Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.

Five short stories.

Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.

Experts set out to prove that female great white sharks rule the ocean.

When a boy’s close bond with his mother is imperiled one night by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, matters of nature and nurture collide.

It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long life in film and theater service. He plays an old peasant who on his deathbed is waiting for his son (Jon Bang Carlsen). In a few days he relives the village life, he comes from, and which was marked by a hard and authoritarian upbringing. He is at his father's deathbed despair because it is still impossible to make contact, and in a crisis situation, he recognizes his father's brutality in itself. The film draws a bitter picture of human relationships where dreams while they die, degenerates into power relations.

Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?

A lawyer falls in love with a woman her meets in Faiyum, but she lies to him to test his love.

After a stranger murders her brother, Dag sets out on the road to avenge his murder, toting a shotgun and leaving any restraint behind.

Shota is a high school student who is excited about love. His secret crush is on Hitomi, the best girl in the school. One day at lunchtime, Hitomi calls Shota out to her, and he does as she asks him to do, ending up losing his virginity. Still in disbelief, Shota decides to go to Hitomi's house after school that day. However, what awaits him at Hitomi's house is not a "sweet time for lovers", but a "cruelty-free eating". Hitomi has been infected with a zombie virus that is ravaging the streets of Japan...

A woman is kept sedated by a cold-blooded kidnapper.

A young boy’s journey as they take his father to his final resting place.

A man sells his wife and child to a sailor, remarries on becoming mayor, and learns his daughter is actually the sailor's.

Decadent, failing Mexico City family get life-lessons from rural visitors.

A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.

Tim has a problem. The house he lives in no longer obeys the laws of logic. At times like this, there's only one man that can help.