Hvad kan en scanner se? Kan den se ind i din hjerne? Ind i dit hjerte? Nu kommer filmen A Scanner Darkly, baseret på en roman af Philip K. Dick – sci-fi-legenden, som skrev bøgerne bag Blade Runner, Total Recall og Minority Report. Richard Linklater har skabt filmen med det nyskabende animerede look. Tid: Den nære fremtid.

Sted: Forstæderne. Historien: En skarp, underholdende fortælling om en gruppe mennesker, der er afhængige af stoffet Substance D, og om en regering, der gladeligt ødelægger sine borgere – deres rettigheder og deres forhold – for at redde dem. Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder og Rory Cochrane spiller en gruppe misbrugere, der både er bange for hinanden og for spioner. Keanu Reeves spiller en spion, som også er en del af gruppen ... indtil han begynder at få personlighedsspaltning. Nyd paranoiaen. Der er ikke nogen, der holder øje med dig. Tro mig

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.

Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking his death and promising a large inheritance to the Mommsen-Gymnasium and the principal. Of course, the inheritance is tied to many embarrassing conditions.