heart. Katsura and Hitsugi engage in a fierce battle, and the latter eventually stabs and destroys the heart, revealing that he had no intention of reviving the child; he only wanted to free Utsuro from the curse of immortality. Without the heart, Shouyou would only be able to regenerate and maintain his body temporarily. In the terminal, the Shinsengumi, Hyakka, Oniwabanshu and the rest of the Kabukicho residents fight the rest of the Tendoushuu army, while Matsudaira shoots down the ships outside.

Then Gintoki reunites with Kagura and Shinpachi and they rush towars the top of the terminal. In the meantime, Takasugi reaches the Tendoushuu's ship to find that Shouyou has been revived and killed off the rest of the Tendoushuu. Shouyou's only wish is to put an end to himself and Utsuro. Takasugi begs Shouyou to return to Shoka Sonjuku with him. Shouyou apologizes for not being able to save his disciples, the ones that he truly wanted to protect. As he approaches Takasugi, the latter stabs him, revealing that Utsuro's blood has taken over his body as well. This causes a large explosion at the top of the Terminal. Gintoki is separated from the others and faces off Utsuro, now manifesting in Takasugi's body, Utsuro comes to a realisation that Takasugi did not stab Utsuro earlier. Instead, supported by Oboro whose blood also runs through his body, Takasugi stabbed himself. The body that Utsuro saw lying on the ground was himself. Gintoki and Utsuro fight each other.

With a final stab and in a human body, Utsuro is no longer immortal and dies. Gintoki holds a dying Takasugi in his arms, who tells him that Gintoki has won again and he dies. Shinpachi and Kagura rescue the wounded Shouyou. Shouyou tells everyone to evacuate the Terminal via Sakamoto's ships, who was about to blow up due to the massive amounts of Altana that is escaping it. Shouyou said that he could use the Altana in his body to cancel out the energy bursting out of the Terminal. Shinpachi and Kagura join him and Katsura stays behind as well. He tells Gintoki, via a radio handed to him by the Shinsengumi, that he has spent his childhood covering up for Gintoki and Takasugi whenever they made mischief, and he couldn't leave until he did that again. As Shouyou disappears, Gintoki tells him that he wanted to show his teacher what he has been doing since then – running the Yorozuya with his friends.

Some time in the future, Tama wakes up with memories of what has happened given to her by Tamako. She walks around the city, which has now transformed into Tokyo. After the final battle, Gintoki returned to the Yorozuya. Much of their old friends have remained the same and Tama watches as they celebrate at Snack Smile. Sakamoto writes to Gintoki and informs him that Katsura met up with the remnants of the Kiheitai. Matako scoured the land for Altana gates and found a baby that has emerged from one of the holes. Tama runs to the location where the Yorozuya used to be, only to find the spot empty and the surroundings replaced by futuristic buildings. However, she spots Hasegawa who tells her that machines has taken over the world and humans are mostly unemployed like him. Suddenly, the Yorozuya kick him in the face and reveal that this was a sham ending. Tamako has been fed false memories by Hasegawa and the illusion around them shatters. The Yorozuya is still around and Gintoki tells her to wipe her tears away. Gintoki, Shinpachi and Kagura rush off to an urgent job, but have apparently forgotten what the task was supposed to be. But whatever it is, they would get it done – after all, they are the Yorozuya.

In the final edition of Ginpachi-sensei, Sorachi Hideaki makes a cameo to answer unresolved questions, including if Gintoki is half-Amanto due to his silver hair (no, it is just a manga) and if the baby was really Takasugi (they take a vote but did not come to a conclusion).

In the year 2044, the alien Krang has invaded the Earth and the resistance has fallen. In one final attempt, Leonardo and Michelangelo now as Masters with the rest of their family having died in the war, send their student Casey Jones back in time to stop the invasion by finding a key that allowed the Krang to come to the Earth, though it costs Leo and Mikey their lives to do so.

Casey successfully reaches the present day, two years after the defeat of the Shredder. After Leo breaks Donatello's pizza box stack record, Raphael alerts both of them and Mikey of a theft unfolding by Hypno-Potamus and Warren Stone, with the key that Casey is looking for is included with the stolen items. The Turtles manage to stop them, but the Foot ninjas arrive and claim the key. Back in the new lair, Raph and Leo get into an argument due to the latter's growing ego.

Meanwhile, Casey finds April O'Neil who knocks him out and takes him to the Turtles' lair. He then explains his mission and after mentioning the Krang, Splinter explains that they came to Earth long ago and were exiled to another realm by a band of warriors who created and used the key, which is a mystic weapon, and that they are worshiped by the Foot. The Turtles, along with April, Splinter and Casey, go after the Foot, who have managed to open the portal. Their fight against the Krang causes them to lose their mystic powers, forcing them to retreat, but Leo manages to seize the key and close the portal. To protect Leo, Raph forces him to escape while he is captured.

Afterwards, the remaining Turtles, along with Casey, go after the Krang and Raph while Splinter and April remain behind to get rid of the key. The Krang manage to find the Turtles' lair through Raph, they then parasitically possess the members of the Foot clan and sends them after the key while they prepare the portal on top of the Metro Tower, the tallest building in the city.

The Turtles and Casey are ambushed in the sub-way tunnels and get separated. Casey calls out Leo for his arrogance before they reunite with the rest of the Turtles. They then find Raph, who has been possessed by the Krang and seizes the key, the Krang then uses the key to open the portal and bring forth the Technodrome. The Krang began their attack upon New York City and easily defeat the U.S. Army.

While April, Splinter, and Casey occupy the Krang forces, the Turtles board the ship. Leo goes after Raph, while Donnie and Mikey try to seize control of the ship. They are captured, but Leo reaches out to Raph and helps him break free, and the brothers manage to regain their mystic powers. The four fight valiantly but the Krang are too strong with Mikey, Donnie and Raph thrown out of the ship during the battle. Leo forces the Krang back to their prison realm and orders Casey to close the portal, which results in the Technodrome getting cut in half from the closure and destroyed. Leo is trapped in the realm, but Mikey, Raph, and Donnie save him using Mikey's newly-developed mystic powers, leaving the Krang alone in the prison realm, preventing the future of earth being destroyed.

Sometime later, the heroes enjoy pizza on top of the Brooklyn Bridge, with Casey revealing that former Foot Clan recruit Cassandra Jones is his mother. They watch the city as it is being rebuilt and make a vow to defend it when it is needed. Afterwards, Raph tries to break Leo's pizza box stack record.

During what appears to be the 1970s, Vision and Wanda Maximoff, who has become visibly pregnant in a remarkably short timeframe, has her condition checked by Dr. Nielson, who gives Maximoff a clean bill of health and prepares to leave with his wife for a vacation to Bermuda. While Vision sees Nielson out, he sees his neighbor Herb cut through the concrete wall separating their driveways.

Maximoff and Vision build a new room for the baby and debate what to name him, with Maximoff favoring the name Tommy while Vision prefers the name Billy. Maximoff's pregnancy accelerates rapidly, and her powers go haywire, causing her to accidentally generate an energy surge that shuts down power across Westview. While Vision rushes to get Dr. Nielsen, Maximoff is visited by Geraldine. Maximoff unsuccessfully tries to hide her pregnancy before going into labor. She gives birth to twin boys with Geraldine's assistance.

Dr. Nielsen implies that his vacation was an attempt to escape from Westview. Vision catches Herb and Agnes gossiping, and they ask Vision about Geraldine. Herb attempts to tell Vision something about their situation, but Agnes stops him and reveals that Geraldine does not have a home or family in Westview. Maximoff interrogates Geraldine after she reveals that she knows Maximoff's twin brother Pietro was killed by Ultron. Maximoff notices that Geraldine is wearing a pendant with a sword emblem on it.

Vision returns to the house to find that Geraldine has disappeared, and Maximoff explains that she "had to rush home". Outside Westview, Geraldine is cast out from a wall of television static that borders the town and is surrounded by S.W.O.R.D. agents.

A commercial during the ''WandaVision'' program advertises Hydra Soak bath powder.

Captain Monica Rambeau, an agent of S.W.O.R.D., returns to life following the Blip only to find that her mother, Maria, died of cancer three years prior. Three weeks later, Rambeau returns to work and is told by acting S.W.O.R.D. Director Tyler Hayward that she will be assigned to terrestrial missions only, as her mother had directed before her death for anyone that returned from the Blip. She is subsequently sent to help FBI agent Jimmy Woo with a missing persons case in Westview, New Jersey. They speak to two police officers who insist that Westview does not exist, despite the town's presence directly behind them. Woo explains to Rambeau that he can not physically enter the town due to an unknown psychic force. They discover a hexagonal static CMBR field surrounding the town, which Rambeau is pulled into. Within 24 hours, S.W.O.R.D. establishes a base around the town and sends drones to investigate.

Astrophysics expert Dr. Darcy Lewis is brought in to study the phenomenon. She discovers television broadcast signals coming from the field and, using vintage televisions, finds the transmissions are for the sitcom ''WandaVision''. S.W.O.R.D. personnel use the show to observe events inside the town, learning that the real residents have been "cast" as characters, Rambeau is "Geraldine", and Vision is alive despite his death five years prior. Lewis and Woo attempt to make radio contact with Wanda Maximoff. S.W.O.R.D. agent Franklin crawls through the sewer system in an attempt to enter Westview, but his suit is transformed into beekeeper attire and his tether detaches and turns into a jump rope at the edge of the static field. When Geraldine mentions Ultron, Maximoff violently casts her out of the town which Lewis and Woo realize is censored from the broadcast. The sitcom illusion disappears, and Maximoff sees her husband Vision appear as he did when he died. Horrified, she restores the illusion. Rambeau wakes up at the S.W.O.R.D. base and is surrounded by agents. She tells them that Maximoff is controlling the illusion.

Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day is their last. Driven by the desire to control her own life and break free from her mother's control, Laura dreams of getting pregnant. Both search for their place in this world, but one year later and a little more mature, their deep passion is just a memory.

Daniel is an odd guy who lives with his endlessly quarrelling parents uncomplaining about his destiny. He keeps a distance from other people, he has no friends, nobody understands him, he is different. He will be turning nineteen and the last thing he would spend his time on is a preparation for his approaching graduation.

Adam is his classteacher. He is gay who lives in a relationship with his younger partner David and his strictly guarded secret keeps locked behind a door of their apartment.

Daniel and Adam live in their own bubbles until a moment when they both happen to be together in life threat. Lost in the darkness, cut off from the rest of the world, they are both looking for a way out. How far will they be willing to go?

During the Second World War, a Soviet agent goes deep undercover in Nazi Germany to find the location of the secret underground plant that produces new weapons.

In an impoverished neighborhood of Istanbul, a friendly garbage collector, Mehmet, who after being homeless has a soft spot for the many homeless children in the area, discovers an eight-year-old boy hiding in his colleague's garbage bag. Mehmet is dedicated to reconnecting the boy with his family.

After his university graduation ceremony, David (Anastasios Soulis) publicly and awkwardly proposes to his girlfriend, Nadja (Nanna Blondell), which she happily accepts. A year and a half later, however, they are stressed due to work and school and fight frequently in their apartment in Stockholm. The stress is compounded when Nadja learns that she is pregnant, which she is unhappy about as she is studying to be a doctor and she is not sure if she and David should be parents. She decides to keep it a secret from David. Nadja opens up to an older neighbor, Thomas, and he assures her that she and David will be great parents; he insists that parenthood is life's greatest gift and implies he has lost a child of his own. The next morning, David surprises Nadja with a camping trip to see the northern lights, and the two reconcile and take the trip with their dog, Boris. While stopping for gas, David encounters two locals, brothers Jarmo and Rolle, and is made uncomfortable by their rough mannerisms and their truck bed full of dead game. As he has difficulties taking his car out of park, he accidentally bumps into the brothers' truck, leaving scratches. David chooses to drive off instead of saying something, which annoys Nadja. When they reach their destination at an inn, the woman at the front desk treats them strangely and silently refuses to serve them, leaving her brother Einar to imply that she's not used to seeing an interracial couple. He learns of their itinerary and offers to host them at his cabin in the wilderness. Nadja becomes nervous seeing Jarmo and Rolle in the establishment, and when they leave, they discover that someone has keyed their car and vandalized their bumper sticker with a racial epithet. Angered by this, Nadja spots their pickup truck later on the drive and scratches it with a screwdriver, narrowly avoiding retaliation when the brothers catch her in the act.

The couple camps beneath the northern lights, and Nadja reveals she is pregnant, which makes David nervous and unsure. Their conversation is interrupted when they spot a red dot on the wall of their tent. They first assume that it is a laser pointer prank, but quickly realize that is a laser sight from a rifle and guess that the brothers are attacking them in revenge for the car damage. Boris escapes into the wilderness while they try to hide, and they hear gunshots and the sound of Boris whining. After they are shot at, they flee into the forest and hear their pursuers chase after them. After spending the night hiding in a small shelter, they return to the bloodied campsite and find all their belongings missing, and Boris's decapitated head in the tent. While searching for any remaining possessions, David is injured when his arm gets caught in a hunting trap. Finding nothing to help them, they set off to find help. However, they are soon shot at again, and David, increasingly losing blood, hallucinates a boy in a winter coat staring at them. David is shot in the shoulder while Nadja escapes unhurt, and the two search for each other as a snowstorm sets in. Nadja realizes that she has run atop a frozen lake, and as David searches for her, he falls in and is narrowly rescued by her. The couple finally makes it to an emergency cabin, where they phone rescuers and are told they will have to wait until the storm passes for help.

The next morning, they hear a vehicle approach the cabin and realize it is an armed (but unaware) Jarmo, who works as a mountain rescuer. Escaping through a back window, they flee into the woods and seek shelter in what is revealed to be the den of a hibernating bear. Jarmo discovers them, but before he can shoot, Nadja shoots him with a flare found at the cabin. David's condition deteriorates as they progress, and he hallucinates the boy again and begins mumbling about guilt. Spotting Einar's cabin in the distance, Nadja runs ahead to get help for David, but encounters Rolle on the way. Rolle seems confused by her appearance, but before he can act, David knocks him unconscious with a rock, and the two make it to Einar's cabin. Einar appears to call for help, but Nadja realizes that he is contacting someone else, and Einar suddenly becomes aggressive and locks them in a room discovered to be covered in stealth photographs taken of the couple.

Finally, Thomas arrives with a rifle, and the truth is revealed: the day of the couple's engagement, Nadja attempted to perform oral sex on David as they drove home, and a distracted David struck and killed a pedestrian -- the boy he had hallucinated earlier, who was also Thomas's son and Einar's nephew. David chose to drive off instead of calling the police as Nadja wanted, which left her wracked with guilt. On that day, Thomas had been playing with a drone with his son, which had caused him to run into the road; however, the drone also captured the couple's license plate, and a grieving Thomas tracked them down and moved into a nearby apartment to surveil them. Thomas is intent on inflicting revenge on the couple for callously driving away, and had been behind the earlier murder attempts. He now decides to become more sadistic and tries to get David to use a power drill to torture and kill Nadja's child, and he shoots David in the knee when he does not comply. Thomas prepares to kill them both but is interrupted by the arrival of a furious Jarmo, who has tracked down the couple. In the confusion, Thomas shoots and fatally wounds Jarmo, who accidentally does the same to Einar, and Nadja and David escape while Jarmo and Thomas struggle for a rifle.

Nadja and David attempt to flee, but David cannot escape with his injuries. He tells Nadja to run, and when she stumbles upon the unconscious Rolle, she decides to take his rifle and save David. However, when she returns, she hesitates while trying to shoot him and is shot in the head and killed instantly by Mona, Thomas's wife and Einar's sister encountered earlier at the inn. A traumatized David begs to be killed as well, but Thomas refuses, telling him that he can now understand how he felt after his own son had died. Mona and Thomas depart as David is left sobbing in the snow.

A couple in Los Angeles decides to spend alternate days of Halloween weekend 2016 in the house they share as their mutual interest in their relationship wanes.

The story follows Violet Karl a disfigured woman in her late twenties who travels by bus from her home in Spruce Pine, North Carolina to Tulsa, Oklahoma in the hopes of being healed by a televangelist.

A group of overnight security guards are hazing a new recruit who has been hired on to guard a Baltimore newspaper office. Part of the hazing includes forcing him to wear a uniform bearing the name "Rajeeve" and answering to this name. He also meets Karen, an attractive reporter that is frequently ogled by the guards.

