Benson's life is in tatters, At 51, he had expected that he would be at or near the apex of the corporate ladder. But he is stuck in a deputy manager position. He has held the position for twelve years. In that time, the company hired a young officer and Benson groomed her until she became his manager. His marriage is another story altogether. His wife has risen sharply through the ranks, and now she treats him with contempt. The only person who understands and supports him is his boss, Martha, the only one who has stayed at the company for as long as he has. Martha is a General Manager, but there is hardly much she can do about his situation...or is there?

Shirley's life is in tatters. She has just been fired from her job, and she knows she is going to get backlash from her boyfriend for it. Rooney doesn't help her with any of the bills, including food or house rent, even though they live together. He is a civil servant. He is emotionally and physically abusive. Shirley knows that it is going to get worse now that she is jobless. She is so distracted while driving home that she rams into another car on the highway,,,

Donata is a young and ambitious lawyer. After landing a pupillage spot in a large and prestigious law firm, she is on course to become one of the finest lawyers in the country. But then she is dropped by the firm allegedly due to pregnancy, and the father of her unborn baby dumps her. After failing to secure another job, Donata starts a tiny firm which can hardly sustain her. That changes when she meets Robert, a real estate mogul who hires her firm to do transactions for him in his area. There is a catch though. He wants her to be his mistress. Pressed by poverty, Donata agrees. She starts working for him and his friends, and quickly realizes that they are using her to launder money. But she doesn’t want to lose her pay cheques so she says nothing. Things take a dramatic turn when she tries to save one of Robert’s friends, a County Governor, from jail. She tries bribing the local prosecutor as she often does, but the prosecutor refuses. On the day before the judgment, she makes a final effort by trying to bribe the judge. She also tries to seduce him so as to blackmail him with a rape allegation. But the judge is ready for her, and she is arrested. Suddenly, her futue looks bleak...

Onesimus is picking up the pieces of his life, shattered by the death of his wife Anne two years ago. He has found love again. His girlfriend Emma was Anne’s best friend, and his six-year-old daughter Fiona seems to have accepted her. Emma is the only person Fiona confides in. Emma is also a manager at Onesimus’ company and she is the most dedicated of his employees. It seems to be a match made in heaven. But then Emma collapses at the office, plagued by a mysterious new disease. Her life is hanging by a thread, but doctors have no idea what is ailing her. That is, until Onesimus’ head of security discovers something sinister going on within the company.

Freedom and Diana are young love-birds, who have everything going for them. They have good jobs, and they are looking forward to get married next year. Little do they do that when they attend an end-of-year party, hosted by Freedom's employer, their lives are about to change. Everyone adores Freedom's boss. But beneath his facade of religion and gentleness, there lies a darkness that threatens to consume both Freedom and Diana.

Winne is just leaving for her honeymoon with her husband when she is informed that her father is on the verge of death. Shocked, she runs to the hospital where her father was rushed after he collapsed in the bathroom. Doctors do not know what is ailing him, and every second that passes he seems to be slipping away. What Winnie doesn’t know is that the person who wants her daddy dead is the one person she trusts the most…

As a middle level manager, Mike is unfulfilled in life. He barely makes enough to sustain his family. But when the company he works for is acquired by an American giant, he finds himself catapulted in life. He is promoted to the C-Suite and gets the lifestyle he had been dreaming of. He dumps his wife, a housewife, and his primary-school teacher mistress who both live in Eastlands. He gets himself a new ‘high class’ woman, Lorraine, with whom he moves to Karen. He cuts off all ties with the people in Eastlands, including his wife and children. He also cuts off his relatives in the village, including his parents. But this all comes tumbling down when he is fired two years later over sexual harassment allegations, and then arrested on a separate rape claim.

Prof. Morris Kiogora is a well liked man. He is a former athletics star and now the leading sports lawyer in the region. He left a lucrative job in the US, where he honed his skills as a sports lawyer, to take a teaching position at the University of Nairobi and mentor the next generation of Kenyan sports lawyer. But when he is shot while presiding over a session at the Sports Tribunal, where he is the Chairman, the whole nation is stunned, and blame game begins in earnest.

Dennis is a young police officer. He is a Christian, and his faith makes him feel guilty whenever he is forced by his superiors to collect bribes at traffic roadblocks. He thinks his prayers have been answered when he is transferred from the traffic department to the crime desk, but his first assignment is a deadly experience with a well-known criminal, an experience that could leave him dead.

As university students, Christopher and his wife Lilian did not imagine that they would be jobless for years. But that is precisely what happened. With Lilian becoming pregnant in their final year of study, Christopher became a boda boda rider to make ends meet. Lilian, on her part, learned how to braid hair and worked in a hair salon. Their lives were disrupted when Christopher contracted pneumonia and doctors strongly advised him to stop riding motorcycles. They returned to their village and started a venture that became quite successful. Their lives were disrupted again when Christopher’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The disease strained their resource. To survive, Christopher started working in a gold mine...until the mine collapsed and buried him and his friends alive.

Winnie is stunned by the sudden death of her husband Harold. But before she can even process her loss, she and her sons are arrested and accused of murdering him. Unknown to her, her mother-in-law Mercy has set in motion a chain of events to ensure that she and sons are convicted in order to lock them out of the succession race for Harold’s multimillion estate. Helped by her lover, the County Commander of Criminal Investigations, Mercy splashes bribes to ensure that Winnie and her sons are sent to jail forever.

Jecinta’s life has always been dramatic, right from the day she was born. Her paternity was contested, since her mother was sleeping with two brothers at the same time when she concieved. When the question of her paternity was resolved, the man she always knew as her father turned out not to be her biological father. Furious, he killed Jecinta’s mother in her presence. At the tender age of twelve, she was sexually molested by the two sons of the man who turned out to be her biological father. The boys’ mother treated her as a slave, and when Jecinta was raped, she accused her of seducing her sons. Jecinta has overcome all that to become a successful cardiothoracic surgeon, and a co-owner of the hospital where she works. However, she desires to have a family, but the trauma of her younger life fills her with the fear of romance. As if that is not enough, her step brothers hatch a plan to kill her, and they successfully poison her food. Her life suddenly hangs on the balance.