When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.

Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons — women and alcohol.

«استیون فلمینگ» (آیرونز) بیست و پنج سال است که با «اینگرید» (ریچاردسن) ازدواج کرده و با او رابطه ی پر مهر و عاطفه ای دارد. «استیون» در مهمانی سفارت فرانسه با «آنا بارتن» (بینوش)، محبوبه ی پسرش، «مارتین» (گریوز) آشنا می شود و رابطه ای بین آن دو شکل می گیرد که خیلی زود از کنترل «استیون» خارج می شود.

London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.

Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.