Rudolf Höss radi kao zapovjednik koncentracijskog logora Auschwitz. Neposredno izvan zidina logora nalazi se njegova vila s prostranom parcelom: mali bazen, travnjaci, grmlje - Hössova žena posvećuje puno truda uređenju vrta. Petero Hössove djece odrasta ovdje, njihovi kolege dolaze u posjet i ovdje planiraju svoju osobnu i profesionalnu budućnost.
Robert Dean uspješan je odvjetnik predan svom poslu i uspjehu. Privatno prolazi kroz novi bračni početak sa suprugom Carlom nakon okončane afere s ljubavnicom Rachel Banks. Agencija za nacionalnu sigurnost (NSA) najavljuje mogućnost donošenja novog zakona koji bi dopuštao nadgledanje i prisluškivanje osoba bez njihove prethodne dozvole. Da bi spriječio suprotstavljanje kongresmena, visoki dužnosnik NSA-e Thomas Reynolds naručuje njegovo ubojstvo na jezeru. Sasvim slučajno tamo se zatekne kamera prirodoslovca koji snima migracije gusaka i tako zabilježi cijeli događaj. Kad shvati što je snimio i da su mu progonitelji već za petama, pokušava se riješiti dokaznog materijala. U bijegu nalijeće na Deana i neopazice spušta dokaz u njegovu vrećicu s božićnim darovima. Dean se odjednom nađe u vrtlogu nejasnih zbivanja, ne shvaćajući što se događa...
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out.
Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.
Giacomo, a boy from Puglia, leaves immediately after the war for the United States of America, where, after a few years, he will be known by the name of "James". The young man, however, enters the gang scene. Following a fight, he will be put back on the right path by the former boxer, now carpenter, Frank!
In the halls of power, a minister has fallen from grace. Government agent Beckett recruits a deadly operative Richards with a dubious past to restore control via coercion. As the power play unfolds, Beckett must confront the consequences of his choices while Richards seeks to safeguard his own interests.