Miguel, a young landscape architect, travels to Belgium to participate in a conference. His girlfriend dumps him there, and he meets Olga, an older woman that makes him reconsider his personal and professional life. The encounter causes a lightning of understanding that deeply transforms the way he sees his world and his future.
What if having a child does not come naturally? Piano tuner Samuel Dirk longs for a family. The problem: his wife has quite literally exploded under the pressure. Is there someone else who might be willing to give their very best in order to fulfil a wish for a child? As Samuel struggles to regain control of his life, his mother steps in with a radical solution: a magical fertility jam that promises a new beginning.
Three flatmates in Edinburgh — journalist Alex, accountant David and doctor Juliet — place an ad to find a new roommate. After choosing the mysterious Hugo, they discover him dead in his room beside a suitcase full of cash. Tempted by the money, the three decide to hide the body and keep the fortune for themselves, but paranoia and mistrust soon begin to destroy their friendship.
In the Basque mountains of 17th-century Spain, Kattalin flees her husband and disappears into a dark forest where she senses a mysterious presence pursuing her. Along the way, she meets three women exchanging eerie tales and village gossip, only to discover that she herself is becoming part of their stories.
Pepi, a young woman living alone in Madrid, grows cannabis on her balcony and survives on money sent by her parents. After a voyeuristic policeman discovers her plants and sexually assaults her, destroying her plan to sell her virginity, Pepi becomes obsessed with revenge.
After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and fiercely independent professor of English literature, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and undergoes an aggressive experimental treatment. As her condition deteriorates, Vivian is forced to confront loneliness, mortality and the emotional detachment that has shaped both her academic career and personal life.
Fleeing from fellow officers, Argentinian policeman Santiago crosses into Uruguay seeking refuge. With no money or shelter, but with plenty of kindness and wit, he begins to rebuild his life with help from the locals, and even meeting the woman he believes could be the love of his life.
From besieged Aleppo to the confines of a London newsroom, Lebanese journalist Janay Boulos and Syrian activist and cameraman Abd Alkader Habak retrace their love story, using their vast personal archives stretching over 13 years of revolutions, war and exile. Can their love survive distance, danger, and differences?
Things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard hires two thugs to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson takes the case. Is she up for this challenge? You betcha.