The Chinese restaurant is empty. The cage full of exotic birds is wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. But catching these animals isn’t as simple as it seems.

Rachid, a 21-year-old keen young man of Moroccan descent, has one goal: to find a job. He confidently applies for a job as dishwasher in a restaurant, which to him seems like a job anyone can do. But it soon turns out that all is not as simple as he imagined.

A woman has her daily routine. It is a very well-organized personal microcosm. But new arrivals upset this routine. As she sees this disruption as a personal attack, she withdraws into herself.

In an undefined setting, workers are doing a neverending series of monotonous tasks. Except for one person - the one in control of the cycle. In the minds of the workers, we hear flashes of the outside world. Is this liberty or is this a prison? What happens when the chain of work derails?

On the savannah, a group of strange animals play a game of hide-and-seek. They look like giraffes, but without necks. Suddenly, Gerda grows a long neck. After the initial shock, the group resume their game, but Gerda has a hard time hiding. When clouds appear and cover Gerda's neck like a scarf, Gerda loses sight of the group. An actual game of hide-and-seek begins…

For months Eva Van Tongeren maintains a correspondence with the convicted and incarcerated paedophile Thomas. With a voice-over she reflects upon his thoughts and how their atrociousness resonates through her daily life. Despite her unchanging incomprehension she seeks the limits of her empathy and tries to find ways to deal with such a loaded subject. As it proves to be impossible to make a connection she looks for something that does bind them. This brings her to the American landscape surrounding Death Valley, a place Thomas always wanted to visit. The filmmaker sends him fragments of quiet landscapes and memories that will never be his.

While separating peanuts from their shells, the women in a collective in Agadez, Niger, talk to each other about the men passing by and the filmmaker being present. Focusing on their working hands, the camera reveals the harsh conditions of these women’s daily lives.

A semi-autobiographical story about borders and integration told through the metaphor of a plant. After realising her plant isn’t growing as it should, Olive leaves her home and goes on a quest to find new grounds to let her plant re-root. Soon after she embarks on the journey, she comes to realise she has to do a lot more before she can reach her goal, or at least that’s what she thinks...

Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.

Worn out by everyday routine, fifty-nine-year-old fishmonger Sabine decides to leave her fish shop and ventures into the world outside of her countryside village. Her quickest escape, the village school bus, brings her to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, where a museum audio guide helps her find the elevation she unknowingly sought.