Paulinus is a young novice at a small Austrian monastery in 1929. In a few days he will take his final vows and become a full member of the order. His only contact to the outside world is Jakob, a young farmer, who visits the monastery every day to deliver errands. When Paulinus' feelings for Jakob start to grow beyond their friendship, he finds himself at a crossroads between God and the world. Before he can make his life's most important decision, he needs to uncover where he belongs in life.
A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon. On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?
The 37-year-old man is working for a Corporation, which is engaged in illegal occupation of rural land. Leaving for another "object", he discovers a huge unfinished cathedral at the infinite field. He needs to decide what to do with the cathedral, as well as to subdue a farmer who rightfully owns the land.
A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It seems pretty much like every second weekend, but after a while Lea can't help feeling that something isn't right. So begins a fateful journey.
제1차 세계대전, 전쟁이 끝나지 않는 가운데 아라비아 사막에서 부족들과 살고 있는 소년 ‘디브’. 어느날 밤, 한 영국인 장교가 찾아와 ‘로마인의 우물’로 길안내를 부탁한다. ‘로마인의 우물’은 새로 생긴 철도 근처로 순례자의 길이지만, 전쟁으로 인한 폐허로 무자비한 강탈과 살인이 끊이지 않는 가장 위험한 지역. 디브는 형과 함께 수많은 위험을 감수하고 영국군 일행의 길 안내를 떠나게 된다.
그리고, 붉은 사막에서 그들의 삶과 운명이 송두리째 바뀌게 되는데…
