In a future where the all-powerful Golds rule the universe at the expense of the lower castes, the course of history is changed when one of their number falls in love with a baseborn Red.

On Valentine's Day, Regular Sized Rudy asks Louise (Kristen Schaal) if she will be at the cafeteria during lunch, which she affirms. He then buys a bouquet of "love weeds" from Zeke, concerning Louise that he could be in love with her. During lunch Rudy requests her to give the bouquet and a card to Chloe Barbash. Louise agrees to do so, initially feeling relieved that he is in love with someone else. When Rudy shows Louise the note he got from Chloe, Louise realizes that Chloe just uses him for quiz answers. Louise calls Chloe out about it, and tries to get her to kiss Rudy, which Chloe refuses to do. Louise explains to Rudy that Chloe is not in love with him, before kissing him herself. Louise slaps Rudy and demands he keep the kiss secret.

Meanwhile, Tina Belcher (Dan Mintz) has struggled with diarrhea after winning a chili eating contest with her siblings the evening before, and thus can not participate in the "sky kiss" with Jimmy Pesto Jr, in which they would kiss while bouncing on a trampoline. She finds a pair of stilts, with the plan to kiss Jimmy Jr. while he jumps. Gene (Eugene Mirman) bonds with the cafeteria substitute kitchen lady, and helps her make chocolate for her boyfriend Francesco.

Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) has not gotten a present for Linda (John Roberts), so Teddy (Larry Murphy) offers to help. The two take a hip hop dance class, and subsequently convince the instructor to perform with them in front of the restaurant, as Bob's gift to Linda.

Gayle wants a showbiz career for her cat Mr. Business so she borrows money from the Belchers for headshots, though Bob has been growing tired of he and Linda frequently loaning Gayle money. She tells Bob and Linda about a competition to get the new face of Chef Cat, a cat food brand. Bob thinks it is a scam so he goes to talk with Ian Amberson, who is representing Mr. Business. Ian convinced Bob about the money that the cat can make if he wins the audition. Bob realizes that if Mr. Business is successful then the cat would be able to generate enough money for Gayles to live independently. Part of the audition is that the cat has to be able to knock over a jar for a commercial, and Linda and Gayle try to get Mr. Business to do it but he attacks Ian instead. Upon hearing about the attack, Bob tries to train Mr. Business until it successfully woulds. When they go to talk with Ian they see that he is representing a different woman and her cat. Tina secretly tries some cat food and loves it, and one day she gets caught by Gene who eats cat food for curiosity and loves it as well, and then they both make the pact of eating cat food in secret.

The Belchers go to the audition but when Gayle feels that Mr. Business is getting stressed she gets nervous, and Louise tries to distract her but Gayle runs away. Bob goes to talk with Ian but when he comes back he notices that the cat is not where it was. Bob and Louise search for Gayle who took the cat when Bob was not paying attention. They find Gayle crying and decide not to make the audition for the good of Mr. Business. Tina and Gene catch Linda eating cat food so they decide to confess, when Bob knows about it he gets disgusted but eats cat food just to bother Ian, who had a terrible audition with the new cat he found to bring as his client.

Cal, is a lonely man, whose mother did not show him much affection. He is a neighbour to Ruth, a woman with mental problems. Cal's mother and neighbours have attitudes about it.

A young bride is jealous of her husband's female secretary.

The son of Mrs Smith (née Maggie Wishart) is about to marry a doctor's daughter. A press baron, Sir Hugo, arrives who thirty years ago covered a trial where Maggie cut up her mother and father with an axe. Maggie claims she's innocent... but is she telling the truth?

Candida is married to Rev James Morrell.

Mark Heath is a once brilliant lawyer who has become an alcoholic, affecting his two sons, Julian and Arthur. Only his wife Lilian remains loyal.

Henry Phillips (Phillips, in a semi-fictional version of himself) is trying to make it big as a comedian. He is lured to Los Angeles by a producer (Simmons) to join a reality show, where he finds himself the butt of jokes rather than telling them.

Wanathe Roshan thinks he is a village thug. He often clashes with those around him as usual. Although he is known as Roshan, most people call him Rosha. Only his family knows that Rosha is a bully, even if he sounds like a coin to the world. Rosha has a sister. Rukshanaya is the epitome of beauty. A young man comes looking for her love. He has actor fever. The name is Rajiya. Rosha does not like Rajya. Rosha is upset that he is following Rukshan. Although Rosha threatens Rajia several times, Rajia does not listen to Rosha's words. In the end, Rosha challenges Rajia. Rosha says that if she wins, she will definitely marry Rakshana. The challenge is to defeat Rosha in front of the village. Even though he is physically in front of Rosha, Rajya, who is a pimp, likes the challenge because of his love for Rukshan. However, in front of the whole village, Rajya loses to Rosha. Unable to bear the embarrassment, Rajya decides to return home by a jungle road.

That night, the underworld leader named Karapitiye Darshan stabs the village OIC to death in the middle of a rubber estate. Rajya is shocked to see the incident. In a few moments, the police arrive and take Rajiya to the police station as an eyewitness to the murder. An artist prepares to paint the image to tell the king what the killer looks like. Rajiya is the first to create the image of Karapitiya Darshan. At the same time, the image of Rosha humiliating herself in front of the village also comes to mind. Thinking that he will teach him a good lesson, Karapitiya tells the artist Rosha's appearance instead of Darshan's. Rosha's face is drawn there. Police have been chasing Rosha ever since.

The book starts with a description of the pristine landscape that existed before the arrival to the Valley of Timbalí of wealthy foreigners who brought with them “progress” to the region and changed the green landscape with the introduction of paved roads. The houses of the villagers now contrasted with the enormous houses recently built by the foreigners. Everything has changed since the arrival of the new settlers who also spoke a different language, used different gestures and had different habits. The problem was not much the difference in wealth but the damage caused to the agricultural land, which had been ruined due to the constant rolling of the heavy machinery that transported the coal. The villagers did not own the land they worked with their own hands, thus when they found themselves without land to work there was no other option than working in the mines. While agriculture disappeared, the mining industry thrived.

In this changed landscaped is where Rudecindo Cristancho arrives and his first surprise is to find that there is one street that divides the town separating the wealthy foreigners from the poor villagers. As he finds no place to stay he decides to settle in a garbage dump in the outskirts of the town. Sometime after, Rudecindo is hired as a worker in the mine where he finds out that despite enormous effort and the dangerous conditions, the wages are not enough for daily living. Realizing that he is not the only worker unhappy with the miserable working conditions he attempts to create a union but fails in the attempt. This causes unrest among the miners. Later on, this unhappiness turns into total rebellion when the miners discover among the rocks the rotting corpses of miners that had been buried by a collapsed tunnel. Outraged by the cover-up, the workers run along the streets causing a stampede, and among them, a small group of miners also decides to destroy the houses of the wealthy neighborhood. Rudecindo is killed in the stampede after he falls and the crowd runs over him.

Larry, a physics-professor from Manila, is secretly the superhero Lastikman. A human mutant who has the ability to stretch and to shapeshift his body fantastically to great lengths and into any form he desires. He received his superpowers as a teenager when a meteorite crashed into a rubber-tree right over him. Years later he is a famous and popular superhero adored by the citizens of Manila and especially by his student Jepoy, whom he saves regularly from bullies.

When the violent bully Ryan is banned from the University after another attack, he is enraged so hard that he uses Jepoy's worship for Lastikman and lures him into a trap. Dressed up as Lastikman, he and his friends beat Jepoy almost dead. The injured Jepoy feels betrayed and turns insane. While the police believes Lastikman really beat up an innocent citizen and the media turns against him, Jepoy locks himself in his home-lab and uses some high-tech gadgets to turn into the supervillain Stryker.

Jepoy, now Stryker, attacks the bully gang and tries to kill them. Lastikman interferes but in the chaos Jepoy's friend Donna is killed. Stryker blames Lastikman and the arriving police tries to arrest him. Lastikman is able to escape with his shapeshifting power and decides to stop his superhero-activities forever.

Stryker, still furious with Lastikman, runs havoc in Manila, blowing up buildings and bridges to lure him out. The media apologize to Lastikman and Larry decides, after talking with his grandfather (who is aware of his superhero alter ego from the first day) to fight him.

Lastikman faces Stryker and in the battle, which causes huge chaos across Manila, they realize each other's identity. The shocked Stryker falls into a power-unit and falls into a coma. Lastikman is rehabilitated and the city's hero again.

Several days later Larry meets his friend Linda in a resort and confesses that he loves her, despite her crush on Lastikman. When they kiss, Larry's mouth is stretched and Linda realizes that Larry and Lastikman are the same person, which turns her very happy.

''The Unlikely Ones'' is a novel in which the characters quest to return the property of a dragon.

The film follows history professor Dr. Ben Rhodes who has confrontational relationship with his new boss Dr. Valerian Hadley played by William Sadler. Hadley is also the faculty adviser for Anna Densmore played by Jillian Taylor and who develops a problematic sexual relationship with Rhodes. However, Rhodes also has a supposedly non-romantic sexual relationship with Stacey Castillo played by Leticia Jimenez. All the relationships come to a dramatic confrontation in the end which includes a sexual assault which Cynthia Kirkeby of the ''Point Of View Reviews'' describes as likely to "polarize many discussions around the script."

''Loot'' ended with Haku Kale plotting against his four team members to take over entire robbed money. The four gang members, who were framed for the bank robbery, now escape from the prison and want to take revenge against Haku Kale for everything that happened to them. Now that Haku Kale is no more a street don but one of the biggest crime lords of the city, the entire plot of movie revolves around the four members trying to make him pay for what he did.

The film starts with a release of peoples' vote of government election, where Rajamanthri (Vijaya) lost his seat and crying with his allies. However, his secretary Sumanasiri (Rodney) revealed that the winning member has been hospitalized after hearing the shocking news of that he won the election of the seat. Rajamanthri and crew went to the hospital and finally the winning member died and Rajamanthri won the seat. After winning the seat, he started to celebrate the win, but his fellow ministers (Priyantha and Jayasiri) started to make actions against him. However, with many funny incidents, Rajamanthri pass all the battles with the help of his allies. Meanwhile, Liyana Mahaththaya (Lal), clark (Mihira) and Kalu mudalali (Giriraj) proposed an Awurudu Ulela to impress Chief minister Narendrasinghe (Sathischandra). Rajamanthri participated all the events of Awurudu Ulela and won all of them by cunning methods of his allies. Meanwhile, Rajamanthri make gossips about the other ministers and seek to attain his place in the higher cabinet minister place. With these rumors, Chief minister starts to avoid Gajasinghe (Jayasiri) and remove him from the cabinet. For the vacancy, he appointed Rajamanthri as the new cabinet member. For the ceremony, he started to dress up very majestically and when Rajamanthri make his way to the appointing ceremony. His allies also wanted to go with him, but Rajamanthri refuses it and say that "Now I'm not the ordinary Rajamanthri, I'm now a cabinet minister and I have no time to be with you all". Rajamanthri with his wife Malini (Kusum) went to the function and his five allies make sad and surprise expressions to each other.

25 year-old Roshan is an instructor in a leading aviation company. He comes from a high class family and his father is an influential politician. Roshan falls in love with Serina who is an engineering student in same company. They face many obstacles because of Roshan's father. Roshan decides to disregard everything and venture into a new life with Serina. Fate intervenes in the life of these two lovers..

Two of the main characters are twin sisters Naduli and Sanuli. Naduli and Nisal are in a relationship but suddenly after an unfortunate accident Naduli dies. Sanuli believes that she is to blame for her sister's death as it is due to her mistake that Naduli meets with an untimely death. She suffers mentally. Naduli's soul takes advantage of Sanuli's mental state and takes over her body with the hope of reuniting with Nisal.

The twin's parents, Nisal and a renowned professor try their best to exorcise Naduli's soul out of Sanuli's body. When they believe that they have almost succeeded the story takes an unexpected turn.

Which twin will survive? That is a question that will pop up in the audience's mind as they watch Zoom.

The book is told from the point of view of Elsie Bouverie, a pretty, frivolous English girl who falls in love with handsome, quiet Arthur Ravener. They marry, and Elsie gradually comes to realise that she has competition for Arthur's affection in the form of Captain Dillington, Arthur's male lover. Elsie engages a private detective who provides her with an address in Notting Hill; she goes there to find Dillington and Arthur together. Elsie and Arthur leave London for New York City. While there they attend a service given by a clergyman who preaches against sodomy. This affects Arthur to such an extent that he leaves Elsie. Some years later, Elsie travels to Paris where she believes Arthur and Dillington have become involved in a homosexual scandal. She goes to the hotel where she believes Arthur is staying, only to find him dead in his room.

Seventeen year old Yukari Kobayakawa is a famous author of historical fiction novels about the Edo period in Japan. The interesting thing about his work is that it’s so prolific; he writes as if he was living in Edo. Coincidentally, Yukari never had to do any research to write about the past because he already knows it! Actually, Yukari was born with his memories from his past life still intact. He remembers his life as a female courtesan from Edo's Yoshiwara district. Yukari's past memories came to life in his dreams when he met his classmate Mahoro for the first time. It appears that Mahoro is somehow linked to Yukari’s past. Along the way, Yukari meets with other reincarnated souls from his previous life; in the hopes of finding out who killed him in Edo.

Ellen, an architect, is expecting her first child. Her firm decide to bring in maternity cover. Ellen is impressed by Paula, who had taken a career break to look after her daughter, but now wants to return to work. Initially Ellen and Paula get on, but Ellen begins to fear Paula is taking over her professional and personal life.

A flying saucer descends from the sky and pursues Margaret, a middle-aged spinster living with her mother and working as a waitress at a diner. It communicates with her telepathically and she passes out. When she awakes, she refuses to reveal what the flying saucer said because it was "a private message". Government authorities capture and examine the saucer but find it empty, and they are unable to identify the composition of its hull.

Margaret is beset by the press, government authorities, and spiritualists all wanting to know what the saucer's message was. Angered by Margaret's continued refusal to reveal it and thereby dispel the public attention, Margaret's mother throws her out of the house. She goes to stay at a hotel. She writes messages in bottles and throws them in the ocean. The next day, a patron at the restaurant asks her out on a date. Excited, Margaret buys a new outfit for the evening and the date is enjoyable for her until he questions her about the saucer's message. Margaret realizes that her date is not interested in her as a person, but only wants to know about the saucer. She ends the date and goes home to cry herself to sleep.

Without hope, Margaret walks along the beach at night and decides to commit suicide. She walks into the ocean, but a man comes and pulls her out. He explains that he found one of her bottles and was touched by the message. She tells him that it was the only thing she could call her own and the only thing she could do for another like herself. Margaret explains that the saucer was an interstellar message in a bottle. Her messages were her own words, an imperfect translation of the saucer's message. She shows the man the actual message, which takes the form of a glowing orb in the palm of her hand. They caress the orb together and it disappears. Margaret and the man walk away together with his arm around her.

Mother puts her baby boy, Lambkins, in an outdoor playpen, but he is more mature than she realizes and quickly breaks out. With the help of a raccoon and a squirrel, they are soon raiding the watermelon patch. Mother returns. It turns out that it is moving day, and the family is moving to the city. Lambkins is not happy about leaving his animal friends. When they get to the new house, he sets about, sabotaging the kitchen and turning the icebox into an oven, the hot water tap into an ice dispenser, and the stove and phone into water spouts. Father and Mother flee back to the country house, and Lambkins is reunited with his animal friends.

Stray dogs who have been abandoned by humans find a place without humans' and realize their identities and the meaning of freedom and self-identity.

Heine Wittgenstein, a man often mistaken for a small child, has been summoned to the royal palace of Glanzreich by the king to act as the royal tutor to the four younger princes—Kai, Bruno, Leonhard, and Licht–turning them into capable candidates to the throne. However, he finds his task difficult because of the complicated personalities of his charges, who had managed to cause every tutor they had to quit.

The novel is about the life of Teddy Todd (younger brother of Ursula Todd, the protagonist of the companion work, ''Life After Life''). Events in his life are not revealed in chronological order. The book opens with a brief glimpse of him as a Royal Air Force (RAF) Halifax bomber pilot in World War II, then goes on to events in his childhood and the lives of his child and grandchildren, at times juxtaposing his memories with events in the lives of his family members. Teddy's memories of his own childhood in Fox Corner, the Todd family's country home, seemed all summers filled with bunnies and skylarks and bluebells, glimmering hot air and long gossamer evenings. The one difficulty in Teddy's young life was that when his Aunt Izzie came to visit she probed him with questions in order to supply her with details for the series of popular children's books she wrote about a boy named Augustus, set in a thinly disguised version of Teddy's idyllic home.(p. 3-9) - which the child himself greatly disliked.

As an RAF bomber pilot Teddy knew the odds, so early on he had prepared himself for death. Yet, improbably, flight after flight he returned. "Teddy realized that they were not so much warriors as sacrifices for the greater good. Birds thrown against a wall in the hope that eventually, if there were enough birds, they would break that wall." (p. 229) Completing one tour of duty, he would sign up for another. Hoping to share his luck, men vied for a place on his crew.

After the war, Teddy married Nancy, the woman who had been his childhood sweetheart, and they had a child, Viola. Nancy died of brain cancer when Viola was still young. Although Nancy had intended to end her life while she was still able, she did not. Instead, she insisted Teddy help her to die in a dramatic scene that Viola never told Teddy she had witnessed. Dutiful father, he gave up his poetry and rambling nature walks, moved into a suburban cottage, taught school and raised his only child, who never recovered from the loss of her mother, and always hated him. Years later, he had looked after Viola's children, too, and was blessed with a granddaughter who loved him, a consolation even after Viola packed him off to sheltered housing in his old age.

At the end of the book, and the end of Teddy's long life, when he had become too frail to do anything but remember, he recalled the flight that ended his RAF career. He remembered handing his parachute to the bomb-aimer and urging him to jump, and he himself went down with the plane, as he had always expected he would. Briefly, Atkinson then tied up loose ends: three members of Ted's crew parachuted successfully, survived in a German POW camp and returned to England after the war; but there was no Viola, no grandchildren; Ursula grieved, as did Nancy; on V.E. Day, Teddy's mother overdosed on sleeping pills.

Cathy's preparations for an idyllic, romantic vacation with her boyfriend, Irving, go awry.

As Valentine's Day approaches, Cathy, ever the romantic, becomes passionately consumed with thoughts of hearts, flowers and candle-lit dinners. On the other hand, her boyfriend Irving seeks to maintain his independence. They begin to ponder the nature of their relationship while stumbling into further misadventures and whimsical misunderstandings.

Futaba (Rie Miyazawa) single-handedly raising her teenage daughter Azumi (Hana Sugisaki) is diagnosed with terminal cancer and learns she only has a few months to live. She decides to use her last few months to improve the life of her family. To do this, she tracks down her husband, Kazuhiro (Joe Odagiri), who had left her for another woman. The other woman had in turn abandoned him, leaving him to look after a 9-year old daughter Ayuko (Aoi Itō) whom she claimed was the result of a one-night stand years before. Together, Futaba, Kazuhiro and the two girls reopen the family bathhouse, which will provide them with a comfortable life. Other challenges facing Futaba include helping Azumi to fend for herself at school and taking the girls on a road trip to introduce Azumi to her biological mother, Kimie (Yukiko Shinohara), a deaf woman who gave birth to Azumi when she was only 19.

The residents of Sycamore Street are upset when they discover a new neighbour has served a prison sentence.

Soysa (Vijaya) and Silva (Mahinda) are two jobless men doing various businesses that end up without success. They meet Piyum (Richard) who invite them to a party. Both Soysa and Silva get stomach aches because of some food they eat at the party. They get admitted in a hospital. Meanwhile, a man is arrested because he has stolen a gem and is believed to have swallowed it. One night at the hospital when he was sleeping he saw his wife in a dream. The thief told his wife who he saw in the dream that he hid the gem in a small statue of a maiden in the pot the maiden is carrying. The statue is for sale in his shop in Kithulpitiya. Soysa, Silva and another man Ryan hears this as they were also sleeping near the thief. So three of them escape from the hospital. The hospital staff is fooled by Soysa who disguised himself as a doctor and Ryan disguised himself as a nurse. Soysa does not know that the other two had escaped like this. He wants to take the gem himself. He does not tell this to others in the hospital. Ryan and Silva feels the same and they also do the same.

There is a sub-plot where two family planning agents visit Soysa's house and they end up the conversation, arguing with him. Meanwhile, Ryan goes in search of the shop in Kithulpitiya. He stops a lady, Niluka who lives in Kithulpitiya who refuses to tell him that he is in Kithulpitiya at the moment because she got angry with his behaviour. On her way she visits the shop and gets fond of the statue so she takes it. After some time, Ryan visits the shop and after assuring that it is the only shop in the village which sells statues, he describes the appearance of the statue to the thief's wife who is in the shop. He gets to know that the statue was taken away by the woman he stopped on the road. At that moment, Soysa also visits the shop and gets to know about what happened there.

Ryan goes to Niluka's place and they both gets fond of each other. Meanwhile Soysa also goes there and has a conversation, lying to Niluka that the statue is a cursed one. He meets Silva when he comes outside and both of them agree to work together to take the gem. Silva also tells to Niluka, her father and brother that the statue will prevent Niluka from getting married. Afterwards Soysa, Ryan and Silva quarrel to take the gem. The statue is broken in the quarrel but they do not find any gem in the pot. However Niluka's brother also searches for a girl to marry and Soysa proposes his elder daughter to him. His wife Samanalee confesses that Soysa ran after the gem to get his two daughters' marriages done. Niluka's brother agrees to hold the wedding at his expense. The film concludes that men are clever in any business like this.

Two television scriptwriters—Chick Weld (Bill Maynnrd) and Lucky Wilson (Mark Kelly) — accept an invitation from Lord Leverdale to stay at the haunted Creckwood Castle. The castle is haunted by The Black Monk, who was tortured to death in 1305 for practising magic. The two script writers work on a television play as mysterious goings on happen at the castle.

In colonial Melbourne, two men named Oliver Whyte and Roger Moreland, are in a public house, having a discussion with Whyte lamenting his circumstances. Whyte ends the conversation stating "this poet's time has come". After stumbling, drunk, through the streets, Oliver eventually collapses in a stupor, where he is helped by a man who recognises him into a hansom cab before leaving. Awakening in the cab, Whyte discovers that the man has returned, but is soon killed through the use of chloroformed rag by him, who steals a written paper from his jacket and flees the scene through another cab.

Two weeks earlier, Oliver Whyte is attending a lavish party hosted by Mark Frettlby, where he meets Duncan Calton, a well-renowned barrister, his daughter Margaret, known as 'Madge', Brian Fitzgerald, a rich wool merchant who he offends, Felix Rolleston, a journalist and socialite. While there, Whyte tries and fails to make conversation with Madge. After the party he presents a sealed note to Frettlby, implied to be blackmail. Mark Frettlby soon after informs Madge she is betrothed to Whyte, which she is displeased with as she is in love with Fitzgerald, who promises that he “won’t let this happen”.

With advice from Calton, Frettlby breaks the betrothal, which drives Whyte to go to and become intoxicated at the pub on the night of the murder. On the same night, Fitzgerald is given a note that causes him to leave his poker game and take to the streets, where he meets a drunk Whyte and soon helps him onto the cab before leaving and then returning, but whose face is not shown when he returns. Whyte’s body is initially unrecognised, and Detective Samuel Gorby begins to investigate his murder. At his home in the morning, Fitzgerald burns the paper he took from Whyte. Detective Gorby soon finds the identity the body of Whyte and sees Fitzgerald as the prime suspect. Fitzgerald and Madge soon become engaged to one another

In a run-down boarding house, owned by Mother Guttersnipe, a girl dies in the night from fever, whose necklace is taken by her friend, Sal Rawlins, who flees the house.

With evidence stacking against him Fitzgerald is soon arrested, with Calton defending him, a rival police detective, Detective Kilsip, aids him by seeking new evidence to aid Fitzgerald, which includes Sol bringing him the note on the night of the murder. During the trial, Calton is able to successfully defend Fitzgerald and soon he is declared innocent and freed. Despite this, Fitzgerald refuses to say what was in the note in order to protect Madge. Soon, Frettlby is considered the most likely suspect. Upon further investigation by Calton, it is discovered that Mark Frettlby had an affair with Rosanna Moore, a famous burlesque dancer who he married during a passionate encounter in his youth, which soon resulted in a child being produced. They would soon divorce, leaving behind a blackmail document of their marriage certificate. This child is revealed as being Sal, who was taken by her mother back to England in disgrace.

After these events, Mark Frettlby suffers from a heart attack after he discovers that Sal had taken up work as a maid in his house. During the reading of his will, he admits to Sal that she is his daughter, but claims that he did not kill Whyte. The killer's true identity is revealed to be Roger Moreland, Whyte’s friend who he was drinking with on the night of the murder, who discovered that Whyte had come upon Frettlby’s marriage document to Rosanna Moore and was planning to use it to blackmail Frettlby into allowing for him to become engaged to Madge. On the night of the murder, Moreland used the chloroform with the intent to steal the papers and blackmail Frettlby himself for money but used too much in the process and killed him. Despite claiming it was an accident, Moreland is soon arrested and placed into jail, where he would commit suicide before he would stand trial, which would reveal Frettlby’s disgrace.

On his deathbed, Frettlby discloses to Calton his secrets and asks that Sal is given an income so that she may "do whatever she wishes". This money is eventually used by Sal to create a woman's shelter, something inspired by her previous works in the Salvation Army.

Madge and Fitzgerald marry soon after and would sail back to Europe on their honeymoon.

The plot follows a situation of intimate partner violence enacted by Joaquín (a successful publicist) on Ángela (a company receptionist), shortly after their marriage.

Story revolves around a young man named Roshan who comes to Colombo in search of life and encounters dashing lass in the city who happens to be a journalist. The female journalist who named Nishani is caught in a drug haul that she has been trying to expose to the public via media. King Pin of the drug mafia is on the hunt for the female journalist. In the midst of this controversy she encounters her lover to be, the young macho man who comes to town out of the blues.

The story begins in 600 BC with the landing in a calque of a Phocéenne galley commanded by the warrior Honorius who, married by mistake the daughter of the Ligurian king, will found the city of Marseille. Honor, the first Marseilles, gives way to Honorius to tell us the hero-comic adventures of the siege of Marseille by the legions of Julius Caesar, which will lead to the invention of the petanque. Through successive leaps over the centuries, and in songs, Honoré tells us the history of the city of Phocea.

In the pile of overused and broken toys, a discarded sailor doll gives the other toys, including an Aunt Jemima and Stepin Fetchit doll, a plan on how they can be repaired and bring happiness to others during Christmas.

A group of teenagers, archaeological enthusiast Cyril Wickramage, and professor Ravindra Randeniya teams up to prevent an archaeological theft by a person named Salgadu W. Jayasiri.

Chandula and his two friends have planned a holiday at a luxury hotel. On their day of visit, they see a beautiful girl (Isanka) at the hotel and Chandula starts to catch feelings towards her. Chandula's friends don't accept this, but they let him have her his way and keep enjoying the holiday while he tries and gets to know Isanka. Isanka and Chandula get close to each other and their relationship grows really strong within a week. But, due to some reason Isanka doesn't open up her true self to Chandula and disappears after seven days leaving him nothing but a broken heart.

The film is about a group of teenage friends who are regular viners, post their videos on internet with a hope of becoming popular. The main characters are Balthazar, Reese, Marc, Julia, and Julia's cousin Ty. Other chief characters are Detective Dalton and his staff of investigators including IT experts and a psychologist, Laurence Emerson.

Balthazar is an obsessed guy who is always carrying a camera with hopes of getting a chance to make a video which can fetch him 1 million views/likes. He is taking medicines for anxiety and anger. His friend Reese is in love with Julia who came close with intent to make videos together. Both are popular tubers and people like them for what they post. However, Balthazar is submissive and socially awkward and is jealous of this couple.

The movie begins when Marc and Ty are found dead and a team of investigators take Balthazar into custody for interrogation. He seems scared and confused to the psychologist but deceptive to Detective Dalton from the beginning. One of the reasons Dalton is suspecting Balthazar to be the chief suspect because of his obsession with making videos. She has a teenage daughter who makes fitness videos in bikini to become popular and Dalton is upset by that. So probably she is taking out her anger at Bal when she suspects him without any evidence. But Balthazar too lies on several occasions and changes his version of the whole incident when he is scared. At these times, psychologist comes to his rescue. The film revolves around finding proof from a prime piece of evidence in the form of a memory card which has true version of what happened that night, filmed by Balthazar. The detectives have to see how much Balthazar is speaking the truth and whether there is something more to the story. To the viewer's surprise, the film takes a horrifying turn when the truth is finally revealed from the memory card video.

