
In an attempt to return home, a boy and a little bird embark on a journey to a strange island.
Los Angeles, 1948. Jake is hired by his namesake land dealer Jake Berman. Berman is convinced that his wife is cheating on him and asks Gittes to dig up every possible detail. Gittes, in turn, not only finds out all the details, but also offers Berman to "catch" his wife red-handed, right during an intimate rendezvous. The two Jakes set up an ambush for the unfaithful spouse. At the most crucial moment Berman, instead of making his wife a scene of jealousy, kills her lover. And all this could have been written off as a state of passion, if the murdered man had not turned out to be Berman's business partner. After the death of his business partner, Jake Berman is left with all the money. Now Gittes has to find out whether what happened was an accident or a cold-blooded planned murder....
17-year-old Gretchen arrives in Germany with her father, stepmother, and single younger sister, Alma, to a small recreation center whose owner, her father's longtime business partner, has offered him a job planning a new facility. The girl is not excited about the move and misses her mother. Relations with her father finally deteriorate when Alma is hospitalized with convulsions of unknown origin, and Gretchen herself begins to be haunted by a creepy woman.
After their father's death, step-siblings Andy and Piper go to live with their adoptive mother, Laura. The boy is used to taking care of his visually impaired sister and, in three months, when he turns 18, he plans to become her legal guardian. Although Laura seems caring and understanding at first glance, she and her strange son arouse Andy's suspicions more and more.
Marybeth Medina, deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, learns of the death of her former supervisor Ray King. In an attempt to find the killers, she takes Ray's clue and contacts Christian Wolff, a brilliant autistic mathematician and shadow auditor with killer skills. Enlisting the support of his brother Braxton, Christian gradually puts all the pieces of the puzzle together, but King's killers aren't slumbering either.
October 1990. Joe Deacon, a middle-aged deputy sheriff nicknamed Deaky, is sent on a minor assignment to Los Angeles. Five years earlier, he was a respected detective there, but one investigation ruined his life and his health. Dickie meets a young, ambitious colleague, Jim Baxter, who is working on a series of murders suspiciously similar to those unsolved five years earlier. Dickie decides to stay on the job, determined to see the case through to the end and track down the killer at any cost.
The girl Scottie Parker arrives at the university later than the other students, so she doesn't get a place in the student dormitory. Then she rents a room in a large old estate by the sea, in which live hermits: Mason Engels and his mother. Soon someone starts killing students on campus. Scottie begins to suspect the Engels family of committing these crimes. She learns that Mason's crazy sister Virginia, who is kept locked in the basement of the house by the owners, also lives on the estate....
In a small town many years ago children disappeared, and these cases remained unsolved. And now the nightmare returns to the sleepy town - on his birthday, Michael disappears on his way home from school. In search of her brother, Wendy Darling finds herself on the trail of Peter Pan, a maniac obsessed with the idea of eternal childhood who drags his victims to Netland.