Unbeknownst to the group, the dead body of the clown Blimpo has been delivered to the office. He and his comedy troupe had died while touring in Romania under mysterious circumstances and their bodies sent to the United States to be autopsied. The two delivery men responsible for delivering Blimpo's corpse properly bribe the watchmen with weed so they will keep the corpse until the following day. The clown awakens as a vampire and begins to kill and transform the building's occupants so that they can join in the hunt. Those that are turned into a vampire include the newspaper boss Randall and the two stoner delivery men.

Eventually only a handful of people remain: Rajeeve, Karen, and fellow night watchmen Ken, Luca, and Jiggets. The group is separated by the vampire horde, leaving Ken and Rajeeve together. Ken gives Rajeeve a pep talk in order to motivate him to fight the horde and save the others, however Rajeeve decides to leave on his own. He soon changes his mind and decides to return and fight, using the bribe weed in the ventilation system to mellow out the vampires. This proves to be successful and allows the group to reunite.

The group manages to defeat Blimpo and escape the office building, as they believe it to be dawn and that the light will eliminate the remaining vampires. They soon discover that their calculation was incorrect and that they still have a few moments of night left. The horde attacks them and rips off the back of Rajeeve's shirt, revealing that he has a large cross tattoo. The group manages to repel the vampires using the tattoo until the sun rises and destroys the horde. As they revel in the knowledge that they have survived, Rajeeve reveals his actual name to be Justin. Ken then informs the group that they must now save the world from any remaining vampires.

Klim Yarko, a former tank driver, wants to find a peaceful job as a tractor driver. He falls in love with Maryana Bazhan and begins working in a successful collective farm, whose director is Maryana's father. However, he has a rival, Nazar Duma, a tractor driver in his 40s. On the other hand, the neighboring farm is getting bankrupt, and its youth creates a gang and terrorizes the farm where Klim works. The competition between two farms results in a bloody feud.

In 1978, a serial child abductor nicknamed "The Grabber" prowls the streets of a Denver suburb. Siblings Finney and Gwen Blake live in the area with their abusive, alcoholic father. At school, Finney is frequently bullied and harassed. He has a friendship with a classmate, Robin, who fends off the bullies. A boy from another school that Finney knew, Bruce, is abducted by the Grabber. Gwen, who has psychic dreams much like her late mother, dreams of Bruce's kidnapping and sees that he was taken by a man in a Oni mask driving a black van. Detectives Wright and Miller interview Gwen but struggle to believe her claims. The Grabber abducts Robin, as well as Finney days later. Finney awakens in a soundproofed basement. On the wall is a disconnected black rotary phone that the Grabber says does not work. Later, Finney hears the phone ring and answers it. Bruce's ghost, unable to remember his own name or who he was when he was alive, tells Finney about a floor tile he can remove to dig a tunnel to escape.

The police search for Finney is unsuccessful. The Grabber brings Finney food and leaves the door to the basement unlocked. Finney prepares to sneak out but is stopped by another boy on the phone called Billy. He explains this is a game that the Grabber plays, and he is waiting upstairs to attack Finney with a belt if he leaves the basement. Billy instructs him to use a cord Billy found to get out via the basement window. While climbing Finney breaks the bars on the window, preventing him from climbing back up. Gwen dreams of Billy being abducted and confides in her father about what is happening.

Wright and Miller speak to an eccentric man called Maximus who is staying in the area with his brother. It is revealed Finney is being held in Max's basement, which he is unaware of, and the Grabber is his brother. After an agitated exchange with the Grabber, where he tests Finney's honesty, he makes it seem as if he would have let Finney go. Finney speaks to another one of his victims, Griffin, on the phone. Griffin shows Finney a combination to a lock and informs him that the Grabber has fallen asleep upstairs. Finney sneaks upstairs and unlocks the door but the Grabber's dog alerts him of Finney's escape. Finney flees down the street but is recaptured.

Despondent over his failed escape attempt, Finney answers the phone to hear another victim, a punk called Vance whom Finney was scared of. Vance informs Finney of a connecting storage room he can escape through if he breaks a hole in the wall and exits through the freezer on the other side of the wall. Finney creates a hole with a toilet tank cover and enters the back of the freezer only to discover that the freezer door is locked. The phone rings one more time with Robin at the end of the line. He comforts Finney and encourages him to finally stand up and fight for himself. He instructs Finney to remove the phone receiver and pack it with the dirt he had dug up to use as a weapon.

Gwen dreams of Vance's abduction and discovers the property of the Grabber. She finds the house and contacts Wright and Miller. Max realizes Finney is being held in the house and rushes to the basement to free him, but his brother kills him with an axe. The police rush to the house that Gwen found but find it is empty. In the basement, they find the buried bodies of the Grabber's victims. The Grabber attacks Finney with the axe, but Finney manages to trip the Grabber with the cord, causing him to fall into the tunnel Finney dug, where the Grabber breaks and traps his ankle in the window bars placed at the bottom. The ghosts taunt the Grabber over the phone before Finney breaks his neck with the phone cord, killing him. Finney distracts the guard dog with meat from the freezer and escapes the house using the combination he learned. Finney exits the house across the street from the gravesites where he reunites with Gwen and the police rush to the property. The siblings comfort each other as their father arrives and tearfully apologizes for his treatment. Back at school, a confident Finney sits next to his crush in class.

Two NKVD agents fight foreign spies in the Oryol Oblast before and during the Second World War.

Mary is a young writer whose story comes to life in horribly vivid hallucinations, causing her to question the relationships she maintains with the people she loves and the reality around her.

The book begins with a prologue three hundred years before the main story. At the conclusion of a conflict called The Sorceress War, a wizard named Wigg is in charge of exiling the four leaders of the sorceress army across an impassable ocean. The sorceresses cannot simply be executed since all wizards take an oath not to kill any innocents under their power. The sorceresses are sent off in a small boat with enough provisions for a few days and they swear to return one day.

Three-hundred-twenty-seven years after this, a man named Tristan is set to inherit the throne of Eutracia, as his father, Nicholas, must abdicate on Tristan's 30th birthday. Tristan is unwilling to become king, but relents, seeing it as his duty. The coronation ceremony involves the Directorate of Wizards, led by Wigg, taking a magical necklace from King Nicholas before handing it over to Tristan. During the transition they are all powerless, and so Wigg suggests performing the real coronation in secret before putting on a mock coronation for the public. Nicholas rejects this idea.

During the ceremony, the sorceresses and their minions, mutated humanoid creatures with leather wings, attack and massacre the attendees, including King Nicholas and the Directorate of Wizards. Tristan's sister Shailiha is kidnapped so that the sorceresses can use her as the fifth part of their circle.

As Eutracia is destroyed, Tristan and Wigg travel to the home of the gnomes for a way to travel across the ocean and confront the sorceresses in their lair. En route, Tristan meets and becomes infatuated with a woman named Lilith, who later turns out to be a sorceress agent. She sexually assaults him with the intent of becoming pregnant with a child that has his massive magical power. Wigg kills her before Tristan orgasms though, which according to him means it was not a real rape. After this, they reach the gnomes and are teleported across the ocean.

Meanwhile, Shailiha undergoes severe psychological torture to make her believe that the other sorceresses are her friends and that Tristan is her enemy.

Upon arrival at the sorceress keep, Tristan and Wigg manage to sneak inside with the help of a double agent, however they are captured not long after. While imprisoned, Tristan is again sexually assaulted by a sorceress named Succiu and this time she is impregnated. Using magic she forces her pregnancy to progress rapidly until she is ready to give birth a few days later. At this time, the sorceresses reveal their plan.

Using a full circle of five, they will cast a spell to kill every human on the planet except for themselves and Tristan. Then they will all repopulate with their magically gifted offspring, creating a sort of master race. Inbreeding will not be an issue, as they developed a spell to counter the negative effects.

Wigg manages to cast a spell that deprives the sorceresses of their power and then destroys their keep, killing several of them and causing their minions to flee. Succiu commits suicide by jumping from the roof of their keep, and Tristan returns later to cut his unborn child from her womb for burial. He, Wigg, and Shailiha begin the return trip to Eutracia only to be stopped by the remaining minions. Tristan duels the leader in single combat, making him the new leader. Finally he returns home to rebuild and rehabilitate his sister.

In the epilogue, mysterious figures discuss unknown plans as they bring Tristan's child back from the dead.

The novel begins in Combe, a fictional fishing village at the mouth of a river, just to the west of Portsmouth. Edgar, son of a boat builder, wakes up before dawn to sneak away with his lover, a married but unhappy woman, Sungifu (Sunni). Edgar has a job arranged in another village, and has prepared to sail himself and Sunni away to start a new life. Upon crossing the bay to Sunni's house, Edgar sees a Viking raiding party landing and rushes to raise the alarm. Edgar tries to save Sunni, but finds her dead at the hands of a Viking, whom Edgar kills, taking his axe, and then hiding. When the raid is over, Edgar sees his village destroyed, and his father murdered. Edgar's mother, and two dense brothers, Erman and Eadbald, are left penniless, homeless, and without even tools and lumber to build ships.

In the aftermath of the destruction, brothers Wilf, Ealdorman of Shiring; Wigelm, Lord of Combe (Wilf's subservient); and Wynstan, Bishop of Shiring, survey the damage. Wigelm laments that his income will decrease as his newly-homeless residents of Combe cannot pay rents. Wynstan, the lascivious but intelligent brains of the family, tells Wigelm that he must allow the residents to take lumber from the forest and forbearance on the rent in order to rebuild their lives. Edgar's mother complains to the lords about the situation, and Wynstan sees a chance to remove her as seditious influence in Combe. He offers the family a secretly bad farm in Dreng's Ferry, a small community with a nunnery and church a few days upriver from Combe, and the family accepts.

The family settles into their new farm near Dreng's Ferry. They meet the malicious Dreng, owner of the eponymous ferry and an alehouse, his spoiled daughter Cwenberg, and his two wives Leongifu (Leaf), Ethel, and a Welsh slave, Blod, who Dreng prostitutes. Degbert, Dean of the church, and landlord of the family, is brother to Dreng and a distant relation to Wynston, Wigelm, and Wilf. The extended family of Wystan is irredeemably corrupt and cruel.

One night, two thieves attempt to steal a pig from Edgar's family farm. The family kill one of the thieves, but the other, called "Iron-face," for the iron helmet worn, escapes. It is said that Iron-face has been marauding the land for years, eluding authorities.

Cwenberg attempts to seduce in succession, Edgar, who refuses, and then Erman and Eadbald. Erman and Eadbald fight over Cwenberg, resulting in both brothers marrying Cwenberg when she is discovered to be pregnant, but cannot identify which of the two brothers is the father. As depicted in the book, in English society of the time it is accepted, though unusual, for a man to have two wives and for a woman to have two husbands.

Meanwhile in Cherbourg, Lady Ragnhild (called Ragna), daughter of Count Hubert, is entertaining Father Aldred, a monk and the armarius (librarian) of Shiring Cathedral whose greatest wish is to create a center for books and learning. Aldred is gay and was exiled from Glastonbury Cathedral for a homosexual affair with a fellow monk. Ragna is not a typical noblewoman; she is literate, intelligent, and very interested in administering justice in her lands. Her parents hope for a good marriage with her and have some offers already.

Wilf visits Cherbourg to propose that Count Hubert stop sheltering Viking raiders in Normandy. Ragna and Wilf, both very good looking, are immediately attracted to each other, and have an exciting moment bringing down a boar together in a hunt. Later, a fire breaks out in a stable, and Ragna takes leadership of putting it out, impressing Wilf with her administrative skill. They illicitly have sex, and Wilf returns to England, to Ragna's disappointment. Bishop Wynstan returns with an offer of marriage from Wilf to Ragna, which is accepted.

Ragna heads to Shiring, but is robbed on the way by Iron-face. Ragna and her entourage take shelter in Dreng's Ferry, where she meets Edgar, who takes Lady Ragna to the nunnery for a bed, using a boat he has made to replace the aging canoe used as a ferry. She is impressed by Edgar's intelligence, honesty, and ingenuity, and remembers him. Edgar, meanwhile, has fallen in love with Ranga, though he believes a relationship with her is impossible.

At Shiring, Lady Ragna is married and settles into life governing and running the household. She takes control of lands she was granted in her marriage contract, and begins to dispense justice and administer Shiring on behalf of Wilf, who has no interest in governing. Ragna comes into direct opposition to Wilf's extended family, who see her as a threat. Wilf tires of Ragna and begins to sleep with other women, wounding Ragna, who begins to hate him.

Father Aldred crosses Bishop Wynstan and is "rewarded" with the position as prior of a newly-created monastery at Dreng's Ferry. Aldred meets Edgar, who he is attracted to, all the more so since Edgar will refuse his advances. Aldred and Edgar cooperate on improving the community.

The alehouse burns down, so Edgar proposes to build a stone alehouse for Dreng, who agrees. He transports the stone from a quarry owned by Ragna. Unbeknownst to Ragna, she is being cheated by her quarryman, and Edgar finds out and eventually informs her.

Edgar "the Builder" continues to improve the community. He fixes the church wall in exchange for reading lessons from Aldred. After a field floods their lands, Edgar develops a fish trap to feed the family. This ends up generating enough income to transform the family's livelihoods. Aldred brings a holy relic -- the bones of the fictional St. Adolphus -- to the church to attract pilgrims and increase the income of the priory. A jealous Wynstan has Dreng remove his ferry on a key festival day, so the pilgrims cannot get across. Aldred and Edgar build a pontoon bridge, which draws back the pilgrims and increases commerce. People begin to move to the new town, granted rental plots by the priory. Wynstan, Dreng, and Wigelm burn down the bridge, killing Leaf in the process. The elimination of the bridge inconveniences King Æthelred who is on a military campaign and cannot cross the river at the expected bridge. Aldred convinces the king to grant a charter to Dreng's Ferry for a bridge, a weekly market, and an annual faire, turning the town into "Kingsbridge."

Ragna offers the job of quarryman to Edgar, who accepts. He greatly improves Ragna's income. Edgar builds a canal to more easily transport stone for sale to the river, and a new town grows around the quarry. Dreng dies from a heart attack and his remaining wife, Ethel soon follows, tended by Blod and another slave, Mairead. Ethel leaves the tavern to the slaves, freeing them on her death.

Wilf is injured in a military campaign and permanently mentally disabled as a result. Ragna has Wilf dictate a will making her regent. Looking to dislodge Ragna, Wigelm and Wynstan kill Wilf and steal his treasury and Ragna's money. On visiting the quarry, Ragna and Edgar become attracted to each other and have sex. Wigelm pressures Ragna to marry him, but she refuses. Edgar plans to sneak Ragna to the nunnery to hide, but she is betrayed by a servant and Wigelm kidnaps her to a hunting lodge for a year. He rapes her repeatedly and Ragna becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy, Alain. Faced with losing her children, Ragna returns to Shiring with Wigelm. Edgar, in love with Ragna, leaves to Normandy to study cathedral building.

Ragna continues to resist Wigelf and to punish her, he takes Alain away from her. Ragna is "set aside" and she moves to Kingsbridge as lady of the lands around the quarry. She works with Aldred to get Edgar to return, unsuccessfully. One day, Wigelm and his men come to the quarry and get drunk. In the night, a drunk Wigelm tries to rape Ragna. She murders him and dumps his body in the canal. Foul play is ruled out at an inquest led by Ragna.

Ragna returns to Shiring and takes possession of the compound, her family, and the lands as regent. The local Sheriff, Den, agrees to share power with Ragna (Ragna as administrator and the Sheriff as military leader) and the King affirms their plan. Bishop Wynstan resists the plans, but is losing his edge due to dementia caused by a sexually-transmitted disease, "Whore's Leprosy." Wynstan's condition, and his lustful habits, become public knowledge and he is blocked from becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. The new Archbishop becomes friends with Ragna, who recommends Wynstan be removed, and the Archbishop makes Aldred Bishop of Shiring, on condition the seat of the diocese be moved to Kingsbridge when the new cathedral is ready for use. Wynstan is imprisoned in Wilf's hunting lodge, then moved to leper island where the nunnery resides.

At the conclusion, Edgar arrives back from Normandy. Ragna proposes to him, and he agrees. Ragna grants lands to Edgar, making him a thane (a knight), and they are married by permission from the King.

