An unambitious gamer refuses a potential white-collar life when he chooses to join the army, but when his country is attacked, he must find a way to end the war and expose a world-wide conspiracy.
A teenager - devastated by the death of his older brother - learns that a gigantic fungus, which spawns every hundred years, is turning the town's inhabitants into mindless drones.
After a brutal attack, a volunteer carer experiences a body-swap event that enables him to disrupt the balance of power in his neighbourhood.