A family is fragmented after events caused by a daughter brought up badly by her parents: a man with bad habits, and a mother who comforts too much.

Five actors meet in a house on Christmas Eve to make a movie. While waiting to have dinner with someone they don't know or if they're actually going to show up, they reveal secrets and look back on their lives. From this encounter, joys, frustrations, absences and passions surface at the edge of tension.

In the middle of a pandemic, Laura has been following a routine with social distance for 70 days and is uncomfortable doing some activities that are out of her own. When she successfully performs the tasks, she realizes that the discomfort she felt was for a much deeper reason.

A girl takes photos during a student march and then wanders the streets while trying unsuccessfully to communicate with her parents who live in another city. Her mother is very ill and despite the pain she feels from being separated, the girl must cope with the day to day.

In the Espinhaço Mountains one winter, a group of small-town Brazilian girls are experiencing the end of their youth. Impossible romances leave marks on their bodies and the surrounding landscape. Each of the friends finds her own particular way to overcome the loneliness and to live within a tangle of uncertainty.

Amadeo is a normal-looking young man. He earns his living practicing the profession of photographer in a store-studio dedicated to the making of cards, wedding reports, baptisms, etc. But it doesn't match at all with his dreams of becoming a big star in photography. On the other hand, and given his clumsiness and shyness, success is not precisely the one that accompanies him in his relationships with women.

After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the first movie directed by Henry Winkler, and much of it was filmed inside the MGM Studios in Culver City, California, only a few miles from Hollywood. Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life, also comes for a visit and bonds with Abe, who gets along famously with everyone but his son. Abe begins having memory loss and eventually is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He and his son grow closer in time and, before it's too late, Abbie tries to get Abe a speaking role in a film.

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.