The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Avocatul de succes din Washington, Robert Dean, devine victimă a furtului de identitate de înaltă tehnologie atunci când un spărgător îi inserează o casetă video incriminatoare în buzunar. În curând, un agent necinstit al Securitatății Naționale dorește să recupereze banda - și să-l distrugă pe Dean.
Când doi băieți care trăiesc printre gropile de gunoi din mahalalele orașului Rio găsesc un portofel, nu au nici cea mai mică idee că viața li se va schimba pentru totdeauna. Cei doi își dau seama că au găsit ceva cu adevărat prețios după ce își face apariția poliția și află că se oferă o recompensă generoasă pentru returnarea acelui portmoneu.
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.