Most of these teenagers in the film are shown disturbed, lack family connection and are lonely. They take decisions which are misinformed and risky. They don't understand the consequences of their behaviors and interests. While leaving police custody, when the psychologist Emerson suggests Balthazar to stop making videos and go for participatory activities in the real social world, Balthazar seems totally ignorant of the message in his words and tells him that now he is going to make the video that deserves 1 million views. Psychologist supported Balthazar throughout the film with a hope of giving him warmth and understand his condition, but all went to waste as Bal was so occupied with his upcoming popularity. Bal seems to have no awareness of what harm this video craze has done to him and brought his friends in a trouble. The movie shows very closely the delicate make-up of the teenage mind and how things can go wrong if parents don't pay much attention and do not connect with them emotionally.

The novel opens with an English couple, Guy and Harriet Pringle, travelling through Yugoslavia towards Romania on a train. They have just married, after a whirlwind romance over the summer vacation. They are travelling to Bucharest, where Guy has a job (paid for by the British Council) at the English department of the University.

On the train they first encounter Prince Yakimov, a once-wealthy English-educated White Russian émigré who is now nearly penniless and forced to live by scrounging.

Once in Bucharest they set up a temporary home in the Atheni hotel where all the British journalists congregate in what is known as the English bar. They witness the arrival of the last remnants of the defeated Polish army, vanquished in the German invasion of Poland. In a piece of luck, Yakimov is hired as an assistant to work for a veteran journalist, Mcann, who has been wounded in the retreat and is desperate to get his story out. This enables Yakimov to live in the hotel in great style, where he befriends the Pringles.

Guy shows Harriet the sights of Bucharest, especially the cafes and the Cismigiu Park. She meets Sophie – a half-Jewish student of Guy, seeking the security of a passport – whom Harriet senses is a rival for Guy's affections.

Harriet meets Professor Inchcape and two other members of the University English department, Clarence Lawson and diplomat Foxy Leverat. She also meets some junior members of the British diplomatic legation. All seem relatively unconcerned by the war and the threat it poses.

They are entertained by the Druckers, a family of Jewish bankers who enjoy extreme wealth, and whose eldest son Sacha is a student of Guy.

The Pringles rent an underheated two-bedroom apartment in a block overlooking the Cotroceni Royal Palace just as winter begins.

Yakimov's credit runs out and he is forced to rent a room in an unfashionable bug-ridden suburban apartment. The head of the Drucker family is arrested on trumped-up charges, and the rest of his family flee.

Harriet is shocked as she witnesses the extreme poverty that exists alongside the wealthy affluence of the capital. The suffering endured by the poor during the very severe Romanian winter is described.

The novel follows the course of the historical events of 1939 and 1940 and how these successively affect the English community in Bucharest and Romanian society.

These are:

• The fall of Poland
• The assassination of the prime minister Armand Călinescu by the Iron Guard, the Romanian fascist movement
• The Russo-Finnish war
• The invasion of Denmark and Norway by Germany
• The invasion of the Low Countries by Germany
• The coup that replaces prime minister Gheorghe Argeșanu with Constantin Argetoianu.
• The fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation of British troops.
• The entry of Italy into the war on the side of Germany.

News of these events reaches the main characters by rumour, newspaper, German propaganda and via BBC radio. Harriet's friendship with Clarence deepens as Guy becomes absorbed in his university work. Guy's close friend David Boyd arrives from the Middle East.

The final chapters describe the production of the Shakespeare play ''Troilus and Cressida'' by the University's English department in the spring of 1940. It is directed by Guy, who becomes completely focused on the work, ignoring the threatening nature of the war as it unfolds around him. Yakimov surprises everyone, including himself, with a great acting ability which restores his self-respect. The performance is considered a triumph, but many Romanians wonder at the British ability to stage a cultural event like this during a time in which their country appears to be going to defeat in war. The play can be seen as an allegory for political events, with the beleaguered city of Troy as Britain and the invading Athenians led by the militaristic Achilles as the fascists.

The book's title, ''The Great Fortune'', is taken from its final pages and refers to the potential unrealised economic wealth of Greater Romania.

A young woman begins dating after a life-changing journey and she instantly connects with a man. Their bliss is cut short when the couple are attacked by a vicious gang, and their imperfections are revealed.

Grace Mae, a young woman from a prominent Boston family, has been sent to reside in the Wayburne Lunatic Asylum of Boston for the length of her illegitimate pregnancy. Despite not talking she is deemed one of the more gentle patients until she stabs a doctor who had been touching her. As a punishment Grace is wrapped in steaming hot sheets which cause her to miscarry and afterwards she is sent to the basement with the worst of the patients. While there she meets Dr. Thornhollow, a man who performs lobotomies, and begs him to perform one on her so that she can forget her time in the asylum and that her pregnancy was caused by her father raping her. Thornhollow declines, but does fake a lobotomy, causing the asylum to fake Grace's death in order to protect themselves from the wrath of her father.

Thornhollow takes Grace to a more progressive asylum in Ohio where Grace continues to play the part of a mute. However Thornhollow has also freed Grace for another purpose, using her as an assistant as he practices amateur offender profiling to help track down murderers.

At the asylum Grace befriends two fellow patients, Nelly, an Irish born working girl suffering from late stage syphilis, and Lizzie, who seems normal aside from the fact that she speaks to String, an imaginary creature who sits on her shoulder and seems able to read people's inner thoughts and predict the future. Grace also begins to enjoy her work with Thornhollow and the two eventually discover that there is a serial killer on the loose who appears to be raping and murdering women. Thornhollow suspects that the man is a doctor who is unable to sustain an erection and has difficulty with women. Thornhollow and Grace begin to look for a doctor but find no one who fits their description. The case grows cold through a lack of murders and through Grace's disinterest after Nelly commits suicide.

Grace's interest in the case is renewed after she realizes that Thornhollow is an only son under pressure to conceive heirs and begins to wonder if their murderer is not under the same pressure. By complete coincidence Grace sneaks into town to buy perfume for Lizzie only to meet Mr. Beaton, a chemist who fits every clue they have for their suspected killer. Grace tells Thornhollow who agrees Beaton is likely their killer but warns Grace that the police will not believe them. Unwilling to let another woman be victimized Grace returns to collect her perfume, offering Beaton the perfect opportunity to kill her, only to murder him. Thornhollow immediately realizes Grace is the murderer when called to the body but does not reveal her involvement to the police.

Since her escape, Grace had written to her younger sister Alice pretending to be a fairy. In one of the letters she receives in return she realizes her father has begun grooming her sister. Desperate to protect Alice she begs Thornhollow to help her frame her father for Beaton's murders, and also enlists Lizzy to help her.

Grace's father, Senator Mae, is forced to stand trial where numerous women testify that he raped them. Among them is Lizzy, who claims that Mae raped her during his visit to the Ohio asylum and also threatened to murder her. Lizzy testifies using intimate knowledge given to her by Grace. Thornhollow also testifies under his capacity as an expert in phrenology. At the last minute however Thornhollow suggests that Mae is insane, saving his life but condemning him to an insane asylum. Grace visits her father before he is sentenced but while he threatens her she tells him that no one will believe she is alive as he has now been deemed criminally insane.

Grace returns to the institution and learns that her sister is under the care of her loving aunt. She and Thornhollow continue to investigate murders.

A woman's violent journey to a renewed and disillusioned sense of self passes through a series of catastrophes. Following her mother's suicide after entrapping her whole family in a huge debt, Maria, a mother of three, decides to burn the forest surrounding her father's village to get money from a construction company, abandon her loving but constantly cheating and absent husband and their three children, coming to unreconcilable clashes with her always passive father, her half-crazy sister and her fascist brother-in-law. Bits of her rogue present are constantly interweaved with the days of her brighter, full of potential and sexually flourishing love past, creating the dazzling portrait of a woman and a country breaking into pieces.

A successful and single physician officially provides obstetrics and gynaecology service but also gives couples advice on happiness. The twist is that she has not enjoyed success in her own romantic life. She travels between her job in the United States and her immediate family's location in Mexico. She asks her co-worker to pose as her boyfriend at a family wedding back in Mexico. When her ex beau shows up, comedy mayhem takes place.

Following Bea Smith's tragic death at the hands of Joan Ferguson, emotional, psychological and professional shockwaves pound the inmates and staff of Wentworth Correctional Centre. Governor Vera Bennett is under fire from Corrective Services and, with Will on suspension, she is relying more on her deputy Jake, not realising he is now Ferguson's puppet. New top dog Kaz has a challenge to restore order amongst the traumatised inmates, though Sonia remains aloof focusing on her upcoming trial. Liz has to decide if she follows her heart or her head. Doreen struggles with being separated from her son and Boomer supports Maxine as she continues her battle with breast cancer. On the outside, it falls to Franky to break the devastating news about Bea to Allie.

The movie is a loose retelling of the life of pop superstar Britney Spears. It starts from the beginning of her career not including The Mickey Mouse Club. It also goes into her relationship with Justin Timberlake. The movie also covers her marriage to Kevin Federline, her downward spiral and ends with her performing at her residency in Vegas. The movie did not use any of Spears' songs due to the singer and her team not consenting to the movie.

The story revolves around the match-maker Mangala Jaya (Vijaya), who is a poor, but kind hearted person with a single daughter. A series of hilarious incidents went through the plot, and though he is a match-maker, he fails to find a good boy to his young daughter. At last, his daughter was able to find the soul mate.

Set in New York City, the game follows Eric Knight, a man unknown of his magical powers, where odd things happen around him. Other people like him exist known as Bodgers, magic users who create small mishaps that will allow something big to go right. An immediate threat is about to happen that will expose the existence of Bodgers to the non-magic world, and Eric explores his identity as a magic user and will explore whether he is a Bodger and whether he'd want to become one.

SP Jayasinghe arrests a criminal, Mervyn, who is later sentenced to life imprisonment. Inspector has three sons Vijaya, Naatha and Mahesh. He gifts same chains to them. To take revenge, Mervyn escapes from prison and shoots SP to death at his home. Vijaya and Naatha escape from there while Mahesh gets adopted by Jayasinghe's friend, IP Sabaratnam. Another thief, Wilson takes care of Vijaya and Naatha to earn money. One day, Mervyn kidnaps IP Sabaratnam's daughter, Vasanthi. Wilson forces Vijaya to robber from a house. However, Vijaya gets arrested and Wilson manages to escape.

Years later, Vijaya who known as "Nommara 17", releases from jail with his friend, Potato who known as "Nommara 13". He determines to find Wilson and is against injustice. Now, Naatha is grown into a head of gangster and Mahesh working as a Inspector. Vasanthi has been adopted by Mervyn, who is now doing drug business with Wilson. Eventually, Vijaya and Vasanthi fall in love. Soon, Vijaya and Mahesh become friends. At Mahesh's home, Vijaya sees SP Jayasinghe's photo and realizes that Mahesh is his brother. Two brothers are reunited and they promise to find Mervyn and Wilson. They punish Wilson, but is caught by Naatha. While punishing them, Naatha notices Vijaya's chain and realizes that Vijaya and Mahesh are his long lost brothers and reunites with them.

Mervyn and Wilson kidnap three brothers and Vasanthi saves them. Upon learning that, Mervyn and Wilson fight with them. However, Mervyn is stabbed and Mahesh's foster mother asks him about her daughter. Mervyn reveals Vasanthi about her mother and dies uniting them. Vijaya, Naatha and Mahesh manage to defeat Wilson, but Naatha is shot while saving Vijaya. Naatha dies uniting his wife with Mahesh. The film ends with the family's reunion.

In provincial Pischeslav (original name of the small town is Kukuyevo) there is a powerful and respectable organization named KLOOP. A job in KLOOP is a cherished dream of every inhabitant of Pischeslav, but for what purpose was this office created and what does it do in reality – is a mystery even to the KLOOP workers. In fact the KLOOP are a bunch of bureaucrats and penpushers who simply receive public money.

In KLOOP works Egor Filyurin whose neighbor in his communal apartment is a local celebrity – inventor Babsky. Most of his inventions are absurd and useless but when Babsky invents soap for removing freckles, something amazing happens. Having washed himself with this soap when taking a bath Filyurin becomes invisible! His ability to penetrate unnoticed by all institutions allows him very often to identify such tenacious evils as bureaucracy, arrogance, careerism, nepotism.

The leadership of KLOOP is very concerned with the current situation. Head of KLOOP Cain Dobroglasov using the "Time Machine" – another invention of the restless Babsky – prepares to travel into the future when he comes to the conclusion that in the present time he is to be removed from his post. But Filyurin's invisibility suddenly disappears, and life in the city of Pischeslav begins to flow in a quiet bureaucratic line once again...

The film opens as a Buddhist monk (previously Wimal) is travelling from an outrigger to a temple. The person in charge of duties in the temple (Alfred) enters the shrine room of the temple to find a young lady (Wimal's daughter Hasanthi) waiting there. After a short conversation with Alfred, Hasanthi (Hashini) meets the monk and tells him that she had come all the way from Canada to know about Mr. Wimal Wickramasinghe. As he is now a monk, she refuses to ask her questions from him because even though she was born in Canada, she was brought up as a Sinhala Buddhist girl. She gives the monk a notebook in which her questions were written. She requests the monk to read a letter from her mother Kumari (Semini). As the monk reads it, the letter evokes his memories of past.

Kumari is a Sinhala Buddhist lady who is married to a foreign man Richard Bertholamuz. She finds that Richard does not dedicate time to show her love and affection. One day she saw Wimal in a meeting in the temple which was shown in the beginning of the film. The chief monk introduces Wimal to the gathering. Her ever loving friend Kanthi (Jayani) reminds Kumari about the days she and friends were fond of Wimal as he was a beloved actor who acted as the lion in the school drama. Later, Wimal comes to Kumari's house to collect a letter regarding the foreign tour of the chief monk. She gets fond of him and frequently talks with him. Eventually she reveals her situation to Wimal. Meanwhile, she shares all this with her friend Kanthi who also talks with Wimal.

Later, she visits Wimal's place in Bolgoda and appears to be happier than ever. She gets closer and closer to Wimal that she even slept with him. Wimal gives Kumari the wedding ring which his father gave his mother. Little by little, Richard realizes that Kumari has a connection with Wimal. One day Wimal, Kumari and Kanthi meets together for dinner and Kanthi surprises Kumari by giving her a birthday cake. Wimal also gives her a saree and after that they arrive at Wimal's house. Wimal gives Kumari a birthday cake. At this moment, Kumari reveals Wimal that she is pregnant and Wimal is going to become a father. Wimal is startled as he hears this and his reaction upsets Kumari.

Richard tries to convince Kumari that he cares for her and he will try to become a good husband to her. He tells Kumari that she must be cautious as it is only two months since she has got pregnant. Kumari understands that Richard has started to behave in responsible manner. Wimal pleads to Richard to tell Kumari to visit him again. However, when he talked with her, she refused to live with him, saying she has noticed that Richard had understood her and she will continue to live with Richard as he had agreed to accept and bring up Wimal and Kumari's child as his own.

Hasanthi gives a letter which was written by Richard on the day of her coming of age. Richard had died of a heart attack when she was 17 years old. Richard has requested the letter to be given to Hasanthi when she is 21 years old. In the letter Richard tells that he wrote it in case something bad happens to his life. He reveals that Mr. Wimal is her biological father. Hashini becomes emotional and asks the monk why he neglected even the news about her birth. The monk (previously Wimal) says that he had asked Richard those days to tell him when her daughter is born, but Richard had lied to him that his daughter had died at the moment she was born. Hasanthi leaves the notebook and the ring Wimal gave her mother with the monk. The story ends as the monk throws those items into the water when he travels across the river by the outrigger to the monastery to continue his meditation. The fifth stanza (''gatha'') in Karaneeya meththa suttra is reminded at the end of the film.

''Shadow of War'' continues the narrative from ''Shadow of Mordor'', following Talion (Troy Baker) who is still infused with the spirit of the elf lord Celebrimbor (Alastair Duncan). Talion and Celebrimbor travel to Mount Doom, where they forge a new Ring of Power, free of Sauron's corruption. However, once the Ring is complete, Celebrimbor is abducted and held hostage by Shelob (Pollyanna McIntosh), who asks Talion to hand over the Ring in exchange for Celebrimbor. Talion reluctantly agrees and gives the Ring to Shelob, who claims they have a common enemy in Sauron. She uses the Ring to see into the future and directs Talion to the last Gondorian stronghold near Mordor, Minas Ithil, which is under siege by Sauron's forces due to the city's possession of a valuable Palantír. The Palantir allows whoever possesses it to see anything they wish, making it a valuable tool for Celebrimbor and a dangerous weapon for Sauron.

Talion travels to Minas Ithil and comes to odds with Celebrimbor. Talion wants to help his fellow Gondorians, while Celebrimbor believes the city is already lost and the retrieval of the Palantír must take priority. Talion reasons that protecting Minas Ithil will protect the Palantír and he meets up with the city's defenders: General Castamir (Travis Willingham), his daughter Idril (Nicole Tompkins), and his lieutenant Baranor (Ike Amadi). Together, they sabotage any efforts to break into the city until Castamir betrays them, allowing the Orcs to breach the gates and handing over the Palantír to the Witch-king of Angmar (Matt Mercer) in return for sparing Idril. Castamir is killed by the Witch-king and Talion is barely able to escape thanks to the help of Eltariel (Laura Bailey), an Elven assassin working on Galadriel's (Jennifer Hale) behalf. The Witch-king seizes Minas Ithil, renaming it Minas Morgul. With the Palantír, Sauron realizes that Shelob is holding Celebrimbor's Ring and sends the Nazgûl to attack her. Talion is able to save Shelob, who returns the Ring to him and tells him that the fate of Middle-earth is in his hands.

With the Ring back in his possession, Talion begins to use its power to dominate Orcs and build his army. During this time, he assists Idril and Baranor in rescuing Gondorian survivors, helps the nature spirit Carnan (Toks Olagundoye) defeat the Balrog Tar Goroth and the necromancer Zog (Nolan North), is betrayed by one of his followers, and hunts the Nazgûl alongside Eltariel. Talion builds up enough strength to assault Sauron's fortress directly. During the battle, Talion faces Isildur (Nolan North), corrupted into a Nazgûl. Talion manages to defeat Isildur, but upon seeing his memories of how he was corrupted by the One Ring, decides to destroy Isildur and release his spirit rather than dominate him. Celebrimbor remarks angrily that Isildur would have been a valuable asset to their cause, leading Talion to realize that Celebrimbor wishes to replace Sauron by dominating him rather than destroying him. Talion refuses to follow Celebrimbor's orders any more, causing the wraith to abandon him and possess Eltariel instead.

Without Celebrimbor or the ring, Talion begins to die, but is visited by Shelob in a vision. Shelob informs him that if Talion had gone on to fight Sauron, they would have succeeded and Celebrimbor would have enslaved Sauron and marched on the rest of Middle-earth. She implores Talion to continue to fight to contain the darkness within Mordor. Deciding to put his fate in his own hands, Talion picks up the ring Isildur was wearing to preserve his own life. He uses the power of Isildur’s Ring to assault and seize Minas Morgul, defeating the Witch-king in the process. Talion takes possession of the Palantír and observes Celebrimbor and Eltariel making their assault on Sauron. The two manage to gain the upper hand and Celebrimbor attempts to dominate Sauron, only for Sauron to cut off two of Eltariel's fingers, one of which is adorned with the Ring of Power, and merge himself with Celebrimbor. As a result, Sauron and Celebrimbor remain trapped in Sauron's tower in the form of a flaming eye as their spirits continue to battle for dominance. Knowing he will not be able to resist the Ring, Talion decides to use Minas Morgul as a fortress to keep Sauron's forces contained in Mordor as long as he can.

Decades later, Talion succumbs to the corruption of Isildur’s Ring, and joins Sauron's forces as a Nazgûl, where he goes with the others to hunt Frodo and the One Ring. However, with the destruction of Sauron and the One Ring, Talion dies with the rest of the Nazgûl, and his spirit is freed. He is last seen on the shores of Valinor discarding his weapons and armor as he walks off into the west.

''Blade of Galadriel''

Following the final battle between Celebrimbor and Sauron, Eltariel recovers Celebrimbor's Ring, and receives orders from Galadriel to continue hunting the remaining Nazgûl, including Talion. Eltariel reluctantly confronts Talion, who manages to convince her that by working together, they can keep Sauron's influence contained within Mordor. However, he informs her that a new warchief is leading a massive army and has attacked many of his fortresses. Talion tasks Eltariel with defending one of his remaining forts while he goes to defend another fort in Seregost. Eltariel manages to recruit several new tribes of orcs to fight for her and she successfully defends her fort from enemy attack, though Seregost falls. A pair of rogue Nazgûl arrive, revealing they are the ones leading the new orc army as they plan to take advantage of Sauron and the Witch-king's weakness to take over Middle-earth. After rendering Seregost, Eltariel and Talion pursue the Nazgûl twins to their stronghold, where Eltariel is able to defeat both of them. Despite their defeat, Talion begins to succumb to the temptation of Isildur’s Ring, forcing Eltariel to battle him. Though Eltariel is victorious, Talion tells her that he will inevitably be resurrected by Sauron. Afterwards, Eltariel continues to battle the forces of Mordor until she witnesses the destruction of the One Ring. Upon seeing Celebrimbor's spirit freed from Sauron, Eltariel decides to go track him down.

''Desolation of Mordor''

After the fall of Minas Ithil, Baranor seeks to hire mercenaries to help him seize the fortress of Shindram. On the way, he is attacked by wyrms and rescued by the dwarf Torvin (Adam Croasdell), who helps develop gadgets for Baranor such as a grappling hook and a glider. Baranor continues to the Vanishing Sons mercenary camp, where he discovers they are led by his estranged older brother Jagai, who now goes by the name of Serka (Usman Ally). Serka reluctantly agrees to help Baranor take Shindram in return for all of the loot stored inside. However, another mercenary, Zhoja, betrays Serka and sends him to fight in an orc fighting pit. Baranor rescues Serka, who reasserts control over the Vanishing Sons and executes Zhoja. After repelling an orc attack, Baranor and Serka lead their army and seize Shindram, doing so by destroying the fortress's overlord, Takra. However, rather than hold the fortress, they leave a trap for the orcs sent to retake it. Baranor and Serka leave to seize more fortresses, deciding that Gorgoroth will be their next target.

The film revolves around Mark who works as an assistant to professor Amaraweera a scientist who is working on a new discovery. Mark has a tough time at home with his wife as he has not been paid his salary for several months. She often quarrels with him over this.

One day when Prof. Amaraweera refuse to pay his salary, Mark decides to commit suicide and swallows a solution in the lab prepared by the professor. Instead of death it makes him disappear physically and quite surprisingly he gets in touch with a dead revolutionary Vimukthi. The revolutionary uses Mark to achieve his mission to make a better and equal society. But Mark with Prof. Amaraweera tries to regain his original status.

Fiore's treacherous minister of state Zash Caine steals the Dragon Cry, a mystical staff discovered in the dragon graveyard beneath the capital city of Crocus. Fiore's royal family recruits Natsu Dragneel and his team from the Fairy Tail guild to recover the staff, which is imbued with magical power capable of annihilating the kingdom. The wizards pursue Zash to Stella, whose ruler, King Animus, intends to use the staff for a ritual. Natsu inadvertently alerts Zash to their presence upon touching the staff, which eventually results in his team being captured by Zash and the kingdom's elite military unit, the Three Stars. The team flees Stella with the help of Zash's reluctant accomplice, Sonya, who is also Animus's aide and childhood friend. Sonya implores Fairy Tail to leave the staff in Stella, warning that Animus's ritual could prevent a potential magical catastrophe from destroying the kingdom. However, Natsu refuses, sensing from his contact with the staff that it contains the malicious intent of dragons that were killed by Acnologia.

Fairy Tail returns to Stella to retrieve the staff, defeating the Three Stars in the process. Sonya touches the Dragon Cry, affirming Natsu's warning of its true nature, and refuses to give the staff to Animus. Natsu arrives and sees Sonya speaking to herself; possessing Sonya, Animus reveals himself to be a dragon who sealed himself within her body to cheat death, appearing to her in a human guise to manipulate her. Unable to escape Sonya's body on his own, Animus performs the ritual to free himself using the staff's magic, but emerges in a weakened form after Zash steals the staff for himself, seeking revenge against Fiore for exiling him. Zash uses the staff to activate an army of artificial soldiers against Fairy Tail and tries destroying Fiore, but is killed by the staff's magic energy.

In a struggle over the staff, Animus impales Natsu on one of his spikes and finishes absorbing the staff's magic, regaining his full strength. Natsu survives his injury, with half of his body taking on the appearance of a dragon, and viciously attacks Animus; Animus recognizes Natsu as E.N.D., the "destroyer of all", before Natsu defeats him. Natsu is deeply shaken by his transformation upon returning to normal, but is comforted by Lucy Heartfilia. Sonya destroys the Dragon Cry, deactivating the soldiers and causing Animus to die peacefully. The broken staff reverts to its true form, a ribbon once belonging to Sonya, which flies away in the breeze.

In a post-credits scene, the ribbon is picked up by Acnologia, who recalls killing a group of dragons and mortally wounding Animus for attacking Sonya during her childhood, an event which led to Animus inhabiting Sonya's body; having lost his compassion for humanity, Acnologia destroys the ribbon. Zeref observes Acnologia from afar alongside Brandish μ and Invel Yura, declaring that his battle with Natsu is imminent.

Aprilyn, who is left by her groom, Randy, on the day of their wedding, goes viral online. Devastated, she meets Raffy who works at a PR agency hired by the father of the groom to help her move on, so that Randy will win the mayoral election when the public "forgives" him, once Aprilyn forgives him. As the storyline unfolds, it is revealed that both Aprilyn and Raffy were marked by a childhood in which they each had a parent who went overseas to work, leaving each of them impaired in their relationship abilities. Each contributes to the other's self-discovery, and over the course of the movie they gain insights into themselves and a love for one another.

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him.

But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.

In the 1940s, Deputy Waterhouse and Sheriff Proctor drive to a nearby quarry with two bodies stowed in their truck. Waterhouse takes a necklace off one of the bodies and they dump the two corpses into the water. Waterhouse then holds Proctor at gunpoint and demands he get rid of his badge, telling Proctor that he's no longer fit to be sheriff. Proctor throws his badge over the cliff.

In the 1970s, Jacqueline Mathers, called Jake, and her brother Sean head to the quarry. Sean insists she get over her fear of jumping into the water below and offers to jump with her. Sean jumps but Jake becomes scared and lets go of Sean's hand at the last second. Jake watches as her brother plunges into the water below but doesn't resurface. In a panic, she runs for help, tripping along the way and gashing her forehead, which leaves a large scar. Deputy Freeman informs Waterhouse, now the sheriff, that his grandson has drowned in the quarry.

Jake suffers from survivor's remorse and falls into depression. A boy at school named Willie Proctor, the grandson of the old sheriff, has a crush on her and draws her pictures, much to the disapproval of his grandfather. Some months later, Jake's parents tell her they're going to have a baby which upsets Jake. The next day, Jake runs into three gypsy brothers led by Wyeth. Wyeth tells her he has the power to bring her brother back but someone will have to die in his place. The brothers take her back to their cabin on Proctor's property and make a blood oath with Jake - they'll bring her brother back if she pushes Willie Proctor over the quarry edge. She agrees. When she returns home after dark, her parents question her about where she's been. She tells them three men took her to their cabin. Waterhouse takes Jake to the cabin and asks Jake to identify the three brothers but, remembering her oath, Jake says she's never seen them before.

Jake convinces Willie to follow her to the quarry. She's about to push him over but is filled with guilt and decides not to. Jake's mother attempts to make Jake feel better by taking her to dinner where Jake is confronted by Wyeth. Jake says she won't kill someone. Wyeth tells Jake that her grandfather has something of his and he wants it back. Jake finds her mother crying, having seen a boy who reminded her of Sean. Jake goes to her grandfather's house and steals the necklace he's been hiding.

