Mid-19th century. Mute Ada, along with her young daughter and her beloved piano, leaves her native Scotland and moves to the other side of the world, to New Zealand, where her future husband Stuart is waiting for her. He refuses to deliver the piano to the house, which is left abandoned on the beach. Ada, who has not spoken since she was six years old, nevertheless shows her husband the depth of her anger. For this strong woman, silence is far from a sign of agreement.

Stuart's savage-looking neighbor Baines brings the piano that replaces Ada's voice to his home. She can have it back, but only if she comes to Baines' house and gives him music lessons - by the number of keys. These lessons will lead them into an abyss of fatal passions.....

Duanel takes a job at a detective agency, where he botches every case he is assigned to investigate. He finally gets the opportunity to demonstrate his "technical aptitude" by properly wrapping a shoe box in a store. Duanel must find out why the store owner, Mr. Tabard, feels that someone hates him and whether there is a conspiracy against him. One day, late for work, Duanel meets Fabienne, Tabard's wife, and becomes involved in a love affair with her.

The main character is over 30. He works as a proofreader in a publishing house and writes prose. He has a mistress, Sabine, a music record saleswoman, and divorces his wife Christine, and their divorce turns out to be the first consensual divorce in France.

His life goes on as usual, until one day Colette, a former lover of Duanel, does not fall into the eyes of his novel, in many ways autobiographical ...

In the world there are two very similar girls with the same name. In Poland lives Veronika, who discovers a wonderful voice and starts to perform on stage. In France lives another Veronica, who also dreams of singing, but she fails to realize her desire and plunges headlong into the joys of love.... As if something invisible binds them together: when the life of one of them ends, the other one seems to pick her up and continue her life....

A continuation of the largely autobiographical story of teenager Antoine Duanel. He is weighed down by his position in school and in his family, and seeks to escape from the dull and dreary everyday life. After growing up, Duanel falls in love with and marries Christine, becomes the father of a child, then experiments with adultery, having an uninteresting love affair with Kyoko.

Twelve-year-old Antoine Duanel is a troubled teenager. His mother is busy with her personal life, and she has neither time nor desire to get involved in her son's problems. His stepfather is a weak-willed man who has no influence either on his wife or on his son. The teacher only punishes the boy. Antoine and his friend attend school less and less often and run away from home.

Hathaway Noah leads a rebellion against the Earth Federation after the Chara Rebellion, but an encounter with an enemy army officer and a mysterious woman changes his fate.

Young provincial girl Eloise is crazy about the 1960s. She has lived with her grandmother all her life, but now she is going to study fashion design in London. Unable to adapt to the noisy life in the dormitory, she moves to a more familiar environment - she rents a room from an elderly landlady that has not seen renovation for a long time. The first night in the new place Eloise has a very realistic dream, or she really is transported to her favorite era in the form of a spectacular blonde, who is determined to conquer the night Soho.

American, British and Canadian prisoners of war make a mass escape from a German camp during World War II.