Sabine Palfi

When the remains of an apartheid-era policeman are discovered 60 years after he went missing, a retired singer revisits her past to help with the investigation. But how much does she know, and what is she holding back?

Alex Farraday, l'une des meilleures braqueuses du monde, sort de sa retraite pour effectuer un dernier casse et s'emparer de précieux diamants. Lorsque son visage est accidentellement révélé pendant l'opération, elle est contrainte de fuir la ville. Elle devient la cible de la CIA et d'une organisation criminelle internationale, prête à tout pour la faire disparaître. Il ne s'agit pas que de diamants, mais Alex l'ignore encore. Alors qu'ils doivent la neutraliser par tous les moyens, les adversaires d'Alex réalisent rapidement qu'elle est la proie la plus dangereuse qu'ils n'aient jamais traquée...

A diverse group of people are invited to a castle to play a card game with stakes so high that they’re willing to bet their lives on it. Each person has their own reasons for playing the bizarre game, and one of them has even returned to play a second time.

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...