Seis anos após o sequestro de sua filha, um homem é contratado para matar o autor de um romance de fantasia, mas o mundo do romance parece se cruzar com a realidade.
A feisty foursome of 13 year old ballerinas and best friends is ready to move up to the next level. Tragedy strikes and their lives take very different turns. They end up dancing together again years later, not as planned though.
Durante a Batalha de Sarhu, o exército Ming está prestes a ser subjugado pelas tropas inimigas. No meio do inferno da guerra, o soldado Shen Lian salva a vida do oficial Lu Wenzhou. Oito anos depois, Lian é um respeitado oficial da polícia secreta imperial, apadrinhado pelo homem que ele salvou no passado. No ambiente corrupto e cheio de intrigas, o honesto Lian incomoda. Quando ele investiga um crime que parece político, uma conspiração para derrubar Lian começa a se desenrolar – ele é acusado de uma série de assassinatos. Seus únicos aliados são um detetive rival e uma misteriosa jovem.
The dancer Xiaodie Shang arranged a dance "butterfly" for her lover who left five years ago, the dance made a good score, and she was invited by foreign cultural fund to Budapest to casting choreography. Xiaodie thinks the most promising dancer is Lu Bai although she is the most self-abased dancer. Lu Bai told Xiaodie that, she wants to use the butterfly cemetery to find her missing sister. Xiaodie also found that the fund's successor Qiushui Zhuang is her five years ago lover. However with the dancer You Song poisoning, Qiao Tian falls, Lu Bai missing, herself was threatened, all the mysteries are pointing to the butterfly cemetery.
In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.
A young man selling illegal DVDS finds refuge in a Beijing movie theatre after fleeing from the police. He quickly discovers that all of the theatre's patrons are blind and, as he gets to know them, encounters love, acceptance and heartbreak.
