Poole
Concerned by his good friend Dr Henry Jekyll's recent behaviour, Gabriel Utterson is driven to uncover the identity of the mysterious and dangerous Mr. Hyde, to whom Jekyll is enthralled.
Annette
Após estarem desaparecidos durante mais de 500 anos, os restos mortais do Rei Ricardo III são descobertos debaixo de um parque de estacionamento em Leicester. A busca fora orquestrada por uma historiadora amadora, Philippa Langley, que viu a sua pesquisa incessante recebida com incompreensão pelos amigos e familiares e com ceticismo por especialistas e acadêmicos.
Old Peggy
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Joan
A young, socially-awkward janitor in an elderly care home sets out to go on an adventure with his three elderly best friends.
Meg
An illegal immigrant from Albania infiltrates the lives of a group of Londoners with devastating consequences.
Darren's Mum
In Romance and Adventure, Darren is Josie’s best friend. Josie is Darren’s flatmate. Approaching 30, Josie is desperate to travel, to escape, to do something big. Darren is happy having his meals cooked by someone other than his mum. Together they drink Buckfast and wander the streets, wondering why their friends are becoming old and boring, with houses and marriages and kitchens to retile. Together they make fun of squares and make up games, it’s them against the world, or so Josie hopes. How much can you rely on a friend who doesn’t want to grow up?
The interweaving stories of seven very different people in the cosmopolitan city of Glasgow who decide that, in their pursuit of love, it is time to try something new. Little do they know that after one night of speed dating their lives will take dramatic new twists - and we'll be there to witness each and every one of them.
Alice
A Palestinian refugee attempting to avoid deportation.
Director
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
Johnny's Mother
Três histórias diferentes são contadas em "Vida Ácida": primeiro um rapaz, péssimo jogador amador de futebol, é expulso de seu time e tem, na sequência, o pior dia de sua vida, com uma série de decepções e fracassos, culminando em um encontro com Deus em um bar, que resolve se vingar de toda a humanidade, começando por ele; no segundo segmento, um rapaz apaixonado assume o filho e casa-se com uma mulher na esperança de constituir uma família feliz, mas um vizinho que se muda para o apartamento de cima vai perturbar a harmonia do casal; e por último, um jovem troca de corpo com um bebê recém-nascido e torna-se espião da vida de um casal com problemas conjugais. As histórias possuem como foco a miséria humana e a vida secreta de todo indivíduo.
