"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.

Everyone knows the story of the infamous Cleopatra VII, but what of her elder sister, Berenice, the forgotten queen of Egypt? Follow her story as she begins as a young girl who only wishes to please to father to the most powerful woman in Egypt.