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Something obscure is happening to a young married couple in their isolated luxurious apartment- their daily routine turns to an abrupt absurdist game of lost connection.
Oksana is a journalist specializing in high-profile corruption cases. Kirill is an investigator for especially serious crimes, for whom this journalist pretty much ruins his life. At first glance, they are enemies, but in reality they are spouses on the verge of divorce. Because of her investigation, Oksana falls into the epicenter of a large-scale scandal and finally quarrels with her husband. As punishment, she will have to lay low for a couple of months, working as a correspondent for the local newspaper Evening Shroud.
In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.
Valeria works at an art gallery and is raising her son, Sam, alone. One day, near the gallery, Sam is hit by a car. The driver was the eldest son of Valeria’s boss, who dies in the accident. Although Sam initially appears unharmed, he is diagnosed with heart failure. Seeking financial assistance, Valeria turns to her boss, who blames Sam for his son’s death and begins to blackmail Valeria.
The young musician vagabond cheats his mother pretending he is external student of the fiscal academy and serving in the military. Mother works abroad and sends money to her son. Everything is fucking good till last exam session. He fails and could be excluded from the academy. Mother goes to Ukraine to do whatever is needed to help her son to make his way in the world. The son should play a military show to hide his bluff.
Victoria is a call center operator for the Psychological Support Service. She lives with a drug addict partner and dreams of reconciliation with her son, who is temporarily raised by her mother. When her partner steals the only money they've had and disappears, and her mother announces she's about to sue for the child's custody, Victoria decides that the only one way out is to commit suicide. However, at the very edge between life and death, she finds the true path to herself.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.