Laura, una joven de 19 años, estudiante universitaria de primer curso, quiere sacar sus estudios adelante pase lo que pase. El curro no le basta para vivir y llega a una tal situación de miseria que una noche, desesperada, decide contestar a un anuncio de Internet. Joe, 57 años, busca a una estudiante para compartir momentos de ternura con ella. Cien euros la hora. "Lo haré una vez y no más", se dice a sí misma. Tres días más tarde, Laura se encuentra en la habitación de un hotel, en compañía de Joe. Así se pone en marcha el ciclo infernal.
Tras la muerte de su esposa, el escritor Monte Wildhorn, se ha vuelto un amargado que ha perdido la fe en el mundo y en sí mismo y sólo encuentra consuelo en el alcohol. Su sobrino, preocupado por él, le ha encontrado un lugar para pasar las vacaciones: la casa de veraneo de un músico amigo suyo: la única condición será que cuide del perro. En ese lugar conoce a Charlotte O’Neil, una atractiva divorciada que intenta empezar una nueva vida, y a sus tres hijas: Flora, de seis años, Finnegan, de diez y Willow, de quince. Su relación con ellas le recordará lo que solía decirle su esposa: "cuando una puerta se cierra en algún sitio, otra se abre en otro lugar".
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Gabriel y Emilie se conocen por casualidad y comienzan una larga conversación que los entretiene toda la tarde. Al final de la noche Gabriel le pide un beso pero ella se niega argumentando que un beso puede tener muchas consecuencias por lo que le cuenta la historia de Judith y Nicolás quienes verán como una decisión afecta a los demás.
France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.
Laurent es un chico de 23 años que no oculta su homosexualidad ante sus amigos pero sí ante sus padres. Sus tíos renegaron de su hijo Marc cuando se enteraron de que era homosexual y Laurent, por miedo a que sus padres hagan lo mismo, lleva una doble vida con la ayuda de su mejor amiga Carole.
Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life seems like a dream when they're together - but their short flights from the burdens of reality are once and again interrupted by Paul's ties to family and career.
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.
It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers this microcosm where the comic aspect of the individual tragedies encounters the passing of time and where hope mingles with melancholy.
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.
Holding hands or kissing in public isn't for everyone. When it comes to same sex relationships, showing your love outside of the home is sometimes a complicated personal choice. This short documentary moves between the public and private spaces in which lesbian and gay couples live, and explores small gestures of human connectedness. These gentle interactions not only carry a huge personal significance, but also the potent power to create social change. Yet, for most people, being affectionate beyond the hall door isn't intended as a political statement - it's an expression of love.
Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.