Since childhood, Evan has suffered from strange visions and realistic dreams, knows things he never memorized, and has unexplainable skills. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he lives a miserable existence and is dependent on pills. Trying to get another batch of pills, Evan gets into a fight with a dealer, makes a mess and ends up in police custody. Evan tries to get the next batch of pills and gets caught by the police, where he is confronted by a mysterious man who claims to have known him for a long time - since the Second Punic War.

Terrible events take place in 2127th year on the space station Minos, Dr. Merchant, obsessed with some strange, crazy ideas, took over the station to conduct in life his mysterious experiments, the Doctor was "tied up", and he told how he came to such a life, And it turned out that the reason for the madness of the doctor - in the magic cube, made by the master of toys Le Marchant a few centuries ago.

A small town in Nevada. While breaking up a wedding brawl, a young policewoman Valerie Young is punched in the face by a visiting hustler. Only he is put behind bars in the local police station, as in the cops on duty on a deserted road almost crashes a car into some drunkard. They put him in another cell, and he's here for a reason. Soon the formerly quiet police station becomes a place of violent confrontation, and Valerie has to make difficult decisions.

A single mother with two teenage children Trevor and Phoebe settles on an old farm in Oklahoma, inherited from her father, who abandoned her as a child. The woman was counting on some money, but received only debts from her father. However, inquisitive Phoebe discovers in the house strange devices created by her grandfather and his laboratory, and Trevor finds a car Ecto-1, which belonged to popular in the 1980s ghost hunters.

Andy, Chris and Brad are traveling through Europe in search of adventure. They find them in Paris when one night Andy prevents the suicide of a young French woman, Seraphine, and sets out with his friends to find this beautiful mademoiselle. It turns out that Seraphine is a werewolf and is being held captive by the head of the clan, Claude.

Many millennia ago, a group of superhumans with superpowers, the Eternals, were sent to Earth from the planet Olympia. Since prehistoric times, they had been protecting mankind from the attacks of horrible deviant monsters, but any other interference in the development of civilization was forbidden to them.

Early 21st century. Several centuries have already passed since the last deviant was destroyed, when after a strange earthquake a new monster is suddenly announced. Now the Eternals living in different corners of the planet will have to join forces again to face the new threat.

A conscientious policeman dies on active duty trying to expose a gang of scientists who reanimate corpses, who then rob banks without fear.

Accidentally subjected to the same treatment, the dead policeman brings the case to an end by calling his assailants to account.

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 ...