Krank, un científic prematurament envellit per la seva incapacitat per somiar, decideix contrarestar-ho segrestant nens en una ciutat portuària i arrossegar-los fins a la plataforma marina on viu. El seu objectiu és apoderar-se dels seus somnis, però el terror dels nens és tant gran, que només els hi roba els seus malsons. Una nena de nou anys, Miga, s’alia amb un gegant, One, per tal de rescatar al seu germà de les mans del científic.

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Once a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Stan is now a depressive alcoholic who spends most of his time mooching about his house whilst pouring out his troubles to his drinking partner. The only thing that keeps him going is his love for his teenage daughter, Charlotte, but she despises him, believing him to be responsible for the accident in which her mother died.

Cécile is spending the summer in the south of France with her widowed father Raymond and his latest flame Elsa. The equilibrium is disrupted with the arrival of Anne, an old friend of Cécile's mother.

"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.