The next day, Wyeth and his brothers confront Jake's mother at her home. She becomes frightened and blood begins to pour from between her legs. Later, Waterhouse is told by the doctor that his daughter will live but the baby can't be saved. Filled with remorse, Jake brings the necklace to Wyeth who tells her she can only bring Sean back if she sacrifices Willie. He puts the necklace around her neck. Waterhouse arrests the three gypsy brothers and takes them to jail. A desperate Jake convinces Willie to follow her to the quarry one more time. Meanwhile, haunted by memories, a drunken Proctor begins to douse the gypsy's cabin with alcohol. Waterhouse goes to the jail to find Deputy Freeman with his throat cut and the brothers escaped. An enraged Waterhouse drives to the cabin only to be shot by Proctor. Waterhouse shoots back and they both lie dying as the brothers return home. Wyeth tells Waterhouse that he's about to have his revenge.

In a series of flashbacks we see the events that led to the opening scene. A younger Sheriff Proctor witnesses the gypsy family, living on his property, engaging in strange rituals. He threatens the mother with arrest unless she pays him. When she says they have no money, he sexually assaults her. Deputy Waterhouse sees Wyeth and his frightened brothers, then only children, outside. Waterhouse finds Proctor raping the boys' mother. Proctor returns to the cabin with food only to be confronted by the husband who beats him and runs him off. Proctor returns with Waterhouse and kills the father. As Waterhouse protests, the mother shoots at the two policemen. Waterhouse shoots back and fatally wounds her. Proctor shoots the father in the head and aims at Wyeth before Waterhouse stops him. Wyeth kneels over his mother, who whispers something to him before dying. Waterhouse and Proctor then take the two bodies to the quarry.

Back in the 1970s, Wyeth tells Waterhouse that he knows Jake is about to push Willie into the quarry, setting herself up for a lifetime of pain and regret. Waterhouse says he knows she won't do it. Waterhouse asks if he knows the old saying about revenge - "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Waterhouse then throws his lit cigar onto the alcohol-soaked floor which sets the cabin aflame, killing the brothers, Proctor, and himself in the process. As they die, Waterhouse and Wyeth embrace each other as they once did when Proctor raped the mother, apparently forgiving each other in the process.

Jake struggles to push Willie. When she realizes that Wyeth only said "someone" had to die, Jake jumps herself and lands in the water. She sees the figure of her brother below her. Sean swims up to her and pulls the necklace from around her neck before disappearing into the depths. Jake hears Willie calling to her from above as she swims back to the surface.

Anyuta, a small, tired girl lives with Stepan Klotchkov, a medical student, in squalor, serving for him, besides other things as an anatomy model (for studying ribs, among other body parts). She spends her time taking work as seamstress and, talking little, thinking a lot, mostly of how it happens that all of her former student partners have managed to somehow get out of here to some kind of better life while she is stuck in this place… Rather taken aback by his artist neighbor Fetisov's comments upon the 'unaesthetic' conditions he lives in, Klochkov decides to throw Anyuta out, then lets her stay for another week, out of pity.

''Writer Rabbit'' packaged their minigames into a party theme, with the basic plot being that solving the puzzles will help the protagonist ''Writer Rabbit'' prepare for an upcoming party. Meanwhile, in the ''Reader Rabbit 3'' version, essentially the same mini-games are wrapped up in a new story the game sees series protagonist Reader Rabbit join the Daily Skywriter, the daily newspaper for his hometown Wordville. He has to identify the right information to put into his stories. The game was designed to build critical reading skills for grades two to four, by applying speech rules to a real-world scenario.

While each of the stories in Nancy Lee's breakout novel are varied in subject matter, they are united by themes of eroticism, destruction, loss, and the recurring image of the missing and murdered women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The images of these women are subtly inserted into each story via television screens, or comments about jury duty.

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A woman is caught between two men titled this boy, and that boy. That boy is an adventurous photographer who hopes to aid humanity. The woman and that boy correspond through email messages and phone calls. However, that boy doesn’t write often. This boy is a rich man, and seems to care for the woman, buying her expensive gifts and speaking of love. He ends up getting her pregnant, but she decides to have an abortion. They end up breaking up.

Sally, in Parts

Sally, a breast cancer survivor and hand model, explores her relationship with her dying father. Lee has stated that this story is rooted in the Electra myth and observes the taboo subject of sexual tension between a father and daughter. The story is divided into the following sections: Sally's eyes, Sally's hands, Sally's breasts, Sally's teeth, Sally's vagina, Sally's ears, Sally's lips, Sally's feet, and Sally's bones.

Valentines

Three teenagers—Jess, Charlie, and Kyle—spend Valentine's Day together at Kyle's house. Jess receives a pair of hoop earrings from Charlie as a Valentine's Day instead of a locket, like she had asked for, and she pierces her ears in the upstairs washroom with ice and a sewing needle. Meanwhile, Charlie and Kyle are downstairs talking about the way Jess was flirting with Kyle. The two then make a transaction; Kyle will hand over $50 for Jess to have sex with him. As the night progresses, the three get increasingly drunk, culminating in Jess sleeping with Kyle. Charlie and Jess then leave Kyle's house. The two get into a verbal argument which escalates to physical assault.

Dead Girls

This story is told from the eyes of a mother who is desperate to find her missing sex worker daughter named Clare. This desperation is heightened by the discovery of a serial killer, and a number of human remains in a retired dentist's backyard. During this time, the woman and her husband are in the process of selling their house, the one Clare grew up in. This, along with her daughter's disappearance, causes her relationship with her husband to become tense. It becomes clear that the mother is unwilling to let go of the image of an innocent Clare, or move on. Clare however, has a strong desire for distance from her family. Although Clare is never found, the mother is able to feel closer to her daughter by walking in the Downtown Eastside and experiencing things the way her daughter does.

East

Two women, Jemma and Annie, go on a kind of road trip in an attempt to escape the trouble in their lives. The story begins with the death of a dog; Jemma's husband, Marcus, had purchased the dog in an attempt to please his family. After it is run over however, Jemma is the one who must bury it. She starts driving to escape the realities of her divorce with Marcus, who is planning take their children away to Ontario. While she cries to Annie, Jemma admits that Marcus "is the better parent." Annie purposefully chose an ugly man to date in the hopes that this relationship would be more successful. Yet, she believes her boyfriend is planning to break up with her.

Young Love

As a favour for her friend Janet, a drug-addicted nurse supervises a high-school dance-a-thon that aims to raise money for a drug awareness program. The story follows the nurse throughout the night: she greets the students’ parents, imagines an affair with Janet's husband, Paul, and she has an affair with one of the students. Nancy Lee has stated that she conducted research on pharmaceutical addiction in the medical profession in order to inform the story, and that the drug-addicted nurse is an example of how people often spend their lives trying to hide something.

Rollie and Adele

Adele is living on the streets and is running quickly out of money. She wakes up one morning outside of a tattoo parlor and is let inside by the owner, Rollie. He feeds her and lets her take a shower. From there on, the story follows their relationship as she starts living with him, spending her days lounging in the store with the customers and spending her nights either sleeping with Rollie, or taking his bed while he sleeps elsewhere. Their sexual relationship is difficult and after one failed attempt at intercourse, they awkwardly avoid further attempts despite Rollie still having desires for Adele.

Every week, the both of them goes to visit Rollie's mother, who lives alone and is mourning the death of her husband. She and Rollie do not get along very well, but Adele pities her. Towards the end of the story, Rollie's mother gives him a ring, thinking that he might ask Adele to marry him. On his way back to the store, Rollie looks into the window and finds Adele having sex with a customer that he had pushed towards her.

Sisters

Two sisters in high-school, Grace and Nita, are exposed to the same temptations by a stranger named Kevin. The two sisters make opposing decisions; Nita ends up running away from home with Kevin. The two move to Vancouver, where Nita's life becomes increasingly difficult as she falls into drugs and is constantly in the need for money. Kevin later contacts Grace to ask for money and Nita begins calling Grace to reconnect with her. When Nita disappears, Grace moves to Vancouver to search for her sister, piecing together what she can about Nita's life. Lee comments that she wanted to show, through this story, "how easy it is to do things that later on seem so obviously wrong."

The film portrays the life of Satoshi Murayama (1969-1998), who was a professional shogi player.

The story takes place in King's fictional town of Castle Rock in 1974. Twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson encounters a stranger in dark clothes and a black hat who invites her to "palaver."

When a gifted teen Leo San Juan, and the inhabitants of his Mexican village are attacked by a host of otherworldly creatures, Leo's ghostly friends Teodora, Don Andres and Alebrije join him in a quest to foil an evil overlord who plans to eradicate mankind from the annals of history. They are aided in their mission by a band of powerful allies—an assortment of legendary creatures from around the world.

In London, Henderson is an American millionaire launching a brand of tranquillisers. Fred Cooper, head of a London advertising firm JCB, tries to get Henderson to sign with them. Fred is ruthless, more so than three directors of JCB, Sam Bloomberg, Philip Comely and Peter Jones.

Junior high detective Matt Stevens, who made his debut in ''The Big Splash'', investigates the blackmailing of the star of the school basketball team.

This contemporary novel is set in Bugtussle, Mississippi, in the Southern United States. The narrator, 11-year-old Footer Davis, has to deal with her mother's bipolar disorder while trying to find out what happened to the Abrams children after their barn burned down. It troubles her that she seems to be having hallucinations – but they may be repressed memories. Footer is on the mission to do almost everything to help his friends, family, and herself.

Set in 1817, Anna Millman (Isabelle Drummond) is an English woman who teaches Portuguese who gets involved with the Portuguese-Brazilian actor Joaquim Martinho (Chay Suede) as both travel to Brazil in the ship that brings princess Maria Leopoldina of Austria (Letícia Colin) to her bethroted, Dom Pedro I (Caio Castro). Despite their love for each other, they suffer from the threats of Thomas Johnson (Gabriel Braga Nunes), an English officer who wants to have Anna for himself, and Elvira (Ingrid Guimarães), a Portuguese actress in a fake marriage with Joaquim, causing her to flee from the shrew when entering the ship that would leave for Brazil. The telenovela also features Brazil's struggle for independence.

''After the Rain'' tells the story of Akira Tachibana, a high school student working part-time at a family restaurant, who starts falling in love with the manager, a forty-five-year-old divorcé with a young son. Akira struggles to determine why she is falling for Masami, and whether or not to reveal her feelings to him.

Ah Zhen (Rebecca Lim) has three childhood friends, Guang Hui (Shaun Chen), De Ping (Andie Chen) and An Ya (Julie Tan). Like Ah Zhen, they also love watching drama, and yearned to be seen on the TV screen. The four friends even made a pact together: To make it big in the drama scene, to play the lead character in a drama someday!

After graduating from secondary school, the four friends joined the TV station's acting classes, and all of them, except Ah Zhen, were selected to join the TV station as actors. Even though she was disappointed, Ah Zhen refused to give up, and began a journey full of hardships in the local drama scene.

Initially Ah Zhen worked alongside her father Xiao Hu (Chen Hanwei), who was a martial art stuntman. Unfortunately she was clumsy and always got injured, so she had to switch to being an extra. But even as an extra, she always somehow got in the way and was disliked and shunned by the production team. But Ah Zhen refused to leave the TV station, and found herself a job in the Costume department.

Childhood friend Guang Hui clinched his first lead role, and An Ya and De Ping had also taken up supporting roles, yet Ah Zhen was still struggling to survive. She switched from department to department: make-up, Props, Radio... trying to find a path for herself, but it seems like she was drifting further from her original dream of becoming an actress. Luckily at that time, she met her savior, the then “Ah-jie” of local drama scene, Chen Xiang Rong (Xiang Yun), a woman whom Ah Zhen saw as her own mother. Under the help of Xiang Rong, Ah Zhen managed to get a small supporting role in her first ever drama debut.

Since then, Ah Zhen began her career as a freelance actor, taking part in a number of classic productions. But Ah Zhen was insistent in her own method of acting, which many others could not agree to. By then, Guang Hui was already a popular rising star, and An Ya was radiant and eye catching after her cosmetic procedure, so the two co-starred in a few dramas, and they became the best on screen couple of their time. Ah Zhen was happy for her friends’ achievements, but she couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken. Actually, Ah Zhen has always been fond of Guang Hui since her teenage years, but Guang Hui never really noticed her.

At the lowest point in Ah Zhen's life, and she felt like she was abandoned by the entire world. But with encouragement from her friends, she eventually got up on her feet again. This time, Ah Zhen decided to focus on her job behind the scenes instead!

Working as the assistant producer was the turning point of Ah Zhen's life. As she had worked in various departments previously, she had contacts everywhere in the production team, making life as an AP easier. She took part in various popular dramas, and with a brush of luck, she always managed to accidentally create epic scenes in the dramas. Eventually, she worked her way up to a director.

As the years go by, many things were no longer what they used to be. The TV station separated into two competing stations, and the friendship between the four broke down. Guang Hui was leading a wasted life, gambling and drinking away, and losing money in unsuccessful investments, eventually leading to a broken family. After separating from Guang Hui, An Ya took to the international screen, but was faced with aftereffects of excessive cosmetic surgery, threatening her acting career. De Ping was involved in a sex scandal and was fired by the TV station, and even ended up in jail for 2 months.

Seeing that their friendship was severely challenged, Ah Zhen, the only one who has not changed, tried very hard to bring the other three back together. After all these ups and downs, will the perseverance of Ah Zhen eventually recover the lost friendship between them?

Ah Zhen has always been secretly loving Guang Hui, but she always misses the opportunity to bring their friendship to another level. How will their relationship end up? An Ya and Guang Hui were the promising couple, but love grew into hate, and they went separate ways, though they never truly forgotten each other. Will they ever reconcile? Ah Zhen and De Ping are friends in times of need, supporting each other faithfully through all these times. Will their relationship eventually bear fruit?

Will this complicated four-sided relationship finally come to a happy ending?

Sama is Sinhala language teacher by profession in her village school. She is married to Amara who has done his tertiary education abroad. Their only son is Dhanushka. The school where Sama teaches is very poor in English although she is a Sinhala teacher she starts to teach English in a new way. She uses new methods which are easy to remember for many children. In the meantime, having realized the ingratitude of some of the school teachers Amara plans to leave Sri Lanka with Sama and their son. She is reluctant to leave. This leads to a conflict within Sama's family.

The film is presented in the style of a mockumentary documenting the history of The Small Potatoes, a band of anthropomorphic singing potatoes. Narrative segments are interspersed with talking head interviews with the band's friends, manager Lester Koop (McDowell), and man on the street interviews with the band's fans (all of whom are potatoes).

The Small Potatoes’ trajectory roughly follows trends in American popular music through the second half of the 20th century: The Potatoes start as a country and western band in Idaho in the 1940s, before finding popularity first as rock and roll and then doo wop singers in the 1950s. They reach the peak of their popularity in the 1960s as a British invasion style act, followed by their experimenting with psychedelic rock after a trip to India. Through the Potatoes’ career, there is constant infighting between lead singer, Ruby, and Nate, the songwriter, on what the band's image should be. Olaf, a fat potato, struggles with his weight, which Lester tries to help him keep under control, while Chip is the quiet, detached voice of reason.

Conflict worsens between Nate and Ruby in the 1970s. Ruby, as the frontwoman of the group, begins to style herself as a diva and attempts to reform the band's image around herself, turning the group into a disco act. Nate, meanwhile, wants to keep the band socially relevant as a punk rock group. Tensions come to a head in the 1980s during the age of commercialization, when Ruby convinces the group to sell out by lending their names to a line of children's toys. The toys are all poorly manufactured and fall apart, displeasing customers. The negative backlash causes the group to break up.

Most of the members go on to get regular jobs while Ruby reinvents herself as a Britney Spears-style solo pop act in the 1990s. The group's old albums remain popular, though, and Ruby becomes depressed at the loss of her friends. The group enjoys a resurgence in popularity on the internet in the 2000s, leading to Simon, Olaf, and Nate reuniting for a reunion tour. Ruby surprises everyone by showing up at the theater on the night of their opening concert and singing with the band. The group finally resolves all of their old hostilities and Lester arranges for them to make a comeback tour.

A flock of birds is teaching their young chicks to fly. The sun is shining, and all the birds are cheerfully singing. Meanwhile, a boy is having fun with an air rifle, shooting at everything in the house and destroying many of the items in the house. Then he goes out into the garden and shoots at the nest that the birds have barely saved. Then he shoots at a chick out of the sky, only to realize the gravity of what he has done. The chick's parents try to revive it, but to no avail.

The sky turns dark and stormy as the birds assemble and wail in mourning for the chick's funeral, completing it with pallbearers and a grave digger. The boy is tormented by the birds' wailing. Watching from outside the window, he is brought to tears, and he gets on his knees to pray. As the birds prepare to lower the chick into its grave, it begins raining. The young chick miraculously comes back to life, the birds resume to their cheerful singing, the sky clears, and the boy, having learned this lesson, breaks his air rifle into pieces and pulls out a box of bird seeds for all the birds to enjoy. The chick and the boy share a seed as the cartoon ends.

Effia's line

Effia is raised by her mother, Baaba, who is cruel to her. Nevertheless she works hard to please her mother. Known as a beauty, Effia is intended to be married to the future chief of her village, but when her mother tells her to hide her menstrual cycle, rumours spread that she is barren. As a result, she is married to a British merchant, James Collins, the governor of Cape Coast Castle. He and Effia have a happy marriage. She returns to her family village one time, when her father dies, where her brother tells her that Baaba is not Effia's mother and that Effia is the daughter of an unknown slave.

Effia and James have a son called Quey who is raised in the Cape Coast Castle. His parents, worrying that he is friendless, eventually have him befriend a local boy named Cudjo. When they are teenagers Quey and Cudjo realize that they are attracted to one another. In fear of their relationship James sends Quey to England for awhile. When he returns, Quey is assigned to help to strengthen the ties between his familial village and the British merchants at the Cape Coast Castle. He is frustrated by his uncle Fiifi, who seems evasive about trade relations. Eventually Fiifi, along with Cudjo, raid the village of the Asante people and bring back the daughter of an Asante chief. Realizing that to marry her would join his people, the Fantes, with the Asantes, Quey resolves to forget Cudjo and marry the Asante girl.

Quey's son, James, learns that his Asante grandfather died and returns to Asante land where he meets a farmer woman, Akosua Mensah. Growing up with his parents' dysfunctional political marriage, and promised since childhood to the daughter of the Fante chief, Amma, James longs to run away and marry Akosua. With help from Effia, James runs away from Amma and lives among the Efutu people until they are raided and killed by the Asantes. He is saved by a man who recognizes him though James makes him promise to tell everyone he has died. He then travels to reunite with Akosua.

James's daughter Abena only knows her father as a rural farmer called Unlucky for his inability to grow crops. By the time she is twenty-five she is still unmarried. Her childhood best friend, Ohene, promises to marry her after his next successful season and the two begin an affair which coincides with the start of a famine. The village elders, discovering the affair, tell them that if Abena conceives a child or the famine lasts more than seven years Abena will be cast out. In the sixth year Ohene successfully farms cocoa plants. Rather than marry Abena he tells her that he promised to marry the daughter of the farmer who gave him the seeds. Abena, now pregnant, decides to leave her village rather than wait for Ohene to marry her.

Akua grows up among white missionaries after her mother dies early in her childhood. When an Asante man proposes, she accepts and marries him and the couple have several children. Before the birth of her third child Akua begins to have nightmares about a woman on fire with burning children. Her nightmares cause her to avoid sleep and enter a trance-like state while awake, and as a result her mother-in-law locks her in the hut to prevent other village people seeing her in her strange state. At the same time war breaks out and her husband goes to war. He, returns missing one leg, in time for the birth of their son, Yaw. The nightmares continue to haunt Akua and, while sleepwalking during a trance at night, she murders her daughters by setting a fire that consumes them. Her husband is able to save Yaw and successfully prevent Akua from being burned herself by the townspeople.

Yaw grows up to be a schoolteacher who is highly educated but angry about his facial burn scars. His friends encourage him to marry even though he is near the age of fifty, as his self-consciousness has kept him alone until that point. After his friends go through a difficult pregnancy he decides to take on a house girl, Esther. The two of them speak Twi together; Esther is unfazed by Yaw's anger and asks him constant questions about his way of life, and he realizes he loves her. To please Esther he goes to see his mother, now known as the Crazy Woman, for the first time in over forty years in Edweso where they reconcile, and she tells him that there is evil in their line and that she regrets causing the fire that burned him.

Marjorie grows up in Alabama, which she hates, and spends summers in Ghana visiting her grandmother, who has moved from Edweso to the Gold Coast. In her mostly-white high school she struggles to fit in as the black students mock her for acting white and the white students don't want to have anything to do with her. She feels left out as although she is black, she doesn't identify with the African American stereotype that all blacks in America are lumped into. While reading in the library she meets a German-born army brat, Graham, and develops a crush on him hoping he will ask her to prom. Instead his father and the school ban them from attending together and he instead goes with a white girl. She reads a poem about her Ghanaian origin and ancestors during an African American cultural day at her high school, which her father attends. Her grandmother dies shortly after, before Marjorie is able to make it back to Ghana.

Esi's line

Esi is the beloved and beautiful daughter of a Big Man and his wife, Maame. Her father is a renowned and successful warrior and he eventually captures a slave who asks Esi to send a message to her father about where she is. Esi complies out of pity as her mother was formerly enslaved. As a result her village is raided and her father and mother are killed. Before she leaves Esi learns that her mother had a child before her, while she was enslaved. She is then captured and imprisoned in the dungeon of the Cape Coast Castle where she is raped by a drunken merchant before being sent to North America.

Esi's daughter, Ness, is raised in the American South. Her mother teaches her some Twi but she and her mother are eventually beaten for it and separated. In her new, more lenient plantation, Ness is forbidden from becoming a house slave because of the deep scars on her back. Before arriving at the plantation Ness was forcibly married by her master to Sam, a Yoruba man and fellow slave on the same plantation. Although he spoke no English, they eventually came to love one another and have a child, whom she named Kojo. After a woman heard her speaking Twi, Ness was offered the opportunity to escape north. Ness, the woman, Sam, and Kojo escaped but in an effort to protect her son, she and her husband allowed themselves to be caught and then claimed their child died, allowing the woman to escape with Kojo. Ness was severely whipped, causing her brutal scars, and forced to watch as Sam is hanged.

Kojo is raised in Baltimore where he goes by the name Jo Freeman and marries a freeborn black woman Anna. Kojo works on the ships in the Baltimore Harbor while Anna cleans for a white family, and the entire family lives with Ma, the woman who helped Kojo escape when he was a baby. When Anna is pregnant with their eighth child, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is passed. Jo is warned that he should go further North but he decides to stay. The white family Anna works for helps Kojo and Ma forge papers saying they were born free, but Kojo still worries he or his family will be kidnapped. His oldest daughter marries the pastor's son, and soon after Anna disappears while pregnant. Kojo looks for her for weeks but is unable to find her, only hearing that a white man asked her to enter a carriage with him at the last sighting. The kidnapping destroys Jo's family.

H, the last son born to Anna and Kojo, is freed during the Reconstruction era, and has never known his parents, with Anna dying shortly after childbirth. Sometime after, as an adult man, he is arrested and wrongly accused of assaulting a white woman. Unable to pay the ten-dollar fine he is sentenced to work in a coal mine for ten years. One day a white convict is assigned as his partner and he is unable to shovel any coal, so H shovels the twelve-ton daily quota for the both of them with two hands simultaneously, earning him the nickname "Two-Shovel H". When H is released from his sentence he settles in Pratt City in Birmingham, Alabama, made up of other convicts both black and white, and works in the coal mine as a free agent. Unable to read or write, he asks his friend's son Joecy to write a letter to his ex-girlfriend Ethe, whom he cheated on shortly before being arrested. She eventually comes to join him.

H's daughter Willie marries Robert, her childhood sweetheart who is light-skinned with light eyes, and they have a son named Carson. After her parents die Robert suggests they move away and Willie asks that they go to Harlem as she wants to start a career as a singer. As they look for work Willie realizes that her dark skin will prevent her from being a professional singer while Robert is able to pass for white. The two grow farther apart as Robert finds a job in white Manhattan while Willie cleans bars in Harlem. They begin keeping secrets from one another, and Robert returns home less and less. One night, Willie sees Robert vomiting in the men's bathroom during her job at a bar, and Robert's white co-workers find out their relationship. One of the co-workers have the two of them touch each other and he sexually pleasures himself, and then fires Robert. That night, Robert leaves her. Willie eventually begins a new relationship with Eli and has a daughter, Josephine. One day, when Carson is ten, Willie sees Robert in Manhattan with a white wife and their white child. The two make eye contact, but both continue walking in their own direction.

Carson, who as an adult goes by the name Sonny, tries to find meaning in marching for civil rights and working for the NAACP but instead becomes demoralized by his work. Like his own father he becomes an absentee parent to three children by three different women, often dodging their requests for alimony. He meets a young singer named Amani and after she introduces him to drugs he becomes addicted to heroin as well. He spends all of his money on drugs and realizes he never loved Amani, but only wanted her. When Willie finally reveals details about his father and offers him a choice between her money or getting clean he chooses to stay with his mother and get clean.

Sonny and Amani's son Marcus goes on to become an academic at Stanford University. At a party near campus, he meets Marjorie, also a graduate student at Stanford, and the two form an intimate bond. The two of them go to Pratt City so Marcus can research his African American history thesis, and Marcus realizes there is nothing there for him; Marjorie's parents have also both passed away. Marjorie suggests that they go to Ghana and while they are there visiting the villages of Marjorie's grandmother, they go to the Cape Coast Castle which Marjorie has never visited. While seeing the "Door of No Return" in the slave dungeon, Marcus has a panic attack and flees through the door to the beach. He and Marjorie swim in the water where she gives him Effia's stone, which has been passed to her through the generations, and which, unbeknownst to both of them, was given to Effia by their mutual ancestor, Maame. Esi's stone remains unrecovered, buried in the dungeons of the Castle.

Descendants of Maame

• '''Bold names''' are chapter titles.
• Dashed lines represent marriages.
• Dotted lines represent adoptions, extra-marital relationships, and non-consensual relationships.
• Solid lines represent descendants.

This tele about a Kishikawa Naoko, a 31 years old woman who works in an undergarment department shop. By coincidence, she meets Lee Ji-won, a South Korean photographer who changes her life after their meeting, and starts to uncover her family's secrets bit by bit.

Poirot is not interested in investigating some of the cases which appear in the newspapers and which Hastings tries to bring to his attention. These include a bank clerk (Mr. Davis) who disappears with fifty thousand pounds of securities, a suicidal man and a missing typist. He is put on the spot, though, when visited by a Mrs. Todd who is determined that he investigate her missing cook, Eliza Dunn. Challenged, he decides, with some humor and to avoid an argument, to take the seemingly trivial case. Eliza Dunn, a middle-aged woman, has walked out of her job at the Todds' house in Clapham two days earlier without giving her notice and has not communicated with her employer since, except for sending for her trunk that day.

Interviewing the maid in the house, Poirot finds out that the trunk was already packed, meaning that Eliza had planned to leave even though her departure was swift. The other occupants of the house are Mr. Todd, who works in the city, and their lodger, Mr Simpson, who works in the same bank at which Mr. Davis (the man who has disappeared with fifty thousand pounds of securities) worked. Struck by this coincidence as he is, Poirot cannot see a connection between an absconding bank clerk and a missing cook. Poirot places advertisements in all the newspapers inquiring as to the whereabouts of Eliza and several days later he is successful in locating her. He travels to visit her and she tells him a story of having come into a legacy of a house in Carlisle and an income of three hundred pounds a year, dependent upon her taking up the offer and immediately leaving domestic service. This legacy was communicated to her by a man who approached her in the street as she was returning to the Todds' house one night. The money came from a friend of her late grandmother who had settled in Australia and married a wealthy settler. Eliza had immediately taken the train north and a couple of days later received her belongings from Clapham, although wrapped in paper parcels and not in her old trunk, which she supposes had been kept behind by Mrs. Todd in a fit of pique.

Poirot rushes back to Clapham with Hastings and explains matters on the way. Simpson knew what his colleague Davis was up to at the bank. He killed the man for the securities and needed an old, inconspicuous trunk in which to hide the body and that meant diverting Eliza out of the way. It was Simpson in disguise who had approached her the street. On arriving at Clapham, Simpson has already disappeared but is traced to an ocean liner bound for the United States. The trunk with Davis' body inside is located at a Glasgow railway station. Poirot views the link between a disappearing cook and a murder to be one of his most interesting cases, and he frames the cheque sent by Mr. Todd for his consulting fee as a reminder of it.

