September 1977. Maria Callas, a world-famous opera diva in early retirement, lives in a luxurious Parisian apartment with two poodles, a cook and a butler. The job of the first, in addition to cooking, is to give Maria compliments. The second moves a huge grand piano around the house for her from morning to night, counts her pills, picks her up from restaurants and tries to convince her to talk to a specialist instead of hallucinations.
What was Mark Whitaker thinking? As an up-and-coming employee of Archer Daniels Midland Agribusiness Corporation (ADM), Whitaker suddenly becomes a snitch. Despite the fact that Whitaker reports to the FBI that the multinational company he works for is artificially keeping prices too high, he considers himself a hero, looking out for the interests of ordinary citizens and worthy of promotion. But in order to make his dreams come true, the FBI needs evidence, which is why Whitaker happily agrees to put on a special listening device, and in a briefcase to hide a tape recorder, imagining himself a kind of special agent, performing a top-secret mission.
1879. The civil war has ended in the United States. Sheriff Earp gives up his job to start a new life with his family. Meanwhile, a silver deposit is found in Tombstone, and a silver rush begins in the town. Earp and his friend, Doc Holliday, are sent to Tombstone, along with a brutal gang of killers.
Scientist and teacher Norman Spencer lives with his wife Claire. One day she sees the ghost of a girl. When Claire manages to establish a connection with her and understand why the girl is so persistent in trying to "get through" to her, the couple's lives are turned upside down.
Geneviève works in the family haberdashery selling umbrellas. She is in love with Guy, a car mechanic, and he reciprocates. But soon Guy is taken into the army and sent to Algeria. Parting, the lovers promise to wait for each other. Then Geneviève learns that she is pregnant, but there is no news from her beloved, and the girl agrees to marry a wealthy and respectable man.
The action unfolds in post-war Berlin, turned into ruins by World War II. Jake Geismar, an American war correspondent, is drawn into political games by his former lover Lena Brandt, whose missing husband becomes the object of a manhunt by both the American and Soviet armies. The situation escalates as Jake tries to uncover what Lena, desperate to escape Berlin with her husband, is hiding. She plans to use the contacts of Jake's personal driver, US Army soldier Tully, who has black market connections. Only there's no guarantee that they won't end up in an even bigger trap as a result...
Fate has thrown the rich, wayward beauty Rafaela and the poor communist Gennarino onto a deserted island. There's not a soul around for miles. Somewhere far away there was a luxurious yacht, on which Rafaela and her friends and husband rested, and the sailor worked in the sweat of his brow, silently enduring the whims of the exploiters. Now he had the perfect opportunity to get even for all the humiliation. But from class hatred to passionate love, as we know, is not very far.
The action takes place in Paris in the late sixties. A forty-five-year-old American man is shocked by the recent death of his wife, he considers himself guilty and is in a state of deep depression. Desperately clinging to life, he meets a young Parisian woman, a strange and eccentric girl much younger than him. Their connection turns into a passion that reaches almost to the point of madness, a passion whose limits are hard to imagine....
Northern California. Summer 1850. The boss of a gold mining company suggests that the independent prospectors leave voluntarily or they will be thrown out by force. The intimidated men have no choice. But one day a stranger arrives at their camp, the prospectors call him "The Preacher." He becomes the boss's rider of vengeance, and hell follows him.
