Sophie is on a rollercoaster of emotions while she awaits her hospital’s research results. The outcome will tell if the cancer has spread or not. During these uncertain times, Sophie realizes she loves life.
In this heartwarming story we meet Fatih, a boy of Turkish descent. He lives with his mother and sisters. The harmony in the family is disrupted when his macho uncle pays the family a visit.
Bruno finds it very interesting that his father, Daan (35), shaves his beard and head before he leaves on a military mission. When Daan offers his son to shave him, Bruno finds it an offer he cannot refuse. Along with this intimate way of saying goodbye, we see what happens to Daan on his mission in Afghanistan through Bruno playing with his toy soldiers.
The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then she dies. In this bittersweet comedy we follow a number of people in the Hortus Botanicus, who witness this short-lived bloom. During the night, they become more and more entranced by this sultry miracle, with an ecstatic outcome.