A pair of seaplane lovers and operators, Kaz Fellows and her boyfriend, Charlie Brody, along with their passengers, Joji Minase, his wife, Michelle and cook Benny, take a flight to picturesque Hell's Reef. Upon landing they encounter a corpse that has washed up after a suspected shark attack. They report it to the coast guard but find the man's phone has a picture of his girlfriend.

Benny and Charlie coax the others into tracking the yacht the couple were on in case she survived. Joji believes it hopeless and objects to being put at risk. Kaz flies off with all five searching for the missing damaged yacht. They find the yacht capsized and Benny dives in to investigate the wreck in case the girl is trapped inside. He finds her partially consumed corpse and returns to the seaplane whereupon the great white shark reappears and attacks one of the floats of the seaplane. The seaplane begins to sink so all five depart for the plane's life raft.

Drifting in the current, Charlie tries to navigate using the life rafts meager compass and oars. Michelle and Joji take a shift rowing the raft but Michelle nods off and loses one of the oars. Kaz dives into the water and retrieves the oar. Benny and Joji get into a scuffle due to the latter's jealousy and Joji pushes Benny, who falls in water and is attacked and killed by the great white. The shark then attacks the raft flipping everyone into the water. Joji is killed swimming back to the raft.

With no provisions and only one oar, Michelle, Kaz and Charlie try to row with their hands. The shark returns, but Charlie to his horror realizes that there is now more than just one shark. Kaz is knocked into the water, but manages to get back to the raft unhurt. The next day Michelle spots land but the raft has started to deflate. Realizing that they will surely sink and be at the mercy of both sharks, Charlie and Kaz decide to try and distract the sharks in order for Michelle to make it to land.

Kaz, who turned out to be pregnant with Charlie's child, manages to hit one of the sharks with a flare and Charlie pierces its eye and brain with his knife, killing it. Meanwhile, Michelle manages to get onto a rusted piece of wreck from an old shipwreck. Charlie reloads the second flare and then attempts to take out the remaining shark. While he embraces Kaz, Kaz spots the oncoming shark. Charlie turns to shoot, but misses with his flare and is attacked and killed by the shark. Kaz manages to escape to Michelle. The great white shark approaches knocking both women into the water. Kaz tries to distract the shark once more while Michelle swims for the shore.

Kaz hides in the damaged shipwreck as the shark attacks and it becomes ensnared in some metal. Kaz unable to reach her breathing equipment drifts into unconsciousness and almost drowns. But before she succumbs, Michelle returns and manages to revive Kaz with mouth to mouth. Kaz springs into action and manages to dislodge some of the structure impaling the shark and killing it. Both Kaz and Michelle swim to the shore and reflect on their escape.

A painful break up prompts Grace to visit her friend Liv who is living in the idyllic English countryside with her boyfriend Edward and his dog Polly. The trio start the weekend in high spirits but soon turns into chaos, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the friends come to see each other in a whole new light.

Rollo Webster is heir to an air-brake fortune, but his real interest is to play Hamlet, so he funds his own production of it. Comely Goldie MacDuff is given the role of Ophelia, and is acting to earn her living. Her inability to stay up late had already cost her a role in ''The Midnight Frolics''. On opening night, Goldie has to interject to Rollo that her grandfather is dying, and he rushes off the stage. Rollo's dresser is pressed into service as a substitute Hamlet, but it turns out the costumes are not properly made. Back at home Rollo finds out his grandfather is not sick at all but feigned illness to save Rollo embarrassment. Rollo eventually proposes to Goldie.

Dejected and frustrated suburban housewife Connie Kaminski (née Stevens), a three-time gold-medal-winning former Olympic racewalker, has followed the conventional life path set for her by society ever since her youth. Her sacrifices have never been appreciated and she has been overlooked by her husband Rick, an IRS senior auditor, her loved ones and the rest of society. Alienated by her uninspiring existence being unemployed and having suffered a miscarriage in an attempt to conceive a child, Connie commiserates with her best friend Joanna "JoJo" Johnson, who has been unable to secure proper employment since having her identity stolen and thus lives with her mother Josie, making YouTube videos to try and generate revenue while being pursued by the local mailman, Earl.

After a particularly frustrating day, Connie writes a complaint letter to General Mills about the Wheaties she ate being stale, and soon, she receives a coupon for a free box of cereal. She then learns from a cashier at her local store that companies habitually do this, so she writes multiple complaint letters to receive multiple free coupons. Connie and JoJo then learn that the coupons come from a factory in Chihuahua, Mexico, and they decide to head down there and collect the coupons to redistribute to other mothers and wives. They encounter a couple, Alejandro and Rosa, who agree to assist them by taking the unused coupons. Upon obtaining them, the duo begins their own website and small business "Savvy Super Saver", which helps them sell numerous coupons and generate profit. However, Ken Miller, a hapless loss prevention officer for the A&G Family Marts stores in the Southwestern United States, notices it upon learning about the coupons and the losses several companies are taking, and pressures his superiors before ultimately deciding to handle the case himself.

The ladies’ account is frozen due to suspicious activity, so Connie realizes they need to prove their business is legitimate. They contact the hacker who stole JoJo’s identity, Tempe Tina, and are taken to her secret location, where she instructs the pair on how to conceal their operation and secure their money, suggesting they use JoJo’s cosmetics brand Back 2 Black to disguise their coupon business. After six months, the pair figure their money is safe to use, but because the money is dirty, they need to spend and clean it. They start buying things like sports cars, boats, planes, and guns, but Tempe Tina then criticizes the pair's overspending and tells them that because their money was always clean, their purchases are just making them look more suspicious, instructing them to take money out from the bank in small increments and to sell off all their big purchases, including the guns.

Meanwhile, Ken is partnered with U.S. postal inspector Simon Kilmurry. The duo bond on their mission, with Simon sympathizing with Ken for his unwavering devotion. They interview people from grocery stores that the ladies frequent, almost all of whom recognize Connie due to her constantly irritating coupon usage, even successfully linking her to the "Savvy Super Saver" website as she uses its slogan while shopping. The duo then interview a group of postal workers, who remember JoJo, especially because Earl is always watching her videos.

After gathering more evidence on the women, Simon and Ken finally get agents to arrest the pair. While JoJo is released from jail on bail, Connie is only visited by Rick so he can admonish her for her actions, having been informed by Simon that she and JoJo have defrauded over 240 companies of tens of millions of dollars. Having had enough of his lack of support, she declares that she wants a divorce. Though the pair face forty-years-to-life, the companies that they victimized clandestinely press the courts for leniency to avoid bad press, resulting in ten days in prison plus one year of probation for JoJo and eleven months incarceration (parole eligible in eight) for Connie. Though most of their fraudulent earnings have been confiscated, the pair have hundreds of thousands of dollars from their illegal dollars stashed away, and JoJo starts a relationship with Earl and relocates to Montenegro, a non-extradition country, where the pair can immediately restart the scam upon Connie's release. It is also revealed that Connie is pregnant through IVF, despite the difficulty she had before.

In the post-apocalyptic future setting of ''Gamma World'', the player characters are members of the primitive White Feathers, a mixture of humans, humanoids and mutant animals who live in the area of today's Yellowstone Park. The White Feathers are in the midst of peace negotiations with the rival Gray Rocks when the parley is disrupted by the local chapter of the pure-human Knights of Purity led by Garik Blackhand. Members of the Gray Rocks suddenly attack members of the White Feathers, accusing them of being in league with the Knights of Purity. In the chaos, the White Feathers' shaman is mortally wounded. Before he dies, he tells the player characters to find proof that the Knights of Purity somehow framed the White Feathers.

''The Cleansing War of Garik Blackhand'' features nine linked scenarios, as well new creatures and artifacts.

Widower Henry and his son Wyatt live on an average farm in Oklahoma Territory in 1906 near to Henry's brother-in-law Al, with Wyatt chafing at the simple existence of a farmer. After Henry and Wyatt find a lost horse with blood on the saddle, Henry goes to investigate and finds a near-dead man named Curry. Seeing that the man has a gunshot wound, a revolver and a satchel full of cash, he is hesitant at first, but decides to help Curry. He covers their tracks and brings Curry back to the farm, treating his injuries and removing the bullet. Henry uses the surgery as a chance to interrogate Curry, who claims to be a lawman and the sole survivor of a posse that confronted a gang of dangerous outlaws.

Henry ties him up and goes to fetch a doctor, and in the meantime Wyatt sneaks into Henry's room and finds his cache of documents, as well as a fine revolver and some bullets. Wyatt takes Curry's gun and goes target shooting outside, allowing Curry to escape his bonds. Curry overpowers Wyatt, but Henry returns just in time to intervene and ties Curry up again. Henry had turned back after spotting three men investigating the spot he first found Curry, narrowly escaping being caught by them after he spied on them from a wheat field nearby.

Soon after, the trio, led by a man named Ketchum, come to the farm in search of Curry. They claim to be lawmen from Woods County and that Curry is the outlaw, but arouse Henry's suspicions when Ketchum begins asking questions about Henry's own identity and family. Henry does not give up Curry, and the men leave after a tense standoff. That evening, Henry has a conversation with Curry in which Curry reveals detailed knowledge of people known to Henry, which leads Henry to trust his claims and undo some of his restraints. Curry then tells Henry about his experience as a young ranch hand who witnessed the death of Billy the Kid. The house is suddenly attacked by Duggan, one of Ketchum's men. After a game of cat-and-mouse in which Duggan crawls underneath the house to ambush them, Henry rousts him out with a shotgun and then strangles him in the mud as Wyatt watches.

The next morning, Ketchum returns with the rest of his gang, greatly outnumbering Curry, Henry and Wyatt. Curry encourages Henry to surrender and turn him over, telling Henry that it is hopeless and that they should not die for his sake. However, Ketchum has captured Henry's brother-in-law Al and, when Henry refuses to surrender, shoots him in cold blood. Wyatt emerges, enraged, and opens fire, and he and Henry manage to duck back into the house. Henry goes into his room and retrieves his expensive gear, saying "Keep your damn head down, you'll be alright" to Wyatt. Curry recognizes the phrase as something Billy the Kid said to him when he was a young boy, and realizes that Henry is in fact Billy the Kid, who faked his own death with the help of Pat Garrett.

Henry pretends to surrender, and then draws his revolver and shoots Ketchum in the face, killing several other outlaws before diving back into the house and slipping out of the back door. Whilst Curry and Wyatt hold off the remaining gang members, Henry stealthily eliminates several more until only Stilwell, the gang's tracker, is left. Stilwell pretends to surrender but tries to kill Henry with a throwing knife and is shot through the eye.

Henry suddenly comes under fire as Ketchum emerges, revealing that the shot to his face only mangled his cheek. They engage in a running battle in which both men are wounded, but eventually Ketchum runs out of bullets and Henry shoots him in the head. Returning to the house, Henry is about to bandage up the injured Curry when he spots a brand on Curry's arm. Curry shoots Henry in the stomach, admitting that he was a lawman but was corrupt and allied with Ketchum. He had attempted to betray Ketchum after realizing the outlaws were going to kill him once his usefulness had run out. Curry apologizes to Henry for bringing all of this violence to his farm, but then boasts that he will get to be the man who killed Billy the Kid.

Wyatt overhears all this as he is fetching his father's shotgun, and he kills Curry from the doorway before Curry can execute Henry. Wyatt tries to help his father, but Henry tells him that it is too late. Henry speaks earnestly to his son, telling him that the world is changing and Henry has no place in it anymore but that he hoped his son, who raising him had given his life some meaning, would now find a place for himself in it. He dies in Wyatt's arms. Wyatt buries his father next to his mother and leaves the farm along with the cash, two horses, and their few possessions.

Hanif, Nadya, and children Sandi, Dina, and Haqi are travelling to Hanif’s old orphanage to see Pak Bandi, his bedridden former caretaker. Hanif runs over something but only finds a deer, not the girl lying in an unseen trench. The family are met at the orphanage by Hanif’s childhood friends Anton and Jefri, their wives Eva and Lina respectively, as well as Maman and Siti, who are now caretakers. Except for older children Hasbi and Rani, the place is empty as the others are still on a bus trip. When checking the children into their rooms, Hasbi mocks Rani, who was left at the orphanage by her mother but is sure she will return. After Haqi inquires about a locked door, Rani tells him about the clubfooted Ibu Mirah, a caretaker who went insane claiming that a runaway girl named Murni had been spirited by a demon. Thinking Ibu Mirah had killed Murni, they locked her in that room until she died.

Fearing he ran over a person, Hanif takes Jefri to the collision site, where they find the girl and the bus carrying dead orphanage children. They place the girl in Hanif’s trunk. Anton investigates the bus en route to the police and gets killed by black magic, while at the orphanage, Lina and Eva get possessed into self-mutilation. Nadya drives them to the hospital with the adults but keeps going in circles, reminding Jefri that the same thing happened when he, Anton, and Hanif tried to escape after being told Ibu Mirah had immolated three girls with black magic. It is revealed that they were instructed by Pak Bandi to bury Ibu Mirah in the now locked room. They drive back.

Nadya finds under Pak Bandi's bed inappropriate photos of orphanage girls, including Siti, whom they suspect to be practicing black magic to exact revenge. Siti swears innocence but confirms that Pak Bandi molested every girl and was the one who burned the three girls as warning. Ibu Mirah resorted to black magic to protect the girls and kill Pak Bandi, but died before succeeding. The girl in Hanif’s trunk, Mustika, wakes up. She reveals that the bus was intercepted by a woman who jinxed everyone to death, but Mustika was unaffected because she did not hear the spell through her headphones; she ran out but was hit by Hanif’s car. Hanif deduces that this woman was the vengeful Murni, who, unlike in Rani’s story, is in fact Ibu Mirah’s biological daughter.

Murni appears and punishes them with hellish torture, because, although they did her no harm, their ignorance of her family ordeal “is also a sin”. Therefore, they must feel what she felt when her family died. Aided by Rani, who is implied to be her daughter, Murni gives Nadya a choice: kill Hanif or her children die. Haqi stabs Murni from behind and Nadya decapitates her. Murni reattaches her head but gets immolated by Nadya and stumbles into the incapacitated Pak Bandi. Bandi calls for help but Hanif ignores and let him burns to death for all his sins.

In the epilogue, Nadya sees a brief apparition of Murni when picking up Haqi from school. Meanwhile, in the now sold orphanage building, sounds of Ibu Mirah’s clubbed foot echo in its halls.

Set in Nanjō, Okinawa, ''The Aquatope on White Sand'' tells the story of two girls; Kukuru Misakino, who is chasing her dream by working at an aquarium, and Fūka Miyazawa, an idol from Tokyo who has given up her position and journeyed to Okinawa in search of something new.

After numerous experiments with creating autonomous AI, humans concluded that AI could only be functional if they were given just a single mission to dedicate their lives to. With that in mind, the first autonomous AI, a songstress named Diva, was created with a mission to "make people happy with [her] songs". However, Diva's quest to sing on the main stage of the theme park NiaLand is disrupted by the arrival of Matsumoto, an AI from 100 years in the future who tells her of a world where AI have decided to eradicate humanity, and wishes to join hands with her to prevent it.

At the Castle County police station, Alden McCausland, a blue-collar mechanic, recounts the events leading up to the night before. Years ago, McCausland's father purchased a cabin on Abenaki Lake as a second home. Being on the run-down west side, it was a fixer-upper from the start. Even after it was paid off, the family couldn't afford to fix it up much, and then Alden's father passed away. Alden and "Ma" later received a substantial life insurance settlement, followed by a $250,000 winning scratch-off ticket. Over time, Ma and Alden fixed up the cabin, left their jobs in town, and moved in permanently—as well as drinking more frequently.

The Massimo family had a mansion on the east side of the lake opposite the McCauslands called Twelve Pines Camp. Ma claimed that they were "CONNECTED" and real rich through ill-gotten gains instead of "accident rich" like the McCauslands. When Paul Massimo brought his family to town, they filled up their place. The Massimos knew how to have fun with cookouts, football games, singing, and a fair amount of drinking themselves. One of the older boys in the family looked a little like Ben Affleck and carried a trumpet on his hip. He played the trumpet along with their songs, and closed the night each day by playing "Taps". Ma hated the trumpet and didn't think he was very good, once saying, "Dizzy Gillespie he ain't. Someone ought to dip that trumpet in olive oil and stick it up his ass. He could fart out "God Bless America.'"