''Murder in Cormyr'' involves a wizard Benelaius and Jasper a half-halfling servant investigating a murder mystery in a village surrounded by a swamp. The book starts with the introduction of Jasper, a village urchin who, due to circumstances, tries to steal from the home of a wizard who recently moved nearby, as part of retirement from the Cormyr war wizard council. Jasper gets caught by Benelaius and as way of repayment, agrees to the proposition of becoming a servant of the wizard for one year. During that time, a mysterious murder takes place with Jasper, under directions of Benelaius, untangling the dark plot.

''Tangled Webs'' follows drow wizard Liriel Baenre and Rashemen berserker Fyodor on a journey, which include escape from the Underdark and a sea voyage. Due to finding a mysterious amulet windwalker, Liriel stumbles upon a mysterious runecraft, which supposedly would allow her to retain her drow magic on the surface. During the hectic escape, she meets Fyodor, who also searches for the amulet, as the witches of Rashemen told him it is a solution for his own problem. As a berserker, Fyodor is able to call upon magic, which allows him to fight despite injuries. However, as a child born in Time of Troubles, he cannot control his rage and see a difference between ally and enemy. The two heroes make an alliance, travelling together to the land of Rashemen with windwalker, while avoiding forces which would claim its power for themselves.

This novel is about Tarsis, a once proud city by the sea, now landlocked and decaying because of a great catastrophe, with a huge nomad army laying siege to its crumbling walls; and the main character is Ironwood – a mercenary bearing the curse of the dragon he once slew.

''The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King'' tells the story of Hamanu.

''Abyssal Warriors'' is the second part of the ''Bloodwars'' trilogy that began with ''Blood Hostages''. In ''Abyssal Warriors'', Aereas and Nina, though naive in the ways of the planes, have successfully rescued Artus from his kidnappers. Now Aereas must go to save his love from the underworld. The planes have had their effect on the young girl and Aereas finds himself battling for her mind as well as her body as she becomes increasingly influenced by the forces of extreme evil that exist throughout the planes.

The story concerns itself with Azalin, the king of the title. Despite the near-limitless powers that are now his to command, he is continually haunted by the death of his son. Unable to find any kind of happiness or contentment, he has begun to hate the dark, horror-filled world that is his to rule. ''King of the Dead'' recounts the tale of Azalin's earlier existence as a powerful mage and the events that led to his current reign.

The autochthonous elves, driven back into the forest of Cerilia by the humans, who had in turn been forced out of their ancestral lands by lackeys of the Dark One, now live in uneasy peace with their invaders after centuries of war. The elves fear for the forest as the humans continue to carve out their civilization, but this concern is overshadowed by the matter of an empty throne.

This novel involves a conspiracy in the court of Cormyr told in a series of stories set throughout the history of the kingdom, from the days of its foundations up to the date of the main story.

For the last seven years, a group of people who call themselves the Philokinetes have been ritualistically screening a 23-second long fragment of film called "The Film to Come". In the so-called "Room of Clocks," devotees watch the fragment over and over again in order to enter a hypnotic state in which there is no difference between film and reality.

The narrator encounters the Philokinetes in search of his missing daughter, who went missing during a screening. Upon having a vision of his daughter within the pages of the Philokinetes' sacred books, he falls into a deathlike fugue, understanding that he has become a part of the sacred film.

"H" (Pascal Bonitzer) wakes up in his car, uninjured and with no signs of an accident. It won’t start, so he walks away. He tells two men playing a board game in a field that his car has broken down and he is late for an appointment; they offer no help. H asks how long they have been playing and the nearest man (Jean-Loup Rivière) replies they have been playing a very long time. Asked if they should roll the dice, the man looks to the sky, carefully arranges the dice, counts the spaces on the board, and tells the other player "You have one hour". The male narrator says, "H realizes he is a victim of a nightmare", as H looks up and sees a hand rolling dice in the sky. The first man tells H where to go, the narrator saying, "H realizes he is the victim of the worst type of nightmare, a didactic nightmare".

As H and the second man move in accordance with rolls of the dice, a female narrator describes the game's rules. In Paris, a voice calls H from a warehouse; it is the first man he met. H, feeling that he is being played with, approaches the man who tells him he risks being late. Saying he wants to stop, H points to the board game's final square, but the man says someone is waiting for him at another tile; H hurries to his next destination. After he leaves the man reveals several versions of the game's board H is ignorant of.

Another player in the game (also Jean-Loup Rivière) advises H to always take unseen routes. The female narrator discusses how to resolve a labyrinth; a map enlarges one's field of vision to destroy a maze. As H travels, he meets a blind player who follows a sound map; the female narrator says such maps show travellers are going in the correct direction when the route follows a complete melody.

Entering a church after the first man he met calls him from the roof, H realizes the church is also part of the game. Told that the board game's scale has moved from a district of Paris to the whole city, H is nauseous with vertigo and vomits two dice. Asked to vomit again so the man can have a turn, H says his ears hurt; the dice are in H's ears and he and the man hurry along.

Called from a car outside the church, H climbs in and realizes it's part of the game. The female narrator describes three hypotheses: the map is old and the city has changed, making it inaccurate; the map is a developmental model of the city, which the city doesn't yet resemble; or the city has been destroyed and rebuilt using many maps, a combination of the first two hypotheses. Saying they need a perfect map, she suggests that either they create one using street-by-street analysis, making the map 1:1, or they create a map of all possible routes stored on videodiscs for the army or tourists/travellers. Meanwhile, H sees the first man in another car. H is told the scale has changed again and that he needs to go to the station. In the car's rear view mirror he sees new dice numbers reflected in his driver's sunglasses.

On a train, H talks to the second man he saw playing the game in the field and discovers that all of the passengers are playing the game. The man tells H he is "the one who answers questions". H asks him "What is the connection between routes and maps?" but falls asleep; in his dream, H has a new nightmare in which dice are rolled and he is ordered off the train.

H and the first man he met are in an aeroplane flying over Europe, the game's new scale, heading towards the Montfossis (fake mountains used by cartographers to converge two ranges on a map). H sleeps and dreams they are flying over maps in an exhibition and are travelling not in space, but in time. As they fly over multiple labyrinth maps the man says they are in the eye of the dice. A new dice rolls which changes the scale to encompass the whole planet Earth. H loses consciousness in the thin air the plane is flying in.

Waking up sitting on a giant hand, H sees the dice and rolls them, but the hand closes in on him. As it opens, H realizes he is both the dice in the game he is in and also the player rolling them. H disappears leaving only the dice behind. The scale changes to that of the universe. As they travel the cosmos, a man tells him that they are not dead, but the Earth is because there is no more time and therefore no space. Observing the universe and the Earth, H realizes he is waking up but doesn't know which dream he will wake in. Finally, H is back again in the field where he first found the men playing the game.

Groundlings members Hugh, Larry and Rachel are three actor/comedians still waiting for their big break, struggling to make a name for themselves in Hollywood while their friends achieve fame and fortune. They’re the Nobodies.

Kotaro Azumi and Akane Mizuno become third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. They are put in charge of the equipment for a sports festival and slowly grow closer via LINE. These two, along with fellow students Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and feelings. As their final year at junior high school progresses, the group overcome their challenges to mature and become aware of changes in themselves.

The story of ''Buck'' will unfold as Early Access development continues.

The game follows the character of Buck from the moment he decides to leave the comfort of his home to venture out into the unforgiving wasteland. Ignoring his step-dad's advice, he leaves his home to try to find out what happened Jodie, a girl who spent some time with Buck at his garage/home.

The story is told through the narration of Buck's step-father, Grit, an old and gravely voiced Vulture.

The story centres on Kate Ashby, who works as a legal investigator in the London law chambers of Michael Ennis. When Kate's adoptive mother Eve takes on a case prosecuting an African militia leader, the story pulls Michael and Kate into a journey that will upend their lives forever.

The miniseries follows the exploits of Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy. The story takes place during the years leading to the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and Syria. It follows Cohen's past in Egypt as an army reject, to his infiltration of the Syrian Ministry of Defense. He assumes the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet and establishes himself in Syrian high society. After having befriended people who would eventually take over Syria, Cohen is appointed as the country's Deputy Defense Minister and becomes a close confidant to the future president Amin al-Hafiz.

Neil, a nurse present to assist a visually impaired person, is pushed onto a chair with blades by an unseen assailant, where he bleeds to death.

Carrie, a fame-obsessed former ''Big Brother'' contestant, exits a lift to ''Fragments'', a retrospective exhibition of the sculptor Elliot Quinn held in an East London basement gallery. The sarcastic, tattooed Bea serves drinks. Maurice, an academic art critic arrives after, and the humourless council health-and-safety worker Kenneth Williams—who has never seen any of the ''Carry On'' films starring his namesake—and Irish dinner lady Jean follow. Patricia, a visually impaired author of erotic fiction, is the last to arrive. A projection of Elliot welcomes the guests, who have been hand-picked to attend, the reason why nobody knows.

Carrie and Maurice find Neil's body, but assume it is art. The body falls, to Carrie's horror, when she pulls Neil's lanyard. Kenneth arrives, followed by Jean and Patricia. Leaving Maurice with the body, Kenneth and Jean force the lift doors while Patricia and Carrie talk. Bea is dead in the lift, a telephone receiver in her mouth and the cord around her neck. The lift is broken, and Kenneth heads off to find a fire escape. Kenneth and Jean meet Maurice in a corridor, while Carrie and Patricia wait near the lift. Carrie collapses, having drunk from a Champagne bottle. Kenneth, Jean, and Maurice find that a gate has been chained from the outside. The three split up. Patricia finds Carrie's body; she has burns on her face. Stumbling away, Patricia hides in a cubicle. Neil's murderer enters the toilet, and is revealed to be Jean. She goes to leave, yet Patricia's Mobile Assistant starts talking, alerting Jean to her hiding place.

Kenneth finds Carrie's corpse, which is clutching pills. Maurice finds bolt cutters as Jean hurriedly washes her hands, then screams. Maurice and Kenneth come running, and Kenneth is first to arrive, with Kenneth grabbing the arm off of a nearby mannequin. Patricia is dead in the cubicle, her eyes missing. Kenneth, Jean, and Maurice rush to the chained gate. Kenneth suspects Maurice, as the pills were the latter's heart medication. As Maurice struggles with the chain, Kenneth knocks him out with the mannequin arm. Jean then suffocates Kenneth with a plastic bag.

Maurice awakens tied to a wheelchair, listening to Elliot's projection. Jean is revealed to be Elliot's mother; after Elliot's death, his body parts were donated. The recipients were to be a "living exhibition", but she believes his body parts were squandered. Neil had eaten his way into developing diabetes after a new kidney, Bea had tattooed her new skin after it was previously burned off, Carrie had drunk after a new liver, Patricia had produced pornography with her new eyes, Kenneth had smoked with his new lung, despite Maurice's objections that it was an E-Cigarette, and Maurice was a "heartless critic", even with a new heart, which Maurice admits is "a bit of a stretch". Jean has carved out and placed the organs in jars around them, and wants Maurice's heart. She advances with an anaesthetic in a syringe as Maurice struggles in the chair, the camera cuts to black as his hand slightly slips out of its restraint.

Some time later, a journalist reports from Elliot's art exhibit, featuring organs—including a heart—in jars. It has won the Turner Prize and has broken all box office records. She turns to interview the artist credited for the exhibit, revealed to be Maurice. When she mentions that he's "put [his] heart into" the sculpture, Maurice replies, "Not quite."

Exhausted by years of war, Winston Churchill awaits the 1944 Normandy landings, which he believes will be a disaster.

King Vijayabahu III of Dambadeniya had Prince Parakramabahu from his first queen. She died on the day her son was born. So the king married a Non-Buddhist princess; they have a son named Waththiya, to whom the queen wants to inherit the throne, amidst the objection from Buddhist monks and senior Buddhist ministers. The king discovers that the invader from Kalinga named Magha is plundering wealth and resources while destroying villages. He goes to war with Magha keeping Prince Parakramabahu under the protection of Pathiraja Senevi. Sangharaja Thero gives a prediction that the king will receive victory and blesses the king and his army. The king also says "If I am victorious, a messenger will come with a white colour flag and I will come later. But, if I have been defeated your king will never return." and the servants agree to kill themselves if the king is defeated by jumping down from the Rock of Kurunegala.

The king leaves on the following day and the queen plans a conspiracy to kill Prince Parakramabahu with the help of the king's advisor. The king is victorious and sends the white flag to the palace. The queen sends one of her guards to kill the messenger and come with a black flag. When seeing the black colour flag, the servants jump from the rock. The queen orders Pathiraja Senevi to jump with Prince Parakramabahu, but he rescues the prince and sends him with the Dhobi mother to Kalundawa for protection. Gamarala of Kalundawa adopts him and takes good care of him considering him as his son. The king returns and is angry about what had happened and the queen pretends that it was the messengers fault and she was protecting Prince Parakramabahu. Pathiraja Senevi explains the situation to the king and he disguises as a normal soldier and goes to Kalundawa.

The secret of the prince is only known by the King, Pathiraja Senevi and the Dhobi mother. The Dhobi mother is given a chanted pendant by Pathiraja Senevi and she becomes speechless until she is allowed to remove it to prevent the story about Prince Parakramabahu's origin. Soon the prince too forgets it. He is given the name 'Appuwa'. He lives happily with his parents and their two daughters Kalu Ethana and Sirimal Ethana. Children in the village go to the temple and learn Buddhism, Sinhala, Pali, Sanskrit languages, and literature from Ven. Kalundawa Thero. Appuwa (Prince Parakramabahu) is a good student and studies along Ven. Kalundawa. His father works in the Chena. It was difficult for him to use the large mammoty and he goes to meet the blacksmith to make a small mammoty for himself. The blacksmith does not make a mammoty for him but Appuwa makes a good little mammoty all alone by himself which surprises the blacksmith.

As years passed, Appuwa is grown up and his skills surprise the people. He falls in love with Sirimal Ethana. King Vijayabahu dies due to aging and Waththiya becomes the king amidst criticism. Because of this, Pathiraja Senavi and others plan a pooja with the intention of killing Waththiya; he during the pooja, falls from a cliff and dies. After this, Ministers and everyone decide to choose next king through the royal elephant, Kandula. They decide to go over the country with Kandula, who will worship to person who will be next king. Kandula comes to village and upon recognizing, worships to Appuwa, while he and Ethana stays together in the village. Pathiraja Senavi and his followers learns that he is Prince Parakramabahu. Parakramabahu enthrones as King Parakramabahu II of Dambadeniya while Sirimal Ethana is titled as the Queen consort.

A businessman, Senaka lives with his pregnant wife, Malathi and two children, Ruwan and Sigithi. Malathi is rushed to hospital and Senaka tells her that their newborn daughter had died when she was born. The child was to be given the name Nilesha. Eventually, the family moves on from their grief due to their lost child.

5 years later

Senaka and his family move in to a new apartment. They meets Bandu, who is an ex-convict. Meanwhile, Malathi discovers that Senaka has been spending money for years for some reason she is not aware of. Senaka reveals that their daughter, Nilesha is still alive. The money was spent to pay the monthly fee to a nurse Laalani, dedicated to take care of her. The doctor of the hospital explains the whole story to Malathi, stating that they still cannot assure that Nilesha will live for a long time. Senaka and Malathi bring Nilesha home.

Nilesha's brain has not developed parallel to her age. Seeing her condition, Ruwan and Sigithi refuse to accept Nilesha as their sister. However, Nilesha starts to get fond of her siblings. She often falls ill and gets bullied by other kids and neighbors at apartment. Bandu starts bonding with Nilesha, irking Malini and Senaka. Bandu saves Senaka from a criminal and confronts other residents in apartment when they complained about Nilesha. Senaka and Malathi's view on Bandu changes after that.

One day, Nilesha suddenly gets unconscious. Upon recovering, she calls Malathi as ''Amma'', getting Malathi emotional. Fianlly, Nilesha's doctor calls Senaka and assures that Nilesha's heart problem can be treated successfully.

The novel is set in medieval Norway. When the king goes to war, he sends his three children to a remote steading for protection. His oldest daughter Asa, the middle child, Solveig, who begins to learn the art of storytelling from the king's skald, and the youngest child and heir to the throne Harold. During a frightening winter, the household has to deal with food shortages and the mystery of a murderous traitor.

Part 1

As Chas and Dan sign the register, Carl arrives at the church. Carl is livid that Chas has fooled him and follows as the congregation leave the church. He then confronts Chas but is distracted when he receives a call from Cameron. Katie and Declan have their first dance as Megan Macey (Gaynor Faye) arrives. Zak Dingle (Steve Halliwell) and Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) sit in the corridor at the hospital. Cain thanks Zak for calming Debbie. Chas is keen to get in the camper van and leave, but Dan announces that he has planned a surprise wedding reception for her. Debbie asks after Cameron at the hospital, Zak tells her that he has left another message for him. Cameron sits alone in the church waiting for Carl to arrive. A panicked Chas makes a quick excuse to leave the wedding reception and rushes to the pub in an attempt to calm herself. Nicola runs into a bloody Jimmy but he yells at her and walks off claiming he doesn't want to talk. The guests at the wedding reception discuss Chas's odd behaviour. Chas starts to pack her things into a bag as Carl walks into the church.

Part 2

Cameron and Carl threaten each other. Katie tells Megan that Robbie Lawson (Jamie Shelton) knew about their scam. As their argument progresses, Cameron picks up a candlestick to hit Carl with, but bottles it. Carl laughs and leaves. Diane catches Chas in tears at the pub, when Dan walks in. Chas begs Dan to get in the van and leave with her. Gennie's waters break. A livid Dan refuses to leave with Chas, thinking that she regrets marrying him. She promises to explain once they leave the village, but he refuses to leave the kids. He gives her the keys to his van and leaves. Debbie tries to get hold of Cameron again but her phone battery is dying. With Gennie about to give birth, Nikhil Sharma (Rik Makarem) ends the wedding reception, clearing people out of the B&B. Bob Hope (Tony Audenshaw) decides they should all crash the marquee. Chas sneaks down to the camper van and attempts to start it but Carl blocks her way.

Part 3

Carl confronts Chas over what she has done. Debbie gives birth to a baby boy. Gennie is in the last stages of birth as Nikhil helps via a birthing app on his phone. As the baby arrives, Rhona Goskirk (Zoe Henry) catches it as Nikhil faints. The midwife begins to deliver Debbie's placenta, crucial to Sarah's survival. Robbie arrives at the marquee and Megan confronts him. Chas tries to convince Carl that they can both remain in the village and kisses him. He invites her to sleep with him in the camper van. Disgusted and terrified, Chas plays along and climbs into the back with him. Robbie chases after Megan, trying to explain his actions, he apologises referring to her as "mum" for the first time. Carl, lying on top of a sickened Chas, gets her to remove her wedding ring. Debbie holds the baby for the first time. Chas shoves Carl away as he goes to pull down the straps on her dress, telling him she can't do it. Carl admits his surprise, thinking she'd go further along with the game before crying off. Chas attempts to leave, but Carl grabs her. Debbie feels like she's pushed Cameron away. A dazed Nihkil comes around and sees his daughter for the first time. As the two grapple outside, Chas becomes horrified when Carl finally reveals that he himself killed his father Tom King (Ken Farrington); ranting that he did it for her and he won't let her walk away from him again. Chas slaps Carl and tries again to leave, but Carl brings her down onto the floor as Chas screams for him to get off; she soon reaches out for a brick and hits him on the head, injuring Carl.

Part 4

As a distressed Chas runs away from Carl, Cameron notices her and investigates as to what she is running from. Diane gets off the phone with Debbie and tells Ashley that they've decided to call the baby boy Jack Sugden. Chas rushes back into the pub. Carl, still wounded from Chas' attack on him, struggles to sit up. He manages to find his phone and loads the picture of Cameron and Chas in bed together and presses 'Send'. Declan and Katie are about to cut the cake, but become involved in argument with Megan. Megan pushes Katie's face into the cake before leaving. Cameron finds Carl and picks up the brick that Chas used on him earlier, he tells Carl that he'll help him if he keeps quiet about the affair and leaves both him and Chas alone. The pair argue and Cameron hits Carl over the head in exactly the same spot that Chas did previously. Zak and Cain realise they've had a breakthrough with each other. Charity leaves Debbie's phone on her bedside table as she sleeps. Cameron is stunned to find Carl is dead and picks up his phone before fleeing the scene. As Debbie sleeps, six new messages come through on her phone.

A woman (Brigid Brannagh) springs into action after discovering that Derek (Timothy Granaderos), the twin brother of her daughter's boyfriend, Tyler escapes from a mental institution and hatches a twisted plan for revenge.

Events take place in Japan in the 12th century. The general accepted version is that the father of the two boys was killed (the reasons differ, but it was probably an argument over land rights) when they were infants. As adults they became skilled fighters intent on avenging their father and retrieving his sword Tomokirimaru.

In May 1193, the Soga brothers participated in ''shogun'' Minamoto Yoritomo's grand hunting event Fuji no Makigari. On the last night of the event, the brothers took their revenge and killed their father Kudō Yūsuke. After the brothers killed ten other participants in a fierce battle, the elder brother Sukenari was shot by Yūsuke's subordinate Nitta Tadatsune. The younger brother Tokimune killed all the samurai one by one who attempted to stop him, and broke into Yoritomo's living quarters. However, Yoritomo's close vassal Gosho no Gorōmaru, who was in Yoritomo's bedchamber, took Tokimune down, thus ending the massacre and saving the shogun from a possible assassination attempt. The next day, Tokimune was brought in for questioning by Yoritomo about the motives of the incident, but was ultimately executed.

The morning after his homecoming party from his last tour in Afghanistan, a Spanish special forces soldier wakes up besides the corpse of a young woman, who is not his fiancée. Desperate to find his girl he decides to look for her knowing that he could be accused of a murder that seems like the perfect setup.

Part One

John Grant is a young schoolteacher stationed in Tiboonda, an isolated "dry-town" in the outback. After finishing the school year in time for the Christmas holidays, he begins driving to Sydney to take up a new teaching position at Neutral Bay, as well as seemingly marry his girlfriend Robyn. John's car is damaged when he collides with a kangaroo, forcing him to take a stopover in the mining town of Bundayabba – referred to by the locals as "The Yabba" – to await repairs. At a pub, he meets the enigmatic Sergeant Jock Crawford, who introduces him to the illegal but sanctioned game of two-up. After a winning streak, John loses all of his money, as well as some borrowed from former MMA fighter Mick Jaffries and her brother Joe, who subsequently demand that he pay them back.

John befriends real estate agent Tim Hynes, who invites him to have dinner with his family, including his wife Ursula and daughter Janette, the town nurse. The encounter is shaken by the arrival of Evan "Doc" Tydon, the disgraced town doctor; Doc and Janette begin to interrogate secrets in John's character, which culminates in Janette attempting to seduce him. Afterwards, Tim tries to sell a house to John, hoping to generate cash in the wake of the decline in the mining business on which The Yabba was built; when John instead asks for a loan to pay off his debts, Tim throws him out.

John awakens in Doc's ramshackle caravan. In his recollections of the previous night, he believes that Doc initiated a drunken homosexual encounter between them. Doc seemingly betrays John to Mick and Joe, who take them to their car-wrecking yard and prepare to embark on a feral pig hunt, giving John a chance to pay off his debts. Before departing, the Jaffries discover that John has found their secret drug laboratory, leading John to believe that they intend to kill him during the hunt.

Part Two

The pig hunt turns into a riotous expedition fuelled by drugs and alcohol. Eventually, John falls unconscious and awakens to discover that Doc has been shot dead. Recalling earlier tensions between Doc and Mick, he assumes that the siblings killed Doc to set him up. After fleeing the scene, John encounters Crawford and tells him what has happened, but they discover that the corpse has vanished. Crawford takes him to a hotel for questioning, but when Mick and Joe arrive, he escapes and takes refuge with Janette. After discovering that Doc and Janette were lovers and had a daughter, John explains that Doc has been killed; enraged, Janette blames him for the murder and ejects him. Believing the police and the Jaffries to be in league with each other, he evades Crawford and hitches a ride to a nearby truck stop.

John persuades a driver, who he assumes is heading for Sydney, to take him to the city, offering his only possession – an engagement ring intended for Robyn – as payment. Due to a misunderstanding, he returns to The Yabba and is immediately confronted by Crawford, who shows him footage taken by the Jaffries indicating that he shot Doc while hallucinating. In flashbacks, it is revealed that Robyn had turned down a premature marriage proposal, resulting in a dejected John getting drunk and being unable to save her from drowning; this prompted John to isolate himself from alcohol by teaching in Tiboonda. Overwhelmed by the two deaths on his conscience, John steals a rifle and shoots himself in the head, the impact of which scars but fails to kill him.

Awakening in hospital, Crawford has John sign a statement indicating that his suicide attempt was an accident. He also reveals that the Jaffries have been ordered to leave The Yabba due to their drug operations, and that Doc's fate has been ruled as death by misadventure. Janette explains that their daughter drowned when Doc was supposed to be looking after her, leaving him wracked with guilt. Flashbacks reveal that Doc did not take advantage of John, but instead ensured his safety during his stupor, composed a suicide note, and willingly stepped in the path of his rifle. Following Janette's advice, John is renewed by his experiences and returns to Tiboonda to start the new school year.

Promising lawyer Caio is considered for administration of the Garcia Company, one of the largest in the country. However, when Bibi decides to end their relationship, he leaves everything behind, and relocates to the United States. Fifteen years later, Caio returns to Brazil to take up a position in the judiciary and once again meets Bibi, who failed to complete college and is married to Rubinho. Rubinho goes through a delicate financial condition, as he and Bibi struggle to make ends meet which forces him to enter into the world of crime.

Ruy is prepared to take over the company of his father Eugênio, as the only qualified heir. He is engaged to Cibele, who offers him professional and personal stability. When he travels to Parazinho, he is enchanted by Ritinha, a young woman who loves the fascination she exerts on men, and seems to believe herself to be a mermaid. She continues a game of seduction with Ruy despite being engaged to Zeca, a truck driver who loves her intensely despite the gossips about her activities. On the day of their wedding he learns of Ritinha's fling with Ruy. Fearing for her life, Ritinha runs away with Ruy while Zeca angrily leaves Parazinho. In another town, Zeca meets Jeiza, a police officer who dreams of becoming a mixed martial arts fighter.

Meanwhile, Ruy's brother Ivan (previously Ivana) has been undergoing female to male gender reassignment, causing conflict with their mother, Joyce. Joyce's relationship with Eugênio begins to crumble when he meets Irene, a seductive woman who tries to break their marriage. Eugênio's older brother Eurico tries to keep everyone under his control, though he can't control the gambling addiction of his wife Silvana.

New in the city of Oakland, Midnighter arranges a date with a man called Jason. Suddenly, the restaurant where they are is invaded by Modoran mercenaries searching for three of their countrymen, making Midnighter reveal himself and beat them in a fight. Afterwards, Midnighter takes Jason to his apartment and installs a ''smartalk'' in him, in which Jason can contact him wherever he is. He also talks about his recent breakup with Andrew Pulaski (Apollo), saying he could not handle pretending to be a normal human and that Andrew is too good for him. Feeling too intimidated, Jason prefers to be just friends with Midnighter.

Called by The Gardener, Midnighter discovers the God Garden was robbed by a mysterious intruder who took several weapons and also a file containing his past memories before he was genetically enhanced. He starts a search to recover everything that was lost while beginning to date Matt, whom he met during the Modoran attack. Midnighter finds the first weapon, a powered necklace, with Marina Lucas, who was using it to avenge her husband's death by food poisoning. He finds another weapon while saving Amanda Riley, a little schoolgirl kidnapped by Multiplex, a villain in the employ of Mr. Rohmer, a corrupt businessman who sought the power of the God Garden. Rohmer reveals that he pretended to use Amanda as a guinea pig for a machine he built using God Garden technology. Beaten by Midnighter, he revealed that he acquired the tech from a Russian man named Noi Akakievitch.

