Freyja (played by Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir) returns to Iceland from America after her American army officer husband died of heart attack two months before. Freyja, who is dressed in American clothing, brought back 7 luggages of clothes with her from America, and amazes her Icelandic family - Amma, Ninna, Dodo - with her clothes, perfumes, and her having a fridge in America. Agga (played by Ugla Egilsdóttir), Freyja's step cousin, becomes suspicious of Freyja's return. She suspects that Freyja is an evil woman, and should be sent back to America. However, no one actually believes her.
L'histoire se passe durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le Pacifique. Glenn Close joue le rôle d'une infirmière qui tombe amoureuse d'un cultivateur français (Rade Šerbedžija).
Le film raconte l'histoire tragique de Yessica et Miriam, deux adolescentes de Mexico qui habitent un quartier pauvre et dangereux. Yessica, jeune fille antisociale et problématique, arrive dans un collège public et fait la connaissance de Miriam, timide et naïve. Malgré leur personnalité très différente, elles nouent une forte amitié. Celle-ci se voit interrompue lorsque El Topi, un jeune chauffeur de bus, viole Yessica avec Jorge, le demi-frère de cette dernière.
En 1960, échoués en Australie, la belle et ardente Lola, son mari Ricardo et leur fille Lucia, une adolescente au physique ingrat, habitent dans une banlieue industrielle. Ces trois Espagnols tentent de survivre à l'exil et à la pauvreté. Un jour, Ricardo part vivre avec sa maîtresse, Wendy, abandonnant à leur sort Lola et sa fille. En prime, il dépense les économies de la famille pour s'offrir une superbe voiture. Ne se laissant pas abattre, Lola concocte un plan délirant pour se venger de Ricardo, récupérer sa voiture et gâcher définitivement la vie de Wendy.
Set in the 1980s, Sang-ho is a student activist hiding out in a small rural village. He accidentally witnesses a married couple having sex through a hole on the floor of his second story room. He discovers he is a voyeur at heart and becomes bolder and bolder in his actions. One day, he gets an opportunity to play out his fantasies. When the husband is not home, Sang-ho goes downstairs. Imitating the husband's manner of foreplay even down to the sequence, the young man has sex with the wife. She, like Sang-ho, is a prisoner of the house. The second time he comes to her, he touches her in a different way which makes her turn around and discover that there is a stranger in her bed. But this does not deter her as she reaches out to him for an intense embrace. The husband, Tae-yeol, is an ex-policeman fired for alleged corruption, and his wife Hee-ran, who was raped by him as a young girl, for the sake of status quo has ended up as his wife and prisoner.
Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members - lead singer and guitarist Sung-woo (Lee Eol), keyboardist Jung-seok (Park Won-sang), and drummer Kang-soo (Hwang Jung-min), to continue on the road. The band ends up at Sung-woo's hometown, Suanbo, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s. The main resort now is the Waikiki Hotel, and their gig at the hotel nightclub starts well, until Jung-seok and Kang-soo start to play out their worst vices. For Sung-woo, the calm center of the band, the return home is filled with reservations of disappointments and a lost love. He reunites with his old high school friends, the original Waikiki Brothers, and finds them far from happy. He runs into In-hee (Oh Ji-hye), his unrequited first love. Now widowed, she seems desperate to try their relationship again. Sung-woo also runs into his old music teacher, Byung-joo, and tries to help him get work. But the band is fired from the nightclub and Sung-woo is forced to perform in karaoke bars. And, then, tragedy strikes when his high school classmate Soo-chul dies in an accident.
Wa-ni est une animatrice à succès, la vingtaine, qui perd rapidement toute ambition et passion pour la vie. Elle survit juste grâce à son travail et à la présence de son petit ami, le décontracté Jun-ha. Ce dernier peine à s'imposer comme scénariste sans sacrifier l'art dans son travail pour acquérir son premier job au cinéma. Les deux sont amoureux , cependant, leur relation devient émotionnellement distante car des souvenirs de Wa-ni. refont surface. Lorsque son vieil ami So-young vient visiter Wa-ni, Jun-ha apprend enfin ce qui se cache derrière le chagrin de sa petite amie qui empêche Wa-ni de se connecter pleinement avec lui.
Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide whether she wants to reconnect with the life she abruptly left behind. When a mystery stemming from a suicide draws her in, she and two friends, a young bookie and a cynical federal agent, seek to uncover the truth.
In 1946, Lady Mary Craven (Cherie Lunghi) visits an American orphanage, telling the children about an exchange program that will allow one child to travel to England and stay at Misselthwaite Manor, which is now an orphanage. She meets young Lizzie Buscana (Camilla Belle), who is in the garden trying to take care of her mother's rose bush. Lady Mary tells Lizzie about the exchange program and the secret garden, whereupon Lizzie agrees to participate so she can see the garden for herself.