Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on Bell's relationship with a father-less handicapped boy, and his efforts to be a big brother to him. The boy ends up being an inspiration for Bell when his disease makes the athlete more afflicted than the boy.
A young amnesiac accused of murder seeks to know the truth about himself while he is on the run from the police, searching for the real killer with the help of his friend.
An exotically beautiful Sotho actress, Kedibone Manamela, chooses to live her youth on the fast lane. Veiled from her loyal childhood boyfriend's eyes, she bounces between being a good girl in the township and the 'it' girl on the high end of Johannesburg streets. A dark threat looms over the day when the news of Kedibone's escapades reaches the young man.
Those who still see him as an innocent teen TV correspondent are in for a surprise: French comic Panayotis Pascot is all grown up and ready to get real.
Aqilla gave birth to a baby from a marriage that was not approved by Halimah, her mother. After Aqilla's husband dies in an accident, Halimah lies to Aqilla that her baby died at birth. Without Aqilla's knowledge, Halimah gave her grandson to a couple who had been married for a long time but did not have children, namely Arif and Yumna. The baby was named Baskara, which means: light. Baskara's presence at Arif and Yumna's family's house brings happiness to the whole house. Seven years later, Aqilla finds out that her son is still alive. She departed from her empty life and tried to get Baskara back.
Robin Wiltshire's painful childhood was rescued by Westerns. Now he lives on the frontier of his dreams, training the horses he loves for the big screen.
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.