The tale starts in a suburban house in 1971 with a schoolboy Simon dreaming of how he will make a fortune. The main story is about X Factor hopeful Chenice, a would-be astrobiologis twho lives in a caravan under a flyover with her terminally ill grandfather in an iron lung, and Max, a ukulele-playing plumber.. She is persuaded by her adoring plumber, to audition for The X Factor. She has never heard of X Factor but it could be her route out of poverty.Their romance blooms as everything around them shimmers with glitz and deception.

The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries and dies on her wedding day. The young woman, one of seven children, blames her father’s lust for the death. When her own wedding night arrives she is terrified and refuses to consummate the marriage with her husband. Her parish priest forbids her to accept her doctor’s suggestion that she should use contraception and she is driven to desperate measures.

The world’s largest music show pits contestants against each other in the search for a person or group to sign a recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. New Zealanders have the chance to put their singing talent to the test. From Invercargill to Kaitaia, traveling the length and breadth of the country, with one goal - to discover the next great New Zealand recording artist.

An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.

Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life.

After a year of separation, Antoine decides to go to his former girlfriend Julie, as if they had never left. Antoine will do everything to seduce Julie again, despite their breakup.

Emma slowly gets her memories back from a suspicious night which put her in an amnesia-like state.

While being cared for by her loving husband and daughter after a car accident leaves her with total amnesia, Mia begins having flashbacks of a second daughter, one no one else believes exists.

As Álfgrímur, an orphaned boy, begins to encounter the minor politicians, businessmen, and social-climbers of the growing town of Reykjavík, he starts to question his future as a fisherman's grandson and is increasingly fascinated by Garðar Hólm, the celebrated Icelandic "world singer" whose sporadic returns to Iceland encourage Álfgrímur to pursue his own personal goals of self-expression. He discovers the true value of his boyhood experiences only as he sets out on a path that will take him away from them forever.

Do 15 celebrities have what it takes to win? They're ready to perform for you…but there's just a small matter of impressing the Judges first.