夫を悲惨な事故で失ったシングルマザーのアメリアは、一人息子のサミュエルと共に暮らしていた。サミュエルは学校でしばしば暴力的な行動を起こす問題児。言うことを聞かない息子に手を焼き、アメリアは疲れ果てていた。一方、サミュエルは、母親の読み聞かせで眠りにつくのが習慣で、その日はアメリアの知らない一冊の本を取り出し、彼女に読んで欲しいとせがむ。どこか薄気味の悪いその絵本は「ババドック」というキャラクターが登場する不思議な本だった。

The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.

An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of this mess?

A rabbit tries all he can to keep a hunting dog awake before tomorrow's big hunt.

Sylvester Cat tumbles and falls dazed to the floor when making a grab for Tweety Bird. He comes to and thinks he has killed and swallowed the little canary and that he's wanted for murder.

Paranoid is the first short made by Robert Morgan, obviously it’s a VHS camera and some rough puppetry but that’s not tossed out either.

A sleepless man meets a sleepwalker woman. A nocturnal ballad begins in the quiet city of Novi Ligure. But someone conspires in the darkness of the city…

Donald gets off the bus and heads home hoping to get a good night's sleep. At first, his plans for rest are disturbed by an open window shade which lets light from a flashing sign in. After that problem is dealt with, Donald is kept awake by a persistently dripping faucet. Donald tries to ignore it but after a while, it becomes aggravating to put it mildly. Donald makes several attempts to stop the dripping and finally at least is able to keep it under control via a Rube Goldberg contraption. At this point, Donald receives a call from his water company telling him he hasn't paid his water bill so they're cutting off his water!

A social drama about two brothers, Jean-Phi and Xav, that will help each other towards adversity. Jean-phi deals with a weird trouble that makes him sleep all the time anywhere while Xav can't meet any new girls because is still in love of his ex-girlfriend : the beautiful Stacy.

Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition of "Largo al factotum", from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", while Jerry strives for sleep under the stage.

Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep.

What happens when sleep becomes a luxury

Somewhere in North Kolkata, OBHYESH is an unfurling of a 28 years old boy's life, through his struggle to fall asleep during a whole night. The boy seems to be terribly tired and tries hard to get some sleep but various thoughts perpetually come and go keeping him awake where rest is dreamlike and comes to him eventually at dawn.

In this edition of Moulton's narrative series, the artist's character Cynthia suffers from Restless Leg Syndrome, and seeks relief in pharmaceutical ads on TV and in health magazines. In a domestic world enlivened with animated dance and mystic poetry (written and read by poet John Coletti), Cynthia finds relief in the healing mineral AION A, discovered by Swiss artist Emma Kunz.

It is nighttime. In Croatia, a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying. Her mother-in-law is also being kept awake by the baby's crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted child-rearing advice to her daughter-in-law. In Spain, a young husband and wife are also wide awake in the dead of night: they are in the middle of a turbulent argument. She is Spanish, he is Croatian and their marriage is in crisis because they simply do not understand one another. Back in Croatia, the young man's elderly mother is also awake, plagued with indigestion pains. The old woman is also worried about her lodger, a young Spanish girl who happens to be the sister of the old woman's daughter-in-law in Spain. The young girl comes home with her new lover. He is a taxi driver who drifts aimlessly through the night while his own wife endures a sleepless night with a crying baby and a nagging mother-in-law.