八座山讲述了一段友情的故事。孩子成长为男人，他们在这一过程中试图不重复父亲的命运，但他们选择的人生道路却最终把他们带回了各自的家园。彼得罗是一个城里的孩子，而布鲁诺则是一座被遗忘的山中小村的最后一个孩子。随着时光的流逝，布鲁诺依然忠于大山，而彼得罗则回来又离开。各自的经历都让他们品尝到爱与失去，带他们回忆各自的起源，看命运的画卷徐徐展开。彼得罗和布鲁诺也最终发现了永恒友谊的真谛。
建筑师乔治（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）很早就和妻子罗宾（克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯 Kristin Scott Thomas 饰）离婚了，与儿子山姆（海登·克里斯滕森 Hayden Christensen 饰）之间的关系也并不乐观，不如意的工作 干了几十年，不满意的房子住了几十年，而就在不久前，他又被查出患上了不治之症。落入了人生最低谷的乔治暗下决心，即使死期将近，也不能就此沉沦。
乔治决定重新修葺房屋，他找来山姆，希望他能够助自己一臂之力。尽管老大的不情愿，山姆还是半推半就的答应了，与此同时，罗宾也开始天天给辛苦劳作的父子二人送饭送菜，一家三口的关系渐渐恢复到了从前的幸福和睦。就当三人沉浸在家庭带来的快乐中时，乔治的生命也已经走到了尽头，然而对于此事，山姆和罗宾竟然一无所知。
吉姆（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）是一名广告代理商，和妻子穆瑞尔（玛娜·洛伊 Myrna Loy 饰）结婚多年，共同抚养着两个可爱的女儿乔安（莎伦·莫菲特 Sharyn Moffett 饰）和百思迪（康妮·马歇尔 Connie Marshall 饰）。在外人眼中，吉姆婚姻美满，工作稳定，收入颇丰，但吉姆家的房子是租的，这成为了全家人的一块心病。
吉姆家里的大部分争吵都是围绕着房子展开的，这带给了吉姆一种幻觉，如果他们能够拥有属于自己的房子，着无休止的争吵是否就能够停歇了呢？很快，一幢位于郊区的大别墅就吸引了吉姆的注意，他决定举家迁往那里居住。本以为从此就可以一劳永逸，但很快，事情的发展就超出了吉姆控制的范围。
Bored with her social butterfly lifestyle, Victoria Tremont longs to find that special someone. Naturally, when a handsome stranger walks into the coffee shop where she works, she turns on the charm. But when he fails to respond to her flirting the way men usually do, she’s perplexed. She finds out that he runs a ministry that builds affordable housing, and sees that if she wants to get his attention, all she has to do is volunteer.
89岁的老人克雷格与妻子艾琳结缡60载，两人长久以来居住的房屋，随着日晒雨淋逐渐损毁，不适人居。克雷格继承了父辈的造船手艺和事必躬亲的精神，决定帮罹患失智症的妻子打造新家。
但时过境迁，他採用昔日的建筑工法，已不符合现今的法规，因此被一个偏执政府官员盯上，多次发出停工禁令，眼看着爱妻的病情愈发严重，克雷格面对强制出庭，甚至是牢狱之灾的威胁，于是让他做出最后一个决定…
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
A research worker Robespier Galabov (Yakovlev) lives with his family in a small communal flat with shared kitchen and dreams about a self-contained home. Galabov meet Rangel Lelin (Gospodinov), the well-known amidst the localities as the past-master, when he realized that the new municipal apartment they apply for won't be ready in the next decade. The Past-Master promises to build the private house in a month. After starting the construction, Rangel Lelin constantly blackmail Galabov for more money through treat of "putting the hat". Finally the house was built but the inauguration become gloomy. It turns out that the chimney of the fireplace doesn't work properly. After days of luckless attempts to solve the problem the past-master's brother come into sight. Knowing the Lelin's tricks he find a hat built in the chimney.
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.
Fabian builds his house on an old cart that he will pull himself, with the plan to walk to Serbia. But then it turns out that building the cart in itself is quite a journey. Will the cart ever leave it's place?
The eagle family flew in to look for a place for their nest. The eagle-eyed looked for a tall, sprawling oak for the future of her offspring. But then a mole intervened and tried to discourage the building of a nest in the crowns of this tree - the roots of the oak were rotten long ago and it could soon fall.
Biography - President Jimmy Carter and his wife discuss the 25 years they've spent working with Habitat for Humanity and their Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation project, in this illuminating documentary. The film showcases Habitat for Humanity's 2008 Blitz Build campaign to rebuild the Gulf Coast and demonstrates Carter's far-reaching impact, the result of a determined man who refuses to ignore people in need. -
Markku built a house for his family with his own bare hands like a strong man is supposed to do. He worked hard from dawn to dusk, so that his seven children would have a roof above their heads. Unfortunately, the task ended up being too hard and Markku burnt out. One day, he left his family and disappeared abroad. The filmmaker travels to his childhood home to face his father, who he never got to know properly. Together they build a steel gate in front of the unfinished house, and try to create a relationship between each other.