When university student Guido van Thool accidentally bumps into the
beautiful ballerina Anna Zweig in Loti’s café, it sets them off on a whirlwind
romance of ballet concerts, anti-globalisation marches and love trysts in
bluebell woods. Even when Guido is called away for military service, time can’t
test their faithfulness, as they keep their passion warm with love letters.
Paralleling their lives, however, is that of Judge Jeremiah Delahyde, a
profligate positioned in power by his crony, the government minister
Bartholomew Smythe. These parallel lives collide on New Year’s Eve when the
drunken judge knocks Anna down in his car with fatal consequences. Guido swears
revenge. But how does one retaliate against a corrupt and powerful,
politically-appointed high court judge?
The drag race is on… Eighteen-year-old Drú Dylan can see the future. Tonight is her Uncle Hunter’s annual Hot Buns Halloween party, a tribute to his Dancing Queen Decade, aka the “Big Hair I Don’t Care” ‘90s. As always, he swears it’ll be G-rated. (It won’t be.) And it doesn’t take psychic powers to predict that any party held at a gay bakery built on land that happens to be the home of a thousand confederate soldiers is bound to cause chaos in this Virginia beach town. (It does every year.) That’s why Drú and her cousin Sam have their own annual competition: gazing into their crystal ball and predicting exactly what kind of chaos will be unleased at this year’s bash. Drú has a record to defend—but even she can’t predict what will happen when Uncle Hunter’s trigger-happy nemesis Rich McCarthy and his sons try to crash the party before its even started. It’s a race against the clock to make sure Uncle Hunter’s big night goes off without a hitch…Old skeletons are dragged out of the clo
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