Elizabeth Short (Mia Koshner), a 22-year-old girl, arrives in the bustling city of Los Angeles. Like many young girls, her biggest dream is to become a film actress. But her appearance was not yet so beautiful that it attracted the attention of others at first glance. She has long hair, loves to go to bars and nightclubs, believes in love and romantic things, and spends a lot of time on makeup. Soon she became a fledgling little star. Because of her black hair and black clothes, she is known as "Black Dahlia".
One day in 1947, a pedestrian found the body of a "black dahlia" in a clearing near Hollywood. Her naked body was brutally cut in two and showed signs of severe beatings and sexual abuse. There are several chilling rumors about the details of her death. Curiously, when the murder was revealed in the news, many people went to the police station to turn themselves in, admitting that they had killed the "black dahlia".
Detectives Butch (Josh Harnett) and Lee (Alan Eckhart) are ordered to track down the murder, as the case unfolds, Lee and his fiancée Kay (Scarlett Johansson) are intimidated by unknown people, while Butch is attracted by the daughter of a large Los Angeles family, Madeleine (Hillary Swank), and is surprised to find that Madeleine is likely to be involved in the case, so Butch and Lee Shunten explore the melon and gradually discover the inside story of the police's larger conspiracy
Dennis Ladd, known as the BTK killer in a sensational series of murders in the United States, confessed to the judge in June 2005 to ten heinous murders, but there seems to be something missing in the whole case: motive.
His criminal career began 30 years ago, when he said, "I strangled Josephine and then put a bag on her head..." He confessed to these crazy murders he had committed as carelessly as he described a day in the office. Why did Dennis Ladd commit this series of murders? Why did he do that?
When the bestseller related to this BTK killer is published, people may find the answer in the book. "Why?" and "How?" This is exactly the question that a crime documentary writer has to answer when describing a real case. These documentary novels depicting real cases read as intriguing as novels, but they describe shocking and disgusting facts, what is the inner world of the criminal hidden behind these force events?
TV news anchor Han Jingpei (Xue Jingqiu) 9-year-old son Shang Yu mysteriously disappeared, just at this time, the abductor (Jiang Dongyuan) called for extortion, his appetite is very large, a mouth is 100 million won, there is no room for bargaining, Han Jingpei's wife Wu Jishan (Kim Nam-joo) is impatient, helplessly reported the case to the police, the criminal police officer (Kim Young-chul), who is fully responsible for the case, entered the couple's life.
Although the police have set up a special investigation team and used high-tech investigative methods, these are useless for cunning and high-IQ criminals. The only evidence the police could have was the voice recorded during the abductor's extortion call—the tone was sleek and sinister, but there was not a trace of emotion in the guy's voice, just creepy cold words. There has been no progress in the more than 40 days since the case occurred, and the parents who lost their sons are not even aware of their son's death or death. Desperate to find his son, the mood slowly changed from anxiety and panic to anger and hatred, Han Jingpei decided to do it himself, he privately took the initiative to propose a joint method to the abductor, for the sake of his son he wanted to die.
For a while, the "Forward" that crisscrossed the Yeosu Sea could no longer return with a full load, and it became the object of monitoring. Faced with the crisis of losing the ship, captain Chul-soo (Kim Yoon-seok) sees this as the last chance, and he and the crew board the old fishing boat "Forward".
Led by the captain, the captain of the ship, the simple and generous chief of the organ, Wan Hao (Moon Sung-geun), who silently listens to the captain's orders, thinks that money is the best thing in the world, the rude roller hand Jingqiu (Liu Seung-mu), the crew member Chang Wook (Lee Hee-joon), who is loyal to the needs at all times, and the simple old crew member Dong Sik (Park You-cheon), who has just started working on the ship, these six crew members set sail with the dream of returning home with a full load.
But on the vast sea, they transport not fish but people.
Captain Jeol-so (Kim Yoon-seok) advises the crew to help smuggle people out in order to protect the ship, the base of life. Countless stowaways risked their lives to cross the sea, as well as 6 crew members who were destined to sit in the same boat. They were caught up in events over which they could not control the development of events after the appearance of a "sea fog" that people could not even see a foot ahead.
In the early 1970s, a young girl named Michela developed a strange illness from an early age. However, medicine at the time was unable to confirm its cause. Because Michela's symptoms resemble epilepsy, doctors have been treating her with epilepsy. Michela grew up in a serious Catholic family. At the age of 21, she wanted to go to university to study education, but her mother did not want her to go out and show her face on the grounds that she was ill, but fortunately Michela's father was very supportive of her going to college. Michela happily integrated into school life and met Hanna and Stephen, which led to her first friendship and love. However, her past soon caught up with her, forcing her to start taking medication, but also experiencing more physical cramps and mental hallucinations. Convinced that the voice she was hearing came from a demon, she turned to the priest of the parish where the university was located and asked for spiritual support. But the parish priest was at a loss for her illness and believed that the girl was possessed by a demon. So the parish priest hired a more senior priest to treat her condition.