Patty Cauldron, wife of noted food critic Nemo Cauldron, has become dissatisfied with her increasingly boring life as the wife of a food connoisseur. Her husband's business trips leave her home alone for long periods of time and her desire (and mind) begins to wander. Coming home from a particularly excessive trip, Nemo discovers that Patty has been having an affair, and the fists begin to fly. Patty defends herself with a kitchen knife, planting it in her husband's back- opening up her mind to a new world of paranoia, mistrust, and madness. A macabre tale ensues, as Patty meets several strange caricatures along the way: A naive farm boy, cannibalistic backwoods hicks- could these people be real? Or do they only exist in her mind, a place just as dangerous?

Sous chef Paul attempts to get himself back into the dating game, by setting himself up on a blind date with Catherine. After three courses and a few glasses of wine Paul gains more than he bargained for.

One day from the social and personal life of the chief engineer of the plant.

On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.

The fugitive hides in the basement of a wealthy house where his wife works as a housekeeper to avoid debtors. Min-ho, a very successful businessman in the construction field, pokes at a new housekeeper, and his wife, who resents her husband for neglecting her, goes to find a fugitive living in the basement. The interlaced sex of two couples who gradually cross the water level. How far will their narrowly dangerous tightrope go?

Miguel, a 7-year-old boy, lives with three generations of estranged women in an old house. Among them is his mother who, after a traumatic divorce, distances herself from the boy. Miguel takes comfort in Carmen, an enigmatic Venezuelan immigrant who works as a maid for this Brazilian family. Carmen becomes an ambiguous mother figure for the boy, who develops an intimate and unusual bond with her, introducing him to a universe in which the real and the imaginary intertwine.

A young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's employees.

Colette is a model who poses for two artist brothers, Don and Andrien Walcott. Andrien, a hunchback, creates a beautiful portrait of her which is seen by evil Bulgarian Prince Vacarra. The prince tracks her down and locks her in.

A suffragette protests against marriage by openly living with her lover.

Bea Barkley is an eight-year-old horror fanatic with a serious problem: her mom's brought her new boyfriend home to meet the family, and no-one but Bea seems to notice he's a werewolf.