9岁的凯西（Casey）和她的两个妹妹被陷入困境的妈妈独自留在了家中。在成人的世界中艰难前行并非易事。当最小的妹妹身患重病时，情况变得更加糟糕。如今，凯西陷入了两难境地：既要保护妈妈，又要挽救妹妹的生命。

A man hands parcels over personally around the world. Berlin, London, Barcelona, Reykjavik, New York City. His life is about hotel rooms, planes, cabs, airports, delivery places. There's a problem with a parcel in New York City. He has to wait.

Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.

An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. United States Intelligence Department agents plan to trap him and the spies he works for.

Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his song speaking out against human rights abuses resulted in a fatwa being issued.

After the death of her husband, Jody and her daughter Samantha return to her home town. Sometimes she leaves Samantha with her old friend Winn. Only after an accident a doctor discovers that she has been abused - apparently by Winn! Jody reports immediately to the police and tries everything to avoid complications. But when it turns out that Winn still might win the case by some procedural tricks, she commits an act of desperation.

Little Ira is invited to his best friend's sleep-over party, but struggles with leaving his beloved teddy bear behind.

Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.

Time traveling androids created to entertain audiences in the future go back to 1996 as part of their game, and wreak havoc on Mexico City.

Sargent Thomas Cavanaugh and his partners hunt down the murderers of one of their task force. But when their search leads them to a drug dealer and his psychopathic killer, Cavanaugh begins to realize they may be getting help from inside the police department.