Midnighter then abducts Dick Grayson to help him with his mission in Russia. There, they go after a secret inn administered by Guire Grando, an employee of Akakievitch. Grando takes homeless people from the streets and makes them go through a treatment with reprogrammed martian cells (originally from the God Garden) that transform them into vampire-like creatures, who are murdered for entertainment by the hooligan youngsters that frequent the inn. Midnighter and Grayson succeed in taking down the place, attracting Akakievitch's attention, who wants to have the Midnighter's computer brain technology. Then, Midnighter and Grayson go to his lair, where they fight and beat martian cells manipulated beasts, defeating Akakievitch, who reveals that he received the technology from a mysterious supplier.

Back home, Midnighter celebrates Thanksgiving for the first time with Matt, when they are attacked by Multiplex. Midnighter manages to defeat him, only to find out a few days later that Matt's father was also attacked. He and Matt go visit the man, who lives in a small town in Connecticut, and Midnighter begins investigating the place. While investigating at a nearby bar, he is attacked by a gang and during the fight, he discovers they are not humans, but rather androids created with God Garden technology. Midnighter then goes back to Matt's father's house and attacks him, revealing him to also be an android. Matt stabs Midnighter, revealing himself as the supervillain Prometheus and confessing to stealing the tech from the God Garden with the intention of taking down all superheroes, starting with Midnighter. They begin fighting and Prometheus reveals he downloaded all of Midnighter's origin file into his brain and destroyed the original, so if Midnighter kills him, all his early history would be destroyed. Midnighter does not mind and beats down Prometheus, who manages to escape severely injured. After that, Midnighter goes to take a drink with his friend Tony.

In the film, young Dorothy Watkins meets Richard Wentworth through an automobile accident. They meet again at the country club golf course. Richard calls on her at her home (represented by Dinglewood) and meets her family. The couple tours Columbus and sees the many things the community has to offer its residents including the Ralston Hotel, St. Elmo (the house of Augusta Evans Wilson), parks and factories. They also meet an aging soldier at the Confederate monument who tells them stories of the Civil War, including its last major military engagement, the Battle of Columbus. After meeting again at a dance, Richard asks for Dorothy’s hand in marriage but, her father refuses to give his blessing. The couple plans to elope by boating across the Chattahoochee River to the Alabama side. The boat overturns, sending the couple over the falls and presumably to their deaths. The couple survives and her father gives his blessing for their union. They marry at Trinity Episcopal Church and the film ends with the couple sailing off on the riverboat W.C. Bradley.

Dr. Jon Bondurant is a [Forensic anthropology/forensic anthropologist] known for his atheism. When the Vatican invites him to lead an investigation into the authenticity of the purported burial cloth of Jesus Christ, he agrees. After a contentious debate, the Vatican allows the examination of one of the sacred relic in order to spite the skeptical Bondurant.

While in the Vatican, Bondurant meets Domenika Josef, a devout Catholic and the Vatican’s media specialist assigned to keep an eye on him. She’s privy to something Bondurant is not -- a recently discovered ancient Codex with revelations concerning the Shroud. What she’s not privy to is her own role in a plan by forces bent on stealing DNA tied to the sacred blood-stained Shroud. The resulting attempt to clone Jesus has apocalyptic results and is the subject of Heubusch’s sequel.

In 2055, a meteorite, which brings a fast-growing alien vine named "Pandora", crashes down on a barren Earth ravaged by pollution and global warming. "Pandora" purifies the planet but kills everything in its path. To protect the citizens of their city, the heavily armored military of Hong Kong, armed with the plant's genetic map, tries but fails to destroy "Pandora" and uncovers a conspiracy.

The film is narrated in first-person by Curry playing Jerome. Although the film follows the book's plot faithfully, it ends with an epilogue about the real-world events that shaped it. The narrator talks about the book's original appearance in ''Home Chimes'' and the excision of the serious travelogue parts by the magazine's editor. He then goes on to relate that Carl Hentschel ('Harris') was accused of being a German during the First World War, in spite of being a Pole, that George Wingrave ('George') went on to become a bank manager and that the book was written after returning from his honeymoon.

Ki-joon and Hee-yeol are students at the Korean National Police University. One day, around midnight, they witness a kidnapping on their way back from the club. The local police station's missing persons department, however, is busy with the kidnapping of a son of a business mogul at the time and is unable to investigate the case. Knowing that they are in the critical hours after a kidnapping, they embark on their amateur investigation.

When Ki-joon and Hee-yeol catch up with the kidnappers, it appears that the gang is running an unfertilized egg harvesting ring and there are many more girls locked up at their hideout. Ki-joon and Hee-yeol tries to save them but are instead beaten and locked up. After escaping their captors, they return the next day to an empty hideout and a cold trail. As they are not acting police officers, their professor tells them not to pursue the case any further.

Unable to wait for the bureaucracy to resolve the case, they once again embark on their own investigation. They undergo heavy physical training and manage to track the kidnappers down, with the help of CCTV footage, to a fertility clinic. Armored up with weapons, the duo venture in to liberate the girls by themselves, this time much more prepared. They successfully take down all the kidnappers and their boss. Unable to arrest the kidnappers and rescue all the kidnapped girls themselves, they call the police in, knowing they might get expelled for their actions.

However, due to some among the disciplinary committee believing that they had done the right thing morally, they are instead held back a year in their studies and sentenced to 500 hours of community service, leaving the two satisfied with the outcome. In a mid-credit scene, Yun-Jung, the girl, who was kidnapped at the beginning visits Ki-joon and Hee-yeol as they're serving their community service and thanks them for rescuing her.

Suran goes to town to spend the next vacation with Janith, and he takes Gopalu Yaka with him. They manage to hide Gopalu in the house but in town the demon hardly gets any place to hide from the sunlight which is unbearable to him. However at night, Gopalu become normal and active.

12-year-old Suran comes from a village. His pen friend Janith lives in town and he visits Suran's rural village during school vacations. Going around the beautiful village Suran and Janith one day visit a friend's home. There they find a loris. Seeing the animal Suran is reminded of a story he had read in a book and the two friends start to dig out the truth of what he had heard. Getting together with a young novice monk in the temple the two friends find books that mention about a supernatural power that can be obtained using the tears of loris. With the help of the monk they prepare the application which could be used to see the guardian devil of bulls. They further realise if they can have access to the golden rod belonging to the devil they would be able to do wonders. Suran and Janith prepare the application and apply it on their eyelids, see the devil and obtain the rod.

Piyal (Jagath) is a youth who dedicates his time to drama, living alone. He suffers from a feeling of guilty for not saving his mother from death. On the other side of the walls of his place, lives a couple: Amanda (Michelle) and Nadee (Nadeeka). Nadee, is Amanda's inattentive lover tells her to abort her child on both times she was to become pregnant. Amanda also suffers from cancer. Piyal feels curious about Amanda who is older than him and later on it turns into a sexual attraction. However it turns into empathy. As a result, Piyal starts to take care and treat Nadee as her mother to get away from his guilty feeling about his mother's death. Meanwhile, Nadee appears to embrace the guilty feeling that he did not care for his girl friend. Concentrating on the dualities of life, the movie takes the viewer through emotional turbulence.

A painter (Kamal Addaraarachchi) has a girl that calls him uncle. She asks for his consent to marry a rich boy. He opposes by saying rich men only care about money. Then he relates his past to the girl. Then the story moves to a flashback. The painter has had a relationship with a girl from a rich family during his youth. He meets her in an art gallery and then gradually develops a relationship which culminates in making her pregnant. Then she requests him to meet her parents and she lies to them that he is a wealthy and rich person. In disgust, he leaves her. Then, after a long time, he finds out that she had lied to marry him. In other words, to get her parents' consent. He ultimately finds that the boy in the story is his son and his fiancée had died at the time of delivery. At the end of the story he commits suicide. At the end of the film the girl finds the painter dead on the floor.

At the outset of the game, the Knight arrives in Dirtmouth, a quiet town that sits just above the remains of the kingdom of Hallownest. As the Knight ventures through the ruins, they learn that Hallownest was once a flourishing kingdom which fell to ruin after becoming overrun with "The Infection", a supernatural disease that drove the kingdom's citizens to madness and undeath. The ruler of Hallownest, the Pale King, attempted to lock away the Infection in the Temple of the Black Egg. The Infection still managed to escape the temple and Hallownest fell into ruin. The Knight's mission is to find and kill the three Dreamers who act as living seals on the temple door, allowing the Knight to confront the source of the Infection. This quest brings the Knight into conflict with Hornet, a warrior who tests their combat prowess in several battles.

Through dialogue with non-player characters and environmental imagery, the Knight receives insight into the origins of the Infection. In ancient times, many of the creatures of Hallownest worshipped the Radiance, a primordial, moth-like being who could control the minds of other bugs. The Pale King arrived at Hallownest and used his power to give sapience to the creatures of the realm. The sentient bugs of Hallownest revered and worshipped the Pale King, draining the power of the Radiance as it fell into obscurity. Beneath the notice of the Pale King, some worship of the Radiance continued in secret, allowing it to remain alive in the Dream Realm.

Hallownest prospered until the Radiance began appearing in the dreams of its people, poisoning their minds with the Infection. In an attempt to contain the menace, the Pale King used an ancient power called Void to create the Vessels; creatures that could trap the Infection within their own bodies. Most of the Vessels were unable to properly contain the Infection, and were subsequently abandoned in the Abyss beneath Hallownest. A few Vessels are shown to have escaped the Abyss, one being the Knight. Eventually, The Pale King chose the most suitable Vessel, deemed the "Hollow Knight", and used it to contain both the Infection and the Radiance. The Hollow Knight was sealed within the Temple of the Black Egg, but Radiance persisted within the Vessel, weakening the temple's seals and causing a resurgence of the Infection.

The Knight gradually defeats the Dreamers and their guardians, removing the seals and allowing access to the Hollow Knight, who has become almost completely taken over by the Infection. Depending on the player's actions, multiple endings can then be achieved. These endings include the Knight defeating the infected Hollow Knight and taking its place containing the Radiance, defeating the Hollow Knight with Hornet's assistance, or using the Void Heart item to become the Lord of Shades, allowing the Radiance to be directly fought and defeated inside the Dream Realm.

''The Grimm Troupe'' expansion

In the second expansion to ''Hollow Knight'', the Knight lights a "Nightmare Lantern" found hidden in the Howling Cliffs after using the Dream Nail on a masked bug. The lantern summons a mysterious group of circus performers to Dirtmouth, who identify themselves as the Grimm Troupe. Their leader, Troupe Master Grimm, gives the Knight a quest to collect magic flames throughout Hallownest in order to take part in a "twisted ritual". He gives the player the Grimmchild charm, which absorbs the flames into itself, progressing the ritual and allowing the Grimmchild to attack the Knight's enemies. Eventually, the Knight must choose to either complete the ritual by fighting Grimm and his powerful Nightmare King form, or banish the Troupe from Hallownest with the help of Brumm, a traitorous troupe member.

''Godmaster'' expansion

More content was added to ''Hollow Knight'' with the fourth and final expansion, ''Godmaster'', in which the Knight can battle harder versions of all of the bosses in the game through a series of challenges. The main hub of the expansion is known as Godhome, and is accessed by using the Dream Nail on a new NPC called the Godseeker. Within Godhome are five "pantheons", each being a "boss rush", containing a set of bosses that must all be defeated consecutively without dying. The final pantheon, the Pantheon of Hallownest, contains every boss in the game. If the Knight completes the Pantheon of Hallownest, the Absolute Radiance, a more powerful version of the Radiance, appears, acting as the new final boss. Upon defeating it, two unique endings can then be achieved, each involving the destruction of Godhome by a powerful Void creature.

Henry Dawles, a property appraiser, begins an assignment at an isolated rural farm owned by the enigmatic Mr Remiel. He finds himself trapped and haunted by unearthly beings.

Claire decides to hire a magician who could help her and Phil bring some mystery on Valentine's Day. Cam and Mitch teach Haley and Sal (Elizabeth Banks) to stand up against their men with unexpected results. As Jay has developed the habit to prefer Joe over Manny, Alex discovers that Ben, Claire's assistant, has a crush on her.

Karl von Ahrmien is an impoverished German prince. He has agreed to marry Daphne Lowell, an older woman that he believes has a large fortune. However, he falls in love with her beautiful, widowed daughter-in-law, Florence Lowell. To escape his promised marriage, Karl fakes his own death, then pretends to be his own "foster brother", who happens to look identical to the prince. In this guise he takes a job as a courier working for Florence. She discovers his true identity, but keeps her knowledge a secret so he will remain in her service. Karl then discovers that the Lowells' supposed fortune is actually the property of one of Karl's own relatives who has died, and it is Karl's inheritance. With all of their secrets revealed, Florence and Karl agree to marry and share the fortune.

Unusually for Gilbert, only about one third of the book's events take place in his usual locale of London. The book, which is really three related stories around a single theme, is set first in the great British naval base of Portsmouth, then in London, and then for the final third in war-torn France. Luke Pagan, formerly a London policeman and now a young recruit in MO5, the new intelligence service headed by Vernon Kell, is an undercover agent posing as a waiter in a Portsmouth hotel. Elements of the German fleet are in port, and he hopes to gain information about German plans for what most observers believe to be an impending war. His old friend Joe Narrabone, also a former London policeman, has been sent to Portsmouth to assist him. In his guise as a waiter, Luke encounters Erich Krieger, a wily and ruthless German saboteur-intelligence agent now passing as a haughty British major residing in Portsmouth. Pagan and Narrabone unravel the details of Krieger's ingenious espionage, but Krieger escapes before he can be arrested. The second part of the book shifts to London, where Krieger has assumed another identity in the first days of the war and is contributing to the deadly sabotage of British warships. With help from Vernon Kell and Admiral William (Blinker) Hall, soon to be the real-life head of Naval Intelligence, they once again thwart some of Krieger's schemes, rounding up a number of German agents in the process. But, as before, Krieger succeeds in escaping. On the assumption that Krieger is still posing as an English officer, but now in France somewhere near the front lines, Luke and Joe are sent to an important transit camp for British troops near the coastal resort of Le Touquet in northern France to continue their pursuit. Working with both British officers and French villagers and fishermen, Pagan and Narrabone use their usual unorthodox methods to eventually track down Krieger in a series of caverns, where he is leading a sizeable group of British deserters. With lethal help from a vengeful French teenager, they bring their hunt, and the book, to an explosive conclusion.

is a 17-year-old sophomore at an all-girls high school. She aspires to become a journalist, like her father's late friend Tokuzo Kanemoto.

The plot is based around a prior event in which Kanemoto was shamed for publishing a false report. As a result, he committed suicide by jumping in front of a train.

After Kanemoto's death, Sayako develops the ability to see and interact with spirits. In one interaction, a spirit attempts to push her in front of a train and Sayako nearly dies.

The near-death experience awakens something in her. She becomes intent on understanding what really happened with Kanemoto and embarks on a quest to find answers. She is joined by Yuki Unabara, her best friend, Taiyou Sorano, a mysterious young man who possesses special powers; Mari Kimura, a young woman who works for the local news station; Harry Badson, an Australian-American spiritualist; and Shunta Amanokawa, an elementary school student and Sayako's younger brother; to find answers and discover the true identity of the mysterious "Buddha".

Durga (Baby Shamili) is the only daughter of a wealthy couple. After her father's (Subramani), Durga's uncle (Kitty) tries to seize all the wealth and kills Durga's mother (Sathyapriya). Kitty also plans to kill Durga, but she escapes with the help of her pets – a monkey Ramu and a dog Raja. Durga meets Muthu (Nizhalgal Ravi), an innocent guy and befriends him. Kannamma (Kanaka) is a karakattam dancer and she falls in love with Muthu and they both decide to help Durga.

Meanwhile, Kitty searches for Durga to kill her so that he can enjoy the wealth. Durga returns to her home along with Muthu and Kannamma, which shocks Kitty as Durga is protected by them now. Surprisingly, Kitty meets Malliga (Baby Shamili – dual role), a look-alike of Durga. Malliga is the daughter of a poor disabled guy (Vaagai Chandrasekhar). Kitty forces Malliga to act as Durga by threatening to kill her father, so that he can create chaos between the two and in the process he can kill the real Durga.

Finally, there comes a situation where both Durga and Malliga have to walk over the fire in a temple to prove their real identity. Durga successfully walks over the fire. But before Malliga starts walking, her father comes and rescues her. He also informs about Kitty's plans to everyone and Kitty accidentally jumps on the fire and dies while saving himself. In the end, Durga accepts Malliga in her house. Muthu and Kannamma also stay with them.

1991, Saint Petersburg, last days of the USSR. Director of a greengrocery Sergei Nenashev earns money not only with trade, but also with fraud. However, he acts as a kind of Robin Hood: the victims of his scams are government officials, and other, often much more dangerous crooks. Some time ago, Nenashev worked at a secret research institution where he authored a number of technical innovations to which application was not found in the conditions of the Soviet economy. However now Nenashev with his associates expertly use these "gadgets" in fraud.

As a result of a "transaction", a batch of "Parabolic antenna's", fake, of course, were sold to Azerbaijanis who trade flowers on the market. A little later, having received incriminating videos of the intimate kind featuring businessman Baev (orgy with prostitutes) and theater director Arkhipov (homosexual act with a young waiter), Nenashev starts to blackmail both of them. Attempts by the police to arrest Nenashev while he is getting the money are thwarted: each time Sergei finds an ingenious way to outwit the police.

Nenashev has a teenage daughter from his first marriage, but after the divorce, he is alone. Suddenly, at the hairdresser Sergei meets Nastya, a very beautiful girl from a simple working family. Parents of Nastya perceive "speculator" Nenashev's flirting in a very negative way, Nastya herself also believes that she is just another "plaything" for the cynical rich man. However, a longer acquaintance with Nenashev assures Nastya that Sergei sincerely loves her, and then reciprocal feelings awaken in the girl.

Trouble comes from an unexpected side. Exiled for petty theft Kostya, Nenashev's assistant, finds the Azerbaijanis with fake antennas and their benefactor - powerful mafioso "Prince" Gilya. "Prince", wanting to punish Nenashev who deceived him, orders him to pay a huge sum of money, taking as hostage Sergei's daughter. Having sold all the property and taking money in debt, Nenashev collects the necessary amount, but "Prince" requires a new redemption, this time in a foreign currency. So without letting go of Nenashev's daughter, mafia takes Nastya as hostage too.

Realizing that he alone can not do anything, Nenashev refers to the police, which has been on the hunt of the "Prince" for a long time. Employees of the department for combating organized crime agree to help Nenashev, but in return he must write a written statement describing all the occurrences of his fraud. Sergei personally writes it, receives the dollars from the police and goes to meet the "Prince". During the transfer of money a special police unit storms the suburban cottage of the mafioso. The "Prince" is arrested, and his chief henchman "Mormon" dies in the crossfire and Kostya who betrayed Nenashev.

Nastya and Nenashev's daughter are released, and Sergei wants to take them home. However, Major Kuzmin has Nenashev's confession and is ready to arrest him but... in response he receives the latest "trick" of the genius swindler. Sergei wrote the text with invisible ink, the evidence has disappeared, and now the stunned Major only possesses an empty sheet of paper.

It is set in French Morocco. Two soldiers in the Spahis, one a Frenchman and the other the son of a chief allied to the French, are friends, but quarrel when the Frenchman becomes romantically involved with the other's sister. They join forces again to repulse an attack by a hostile tribe.

Steve is an immature professional snowboarder that has just been stranded in the mountains with his girlfriend/manager Branka and Joschi, a fellow snowboarder, as a result of a prank he played during a publicity video for their sponsor. The trio manages to take shelter in a mountaintop hotel, only for things to grow increasingly more dire after they discover that the resort owner's experiment to make snow in warmer temperatures has turned the local wildlife and humans into bloodthirsty zombies.

Ranga and nàlanka are young musicians.

While planning to move to Guangzhou with his wife, Hong Kong teacher Nin (Raymond Wong) is forced to return to his childhood home in Malaysia after the death of his aunt. Upon returning he is reunited with his mother Sze-nga (Nina Paw) whom he left behind after going to university in Hong Kong.

Huo Ting En is a renowned chef who trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. He specializes in Curry dishes from Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and India at his restaurant, ''La Mure.'' He crosses paths with Night Market chef Wei Fen Qing after netizens claim that her dishes are a cheaper version of his. Love eventually blooms between the two, but their union is hindered by a past secret.

Entrepreneur Ray Moody runs a business in which clients pay him for the experience of a simulated kidnapping. An interview for a loan goes poorly when Ray attempts to explain his business model to an incredulous banker. Although Ray has a strained relationship with his sister Natalie, he turns to her husband Tom for the money.

Stuart, an overeater, has contracted Ray to stage an aggressive intervention over eight hours. Ray tells Stuart he cheats on his diet, and then forces Stuart to consume a dozen of his favorite hamburgers. After the eight-hour session ends, Stuart thanks Ray and asserts that he has lost his appetite for hamburgers.

Ray is elated when a new client, Anna, contacts him, seeking an extended session that will last the entire weekend. His joy turns to scepticism when Anna requests that he hit her. Although he initially refuses the job, Ray calls her back and accepts. After conducting their business over the phone, Ray performs surveillance on her, and she leaves him a message telling him to be more discreet. Ray simulates a carjacking and takes her hostage that weekend, never breaking character. Ray forces himself to take a break to reassure himself that he has the confidence and skill to pull off the scenario. He then aggressively interrogates Anna about a made-up client, demanding access to non-existent files.

Although initially scared and obedient, Anna soon adopts a more mocking tone with him, accusing him of being a pervert who has abducted her under flimsy premises. Enraged, he almost strikes her, and she again mocks him for his reluctance. After hitting her, Ray leaves to pay Tom back. Natalie discovers the envelope filled with money and surmises its purpose, angry that her husband would finance Ray's bizarre business. Natalie confronts Ray and realizes that he is using their parents' house for his scenarios; Ray becomes frustrated when she interrupts his session. After she leaves, Ray hears on the news the police are investigating Anna's disappearance. Rattled, he attempts to talk to Anna, who stabs him in the back with an improvised weapon.

The police show up at Ray's house. Panicking, he binds Anna in the basement as he deflects the police officers' questions. After bandaging himself, he attempts to clear up the situation with Anna, who claims to have no knowledge of his business. Ray shows her the contract she digitally signed and plays back her earlier phone message, both of which she dismisses as fabrications. Confused and fearing he has kidnapped an unwilling person, Ray agrees to let her go. However, at the last moment, he swallows her car keys, saying that he can not let her go until they figure out an alibi that allows him – and Natalie – to escape jail time. After Anna shoots him several times with his pellet gun, Ray attempts to regurgitate the keys, only for Anna to slip and fall unconscious.

When Anna wakes, she is in a car Ray is driving and he asks her to cooperate and she punches him instead then Ray put her in the trunk for the rest of the journey to a vacation home where he is taking her . There, they discuss their pasts, both revealing that they are divorced. Ray says his ex-wife, who co-founded the business, accused him of criminal wrongdoing. She agrees not to go to the police, but asks him to explain more details about what she accused him of doing. Anna suggests he gets off on violence and power, and he chokes her in response. She knocks him unconscious with a fire poker. Armed with Tom's rifle, Anna takes Ray hostage, threatening to shoot him unless he submits to riding in her car's trunk.

At the end of the ride back to the city, Anna happily thanks him for the experience and offers to invest in his business, revealing to the audience and Ray that she was indeed a willing participant the whole time. Stunned, Ray can only mumble a response before he stumbles back home to see Stuart in a restaurant. As Stuart waves at him, Ray cries, then laughs when he sees Stuart is eating a salad.

In 1966, during the Vietnam War, U.S. State Department military analyst Daniel Ellsberg accompanies American troops in combat, documenting military progress for Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. On the flight home, McNamara tells Ellsberg and William B. Macomber the war is hopeless. To the congregated media however, he says he believes in the war effort. Overhearing this abrupt turn-about, Ellsberg becomes disillusioned. Years later, as a civilian military contractor/consultant working for the RAND Corporation (a military/defense "think tank"), Ellsberg copies thousands of pages of classified reports documenting the country's decades-long involvement in Vietnam, starting in the Truman administration. He then leaks them to ''The New York Times'', via reporter Neil Sheehan.

In 1971, Katharine Graham has been owner and publisher of ''The Washington Post'' for the past eight years, following the suicide of its former publisher, her husband Phil Graham, and the death of her father, Eugene Meyer, the previous owner. She nervously prepares the Post's stock market launch, to financially stabilize the paper. Graham lacks journalistic experience and is frequently overruled by her male, domineering financial advisers and editors, including editor-in-chief (executive editor) Ben Bradlee and board member Arthur Parsons.

McNamara, a long-time friend of hers, advises Graham that an unflattering story featuring him will be published in ''The New York Times'', another example of the ''Times''' ability to get preemptive scoops while the ''Post'' languishes behind. The story is an exposé of the American government's long-running deception about America's position in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. However, a federal district court injunction halts the ''Times'' from publishing further articles on the subject.

''Post'' assistant editor Ben Bagdikian tracks down Ellsberg, a former colleague, as the source for the leak. He provides him copies of the same material given previously to the ''Times''. ''Post'' reporters pore over mounds of pages, searching for additional headlines. Their attorneys advise against publishing the material, lest the Nixon administration file criminal charges. Graham confers with McNamara, Bradlee, and trusted ''Post'' chairman Fritz Beebe, as she agonizes about publishing it.

Bradlee tells Graham politician friends (including John F. Kennedy, as shown in the top-secret documents) abused their friendships by lying to them; her friendship with McNamara must not factor in on the decision whether to publish. The situation intensifies when the lawyers confirm Bagdikian’s source is the same as the ''Times'', possibly putting Graham in contempt of court and potentially destroying the newspaper and her family's ownership and legacy. Alternately, if the legal challenges are overcome in court, the ''Post'' could emerge as a significant journalistic institution and increase its reputation. Graham gives the go ahead.

The ''Post'' and ''Times'' jointly appear before the Supreme Court to plead their First Amendment rights. Meanwhile, in solidarity with the once isolated ''Post'' and ''Times'', other major newspapers start publishing about the secret war study. On June 30, 1971, the Supreme Court's justices, in the case of ''New York Times Co. v. United States'', rule 6–3 in the two newspapers' favor, vindicating Graham's decision to print. Shortly after, President Richard Nixon demands that the ''Post'' be barred from the White House.

The film ends with a sequence showing the discovery of the Watergate burglary by security guard Frank Wills, which was further exposed by the ''Post'' and ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation.

In the third installment of "Love In The Puff" series, Jimmy and Cherie find their relationship has become somewhat mundane and stale after seven years together. Various events occur which put their relationship to the test, including one time being too tired to make love, a misunderstanding resulting from Cherie's pet dog copulating with a stranger's dog, the sudden appearance of Jimmy's attractive, and younger childhood friend Flora, a happenstance discussion about marrying to have kids, and Flora wanting Jimmy's sperm for artificial insemination. When an earthquake occurs while they are vacationing in Taiwan, it triggers a sequence of events that lead to Cherie deciding to break it off with Jimmy. During their time apart, they both reflect on what each wants out of their relationship. Jimmy realizes what he wants and comes to understand what Cherie wants, and then proposes to her.

Casey is an average girl who has always wanted to become a famous dancer, but has never had a chance. She creates a Youtube channel and publishes dancing videos and doing tutorials to teach choreography, becoming a big hit in a short time. The girl is introduced in the celebrities world and the internet culture, giving interviews and appearing on television. But Casey discovers fame has a price and that envy goes its new way, not being able to trust even its old friends.

Little Lord or Little Master Mehmetcan Acar (Emir Berke Zincirdi) is a child who is tensed because his parents are planning divorce. MehmetCan’s grandfather (played by Zeki Alasya) is a landlord (Ağa in Turkish) and according to the local tradition, Mehmetcan’s Father and also Mehmetcan are heirs of his property. Mehmetcan’s grandparents loves him so much and everybody in his town calls him Küçük Ağa (Little Master).

Mehmetcan’s mother is a doctor , while his father owns an advertising agency. But their relationship has ups and downs and mostly hassling. Although having a strong love, they couldn’t achieve to solve their problems and live peacefully. Mehmetcan is very sad about the situation and he tries hard to find a way to force his parents to reunite. He do naughty things and pranks, cause funny troubles, etc. to make his parents realize his feelings.

