Pepe est un bûcheron qui vit dans un village finlandais idyllique. En l’espace de quelques jours, une suite d’événements tragiques détruit peu à peu sa calme et paisible vie, mais Pepe ne semble pas s’en soucier. C’est comme s’il détenait un secret à l’existence presque insaisissable.
Tsanko Petrov, a railroad linesman, finds millions in cash on the train tracks but when he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police Tsanko’s humble reality collides with a bureaucratic and media-obsessed professional world that threatens to destroy his fragile existence.
An off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
Medea, heroine of Greek mythology, lives among us today in the form of Irene. Dragging home a different man every night, Irene is looking for love in a world of strangers. She is accused of being a bad mother and she risks losing custody of her children. In a moment of madness, Irene contemplates killing her children. Only a miracle can save her. She leaves Paris for the countryside in search of new meaning to her life.
For mysterious reasons, a Painter has left a work incomplete – causing conflict between the Toupins (Allduns), who are entirely painted, the Pafinis (Halfies), who lack a few colors, and the Reufs (Sketchies), who are only sketches. Toupins occupy the chateau, Pafinis are out in the gardens, and Reufs are treated as outcasts and hunted by the Toupins. Three friends, one of each class, go on a quest to find the artist so he can finish the piece and hopefully unite the people.
