Volker Lorig

The family dinner at Stephan and Elisabeth could have been wonderful. But when Thomas announces that he and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are going to call their son Adolf, the hosts and the family friend René are stuck in the throat.

Julian is a 12-year-old boy whose family is just scraping by in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany in the early 1960s . When his mother and younger sister go away for a while, he is left mostly alone in the apartment while his father works in the coal mine. He has to confront the confusing world of adults and older boys and the older girl next door on his own. Finally events build up and threaten to tear the family apart.

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.

21世紀初頭。全米No.1の巨大複合企業であり、アメリカでの家庭用医薬品シェア90%を誇るアンブレラ社。その裏の姿は、細菌兵器の開発などを行う「死の商人」であった。ある日、ラクーンシティにある秘密地下研究所で、研究中のT-ウイルスが何者かの手によって漏れ出し空調設備を通じて所員全員がT-ウイルスに感染した。ウイルスの漏えいを防ぐため施設の制御コンピュータ「レッド・クイーン」はハイブ内の各通路を封鎖し、500人を超える所員全員を死亡させて汚染を施設内に封じ込めた。この事故を知ったアンブレラ社は、事故の原因はレッド・クイーンの誤作動と判断しレッド・クイーンをシャットダウンするため特殊部隊を現地へ派遣する。