Ingun is placed under house arrest in their cabin, by her wife Signe, accused of harming their mutual daughter. To withhold their social cultural status, she must continue life as normal.
Stacey survives a childhood of abuse and fear, only to face a shocking twist when her brother Rickie confesses to her that he killed their parents. She is further betrayed when Rickie claims she helped him commit the crimes.
Jimmy, a disillusioned young man working in a slaughterhouse soon discovers the blood, the mechanized violence, and the monotony of his job begin to consume him, staining not only his hands but also his soul.
After several years of absence, Vincent reappears in the life of his ten-year-old son, whose mother is terminally ill. Using play to ease their discomfort, they slowly reconnect, one step at a time.
Lisa reunites with her former partner Dan and recalls the circumstances of their breakup. As they trace the flow of water and memory, Lisa confronts Dan about what transpired between them.
After realizing she may want to date women, Anna goes to her roommate’s cousin’s lesbian engagement party in the hopes of figuring out her sexuality, but discovers something much more terrifying instead.
After a grueling night shift, Johney, a Filipino migrant worker, returns to find strangers clearing out her dorm—installing heavy machinery and claiming to “inspect the factory.” As tensions erupt, Johney fights to protect her home—and a secret she’s kept hidden inside.
Amid the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, Simin manages to secure the temporary release of her teenage son from prison. Nima returns home quiet and withdrawn, and something in his silence deeply unsettles her.
Manaia, a young woman caught between expectation and self-acceptance, finds herself confronting her repressed sexuality when a chance reunion with her first love stirs old feelings.
Through letters with a friend in prison, a filmmaker sets out to realize a boys’ love script unfolding behind bars. But as he moves from Berlin to Tokyo to Kaohsiung, the project begins to blur—between fiction and fear, between freedom and its illusion.
While performing an opera about a princess whose misplaced love ends in her father’s death, a fallen kingdom, and her own suicide, a Taiwanese actress discovers she’s pregnant by her ex-husband. Caught between the roles she’s expected to play onstage and at home, she begins to sense another ending may be possible.
A woman is disturbed by a high-pitched noise while others around her remain oblivious. As she desperately tries to locate the sound source, she finds herself on the verge of madness. Is the noise real or is it just a reflection of her unbearable life?