Unable to cope with grief, Raoul arrives in Marseille, the city of his lost daughter. He finds her old friends, her music band, and even her dealer. But where will this much too intimate quest lead him? And what if music was a scream that could light up his heart?
Parisa has spent two years training towards her goal: representing Iran as a fencer at the next Olympics. At the regional heats, however, she is suddenly told to fake an injury and withdraw from her next match because if she stages an injury, she will get a “nice reward”. If she doesn’t, the authorities may never let her compete again. But no reward could be enough for Parisa to give up her one shot at the Games.
Abdulmalik’s brother has died suddenly but, even as the family’s men gather in remembrance, he hides the truth from his blind father. When an uncle delivers the dead man’s clothes, Abdulmalik starts wearing his signet ring to avoid telling the truth. Does his father suspect, anyway? When his rosary breaks, he tells his surviving son it had reached the end of its life and cannot be mended. Abdulmalik sets about restringing the beads, but his father’s words are an omen.
Six customers are in the post office when a 50-year-old employee collapses and dies. When an ambulance arrives, the paramedics in attendance conclude that he died of natural causes. The six witnesses all doubt this, each interpreting this sudden death from a personal point of view. One young man tells his psychiatrist he believes it was suicide; another witness accuses the dead man of drinking too much coffee; yet another is convinced he worked himself into the grave out of devotion to his family. Each story says way more about the teller than it does about the man who died.
Saad is in kindergarten, a sweet and innocent child. When Dania joins his class, he falls in love at first sight, discovering feelings he didn’t know it was possible to have. Love turns Saad’s little life upside down. He can't concentrate, eat, or do any of his regular day-to-day activities. He tries to understand why this is happening, asking his father about what these feelings mean, but the response doesn’t answer any of his questions. Finally, he decides to give his beloved his most prized possession: his chewing gum. Is this what love is all about?
Kemo was born into a family of artists and photographers in Jeddah, but he feels torn between art forms and between the artist’s life and the kind of conventional life where he would just do a job. Do I pursue art and colours? Or does he pursue the renegade art of graffiti that he has discovered on the internet? Blue pill or red pill? he asks himself. Confused about his place in the world, he knows the only way forward is to keep working.
Tony gets the Christmas gift of a lifetime when his estranged father, Quino, comes back to town. The surprise? A secret sister, also named Toni, that he's taking care of for the weekend.
In a nation scarred by a brutal drug war, a grieving couple is offered a controversial new procedure by the government to erase the memory of their deceased child. As they face the choice between forgetting and healing, they must confront the ethical cost of erasing their pain—and the lingering question of what it means to remember.
Harper, a cold-blooded assassin, botches a hit on the wrong target. Hunted by her employer, she's forced to confront her past trauma. Follow her descent into darkness as she tries to survive and escape the consequences of her actions.