2012 was the start of what became the "Fourth of July Arms Race". Alden had some sparklers, firecrackers, and cherry bombs from Pop Anderson at his local flea mart. After opening the Fourth of July celebration with some drinks, Alden and Ma lit up their sparklers and waved them around. The young Massimo children across the lake got excited and asked for their own sparklers, which seemed to burn brighter and longer than the McCausland's, prompting the trumpeter to blow out—wah-wah—seeming to boast the fact. This angered Ma, who wanted to set off their firecrackers to step up. The Massimos matched with even more firecrackers set off by all the children, followed by another trumpeted—"waah waah—Try again." Confident the cherry bombs would out-do them, Ma lit them off only to be outdone by a pair of M-80 booms, and another three blasts: "Waaaah ... waaaah ... waaaah." Ma and Alden looked at each other and agreed to get them next year.

Set in the fall of 2022, after the second and third strains of COVID-19 have extended the COVID-19 pandemic death toll to over 31 million in the United States, mass chaos in Los Angeles has turned the city into a police state. Three sets of couples Ben and Liam in New York City, Evan and Jen in West Hollywood, and Oliver and Mia in Los Angeles' Venice neighborhood are joined by friend Harper in Austin, Texas on a four way online birthday party for Evan via Zoom. The group agrees to take a designer drug that Oliver has had delivered to each home. After taking the pill, during a brief verbal argument, Jen falls backward, hits her head and appears to be dead.

As the drugs take a firm hold on the friends, their decision making skills are severely hampered. Fearing that the authorities will think Evan killed her (they themselves are unsure, as none were paying attention to their screens when Jen tripped), the friends help Evan run when a neighbor calls the police. As Oliver drives cross town to Evan, Harper shares that Jen had secretly told her she was pregnant, and planned to tell Evan after the party. Evan reaches his own car and heads for Oliver's, and the group is stunned to see how the pandemic has caused the conditions to deteriorate on the streets of Los Angeles, including military roadblocks.

With Evan having broken the strict curfew, the police escalate a search for him. When the police search Oliver's house, Evan leaves in Oliver's car. Mia convinces Oliver that she should contact her abusive ex-boyfriend, who is a top criminal lawyer. He advises Evan to drive to the Hollywood police station and wait for Danny to arrive, and to say nothing until he gets there. However, he is pulled over by the police before he arrives. Unable to think clearly, and ignoring the advice of Danny and all his friends, Evan disobeys the police orders and gets out of the car, raising his hands with his Zoom enabled phone, leading to Evan being shot.

As Evan lays dying on the street, the feed from Evan and Jen's house shows her regain consciousness and sit up. She and Evan speak of the baby and their love for each other. Evan dies, witnessed by all the friends. Jen screams in agony, as the news radio show in Oliver's car relays that Evan's death is dwarfed by the 2 million Covid deaths that day, bringing the death toll to 253 million, with the United Kingdom becoming the seventh major superpower to cease to exist as a coherent nation.

Pamela, a seven-year-old girl and horror film fan, is taken by her parents, Nuria and Bernardo, to her family's cabin in the woods to celebrate her eight birthday. Norberto's youngest brother Esteban joins them as well, even though he has a rivalry with him. Once there Pam finds Sebastian's gift: a jester puppet doll named Hellequin who according to her uncle; it is based on a real jester who was hanged when he failed to amuse his King.

That night Nuria and Esteban meet at the Shack' shed as they are living an affair and have sex, they plot against Bernardo as Esteban plans killing his eldest brother at the family's boat with a manipulated pole so he can report it as an accident. Meanwhile, at Pam's bedroom she is awakened by a living Hellequin who shows her with a puppet theatre and other puppets: her uncle and mother' secret affair and plan of killing her father. Even though Pam tries to warn their family of the situation, Hellequin stops her, claiming if she does he will take their souls to Hell.

Due Nuria and Esteban plan, the family celebrate a private party for Pam (so they can eventually kill off Bernardo with no witnesses) however Pam tries to warn her family anyway so she plays a puppet 's play of a king betrayed by his wife and sings songs to both Bernardo and Esteban with clues of their hideous plans. Hellequin reveals to Pam her parents actually are pretending to be on Esteban side and they have their own plan for killing him at the tools shed as Esteban began to suspect his plan's success and discovers part of Hellequin background might be true in a book where it is revealed his soul was trapped inside the doll by a wizard.

On their last day of the weekend; Esteban and Bernardo get ready for killing each other; Esteban apparently kills his brother when his plan of hitting Bernardo in the head with a pole is successful. However, when he and Nuria go to the shed they are ambushed by Bernardo who protects himself with a hidden helmet and tries to kill him with a shotgun. His plan backfires as Nuria disassembles the munitions forcing both brothers to confront each other with an axe and a rake in a violent battle where Bernardo kills Esteban with the rake. Bernardo tries to kill Nuria as well as she is not trustworthy but he is killed by his wife when he chases her through the wood until he falls for a bear trap and is beaten to death with the shotgun. Pam learns everything thanks to Hellequin who shows her once again what the adults do with his puppets.

Days later Nuria inherits from her husband and brother in law family company by nepotism as she planned and Pam apparently is severely shocked for Bernardo's death. Nonetheless Nuria is killed by Pam who makes her fall from the stairs with a rope, presumably as an influence of Hellequin or either revenge.

The film opens with a conversation between a barber and his customer about the Nadaya food store across the street which, in their words, is "going downhill" since the former owner Keisaku retired and his son Kenkichi took over. Keisaku starts drinking the store's sake already early in the day, complaining that the sake's quality is decreasing lately. While Kenkichi's more modern daughter Kimiko lives a life of ease, the more traditional Kunie is working in her father's store. The sisters' uncle arranges an omiai between Kunie and Shintaro, son of a wealthy family, which Kenkichi is against as he himself was forced into an arranged and unhappy marriage. Now that his wife has died, Kenkichi offers his mistress Oyo to move into their house, a plan endorsed by Kunie but opposed by Kimiko. After the meeting between the marriage prospects, Shintaro shows more interest in Kimiko. When Kunie finds out that Kimiko is dating Shintaro, her sister confesses her deed in the most insensitive way, leaving Kunie in grief. Kenkichi finally arranges a meeting between Kimiko and Oyo in his house, explaining that Oyo is her real mother and that he and his wife brought her up as their second daughter. Kimiko refuses to accept the truth and makes preparations to leave the house. At this moment the police arrive and ask Kenkichi to follow them to the station for an interrogation, as he had cut the sake sold in his store. In the barber shop, the barber and a customer shrug off the Nadaya's fate, joking what kind of store will open in its place.

The story takes place in the Belgrade mental hospital on Guberevac during the WWI, where notable Serbian writer Petar Kočić spends his last years of life. The safety of mental hospital in a war-torn Belgrade is disrupted when the deputy military governor in occupied Belgrade Kosta Herman finds out that Kočić is in the hospital and decides to settle old scores with him.

Zoe is a young woman who discovers she's pregnant. But, acting in denial, she tries to live a wild single life before the baby arrives. Her boyfriend, Tim, has the opposite reaction to the baby news and goes into nesting mode.

Rex (Ben O'Toole), a veteran and resident of Boise, Idaho, visits a Boise bank to see a teller named Maddy who he has a crush on. While the two are flirting, a group of armed robbers storm the bank; Rex instructs Maddy to run and prepares to hand over his wallet. Another customer's spilt open purse reveals a firearm which Rex debates using to take control of the situation.

Flashback sequences reveal that Rex was able to successfully secure the bank by dispatching the armed robbers one at a time. Unfortunately, an innocent bystander was killed in the process when Rex maimed a surrendering robber at the behest of his sadistic subconscious, who he subjectively sees as a separate physical entity. The reception of Rex's actions is mixed with some believing him to either be a heroic vigilante, while others view him as a psychopathic murderer. Rex goes back and forth with his attorney before his trial, where he can either take a plea deal and serve 8 years in prison or try and prove his innocence but serve 20 to life if he is found guilty. Rex takes the plea deal and serves 8 years in prison.

Upon being released, the media harasses Rex as he enjoys some small luxuries of freedom like grocery shopping and eating a burger. He then returns to the bar where he was previously employed and speaks with another bartender. They banter back and forth and Rex explains that he has made a "calculated decision" to get away to Finland (shooting a spitball at a map while in prison).

Rex is shown at the airport being adorned by an obnoxious fan who compares him to John Wick. He is also uncomfortably stared at by an elderly Finnish couple who mention something in Finnish about capturing him. Another Finnish passenger attempts to warn him, but Rex doesn't take him seriously. He boards his flight, sarcastically remarking at his luck when he notices the airport codes for Boise to Helsinki, Finland are Boi to Hel (Boy to Hell). Upon landing, he quickly enters a taxi but during the journey sleeping gas fills the back seat. Rex awakens in an underground torture chamber with one of his legs amputated at the knee and his hands bound to the ceiling. He works with his subconscious to deduce as much information about his predicament as possible. The two quickly discern that Rex is being held captive by a family as there are various toys around the room, however, Rex is unable to escape his binds. The audience learns that Rex is in the basement of a large family estate in rural Finland.

A young boy from the family is wandering around the house and enters the basement to find Rex being held hostage. Rex's subconscious tells him that he can hold the boy - "Olaf" - hostage as an insurance policy to be set free from the family. Rex lures Olaf closer, quickly incapacitates and traps him between his legs. Olaf's older sister Alia then goes searching for him. Rex negotiates with Alia to free him in exchange for not killing Olaf, but bickers with his subconscious, snaps, and loses his hold on Olaf. Alia is able to retreat with a wounded Olaf upstairs. To protect Rex, she claims he "fell out of bed" and the family drives the unconscious Olaf to the hospital. She then fantasizes about being married to Rex and comes back downstairs to clean and dress his wound, professing her affection for Rex.

Alia explains that her family, particularly her eldest brother Pati, are cannibals who will eat Rex piece by piece (explaining his missing leg). The family, unable to find a substitute for human flesh, have resorted to kidnapping and butchering American travelers for Pati. Alia is an outcast among her family, especially her mother, for her non-violent tendencies and has attempted to escape unsuccessfully. As punishment, she is groomed to be Pati's new handler/feeder. Alia refuses to help Rex escape as she is confident that Rex cannot stop her family. Rex and Alia bond over their traumatic pasts, and Alia leaves Rex with a small knife to cut his ropes.

The doctor confirms Alia's mother's suspicions that she lied about Olaf's "fall". The family furiously return home. Rex is unable to cut himself loose and is injected with drugs by the father of the family, losing consciousness. While unconscious, a flashback is shown recounting the events that took place during the bank robbery. Rex frees the hostages, taunts a dying robber and mercilessly shoots another in the groin, causing him to collapse and discharge his gun into a hiding woman. The robber he shot had held Maddy hostage, who Rex managed to save by claiming to not value her life. A censored version of the bank's security footage is released on YouTube, with various people watching and championing Rex. During his trial, Rex shows no regret for his actions, claiming the robbers were violent and he didn't want the one he spared to be able to reproduce. In another flashback, Maddy visits Rex in prison asking to be left alone so that she can recover from the trauma she experienced. Rex is then shown talking to his cellmate in prison who explains that he cannot outrun his problems and must accept fate. Rex is shown having actually shot 3 spitwads at the map when deciding where to live, each one landing on Finland.

Rex awakens to find Uncle Arto starting to saw off his remaining leg, however, Rex is able to unsheathe the knife from Alia and stab Uncle in the head, killing him before the operation is complete. Rex is then able to free himself and begins searching the basement for objects he can improvise into weapons, finding a flare gun, a large knife, and other various items. After stumbling up the stairs with a golf club as a makeshift prosthetic leg, Rex realises it is now morning. He and his subconscious debate whether to save Alia or not before escaping, with Rex seeming reluctant to try and help another woman when it ended tragically last time. In the time he was unconscious, the two brothers had gone to bed, Alia had been imprisoned and the parents had left again.

After the parents return home, they realise Rex has escaped and debate fleeing should the authorities show up, with the father claiming Rex will likely die to his wounds or wild animals prior to reaching them. While debating a course of action, the father and one of the brothers mysteriously die, with small wounds erupting through their chests; Rex is shown beneath the table with a nail-gun. A fight erupts, with Alia strangling her mother and Rex throwing knives into the second brother's chest, killing him. Pati is drawn out of hiding due to the chaos and is revealed to be a grotesque giant. Rex shoots Pati with the flare gun, which merely bounces off of him. In his battle with Pati, Rex finds his severed lower leg in the family's refrigerator with the jagged leg bone still intact. While being grappled by Pati, Rex is able to jam the foot and sharp bone into Pati's throat, killing him. Alia explains they are now safe and the two share a moment as she drives them away. Rex is praised by his subconscious, who ultimately realizes he is no longer needed and disappears. Alia and Rex discuss recovering Olaf from the hospital and are later shown as a couple back in the United States with Rex explaining to his friends at a party how they met. Alia turns out to be potentially psychotic when a woman at the party puts her hand on Rex's arm and Alia imagines herself killing the woman with a meat cleaver. When Rex mentions he killed Alia's entire family, everyone in the room stares at him in shock, except for one man who smiles and gives a thumbs up. Confused by the tension, Rex says, "what?" Olaf is later shown with a picture of his former family, explaining it may be time for an "American banquet" ("banquet" being one of the few English words he knows, taught to him by Alia earlier in the film). Upon inspecting the family portrait, it's clear the older brothers were part of a set of triplets, not twins.

Following the opening credits featuring a jazz band, the film starts with a scene set in a railway station restaurant. Rodgers appears, dressed in a brakeman's uniform, and greets the waitress and an elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair. He checks the schedule for his departure, orders coffee, and the waitress requests him to sing a song. Rodgers accepts and she hands him a guitar. After his trademark train whistle, Rodgers sings "Waiting for a Train". The waitress then asks him: "Do you ever think of you ol' dad at home?" Rodgers says he does and offers to sing another song; he performs "Daddy and Home". The waitress then requests Rodgers to sing her favorite song, while he counters asking about his coffee. He starts singing "Blue Yodel". As he finishes the song, he stands up and enters the coffee shop. The film ends with the music of a jazz band.

Political activist Sofia Flores speaks at a rally in Washington, D.C. about women's equality and racial equality. That evening, she is killed in a deliberately planned hit-and-run outside of her home by her opposers.

Travis Block, a Vietnam War veteran, works off-the-books directly for FBI Director Gabriel Robinson as a fixer, extracting undercover agents who are in unstable or tricky situations and other complex jobs Robinson assigns him to do. He wants to retire and spend more time with his daughter and granddaughter, but Robinson is reluctant to let him go. Block's current assignment is to bring in undercover FBI Agent Dusty Crane.

However, Crane goes rogue and contacts a journalist, Mira Jones, claiming to have information about Flores' death. Block finds Crane and they engage in a chase outside of Jones' office. Crane escapes and arranges a new meeting with Jones at a museum. Block follows Jones to the meeting and attempts to apprehend Crane. Crane escapes his custody again, but briefly tells Block that Flores was killed by order of Robinson right before he is shot dead by two FBI Agents.

Block and Jones meet, and she tells him that Crane claimed to have information about Operation Unity, a top secret FBI program run by Robinson that kills innocent civilians, including Flores. Block confronts Robinson about Operation Unity, but Robinson claims his innocence, and warns Block not to get in his way.

Jones's editor, Drew, writes a story from her sources about Crane's mysterious death. That evening, he is followed home by a black SUV and is killed after a car accident by the same two FBI Agents that killed Crane and Flores. Meanwhile, Block's family goes missing.

Jones convinces a distressed Block to help her uncover the mystery of Operation Unity and the deaths of Crane and Drew. He tells her that Robinson has a safe in his house with government secrets. He confronts Robinson at his house and forces him to open the safe, which contains a hard drive with information about Operation Unity on it. Robinson escapes, with the help of several FBI Agents, who engage in a gunfight with Block. After defeating the agents, Block retrieves the hard drive.

Block and Jones review the data on the hard drive and discover that Crane was in love with his assignment, Flores. Robinson had her killed after Crane got too attached to her. Block confronts Robinson with the truth about Operation Unity and forces him to turn himself in to the authorities. Robinson is arrested for his crimes, Jones completes her story about the government cover-up and Block retires from his job as a off-the-books fixer and reunites with his family who had been placed in Witness Protection, but are now brought back home.

