I Awoke Early the Day I Died

Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow. All the more as she is the one who supplies Jacques with the plots of his detective stories. When Jacques, yearning for true love, meets young, pretty Muriel, he can't stand the situation any longer. Fortunately - for him - the plot of the 101st detective story imagined by his wife is about a ... perfect crime. He simply has to follow her instructions to ... get rid of her. Everything goes according to plan until Jacques discovers a scary detail: the presence of a mysterious witness on the scene of the crime...

Hotaru Amami, who manages her own private investigate office, is working on extermination of swindlers target women with her assistant Mizuno, who is a law student. The client this time is Sayaka Onuma. She tells that her father killed himself because he had franchise fraud and asks to avenge them. By listening to what she said, somewhat, Hotaru feels something is wrong about her request with no reason. What would the weird feeling be that Hotaru has?. It leads to an astonish ending!.

On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator for lack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.

In the course of 52 days, the crazed environment surrounding spring break wreaks havoc on Panama City Beach. Sheriff Frank McKeithen is a dedicated lawman desperately trying to reclaim his county from the turmoil.

The trials and tribulations of Anne, a young Berliner whose aspirations to be a police officer land her in Rostock, a run-down city in the northeastern part of the country.