Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.

萨曼莎和艾伦要结婚了，但威廉·哈斯金斯并不高兴。他抓住一辆开往伦敦的火车，开始尾随萨曼塔，因为她想要继续婚姻生活。哈斯金斯试图恐吓她，把她逼到绝望的地步，但她很难让任何人相信她被跟踪了。就连她的精神科医生也不把她的担心当成神经症的一部分。当身体开始出现时，萨曼莎的故事变得更加可信，而她过去的黑暗秘密也开始显露出来。

讲述了四个小罪犯在1873年在犹他州的冒险和旅行，他们包括赌徒和骗子Stubby Preston，怀孕的妓女小兔子O'Neal，酒鬼Clem，还有一个精神失常的人，名叫Bud，他对死人很着迷。这四个人漫无目的地在犹他州的荒地上寻找食物、水和可以诈骗的人，同时他们被一个名叫查科的墨西哥流氓骚扰，这个土包子发誓要报复这个土包子的性侵犯兔子。