Grim Pickings is a 1989 Australian mini series shot in the Adelaide Hills about a family who makes its annual pilgrimmage to an elderly aunt's orchard to help with the apple harvest.
A "devil" website connected four unrelated ordinary individuals by giving each of them a tiny amount of super power to satisfy their needs. When they discover others who had signed up on the same site were dying mysteriously, they worry they may be next. They start to probe into who gave them the powers. Their investigation points them to a deadly "human puzzle" experiment in which they are the subjects and organ donors for a new life. When it comes time for the devil to demand its payments, their powers maybe the only thing that can save their lives.
Five years ago, Polina's son Mark mysteriously disappears from a kindergarten in Ukraine. Her scars are torn open again when she sees her missing boy on her TV screen during a story about Latvia. She is determined to find him and bring him home. Not getting the support she expected from the police, she persuades an ex-intelligence officer who is ready to help her, but it's not that simple! They uncover the activities of a criminal gang and Marcus is happy in his foster home in Latvia. Starring Agnese Cīrule, Rihards Lepers, Aleksandrs Neikens and others as Marcus.
Though rivals at times, forensic expert Yang Ming and trace analyst Yao Jiajian use their sharp instincts and professional expertise to unravel a series of complex cases, making them an unstoppable team in the pursuit of truth.
It includes different and entertaining segments that are held between two groups of well-known faces. Each group consists of a leader and a sibling who must be well-acquainted with each other's moral qualities so that they can overcome the various challenges of the competition and reach the final prize.