Following the events of ''Rise of the Sea Dragon'', Dee Renjie (Mark Chao) was appointed to head the Court of Judicature and Revision (Da Li Si) and conferred the prestigious "Dragon Taming Mace" by Emperor Gaozong (Chien Sheng). Hence, he became a threat to Empress Wu Zetian's (Carina Lau) quest for ultimate authority. Empress Wu assigns the head of the royal guard, Yuchi Zhenjin (Feng Shaofeng) to lead a group of mercenary sorcerers to steal the mace from Dee. Yuchi begrudgingly agrees under the condition that Dee must not be harmed or punished; however, Wu has secretly assigned the sorcerers to kill Dee. Knowing that Wu would try to eliminate him, Dee has hidden the mace and later on goes into hiding himself, to foil her plans and uncover the conspiracy against him.

Dee tasks Yuchi with finding the hidden Dragon Taming Mace, whereby he encounters one of the sorcerers, whom he kills in battle. Since Dee cannot be found, Wu fires him from his position as head of the Da Li Si and declares him a wanted criminal. After Yuchi returns the Dragon Taming Mace, she promotes the leader of the sorcerers, San Zang (Xian Gao), to the imperial court. While the latter demonstrates his powers, a dragon statue seemingly comes to life, killing two of the other sorcerers and producing a mass panic. Wu blames Yuchi for promoting Zang and killing several officers and has him arrested. Dee enters the palace in disguise, frees Yuchi and concludes that the living dragon was in fact a mass illusion, and that the true culprit had killed Zang beforehand and took his place. Furthermore, the two seemingly dead sorcerers were also part of the scheme and faked their deaths.

It turns out that the empress was controlled by the adversaries with an illusion and false promises of absolute power, and that the true culprits are a vengeful cult of Indian sorcerers, the "Wind Warriors", whom the previous emperor had used to come to power but killed and mutilated afterwards. Dee has the royal family hidden and enlists the help of Shatuo Zhong (Lin Gengxin) and the defected sorcerer Moon Water (Sandra Ma) to convince the powerful Zen Master Yuan Ce (Ethan Juan) in combating the army of illusionists and their leader, "Faceless Monster" (Wei Jia). In the ensuing battle at the Da Li Si, the powerful illusions of Faceless Monster prove too strong for Dee and his men, until Yuan Ce appears and defeats the leader of the Wind Warriors. Afterwards, Dee and Yuchi are reinstated in their positions.

The film opens with the murder of three men who are killed by drug injection at gunpoint. ADGP Mathew Manjooran IPS is retiring after a sabbatical; on his last day at work, he is called on by the DGP to investigate the case.

Mathew takes the case; he is aided by 2 officers, ASP Harshitha Chopra IPS and DSP Iqbal. Harshitha says that she saw a woman wearing a burqa rushing into a restaurant on the night of the murder; she offered help, but the woman refused and ran away.

'''7 months ago''': Mathew arrests drug lord Felix D. Vincent, who escapes from custody. Mathew and his wife Neelima accompany their daughter to her new college in Delhi. While en route, he receives duty call and returns to work, leaving his family to continue their journey alone. Their car is hit by a lorry, leaving his daughter dead and Neelima comatose.

'''Present''' Three more men are murdered in the same fashion; the victims have a connection with Tharakan's Hospital. Mathew deduces the killer to be Shaktivel Palanisamy, a doctor who works at the hospital. Shaktivel has a dark past. His father committed suicide, and witnessing the death causes Shaktivel mental trauma; he sees incidents of malpractice in the hospital, and after graduating, he starts killing the perpetrators, with his girlfriend Dr. Shreya as an accomplice (the woman in the burqa).

Meanwhile, Harshitha finds out that Mathew's family was murdered by Felix. She informs Mathew, who already knows this and shows no interest. They receive a video message from Shreya, revealing Felix's location. Mathew fights Felix and is about to kill him but draws back, realizing that Shaktivel had targeted Felix, and instead arrests him. Mathew discovers that Shaktivel's next target is the DGP, who is threatening patient Khalid Musthafa, who died in the hospital.

Mathew is sedated, and Shreya takes him to Shaktivel, who plans to kill the DGP in front of him. Mathew tries to dissuade Shaktivel, who believes that the legal system is corrupt and that what he does is alternative justice. He reveals that Mathew mercy-killed Neelima. They argue and engage in hand-to-hand combat; Mathew defeats Shaktivel and shoots him in the leg, but spares him because he believes that Shaktivel could still become a good doctor after treating his mental illness. Mathew is then seen building a school completing Neelima's last wish.

The film takes place where an ancient King Hunther (Vijaya) was awaken by a hundred years sleep and started to modernize to present day world. He finally became a minister with the help of his present day friends Hector (Mahendra) and Moreen (Anarkali).

Gagani is a stubborn teenage girl who is the only child in her family. Her mother, Janaki is also a teacher. Gagani studies at a town school where all teachers and students complain about the mischievous things done by her. Ms. Nadee, who is in charge of sports activities of the school, receives a transfer to Monaragala. Janaki also decides to request for a transfer to Monaragala believing the environment in the village would surely change Gagani's behavior. Gagani refuses to leave her town-school so she is boarded in the hostel. She gets more and more stubborn there while making other hostellers adopt her mischievous behavior. She annoys hostel warden, Ms. Jenny and the hostel chef, Gunawathi but feels pity for Simon who is a mute servant in hostel.

Gagani dislikes the hostel life as there are so much rules that put limits to her freedom. Gagani's parents take her to Monaragala as her principal requests them to do so. In village, Gagani again meets Ms. Nadee, who eventually changes her behavior. Soon, Gagani befriends with her peers there and starts loving to a village life, turning into a decent girl. At the end, Gagani saves a girl from drowning in river, risking her own life and gets praised for her bravery. The film concludes that the environment is a crucial factor that can change one's life and character.

The series focuses on seven creatures in colorful furry suits called ''the Oddbods'': Fuse, Pogo, Newt, Slick, Bubbles, Jeff and Zee.

The storyline of each episode depicts how these characters "survive the perils of everyday life, unintentionally turning ordinary situations into unexpected, extraordinary and always humorous events." Episodes typically employ physical comedy and pranks played out between the characters, and the events that follow.

The series was conceived as a ''non-dialogue'' comedy, which the series' creators and writers say, "captures the madcap yet charming antics of the Oddbods, who celebrate success where they find it and take failure in their stride. To turn 'different' into a positive; celebrating individuality in a humorous, warm and unexpected way."

The series' strapline is "Embrace Your Inner Odd, There's a Little Odd in Everyone!"

Beginning one month after the original ''Trails of Cold Steel'', the game's events take place largely concurrently with the final chapter of ''Trails to Azure''. Rean Schwarzer wakes from a month-long coma he fell into after unwillingly escaping from Trista at the end of the previous game. He makes it to his hometown of Ymir with the assistance of bracer Toval Randonneur, but Rean quickly finds him and his loved ones caught in the crossfire of the war. Rean's opponents are the Noble Alliance, which has partnered with the Imperial Liberation Front from the previous game, as well as Ouroboros - a recurring group of antagonists in the ''Trails'' series. Students from Thors Military Academy, including those from Class VII, have been scattered across the country, so Rean resolves to find his classmates, put an end to the civil war, and save those he cares about.

After Rean gathers the scattered students, resolving conflicts across eastern Erebonia while doing so, he leads them in liberating Thors from the Noble Alliance. During their journey, they find many parallels between the modern civil war and the War of the Lions, a civil war took place 250 years ago in Erebonia and was put to an end by the former Awakener of Valimar, Dreichels the Lionheart. The members of Class VII attack the Erebonian capital of Heimdallr to stop the Noble Alliance and end the war. They succeed, but at the cost of the life of Crow Armbrust, former member of Class VII and leader of the Imperial Liberation Front who defects from the Alliance to save the Erebonia's Crown Prince Cedric from the Divine Knight Testa-Rossa, which had been cursed and corrupted into becoming a monster called the Vermillion Apocalypse. Chancellor Osborne, believed to have been assassinated by Crow at the start of the war, arrives to seize control of the situation. He reveals his intent to take over Ouroboros's "Phantasmal Blaze Plan," annex Crossbell State, and that he is Rean's biological father. After the war, the Noble Faction's power is diminished while Chancellor's is expanded.

Before the end of the school year, the members of Class VII over come one final trial in the old schoolhouse. At the end of their first year, all of Class VII's members except Rean choose to graduate from Thors early, and they make a vow to improve in their respective specialties and face the impending turbulent times together.

The King of Lights is a very good sovereign, loved by everyone in his kingdom. One day, he chooses one of his subjects, Protaner, to take care of the prison where he keeps imprisoned a large seven heads serpent, the Serpus. In return, he gives Protaner wealth, a house, and a good social and economic position. Protaner lives happily, marries a beautiful woman named Protogina, and together they have Staurofila as daughter, who, due to her beauty, is chosen to be the future wife of the Prince of Lights, Helios Dicaias, when they both grow up. Unfortunately, Protaner and Protogina betray the king's trust and, by a trick of the Serpus, they let it out. While escaping, the Serpus leaves little Staurofila wounded badly and with a horrible mark on his neck. The king is enraged and declares the death penalty for the marriage. However, the prince goes out to defend them and offers to capture the Serpus to redeem the guilty ones. The king accepts but, until the Serpus is to be captured, he expels Protaner's family from the kingdom and sends them to the Desert of Tears. There go Protaner, Protogina, little Staurofila and Filautia, the old babysitter, who, after smelling some poisonous flowers in the desert, gets crazy and forgets the beautiful Kingdom of Lights. Over time, Protaner and Protogina get lost and never return home, so Filautia asks for asylum, for her and for the girl, to Pseudo-Epythropus, a rich local man, interested only in his earnings, who has two daughters, Peirasy and Proscope. Pseudo-Epythropus notices that Staurofila is very beautiful and receives her with the intention of give her in marriage when she grows up, and thus get some economic or social benefits.

Years later, Staurofila becomes a beautiful young woman. One day, while she walks alone, she meets a gentleman named Buletes, sent by the Prince of Lights. Buletes reminds Staurofila her origin and her commitment to the Prince of Lights, who still loves her and looks for her. Buletes shows Staurofila a portrait of the prince and asks her if she would still want to meet the prince and eventually marry him. Staurofila accepts. However, at the same time, the Serpus speaks with Pseudo-Epythropus and offers him great riches in exchange for making Staurofila marry Apollyon, the Prince of Black Shadows, who is a protégé of the Serpus. This Prince of Black Shadows does not really love Staurofila, and if he wants to marry her it is only to take her away from the Prince of Lights, his rival. So, if the Prince of Black Shadows achieves his goal, he will discard Staurofila or imprison her for life. From this point of the story, a series of adventures begin, in which Staurofila hesitates between her love for the two princes. This causes the two rivals to confront with their armies on several occasions and places. Through the successive chapters, one can observe the stages by which the love of Staurofila for the Prince of Lights grows and matures, while the love and mercy of the prince remain constant. Staurofila understands more and more that her role in this war is to respond to the love of the Prince of Lights, to trust in his mercy, to discern good from evil, and to be prepared to resist temptations. In the end, the spiritual growth and the increasing maturity of Staurofila allow her to reach the definitive union with the Prince of Lights.

Little is a homeless teenage runaway. Her luck seems to change when she meets Arsen, a mysterious young man with a nice car and apartment, who soon tempts her into sex. Little meets First and Second, two other “girlfriends” of Arsen, and he brings them all with him into Sub Rosa, a magical world where sex workers are called Glories and wield supernatural powers. Little is initiated into their way of life as a sex worker through several nights in the Dark, where she is repeatedly brutalized. She joins Arsen, First, and Second as the newest member of their “family”, with Arsen as her “Daddy” or pimp, and First and Second as her sister-wives. Continuing to confront the Dark, Little seeks to earn her dowry from male customers to become a full Glory, while battling her repressed memories from the past she left behind.

Characters

'''Little:''' Little is a homeless teenage runaway who is struggling to survive within the confines of an unnamed city. Her only bargaining chip is her virginity, and she is repeatedly objectified by older men. Little is discovered by Arsen, who promises stardom if she follows him to the mysterious underground world of Sub Rosa. At first Little is entranced by Sub Rosa, but she eventually understands that it is deceptive and that she must take control of her own life.

'''Arsen:''' A secretive and wealthy young man, Arsen brings Little into Sub Rosa and into his mysterious little family, where he is "Daddy", with his two other "girlfriends" First and Second.

'''First:''' A Sub Rosa Glory, First is a member of Arsen's "family".

'''Second:''' Also a Sub Rosa Glory, Second is another member of Arsen's "family".

Gabino (Gabino Rodríguez), a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty (Sofía Espinosa) and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.

After meeting a strange cult, Victor is sacrificed and transported back in time to ancient Egypt. He experiences multiple lives through reincarnation before the end of the series. At one point, he also returns to the present to get revenge on the cult members who originally killed him.

An adolescent boy with no birth certificate, denied access to free education. He overwhelms the whole country and achieves what he has been dreaming in daylight.

When the body of a young woman is found on a lumber truck in Minnesota, Detective Walter Marshall suspects that the victim leapt to her death to escape from a captor. A breakthrough is inadvertently made in the case when former judge Michael Cooper's vigilante sting to capture a child predator results in his ward Lara being kidnapped. Through a tracker in Lara's earrings, Marshall finds her and other captive young women in a mansion owned by Simon Stulls, a man who appears to suffer from mental disability. Simon is arrested and the police attempt to determine if he is responsible for the abductions. In investigating Simon's background, they discover that he was born from rape and his mother attempted suicide before giving birth to him. Marshall informs Cooper he's sorry for what happened to his family.

While Simon is in custody, the police force finds themselves being targeted by another attacker. Technician Matthew Quinn is killed in a car bombing and fellow technician Glasow is forced to free Simon when the life of his infant daughter is threatened. The police recapture Simon after he has killed his father, just as Cooper discovers that Lara is missing. Believing Simon to be responsible, Cooper ambushes his police transport when he is surprised by another man who looks exactly like Simon. It is then revealed that Simon is in fact a pair of identical twins, with one being behind the kidnappings and the other truly being mentally disabled. The twins kill Cooper and kidnap police profiler Rachel Chase before escaping.

Using a tracker that Simon left in the police station, a team led by Marshall locates the twins by an icy lake where they are holding Rachel and Lara. Lara escapes and Marshall takes the mentally disabled brother hostage to convince the malevolent brother to release Rachel. After Rachel is freed, Marshall tells the mentally disabled twin to hug his brother. The mentally disabled twin complies, causing both brothers to fall through the ice and drown.

Afterwards, Lara reads a letter from Cooper thanking her for all that she has done. Marshall visits his daughter Faye accompanied by Rachel, implying that Marshall and Rachel have entered into a relationship.

In the beginning, an uneducated teenager Podi Eka ("young one") is shown living with his mother, sister and stepfather. He helps his stepfather in his "kasippu" (a local alcohol) business. Stepfather has been raping Podi Eka's elder sister but kept secret from him by both the sister and mother. One day Podi Eka returns home to find his sister screaming and locked up by inside by stepfather. Afterwards she hangs and kills herself. In anger, Podi Eka hits the rapist stepfather with a hoe in anger killing him, who is then sent in prison for 17 years.

Podi Eka's returns to his home village being released from the prison. His mother, who is now mentally ill, is seem to have been looked after by his uncle and the family. He find a living working for his uncle. He later develops feelings for the uncle's daughter and when revealed to her, is rejected and insulted by her, which causes him to cut her hair off in anger. He is then shown to be beaten up almost to death by a group, presumably the work of his uncle, but saved by the arrival of a Mr. Mel who gets Podi Eka to a hospital.

His house is also seen to be set on fire as his uncle and the family leaves the village. As Podi Eka is still in hospital, unable to walk, he informed that his house was lit and his mother might be deceased by fire. He is visited by Mr. Mel right after and is asked to come with him. He eventually starts working for Mel. He gets entangled in crime working for Mr. Mel, and is sent into hiding after murdering two people, where he meets a girl, Kumari.

Kumari and Podi Eka develops a relationship and eventually gotten married by Mel who although shown to express resistance to at first. On the wedding day, Kumari reveals Podi Eka that she was earlier married to Ralahami, a disabled man, of whom Podi Eka is informed to be Mel's son, is not actually not his son and also he was actually disabled by Mel. Podi Eka who is assigned for a robbery by Mel the next day succeeds in returning safe although after losing his companion. After the robbery, Mel tries to kill Podi Eka in his sleep but saved by Ralahami who shoots Mel. Jine, who was told to wait for the Podi Eka's body by Mel earlier, is visited by Podi Eka instead and told to burn Mel's body. At the end it's shown that Podi Eka now owns the funeral service and Ralahami, Jine and Kumari is also shown to be working there.

The game is a direct sequel to the prior two ''Trails of Cold Steel'' games, picking up one year after the events of ''Trails of Cold Steel II'' and several months after the Northern War between the Imperial army of Erebonia and the Northern Jaegers of North Ambria, which resulted in the annexation of North Ambria. The story is centered around Rean Schwarzer, now an instructor at Thors Military Academy's Branch Campus, as well as the students of the new Class VII and the rest of his classmates from the prior two entries, exploring subjects such as the mysterious circumstances of Rean's adoption by the Schwarzer family, and what his classmates have been up to since the events of the prior games.

The new Class VII consists of Juna Crawford (an exchange student from Crossbell), Kurt Vander (a member of Vander family formerly guarding the Royal family), Altina Orion (a member of the Intelligence Division and younger sister of Millium Orion), later joined by Ash Carbide from Raquel (whom later revealed to be an orphan of Hamel), and Musse Egret (a noble young lady who is actually the heir of house Cayenne).

While teaching his students, Rean is ordered by the Imperial government to resolve numerous conflicts arising all across Erebonia (Mainly caused by Ouroboros, who are trying to 'retake the Phantasmal Blaze Plan', stolen from them by Chancellor Osborne in the previous game's finale) as part of the campus's field exercises, assisted by his former classmates of the old Class VII. They learn more about the origins of the Divine Knights, that they are the fragments of the Great One, a being created when the Sept-Terrions of Fire and Earth fused into one after an intense battle between the two. The Kin of Fire and Kin of Earth worked together to contain the unstable Great One, giving birth to the seven Divine Knights, but they were unable to contain its curse, which influenced Erebonia for many centuries, making the people of the empire to become greedy and violent and leading to tragedies such as the Attack of the Dark Dragon, the Dark Ages, the War of the Lions, the Hamel tragedy, the Hundred Days War with Liberl, the annexation of Crossbell and the Northern War. The groups later changed their names; the Kin of Fire becoming the Witches of the Hexen Clan, and the Kin of Earth becoming the Gnomes, and the latter eventually cutting ties with the former.

Rean also learns of his origins, during his time as a brigadier general in the army, Osborne rose up against the officers who were setting up the Hamel tragedy to start a war with Liberl, in response they set his house ablaze, killed his wife and mortally wounded his son, Osborne gave his heart to Rean to save him and later left him to the Schwarzer's care.

During a party in the Imperial palace, Ash Carbide who is being manipulated by the curse, assassinates the emperor, this leads Rean and both generations of Class VII to realize that Ouroboros, the Gnomes, and Chancellor Osborne are plotting to unleash the curse of the Great One and start the Great Twilight, an event that heralds the return of the Great One and the end of the world. The members of Class VII resolve to stop them, but during the battle with Osborne's forces, Millium sacrifices her life to protect Rean and her sister Altina. Seeing Millium die causes Rean to lose control of his Spirit Unification power, fly into a rage, and slay the "Nameless One," a creature that contained the power of the Great One's curse. The death of the Nameless One releases the curse across Erebonia, beginning the Great Twilight, and the end of the world. Afterwards, all of the present Awakeners, including Osborne himself summon their Divine knights and restrain the Ashen Knight.

At the Hilltop, Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) have begun training survivors, including Enid (Katelyn Nacon), how to use knives offensively in preparation for the imminent war against the Saviors. Surprising everyone, Simon (Steven Ogg) and a crew of Saviors raid the community, forcing Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Maggie to hide in the cellar. Aware of the Saviors' arrival, Sasha packs her bag and takes Rosita (Christian Serratos) to a secret escape hatch that passes beneath the perimeter wall. After sneaking out of the Hilltop, both rebels begin to carry out their secret mission.

During the raid, a Savior walks toward the cellar doors. Enid desperately tries to distract him away from the basement, but he proceeds to enter the cellar. As Daryl, held back from Maggie, readies his knife to attack, the Savior searches the cellar, but soon leaves with some supplies and shuts the door. Once he's gone, Maggie remarks to Daryl that he hasn't spoken a word to her ever since he returned to the Hilltop. Crying, Daryl apologizes to Maggie for unintentionally causing Glenn's death. Maggie resolutely maintains Daryl wasn't to blame, saying that Glenn knew Daryl was "good", and that nearly killing a Savior unnecessarily would only have detracted from the bigger goal — winning the war; they embrace. Eventually, the Saviors leave with Dr. Harlan Carson (R. Keith Harris) in tow, as their new doctor, so that he can replace his now-deceased brother, Emmett Carson, who was burned alive inside a furnace after being thrown in by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) for a false confession. The Hilltop residents gather at the gates and watch the Saviors leave with Dr. Carson. Gregory (Xander Berkeley), sensing their disappointment, shifts around uncomfortably and continues to lose credibility as a leader.

Situating themselves in an empty building near the Sanctuary, Sasha and Rosita set up a sniper's nest. While waiting, they bond over their purpose and past events. At night, Sasha and Rosita attempt to sneak into the Sanctuary, where they encounter Eugene (Josh McDermitt) from the other side of a fence. They urge Eugene to come with them and escape, but he refuses. He tells them to go away and heads back inside the compound; Rosita curses at Eugene, in sincere disappointment. At Sasha's suggestion, Rosita keeps watch as Sasha slips through the fence, but doesn't notice Sasha using a lock to close the opening behind her so that she can lock Rosita out. Despite Rosita's protest, Sasha explains to her that it isn't her "time" and that Alexandria still needs her. Leaving Rosita behind, Sasha breaks into the Sanctuary, through an open door, to kill Negan herself. Sasha kills another Savior in the process, leaving her fate unknown. As gunfire breaks out, Rosita sobs in frustration and flees when she hears Saviors approaching, but eventually stops to catch her breath and notices a dark figure, holding a crossbow, watching her from a small distance.

Tara (Alanna Masterson) informs Rick (Andrew Lincoln) about the existence and arsenal of the Oceanside. He, Tara, and a small group set off to claim the weapons. While Rick and the others wait at the outskirts, planting an explosive to distract the Oceanside survivors, Tara sneaks into the community to face their leader, Natania (Deborah May), and to convince her to join in Rick's plan. Natania refuses, but when Rick's explosives goes off, Natania gains Tara's gun and holds her in check. As the other Oceanside residents come to check the explosion, Rick's group holds them at gunpoint, explaining his plan to face the Saviors. Natania emerges with Tara, refusing to join them, but just then, a horde of walkers drawn by the blast appears. In the confusion, Cyndie (Sydney Park) subdues Natania with a punch to the face, freeing Tara from gunpoint. Rick efficiently leads both communities into quelling the horde, and Natania angrily concedes to Rick. Rick's group leaves with Oceanside's weapons and some of its survivors willing to help in the fight.

At Hilltop, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) continues to take a strong leadership position, which Gregory (Xander Berkeley), its current leader, resents. When Maggie leaves the community to dig up a blueberry bush, Gregory follows her, and apologizes for his behavior towards her. He draws a knife to guard her while she digs up the bush, and contemplates using it on her. However, when walkers appear, he is unable to take action, and Maggie saves his life in time.

At the Sanctuary, Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) has been captured and placed in a cell. A Savior, David (Martinez), attempts to rape her, but Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) arrives just in time to stop the act and reminds David that rape is forbidden before killing him with a knife. Impressed with Sasha's bravery for attacking Sanctuary, Negan offers her his personal knife and gives her three options for it: kill him, commit suicide, or put down David's corpse before he re-animates as to join them as a Savior. After Negan leaves, Sasha is visited by Eugene (Josh McDermitt) who suggests she join the Saviors like he did, as they make him feel safe. Sasha decides to put down David, and when Negan next returns, tells him that he won before returning the knife. Negan informs her that he heard that Rick's group is up to no good and tomorrow will be a "big day". Distraught, Sasha pleads with Eugene to bring her a weapon, ostensibly so she can end her life. He brings her one of the poison capsules he previously made, leaving her disappointed.

When Rick and the others return from Oceanside, Rosita (Christian Serratos) informs them they have a visitor: Dwight (Austin Amelio), one of Negan's former right-hand men. Daryl (Norman Reedus) attempts to attack him but Rick and the others hold him back, as Dwight states that he wants to help them.

At the Alexandria Safe-Zone, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his allies question Dwight (Austin Amelio), a former member of the Saviors group, who warns them their leader Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has captured Sasha Williams (Sonequa Martin-Green) and is preparing a major attack. Rick sends word to Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) and the Scavengers that their help is needed.

At the Sanctuary, Sasha convinces Negan to kill only one Alexandrian instead of three for their transgressions and agrees to help in his plan. Negan has Sasha secured in a casket on a truck as the rest of the Saviors prepare to march. Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt) provides Sasha with an iPod and some water before the casket is closed. During the trip, Sasha struggles to maintain consciousness and has daydreams of her now-deceased boyfriend Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz) and friend Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan). The Saviors encounter a roadblock set up by Dwight, giving time for the Alexandrians and Scavengers to take defensive positions.

Upon arriving at Alexandria, Negan taunts Rick and his group, and at his word, Jadis and the Scavengers turn their weapons on the Alexandrians, revealing that they double-crossed Rick's group after the Saviors approached them and offered them a better deal. Negan orders Sasha's casket brought forward, offering Rick that he will let Sasha live if Alexandria surrenders and turns over all its possessions. Rick demands to see Sasha, and Negan prepares to open the casket. A flashback shows Sasha took the suicide pill Eugene had given her the day before. Now a walker, Sasha attacks Negan, and the distraction allows the Alexandrians to fight against the Saviors and Scavengers. After subduing them, Negan prepares to kill Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) in front of Rick, but is stopped by the arrival of forces from the Kingdom and Hilltop, led by King Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and Maggie, who help successfully fend off the Saviors and Scavengers.

When the Saviors regroup at Sanctuary, Negan asks Eugene how Sasha could have died, and he suggests she may have died from suffocation in the casket. Negan remains doubtful but accepts the answer, and tells the Saviors to prepare for war. At Alexandria, the combined group mourn their losses, including Sasha's sacrifice. Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) finds a note from Dwight, explaining that he was unaware of the Scavengers' betrayal. Rick, Maggie, and Ezekiel agree to combine their forces in the war against the Saviors.

A group of students attempt to create a wireless neural network of collective consciousness connected through a quantum computer. They discover that motor skills can be transferred through quantum theory and freely spread their technology, which they believe is a step towards intellectual freedom. The group later discovers they are a part of a larger, more sinister experiment.

Sophie Bishop and her boyfriend Dan visit Sophie's parents in Phoenix, Arizona on the 20th anniversary of her older brother Josh's disappearance. On March 13, 1997, the family witnesses the Phoenix Lights during Sophie's 6th birthday party, with Josh recording the incident. Several strange lights appear in a "V" formation over the city before disappearing, followed closely by fighter jets. Josh becomes convinced they have witnessed UFOs, though others remain skeptical. Hoping to find answers to her brother's fate, Sophie begins reviewing all of Josh's saved videotapes.

In the tapes, Josh begins investigating the Phoenix Lights with the help of his friends Ashley and Mark. Ashley and Josh interview two astronomers, who theorize that the lights were flares dropped by jets from the nearby Luke Air Force Base. However, Ashley and Josh remain unconvinced. Several days later, more mysterious lights appear over Mesa. Hoping to capture the lights on film and in better quality, Josh, Ashley, and Mark drive to Mesa. Upon arrival, the trio climb a hill on the outskirts of the town before noticing a spotlight in the distance facing sky-ward. Curious, the trio hike toward the spotlight where they find a gathering of Sheriff's Deputies and mysterious men. Josh notices the cars belonging to the men have no license plates. The group is then spotted by the men, forcing them to flee. The next day, Josh plots the apparent course of the lights, determining they will soon appear over an isolated area of the desert. In the present day, Sophie continues to interview multiple parties regarding the trio's disappearance. Only the group's abandoned car and a camera with single tape was discovered. Sophie views the recovered tape, showing the beginning of the group's journey to find the lights and discovering a charred animal corpse.

