Barbara was sellected for a fashion contest, the World Fashion Summer Dress, but the contest takes place in California and she lives in Paris. Barbara and Isabelle travels to Los Angeles where a great adventure waits for them.

Phuong rushes home to find her father vanished after another quarrel with her mother. In a desperate attempt to search for him, she seeks help from his mistress. The two women head to the mountain, hoping they could find the man there. But this time, Phuong's mother also vanishes.

A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...

"When Rakel took over the last farm in her Norwegian village, she was not only taking responsibility for a flock of accident-prone woolly animals, but also a way of life at a crossroads."