A driven artist travels to Beirut with her husband, but her life turns into a nightmare when she wakes up ten years later amnesiac and in a mental institution.
Tibetan princess Lhatse, who, while fleeing danger, enters a time-space portal that splits her soul into three. Stranded in the modern world, she and her loyal guard Dorje must fend off pursuers, rediscover herself, and find a way back to her ancient kingdom.
Innocent people find themselves hostages whose lives are controlled by Kalashnikov rifles, and there is no way for them to survive except by making a fateful decision whose language is bullets and smoke.
The story revolves around journalist Mai El-Gebali, who decides to write a book about a serial killer sentenced to death. With the help of one of her lovers, who has close ties to the security services, she succeeds in securing weekly meetings with the serial killer Mahmoud Helmy, who exposes the secrets of this nightmarish world.
Lidia and Wally meet when she buys him his house. They fall in love, but Lidia lives in Madrid, Spain, and Wally in Neuquen, Argentina. Their Skype conversations are interrupted by glitches that happen in Lidia's computer. Wally begins to feel that Lidia is not quite right: she talks about presences in the house, voices talking in other rooms, people that -whenever the conversation is interrupted by glitches- want to hurt her. Soon Rodrigo appears in the story: he's Lidia's obsessed and stalker ex-boyfriend. Is he the mysterious presence, or is there something else lurking in the shadows?
Young Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice has been dead for over a hundred years and wishes to drag Lucy back in time, to play with her for eternity.
Moscow opera Vasily Sharonov is a tough and uncompromising person. For these qualities, as well as for the cold look and stern expression on his face, his colleagues have long nicknamed him the Sheriff. Because of the difficult nature of the Sheriff, he was once kicked out by his wife, and now his teenage son is avoiding him. Because of his character, neither his subordinates nor his superiors like him.
In 2002, young prosecutor Xiao Ran investigates a brutal bank manager murder, but the suspect eludes capture. Fifteen years later, he reopens the case, identifies the real culprit, and works tirelessly with authorities to bring them to justice.