Alexandra Berlin

A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.

Fox Mulder est un agent du FBI. Attiré par les phénomènes paranormaux et les croyances parfois irrationnelles, il s'intéresse aux affaires non classées, certaines relevant du paranormal. On lui adjoint une partenaire, Dana Scully, médecin et beaucoup plus adepte de la logique cartésienne. Mulder, obsédé par la disparition de sa sœur, est persuadé qu'elle a été enlevée par des aliens. Les deux agents vont ainsi entrevoir les grandes lignes de complots et autres théories de la conspiration...