The world-famous elite soldier Master Sensei decides to blow himself up after a series of public scandals destroys his career. However, his plan is put on hold when he meets the young boy scout Piggy, who is in desperate need of help. Master Sensei must now go on one last mission, so he can help Piggy retrieve his braces from his evil tormentor.
When Acacia, an alternative treatment therapist, is sentenced to a mental examination on a psychiatric ward, she's looking forward to the opportunity to help a lot of new people. She's convinced that she can give her fellow patients more quality of life with clairvoyance, hypnosis and coffee readings than strong medication can. Her new methods quickly spread joy on the ward, but the medication-happy Dr. Bergstroem refuses to surrender to Acacia's strange, new-age methods. According to him she is very ill and the only solution is heavy medication.
Frank is a police officer who loses his family in a tragedy. In desperation he turns to crime and makes a living as a hitman for the mob.
Two brothers commit a robbery to pay their dying mother's medical bills and are forced to steal an ambulance during their getaway. But, unbeknownst to them, the ambulance has a dying heart patient and a hospital intern in the back.
Nete is a tough woman of 37 who runs her job, husband, and teenage daughter with a firm and efficient hand. Her father suddenly becomes ill. Seriously ill. Nete forces a doctor to tell her how much time he has left. 3 weeks, hardly any longer. Nete's father becomes bitter and introvert, but Nete insists that he come to live with her and her family the few weeks he has left. "You should die with your family." Nete's father moves in and puts even more strain on Nete's family and everyday life. They all try to cope with the situation - he has only three weeks left, and you don't argue with a dying man. Three weeks pass by. A month. Nete's father does not die, his appetite comes back, the doctors begin to have doubts as to the prognosis, and Nete has a problem.
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
Extraterrestrial beings travel the galaxy to free men "oppressed" by females to make way for an entirely-homosexual society.