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.
In Meshal Aljaser’s exhilaratingly madcap thriller, a young woman stranded in the Arabian desert races to be home before curfew under the threat of extreme punishment from her scary strict father.
八公(Forest 饰)是一条谜一样的犬,因为没有人知道它从哪里来。教授帕克(理查·基尔 Richard Gere 饰)在小镇的火车站拣到一只走失的小狗,冥冥中似乎注定小狗和帕克教授有着某种缘分,帕克一抱起这只小狗就再也放不下来,最终,帕克对小狗八公的疼爱感化了起初极力反对养狗的妻子卡特(琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰)。八公在帕克的呵护下慢慢长大,帕克上班时八公会一直把他送到车站,下班时八公也会早早便爬在车站等候,八公的忠诚让小镇的人家对它更加疼爱。有一天,八公在帕克要上班时表现异常,居然玩起了以往