Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

The story takes place in Moscow in the years 1938 to 1940 and the drama centers around the apartment of Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife Yelena.
Bulgakov has just finished his play The Life of Monsieur de Molière which his friends acclaim a masterpiece. The night after the premiere, he is visited by two secret policemen from the NKVD. They tell him the play is banned and will never be shown again unless he cooperates with them in writing a "hack" play on the life of the young Joseph Stalin. At first Bulgakov resists their bullying and refuses to cooperate even though this could endanger his life. Their terrorizing of Bulgakov intensifies until he pretends to start work, but sits at the typewriter unable to put words to paper. Then one night he receives a phone call and a mystery voice offers him help if he goes to a certain metro station and enters a door hidden in the tunnel. Bulgakov follows the instructions and finds himself alone in a room beneath the Kremlin with Joseph Stalin himself. Stalin says he has always admired Bulgakov's work and offers his assistance in the play. Stalin sits at the typewriter and produces scenes which delight the NKVD with their depiction of Stalin as an heroic and glorious leader fighting Czarist oppression. While Stalin types Bulgakov relieves Stalin of the burden of some of his state papers. Inadvertantly Bulgakov becomes involved in issuing the orders which bring about the Great Purge of Stalinist Russia. The play is finished but the monster of the purges consumes his friends lives one by one. The strain on Bulgakov leads to an intensification of his inherited disease , nephrosclerosis, and his eventual death.

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Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.

威尔（亚历山大·路德韦格 Alexander Ludwig 饰）跟随着父母从美国搬到了英国，新的环境，新的学校和新的朋友，对于天生胆小害羞的威尔来说，想要适应这些是一件颇为不易的事情。一次意外中，马里曼（伊恩·麦柯肖恩 Ian McShane 饰）和格蕾索恩小姐（弗兰西丝· 康罗伊 Frances Conroy 饰）出现在了威尔的面前，他们向威尔讲述了他血液里流淌着的神奇传说。
曾经，代表光明的“追捕手”和代表黑暗的“骑士”一直都争锋相对，可是，随着时间的流逝，光明追捕手一脉渐渐的陨落了，而威尔竟然是这一血脉最后的继承人。为了打败重新崛起的黑暗骑士，威尔必须穿梭于时空之中寻找六个禁锢了光明力量的封印，面对强大的对手，胆小的威尔真的能够顺利完成任务吗？

A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.