Ο Álex και ο Αβραάμ έχουν μια στενή και μακρόχρονη φιλία, μοιράζοντας μυστικά και φόβους καθώς και σχολικές εργασίες. Όταν ο Αβραάμ ξεκινάει να βγαίνει με την Anchi, ένα κορίτσι στο σχολείο τους, αρχίζει να απομακρύνεται από τον Άλεξ, ο οποίος στρέφεται σε μια ζωντανή κόλαση όπου συναντά παράξενες εμφανίσεις, εφιαλτικά οράματα και ακραίες καταστάσεις που θέτουν τη ζωή του σε κίνδυνο.

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.

Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough.

Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.