Corby, Northamptonshire, 1994. The steel industry, which employed 11,000 people, abruptly closes its plant. Faced with this disaster, the town’s elected representatives decided to redevelop the industrial wasteland. They wanted to move as quickly as possible, and called in a service provider who would not be encumbered by time-consuming precautions. In the years that followed, […]
Sicilia, 1860. The island is ruled by nobles affiliated to the House of Bourbons of Naples, but Italy’s war of unification was just around about to impact Sicilia. Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, known as “the Leopard”, strives to protect his family and lands before the imminent arrival of Garibaldi’s army. Respected by all,
1945. Claire Randall is a nurse in the British army. After the victory, she goes back to her husband, Franck, whom she barely had time to marry before the war tore them apart. They are having a late honeymoon in Inverness, Scotland. But despite their best efforts, they feel like strangers to each other. One
London, East End, around 1880. Hezekiah Moscow and his friend Alec Munroe arrive from Jamaica. Their skin color doesn’t go unnoticed. Although the neighborhood is poor, no hostel would take them in. Only Monsieur Lao, also a foreigner, agrees to rent them a cellar in his hotel, and then only because he discovers that Hezekiah
[can’t pitch the story without spoiling the end of the first episode !] Cal Bradford, President of the United States of America, has been murdered. This crime would already have been extraordinary three years ago, before the end of the world. But here, in a bunker under video surveillance, where a few gazillionaires think they’re
George Mullen, a former American President, is the only one who left before the end of his second term. His son had just died, he quit. It was years ago, but he is still quite popular. So when an unimaginable catastrophe strikes the country, the President calls on him to head a commission of inquiry.
Samantha has just inherited a country manor. Not quite sure what to do with it, she sets off with her husband Jay to visit it. But she takes a nasty fall down the huge staircase, and spends two weeks in a coma. When she returns, she discovers that the mansion is haunted! She can now
Long ago, Gods were able to keep demons at bay. That is, until a cleverer-than-thou demon managed to get the most valiant soldier, the Monkey King, condemned by the gods themselves. Without their captain, Gods falled and the demons reigned over the world, imposing their terror and darkness. 500 year later, a scholar found a
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Peter Sutherland is an FBI agent, as his father was. His father died many years ago, being accused of treason, before he could go to trial. Peter had to grow up with the weight of doubt, and then face the permanent mistrust of his hierarchy for his father’s supposed fault. Yet Peter has proved his
Year 9 after the Battle of Yavin. The empire has just been defeated. The fledgling Republic does not yet control space routes and security in the galaxy. Somewhere, on the planet At Attin, four children find a lost ship. Clumsy with no knowledge of navigation, they unintentionally launch the ship into space. Fortunately, one droid,
