Canadian nurse Betsy Connell arrives on a Caribbean island to care for Jessica Holland, the wife of a wealthy farmer. Her patient lives in an incomprehensible twilight state: she is speechless, moves like the living dead, and wanders like a ghost at night. Betsy believes Jessica is suffering from a nervous disorder when she learns that the locals practice a voodoo cult.

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.

When Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry accidentally witness a gangland shootout, they promptly rush off on a train to Florida pretending to be women. Now they are Josephine and Daphne, the new and pretty instrumentalists of an all-female jazz band.

For the time being, their disguise works. But soon the amorous soloist falls in love with Josephine "disguised" as a man, an elderly millionaire hits on Daphne, and the mafia boss, having solved the mystery of the masquerade, decides to urgently deal with the witnesses.

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 ...

In the world there are two very similar girls with the same name. In Poland lives Veronika, who discovers a wonderful voice and starts to perform on stage. In France lives another Veronica, who also dreams of singing, but she fails to realize her desire and plunges headlong into the joys of love.... As if something invisible binds them together: when the life of one of them ends, the other one seems to pick her up and continue her life....

A continuation of the largely autobiographical story of teenager Antoine Duanel. He is weighed down by his position in school and in his family, and seeks to escape from the dull and dreary everyday life. After growing up, Duanel falls in love with and marries Christine, becomes the father of a child, then experiments with adultery, having an uninteresting love affair with Kyoko.

Hathaway Noah leads a rebellion against the Earth Federation after the Chara Rebellion, but an encounter with an enemy army officer and a mysterious woman changes his fate.

After divorce, Polish migrant plans how to get even with ex-wife