The story revolves around , a 24-year-old man who starts working in , a condom company. Sagami is assigned to the Sales Planning Office and meets , a young scientist of the General Development Department. Sagami harbors feelings for Musubu, who is initially too focused on her work to return them.

''The Wizard's Tide'' narrates a year in the life of an eleven-year-old boy, Teddy Schroeder, and his family's attempt to survive the Great Depression. Teddy's father, a spendthrift who has been beset by failure in business, loses his job at the outset of the story, auguring the end of the lifestyle to which the family have been accustomed.

As their lives continue to unravel, the Schroeders move aimlessly between their home in New Jersey and their summerhouse in Long Island. As the news of the abdication crisis becomes a topic of international conversation and the children play newly invented board game, Monopoly, Mr. Schroeder becomes increasingly dependent upon alcohol, which leads to a gradual breakdown in his marriage. Both Teddy and his younger sister, Bean, overhear late-night arguments, with their mother on one occasion asking her son to hide the car keys in bed with him, only to have Mr. Schroeder enter the room, drunk, and beg for their return.

Having had an investment in a glass company fail, which he has funded both through borrowing and through the illicit sale of Mrs. Schroeder's stocks, Mr. Schroeder takes his own life in the New York City Subway, leaving his gold watch under Teddy's pillow. The grieving family leave New Jersey, and return to live with Teddy's maternal grandmother, Dan, in Pittsburgh, where they prepare to celebrate Christmas together without their father, and in the midst of growing financial uncertainty.

The boxers Mike Leonard and Jake Cushing participate in a six round exhibition boxing bout. Leonard knocks Cushing out in the sixth round.

Jorrit (Jim Bakkum) and Bas (Martijn Fischer) decide to open a strip club in Miami. Together with Thijs (Juvat Westendorp) and Boris (Malik Mohammed) they begin work to renovate the club and to earn money by performing as strippers themselves.

The novel begins with the death of Harlem native and Vietnam War veteran Captain Aaron Rogers. He has supposedly been killed in Vietnam and his body has been flown back to the US for burial. Suspicion is created when Rogers' sister Sissy (Janice) claims to have seen Aaron in a car in lower Manhattan. She and her brother Tommy go to the funeral parlor where the body of Aaron is in a coffin. They discover that the body is not of their brother at all, but someone else entirely.

While Sissy and Tommy are discovering the truth about their brother, Police detective Dan Roberts, former Korean War veteran and current law school student as well as member of the NYPD's Special Operations Unit is investigating a series of seemingly unrelated yet unusual crimes, including a number of bank robberies and a subway malfunction and shutdown.

Meanwhile, firebrand governor of Mississippi Josiah Brace is getting ready for the Democratic National Convention scheduled to occur in just a few days in Madison Square Garden. Brace is a divisive figure who is opposed to the Civil Rights reforms of the 1960s as well as school busing. He is ambitious and hopes to be nominated as his party's presidential candidate at the convention.

At this point, there are flashbacks to the Vietnam War from Aaron Rogers' point of view. We see the racism prevalent during the war from white officers against black regulars. It was not uncommon for black soldiers to engage in "fracking" against their white superiors. There are additional flashbacks to Rogers' time as a student in graduate school where he studied psychology at New York University. He is the only black student in his class and he feels isolated and ostracized by the rest of the class. He is intrigued by Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconsciousness which he hopes to apply to his study of the black community. He comes to the realization that the only thing that can transform the black community's standing in the United States is a monumental traumatic event that will alter the predominant white community's power dynamic.

Ultimately, using well trained black Vietnam War soldiers, Aaron Rogers formulates a plan that will culminate in a monumental event of political violence that will transform American society.

The story consists of three parts: the first and longest part, "(1951) Musashino City", takes the form of a diary entry; this is followed by "A Letter to Kiichi Sasaki", a letter to a friend; and finally a poem entitled "For U....A Dirge". ;(1951) Musashino City The unnamed narrator lies in bed and upon hearing the singing of birds outside his window, and contemplates the notion of being reborn in the next life as a bird. The narrator reflects on whether his human consciousness would be transferred to his new bird body or if he would gain an entirely new animal consciousness upon rebirth.

Vowing to himself to live in bird-like innocence until death, the narrator then moves from the subject of birds to the subject of his own solitude since moving to his new lodgings. He talks of the solitude as being increasingly insupportable and the strong emotions he experiences from contact with nature and the outside world, notably upon looking at trees and stars. His thoughts then turn to memories of his wife and mother, who come to him in dreams, seemingly resurrected from the dead. The narrative then shifts to describe the narrator’s trauma from his experience of surviving the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, for example the way he wakes up in shock in the middle of night thinking there has been another bombing. He states that in his personal case, the shock of the bombing has affected him increasingly with the ongoing passage of time. He proceeds to lament the burden of existing in a world where nuclear weapons exist and states a desire for a peaceful world that is free from conflict.

There is then a shift in space and time; the narrator is at a level-crossing and talks about how he often has to wait at this place for trains to pass. He thinks about the men broken by life, whose shades loiter near the rails, and contemplates if not his own shade is one of them. He then observes a dead leaf detach itself from a branch and fall to the ground, before pondering how long it has been since his first thoughts of suicide.

Another unspecified time shift occurs, and the narrator makes observations on the cold weather, and then articulates fantasies of death by freezing. This is followed by a childhood recollection of killing ants, and then a short passage where he notes that the only thing remaining in life capable of making him smile is a girl he calls "U". He mentions having repeatedly prayed for her happiness.

In the final passage of the section, the narrator comments on the arrival of Spring, which conjures mental images of his dead relatives in holiday dress and his wife on her deathbed. The final image of the section is of a lark soaring into the sky, bursting into flames and transforming into a shooting star, an image dreamed by the narrator. He sees in this image the "shape of [his] heart’s desire".

;A Letter to Kiichi Sasaki The unnamed narrator thanks his friend Sasaki for his years of kindness and expresses his wish to end his life, before recalling a brief memory of a recent social gathering at a quayside as a mutual friend departed on a journey to France. The letter ends with the narrator telling Sasaki to take care of himself.

;For U....A Dirge In a poem addressed to U, identified earlier in the work as the young girl he had met the previous year, the narrator touches on natural imagery before expressing his desire to die "without fuss" and ending by noting his belief that the present moment is the right time to end his life.

After his dad gets a new job, 12-year-old Griffin Campbell moves into the closed down and dilapidated Tremont Hotel in Sulphur Springs, Louisiana which is supposedly haunted by Savannah Dillon, a camper at the Tremont Camp who disappeared thirty years ago. With his new best friend Harper from his new school, Griffin discovers a portal which takes the two back in time 30 years to 1990, which they use to meet and find out what happened to Savannah Dillon. They try to save Savannah from disappearing.

Season 2 focuses on Harper as she tries to uncover the secrets behind her connections to the Tremont hotel after discovering a photo of her great-grandmother Daisy which leads her to believe that the answers lie in the 1930s. Meanwhile, paranormal activities increase as the Campbells prepare to reopen the hotel, and Savannah tries to help Griffin and Harper uncover the secrets of the hotel from the past.

Grace MacDonald is orphaned by her parents and adopted as a child by a traveling Evangelist church in California who performs entertainment acts as part of their proselytizing. As an adult, Grace famously performs a high dive in the church's Hell-themed performances, led by Reverend Paul Jessie Bundy. The Reverend's brother, Patrick Bundy, a Los Angeles medical student engaged to Grace, lives his life separate from the church, though he remains committed to her.

Patrick drives into the desert to visit Grace at one of the church's events in the Antelope Valley. Grace, a virgin, refuses Patrick's sexual advances, though she quietly struggles with her own sexual desires. In her spare time, Grace attempts to locate her biological father, Timothy, with whom she is obsessed. She eventually locates him after he dies and is received by the local morgue as a John Doe. While Grace views his body, Timothy miraculously returns to life, murdering the undertaker in the morgue.

Grace brings her father back with her to a dilapidated farm where she and the Reverend are staying. Timothy is abrasive toward the Reverend, though Grace insists her father stay. Meanwhile, the Reverend professes his love for Grace, and the two begin to kiss in the barn. Timothy witnesses the scene, and murders the Reverend with a cleaving axe. Later, Grace awakens in an abandoned farmhouse on the compound. Believing the Reverend's murder may have been only a dream, she returns to the barn, but her fears are confirmed when she finds his bloodied corpse buried under straw. She disposes of his body in a garbage dump near the property. Grace begins to question her sanity, believing that her father could be merely a figment of her imagination.

Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles, Patrick attempts to care for one of his medical student peers, Shirley, a woman with severe depression. The two, who live in the same apartment building, end up having sex. The following day, Grace travels to the city to visit Patrick at the hospital where he is completing his residency, but he is unable to talk with her. The Reverend's body is subsequently discovered by authorities, and Patrick directs the sheriff, Mike Pender, to the farm where Grace told him she is staying. While inspecting the property, the sheriff is murdered by an assailant with a scythe.

Later, Grace confides to her father that she fears Patrick is cheating on her with Shirley. Timothy declares that he will exact revenge. Moments later, Patrick and Shirley arrive to check on Grace. Grace lures Patrick to the barn as Shirley watches curiously from the car. Patrick sees the sheriff's corpse stuffed in his police car, after which Grace appears brandishing an axe. Patrick and Shirley attempt to flee in the car, but Grace begins hysterically smashing the windows with the axe. Patrick manages to subdue Grace by holding her down and injecting her with thiopental from his medical kit.

Authorities eventually arrive, and a detective explains Grace's dissociative psychosis to Patrick and Shirley: Her father was in fact a figment of her imagination, and she herself committed all of the murders. Before she is taken away by police, Grace apologizes to Patrick on behalf of her father, whom she says will "have to pay for all the things he has done."

University student Kotone Aizuhara is a , an avid male fan of . During a visit to a bookstore, a truck crashes into a book stand and Kotone dies buried under a pile of books. When he wakes up, he finds himself in an alternate world with no women, where the divine snake beast, Nagi, takes him as his bride.

Sarah, a middle-aged photographer, lives in the country outside London with Theo, an aspiring photographer whom she has taken in. The pair refer to one another as aunt and nephew, respectively. While at the studio, Sara meets Tulia, a young fashion model, whom she invites to come stay at her home so that Theo can photograph her. Tulia and Theo have a photo session in the woods, but it is aborted after Tulia witnesses a cloaked figure spying on her. The figure vanishes, and Tulia becomes frightened.

That evening, Tulia recounts to her hosts how her friend, Rhonda—also a model and acquaintance who spent time at Sarah's home—commented on being frightened while staying there. In particular, she was bothered by the nearby lake, which she found inexplicably ominous. Shortly after returning to London, Rhonda apparently vanished. As the night draws on, the three have drinks and play a game of cards, which culminates in Tulia and Sarah undressing. Theo and Tulia begin to kiss, and Sarah retires to her bedroom, where she stares longingly at photographs of Rhonda.

Tulia is tormented by nightmares involving Theo and Rhonda. In the morning, Sarah chastises Theo for not bringing Tulia into her room so that they could engage in a threesome. An inspector, Mr. Field, arrives and confronts Theo in search of Rhonda, who has disappeared. Theo claims Rhonda told him she planned to move to Italy after leaving Sarah's house. Theo brings Tulia to a local pub, where he offers a man a sum of money. Theo brings the man and Tulia to a secluded area in the woods and allows the man to initiate what is an apparent sexual assault on Tulia, as he photographs it. The man stops short of raping Tula, and, realizing that Theo staged this is a mere photo opportunity, Tulia is disgusted and demands to be returned to London.

Theo returns Tulia to the house, where Sarah calms her. Later that night, Sarah and Tulia have sex as Theo photographs it. This eventually culminates in a threesome. Meanwhile, Mr. Field cases Sarah's house, accidentally knocking over a bucket while attempting to look inside. The noise alerts Theo, who quickly goes outside to investigate. Theo chases Mr. Field into the woods to his car, where he stabs him to death.

While Theo disposes of Mr. Field's corpse, Sarah and Tulia are left alone, unaware of what has transpired. Sarah falls asleep, after which Tulia goes into the basement of the home to investigate Theo's darkroom. There, she uncovers disturbing photographs of Rhonda being raped and murdered by Theo, the man from the pub, and a tramp who resides in town. After killing Rhonda, the men disposed of her corpse in the lake. Theo returns to the house and confronts a horrified Tulia, confessing that he is a sadist. Just as he attempts to stab Tulia, she hits him with a developing tray and manages to flee the house, running into the woods. Theo eventually corners her, forcing her against a fallen tree, where he fondles and kisses her while viciously stabbing her to death.

In 1967, John Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. One friend proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: one of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat, and give each of them messages of support from back home, maybe some laughs, and beer.

As described in a film magazine, Lagdon Van Kreel (Clary), millionaire, is sued by his wife Marcia (Mersch) for divorce at the instigation of her attorney, Craig Stephenson (Merkyl), who has been making love to her. They put detectives on Lagdon's trail. In the meantime Anne Gray (Clifford), a young country woman, elopes with Robert Gordon (Lawrence), a scapegrace, who seeks to victimize her. They arrive at Van Kreel's hotel, where he discovers Gordon's plans, interferes, and takes charge of the young woman. The detectives, suspecting that this is a clandestine meeting, obtain a flash photograph of the two. Anne, alarmed, flees. She does not learn Lagdon's name, nor does he hers. She obtains a position on the ''News'', an ultraconservative journal edited by John Manning (Welch), the son of its founder. Its assistant managing editor, Fred Galvin (Stevenson), is secretly owner of the ''Tattle-tale'', a gutter-weekly retailing scandal. Galvin is watching the Van Kreel divorce eagerly, scenting blackmail. In the meantime Anne and Manning fall in love with each other. Fred learns that Anne was the young woman seen with Langdon in the hotel and sends her to Marcia Van Kreel's home to interview her, secretly informing the latter who Anne is. Marcia denounces her. Langdon enters and insists that the girl is innocent. Anne telephones Fred Galvin, begging him to clear her, and he taunts her. John, overhearing, administers a thrashing to Fred, who confesses owning the scandal weekly, and admits that it is a blackmail scheme. He admits that he and lawyer Craig Stephenson work up divorce cases, then use the weekly to levy tribute through fear of public scandal. John Manning breaks up the ring and clears the situation up in a dramatic finale.

Summer of 1944. The Soviet troops are on the offensive, but the enemy is still very strong. In a battle with German fighters, a Soviet pilot, Mikhail Devyatayev is shot down over enemy territory and is captured. Now he has to make a choice: die in a concentration camp or go back to the sky - but on the side of the Germans. The pilot chooses the third option – escape. But how do you hijack a plane from a heavily guarded military base where the Nazis are developing retribution weapons that can change the course of the war at the last moment? The film is based on real events - the story of the Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Devyatayev, who decided to make a daring escape from a German concentration camp.

Yūri Kariya is a female high-school student who starts a relationship with another student, Ryūhei Aono, from the next class. However, two weeks later, Aono dies in a car accident. When, distraught, Yūri attempts to commit suicide, Aono appears to her as a ghost, and tells her that he will be there for her, and not to die, and Yūri accepts. They continue their "relationship," with Yūri pretending to be talking on the phone around people so as to continue talking with him.

One day, Yūri suggests that Aono should try possession. Aono is confused, but then he possesses her body briefly. Since that moment, Aono develops a second, darker personality, "Black Aono", who tries to possess people around him, becoming increasingly powerful and attempting to take Yūri to the afterworld.

Aono's best friend from before his death, Masayoshi Fujimoto, and reclusive and horror movie fanatic Mio Horie, deepen their friendship as they investigate the secret of Black Aono.

Kēichirō Kishi is an extremely talented pathologist with amazing clinical eye, helped by his vast amount of knowledge, but he is also known as an eccentric and arrogant troublemaker. He uses his diagnostic skills to save patients in secret.

Former special forces agent Nero, has moved to a beachside in Rosarito Beach in Baja California with his son Taylor. His wife died some time ago. One day, Nero is shot by a dart gun and as he awakens, he finds that his son has been kidnapped. He receives a call from unknown man that sends him live footage of his son being held inside a truck, equipped with a tube connecting to the exhaust pipe. In order to see his son again, the man tasks him with eliminating assassins of every dangerous crime syndicates of highly skilled criminals. The man has provided him a vest equipped with body cam, weapons, and a bulletproof Chevrolet Suburban.

