La ballena más triste del mundo

A voyage in between a woman who tries to searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

Flanders, a famous female author, travels 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed of the events because she saw the communistic states as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no person to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.

Dara Nevo, a young and dedicated soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)'s elite intelligence unit, races against the clock to find an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza before her father's killer is released in a prisoner exchange.

Johanna is taken by surprise when her mother Henriette introduces her new lover: he's 25 years younger and for Johanna, one thing is for sure: Philipp is a marriage swindler and only after her mom's money. So, she's hiring a private detective - and what he finds out causes real problems in the designer house.

"Mi" has nothing to lose. Everything to gain. But that doesn't necessarily mean she is winning in life. "Mi" is dying of Tuberculosis (TB), a disease with no cure at the time, (Post War Period). "Mi" couldn't care less, with cigarettes and brandy as her close companions. Post WWII Rangoon night life is her playground. Most men fall for her. Even though they knew that she could fool them, men are always after "Mi". Thaw Swe becomes an intimate player in the web of mystery that "Mi" has laid out, rife with dangers, corruptions, and deceits. Meanwhile, "Mi" has what she thinks as the bigger problem than any other things, doubting her exist- ence. Will Thaw Swe able to help Mi? The real question is, "Does Mi really want to be helped?"

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.