A sensational crime story is at the centre of three disconnected narratives: a self-destructive driver, a violent family of three, and the relationship between a quiet warehouse worker and her boss.
British businessman Tom is an opium smuggler in the early years of the Republic of China. The 'King of Darts' Wang Zha Xi uses all his daring skills to put an end to Tom's dastardly dealings.
On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.
A group of special agents from the DEA begin an investigation to find the whereabouts of Mancera, a cartel leader who designs a special, modern drug that is injected into people with weak minds.
Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?
Alejandro 'Ale' Villacaño is a young associate lawyer who has landed a job at a prestigious law firm. Even though he was top of his class, he is also a former convict and an acquitted felon, which makes him an unlikely pick for this firm. Intent on forgetting his past and forging a new identity, he dedicates himself to being the top associate at the firm. He is reluctant to take on a pro bono case to help an old friend, but ultimately does so at the prodding of his mentor. For Ale, it's filing a few grievances against the local prison and then back to his new life. But for his client, it’s a matter of life and death. No matter how much Ale tries to resist, the pull to do the right thing, to fight the good fight is too strong. Ensnared now in a case rife with corruption, corporate negligence, and abuse of power, Ale must decide what kind of lawyer he is really meant to be.
The Hitman, a 'technician' who has a principal to kill all the related targets by any means gets a request from a grandmother who lost her granddaughter on a doubtful fire accident.
WORST LAID PLANS is a darkly hilarious story about four friends who find themselves in dire straits when they get behind on rent at their shop, A-1 Tattoo. Humiliated by their landlord, the guys hatch a plan to make some quick cash...but their biggest obstacle is not killing each other first.
A 15 year old Madison watched her mother be murdered by a local pimp. As an adult, she takes justice into her own hands to get revenge on her mother's killer.
Taylor Royce is the strait-laced preacher who is an easy mark for his twin brother's femme-fatale wife, Brenda. But she has more than an extra-marital affair on her mind as she manipulates the preacher into stealing money from his church. Events soon spiral out of control as more infidelities are revealed and a random murder spree occurs in the noir-type thriller.
While a drug kingpin floods the streets with Fentanyl laced drugs, overdose rates are through the roof. Detective Richard Haynes and Trevor Jones take matters into their own hands, but personal battles will push the detectives off course and cause loyalty to be questioned.
Toddrick Frank, a hustler, living his life until he runs into his ex-girlfriend, Quanita's baby daddy, Tyrone. Afraid for his life, Frank sets out to run out of town until he receives a call from Sage Lee to kill her husband for half a million.
Tom and Danny, brothers, get entangled in the criminal underworld. They face dangers, self-discovery, and struggle with the path they've chosen, leading to consequences from their involvement in crime and inability to turn back.
Two brothers from Alabama struggle to rise above the ghetto rap scene to land a major record deal in Chicago in this journey through love, sibling rivalry, betrayal, violence and redemption.