Alice lives with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. She is quite immature, but when she is given a bag of flour to look after as part of sex education class at school she begins to take it too seriously. However, this changes her views on life to her mother's concern.
Seven people of political, scientific, and social importance are called together when a message is received from space saying simply, "We're coming to help you.
Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in this gala New Year's Eve performance, organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's death.
Two years after the events of Tough Love, Lenny Milton has been transferred, but still finds that he is hated by his colleagues, who have branded him a grass.