Mona, a bodybuilder, looks like a woman obsessed by an unshapely ideal. The body is her inseparable container, her most faithful ally, her partner responding to laments. Together they find themselves on the threshold of their destiny.
Basado en un solo capítulo, el Captain's Log, de la clásica novela Drácula de 1897 de Bram Stoker, la historia se desarrolla a bordo de la goleta rusa Demeter, que fue fletada para transportar carga privada (veinticuatro cajas de madera sin marcar) desde Carpatia a Londres. La película detallará los extraños eventos que acontecieron a la tripulación condenada mientras intentan sobrevivir al viaje por el océano, acechados cada noche por una aterradora presencia a bordo del barco. Cuando finalmente llegó cerca del puerto de Whitby, estaba totalmente en ruinas. No había rastro de la tripulación.
1941, the Warsaw ghetto. Filip, a young Polish Jew, with his beloved Sarah are getting ready to perform in a cabaret to earn a living. During the premiere, a shootout takes place, during which Sara, as well as Philip's relatives sitting in the audience are killed. Two years later, the man works as a waiter in the restaurant of an upscale hotel in Frankfurt.
A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist for whom sex is “just another market”, and waits for the end of capitalism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn’t make it beyond the first sentence of the second chapter, and she finds no space between art galleries, yoga studios and the beds of strangers. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts regarding her depression as a political issue.
Una escritora establece una amistad con los residentes de Guernsey Island tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando decide escribir un libro sobre sus experiencias durante la guerra.