As the tape ends, Sophie refuses to believe Josh did not record the remainder of the trip. She concludes that Josh must have had a second camera. Sophie and Dan visit the local high school, where Ashley was a film editor and would have had access to such equipment. However the film teacher does not have any logs that may have been filled out, leaving Sophie at a dead end. Before departing Phoenix, she interviews her parents who reveal that the strain of Josh's disappearance caused them to divorce. The next night, Sophie receives a call from the teacher, who claims to have found something. She returns to Phoenix and receives a box that had been mailed to the school several years prior before being placed in storage. Sophie and Dan open the box and discover a heavily damaged camera. Dan manages to retrieve the tape from within the camera before watching it with Sophie.

The film then cuts to Sophie after having watched the tape, clearly distraught by its contents. She then contacts a Captain at Luke Air Force Base for an interview. Upon arrival however, the Captain appears confrontational with Sophie while Dan waits with the camera in the car. Sophie then returns and claims the Captain ordered her to "not let the footage get out". Dan asks Sophie what to do next, with Sophie giving him a look of determination. The film then cuts to the contents of the recovered tape, comprising the remainder of the film.

The last film begins moments after Josh, Ashley, and Mark find the charred corpse. The trio continues to hike through the desert and up a hill. Meanwhile, Ashley and Mark appear to grow closer, much to the disdain of Josh. After waiting at the top of a hill for several hours, the trio witness a single light in the distance. The light hovers for several minutes before accelerating along the horizon. The light grows progressively brighter and faster before discharging several, smaller lights. All the lights subsequently vanish. The trio celebrate their recording before hiking back to the vehicle. As night falls, the teens become lost and disoriented. Mark ventures up a hill alone to try and spot the car. After he leaves, Ashley and Josh hear a loud sound in the distance that appears to be getting closer. A bright light then appears behind the hill before passing over them. Mark returns, visibly distressed but apparently unharmed, claiming to have found the car. As they walk back, Mark refuses to disclose what he saw at the top of the hill. The trio then find the car and attempt to return home.

As they drive, the light appears behind the car and pursues them. They attempt to flee before the light disables the car and vanishes. Unable to fix the vehicle, the trio hike along the road attempting to get back to town. As they walk, Mark begins showing severe symptoms of an unknown illness, including a nosebleed, fever, and disorientation. Mark then claims to hear voices, before running out into the desert while claiming to see his brother. As Ashley and Josh run after him, the light returns and Mark vanishes without a trace. Ashley begins to panic, while Josh comforts her. The two then notice a house light in the distance and resolve to follow it. Along the way, the two discover more charred animal corpses. In addition, Ashley also begins to show similar symptoms as Mark, including her hair falling out.

Continuing on, Ashley begins to hear an unknown sound. She then claims to see her father in the distance before running off with Josh following her. As they run, the light returns, causing lightning and high winds around them. Josh then captures the source of the light, revealed to be an alien craft appearing as several concentric, rotating rings. Josh then witnesses Ashley being lifted off the ground before being abducted in a flash of light. The tape then cuts to Josh arriving at the deserted home, still pursued by the alien craft. He attempts to hide inside the house. Meanwhile, the craft causes various appliances to explode and gravitational distortion. Josh begins to scream as the craft removes the roof of the house, then also quickly lifts him off the ground in a flash before the camera cuts out. The tape resumes as the camera catches a brief glimpse of space, before falling back down to Earth. The camera lands, recording the sunset for several minutes before dying as the credits roll. The closing captions indicate that the government denies any connections between the Phoenix Lights and the trio's disappearance.

The puzzle adventure game takes place in space and in 1920s Norway. The main character is Ruth, a milkmaid living alone with her cows on a farm in a Nordic fjord in the 1920s. The game's story begins with Ruth doing tasks and chores on her farm, longing for a different life after the mysterious disappearance of her mother and death of her father. Then a spaceship flies overhead and abducts her cows from a field. Ruth has to get on the wing of the ship as it flies away, and figures out how to get inside to rescue her friends the cows. Later gameplay involves an intergalactic feud involving an oppressive monarch, and other characters such as an oracle, and space cows.

Daniel McNeill swears to take revenge on his landlord Lord Raa for the humiliation Raa had inflicted on him during his childhood. Years later, after making his fortune, McNeill buys Raa's castle and marries his young daughter, Mary to the profligate heir to the Raa title. The married couple leave on their honeymoon, but Mary lives with her husband in name only. Raa refuses to give her a divorce because he would lose all claim to the McNeil fortune.

Mary meets Martin Conrad, an old sweetheart of hers. While Raa entertains an affinity in India, she and Martin find themselves thrown together in Africa. Conrad, an explorer, leaves on an Antarctic voyage. Pregnant, Mary seeks a secluded spot in southern France for the birth, refusing to live with her husband. When Mary's father insists that she return to Lord Raa she tells him the child is Conrad's.

After learning that Conrad had been lost on the expedition a penniless Mary returns to London where she turns to prostitution to make money to care for her child. The first man she approaches is Conrad who has been searching for her.

A crime reporter, assisted by his girlfriend, a fashion reporter at the same newspaper, investigates a dead body taken out of the River Thames. They are soon able to link it with a foreign embassy, making it a sensitive diplomatic matter.

Emilie (Eva Green) and Ines (Alicia Vikander) Thompson are two sisters with very different characters who live far apart and rarely see each other. Now Ines, an artist trying to cope with unfavourable reviews of her latest exhibition, has accepted Emilie's invitation to accompany her on a short trip to an unknown place in the heart of Europe. The hotel Emilie has chosen for the first few days of her stay is very luxurious, as is the restaurant where she plans to dine; she evasively explains to her sister that she has sold her flat because she wants to go back to studying. During dinner, she agrees to dance with a stranger, to whom she confides that she is convinced Ines is only with her because her career is on the decline, adding that she "has no more time to lie". She therefore rejects the man's advances on the grounds that she would like to have an adventure but that this is not possible for her; immediately afterwards she feels very uncomfortable, which she attributes to the champagne she has drunk.

Their destination, which Emilie describes as "the most beautiful place in the world", turns out to be an estate lost in the woods beyond an unspecified country border, where they are met by an elderly woman, Marina (Charlotte Rampling), who describes herself as Emilie's "personal companion". For the unsuspecting Ines, it is the moment of truth: Emilie reveals to her that she has cancer, has been undergoing unsuccessful treatment for three years, and has therefore chosen assisted suicide; the place to which she has taken her is actually an exclusive clinic where patients can spend their last six days in complete peace before taking their own lives by poisoning themselves after a simple ritual. Ines is distraught and cannot accept that Emilie has kept everything from her, but her sister bitterly claims that she did it because it was the only way she could accompany her on her final journey. In fact, during their stay, the two will repeatedly confront each other harshly about their conflicting life choices: Emilie has remained close to her mother, who fell into depression because of her separation from her husband, until her suicide; Ines soon distanced herself from her, accused her of weakness and victimhood, and did not even go to the funeral, building a nice career as an excuse for her constant absence and creating a kind of armour of rationality and self-preservation. At the clinic, the two women not only meet but also the charming Mr Daren (Charles Dance), also terminally ill, a wealthy playboy who is now an old man and organises a party on his last night, and Brian (Mark Stanley), a former footballer who has been paralysed and rendered impotent by a car accident and who, attracted to Emilie, spends a night with her, arousing her anger that he has decided to leave life behind despite his health. Marina also reveals a little about herself, saying that she stayed at the clinic after accompanying her dying husband there two years earlier because she "couldn't find a reason to leave". Ines feels a mixture of disgust and attraction for the place and takes some photos with Daren's complicity for personal inspiration, even though she knows it is forbidden by the rules. At the height of another argument with her sister, she decides to leave early, but Marina stops her with a ruse and listens to her outburst, which turns from a blind rage against her mother and sister to a desolate lament for her growing sense of abandonment. Finally ready to face her pain, Ines makes peace with Emilie, who is now dying, shares fond childhood memories with her and prepares her for suicide.

Everything happens as planned. Emilie confirms that she has voluntarily chosen death and quietly poisons herself in front of Ines, who leaves the clinic. When she says goodbye to Marina, she gives her Emilie's ring - which belonged to her mother - and reveals to her that she knows about the photos she took and asks her to use them according to her conscience. In the helicopter that takes off to the sounds of David Bowie's "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide", she is joined by Brian, who has chosen life thanks to his encounter with Emilie.

The book's storyline, spanning an eight-year period from 2001 to 2009, concerns Roz Chast's parents living in Brooklyn. The book describes various interactions between Chast and her parents. Chast, who lives in Connecticut, often used to visit her parents, calling their home "a hoarder's paradise". The couple is later moved into assisted living facilities near Chast's home due to their ailing health.

Jack, a failed architect in 1980s Washington State, recounts how he became a serial killer to Virgil—whom he refers to as Verge—as Verge leads Jack through the nine circles of Hell. Each of Jack's crimes, depicted through flashback, feature commentary from both Jack and Verge.

In the first incident, Jack encounters an abrasive woman on a rural road who needs to fix her broken jack to repair a flat tire. He agrees to take her to a local blacksmith to repair it. On the way, she says he looks like a serial killer and insults him. When they return, the jack breaks again. The woman requests that Jack return her to the blacksmith. On the second trip, she recants her comments stating he is too much of a wimp to kill anyone. Offended by her manner, Jack bludgeons her with the tire jack. He stores her body in an industrial freezer inside a factory building, which he purchased from a pizzeria.

In the second incident, Jack cons his way into the home of a widow, Claire, then strangles and stabs her. After cleaning up, he puts her body in the back of his car. Instead of leaving, his obsessive-compulsive disorder compels him to return to re-clean the crime scene multiple times, nearly resulting in him being caught when a suspicious police officer stops by. Jack manages to outwit the officer by pretending to be an acquaintance of Claire. He then ties Claire's body to the back of the van in a panic and drives off, dragging her body behind and creating a blood trail. It starts raining, washing away the trail, and Jack takes this as divine intervention, believing God is on his side. Jack puts her corpse in the industrial freezer. He declares himself "Mr. Sophistication," and begins signing anonymous letters to the media with this moniker. He also develops a fetish for photographing his victims' corpses and begins taking greater risks as his OCD diminishes, such as impulsively hitting an old woman with his van.

In the third incident, Jack brings his girlfriend and her two sons, Grumpy and George, on a hunting trip. He kills both sons with a rifle before forcing the woman to have a picnic with their corpses. Jack then allows the mother to run away as he gives her a head start in his hunting tower. She does not comply and purposefully allows herself to be shot by Jack. Jack then waits for rigor mortis to set in on Grumpy's corpse, and proceeds to fashion it into a waving sculpture with a grisly smile.

In the fourth incident, Jack is in a dysfunctional relationship with Jacqueline, whom he psychologically and verbally abuses and derisively nicknames "Simple". When he drunkenly confesses to her that he has killed 60 people, she does not believe him. After he marks red circles around her breasts with a marker, she becomes frightened and approaches a policeman, but he dismisses her as drunk. In her apartment, Jack binds her before cutting off her breasts with a knife. He pins one of the breasts to the policeman's car and fashions the other into a wallet.

In the fifth incident, Jack has detained six men in his freezer, intending to kill all of them with a single bullet. Upon realizing his ammunition has been mislabeled, he leaves and chastises the gun shop owner before visiting a friend, SP. SP phones a police officer and Jack stabs SP through the throat. He waits for the police, then kills the officer. He returns to his freezer, and needing more space to focus the scope of his rifle, unseals a closed door inside, revealing a second chamber. Inside, he meets Verge, who reveals he has been observing Jack throughout his life and reminds him that he has never built the home he intended to, as Jack had made several attempts to build his perfect house between his murders. In the freezer, Jack arranges the frozen corpses he has collected over the years into the shape of a house. As police break in, Jack enters his "house" and follows Verge into a hole in the floor, entering Hell.

The two reach a pit leading to the ninth circle and centre of Hell. In the process of descending into hell, footage is shown about the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in which, according to legend, human cries from the underworld, which Verge mentions, were heard. A broken bridge spans the pit. Jack notices a stairway on the other side of the bridge, which Verge says leads the way out of Hell. Jack attempts to scale a rock wall to access the staircase, against Verge's advice, and falls into the abyss below.

The first George Mills sets out on a journey with his lord on the First Crusade. But he eventually gets lost in the Netherlands and reaches a salt mine in Poland. His lord at the mines is Guillalume, who teaches him some life lessons. Mills becomes aware of what is written in his fate and this helps him understand the walks of life in this world in a better manner. Despite having the knowledge of what would happen in the future, his timidity and powerlessness does not bring out any situation-changing effects.

The novel covers the history of succeeding family members named George Mills and all of them are aware of their fates and equally feeble and ineffective in changing their circumstances. The 43rd Mills encounters King George IV and is assigned on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, where he first joins the Janissaries but later ends up in the Ottoman Sultan's harem doing household chores. He escapes from there and reaches America. The present-day Mills in America is a caretaker of an old woman named Judith Glazer in St. Louis, who is in the final stages of terminal cancer. Mills accompanies Glazer to Mexico and upon her death participates in her funeral together with her family.

Quinn (Rupert Friend) explains to Carrie (Claire Danes) that he found Sekou's original van, which had been swapped for one loaded with a bomb, in the garage of the flag house. Carrie notes that the conspirators can all be brought to justice with that evidence, but Quinn responds that he wants to kill Belli (C.J. Wilson) regardless. A disagreement leads to Quinn revealing that he knows Carrie woke him up from his coma in Berlin, causing him to suffer a stroke.

Saul (Mandy Patinkin) presents President-elect Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) with the evidence that links Dar Adal (F. Murray Abraham) to Brett O'Keefe (Jake Weber). O'Keefe publicly takes credit for distributing the Andrew Keane video and invites the president-elect to appear on his show. Keane accepts the offer. On the live broadcast, Keane declares that O'Keefe manipulated the video of Andrew Keane, manufactured the online reactions with his own social media firm, and that his firm is actually being funded by people in the government.

Max (Maury Sterling) gets a meal tray delivered to him which includes an access card, enabling him to escape the facility. When he exits, he's immediately grabbed by men who forcibly deliver him to Dar Adal. Dar asks Max for help in ascertaining what O'Keefe is planning in regards to Quinn. Max hacks into the corporation's data backups and unearths a large number of online communications, purporting to be from Quinn, portraying him as a volatile ex-soldier with an extreme vendetta against Elizabeth Keane.

When morning breaks, Quinn leaves, claiming to be trailing the special ops group. He tells Carrie how to get into the flag house. Carrie investigates the seemingly empty house, only to be attacked by Belli. As she tries to fight him off, Quinn storms in, shooting Belli and then brutally beating him to death. Quinn explains himself by telling Carrie how Astrid died at Belli's hands. FBI responders arrive on the scene, along with Solicitor General Pallis (David Thornton), who assures Carrie that Quinn will be granted immunity.

Quinn inspects partially erased letters from the whiteboard in the house, trying to determine the special ops group's current assignment. Being familiar with the code they use, he's able to narrow the location of their assignment down to "B" (for Bravo time zone, indicating Middle East) or "R" (Romeo, indicating East Coast of the U.S.). Carrie grows concerned at the latter possibility, and calls Rob (Hill Harper) in order to check on the President-elect. Carrie watches from the front yard as FBI personnel open the garage door, triggering a hidden bomb in the garage, which explodes. Carrie and Quinn check for survivors as the episode ends.

Supergirl, Bumblebee and Batgirl are all excited for the Intergalactic Games and win the championship for Super Hero High. However, they are interrupted by a call for help in the city. Supergirl, Bumblebee and Batgirl investigate to find humans being attacked by three robots; two male and one female called Platinum. With the arrival of Starfire, the robotic trio give Batgirl an idea to magnetize them. At Super Hero High School, it is revealed that Platinum and her cronies were part of an experiment to give machines more human emotion and free will, to make them superheroes as well.

Mrs. Dorothy Bliss is an old woman in her early 80s living alone in a retirement community near Miami Beach, Florida, after her husband's death due to cancer. She was born in Russia and is Jewish. Her mother bribed an immigration officer and added three years to her age on legal documents in order that she could start working in Manhattan's Lower East Side after their immigration. Her husband, Ted Bliss, had a butcher shop in Chicago and together they had three kids. Her oldest son dies of cancer at a young age and after her husband's retirement, the couple moved to Florida. She is obsessed with cleaning and also keeps records of the gifts given to her grandchildren in order to keep track and stay impartial with everyone.

The single life of Mrs. Bliss is now filled with expectations of finding a romance or a partner but eventually she is disappointed and heartbroken. She gets involved with Alcibiades Chitral, a drug lord who operates in her neighborhood, and starts using her and her husband's car as a front for his activities. The story keeps introducing various new men in her life, such as Hector Camerando, a jai alai pro who helps Mrs. Bliss with some tips on dogs, and Tommy Auveristas, an imposter. Junior Yellin, a once upon a time lover with whom Mrs. Bliss had had a passionate encounter in her husband's butcher shop, also makes a re-entry into her life. She eventually dies when Hurricane Andrew hits Miami and brings massive destruction.

The movie revolves around two detectives Perera and Ari (Vijaya and Gamini), who started to find crimes and other illegal businesses and incidents they had to take part in funny ways, in the meanwhile they search about a missing girl of a minister.

Kurogo Kurusu, a high school boy who loves the art of kabuki, so much that it is annoying. He yearns to perform kabuki for a club, but his school doesn't have one. Kurogo decides to create his own and sets out to gather members.

The game follows a small furry animal, as it attempts to rescue its mate from a pack of predators.

After the events following the first film, Balu returns to Theni district after 7 years from USA to meet his family, where he learns about his distinct relative Pechankarasi "Pechi". Pechi's husband was killed by the villagers for killing a lower-caste person. Due to this, Pechi kills all the male clan of the lower-caste person, except for Anbu, who is safeguarded by Balu's chieftan father Durai. Balu learns that Pechi wants to disrupt the temple festival to kill Anbu, where he decide to protect him. During the temple festival, Balu secretly saves Anbu and thrashes the attackers without anyone's knowledge.

Balu meets Sembaruthi, whose activities remainds him of Hema. Sembaruthi learns from Durai that Balu relocated to US as Hema died in an accident on their way to Tirupathi for their marriage. Despite this, Balu falls for Sembaruthi, where Durai accepts their relationship. As per Durai's wishes, Anbu's UPSC attempt at becoming IAS becomes successful, where Durai and Anbu leave for Anbu's village to convey the result. Pechi's men attacks Anbu, but Durai accidentally gets stabbed. Balu rushes and saves Durai, who receives clandestine treatment in his home.

Durai requests Balu to not inform the incident to the villagers, as it would result in communal riots and would eventually spoil the temple festival. Balu promises the comatose Durai that he would save Anbu as well as ensure that the temple festival ends smoothly. Finally, Pechi and Balu meet in an open ground, where Pechi beats up Balu. Balu does not want to hurt Pechi and asks her to leave Anbu, for which she does not agree. When Pechi was about to kill Anbu with a sickle, her chain gets stuck in a ''Trishula'', and she accidentally loses control. Her aruval moves towards her son's neck, but Balu holds the aruval and saves him. Pechi realizes her mistake and decides to spare Anbu. Durai recovers and reunites with Balu and Sembaruthi.

The story begins with the members of the private detective office lead by Detective Last Chance. The office consists 6 male detectives and 5 female detectives. Meanwhile, Mister Producer decides to recruit two Bollywood actresses for his latest film production due to force from his wife and daughter. Later he revealed that the film can earn good income as well. With that, Sri Lankan movie stars strongly protest against Bollywood actresses and make plans to kidnap the two foreign actresses with the help of Don Ladan. Mister Producer reveals the story of kidnap and he ask help from Detective Chance. The Detective selected two of his best men Arti and Viti to protect two actresses. The two detective safely bring two actresses to their home. Arti and Viti dressed up as two actresses and start to act like them. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan stars seek to kidnap fake actresses and make muhurath ceremony a funny act. However, after series of incidents, Ladan kidnap two fake actresses and demand a ransom of Rs. 50 million dollars, for their release. However, Arti and Viti reveal their actual appearance and catch all the gangs with the help of fellow detective and Sri Lanka stars, who later realized their mistakes. Finally, at the contract sign, two real Bollywood actresses reveal their presence and they ask to do the film with your own film stars. Arti and Viti had a ceremony and gifted with medals for the contribution. Finally Arti ask Detective Chance to give permission to marry his fiancée and detective gives the permission.

The main role of this story is a pretty young woman who belongs to a rich, high class family. She is an apple in a provincial city where she lived with her parents. In front of her bungalow, lives a hideous, middle-aged clerk with his pet dog. He is a very reserved person who has no friends and family. This man sees this young lady often, fell in love with her beauty and was dreaming to marry her someday even though his age, look and social status were not up to her family status at all. This girl, who is a sexually dominating character, secretly continues a relationship with a young handsome guy who is the son of their old housemaid who is still serving them in the bungalow. Both this girl and the guy were raised together in this house during their childhood and he later went out of the town to study to become a lawyer. He returns to the town recently, that's when they began their secret relationship. As this girl was displaying her dominate characteristics from her childhood, their relationship was not based on love but lust. However, they both enjoyed the feeling of viciousness in their love. One day the guy gets aroused with her speech and behaviors attempting to rape her, she mistakenly hits him that he ends up hitting his head on an edge of the bed and dies. Now that she realizes she did a mistake, she waves at the hideous clerk who was living in front of her house to come and see her. The man who was being ignored by this woman for so long gets so excited with her invitation goes to her house and offers to help her clean the dead body. The dominating lady feels so helpless and requests the middle-aged clerk to go and throw the dead body of the lawyer to a distant lake and promised to sleep with him one night to return the favor.

The protagonist named K. gets a sudden offer of employment. And this event changes his life, forcing him to make a distant voyage. To his surprise, the world beyond his homeland appears to be not as normal as he would think.

As Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candice King) attempt to revive Bonnie (Kat Graham), Bonnie enters the state between life and death and sees Elena (Nina Dobrev) and they reunite. Elena is shocked to see Bonnie and says that it is too early. Bonnie doesn't mind being dead, saying that she will be with Enzo (Michael Malarkey). Enzo then appears and comes up to the pair and tells Bonnie that it isn't her time and she returns to her body. Stefan and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) return to the boarding house and find Elena's coffin opened with Elena standing there. Damon and Elena reunite and hug but she turns out to be Katherine (Dobrev) instead.

Stefan then stabs Katherine with the dagger made from her bones, but she comes back to Damon later, revealing that she can leave hell whenever she wants and that Cade had been under her control since her death. Meanwhile, Matt (Zach Roerig) confronts Vicki (Kayla Ewell) and she reveals that she wants to die from the hellfire so she can escape hell, where she has been residing in a miserable existence. Vicki will ring the bell every five minutes until the end of the hour. After hearing this, Matt and the police evacuate the town. Alaric (Matt Davis), Caroline, and the twins also leave Mystic Falls when Bonnie comes up with a plan to use her magic to reverse the hellfire back into hell, destroying it and Katherine.

Damon stays with Katherine in the tunnels under the Armory to make sure she is in hell when Bonnie does this; Stefan comes forward to sacrifice himself instead, but Damon compels him to leave. Stefan then takes Damon's place, and dies alongside Katherine. Though Bonnie struggles at first, the spirits of Enzo and fellow Bennett witches appear to give Bonnie the strength she needs. Caroline is seen in the car with Alaric, and he tells her Stefan's plan. She calls Stefan, in tears, and quotes "I will love you forever" with Alaric hearing those words.

Stefan then visits Elena in their high school in the state between life and death. He tells her that he is human now and says that Damon wanted to sacrifice everything for Elena and the town. He says that Damon compelled him to leave out of the tunnels but the compulsion hadn't actually worked since Stefan was on vervain. Stefan then explains that he gave Damon his blood with the cure and that he will start to age and soon be dead. Stefan also says that he saw a side of Damon that he had not seen in a while - the older brother he looked up to, the son who enlisted in the civil war to please his father, the Damon he knew when he was a boy; he wanted that Damon to live and wanted Elena to have a chance to get to know him. Stefan says to Elena "It is good to see you, Elena... one last time...", and whispers something in Elena's ear and then joins Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) in the afterlife and quotes "I was feeling epic" and hugs her. Some time later, Bonnie breaks Elena's sleeping curse and Elena reunites with her, Damon, Caroline, Matt and Alaric. After an emotional goodbye to Stefan Salvatore in the cemetery, Elena conveys a message to Caroline which Stefan had told her; "I heard her. And I will love her forever too". The Salvatore boarding house is turned into a school for supernatural children with Jeremy and Dorian among the people running it and a hefty $3 million donation from Klaus (Joseph Morgan). Vicki, Tyler (Michael Trevino), Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre), Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), and Enzo are shown watching over the living.

In the future, Damon and Elena are shown to be married. Elena is seen writing in the diary near Stefan's grave about how everything is as a crow flies and sits on a grave (a reference from the show’s pilot). After Damon and Elena's long lives shared together, Elena finds peace in the afterlife and reunites with her parents, John (David Anders), and Jenna (Sara Canning); and Stefan, at peace, opens the door to the boarding house to see Damon, who greets him with "Hello, brother" a nod to the words Damon first said to Stefan in the pilot episode, ending it the way it started, and the brothers hug, having found peace after death and bringing the series to a conclusion.

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.

The plot involves the adventures of three friends, Punch (a bear), Touch (a mouse), and Bun (a weasel), who all live in a scrapyard by themselves. Each episode has the three main characters stop the evil plans of Professor Garigari, a wolf who wants to build his own city over their hometown, including the scrapyard.

"''Ojukokoro'' unwraps an intriguing tale about a money-strapped manager of a shady Petrol Station who decides to rob his employers, but along the line, finds out in a sudden twist that he is not alone in his ambition and that a good reason isn’t always a right one."

The cast will be paired up and they will then do their very best to prove that they are the best variety duo in Korea's entertainment industry by going through a series of challenges and battles.

Ex-pilot Chris and his wife Valerie move into an attractive country cottage, only to become obsessed with the murdered woman who used to live there.

A man with a terminal illness has his body frozen in cryostasis and becomes the first man to be resuscitated from cryonics seventy years later in the year 2084. His on and off again girlfriend is by his side as he commits suicide in order to be cryopreserved. Being an accomplished artist with a design firm under his wing, he cannot stand the randomness of his throat cancer and decides to "go" under his own volition and control. After his "resurrection" under project "Lazarus", by a company with its own agenda, he starts to question mortality and matters of soul, as well as life as a transition of matter and energy. After realizing that he only valued his own life under the threat of his imminent death, unable to cope with his new life, he decides to commit suicide. Alas, the film ends with the realization that is something he's not allowed to do.

Charlie Sr. (Piolo Pascual) is a Filipino immigrant in Alaska who is living a carefree life. His life suddenly changes when he is tasked to take care of his estranged son, Charlie Jr. (Raikko Mateo), whom he had left behind in the Philippines. As he struggles to become a real father to his son, Charlie crosses paths with Angel (Yen Santos), a quirky Filipina who went to Alaska to find her lost mother.

In New York City in 1920, four people sail to England to meet with Walter Jenkins, the original author of the War of the Worlds story. Jenkins has seen signs that the Martians may be planning a second attack. They arrive to find London has become a totalitarian dystopia and the whole country is gearing up for war. Walter's brother, Frank, is drafted the next day and London prepares for war. Beginning at 7:00 PM, 50 cylinder-shaped Martian missiles land on the city, wiping out nearly half of Britain's military. At midnight, another group of cylinders lands, this one carrying Martian warriors. The Martians emerge immediately- in contrast to the 19 hours required in their 1907 landings- and engage the British military with their heat rays. Army, Navy, and relatively new Air Force counterattacks prove mostly harmless against the Martian fighting-machines. Over the next several days, the Martians cripple London, carefully selecting targets of infrastructural importance, such as bridges, factories, and train stations. Many Londoners escape or take shelter.

Two years later, the Martians control England, though they mostly remain in their cordon. Walter Jenkins asks Julie Elphinstone, his former sister-in-law, to go into the Martian cordon to try to communicate with them. She and her group make the long journey to the cordon, dodging several Martian attacks along the way and meeting a saboteur named Marriott. At the Martian base, they discover that the Martians are cannibals, keeping humans and humanoid species in holding tanks for future harvesting. They witness breeding experiments between Martians and humans. Eventually they come to the feeding hole, where the Martians have humans hung upside-down from scaffolding while they inject the human's blood directly into their Martian bodies.

