Olivia
On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet...
Sister 1
Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.
Hotel patron
Emma, an African woman, falls in love with Andrew, a white male. She loves him so much that she decides to abandon her husband and their two children... Seven years later, one of her sons recognizes his mother on the streets of Rotterdam. She recognizes him too and she thinks back to the last week before she left her husband and children.
(voice)
Caterina Bolnes
Dos mujeres mueren en un accidente de tráfico y la conductora que iba con ellas pierde una pierna. Los maridos de las víctimas, dos zoólogos gemelos se sienten fascinados por el proceso de descomposición de los cuerpos. Después inician un idilio con la conductora amputada y comienzan a liberar animales del zoológico en el que trabajan.
Maddy
A Czech dissident with memory loss is being manipulated by shady characters to perform an assassination for them.
A heroin-addicted artist (Thom Hoffman) hugs his self-imposed isolation. While he was in an empty factory to painting, he heroin syringe. He dreams that he is like an eagle above the people flies out. When his mother becomes disabled after a failed suicide attempt, she asks him. He is looking for her for the first time in twelve years again. Together they take a radical decision.
Denise
The antiques shop Gerard owns should help him to get rid of his financial problems. He dreams of writing the most important Dutch novel ever. Unfortunately he spends money like water. As a result he is constantly broke. His sister Ingrid is married to Pierre. She wants a child but he refuses. While Gerard is willing to consider leading a normal life, a wish mainly expressed by his parents, Ingrid's marriage falls apart.
