Lying on a bunk bed in a children's home, eleven-year-old Lu talks with dreamy eyes about her mother, Karina, who claims to be a famous Hollywood actress who smells of oranges, talks to the stars and does her own stunts.
When her neighbor disappears avid joint smoker Gizem starts an inquiry and gets mixed up in a search filled with burglars, mysterious clues and comfortable mattresses.
Days after her baby is stillborn, Robin's breasts begin to produce milk. Unable to throw it away, she decides to donate the milk. As her quest for a place to donate is more difficult than she anticipated, more and more milk starts to crowd her freezer and life.
Mark suffers from an intense form of self-hatred, which translates into neglectful, chilling and destructive behaviour. Mark lives in an equally destructive and hateful town. The only exception is his dying grandfather who lives in a hospice. In the hospice, Mark meets Lisa, a nurse. Mark’s behaviour frees her from her angelic yoke, but their bizarre bond slowly starts spinning out of control.
In the spring of 1945, a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.
When millennial Julia is forced to move back in with her boomer father Piet, the generational conflict is reflected in whether or not to cut down the old tree in front of the house.
The 22-year-old Lisa is approached on the street by the 23-year-old Sven, after a flirt and a joke, Sven asks Lisa the question: Do you believe that I can fly?
On a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally, and takes them into uncharted territory.
A criminal couple roam the freeways of the Benelux in search of ultimate freedom.
A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger.
Joy and her daughter Skye live on a trailer site on the edge of town. Joy’s liberal upbringing style is tested when Skye takes mimicking her mother to extremes.
When Jade and Kaitlynn's close friendship is tested by a denied euthanasia request, Jade takes matters into her own hands to ensure her friend's dignified death.
When an underground evil terrorizes her garden, a troubled woman must face her demons head-on to stop her fear.
Failing novelist Herman Henkelman tries to regain his audience with socially engaged writing, but grapples with the question of what he really has to say.
Meissy (10) discovers that her father Tom (37) is not traveling the world as she thought, but is actually living homeless in her city. She decides to find him and tries to reunite her parents. Despite her mother's objections, she becomes increasingly involved in Tom's life and learns that he is struggling with schizophrenia.