Une vie sans joie

During a time of military imperialism, He Tao Hua's father who is a decorated military officer was assassinated. Assuming a new identity, Tao Hua treads on the path to finding her father's killer. In the year 1925, the He Family met its demise and only the daughter He Tao Hua escapes with her life. She travels alone to a different city to work as a maid for the Liao Family. Her clever personality endears her to Old Master Liao and she also falls into a romance with Young Master Liao Chun Feng. Before the wedding, Liao Chun Feng discovers her real identity and unable to live with himself, he comes clean about the truth before heading off to fight in the war. Realizing his importance to her, He Taohua decides to go after him despite the obstacles that stand in her way.

A young man (Tareq) adopts the extremist Jehadi ideology. Some extremists convince him to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taleban. After discovering that, his parents travel to Tora Bora in Afghanistan to look for him and bring him back safely to home after loosing all traces of him. In Afghanistan, the parents witness the dangerous changes that came upon this hot region of the world as they look for their missing son.

The Ilinden uprising was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire prepared and carried out by the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation IMRO. In the Macedonian town of Krushevo the insurgents proclaimed the so called Krushevo Republic under the presidency of the ethnic Macedonian school teacher Nikola Karev. It was the first Republic in the Balkans, but it lasted only 10 days.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.