Mr. Shi is a widower and a retired man from Beijing. When Yilan, his only daughter who lives in the US, has a divorce, he decides to visit her in the small town where she works as a librarian.
Chiko wants to make it all the way up to the top. He and his best friend, Tibet, think that money, power and respect is all that counts for two young guys of Turkish background in the suburban ghettos of Hamburg ...
Following a painful family dinner Thomas is asked by his sister Charlotte to meet her the following evening. Nearing the rendezvous Thomas sees the lights of emergency vehicles and discovers that Charlotte, a strong swimmer, has drowned.
Thirty-something Anica feels restless in her dead-end life with an older man and small-time mobster in Belgrade. Milutin’s caring affection for her isn’t enough; Anica longs for true love.
A nature scene. Late summer. A small lake in the woods. No people. Silence. Not far away, a newly built house inhabited by a couple: Robert (Andreas Lust) and Susanne (Ursula Strauss). They live an ordinary life like so many other people ...
Nora is fourteen and lives with her parents in a quiet Berlin suburb. She is a romantic introvert who spends her day retreated into her own enchanted dreamworld ...
After being neglected as a child, Rita gives birth to six children of her own and
challenges her mother in forcing her to act as a parent to her grandchildren.
Lights in the dusk (Laitakaupungin Valot) concludes the trilogy began by the Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat) and the The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä).