Two French waiters closing up for the night have their routine upended by a mysterious old man who may have shown up for more than just a late night drink.
Ana, a shy young woman trapped in the monotony of her job at a mate shop (a South American drink, similar to an infusion), finds solace in dancing and dreams of making it a part of her life. However, she navigates the pressure of facing reality and the difficulty of expressing how she truly feels.
Layla has a fierce journey before landing in the same city where Ettore lives. Ettore, decades earlier, had an unforgettable passage to escape war. Since then, Layla and Ettore's undead bodies cruise the city every night in search of food. Their meeting will reveal similar memories, fears, tenderness, and a desire to eternalise the youth that was stolen from them.
A young filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex. In a café in Zurich, she meets a woman her age who tells her about everyday life in the apartment brothels. Undistorted realities from Swiss online sex forums echo like a shiver across the building facades and seep into the waters of the city.
Forensic science is scrutinised when a fictional investigator questions procedures and motivations in the politicised 1999 bombings of flats in Russia.
On the first day of winter break, Ivy League student Sophia reluctantly joins her boyfriend James and his friends for coffee before their trip to his family's ski cabin. As the conversation progresses, Sophia feels disregarded to the point she never wants to see any of them ever again.
30 years after the events of The Brothers McMullen, romantic entanglements plague a now fiftysomething Barry McMullen and his twentysomething kids, as well as his brother Patrick and widowed sister-in-law Molly, who are also facing similar unexpected hurdles.