In 1938, Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon agrees to welcome Jewish refugees from Germany in the Philippines.
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
The period after the Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) conquered Constantinople, moving towards Europe in the fifteenth century, and Sultan Mehmed's determination to spread Islam in Europe by the superb morals of Muslims then.
Based on events surrounding heavy metal band, Iron Maiden's concert in Dundee, Scotland 1979/1980; Schemers deals with the youth culture of the day and the dangerous business of music promotion.
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.