With the body cam, the man – later identified as Mzamo – along with his lover Alanza, his fellow cartel members, and a few corrupt intelligence agents led by their leader Donovan, are able to observe his activities. On his first task, Nero infiltrates a restaurant occupied by Roja and the Garza Cartel; he kills every one of them. After finishing the first task, Mzamo gives him the second target: Eliazar Machado, who is notorious for prostitution, racketeering, kidnapping and bombing. Nero infiltrates a prostitution den run by Machado, where he fights Machado's men before killing Machado himself. When Mzamo allows Nero to speak to his son, Nero tells him that he used to work for an intelligence agency and that name "Nero" is actually his cover name; his wife was kidnapped after someone within the agency betrayed him and blew his cover; she was killed afterwards. Nero tracked and killed the people responsible for his wife's murder, afterwards the agency took him off duty and moved him with son down to Mexico for safety. Nero vows to find the man behind the plot once the given task is accomplished. Through the conversation with Mzamo, it is revealed that Donovan was the one who betrayed Nero and moved him and Taylor to Mexico; due of his combat skills, Donovan had planned to use Nero to eliminate crime to eliminate Mzamo's rival organization.

Mzamo gives him a third target which is Omar Chavez – an arms dealer and a personal rival of Mzamo – who is already aware the events of Roja, the Garza Cartel, and Machado. Nero infiltrates Chavez's estate where he eliminates some of the latter's men, but Chavez shoots Nero and destroys the body cam. Presumed that Nero is killed, Mzamo deploys his men to finish them. Nero is interrogated by Chavez, who also shows him the live CCTV footage of his son; Nero explains about his mission for the sake of his son's life and Chavez tells the whereabouts of Taylor. As Chavez about to kill Nero, Mzamo's men arrives and the gunfight erupts between Chavez's men. Nero gains the upper hand, kills Chavez and drives to Mzamo's estate.

Certain that Nero is dead, Donovan persuades Mzamo to give him a truck key to kill Taylor by releasing the carbon monoxide into the van, but they discover that the boy had escaped; Mzamo moved him somewhere else safe, realizing that the agents are planning to kill the boy. Nero arrives at the estate and kills Donovan for the connection of killing his wife. Nero kills the remaining agents while Mzamo and Alanza also kill the agents who turned against them. Mzamo releases Taylor, who reunites with Nero. Mzamo makes an agreement with Nero to allow them to live peacefully but the latter is confident that the remnants of the cartel will hunt them down and promises that he will go after Mzamo if he ever sees his face again. Nero and Taylor drive away on Mzamo's motorcycle.

The Brown family - husband and wife Frank and Corinne, their children Billy and Mary, and Frank's Vietnam veteran father "Grandpop" - are driving from Falmouth, Maine to Derry, Maine to visit Granpop's sister, who is dying from cancer. The trip is being made in Grandpop's elderly Buick station wagon. Grandpop has brought various pieces of baseball memorabilia to show to his sister (a former member of the Maine Black Bears who played in the Women's Baseball World Series), including a Louisville Slugger with Ted Williams' signature.

The family have detoured down "Slide Inn Road", which Grandpop states is a shortcut to Highway 196. The road is initially asphalt, but eventually becomes dirt and then hardpan. Shortly after the family pass the remains of the eponymous Slide Inn - which has burned down some time before - the family reach a washout at the top of a hill, obliging Frank to reverse down the hill to the Slide Inn to turn the car around. As Frank reverses the car, he accidentally reverses into a ditch while attempting a three-point turn.

Billy and Mary walk to the remains of the Slide Inn. There is a panel truck with a Delaware license plate parked next to the ruins. As Billy looks into the flooded former cellar hole, he sees a woman's leg protruding from the water. Billy and Mary are then confronted by two men, Galen and Pete, who are implied to have murdered the woman. Billy attempts to lead the men to believe that he did not see the woman's leg.

After Galen and Pete help Frank push the Buick out of the ditch, Pete produces a .38 revolver and robs Frank and Grandpop of their wallets and Corinne of her purse. Grandpop, suspecting that Galen and Pete will go on to murder the family and steal the Buick, claims that he has $3,300 in the trunk of the car. As Galen looks in the trunk, Grandpop hits him several times with the autographed baseball bat. Pete attempts to shoot Grandpop; Frank fails to react, but Billy seizes Pete's arm, enabling Grandpop to break his wrist with the bat. Pete flees, while Galen is revealed to have died. The family retrieve the revolver and their possessions before leaving in the Buick to call the police.

. Harold Jamieson is a 68-year old widower and retiree living in New York City. While reading the ''New York Times'' on a bench in Central Park one morning, he is approached by "Jack", an alcoholic salesman who is attempting to complete Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve-step program. Jack has reached step five - "admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs" - and at the behest of his sponsor has approached Jamieson, a stranger, to ask him to listen to his admissions.

After Jamieson agrees to listen, Jack lists his various wrongdoings, which include fighting with another student in fourth grade for no reason, stealing alcohol from his mother, buying alcohol for a homeless man, cheating at Brown University, smuggling cocaine over the Canadian border, lying to his employer, and lying to his wife. Jamieson becomes uneasy after Jack describes having wanted to beat his wife after she argues with him about his drinking.

As Jack prepares to leave, he confesses to Jamieson that he murdered his wife, then stabs Jamieson between the ribs with an ice pick. As Jack leaves Jamieson - seemingly dying - on the bench, he admits that he enjoys killing people, describing it as "the chief of my wrongs".

Morko and his sister Mali help the animals that inhabit the jungle around them. Meanwhile, they learn about mathematics and how to preserve the natural environment.

Set in a not distant figure, under which the governments have restricted liberties, a member of the resistance against the system, Daniel, is imprisoned for life into a high-security prison located on an oil platform. In order to get him out of the prison, his wife Anna becomes a prison officer and develops an extremely risky rescue plan.

Off Isla Palomino, Puerto Rico, two photographers and four models are mid-photo shooting on a yacht and in the water when a shark's dorsal fin breaches the sea's surface nearby. They begin photographing the shark, not realizing it is swimming toward them until it is too late and a massive 4-headed shark bursts from the water, devouring everyone on board the yacht. Puerto Rican Police Captain Sterling and his Deputy Black later report to the yacht, board it, and find the passengers missing. On the photographer's camera, the officers find blurry images of the 4-headed shark as it is about to eat the passengers.

Captain Sterling and Black seek the advice of Dr. Angie Yost, a marine biologist from the Puerto Rico Aquarium. Yost is pressured by the aquarium's owner, Thaddeus Marshall, to lie and say that the photos are likely a distortion and that the creature does not exist. Marshall requires Yost and her interns, Lindsay, Cait, Ram, and Sean, to embark with him on the aquarium's boat as Marshal intends to catch the shark before it is discovered and put in a new aquarium exhibit. They are successful in luring the shark to their location, although Sean is knocked overboard and eaten. They return to the mainland and report Sean's death to Capt. Sterling and Deputy Black, who debate closing the beaches.

The shark sinks a small fishing boat and feeds on the fishermen, then finds some divers and quickly makes a meal of them. Meanwhile, Marshall has convinced Dr. Yost to contract a local fisherman experienced in shark hunting named Red (an old flame of Yost's) to help them catch the shark. Red agrees to Marshall's offer of double pay, and the three of them set sail along with Lindsay, Ram, and Cait. They lure the shark to the bay using sonar, and an officer is eaten. The shark then knocks Lindsay off Red's boat and eats her. Red shoots the shark with a sonar harpoon, and it flees. The shark mutates— its tail grows a mouth and becomes a fifth head. Red returns to shore, and they meet up with Sterling and Black.

At Playa Aviones, a surfing competition is about to start. The shark appears and eats several surfers, injuring others. Red and Yost's crew, along with the police, go to the beach and resolve to use recorded dolphin calls to scare the shark to a specific area and then use dynamite to kill the shark. Captain Sterling and Black follow Red's boat out to sea on their own police boat. Red and Yost are able to attract the shark and use the dolphin recordings, which causes it to attack the police boat's propellers and eat Deputy Black. Red and Yost drop the dynamite in the chum-filled water, but the 5-headed shark does not eat it, and a single-headed shark instead swallows it, absorbing the blast. The 5-headed shark feeds on the remains and then attacks the boat, knocking Cait off. Ram jumps in and saves her, and Marshall shoots the shark with a harpoon. The shark turns away, and the rope attached to the harpoon wraps around Marshall's foot and pulls him into the water, where the shark eats him.

Needing rescue, they radio for an airlift. The helicopter arrives shortly after, but the 5-headed shark bursts from the water and destroys the transport before it can reach the boat. The helicopter sinks after crashing into the sea and takes the shark with it, pinning it to the seabed temporarily. Red grabs several depth charges he has stored in his boat along with a massive fishing hook, which he fastens to the depth charges. When the shark manages to free itself, it attacks the boat, but Red jumps overboard with the hook and explosives and stabs the hook into the back of the shark. The shark swims away from the ship and is blown up offscreen. Red emerges from the water, and Yost helps him up. The four survivors rejoice.

Yoshino Somei is a high school girl who was born and raised in a yakuza family. Although her family environment is unique, she has spent her days quietly and peacefully. This all changes when she finds out that her grandfather has arranged for her to be married to the heir of another yakuza family, Kirishima Miyama.

As described in a review in a film magazine, grim and severe, but with a kindly heart, the boss of the lumber camp (Peters) was known as Tornado. Returning to his shack in the village, he sees Ruth Travers (Clifford), the girl he has come to the wilderness to forget, and her husband Ross (Tucker). Ruth sends word by her husband that she must see Tornado, but the husband lies to keep them apart. Tornado, learning the couple are unhappy, reaches the hotel in time to prevent Ruth from being beaten by her husband, and tells her the story of his perfidy, how he left Tornado to die in France, lied about him, and finally won Ruth. The Travers' start to leave on an early train, but a cyclone comes up. The storm causes a log jam, and flood waters damage houses in the camp. Tornado manages to break the log jam and save the town, but the logs pile against the bridge and destroy it as the train is going over. Tornado saves Ruth and goes back for her husband, but it is too late to save him.

''Cry Wolfe'' uses actors to reenact some of private investigator Brian Wolfe's most interesting cases. His cases include cheating spouses, workplace theft, and blackmail. Wolfe is helped by his investigative assistant, Janine McCarthy.

During his vacation tour on Izu peninsula, Tokyo student Mizuhara befriends a group of local travelling musicians led by Eikichi. Eikichi lost the family's inheritance, a gold mine, due to his carelessness, which he had to sell for a low price to its new owner Zenbei. While staying in their hometown where they have an engagement, Eikichi's sister Kaoru falls in love with Mizuhara. Instigated by the mine's former engineer Kubota, Eikichi demands what he considers his fair share from Zenbei, but Zenbei replies that he will only give Eikichi money if he sells his sister Kaoru to him. Mizuhara confronts Zenbei, who also happens to be the father of his fellow student Ryūichi, with what he considers an insolent proposal. As it turns out, Zenbei, who was a friend of Eikichi's and Kaoru's father, wants to spare Kaoru the fate of living the life of a travelling musician. Unbeknownst to Kaoru and her brother, Zenbei secretly opened a bank account in her name and hopes to marry her to his son Ryūichi one day. Mizuhara and Kaoru part in tears upon his return to Tokyo, and before entering the boat which will take him home, he advises her to seek happiness in a stable life as Ryūichi's wife.

In her teenage years, Jugyeong Lim has been treated unfairly by her family and bullied by her enemies due to being perceived as ugly. She starts learning how to use makeup by binge-watching tutorial videos on the Internet. She masters the art and her makeover proves to be gorgeously transformative as she quickly rises to fame and people become awed at the sight of her newfound beauty. Soon, she makes an unlikely relationship with two of the handsomest, most popular boys at school: Lee Su-ho, who is the first to recognize her beyond her makeup, and Han Seojun, a "bad boy" who is not on good terms with Suho. Living in a society where people are judged based on their physical appearance, Jugyeong navigates through her high school days and into her college life while struggling to keep her makeup-less face a secret and facing various challenges with her self-esteem, love life and career.

The plot of ''True Beauty'' can de subdivided into the following story arcs:

• ''Jugyeong's high school story (Prologue, Chs. 1–58)'''

• "The advent of a goddess": Jugyeong learns and masters the makeup arts (Prologue, 1–3)

• Suho recognizes jugyeong beyond her make-up (Chs. 4–10)
• Soo-jin's plot against Jugyeong (Chs. 11–16)
• Jugyeong meets Seo-jun and Aiden (Chs. 17–24)
• Jugyeong becomes Gowoon's makeup artist (Chs. 25–28)
• The tragedy of Yoon Seyeon; S-ho and Seojun reconciles (Chs. 29–38)
• The summer break with Suho and Seojun (Chs. 39–47)

• The last year in high school and Suho's departure to Japan (Chs. 48–58)

• '''Into adulthood (Chs. 59-ongoing)'''

• Jugyeong in college: life without Su-ho and falling in love with Seo-jun (Chs. 59–69)

• Jugyeong deals with her jealousy (Chs. 70–73)
• Jugyeong and Jin-su (Chs. 74–77)
• Seo-jun's multiple part-time jobs and his overnight Internet stardom (Chs. 78–86)
• Su-ho returns, Seo-jun recognizes Ju-kyung's bare face (Chs. 87–94)
• Seo-jun returns to idol training, Ju-kyung works under Selena Lee (Chs. 95–99)
• Ju-kyung deals with Seo-jun's jealousy (Chs. 100–109)
• Ju-kyung, Su-ho, Seo-jun and Aiden in ''Prince of Prince'' (Chs. 110–119)
• Ju-kyung's struggle with dating an upcoming idol; Ju-kyung and Seo-jun's break-up (Chs. 120–128)
• Ju-kyung and Seo-jun try to move on from their break-up (Chs. 129–135)
• Ju-kyung and Eun-hye (Chs. 136–143)
• Ju-kyung at the Lee Family's villa (Chs. 144–147)
• Seo-jun's song dedicated to Ju-kyung (Chs. 148–150)
• Soo-jin's ordeal with her abusive boyfriend (Chs. 151–158)
• Soo-jin starts leading a new life, Su-ho and Seo-jun continue fighting over Ju-kyung (Chs. 159–165)
• Da-jung's cheating boyfriend (Chs. 166–168)
• Su-ho becomes Ju-kyung's boyfriend (Chs. 169–174)
• Ju-kyung venturing into vlogging and her struggle against Jo Bo-jung (Chs. 175–185)
• Su-ho and his father reconciles; Ju-kyung stands up to Bo-jung (Chs. 186–190)
• Su-ho starts working as a cook under Mi-yeon; Ju-kyung helps Mi-yeon with her face scar (Chs. 191–194)
• Ju-kyung and Seung-ho (Chs. 195–199)
• Seo-jun and the hardships of his career as an idol; Ju-kyung and Su-ho argue over Ju-kyung being too engrossed in her work (Chs. 200–ongoing)

Out of pity the good fairy Rosabelverde, bewitches the ugly little child Zaches who resembles a mandrake, with an ugly body and soul, so that most people, mostly philistines, stop seeing him as unsightly. Now people are drawn to him and any praiseworthy deed performed in his presence is attributed to him. Zaches changes his name to a new one — Cinnaber. And vice versa, as soon as he does something disgusting or shameful (and he does nothing else) - in the eyes of those present, someone else seems to have done an abomination; most often the one who suffered the most from Cinnaber's antics. Thanks to the gift of the good fairy, the dwarf enchants Professor Mosh Terpin (possessed by a peculiar vision of the "German Spirit") and his daughter Candida. Only the melancholic student Balthazar, who is in love with a beautiful girl, sees the true appearance of the villain. Artists also have this ability (violinist Sbiocca, singer Bragazzi), as well as foreigners. Later they are joined by Balthazar's friends: Fabian and Pulcher. Zaches-Cinnaber does not waste time, and, taking advantage of other people's successes, quickly makes a career at the court of the local prince Paphnutius and prepares to marry Candida.

Poet-student Balthazar, who turns to the familiar magician Prosper Alpanus for help, learns from him the secret of Cinnaber's power: he pulls out three fiery hairs from the dwarf's head, from which all his magical power is derived. People see who their minister truly is. The exposed and humiliated Zaches has no choice but to hide in his beautiful palace, but ends up drowning there in a chamber pot with sewage.

