Homicide detective Evert Bäckström takes on his most challenging case after uncovering a skull riddled with bullet holes on a remote, uninhabited island.
When his wife gets a job as an attaché, an Israeli man struggles to find his place in Paris and finds it more difficult than ever to hold on to his identity.
Maggie and Tom arrive in New Zealand to start a new business and leave old family behind. Tom vanishes, leaving Maggie behind to pick up the pieces and discover the truth.
Maureen is an Irishwoman, happily married and living in Germany. Or so she thinks. When her husband dies, she finds that not only had he debts, but was also a bigamist, having had a second wife and family in Ireland. Shocked and angry, she travels there to meet the other family. And she learns that they have troubles of their own, the worst of them being that the other woman's young son is suffering from leukemia and a suitable bone marrow donor is urgently needed.