A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find Anna, the main character up to this point, has gone missing. Sandro, Anna's boyfriend, and Claudia, Anna's friend, try without success to find her. While looking for the missing friend, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction for each other. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia proceed to become lovers, and all but forget about the missing Anna.

Michaël, Nabil et Sylvain, trois trentenaires de Nanterre, débarquent à New York par surprise à l'occasion de l’anniversaire de Samia, leur amie d'enfance. C'est Gabrielle, elle aussi une amie de toujours qui a tout organisé. Les deux copines ont quitté leur cité depuis deux ans pour tenter leurs chances aux États-Unis. Samia est l'assistante personnelle d'une célèbre comédienne avec qui elle partage un sublime appartement. Gabrielle, quant à elle, travaille dans une maison de retraite où elle a lié une relation tendre avec Mme Hazan, une Française placée ici par ses enfants. Transposés à New York, les liens étroits tissés depuis toujours prennent un relief particulier, au rythme des péripéties de leur séjour, du quotidien new-yorkais des deux amies et de la découverte de la ville culte…

Metamorphosis seems like the ultimate evolutionary magic trick - the amazing transformation of one creature into a totally different being: one life, two bodies. From Ovid to Kafka to X-Men, tales of metamorphosis richly permeate human culture. The myth of transformation is so common that it seems almost pre-programmed into our imagination.

Find out how lead gets inside a pencil, why a blazing inferno is needed to make a bolt, what kind of cucumber is needed to pickle into a pickle, and what keeps a 15-foot inflatable from falling down flat?

In 1912, in Paris, the French bon-vivant Jim meets the insecure German Jules and they begin a great friendship. When they meet the fickle and independent French Catherine, they immediately fall in love for her. However the naiveness and fragility of Jules attracts the amoral Catherine and she marries him. With the First World War, the best friends Jules and Jim are separated but after the war, they reunite in Jules cottage in Germany. Jim stays with Jules, Catherine and their daughter Sabine, and Jules tells his friend that he is living together with Catherine, but she has affairs with her lovers.

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona.

This heart-racing series takes you into the trauma ward of St Barnabas Hospital in the south Bronx, one of the busiest emergency units in New York. The action never stops as we follow a team of physicians from one life-threatening incident to the next. Each patient's case is diagnosed, procedures explained and computer graphics literally take us under the skin to see exactly what is going on inside the body. Also includes two action-packed real-life dramas.