欲望故事

东北某市，晨报主任左守权得知与前妻生活多年的女儿，在校组建“问题乐队”，不务正业，恐将被学校处分。老左欲将女儿留在家乡从事铁饭碗工作，左明明却欲南下逐梦。老左苦口婆心劝说不成只好四处托人求助。女儿英语老师吕有容，因儿子转学之事有求于老左，两人化干戈为玉帛，惺惺相惜。由此引发左明明误会其二人有苟且之事，羞怒至极，父女决裂。左明明终日与乐队混迹夜场，几乎放弃学业。老同学牛校长涉嫌违纪，牵连老左被停职。吕老师因和老左的一条醉酒视频丢了工作。关乎女儿学位的英语四级考试，也只剩下最后机会。 为了女儿的未来，老左找来女儿乐队吉他手小马协助，准备孤注一掷……

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　Chosen Family sees Ann, a yoga teacher trying to find inner peace despite the fact her family is manic, and whose dating life is miserable. Ann doesn’t know how to say no and finds herself fixing everyone’s problems. Struggling to repair her estranged relationship with her sister Clio, Ann relies on her friends Roz, Max and Frances to be her rock and guide her through life’s troubling decisions.