Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

Juantxo pertenece a la alta sociedad, tiene pasta, carrera universitaria, un magnífico trabajo y una novia guapa y rica, pero es un auténtico pardillo. Mientras celebra su despedida de soltero, pierde su valioso anillo de compromiso en el lugar más inesperado. Él y sus amigos, Pako y Konradín, se lanzarán a la búsqueda de la joya en un trepidante viaje lleno de vicio, corrupción y delirio.

Nel novembre 1975 a Roma, in una Italia persa, corrotta e divorata dalla paura della verità, Pier Paolo Pasolini, che sta terminando il capolavoro Salò, trascorre le sue ultime ore nella casa di famiglia, scrivendo lettere e concedendo un'intervista a Furio Colombo. Avvertito dai suoi più cari amici, che lo mettono in guardia e lo invitano a smettere di scrivere i suoi incendiari articoli contro le ingiustizie di potere, Pasolini si appresta a uscir la sera a bordo della sua Alfa Romeo in cerca di avventura.

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.