Follows a young woman who discovers that her boyfriend is sleeping with her cousin Helen, and goes to confront them at a dinner party, only to find out that Helen is dead and everybody is a suspect.

A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to warm to them, and also to a beautiful young local girl.

Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still very naive, her biggest concern is buying her grandmother a birthday present: a makeup kit. The girl is going to bend over backwards to get the money and her search will reveal the daily life of those living in tenements, outlining a collective story from the network of relations that the girl establishes.

Despite having time to reflect upon his twelve years behind bars, he can’t shake off the ghosts of the past. If he could catch up with Johnno, the guy who put in him in prison. Make him understand what it was like to have entire life waste.

Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.

John and Molly return home to attend a funeral for their mother, Judy, after being estranged from their parents for more than a decade. Confrontations with their domineering father bring up past conflicts, and John and Molly struggle to come to terms with the death of a parent they never really knew. As the audience experiences the past from Judy's perspective, John and Molly learn there is more that connects them to their parents than they ever could have realized.

两个曾经的挚友（如今彼此厌恶）被迫重新建立联系，因为他们的另一位前挚友（他们同样厌恶此人）要求他们去撒他的骨灰。而问题在于：他们对此根本毫不在意。

Hannes Brahm's life is marked by problems. Not only is he struggling with unemployment, but his marriage is also on the rocks. His wife Claudia also accuses him of not even taking care of their daughter Maria. The situation comes to a head after Maria disappears during a visit to a media market. The parents search for their daughter in panic until Maria suddenly appears on the television and asks Hannes to get her out of the market.

Helen West is crusading senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service. Her life is complicated by her ongoing affair with a senior police officer.

Gog' Helen, an elderly woman living in a shantytown, has spent her life hiding her savings inside her worn-out mattress. When her well-meaning granddaughter Agnes surprises her with a new bed and unwittingly discards the old one, the duo embarks on a frantic race against time to recover the cash. Complicating matters? Heaps!