Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets an unusually honest man who has been abandoned and a straightforward woman.
Riitta Havukainen
Marita Kunnas
Paavo Piskonen
Lauri Valjakka
Tiina Bergström
Marianne Kunnas
Tarja Keinänen
Ulla Valjakka
Matti Pellonpää
Honest Man
Benjamin Oroza
Pave
Juhani Laitala
Lauri's Old Schoolmate
Jone Takamäki
Youth-worker
Kirsi Tykkyläinen
Woman in Train
Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets an unusually honest man who has been abandoned and a straightforward woman.
In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way out of debt.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
พ่อวัยหนุ่มได้กลับบ้านหลังจากติดคุก เขามีความกระตือรือร้นที่จะดูแลลูกชายและผันตัวมาเป็นนักเขียน แต่อาชญากรรม ความยากจน และระบบที่บกพร่องเป็นอุปสรรคต่อแผนของเขา
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
พี่น้องฝาแฝดคู่หนึ่งจากอีสต์แอล.เอ. เลือกที่จะใช้ชีวิตแตกต่างไปจากเดิมและลงเอยอยู่คนละฝั่งของกฎหมาย