John Connolly og James 'Whitey' Bulger vokser op sammen i Boston. Da de mødes igen i 1970'erne, er Whitey den mest frygtede gangsterboss i Massachusetts irske mafia, og Connolly er FBI-agent, der rydder op i underverdenen. For at udradere en rivaliserende mafiafamilie går Whitey med til at blive meddeler for FBI. Men Whitey misbruger aftalen til at gå amok i mord og bestikkelse.
Luke McNamara bider smerten i sig, da det glødende jern brændemærker ham for altid. Han er nu medlem af The Skulls. Garanti for magt, ære og rigdom. Men medlems skabet har en uhyggelig bagside. The Skulls kræver absolut loyalitet og absolut tavshed. End ikke Lukes kæreste Chloe og bedste ven Will må vide noget. Så da Will udfritter ham, er Lukes mund lukket med syv segl. Få dage senere får Luke et grusomt chok. Will er fundet død. Manden der skulle være topjournalist, livsnyderen, evigt glade Will har begået selvmord..?
Dora kæmper med sin kunst. Hun er havnet i en bølgedal og kan ikke kommer videre med at skabe det, der skal give hende penge nok til husleje og tryghed. Men da hun prøver et nyt hallucinerende stof på en natklub, tager hendes liv en ny drejning. Hun mister grebet om sig selv og sit liv. Hendes kunst tager ny fart, men samtidigt fyldes hun af et umætteligt behov, som hun kan stilles af blod.
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.
Samantha tager et job som babysitter i et stort mørkt hus beliggende ved siden af en kirkegård. Hun modtages af den mystiske Mr. Ulman, der hurtigt indrømmer overfor den unge pige, at jobbet faktisk går ud på at passe hans mor et par timer. Samantha har brug for pengene og siger ja. Men snart går det op for hende, at huset gemmer på en hårrejsende hemmelighed...
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs out, Madeline pursues the trail laid by a killer calling himself Harry Houdini. After capturing him, Madeline brings Harry back to the police station, but is unable to get him to confess where Frances is buried. As time runs down, Harry gets inside the head of unstable, alcoholic Madeline.
Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
A young man in trouble is forced to drag his family into the problem.
In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is still haunted by her loss, from Hiroshima to Tokyo and Fukushima and all the way to Ōtsuchi, where her family home once stood. On the way she encounters other people, other stories, other lives and other losses. Landscapes and faces. The journey ends in the middle of a garden in full bloom among the scarred surroundings of her coastal hometown.. In it stands a telephone box which, even though it is no longer connected, is used to speak to those who cannot be reached any other way.
While attending a screening of his film at the London Film Festival, a Japanese man tries to track down a woman from his past after receiving a mysterious phone call.
Documentary short about a strange phenomenon where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract people around the world to call the number and also to travel to the desert to answer the phone.