A constant journey from outer space to a town in Norway, where we encounter small pieces of people’s lives.
A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again.
Margareta
성공한 연극배우 마리안느는 역시 성공한 지휘자 마쿠스와 결혼해 아홉살 난 딸을 두고 멀쩡하게 살고 있다. 남편의 친구인 영화감독 데이비드는 이 기름진 가족 모두의 친구이기도 하다. 다정다감하지만 딜레탕트의 냄새가 짙은 데이비드는 남자가 출장간 사이 마리안느를 찾아와 어깨를 기댄다. 친구였던 두 남녀는 곧 제동장치 없는 불륜 게임을 시작하고, 한때 친구였던 세 사람은 서로에게 부정(不貞)해지면서 모두 자멸하고 만다.
Wenche Øymoen
Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds it difficult to be accepted in the closed-net community of the island. Slowly but surely, she discovers that the idyllic island hides many dark secrets.
Woman in Park
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
Cylindia Volund
Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd...
The shoeshiner
An experimental portrayal of a woman driven to collapse in her attempts at human approach and to master her surroundings. Intense, frenetic and confused, she stakes it all on shining shoes.
Stella Hvidtsteen
Werner is a private investigator. One day, the rich and attractive Stella Hvidsteen visits him in his weary office. She says that her sister Evy has disappeared, asks him to find her, and adds that her sister has red hair.
A wave of violent demonstrations paralyzes a small society. At the same time a cynical group works in the shadows and uses the chaos as a smokescreen for a coup d’état.
