从很小的时候起,妹妹(朱琳 饰)就被父母抛弃成为了孤儿,幸运的是,远在澳大利亚,有一个名叫兰德尔(盖·皮尔斯 Guy Pearce 饰)的绅士出手相助,妹妹才能在孤儿院过上衣食无忧的生活。妹妹从未见过她的救命恩人,她对兰德尔的所有了解都局限于后者寄给她的各种各样漂亮的卡片之中,在妹妹的印象里,兰德尔住在一幢大房子里,家庭幸福,富有又善良。 一次意外的机会中,妹妹所在的孤儿院来到澳大利亚参加一个活动,妹妹偷偷的离开了队伍,独自踏上了寻找兰德尔的旅途。没想到,现实犹如一盆冷水浇在了妹妹的头上,兰德尔并不富有,甚至都失去了自由。兰德尔的落魄并没有改变妹妹对他的尊重,随着时间的流逝,一种类似于亲情的感情在两人之间产生了。
故事发生在1990年夏天前东德图林根州附近的乡村。即将年满19岁的玛丽亚和男友约翰内斯住在约翰内斯父母的农场里,她宁愿沉浸在书本中,也不愿专注于毕业。随着德国的统一,人们有一种新时代来临的感觉。 当玛丽亚遇到住在隔壁的农民亨纳时,玛丽亚与这个比她年龄大一倍、任性、有魅力的男人燃起强烈的激情。在充满未知的气氛中,爱情诞生了:一种充满渴望和欲望的秘密激情,吞噬了前进道路上的一切。
A young girl stays with her estranged grandparents in the city while she waits for the results of her audition for an international performance group. Her grandparents welcome her, delighted about the chance to get to know their granddaughter better. While staying at the house, the girl gets to know her uncle, who suffers from a mysterious long-term lung illness and is mainly confined to bed. She also observes her grandmother's weird religious rituals, some involving a swimming pool in the basement. When the girl's father finds out that she is staying with his parents, he persuades his sister to visit the house to get her out, ending with a terrible tragedy.
Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events. He learns not only he has had a son named as a Murat, also he realizes that his son has got a enemy called as Devran for his son's relationship with a attractive and fine girl, Karaca.
Vera and André are a couple who get the chance to pitch their business at a prestigious competition. Before the competition, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking, with an unexpected side effect: she loses all social inhibitions. André has a hard time dealing with this. When it risks ruining his career, he’s torn between accepting her new personality and taking drastic measures to make her stop.
When 13-year-old seminarian Sacramento Santos joins a new order, he hopes to rise through levels of obedience to “Perfect Obedience”. But this progression proves to be more than just a spiritual journey. Sacramento is adopted by the order's founding father, Ángel de la Cruz, and over the course the year they fall in love and surrender to the most intense, blissful, and contradictory episode of their lives. Years later, older and wiser, Sacramento leaves the order regretting that episode, and he decides to seek justice from his old tutor.