New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

Seven middle-aged women, who have not seen each other for more than 30 years, are called to a class reunion at which they are forced to confront a terrible secret from their childhood.

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An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.