A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of their friendship, however, they are tested by Sam and Coles' incipient romance and Thea's increasing recklessness, until the relationship dissolves amid a cloud of fear, resentment and mistrust. Eight years later they reunite. An animator for a high-profile ad agency, Coles now lives with Claire, his girlfriend of five years. Thea is happily married to Miles, with whom she owns a flourishing restaurant. And Sam has just returned to Manhattan after working in London where she recently broke off her engagement. Yet upon reconnecting, the three are drawn back into the complicated dynamic that defined their relationship from the start and are forced to confront the true meaning of commitment and love.
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
El 1904, a Dublín, James Joyce parla sobre Nora Barnacle, una empleada d'hotel recentment arribada de Galway. Ella ho encanta amb la seva actitud franca, directa i desinhibida, i en poc temps, ell la va convèncer que l'acompanyés a Trieste, on té una feina amb Berlitz. Amb el temps, Nora el treu de fòbies, el tolera, pren el seu germà Stan i guanya Joyce en el "joc de l'escriptura" per portar-lo de tornada a Itàlia des de Dublín, on se'n va anar a obrir un cinema. Però la seva gelosia sexual amenacen la relació i l'envia de tornada a Galway amb els nens. Hi ha alguna manera de domesticar el monstre d'ulls verds de Jim? I, el noi mai publicarà les seves històries?
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.