Characters

• '' 'Little Zaches, nicknamed Cinnaber' '' is the son of a poor peasant woman, gifted by the fairy Rosabelverde with the magical power of attracting people to himself and taking other people's merits.
• '' 'Balthazar' '' - student of Kerepes University, romantic.
• '' 'Fabian' '' - Balthazar's friend, student, realist, cheerful person.
• '' 'Mosh Terpin' '' is a professor of natural sciences at Kerepes University, whose lectures Balthazar attends.
• '' 'Candida' '' - the daughter of Mosh Terpin, the beloved of Balthazar.
• '' 'Fairy Rosabelverde' '' - a fairy who bewitches Little Zaches.
• '' 'Prosper Alpanus' '' is a wandering magician.
• '' 'Paphnutii' '' - a prince obsessed with the introduction of enlightenment in the country.
• '' 'Liza' '' - Zaches' mother, a poor peasant woman.

In 1993 in Montevideo, a mysterious man dressed in a black coat and wearing black gloves sneaks into a declining movie theatre. Eventually, an engineering student named Ana, who is the daughter of the theatre projectionist, arrives to take over her father's duties for him due to his ill health; likewise, she also needs a place to study for an exam. Even though he refuses at first, he reluctantly leaves as Ana has already known how to use a movie projector since an early age.

At the theatre where a thriller movie is running, the man in the black coat stealthily kills an old man unbeknownst to the rest of the audience: a trio of teenagers, a couple on a date, a boy who sneaks in, and a girl waiting for her boyfriend. Ana is visited by Mauricio, a cocky security guard who asks her about an alarm clock he left in the projector room to remind him to take his pills. Ana feels frustrated due to the distraction, asks him to leave her alone to study, and Mauricio bitterly agrees, saying he will take a nap downstairs. After Mauricio sees the ticket seller leaving, he is murdered when his throat is sliced by the killer at the theater entrance. Having killed the guard, the killer locks the theater using a metal bar. He then tries to enter the projection room but he can't, due to Ana having locked the door in order not to be disturbed.

In the theater, one of the teenagers Goni approaches the lone girl to flirt with her. As they both talk and kiss, the killer murders them by piercing their skulls at once with the metal bar. Meanwhile, the couple prepares to leave, however, the woman Gabriela gives a hand job to her date Horacio, which prompts him to go to the men's room. The killer follows Horacio and kills him inside one of the toilet stalls. Ana finds the alarm clock when it rings and takes it to look for Mauricio; however, she can't find him, so she returns to the projection room.

Goni's friends Angela and Esteban feel something is off with Goni and the girl, as they do not see them moving, so Angela goes down to check on him, only to find the two of them dead. Meanwhile, the killer attacks Gabriela and kills her when he stabs her in the heart with a pocket knife. Due to some technical difficulties Ana confuses the screams with complaints and restores the movie, which had stopped due to the film breaking. She eventually goes down into the theater, finding all the victims with their eyes gouged out, and is horrified. She encounters a frightened Angela, who then barely escapes the killer when she knocks him out with a fire extinguisher. They try to escape but when they find Mauricio's corpse, Ana realizes the killer has the keys. When the killer awakens he chases the boy Tomás, but he is saved by Ana, as she stabs the killer in his right eye with a shard of glass.

Ana, Angela, and Tomás take refuge inside the projection room, where Ana calls the police. However, within seconds the killer breaks through the locked door, and shows them the glass jar in which he keeps the eyes of his victims, as he chews his own severed eye in front of them. As the killer approaches them with a knife, Angela tosses a pile of tapes at him, creating a distraction that allows Tomas and Ana to escape. Angela runs through a back room and tries to escape through the roof stairs, but the killer catches her and kills her by hitting her head repeatedly with the projector, covering it with her blood. Ana comforts Tomás and takes him back to the theater. As they wait for the police, she pulls the metal bar out of the dead teenagers, and they go to the entrance, where the killer then attacks them. Ana is stabbed by the killer, and he then goes after Tomás. Although she is wounded, Ana takes the metal bar and stabs the killer through the chest from behind, killing him. He drops the glass jar and it breaks, scattering eyeballs everywhere. The police arrive at the theater, and as Ana hugs Tomás to comfort him, he stares at the victims' eyes.

In 1909, Danish explorer Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen organizes an expedition to Shannon Island, East Greenland, from which he makes treks to recover the records of the ill-fated Denmark expedition. His first attempt is unsuccessful and a crewman loses toes to frostbite in the process, but on the trek Mikkelsen discovers a dead Denmark expedition member with a log and a map showing the location of a cairn built by his expedition. The only volunteer to accompany Mikkelsen on his second attempt is an inexperienced engineer named Iver Iversen, while the rest of the crew stays behind.

Mikkelsen and Iversen lose two of their sled dogs in their first few days and gradually sacrifice the remaining dogs to provide food to the teams that remain. Later, they fight and kill a polar bear. After three months the explorers locate the cairn, which contains records that disprove the existence of the Peary Channel, thus showing that Greenland is a single island and that the United States has no claim in the Arctic. On their way back, Mikkelsen fears that they may not survive, so they build another cairn about 200 miles from Shannon Island in which they deposit the records from the Denmark expedition. Mikkelsen and Iversen finally return to Shannon Island to learn the rest of the crew have returned home, leaving them stranded. They are forced to spend two winters in a cabin with food and supplies while their crewmates struggle to mount a rescue mission.

During their long isolation, the two men return to the cairn they built and retrieve the records. Meanwhile, their cabin is visited by would-be rescuers who find no sign of them. Later Mikkelsen hallucinates that his lover Naja Holm is with him, while Iversen imagines meeting his grandfather. Mikkelsen nearly kills Iversen with a rifle and the two men come very close to losing their sanity before being rescued in 1912. Their evidence from the Denmark expedition leads to American recognition of Greenland as a single island belonging to Denmark. An epilogue reveals that Mikkelsen married Naja a year later, that Iversen never set foot in the Arctic again, and that the two men remained friends for life.

In 1979, aspiring pornographic actress Maxine Minx embarks on a road trip through Texas with her producer boyfriend Wayne, fellow actors Bobby-Lynne and Jackson Hole, director RJ and RJ's girlfriend Lorraine to shoot an adult film for the booming theatrical pornography market. Bobby-Lynne and Jackson strike up a romance, while Lorraine is unimpressed with the film's content and RJ's attempts to make it seem like a serious cinematic piece.

The group arrives at the farm of Howard and Pearl, an elderly couple in whose guest house the group intends to shoot the film, ''The Farmer's Daughters''. Howard is temperamental towards the group, brandishing a shotgun while Pearl silently stalks Maxine. As filming commences without Howard's knowledge, Maxine is invited inside the couple's home by Pearl, where they have a conversation. Pearl laments her age, expresses jealousy for Maxine's youth, and makes a sexual advance towards her. She later watches Maxine have sex with Jackson and is aroused. Pearl pleads with Howard to have sex with her but he refuses, claiming his heart is too weak.

Night falls and the film crew relax in their farmhouse. Lorraine, keen to shed her reputation as a prude and intrigued by the film, asks to participate in the shoot, upsetting RJ. Eventually, RJ agrees to shoot a scene between Lorraine and Jackson, but becomes so furious over her unfaithfulness to him and ruining his script and film he held in such high regard, that he breaks down sobbing in the shower. RJ attempts to leave while the others sleep, but he is stopped by Pearl, who attempts to seduce him; when he rebuffs her, she stabs him to death. Lorraine and Wayne notice RJ is missing and go searching. Wayne is killed with a pitchfork in the barn by Pearl. Lorraine is invited into the couple's house by Howard, who claims Pearl is missing, and asks Lorraine to retrieve a flashlight from the basement. When she does, Lorraine discovers the rotting corpse of a missing man and attempts to flee, but finds she has been locked in.

Howard approaches the guest house and asks Jackson to help him locate Pearl. Jackson finds a submerged car in a pond before Howard shoots him dead, revealing himself to be complicit in Pearl's violent tendencies. Meanwhile, Pearl enters the guest house and climbs into Maxine's bed naked. Maxine awakens and screams, with Bobby-Lynne witnessing Pearl fleeing the house. In the farmhouse, Lorraine uses a hatchet to break through a panel in the basement door, but Howard bludgeons her, breaking her finger, and forces her back inside. Bobby-Lynne follows Pearl outside to the nearby lake and tries to guide her away from the water. Pearl angrily accuses Bobby-Lynne of being a whore before pushing her into the lake where she is devoured by an alligator.

Maxine sees Pearl and Howard return to the guest house and hides under the bed. The elderly couple discuss the murders before having sex. Maxine manages to flee to the van, where she finds RJ's corpse, and the keys missing. Armed with a pistol from the glovebox, Maxine enters the farmhouse and frees Lorraine, who angrily blames Maxine for what has happened. Lorraine panics and runs out the front door, only to be fatally shot by Howard. As Howard and Pearl begin moving the bodies, intent on framing the crew as intruders, a dying Lorraine startles Howard, who has a heart attack and dies.

Maxine retrieves the keys to Howard and Pearl's truck, and attempts to shoot Pearl, only to discover her pistol is unloaded. Pearl tries to shoot Maxine, but she misses, and the force from the shotgun blasts Pearl out of the house, and she breaks her hip when she lands on the ground. As Pearl lies injured outside, she begs Maxine for help. Maxine refuses and as Pearl berates her, Maxine runs her over with the truck, crushing Pearl's head. Maxine drives away from the farm. The next morning, the police arrive at the house to retrieve the bodies.

It is revealed that Maxine is the daughter of a fundamentalist Christian preacher, whose speeches were frequently playing on Pearl and Howard's television. The police discover RJ's camera and speculate about what it contains.

In 2019, former Indonesian Marine soldier and journalist Angga Saputra (Oka Antara) met his girlfriend Sari Nirmala (Julie Estelle) the journalist, proposed her and offering an engagement ring. Due to her job and pursuing the news on a newly democratically elected president, Indra, she left him with the crew to Solo for interviewing him. Turned out, at the day, a revolution led by PIRANAS broke. She and the elected president declared missing and feared to be killed among many during the revolution.

11 years later, Angga become PIRANAS cadre and now is a congressman of the party. It's revealed that he is also renowned for drafting an unfair farmer bill (the bill later signed into the law by the president) which enabling PIRANAS to monopolized Indonesian food stocks distribution, leading Indonesia famine become widespread. Due to his act, the Four Horsemen of PIRANAS Party: President of Indonesia Ahmad Barona, Media mogul and Head of PIRANAS propaganda affairs Hengky Laksono (Ario Prabowo), GERRAM paramilitary commander General Adnan Atmadja (Otig Pakis), and the Party Chairman Farid Baskoro (Joshua Pandelaki) invited him for a secret high-level talk in PIRANAS HQ. Here, Angga meet his supervisor, R. Soeganda (Cok Simbara), a PIRANAS elite cadre and a senator. After introduced by Soeganda, Angga later revealed to the Four Horsemen about while the power PIRANAS grip is increasing, due to food and economy crisis, a rival power called "Reform" is rising. The "Reform" described as rebel group which rising as result as the crisis and offering hope to the poor. As its power rising, Angga proposed military approach to deal with the rebels and proposed a black ops project "Patriot Act" to kill the Reform, promising the rebel movement will died out, and the party image will uplifted. In turn, Angga wanted 1% PIRANAS generated revenue per year as the fee.

The Four Horsemen accepted, however, Angga cannot lead the death squad. The Four Horsemen choose Wisnu Nugroho (Edward Akbar), an ardent PIRANAS cadre and fanatical GERRAM executive officer as the head of the operation instead. Angga and Soeganda displeased as they know Wisnu bad track record and his sadistic tendencies, although the four horsemen much favored Wisnu mind over Angga. Angga reluctantly sending the accepted proposal to Wisnu at GERRAM secret HQ in Jakarta. At first, Wisnu pleased with the proposal and showed Angga recent U.S. gadgets to combat the Reform worn by Wisnu's righthandmen, Gecko (Godfred Orindeod) and Aula (Norman R. Akyuwen). During an argument with Angga, Wisnu draw his gun and threatened Angga. Angga, realized that they are spied by a drone. Knowing this, Wisnu and his men pursuing the drone. Leaving Angga alone which walked away to the street. Angga spotted a mysterious Spec (Chicco Jerikho) controlling the drone. Realized that he is spotted, Spec flee the scene into the alley. After a brief fight, Angga threatened to harm Spec with his gun. From the darkness, the Reforms show up and catch Angga. Angga later knocked out by Spec.

The Reforms later bring Angga into a cell. After fighting with his kidnappers, Sari show up. Angga surprised. Sari later revealed that if she know that Angga is PIRANAS cadre for long time and know much about PIRANAS corrupt acts. When the Revolution broke, Sari and the president-elect Indra went into hiding and founded the Reform, in order to topple the corrupt regime. She also revealed, during her run, she gave birth Dinda (Gisellma Firmansyah), her daughter with Angga. Wisnu, Gecko, Aula, and GERRAM's death squad later ambushed them. During the skirmish, many Reforms killed, Gecko harmed seriously, and Angga, Dinda, Sari, and Spec escaped. Wisnu later declared that Angga now is a Reform collaborator and traitor of the country, and their name later added to GERRAM top kill list.

Spec bring Angga, Sari, and Dinda to a ruined mall. It is revealed that the now slum mall actually is a shelter where many Indra men, electors, supporters, and many displaced people are hiding from GERRAM brutality. Indra revealed their men condition in the slum to Angga. Angga asked for a call to Soeganda, it is revealed by Soeganda that Angga's "Patriot Act" Project already skewed and altered by Wisnu. Angga later realized his mistake and resolved to help the people. He later collected his former team (Foxtrot 5) in Marine: Oggi (Verdi Solaiman), Bara (Rio Dewanto), Tino (Arifin Putra), and Ethan (Mike Lewis). After his former team reassembled, together with Spec, the team now known as Foxtrot 6, unofficially.

During recruiting Ethan, Ethan accidentally turned his webcam on, due to being recruited during his vlogging. They asked Ethan to infiltrate PIRANAS server, where they learned about PIRANAS plan to kill some of its top members, including Soeganda, as false-flag operation to put blame to the Reform and enabling mass state-sanctioned genocide event to purge any voice opposing the PIRANAS and Ahmad administration. Due to Ethan clumsiness, it enabling them to be tracked by Aula and his death squad detachment. Spec warned the Foxtrot 6 and they escaped. During the escape, they destroy Ethan computer to eliminate evidence, but Aula recovered the Foxtrot 5 members past group photo, enabling them to be tracked further.

At the D-day of the plan, Wisnu and his man attacking the senators convoy. The Reforms managed to safe them. When they returned to the shelter, they learned that Wisnu and his squad had already attacked shelter, killed nearly all Indra's men & sparing Indra, Dinda and some civillian locked in a freight elevator. Wisnu tricked Angga to spell a password that ignited the bomb that already rigged across the building. Wisnu also managed to hang all senators brutally and videotaped their death as false evidence to incite and legitimized PIRANAS's state-sanctioned genocide. The building exploded & Sari sacrificing herself during the blast, killed her.

Spec later informed the Indonesian Marines and send some of troops to look after survivors. It later revealed that one among many send by the Marines is Sgt. N. "Raya" Pratama, Angga chauffeur and congressman's guard. With her help, The Foxtrot 6 team getting military equipment & launch suicide mission to overthrow the president Ahmad Barona. Departing from Military Base, the squad deployed to PIRANAS complex. Across the country, PIRANAS and government aired the senators killing video over and over, leading people angry and blame the Reforms for their action.

In PIRANAS complex, the Foxtrot 6 successfully infiltrated the complex & they able to breach PIRANAS security. In the skirmish, many members of GERRAM killed by Foxtrot 6. Aula killed by Bara, and Gecko killed by Spec. In Foxtrot 6 side, Oggi and Ethan meet their demise. The PIRANAS lost one of its Four Horsemen during ensuing battles, Gen. Adnan killed by Ethan using stolen KODIAKS (it was revealed that Ethan actually survived). The party chairman, Farid, somehow escaped.

Angga and Ethan reaching President office room, breaching the room and taking Hengky as hostage, forcing him to make confession about PIRANAS conspiracy, the President Ahmad later showed up, kill Hengky to destroy his confession, and leaving to Istana Negara with his guards. Wisnu stabbing Ethan from behind, and later asked why Angga dared to against the party and government, telling that people is useless and worth to be exterminated. Disagreed with Wisnu, Angga later exploding the room's ceiling and buried many Wisnu men and Ethan. Fighting ensued at the helipad between Angga and Wisnu. Wisnu shot Angga with his last bullet, seemingly killing him and taunting over his body.

