A Real American Hero

What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew. It becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally settle their debt.

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

Ralph suffers from burnout. And is a reptiloid. A film crew portrays the once successful businessman in his cluttered apartment and investigates the question of whether Ralph is really a lizard man who seeks world domination, or a lonely, confused man who is really just looking for love and attention.

Maria (40) strives to balance parenthood and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, frequently travels for work. As the strain of competing needs takes its toll, their marriage begins to unravel. Despite Maria’s desperate efforts to salvage their relationship, Sigmund eventually informs her of his desire for a divorce, forcing her to confront her deepest fears. This revelation propels her into a torrent of grief, anger, and unconscious memories from her own past. Maria eventually realizes that part of the key to understanding her situation lies in her relationship with her own mother and her internal self-image. Through a deeper confrontation with her mother, she finally connects with herself in a way she never knew she lacked. When she meets her husband for a conversation, the pain of abandonment is no longer the same.

Fleeing her violent husband, a mother seeks refuge at a Women's Shelter with her teenage son leading to complications and ending in violence.

A disgruntled ex-soldier has tracked down his war-weary Confederate Captain from the Civil War, vengeful for his fallen comrades' deaths. What they don't know is that the Union are also interested in seeing Wyatt dead...

Released from prison for a crime she didn't commit, Diana tries to prove her innocence by tracking down her ex-husband, Elias, who framed her for fraud. However, she soon uncovers a much more nefarious plot that involves a mysterious disappearance.

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

A 16-year-old boy who spend summer with his grandparents falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.

A photographer comes to take remembrance portraits for a family who have just suffered a stillbirth.