As the Martians continue to conquer other parts of Earth, Julie comes up with a plan. Knowing that the Martians communicate with their home planet by using sigils carved into the earth's surface, she wonders whether it would be possible to change the sigils and therefore disrupt communications. Eric Eden, a veteran of the first Martian war, agrees to let her attempt it. Eden transports Julie inside the cordon with his "landship," a massive tank-like vehicle the size of a battleship. Julie contacts the saboteur Marriott, who agrees to detonate numerous explosives to change the Martian sigils into the circular Jovian symbols. Within two hours, the Martians have withdrawn and the Jovians leave their circular sigil on the moon.

The book flashes forward 14 years. The Martians are still on Earth but no one knows where. Walter Jenkins takes Julie a half mile into the earth to the underground Martian city in England. He speculates that this is how they live on Mars, that they have no secrets because of their telepathy, and that they are all treated as equals. The British Martians built a space gun and shot themselves back to Mars.

Reports say that other Martians moved to the Earth's poles where the climate is more Mars-like. Julie, Walter, Eric Eden, and some others take a massive German zeppelin to the arctic, where they see a Martian terraforming operation. Walter theorizes that with the Jovians watching, they are forced to colonize rather than conquer, and that humans should work with them instead of against.

When Earth-Mars opposition comes around again, the Martians do not launch any cylinders. The war of the worlds is over.

In addition to the main storyline, the novel contains various standalone vignettes depicting Martian attacks in New York City, Berlin, and Los Angeles.

''Growing Up Smith'' is a coming-of-age story of Smith, a 10-year-old boy from India growing up in small-town America in 1979.

As the boy's family tries to straddle the fine line between embracing the American Dream and preserving their Indian heritage, the awkward little hero sneaks out for a taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken (even though his family is vegetarian), dons a ''Saturday Night Fever'' costume, and contends with his parents as they send him to school with a yellow squash instead of a pumpkin to carve for Halloween.

And as Smith falls head-over-heels in love with Amy, the girl-next-door, he finds in Amy's father Butch the all-American cowboy he wishes his own father could be. But alas, when Smith goes on a hunting adventure with Butch, Butch injures himself while chasing a doe. Smith's rescuing Butch makes him a local hero, but his father's jealousy strains his relationship with him. With Butch unable to work, his wife decides to move away from the house and takes Amy with her. Amy, unable to deal with the turmoil in her own family, threatens to run away. Smith leaves the house on his bike to meet up with her, though Butch arrives soon after and prevents her from doing so. Smith's parents, in the meantime, search for him and find his sister making out with a boy. Furious, they condemn his sister to studying, and upon Smith's return banish him back to India after he declares his love for Amy. Nineteen years pass in India, with Smith becoming a neurosurgeon and finding a woman to marry. Smith's wife dies of a complication - though unknown - that Smith himself tries to cure.

Smith returns to his hometown in America, where his sister has a family with Patrick (the same boy she was found making out with nineteen years earlier) and lives in the same house as before. Smith reconnects with Butch, and finds out Amy still lives in her grandmother's house as a fourth-grade teacher, though she is unmarried and has a child. The movie concludes with Smith re-affirming his desire to meet Amy and riding out on the same old bike to do so.

The series follows the story of Frankie, a high-flying financial analyst who had it all before a failing kidney landed her at death's door until a transplant offered her a second chance. Inspired by the man who saved her life, Frankie alters course to become a doctor herself, working and learning in the high stakes, high pressure world of the cardio-thoracic and renal wards of a major teaching hospital.

The film revolves around an orphanage run by a wealthy philanthropist in memory of his dead wife. Due to the bad management the orphanage faces a difficult time and this affects the children and discipline of the institution. Disappointed with the development Suriyabandara, the owner of the orphanage decides to close down it. Yet due to the request of his son and mother gives one more chance recruiting a new mistress to the place. And Nimsara a young beautiful girl takes up the post and 'Rosa Kele' shows the dramatic changes that take place in the institution.

Sirimal is a bright young poor boy living in a rural village area in Sri Lanka. When he passes the all-island scholarship exam with becoming the first place in the island, he wins a chance to attend a wealthy school in Colombo. Despite his many cries and tears to leave his hometown and family, he travels to Colombo with his father. Sirimal does well in the school, gaining many friends as well as a spoiled rival, Shehan.

When the School drama teacher announces about their annual Drama Competition, Sirimal is determined to get the main role, which is the King's role. However, he wins the role of his dreams, but he hasn't got enough money for the costume. Shehan, who also wanted that role, encourages Sirimal to swap roles, which is the Rajadrohiya's role. But Sirimal doesn't want to.

Sirimal and his best friend tries to earn money to buy the costume by doing part time jobs, such as shoe polishing and working in a store. But Sirimal's father insists they get help from the village's dancing teacher, who gives Sirimal his king costume. But the crown is too big for Sirimal.

The drama teacher tells Sirimal to make a ring out of cloth and cotton. After that he will be able to wear the crown no matter how big it is. On the day of the performance, Shehan steals the cotton ring from Sirimal while he's in the washroom. After a tearful tantrum, the drama teacher decides to give Shehan the king's role and Sirimal the cheap rajadrohiya role. Sirimal protests, but he gives an extraordinary performance as the Rajadrohiya and wins the best actor award. The film ends with Sirimal acting as the king in their village drama competition.

2000 years after the great vampire Bathor established the village of Bathory, superstition and religious violence take over as the men and women battle for control. When the men are afflicted with a mysterious illness, they become certain that the vampire women of Bathory are responsible for their ills, and thus, the hunt begins! Long-forgotten lovers Élisabeth and Fantine find that, with the help of those who were banished, it is their fate to piece together the past and help preserve what little of their society remains before Bathor's impending return and judgment.

The voice-over narrator of the whole series is an adult Salvatore Giammarresi (Pif), a 10-year-old boy (Edoardo Buscetta) that tells the story of an ordinary family of Palermo, his one, in the late 1970s.

The ordinary events, viewed from the kid's point of view, are mixed with the historical facts, regarding the Sicilian Mafia (''Cosa Nostra''), which characterized the city in that period. Alternating reality and TV fiction, there are various storylines related to the ''Sack of Palermo'', to the personal friendship of Salvatore with Boris Giuliano or Mario Francese (both killed by the Mafia in 1979), etc.

Despite being set during 1979 and 1980, within the fiction there are some flashbacks in which the narration develops in different periods.

“To achieve artistic and economic independence, Palestrina works with great diplomacy in the shadow of the powerful Roman Catholic Church. Despite strict ecclesiastical rules, he succeeds in modernizing music.” press communication Arte: Palestrina - Fürst der Musik

The film starts with the death of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in 1594. Afterwards his son, Iginio, some of his students and colleagues, members of the Cappella Giulia (Julian Chapel) at St. Peter's Basilica, and also members of the Roman clergy give their personal statements or testimony on Palestrina’s life and career: from his childhood, when he is trained as a choir-boy in the circle of the "Roman School" of polyphony founded by Costanzo Festa, to the peak of his career, when the plague and an influenza epidemic take away his two oldest sons and his wife.

These testimonies reveal Palestrina as a typical Renaissance artist who takes his destiny into his own hands and maintains his artistic independence in the middle of the greedy Roman clergy, who are more interested in secular politics than in the spirituality of music. He developed a new style in polyphonic art, the genus novus with a balance between word and sound, in which all voices are separate and independent from each other. Palestrina finally liberates music from the word. In this style he composes the famous Missa Papae Marcelli, which, after the Council of Trent, becomes the model for sacred music.

After having lost his two sons and his wife, the testimonies reveal with the wink of an eye, that Palestrina, instead of taking holy orders, decided to marry a very rich widow, enabling him to afford the publication of all his scores. In this way his work would never be forgotten.

Palestrina’s music is presented in the film by the Roman ‘Ensemble Seicentonovecento’, conducted by maestro Flavio Colusso.

A man leaves New York to return to Lagos for the first time in 15 years after the death of his father and a fight with his mother. He realizes he is not as comfortable in his home country as he expected to be.

A softball match is being played to little athletic achievement between teams from the Indian Point and Springfield Nuclear Plants. After Homer Simpson collapses on the field, Mr. Burns and the other coach talk about how the market for nuclear energy will be lucrative forever and ever.

Mr. Burns heads right away to his alma mater, Yale University, to endow a chair in nuclear plant management, only to learn that the entire student body is now made of "highly entitled wusses" from the Whiffenpoofs on down, and who follow left-wing views that appall Mr. Burns. He then finds out that running a university can earn him a lot of money from a member of the Skull and Bones society named Bourbon Verlander. Mr. Burns then cuts a deal with Bourbon and withdraws all of his financial support to Yale in order to set up his own branch of the for-profit university system.

Back at the power plant, Mr. Burns burns all of his Yale University memorabilia and tells Homer, Lenny and Carl about his new university. The teachers he chooses to run the university are the power plant workers.

Homer and the others start working as teachers, but Homer is not doing well with his students and Lisa (who was horrified that Homer became a professor mainly because he didn't take the responsibility of educating people seriously) offers him a DVD box set of inspirational teachers movies. After watching them, he gets better at teaching and Mr. Burns sells Homer to Bourbon.

Homer meets Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings, Suze Orman, and Robert McKee, and sees them being introduced to a group of young female "students" who are actually life-like humanoid robots that will all get into Yale and earn "financial aid" that gets funneled directly to Bourbon.

Six months later, Homer ruins Bourbon's integration of the robots at Yale University with a microaggression that makes them all explode.

In the final scene, the teachers then start teaching Lisa, Marge, and Bart at the Simpson residence.

Set during the summer of 1987, ''Cruise'' focuses on Gio Fortunato, a blue-collar Italian-American who is preoccupied with car racing and chasing women. Life starts to change for Fortunato when he meets Jessica Weinberg, a "nice Jewish girl" from Long Island who ventures into Gio's neighborhood looking for some action.

Robert D. Keppel, a criminology professor at the University of Washington, is approached by Detective Dave Reichert to help profile a serial killer preying on prostitutes in the Seattle, Washington area. Keppel agrees over the objections of his wife Sande, who is tired of him spending more time with crime scene investigations than with her.

Keppel receives a letter from serial killer Ted Bundy, whom Keppel had helped send to death row, offering to "consult" on the case. Keppel conducts a series of interviews with Bundy under the guise of wanting his expertise. In reality, he is hoping that Bundy will reveal details of his own murders before he is executed. Bundy is little help in profiling the killer, whom he dubs "The Riverman", but he does shed light on his own pathology, particularly his need to "possess" his victims, even to the point of necrophilia. Finally, Bundy confesses to several unsolved murders in the vain hope that Keppel will delay his execution.

Meanwhile, Keppel and Reichert question a suspect, Gary Ridgway, and take a DNA sample. Years later, the DNA is used to convict Ridgway of the murders.

The final season depicts the culmination of the series' two primary conflicts: the Great War against the Army of the Dead, and the Last War for control of the Iron Throne. In the first half of the season, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and many of the main characters converge at Winterfell to face the Dead. During the battle, Bran lures the Night King into the open where Arya destroys him; the army of White Walkers and wights crumbles. Meanwhile, Cersei Lannister remains in King's Landing and strengthens her forces to set traps for a weakened Daenerys. The second half of the season resumes the war for the throne as Daenerys suffers losses until she finally assaults King's Landing upon Drogon, her last dragon. She defeats Cersei's forces, burns the city and kills Cersei and her brother Jaime. Daenerys vows to "liberate" the whole world as she has liberated the capital of Westeros. Unable to sway her from her destructive path, an agonized Jon kills her. Drogon flies away with her body, but not before destroying the Iron Throne with dragonfire. The leaders of Westeros choose Bran Stark as King, who grants the North independence and appoints Tyrion his Hand. Sansa Stark is crowned Queen in the North. Arya sails west, and Jon leads the Wildlings north of the Wall.

A mysterious phantom appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. The guards are unable to catch it. A student, André Bellegarde obstinately tries to find out more about the strange creature by himself. He seems to be more effective in doing so than the local police led by commissaire Menardier. Bellegarde does cooperate with the police, too, but he mostly goes his own way investigating Belphégor's activity. A secret society is in the background. Bellegarde, in the meantime, is involved in two romances and cannot decide which woman to dedicate himself as the case gets more and more serious and criminal and threads meet.

The film is a story of two brothers from a lower caste, who go through every evil of society from bankruptcy to unemployment through the clutches of politicians, local dealers and medical services. Sarpanch Haakam is the antagonist who wishes to destroy Keepa and his nuclear family but, one Veterinary doctor comes in between to save them and their family.

Doug Sanborn (Ralph Bellamy) runs a small charter company based at a regional airport. His daughter, Kitty (Suzanne Pleshette), a young female pilot wants to be in the Unlimited class at the air races but her male friends stymie her ambitions. Her former boyfriend Taff Malloy (James Farentino) has recently come back from the US Navy and a stint as a pilot in Vietnam. Now married to Lisa (Juliet Mills), a tragic accident on their honeymoon, results in his wife's death.

With Lisa's recent death, Kitty tries to console Taff but he is distraught and rebuffs her. In frustration, she seeks out Taff's rival, bad-boy pilot Hal Random (Jeremy Slate) and runs off with him. When her father and other male friends find out about the affair, they berate Kitty and make her feel so bad she wants to kill herself.

Flying her North American P-51 Mustang racing aircraft with the intention of crashing it, Kitty is followed by Taff in his Grumman F8F Bearcat, who tries to talk her out of it. His soothing words finally make an impression and help to bring Kitty back safely.

Menashe ( ), a recently widowed Hasidic Jewish man, tries to regain custody of his ten-year-old son Rieven (Ruben Niborski). Rieven is living with his aunt and uncle (Eizik, Yoel Weisshaus) per a ruling by the Rabbi (Meyer Schwartz) that Menashe must first remarry to provide a proper home for his son. Menashe's first marriage was unhappy, and he is reluctant to wed again. He works as a clerk in a grocery store with a difficult manager, and has a hard time earning enough money for himself. He doesn't wear the traditional black coat and top hat in public, though his son tells him he would look nice in one. Eizik, his successful brother-in-law, looks down on him. They argue in front of the Rabbi, who lets Rieven stay with Menashe for a week, until the upcoming memorial service for his wife, but reiterates the requirement for a two-parent home. Eizik wants the memorial meal in his finer home, but Menashe insists on having it in his shabby apartment. Getting a "bachelor-proof" recipe for kugel from a neighbor, Menashe puts the pan in the oven before going to the cemetery for the service. He and the participants, including the Rabbi, return to an apartment full of smoke. Eizik criticizes the burnt kugel, but the Rabbi praises it and insists the uncle eat a piece. Menashe begs Eizik to let Rieven live with him, but is told he must first find a wife. Menashe says he will see the matchmaker again. He goes to the ritual bath (mikvah), and dons a coat and top hat.

A heartbroken family mourns the death of Kikos' son, nephew and grandson. The irony of the situation is that Kikos is not born yet.

The episode opens with a VT clock slate for a film named ''The Devil of Christmas''. Set in December 1977, the film follows Julian, his pregnant wife Kathy, his mother Celia and his son Toby as they are shown into an Austrian Alpine chalet by Klaus. The party discuss their plans until Toby is struck by an unpleasant painting of the Krampus on the wall.

In a voiceover, the film's director Dennis Fulcher talks to another man about the making of the film, in the style of an audio commentary. The video is rewound so Dennis can comment on a continuity error. He continues to discuss the film over the remainder of the episode, including commenting on the way that "Celia" misses her marks and fluffs her lines, and the way "Julian" says his lines too quickly in his eagerness to get to another job.

Klaus tells of the Krampus, unnerving Kathy. Before bed, Toby leaves out his boots for the Krampus, and Kathy empties a bottle of tablets. The next morning, Toby's boots are filled with switches, indicating—according to Klaus's story—that he has been visited by the Krampus due to his naughtiness. Celia suspects Kathy, who is not Toby's mother, but Julian rebukes her. At dinner, Toby tells of the wonderful day he has had with Klaus. Toby heads to bed, and Kathy speculates that Toby was sleepwalking the night before, becoming agitated when Julian and Celia are unconvinced. That night, both Toby and Celia are out of bed, and the figure of the Krampus is seen. The next day, scratches are found on Toby's body, and Celia leaves with the child.

That night, Julian finds that Kathy has scratches on her back, and the pair discover that her boots are stuffed with switches. Julian later finds Kathy downstairs. Celia calls to say she and Toby are safely home, and Kathy admits that her child is not Julian's. The Krampus snatches her, and Julian keels over, clutching his heart. He needs his medication, but Kathy watches him die, holding his empty pill bottle for him to see. "The Krampus" is revealed to be Klaus in a costume, but Klaus then removes a fake moustache and drops his accent; he is Simon, Kathy's lover.

Fulcher explains that there is a final scene. The actors ready, and the scene begins: Kathy is on a bed, and pours Champagne. She is joined by Simon, still half-costumed, who chains her to the bed. Simon claims to be Krampus, and the scene ends with Kathy screaming as "Krampus" cackles. The actor playing "Krampus" leaves, with the actress playing Kathy believing the filming is over. The cameras keep rolling as plastic sheeting is put under "Kathy" by two stagehands for a scene that was not in the script. Another actor is dressed as the Krampus, and Kathy is roughly gagged by a stagehand. The new Krampus advances, armed with a machete; the older Dennis explains that "Kathy" understands what is about to happen, and that we are witnessing genuine fear. "Kathy" screams, and the tape cuts just as the machete is about to fall. Dennis says that he is surprised the tape has surfaced again, but says it was "one of the better ones"; ''The Devil of Christmas'', unbeknownst to the main cast, was a snuff film. Dennis's interviewer then terminates the police interrogation.

The blood-feud between Atreus and Thyestes was not ended with the vengeance which Atreus wreaked upon his brother. It was fated that Thyestes should live to father upon his own daughter a son, Aegisthus, who would slay Atreus and bring ruin and death upon Agamemnon.

The Trojan War is done, and now the near approach of the victorious king Agamemnon, bringing his captives and treasure home to Argos, has been announced. But his wife Clytemnestra, enraged at Agamemnon because he had sacrificed her daughter Iphigenia at Aulis to appease the winds, and full of jealousy because he brings Cassandra as her rival home, estranged also by the long-continued absence of her husband, but most estranged by her own guilty affair with Aegisthus, is now plotting to slay her husband on his return, gaining both revenge and safety from his anger.

Act I

The ghost of Thyestes, arriving from the underworld, calls upon his son Aegisthus to carry out the revenge which had been promised him by the oracle.

The Chorus of the Women of Argos or Mycenae complains of exalted fortune as unstable, full of anxieties and cares, and therefore gives preference to a modest life.

Act II

Clytemnestra, conscious of her own wickedness, and fearing punishment for her adultery now that her husband has just returned, meditates the destruction of Agamemnon as a remedy. The Nurse however, dissuades her from adopting such a step.

Aegisthus comes on the scene and finds Clytemnestra in a hesitating mood and prepared to yield to the wise counsels of the Nurse. He succeeds in diverting Clytemnestra from her new-born resolution, and on again towards her rash purpose.

The chorus of the women of Mycenae and Argos sing a triumphal hymn in honor of Apollo on account of the victory gained at Troy, but introduce laudatory addresses to Juno, Minerva and Jupiter.

Act III

Eurybates reports that Agamemnon has returned and is now approaching—that a tempest was visited upon them by Pallas, which was made worse for them, through the treachery of Nauplius. Sacrifices are prepared for the gods, and a feast is got ready for Agamemnon. The captives are brought forward.

The Chorus of Trojans bewail the fates and the misfortunes of Troy. Cassandra is seized with one of her prophesying fits, and foretells what dangers are threatening Agamemnon.

Act IV

Cassandra, when Agamemnon returns, predicts his fate, but she is not believed.

The Chorus of Argos Women sing the praises of Hercules, especially as he was brought up at Argos, and they maintain that his arrows were required by the Fates, for the second downfall of Troy.

Act V

Cassandra, although she (actually) sees nothing, and is only in the proscenium, foretells what is to happen, and she narrates everything that is progressing in the banqueting hall to those outside concerning the slaughter of Agamemnon.

Electra persuades her brother Orestes to take flight and luckily encounters Strophius. She hands Orestes over to Strophius to be carried away. Electra flies to the altar for protection.

Clytemnestra orders Electra to be dragged away from the altar and thrown into prison. Clytemnestra orders death for Cassandra.

When Oedipus discovered his crime, he blinded himself; and went into exile with his daughter Antigone, who offered herself as guide. In the meantime his sons Eteocles and Polynices engage in war, the treaty binding them to reign alternately being violated.

Act I

Antigone, the daughter, becomes guide to her blind father, and prevails on Oedipus to relinquish his determination to die.

Act II

A messenger sent from Thebes, beseeches Oedipus that he should return and reconcile his sons. Oedipus refuses, and heading to the dismal forests, lavishes his insults upon his sons.

Act III

(The beginning of this act is lost). Jocasta from the report that the armies of the brothers are drawn up against each other in battle array, is summoned hastily. She tries her utmost to reconcile the brothers.

Act IV

Jocasta entreats the brothers that they should put away their mutual hatred, and return to the paths of reconciliation and affection. (The rest of this incomplete tragedy is missing.)

The siege of Troy is done and the city is now smouldering ruins. The victorious Greeks have gathered the rich spoils of Troy upon the shore, among these the Trojan women who await their lot to be assigned to their Greek lords and taken to the cities of their foes. But now the ghost of Achilles has risen from the tomb, and demanded that Polyxena be sacrificed to him before the Greeks shall be allowed to sail away. And Calchas, also, bids that Astyanax be slain, for only then can Greece be safe from any future Trojan war.

Act I

Hecuba laments with the Chorus of Trojans the destruction of their country and the death of Hector and Priam.

Act II

Talthybius relates that the Ghost of Achilles has appeared, and reproving the Greeks for their ingratitude, demanded that Polyxena, under the pretext of marriage with whom, he was slain, should be sacrificed at his tomb as an offering to the chthonic gods. Otherwise the Greeks will not have a favourable wind for their return.

Agamemnon and Pyrrhus quarrel about the sacrifice. Calchas is summoned and he asserts that not only must Polyxena be slain, but Astynax must also be hurled from the tower.

The Chorus denies that Achilles appeared as a spirit, and asserts that the soul dies forever with the body.

Act III

Andromache having taken alarm at a vision in her dream, hides away her son in his father's tomb. Ulysses in his cleverness discovers where he is, and drags him forth to meet his death.

Andromache mingles curses and threats with her supplications entreating Ulysses, but not prevailing upon him. The Trojans, once allotted to the Greeks, are to be conveyed to various parts of Greece—some to Sparta, some to Mycenae, some to Ithaca, and to the country of Helen, Agamemnon and Ulysses.

Act IV

The plan is discussed as to how the sacrifices to the chthonic gods and manes of Achilles are to be conducted; and in what garments, Polyxena, who is to be sacrificed under the impression of a real marriage, is to be arrayed. Also what part shall be played by Helen, in order that she may cajole Polyxena with the vain hope of marrying Pyrrhus: she at first, keeps up the pretence, but after a time dismisses the deception, having argued with Andromache, she confesses everything and openly recommends the fulfilment of the scheme.

The Chorus derives consolation from the misfortune being shared by so many; "as if for the wretched to have companions in sorrow were a solace," and then draws attention to the fact that the solace in question will lose its efficacy, as they will be separated by the allotting that has been going on.

Act V

The Messenger informs the mothers, Hecuba and Andromache, that Astyanax has been hurled from the tower and Polyxena slain at the tomb of Achilles.

Lycus was exiled for his crimes by Creon the father-in-law of Hercules and king of Thebes. Hercules being at that time away in the underworld, where he had gone to seek out Cerberus as the final labour assigned him by Eurystheus through Juno's hatred. Here he found Theseus, who had made a descent into the regions of Pluto in company of Pirithous with the intention of carrying off Proserpine. Lycus seized his opportunity, and aided by conspirators, slayed Creon together with his two sons, and usurped the Kingdom of Thebes.

Act I

Juno vents her anger at the love affairs of Jupiter, his concubines and bastard offspring, and is very angry about the successes of Hercules, and so on his return from the underworld will be thrown by Juno into a state of mad frenzy.

The Chorus of Thebans beginning with a description of the dawn of day alludes to the customs of the times, condemning the pursuits and undertakings of the nobles. They reprove Hercules for his audacity in the attempting of his various labors, and finally extol and sigh for the tranquillity which is only to be found in leading a retired life.

Act II

Megara bewails the absence of Hercules, and complains of the violence and insolence of Lycus. Amphitryon pities the despondent state of Megara's mind, and tenders his consolation.

Lycus, having slain Creon and his sons, has established himself on the throne and governs the kingdom. He seeks to marry Megara, using every stratagem, and threatens violence in case she refuses.

Act III

Hercules asks for the pardon of Phoebus and the rest of the gods, that although having been commanded, he had dragged Cerberus from the underworld to the regions above.

Hercules having returned from the underworld with Theseus encounters Amphitryon who greets him and informs him about events. Hercules goes off to kill Lycus. Theseus provides Amphitryon with an account of the underworld and the deeds of Hercules.

The Chorus sings of the victory of Hercules gained in the underworld, and praises the hero.

Act IV

Hercules having returned after the slaughter of Lycus, as he is about to offer sacrifices to the gods whom he has invoked, becomes mad and under the influence of his madness, he kills his wife and children, and then falls into a deep sleep.

Act V

Hercules wakes, with his mind restored, and learns that he has killed his own children. He prepares to kill himself, but prevailed on, by the appeals of Amphitryon and Theseus, he refrains from suicide, and at the suggestion of Theseus, he starts for Athens, to undergo the ordeal of atonement for his mad acts.

The long, heroic life of Hercules has neared its end. His twelve great tasks, assigned him by Eurystheus through Juno's hatred, have been done. His latest victory was over Eurytus, king of Oechalia. Hercules slew the king and overthrew his house, because he would not give Hercules his daughter Iole in marriage. And now the hero, having overcome the world, and Pluto's realm beneath the earth, aspires to heaven. He sacrifices to Cenaean Jove, and prays at last to be received into his proper home.

Act I

The first scene, with the chorus following, is at Euboea, where Hercules, about to offer sacrifices on the promontory of Cenaeum, records his wishes for a place in the heavens, which he recounts and boasts he has deserved. (The rest of the Tragedy takes place at Trachis.)

Iole joining in with the Chorus of Oechalians, bewails the destruction of her country, the slaughter of her father and kinsfolk and lastly, her own position of servitude.

Act II

Deianira, furious with jealousy having seen Iole, debates revenge with her nurse. She decides to send a garment to Hercules anointed with the blood of the centaur Nessus. She believes that it will act as love charm, but mentions how Nessus told her that the charm must be kept in darkness.

The Chorus of Aetolian women bewail the lot of Deianira, they express their dislike of ambition, avarice, luxury and other frivolous pursuits of mankind, and praise the inferior conditions of life.

Act III

Deianira repents of her plan when she is acquainted with what danger the poison has brought about, and the calamity, as predicted from its exposure to the sun, has now taken place. Having learned about this from Hyllus, Deianira resolves to kill herself.

The Chorus sings of everything as being subject to Death, regarding the failing strength of Hercules— "that nothing born or created is lasting," which sentiment of Orpheus it praises, and they intersperse the Chorus with celebrating his divine art.

Act IV

Hercules complains about suffering undeservedly, and that he should be doomed to die an ignominious death, especially one arising out of a woman's treachery. Alcmena consoles Hercules, whilst lamenting his sad fate.

Hyllus having returned, tells Hercules that Deianira, after she found that she had been deceived by Nessus, killed herself.

The Chorus beseeches Phoebus to announce to all the world the death of Hercules: they predict the apotheosis of Hercules, and implore Jupiter, that there may be no more Tyrants, wild beasts or monsters, brought forth in the future, if so, that another Hercules may be forthcoming, as the avenger of such calamities.

Act V

Philoctetes announces the death and the last disposal of the body of Hercules.

Alcmena grieves about her own downfall, arising out of the death of Hercules. Alcmena, in her grief, chants a funeral dirge.

Hercules, having been raised to the companionship of the gods, consoles his grieving mother, being introduced into this scene by being lowered from the heavens above.

The chorus breathes its thanks for the Apotheosis of Hercules, and is ready to worship the new Deity.

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