Professor gives a talk about the human appetite for death

After a young Jewish boy moves to Berlin with his family, he learns that his family agreed to watch a boy from the mental institution on the weekends. The two become friends, and the boy learns more about himself through meeting the other boy.

Three friends in a magical world descend a staircase into the abyss at the edge of the world and encounter forces they can't control.

A shapeshifting alien brings chaos to Earth while searching for the greatest mathematical mind in the solar system and taking over the body of a powerful stockbroker.