Xiao Jiu, a female corpse handler, is sent to deliver the body of a wealthy young man to an old mansion, where she discovers his parents are holding a ghost marriage ceremony for him. The following day, the parents show up at her door, demanding the return of their son’s body, which they claim has gone missing.
Dougie Molloy is a widower, whose daughter disappeared three years ago. At the time, he was suspected of murdering her. Three years later, Dougie falls in love with divorcee Maggie Shields but has a difficult relationship with her daughter, Scarlett. The day after the couple get married, Scarlett disappears, and Dougie is again the prime suspect.
Good-natured and compassionate Zoya lets young Marina into her home and life, whom she met at the entrance without a phone and money. However, Zoya does not even realize that the stranger did not appear in her life by chance... At the same time, investigator Andrei is dealing with the case of astronomer Nikolsky: he mysteriously passed away and hid his daughter's existence from everyone until the last.
20 years ago a half-frozen boy was rescuded in the mountains after his parents apparent sucide. He gets released from a mental institution and his girlfriend notices him talking about a dark mountain shadow. Meanwhile a murder happens in a residential area in Tokyo. Assistant Inspector Goda Yuichiro takes on the investigation. Soon an official of the Ministery of Justice gets murdered in a similar fashion pointing towards a serial killer. Yet, Goda receives a strange order from above: he's not to further investigate in this direction. He senses a huge mystery behind the case and starts chasing after the psychopath killer called Marks. Somehow a journalist's research about a corrupt construction magnate and another unsolved murder that happend in the mountains 13 years ago are also linked to the case.
After a fire on an abandoned farm near a small provincial town, several female bodies are found buried. All the women have been killed in the past two years, their hands are tied behind their backs with fishing line and their mouths are filled with sand. One of the victims is the wife of a local influential businessman, Eduard Kalashnikov, who disappeared five years ago. His daughter Alina, who came to see her father and introduce him to her fiancé Denis, gets entangled in a web of fears and suspicions. For the first time in her life, Alina herself makes a serious decision: she remains in the city and tries to figure out what is happening, despite the danger, risking her life and love. She will have to grow up, understand how cruel this world is, and make a choice between the two most dear people.
During the Republic of China era, Cheng Ru goes undercover as a nightclub singer to investigate her father’s death during a massive bank robbery. As she grows closer to merchant leader Yan Liang, unexpected emotions and shocking secrets about her fiancé come to light, uncovering a web of intrigue.