Lisa Gastoni

2015. The leaders of a federation of planets led by Earth are mysteriously disappearing, and the little evidence available points to the lab of a scientist working on a distant asteroid. But when the United Democracies' Commander of distant Space Station Gamma I, Michael Halstead (Tony Russel), receives orders to investigate, he uncovers a far more sinister plot than anyone suspected. Now with a brilliant, mad scientist abducting--and miniaturizing--the galaxy's leaders and creating a super race of robotic warriors, only Commander Halstead can save the woman he loves and defend the entire galaxy from a nefarious megalomaniac based on a distant, Wild, Wild Planet.

In a creepy Tuscan castle, a nurse is hired to care for a boy who went mute to stop his dead mother from talking to him from inside the walls.

A successful writer seems to have it all and yet is still bitter when he becomes obsessed with a prostitute who sends him down self-destructive paths.