The Dark Side of Opulent

Eager for a job, journalist Adam White accepts the lowly position of columnist for the advice-giving section of the Chronicle but he often clashes with his cynical editor, Shrike.

On June 8, 2024, Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake, broadcast live by the Digital Concert Hall.

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.

Two young women's lives are changed forever in one moment. A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful woman's brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Jane's husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful woman's husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.

Innocent, sexy Allyson leaves her boyfriend Peter to go to acting classes in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she rents a room in an apartment building from the grumpy Mr. Merry next to the resident working girl, Bridget. During the day Allyson struggles with her acting lessons at arrogant Eric Constantine's acting school whilst at night she plays with herself as she watches beautiful, confident Bridget through the keyhole servicing her clients. In class she meets professional photographer Jerry who offers to shoot her a portfolio. Eric asks the pair to rehearse a hot scene as an exercise for class. In her apartment Jerry gets carried away rehearsing and attempts to rape Allyson. Luckily Bridget rescues her just in time and later when Eric discovers what has happened Jerry is thrown out of the class. Eric continues to rehearse Allyson as this scene is, in fact, for a real part in a film. Allyson draws on Bridget's extensive experience as a prostitute to help her in the role. One night a noise from Bridget's room wakes Allyson and she tries in vain to enter. The next day Bridget is missing and Jerry arrives and tries to kill Allyson.

Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the enshrined Noah Tree which his father claims to have planted half a century ago.