John considered his life to be quite prosperous. He had a well-regarded law firm, a beautiful wife, Ann, and a mistress, Cynthia, who was Ann's younger sister. This idyll was completely shattered by the arrival of his university friend Graham, who seemed a little strange to Ann and John.

Finding himself in a bar with Ann, Graham confessed to her that he was currently impotent. Upon visiting Graham, Ann found him in possession of a series of videotapes, each with a woman's name. Through persistence, Ann learned that each tape contained a sexual confession by a woman. She also learned that this was Graham's way of getting sexual gratification.

Paris, late 19th century. Talented engineer Gustave Eiffel dreams of building the subway, the subway railroad of the future. However, meeting a mysterious woman from his past literally turns Eiffel's world upside down. Their dizzying romance inspires him to create an unimaginable architectural masterpiece - a giant openwork tower, which eventually becomes a symbol of Paris, romance and love.

Jeff and Amy Taylor decided to move to their new residence in San Diego in an expensive Jeep. On the way, Jeff almost crashes into a pickup truck with two local thugs. And when the jeep suddenly stalled on the side of a deserted highway, the driver of a hitchhiking trailer Red Barr offered to give Amy a ride to the nearest phone, and Jeff stayed to guard the car.

From that moment on, his life becomes a nightmare. At the roadside café where he had arranged to meet his wife, Jeff doesn't find Amy. It turns out that homegrown bandits decided to take for the kidnapped woman ransom. And then peace-loving common man Jeff, having escaped from under the barrels of extortionists, himself turns into a ruthless hunter...

Paul Edgecombe is the warden of the death row block at Cold Mountain Prison, each of whose prisoners once walks the "green mile" on their way to their place of execution. Paul has seen many inmates and wardens during his tenure. However, the giant John Coffey, charged with a terrible crime, became one of the block's most unusual residents.

A childless farming couple lives in the misty Icelandic wilderness. One day, one of their sheep brings a mysterious creature, which the couple take into the house and decide to raise as their own child.

Compton, 1988. Richard Williams, father of five daughters, has long ago drawn up a detailed plan for his girls' futures and is doggedly pursuing it, with eight-year-old Venus and seven-year-old Serena set to become tennis stars. Although Richard and his wife Brandi have little understanding of professional tennis training, they have been training their daughters themselves and have been doing their best to teach them technique. World-renowned coach Paul Cohen, who works with Pete Sampras and John McEnroe, agrees to free lessons, but only for Venus. Then Richard records the lessons on camera, and Brandy starts coaching Serena based on them.

Private detective Kindaichi is called in to prevent a family tragedy involving the division of the Inugami family's vast inheritance. The detective shows amazing resourcefulness, but his efforts cannot prevent the murders that follow one after another.

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 ...