Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Snowy D. White is caught up in a drug deal gone wrong - during the handover, his wife shoots the courier and wants to kill him as well, but he survives. He flees to a farm far away from civilization - but that is a mistake, as his apparent saviors use him in a game of unimagined magnitude...
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.