Ivan Locke egy a végtelenségig precíz építésvezető, aki karrierjének legfontosabb napjára készül. Minden tőle telhetőt megtesz annak érdekében, hogy minden olajozottan haladjon. Az irányítás mégis kicsúszik a kezéből és úgy tűnik hogy a gondosan felépített élete darabjaira hullik.
A megtévesztő egyszerűségű filozofikus alkotás főszereplője egy megtört és egyre elkeseredetebb férfi, aki keres valakit, aki halála után, melyet önkezével hajtana végre, eltemetné. Kocsijával, Irán homok lepte dombjain keresztül autózva, az útjába kerülő embereket meg-megszólítja. Időnként felvesz egy munkást vagy katonát, de kívánsága mindenkit elriaszt. Egy idősebb török ember azonban elvállalja a megbízást, de előtte elmesél egy történetet.
Két különböző országban él az a két gyermek, akiket minden éjjel meglátogat egy arctalan betolakodó, amely mindkettőjüket hatalmába akarja keríteni. A szülők először látomásokra és besurranó tolvajokra gyanakodnak, de mikor felismerik a valódi veszélyt, ki-ki a maga módján próbál szembeszállni a természetfelettivel.
Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.
Donald is a riveter who has trouble with the riveting gun, heights, and the foreman, Pete. Pete chases him throughout the construction site, causing the building to collapse. Donald runs away while Pete is trapped in cement, holding a water hose in the pose of a statue.
Egy kis szigeten építőmunkások egy csoportja tereprendezést lát el. Amikor az egyik munkagép
"elszabadul". A munkások sorra meghalnak az építkezésen...
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
The beautiful and erotic Bramadero finds Hassen and Jonás on the outskirts of Mexico City. Away from it all, they’ve found a spot where they can seduce one another and merge into one; where sex becomes desire, desire becomes love, and only death will separate them.
Bulldog Marc Anthony, guarding a construction site, finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch. A hungry grown cat sees and is determined to have the wiener.
When the beautiful Leonor arrives at the architecture studio Borla y Asociados looking for Nelson Jara, both Mario Borla and his partner Marta Hovart and Pablo Simó, the building's oldest architect, claim to ignore that name completely. But they all lie. The truth begins to unravel through the memories of Pablo Simó. Pablo should carry out the unpleasant job of dealing with Nelson Jara, an indignant owner of the building adjoining a work of the studio, damaged by a crack in the wall of his living room caused by an error in the construction. But the fear and nervousness that provokes in the three involved the arrival of Leonor and her question "what happened to Nelson Jara?" Show something much darker and more suspicious. (FILMAFFINITY)
After his parents' death, construction worker Sigi doesn't know what to do with his life. He can't do much with his pay, and as a working-class man, women aren't interested in him. But things start to change after a colleague advises him to start moonlighting as a private builder and he meets the beautiful Hannah.
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.
Nesting is a story about Veikka (20), who is about to leave his work place - a construction site owned by Kari (50) - to start a new life in the big city. Veikka thinks the goodbyes will go smoothly, but gets interrupted by a rare situation: there’s a baby in the crane. The surprising problem is an annoyance at first, but in the end it opens up communication between the employees in a way that has been difficult in the past.
A subtenant couple that tries unsuccessfully to have a baby and get the apartment decides to adopt one.