Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.

An impressionable Launceston Elliot comes under the spell of the iconic Sandow The Magnificent. He seeks out his idol and becomes his protégée.

Seduced by the instant rewards of criminal activity, LEO ROBERTS (Anthony Welsh) enters the shadowy underground world of strip clubs, saunas, drugs and prostitution. Blinded by the potential power and prestige, Leo is convinced he is in control, only to realise that he has to start playing by a different set of rules. The rules set by crime boss ILIR DUKA (Mem Ferda). Leo's chosen path, soon spirals out of control, where the stakes keep getting higher and higher, until there is no turning back.

Gabriel Cushing (David Curtis) and Melanie Lancley (Vicki Glover) fight demons, and they're good at it. Really good. With Gabriel's knowledge and intuition and Melanie's tenacity there's nothing they can't overcome. When Gabriel gets a mysterious call from an old friend of his father's, Dr Albert Parker, they head off to investigate, but when they arrive, Dr Parker is missing and so are several other people. Something is praying on the unsuspecting people of South Western, something unnatural. The Carnival of Sorrows has come to town...