Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　外星人侵占了地球，人們被迫逃到地底下的巨型地堡避難。S.U.M.1是一個忠誠的戰士，他被送到地面上來拯救幸存者并每天匯報情況。他的任務就是守衛人類的自我防御區不讓外星人靠近，然而這每天的例行任務卻逐漸成為他的噩夢，令人恐懼的聲音在樹林里回蕩；基地每日都受到頻繁的攻擊；塔內的電力供應出現故障；修理工卻遲遲不出現。他的上司也從未告訴過他有關上一任的事。孤獨感與妄想癥慢慢侵蝕了他的理智。難道外星人真的埋伏在森林里嗎？還是S.U.M.1已經被折磨到精神錯亂了？

來自西域的舞姬阿離三年前慘死客鄉，身首異處，她的妹妹阿月來到事發的客棧，聯合戲法師李久成和縣令張承合謀演了一出大戲，將三年前涉及此事的相關人等都聚于一堂，巧設妙計讓當年害死姐姐的兇手互相指證現形，最終查明了姐姐死去的真相，洗去了污名并昭雪報仇。

　　許久不見的克里斯提安(43歲)與吉奧(45歲)，終於在他們父親的葬禮上重逢。個性截然不同的兄弟難得聚在一起，在守靈夜酒酣耳熱之際，臨時起意決定去實現小時候的夢想-騎著電動自行車進行一趟從黑森林到波羅的海、橫越整片德國的冒險旅程。在這段時速最高僅25公里的漫活旅程中，兩人經歷了許多意想不到的遭遇，也重新認識了彼此，甚至改變了他們往後的人生。