Indira, the daughter of a good Indian family, is sent to England to follow her studies and perfect her education. She's a studious student but appalled by the misery in India, her country, she befriends a young British man who welcomes her to a circle of young revolutionary activists. The young lady is confronted by her choices: love and violence or renouncement and peace. Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of the Indian government from 1966 to 1977 then from 1980 to 1984.

Cleopatra, the young princess of Egypt, cannot stand her people's suffering, confined in her protecting universe as a high-ranking princess, and surrounded by devoted, but hypocritical, servants. Despite the sarcasm of her big sister Berenice, heiress to the throne, Cleopatra keeps trying to draw attention on the people's misery to the Pharaon. But, when her father, Grand Ruler of the Empire disappears, Cleopatra only wants to find the one who always protected her, and to whom she has endless admiration.

Young Golda, a Russian Jewish girl from Ukraine, landed in the American Midwest with her family to escape poverty and pogroms. However, life in Wisconsin is hardly better than in her native country. Her village is tyrannized by an alcoholic, racist, and violent sheriff. Nevertheless, Golda manages to form a bond with Samy Brown, an elderly black worker who lovingly watches over her. Their miserable existence could be bearable if the sheriff hadn't sworn their downfall.

Before becoming Genghis Khan, the supreme leader of the Golden Horde, which seized all of Asia as well as the outskirts of Europe, Tejmüdjin was just the orphan of Yesugeï, a Mongolian shepherd treacherously murdered. Promised before the tragedy to Boerte, the daughter of the chief of a powerful tribe, our hero sets out to find the statue of the god Kök Tengri, Lord of Heaven and Earth, stolen from his promised tribe. The young but ambitious shepherd would regain his dignity and honor by thwarting the plans of the mysterious thieves.

Kinsaku, the youngest of a long line of warriors serving Japan's lords, doesn't speak much. To the point where the others call him "Kinsa the mute". He doesn't like to fight either, to his father's despair, who persists in teaching him combat lessons. Kinsaku dreams of something else, of poetry, of words dancing and organizing in his head but cannot get out of his lips... He'll have to learn how to fight, but to be heard. Basho-Kinsaku Matsuo is one of the founding fathers, in the 17th century, of poems as haikus.

Attia, a young child from the steppes, spends his time playing Latroncules (a kind of Asian chess) with his friends. The child, the youngest of the siblings, is brilliant and renowned as such. But when his older brother introduces him to the deadly virtues of an innocuous plant, Moundi, who will later become Attila, cannot resist experimenting with it on every animal he encounters. A vocation seems to be born for this budding strategist, to experiment with the seeds of destruction. A calling that will drive him to become "the Scourge" of the World.

During the Crusades times, Hassan's group kidnapped two Francs kids in the Balbeek souk, a little Syrian merchants' city on the edge of the Orient's Francs principality. The city is buzzing between occidental parents looking for the children and the inhabitants in disbelief. According to Hicham, from Hassan's group but a friend of Youssef, son of the governor and future King of all the Muslim world, only he can help them. But, Hassan hates Youssef and thinks gaining glory by sacrificing the enemy's children.