
The police have a problem: their former informant was tracked down by the triads and killed. It is not easy to find a new agent, and then the former desperate policeman Ko Chow comes to mind.
The action takes place in the year 2058, when people have no more than twenty years to live on Earth - everything has been exhausted. An outstanding scientist John Robinson and his family are sent on a super-modern starship to the distant planet Alpha Prime, suitable for habitation, to build there a hypergate through which the evacuation of mankind will be carried out. Extremists send the insidious Dr. Smith aboard to destroy the Robinson family and the ship itself. Accidentally staying on the ship to avoid being killed, Smith wakes up the Robinsons and Major West, a dashing combat pilot. To avoid collision with the Sun, the Major turns on the hyperdrive, and the starship is lost in a hitherto unknown part of space.
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.
Newlyweds Shane and June Brown come to Paris for their honeymoon. But Shane's thoughts are far from romance - he became a victim of reckless experiments of French doctor Leo Semeno, who studied the peculiarities of sexual desire in people, as a result of which he now wants to eat his wife. He hopes to find the scientist, but fate confronts him with Cora, Leo's wife, who is afflicted with the same terrible disease.
1990. Neither South nor North Korea is a member of the UN, so the two states are actively seeking diplomatic allies in African countries that have a voice in the Organization. While the staff of both embassies in Mogadishu are busy with intrigue and backstabbing, for 10 years the ongoing civil war in Somalia has been engulfing the capital.