Belinda
In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.
Dora
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
Sarah
Catherine is taken to dine at "Eau de la vie" an opulent cafe known for its unusual entertainment. Her business associates Grant and Sarah intend to initiate her into their sordid society and strip her of her innocence. Catherine must choose from a small group of performers who will entertain the diners for the evening. She selects a young attractive man unaware that the finale of the evenings entertainment will end in his dead. To save the young man she has chosen, Catherine is driven to fight for her own life but oblivious to her struggle the other diners believe it is all part of the evening's entertainment Catherine has to stand alone. They say that evil triumphs when good people do nothing. Eau de la vie is a dark tale of hedonism and individual courage.
Marcelle
Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
June
뉴질랜드의 한적한 시골, 1남 4녀 중 둘째딸로 태어남 자넷(Janet Frame as a child: 카렌 페구슨 분)은 잔뜩 부풀려진 빨간 머리와 뚱뚱한 몸매 그리고 못생긴 얼굴로 친구들에게조차 소외당하는 천덕꾸러기다. 친구들의 관심을 끌고자 아버지의 돈을 훔쳐 눈깔사탕을 한웅큼 사서 친구들에게 나눠주지만 무서운 선생님에게 들켜 자넷(Janet Frame as adolescent: 알렉시아 케이 분)의 작전은 물거품으로 돌아가는데...
