Trevor
Londres, Inglaterra, abril de 1980. Varios terroristas asaltan la embajada de Irán y toman rehenes. Durante seis días, se mantienen tensas negociaciones mientras las autoridades deciden si debe intervenir un pelotón militar.
Pete
Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.
Dave
When a Cook Island school cleaner answers an unusual message on the wall of a girls' toilet cubicle, his life, and the life of the mysterious author, will never be the same again. Based on the Australian short story The Graffiti of Mr Kynyatta by Michael Griffith.
Billy
A young boy is tormented by his mother's conviction that he is the new Messiah, and after leaving home, he tries to limit all human contact and adopt a completely boring, normal lifestyle. This resolution is tested when he meets an exceedingly attractive young woman at work just as he is named employee of the month: an occasion which allows his crazed mother to locate him.
Slim
Pat Bogen es la encargada de la mina Greymount. Sus preocupaciones por la seguridad de la mina se ven confirmadas cuando se produce un derrumbamiento que atrapa a siete operarios. Entre ellos se encuentra su esposo Chief y su hijo Rabbit. Con la reserva de oxígeno a punto de agotarse y el agua filtrándose en el túnel, la situación se tornará desesperada.
