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One day, walking down the street, Cecilia, a sensible woman who lives in Tijuana, is the victim of an attempted assault by a 10-year-old Chicano child. The meeting, which will change both their lives in many ways, is an intense reflection on motherhood, frontier life and search for meaning in a country that takes multiple roads.

In the summer of 1973, dozens of teenagers were lured to a remote plantation and brainwashed into attacking outsiders.

"Anne Forestier queda atrapada en medio de un atraco a una joyería en los Campos Elíseos. Tras recibir una paliza que la deja al borde de la muerte, tiene la suerte de sobrevivir... y la condena de haber visto la cara del asaltante. Su vida corre un grave peligro, pero Anne cuenta con la ayuda del hombre al que ama: el comandante Camille Verhoeven. Este estará dispuesto a actuar al margen de la ley con tal de protegerla. Pero ¿quién es ese enemigo,...

"A vicious assault. A devastating accusation. Who should she trust, her husband or her best friend? It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again. When...

Anna Gravess whole life has recently been turned upside down. A new mother, shes just gone back to her job as a radio presenter and is busy navigating a new schedule of late night feeding and early morning wake ups while also dealing with her newly separated husband. Then the worst happens. While Anna is walking on the beach with her daughter, shes attacked by a crazed teenager. Terrified, Anna reacts instinctively to protect her baby.But her life...

"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...

"Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new friends do so with dark intentions. After a violent assault,...

"In an age when magic idols reign supreme, Star One is just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, Tier-Two boy band at best. Though the five members have been giving it their all for the past three years, their lack of magic remains a hopelessly insurmountable wall, and with their company turning their back on them, it seems to be the end of the road for their careers. Just when things can't get any worse, a sudden attack during a performance puts their lives...