The movie is loosely based on the story of a town in Oklahoma that had to be moved as a result of the construction of a dam creating Lake Keystone. There is a local legend about a train carrying gold in the 1800s which overturned. The gold is said to have rolled off the mountain pass into the valley, which is now at the bottom of the lake.
Twelve years after the events of Consequences, seventeen-year-old Tiyane—an aspiring football player—engages in a casual sexual encounter with Linda, a childhood friend who has long harboured feelings for him. Shortly thereafter, he becomes enamoured with Juliet, a spirited girl from an affluent, mixed-race background, whose self-restraint contrasts sharply with Linda’s impulsiveness. Tiyane's feelings for Juliet are reciprocated, and he abruptly distances himself from Linda, leaving her exploited.
La Femme Anjola revolves around a stockbroker who fell in love with a mysterious woman. Anjola is married to a gangster who owns a nightclub where she does live performances.
Robert Brierly is falsely accused of passing forged banknotes after being framed by his love rival, the murderous criminal known as the Tiger. After he is given a ticket of leave (a form of early parole), he faces scrutiny and discrimination as a former convict. Still in love with Brierly's fiancé May Edwards, the Tiger seeks to have Brierly locked in prison for life.
Against a background of ongoing and systemic corruption, Victoria Police detectives Wilson and Walsh are tasked with solving a series of child murders committed in Melbourne by a serial killer dubbed "Mr. Creep". The film is also dispersed with scenes about a dead body found floating in the Yarra River, where more and more senior police officials instruct it to be ignored and send further downstream, reflecting the corruption, and apathy shown by police throughout the film.
This original story marries three different elements into one plot. Alex Stokes (Andrew Roth) is a self-destructive, down-on-his-luck investigator who takes cases wherever he can. When a mysterious man offers him a healthy sum to follow his beautiful wife Claire (Melantha Blackthorne), Alex can't resist.
The plot is related to events after the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 and to the film's depicted attempt to “break” Polish elites through isolation and indoctrination in a centre set up in a former monastery. The film's action begins in 1939; thousands of Poles, isolated in a former monastery, are subjected to brutal indoctrination. The plot focuses on a psychological game between a young Polish pianist, a laureate of the Chopin Competition, and a Russian agent who tries to break the protagonist's resistance, counting on influence over fellow prisoners.
During the height of a Cold War, a drunken reporter from Sweden disappears without a trace while on a business trip in Budapest. Meanwhile, the tabloid for which he was writing sounds an alarm, with the Swedish government trying to avoid direct confrontation with the Hungarian police. Martin Beck, a detective, takes the case, and is sent behind enemy lines as a private citizen, to find the reporter and bring him back to Sweden.
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of convenience with a stranger that is arranged through an agency. But even though the two are not supposed to even meet, her new husband starts taking his faux wedding vows entirely too seriously.
Aging gambler Benny Walsh dies in a suspicious car crash after the biggest poker win of his life. His son Clyde comes to the Nevada town in search of answers. He discovers that each of his father's gambling buddies had ample reason to want him dead.
Helen Mercer, a wealthy elderly widow, hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, as her secretary. Mercer, nicknamed "Deadeye" after having shot her criminal handyman, is lonely, and her ad for a secretary is as much about companionship as business. Little does she suspect, though, that the woman and her boyfriend Jay are criminals on the run after a killing, who target elderly women to extort them.
Under the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, two lovers resist the Nazis but become separated at the war's end. Years later, he is a Greek government official and she is on the side of the communist revolutionaries. She then finds her lover's name on an execution list.
U.S. Navy reserve officer Zac Connors (Richard Norton) goes to Thailand to find out what happened to his grandfather, a soldier in World War 2, whose plane went down a few days after the war ended. He is attacked by a group of thugs in the forest but rescued by a rebellious young woman named Suay (Rochelle Ashana) and her friend Chai (Kowit Wattanakul).
Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living.
The film chronicles the intersecting storylines of a variety of characters using a Nonlinear narrative. Emma and Peterson are two sociopathic siblings who drift into the sleepy coastal town of Cecil Bay, on the run from the brutal gangster, Voyte Parker (Roger Ward). Over the course of the film, Senior Constable Richard 'Ricky' Bartlett (John Jarratt) is driven violently insane, his partner, Constable Mark Brown (Dwaine Stevenson) is confronted and consumed with his wife's infidelity.