Man on Bus
A principios de los años 70, Bess (Watson), una ingenua joven de un pueblo costero de Escocia, se enamora de Jan (Stellan Skarsgård), un hombre mundano que trabaja en una plataforma petrolífera. A pesar de la oposición de la rígida comunidad puritana a la que pertenece, Bess y Jan se casan. Tras la boda, él vuelve a su trabajo, y ella cuenta los días esperando su vuelta. Bess, una creyente devota, cree que su amor está bendecido por el cielo; pero un día sucede un terrible accidente. Primera película de la trilogía "Corazón dorado" de Lars Von Trier.
Bank Manager
Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
Des
Graeme has musical talent and is struggling to be allowed to express it. Lois is being pushed by her mother into solo parts in the girls' choir. Together they have to perform at a competitive concert while parents and supporters keep score.
Barman
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.
Wandsworth Prison Officer
In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Removal Man
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Alick
En Escocia, en 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una joven está casada con un hombre 15 años mayor que ella. Como parte del programa de rehabilitación, acogen a tres prisioneros de guerra italianos para que trabajen en su granja, y ella no tarda en enamorarse de uno de ellos...
Andrew
En un idílico pueblo costero escocés Macintyre (Peter Riegert), el enviado de una compañia petrolífera, negocia la compra de todas las propiedades de la zona para construir una refinería. Los habitantes del pueblo ven una oportunidad para enriquecerse, pero la obstinación del viejo Ben (Fulton Mackay), propietario de una playa, impide el trato. Mac sólo puede ofrecerle dinero y la playa es todo lo que Ben ambiciona. Mientras, el recién llegado se sumerge en un modo de vida que se mueve a un ritmo pausado, donde el paisaje y la comunidad lo envuelven en sus lazos.
Barman
The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.
