Adaptación del relato de Edgar Allan Poe titulado "El sistema del Dr. Tarr y el profesor Fether". Sturgess interpreta al estudiante de medicina de Harvard que en la historia de Poe se adentra en el manicomio sin saber el cambio de papeles que ha habido en la institución. En el film se cruzará y enamorará de una joven que está encerrada bajo unas circunstancias que no son lo que parecen.
Two very similar families are settling in two identical houses in a new fashionable neighborhood built near a complex of panel-apartment buildings. The couples are in their forties. The husbands are moderate professionals and the wives are housewives without children and with firmly fixed habits. Step by step they find out how similar they are and step by step they come to hate each other. The more they strive to be different and the more they fail, the stronger their malice and their lust to harm each other grow.
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
Three friends, Maro, Shpera and Yuri are unemployed and hardly make ends meet. They have complicated and hysterical relationships with the people closest to them. They seem to have emigrated from their families and their country. Provoked by a mysterious telephone call, they set out on a journey, filled with the hope to change their lives.