Babett
Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a terrible mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. He went through the war, but will he survive the peace?
Erna
Theo and Louis, two gay gentlemen, embark on a train journey to Paxmal. They are carrying an urn - it is the last journey for a friend. On their way deep into the Swiss Alps the two men, struggling with their fate, meet various people. While some of these people remind Theo and Louis again of the beautiful things in life, others confront them with ghosts from the past.
Ms Arnold
Lisa se va a mudar. Mara se queda. A medida que se cambian las cajas y se construyen los armarios, los abismos comienzan a abrirse y se pone en marcha una montaña rusa emocional. Una película de catástrofe tragicómica. Una balada poética sobre el cambio y la fugacidad.
Margherita
Franco, an elderly man, lives his life in serenity together with his wife Margherita. The arrival of his brother Vittorio, with whom he hasn’t talked in years, breaks the calm. Vittorio wants to reconcile, but Franco still bears a grudge against him. Only a sad discovery manages to touch Franco’s heart. At dinner, peace has been made. The rediscovered brotherhood is so wonderful, it seems like a dream. It takes nothing though to turn a dream into a nightmare..
An 80-year-old woman spends her time at a bus station. She’s waiting for the right moment to leave this place forever.
Nonna
En el siglo XIX, en una región rural de Suiza, un buscavidas roba niños y los compra a sus familias para luego venderlos como limpiadores de chimeneas en la ciudad de Milán. Es el destino que le aguarda al pequeño Giorgio, que junto a sus compañeros de esclavismo, con los rostros de hollín y el corazón blanco, comparte la misma miseria pero también el mismo espíritu de rebelión. Juntos forman la asociación secreta de los Hermanos Negros, que bajo juramento de sangre se prometen protegerse entre ellos para sobrellevar sus penurias.
Laura di Santamaura
Elderly Lady
The 27 year-old Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi walked from Romania to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the 20th century. Brancusi leaves his small village of Hobitza, south of the Carpathian Mountains and walks through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and parts of France to arrive in Paris, the metropolis of world culture for the first three decades of the 1900s. He walks in spring, summer, winter and autumn, treading the landscape away from the beaten track, experiencing sights, having adventures, suffering hardships, looking, touching and feeling the world as a preparation of what is to come for him.