In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza.

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.

In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.

1886 stoßen die revolutionären Theorien des jungen Sigmund Freud in Wien auf heftigen Widerstand - und gewinnen das Interesse des berühmten psychischen Mediums Fleur Salomé und Alfred Kiss, Kriegsveteran und Polizist. Mit ihnen an seiner Seite befindet sich Freud bald inmitten einer mörderischen Verschwörung, die Österreich in Atem hielt.