A girl spends her life exclusively in her digitized apartment, her sole contact with the outside world is by online chat. That is, until a power cut forces her to switch to traditional forms of communication.
After a terrible fight with her conservative parents, 19-year-old Mina moves in with her sister Mandy, who works a prostitute. Mina finds love when she meets Tony, a DJ with financial problems. But two sinister debt collectors give them a drastic ultimatum: they have three days to raise 11 000 Euros. Mandy’s advice to Mina is a diabolic one: to sell the costliest thing she possesses, her virginity.
It would seem to be a night like any other as the projectionist powers down the cinema after the last screening - if it weren't for his increasing certainty that there is something lurking in a corner of the deserted cinema.
Marco lives in a world of his own. He wants to spend the event of the total eclipse concentrated and by himself at a junkyard. Lena crosses his path and stays by his side because she likes him and tries desperately to get closer during this special moment.
Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.