A portrait of the lives of a disparate group of patrons and employees at an American watering hole today.

The terrifying day a 10-year-old girl witnesses her mother stabbing her father's eyes to get insurance money.

Jakob, the son of a market woman, helps an old woman carry the groceries home one day. But the old woman turns out to be a herb witch. She enchants Jakob into a dwarf with a huge nose. He enters her service and is trained to become an excellent cook. Only years later does he return to his parents as an enchanted dwarf nose. Not even they recognize him. Disappointed, he offers his services to the duke's kitchen as a master of his trade. As a successful cook, he is nevertheless put to the test. For he does not know the herb "sneeze-with-lust". Fortunately for him, his new friend, the equally enchanted goose Mimi, whose life he has saved, does.

15 year-old Iranian-American, Roya, hasn't grown into her features. Awkward and graceless, she spends her time fantasizing about becoming a famous model, giving mock interviews to herself. Roya wants nothing more than for her mother to tell her she's beautiful. Unfortunately, her mother has some very strict requirements.

An overlooked woman finds much needed confidence when she experiences the horror of an additional growth on her face.

For his mockery a witch transforms the pert boy Jacob into an ugly dwarf, but teaches him at the same time how to cook. Jacob quickly becomes a master of his trade and is named the prince's first cook. Only the mysterious herb "sneeze-with-passion" is unknown to him. Based on a fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff.

Ja-ok, a middle-aged woman who works part-time at a pub, finds out that she is pregnant one day. She has mixed feelings about being a first-time mom.

子供を授かることを夢見ながら、無精子症と診断されたショックから自殺してしまったイチロウ。残された妻アズサはショックを受けながらも、生活のために職場のラブホテルで清掃員として働く日々を過ごしていた。しかしアズサは、職場で日々大量に捨てられる精子を見ているうちに徐々に大きな憤りを感じるようになり、据え置きのコンドームに密かに画鋲で穴を開け始める．．．。

Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.

Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.