One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
Morrison is a pathetic little boy of five years. A very happy little boy until the new baby comes. Because there is no place for Morrison, then to his aunt in the convent. Morrison makes every effort to prevent it. First he runs away, but if that fails he has a better plan. Not he should go, the baby must go. And that plan succeeds. All great people are in panic.
Dexter's controlled life gets thrown into confusion when a girl appears on his work that looks exactly like his girlfriend Stella. At home his beloved Stella doesn't understand what's going on and she starts questioning their relationship. Dexter's life deteriorates furthermore: traffic bills keep coming in, he is banned from his trusted working place, Stella breaks up with him, and his boss sends him on an immediate leave. When Dexter has crashed several cars, he is arrested by the police and taken to hospital. There he is told that a stroke has caused him a brain damage in his right hemisphere. Consequently he doesn't see left anymore and his sense of reality has been affected: he sees the same people everywhere. Dexter has to learn to live in a world wherein people look alike.
Deus quer de volta os originais dos Dez Mandamentos. Mas os Anjos não têm autorização para vir à Terra buscá-los. Assim, têm de 'criar' um ser humano com inteligência suficiente para encontrar as Tábuas dos Mandamentos e que esteja disposto a sacrificar a sua vida para os levar para o Céu. Os Anjos concebem um plano engenhoso que se inicia quando dois homens se conhecem 'aparentemente' por coincidência. Um deles é o excêntrico Onno Quist, filho de um antigo Primeiro-Ministro. O outro é Max Delius, filho de um pai nazi e de uma mãe judia. Os dois homens tornam-se amigos, e só uma pessoa pode intrometer-se na sua amizade, Ada Brons, uma jovem violoncelista. Ada fica grávida, e não sabe se o pai é Max ou Onno. A criança, Quinten, nasce e torna-se rapidamente num rapaz muito especial. Será ele o escolhido? Será ele capaz de cumprir a missão dos Anjos?
A rich couple. He is obsessed with gadgets, she is a housewife growing more depressed and alcoholic by the day. Commercials on television form a cynic commentary on their lives. The neighborhood becomes the playground of youth gangs. A Ballardian commentary on and funny nightmare vision of modern life.
