Rachel prend tous les jours le même train et passe toujours devant la même maison. Dévastée par son divorce, elle fantasme sur le couple qui y vit et leur imagine une vie parfaite… jusqu’au jour où elle est témoin d’un événement extrêmement choquant et se retrouve, malgré elle, étroitement mêlée à un angoissant mystère.

When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leads him on a journey of a very different sort. Within the blink of an eye his life of complacency is left behind for a world in which the line between fantasy and reality is blurred...a world of intrigue, danger, and the possibility of blood

Une jeune divorcée perturbée fait une fixation sur un couple apparemment idéal, jusqu'à ce qu'une découverte choquante la plonge dans une inextricable affaire de meurtre.

Jeanne vit dans un pavillon de banlieue avec sa mère Louise. Les deux femmes s'entendent bien. Louise gagne sa vie en gardant des enfants. Jeanne, sans trop de conviction, cherche un emploi.Un jour, en lisant une annonce sur le net, Louise croit que le destin frappe à sa porte. Elle nourrit l'espoir de faire engager sa fille chez Samuel Bleistein, un avocat de renom qu'elle a connu dans sa jeunesse.L'univers de Jeanne et celui de Bleistein sont à des années lumières de distance... Pourtant, ils vont se rencontrer à cause d'un mensonge inouï que Jeanne va échaffauder.Le film est l'histoire de ce mensonge qui va devenir le fait divers le plus médiatisé et le plus politisé de ces dernières années.

New teacher Chihiro has been on the job for three months. She does her job with great enthusiasm, but she has a secret that nobody must know. As a student, she accumulated debt in order to keep up with her well-to-do friends. She can’t pay it back on the wages of a teacher so she started working part-time as a Chat-Lady. In front of a web camera that hides her face, she shakes her breasts and hips. By chance, her student, Kazuaki discovers the web site.

Akiko is the heiress of a lumber business family that spans many generations. She married Hiroshi, a company man, and was leading a plain and happy life. But dark clouds overcast Akiko’s happy life when Hiroshi starts an affair with Michiyo, an underclassman from the school Akiko attended. Then Shinji, who used to work in the family lumber business, enters her life the turmoil of men-women relationships becomes tempestuous.

Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen brings together ten filmmakers and artists who consistently affirm what it means to be gay or lesbian in their work. Habakari chose ten filmmakers to make a five-minute work each, developed around a gay or lesbian theme, and compiled the resulting shorts in random order to create this omnibus film. The result is a queer film, by queer filmmakers, for a queer audience. Each short is its own short story, and the styles range from drama and experimental film and animation.