In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.
An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle ranch in Australia. Following death of her husband, a barons plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her ranch.
During World War II, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.