The action takes place in a grim anarchist future civilization after a big crash or war. A young man, Allan (Bentein Baardson), decides to move out of the city as his family live in. He brings his wife, Lisa ('Petronella Barker'), and the son to a big garbage dump located outside the city. Where they settle and survive on the waste they find on the dump. They are in many ways more closely related to each other by living this way, and Lisa eventually becomes pregnant. But there is a great shortage of water (Sweetwater) and the family of three must go out and look for water. When they discover they are not alone in staying in landfill. It will be a struggle for existence.
母亲(松佳·里奇特 Sonja Richter 饰)病重,艾尔玛(Harald Kaiser Hermann 饰)和艾瑞克(Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt 饰)兄弟两人无人照顾,只能被送往由校长赫克(拉斯·米科尔森 Lars Mikkelsen 饰)所开办的寄宿学校之中。赫克是一个信奉暴力的男人,他坚信,唯有通过武力才能够令学校中的孩子们真正信服,才能够引导他们走上正确的道路。 兄弟两人在这座名为学校实为监狱的牢笼之中受尽折磨,圣诞节妈妈会来接他们回家的承诺成为了他们生存下去的唯一动力,然而,两人等啊等啊,等来的却是妈妈的死讯。莉莉安(苏菲·格拉宝 Sofie Gråbøl 饰)是学校里新上任的文学教师,她敏锐的察觉到了这所学校里正在发生的惨无人道的暴行,却对这一切无能为力。
Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.
In every movie that he watches, 16-year-old Andoy creates narratives that could help him find answers to the questions that have always bothered him: Who is he and who is his father? While the truth remains elusive, his imaginings remain unrealized until two movie-like characters appear in their barrio - Ariel, a hairdresser who lures young men with his inexplicable charm, and Isidro, a mysterious, long-haired man who owns a VCD player. Andoy finds himself entranced with Ariel and Isidro and begins to spend intimate time with them. As he gets entangled with their twisted lives, his reality becomes mystified. Just like the movies, Andoy must decide whether to conclude his years-long search for his father with a bang or with a whimper.