외딴 마을, 어떤 이유로 모두가 죽고, 남자 한사람만 살아 남은 상황... 원래 도서관에서 일을 하던 그는 이상한 사고가 발생하기 전처럼 여전히 도서관에서 일을 하며 시간을 보냅니다. 다만, 마을의 집을 하나하나 찾아다니면서 시체를 수거하고 묻어주는 일도 하고 있는데, 그 혼자만 살아있다는 것을 제외하곤 달라진건 없습니다. 그렇게, 세상에 혼자 살아남았다 생각하며 지내고 있던 어느날, 한 젊은 여인이 그 마을에 찾아듭니다.

Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.

A house is visited by a clean, organized, well-mannered guest.

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

A view of the life and works of the late Alex Colville, the celebrated Canadian painter. Shows the influence on his life and works of his experience as an artist during World War II, and of his relationship with his wife, Rhoda. Friends and critics speak of the construction and sense of menace in his work, and Colville comments on his sense of order, goodness, and contingency.