Nick Laine's wife is suffering from dementia. Their daughter Marianne has a guarded secret that no one can explain, she will start a relationship with a convict that will change everything for everyone forever in a timeless love story.
The time of the Napoleonic Wars. Her Majesty's warship "Surprise", sailing the Atlantic, was unexpectedly attacked by a huge unknown ship that appeared out of the fog. Thanks to the courage and ingenuity of the crew, the Surprise manages to escape death. Despite heavy damage and losses, Captain Jack Aubrey, nicknamed Lucky, decides to pursue the enemy and sets off on a chase that will take him to the end of the world.
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.
Japan, second half of the 16th century. Shingen, Takeda Shingen's younger brother, saves from death a petty thief condemned for execution who resembles the daimyo like two drops of water. The warlord opposes Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, all trying to capture Kyoto, so when Shingen is mortally wounded, he instructs his subordinates to conceal his death for three years so as not to demoralize his own troops or inspire his enemies. His double, the so-called kagemusha, enters the scene.
1950, somewhere in the Middle East. Extravagant tycoon Ja-Ja Korda survives a series of assassination attempts and embarks on a grand transcontinental project called “The Phoenician Scheme.” In an effort to protect his empire, Corda appoints his daughter Lisl as his sole heir, pulling her out of a convent. They must face numerous enemies, political intrigues, and fight for the future of their family, their business, and all of Phoenicia.
The story of two passion-hungry sisters Gudrun and Ursula and their male lovers Gerald and Rupert, disillusioned with life and the love of women.
Henri Charrière, a safecracker, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to hard labor for a murder he did not commit. Nicknamed the Moth because he has this symbol of thieves tattooed on his chest, Henri makes several escape attempts. As punishment, the authorities put him in a punishment cell for a long time, and then send him to French Guiana on Devil's Island, surrounded on all sides by the ocean. No prisoner has ever escaped from this most dreaded convict prison. But nothing can make Henri lose heart and break his determination to break free.
Sheva returns to her hometown of Louisiana, Kentucky to help her father fight the thugs trying to put him out of business. She seeks out the people and businesses supporting the gangsters and uncovers the secret motives behind their actions. The only question left open is how to counter them. And that's where she comes to the rescue...