At Istana Negara, Ahmad later re-aired the senators killing video during the gathering and announced an law which enabling people to kill any Reform members and all PIRANAS oppositions, justifying state-wide genocide across Indonesia committed by their people (mimicking Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 event). Soon, another video played. Turned out, it is Ahmad itself. His conversation with Angga unknowingly recorded by Ethan's gadget, which Ethan recorded soon before succumbed to his death.

Since Angga aired it using PIRANAS exclusive Emergency Broadcasting Channel, making it impossible to be turned off as its kill switch located in PIRANAS HQ. Realized what actually happened, public support over PIRANAS dropped immediately and people become angry due to government lying to them, People later stormed the Istana Negara. Outside the burning PIRANAS HQ, Wisnu and his surviving men attempted to flee, only to be encountered by angry villagers that waiting for them. The angry villagers later brutally killed Wisnu and his men.

A week after the incident, Angga and Bara attending burial of the fallen soldiers, Oggi, and Ethan, also including Sari. Angga added an empty casket filled with a sniper rifle for Spec, as his body not found. Bara also revealed that Tino bailed out and just away without any talk. In other place, Ahmad administration collapsed. President Ahmad later captured by law enforcement and currently awaiting his trial. Ahmad's cabinet and PIRANAS Party dissolved on all level. Many members of his cabinets and party elites being hunted by law enforcement as the fugitive. During the day in a peaceful protest, Angga meet his daughter again. They later walked away in better Indonesia, no longer living in fear and now free.

Somewhere, in an U.S. Marine Base, it is revealed that Spec actually still alive and he taking flight with many U.S. Marines giving him salute, hinting that Spec actually an U.S. Marine operative. Since U.S. aided GERRAM equipment in the beginning of the film, and revelation that Spec actually an U.S. Marine operative working in the Reform side, it make the involvement of U.S. during the events of the film is up to the audience's imagination.

In post-credit scene, an ad of Kit-Kat played where Angga, Oggi, Tino, and Ethan received a box full of Kit-Kat from an unknown person. They rushed taking it.

The unnamed narrator, a writer living in Manhattan, recalls the life and recent suicide of her best friend and mentor, also unnamed. Addressing him in the second person, she recounts her friend's three troubled marriages and his career as a college professor. The narrator reveals that the main point of contention between her and her friend involved his illicit affairs with his female students. The narrator meets with her friend's third wife, who asks her to adopt her friend's senior Great Dane, Apollo. The wife, whom the narrator calls "Wife Three", explains that Apollo appears to be in mourning and has been temporarily placed in a kennel. Recalling the story of Hachikō, the narrator reluctantly agrees to take Apollo in.

Though dogs are prohibited in her building, the narrator thinks of a New York law regarding the keeping of pets in apartments: that, if a tenant openly keeps a dog in an apartment for a period of three months, and during those three months the landlord does not take action to evict the tenant, the tenant may legally keep the dog. Though the narrator's building superintendent, Hector, tells her to get rid of Apollo, the narrator hopes Hector will not inform the landlord within the three months.

In her free time, the narrator teaches a writing workshop at a center for victims of human trafficking. As she reads the work of the victims and cares for Apollo, she recalls several films and novels with themes of suffering, suicide, and human-canine bonds, including the films ''Lilya 4-ever'' and ''White God'', and the novels ''Disgrace'' (a particular favorite of her friend) and ''My Dog Tulip''. As the narrator forms a stronger bond with Apollo, Hector reveals that he has told the landlord about her dog. As the narrator becomes more withdrawn, it becomes evident that her eviction is likely, and her friends and relatives attempt an intervention. The friend's second wife, "Wife Two," finally offers to take Apollo so the narrator can keep her apartment. To the dismay of her friends, the narrator refuses.

She begins reading ''Letters to a Young Poet'' aloud to Apollo, finding that it soothes him, and recalls author Rainer Maria Rilke's definition of love: "... two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other." Inspired, and with her therapist's approval, the narrator registers Apollo as an emotional support animal, enabling her to keep the apartment.

The narrator notices Apollo's arthritis becoming more severe, and dreads his eventual death. She imagines a final conversation between her and her friend, in which she tells him that she is writing a novel about him. Though the narrator says that she's changed key details, her friend is upset, and asks her to reassure him that nothing bad will happen to the dog.

Sometime in the near future, the narrator is taking a summer vacation in Long Island with Apollo, who is now very sick. From the porch, she listens to the ocean and watches Apollo, lying in the grass. She sees a swarm of white butterflies moving across the lawn, and thinks that they should watch out for Apollo, who could take out most of them with one bite. However, the butterflies land on Apollo, and the dog does not move. The narrator realizes what has happened, and, in the last sentence of the novel, mourns, ''"Oh, my friend, my friend!"''

''The Music Master'' tells the story of violinist Herr Von Mitzel (D. W. Griffith) who falls in love with his student, the daughter of an English lord. However, due to the difference in their social status he is unable to marry her.

A diverse group of people is staying at a remote spa, including grumpy professor Katada, who regularly scolds young husband Hiroyasu for not being strict enough with his wife, an old man with his two grandsons Taro and Jiro, and soldier Nanmura. When Nanmura steps on a kanzashi, a woman's ornamental hairpin, in a well, he has to extend his stay. After the owner of the hairpin, Emi, a former resident, is located, she returns to the spa to apologise. Together with Taro and Jiro, she supports Nanmura with his daily exercises to regain his health. Although Emi and Nanmura share an unspoken mutual affection, they both know that their time together is finite: Nanmura will have to return to the military service, while Emi, a geisha who has fled her patron, faces an uncertain future.

A large group people awaken in the middle of a post apocalyptic type wasteland with no recollection of how they got there. Each person is equipped with a backpack of supplies and an odd weapon. The group soon finds out that they are a part of a reality show known as Zombies and Shit and their objective is to get to the rescue zone where there will be a helicopter waiting to take them to safety. This island is crawling with zombies that are there for the sole purpose of feasting on their flesh. It soon becomes apparent to the group that there is only one seat available on the helicopter. Zombies will not be the only things trying to stop them from reaching the rescue zone alive as soon they will have to turn on each other.

Shaun of The Dead meets Battle Royale in this over the top, action packed, and all out bloody gore fest of a battle for survival.

The film is divided into three chapters and has two storylines – documentary and fiction.

The fictional part of the film consists of psychedelic scenes: a red room, a girl in red silk, kaleidoscopic images. A female voice-over reads an excerpt from The Magic Mountain, in which the thoughts of a deceased soldier are heard (his consciousness is still in a dead body) sounding his reflections on Christ, the Apostles and the Bible. The soldier's body then falls prey to necrophilic children.

Nancy Kulik, a mother and grandmother, finds her strength and joy through the work of her idol, actress Sophia Loren. Loren, Edoardo Ponti, and Regina K. Scully also appear in the film.

Rahim Soltani is temporarily released from prison for a two-day period in order to settle an unpaid debt of 150,000,000 tomans to his brother-in-law, Bahram. Rahim’s lover, Farkondeh, has acquired a lost handbag containing several gold coins, which they both attempt to sell in order to repay the debt, but find that gold has lost value to the point where Rahim cannot repay Bahram in full. In the meantime, he moves in with his sister Malileh and her husband Hossein.

Malileh discovers the handbag and coins and confronts Rahim about it, leading Rahim to pursue the original owner of the handbag and return it to them. After the original owner comes to claim the bag (which Rahim claims he found), Rahim is praised for his selfless act and his story is covered by the media before he returns to prison and becomes a local celebrity. Bahram is immediately suspicious of Rahim’s story, believing he is trying to restore his image and leave prison to stop the impending second marriage of his ex-wife. The prison begins to arrange for Rahim’s release.

At a charity event to raise money and provide employment for Rahim, Bahram is incensed to learn that less than a quarter of the debt’s total has been raised. He explains to the organizers that Rahim, then unable to take out a loan from a bank, received the money from Bahram that he acquired from a loan shark, who he eventually had to repay when Rahim failed to make payments. Despite this, Bahram agrees to have Rahim released for the sake of his estranged son, Siavash.

While applying for his new job, Rahim learns that rumors have begun to spread disputing his supposed discovery and returning of the handbag, prompting Rahim to locate the woman in order for her to confirm his story, though his search is fruitless. Rahim and Malileh plot to have Farkondeh pose as the woman, using details from the actual encounter to validate Rahim’s story. The hiring manager produces a text from Rahim to Bahram offering to pay half the debt a week before the day he claimed to have found the bag, leading him to reject Rahim’s application.

Certain that Bahram forwarded the incriminating text exchange, Rahim confronts him at his printing shop, but Bahram denies it. After Bahram accuses Rahim of using his son for sympathy, Rahim physically attacks him, and nearby shopkeepers help restrain Rahim while the police arrive. Farkondeh arrives and manages to convince Bahram to let Rahim go.

Rahim is called by the charity organization to inform him of a video made by Bahram’s daughter Nazanin, which shows footage of his fight with Bahram while also unveiling his and Farkondeh’s relationship. Nazanin threatens to release the video publicly if Rahim doesn’t pay his debt in full by the next day. In light of this evidence, Rahim is forced to unveil the truth about the bag. Fearing a scandal, the organization decides to withhold the money raised for Rahim. On the last day of his leave, Rahim is informed by the charity organizer that the funds raised for him will instead be used toward the release of a man scheduled to be executed, and Farkondeh convinces her to tell the media that it was Rahim’s idea in order to help him retain some of his honor.

Nazanin’s video is released, and Farkondeh’s family forbids her from seeing Rahim again. While filming a video about Rahim’s most recent “act” of charity to soften the backlash, Siavash is coached into crying on camera by Rahim’s parole officer, Salehi, and Rahim, wanting to protect his son, relents and wishes for the video to not be released. When Salehi refuses, Rahim fights him outside until he eventually deletes it. The following morning, Farkondeh and Siavash accompany Rahim back to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.

Conan and his friends meet up with Eisuke Hondo, who is at a hospital, in search of his long-lost sister. The woman in question happens to bear a striking resemblance to a newscaster, Rena Mizunashi, raising suspicions that the two could be related to one another. Upon seeing a picture of Eisuke's sister, Koshi Anno, a fan of Rena, confirms her identity. To further prove this, he shows Eisuke a video of a news report, featuring her, where it is learned that Rena has type AB blood. However, being a type O, Eisuke denies that he is related to her, as he can only receive other type O blood in transfusions, which he claims to have received from his sister in the past.

Jodie Starling informs Conan that Eisuke's father, Ethan Hondo, was working as an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who had the mission of spying on the Black Organization until he was murdered by Rena (under the Organization codename '''Kir'''), who is suspected of posing as Ethan's daughter four years ago, in order to look into the CIA's investigation efforts. Conan learns from Ran that Eisuke found a person from his father's company at Haido Central Hospital, where Rena is currently hospitalized, who was recognized through an arrangement of touch tone notes on a phone, which happened to play the beginning of the children's song, , which is also the number of the Black Organization's leader.

Fearing Rena's safety, Conan, along with Jodie and other Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) members, Andre Camel, James Black, and Shuichi Akai, make their way to investigate a fake patient sent to the hospital by the Organization. They are able to identify a man named Rikumichi Kusuda, faking a neck sprain, however, he flees by car, then later commits suicide by self-afflicted gunshot to avoid arrest. Afterwards, Eisuke enters Rena's hospital room, where he angrily attempts to stab her with scissors, before Rena stops grabs them. Conan appears to tells Eisuke that Rena is in fact his real sister, and that her real name is '''Hidemi Hondo''', who is also a CIA agent. In the past, Ethan devised a scenario for his real daughter, Hidemi, as Kir, to murder him after their identities as CIA agents were known by the Organization. Conan, having learned that Eisuke had leukemia as a child, explains their blood relation, due to Hidemi's bone marrow being transplanted to Eisuke, to help with his condition, changing his blood type from O to AB in the process.

With the Organization's presence looming, the FBI plan to transport Rena to safety, using three decoy vans to stay out of their sight. Packages sent to hospital patients were believed to contain bombs from the Organization, which the FBI intercept. Unaware that the packages were actually transmitters, Gin becomes aware of Rena's location. Along with fellow Organization members, Chianti, Korn, and Vodka, who all tail the FBI's vans, Gin, using thermal technology, is able to determine which van contains Rena: the one that Camel is driving, which is being followed by Vodka. Rena renders Camel unconscious, causing the van to crash, and explode, with both of them fleeing the blast. Rena rejoins the Organization, which was revealed to be the FBI's plan all along, in order for Hidemi to continue her job of collecting information on the Organization from within.

Gin, back with Rena, asks her to set up a meeting with Shuichi on orders of the Organization's boss, or risk being labeled a traitor and killed, after Rena asks for the Organization to spare the lives of everyone in Haido Hospital, making Gin question Kir's loyalty. Once the two meet, Rena shoots Shuichi in the chest, before shooting him in the head, killing him. A bomb is then detonated, where authorities later discover a body, burned in the blaze, which was confirmed to be Shuichi after Conan's cellphone, containing Akai's fingerprints, was examined, matching that of the body.

Having been kidnapped by twink superfan Chip in the season 3 finale, Dory awakens in the home of Chip's Aunt Lylah located in Babyfoot, Massachusetts. He locks Dory in the basement, which has been designed to be a padded replica of her Brooklyn apartment. Chip insists Dory is his best friend and that her friends are a bad influence.

Back in New York, Portia and Elliott are upset that Dory is nowhere to be found. They find a handwritten letter from Dory, actually written by Chip, which states she's going to Europe and no longer wants to be friends with them. They become angry and leave her a withering voicemail. Elliott becomes a homophobic Christian conservative news pundit on his own show and enjoys his newfound fame. Portia is cast as Dory in Savage: The Dory Sief Story, a film about the murder trial, but the director Lassie Kazaar hates her acting. Drew goes to work at an out of state theme park called Merry Merry Land. He works with his new girlfriend, Cindy.

Dory tries to escape but every ploy falls through. Eventually, Dory accepts Chip's insistence that she is innocent of any crime and displays symptoms of Stockholm syndrome. She begins wearing a blonde wig and using the name Stephanie. She and Chip go to a local ice cream parlor dressed as Stephanie and Aunt Lylah when she sees Marc, Elliott's ex-fiancé.

The three are unaware that Dory may be in harm's way until Chip posts a photoshopped Instagram picture of Dory at the Leaning Tower of Pisa wearing a sweater that Drew knows he put in storage. He moves back to Brooklyn to search for Dory with Elliott and Portia. At a convenience store, they see Chip's face on a package of Lil Sticky's cinnamon buns and they reach out to the company via Twitter. The company's married executives Richard and Gertrude Wreck claim that the photo on the packaging is not Chip, but privately express anxiety that Chip may be involved in the kidnapping. It is revealed that Chip is a product of incest, the son of Lylah and Richard.

Elliott, Portia, and Drew see that Marc just posted a photo of him and Dory on Instagram. After speaking to Marc, the trio go to Babyfoot. There, Drew spots Dory in Chip's car, but when Dory sees them, she jumps out of the car and runs into the woods. They catch up to her, take her to a hotel, and because she is threatening to kill them, tie her to a bed.

Chantal writes a book and is upset when she's told that it's awful. In an angry fit, Chantal throws the book off the roof of the building. Wilma, a talk show host, picks up the book and loves it. She assumes it was written by a 10 year old girl. When Chantal arrives at the show as the author, Wilma is bewildered.

Tied to the hotel bed, Dory watches Chantal on Wilma's show and remembers the events that Chip brainwashed out of her. Dory leaves her friends eating at a diner and drives to Lylah's house. Drew's girlfriend Cindy arrives with his family to perform an elaborate wedding proposal, which he refuses. Dory asks Chip to transform her back into Stephanie but he refuses. Aunt Lylah locks Dory in the basement and burns down the house. As she suffocates from the smoke Dory has a flashback that reveals that she almost escaped when Chip first kidnapped her but voluntarily stayed in captivity.

Dory's family and friends gather at a memorial for her, as she is presumed dead from the fire. The trio go back to Portia's apartment and find a box from Chip that contains several of Dory's personal items. On a video camera, they find a clip addressed to them that Dory left before she perished in the fire.

The last scene shows Dory soot covered and coughing on a gurney, where she has been rescued from the house fire.