A measured, evenly paced, extremely controlled, psychologically mesmerizing film about a doctor's split with his wife, and his subsequent return to his Communist homeland, brilliantly underplayed by Rudolf Hrusinsky, a man in real life who was blacklisted in Czechoslovakia for his anti-Communist leanings, and only the slightest movement in his face could ever be detected. But he was superb in this role, his dignity challenged at every turn, but always remaining intact. He is introduced to a countryside clinic by the local Communist lackey, his quarters are spare and without possessions. Immediately, as the outsider, he is the object of the entire town's suspicion, represented in a single scene where he is smoking potatoes, something he must have learned as a child, in a small attempt to gather some semblance of himself. Yet across the landscape a cry is heard for him to put out the fire; that's not allowed; what is he, crazy? Every attempt to help someone is met with whispers behind his back and with the town's scorn. The psychological pressure to allow so little to be shown, always holding everything inside, as who knows, someone near could, and would use any piece of information against you. This film reminded me of some of the early Kieslowski films, such as the rarely seen CURRICULUM VITAE, where in that film the Communist Party pressure is relentless to obtain confessions from your neighbors for the most ordinary actions of men. To live under the pressure of such a constant cloud of suspicion, where the Party representative is rarely even seen or heard, is wonderfully transparent in this film. - cranesareflying, imdb

一个神秘的飞行器坠毁在塞浦路斯一个名不见经传的小村庄里。坠毁点既是男主角家门口的土豆田，又和联合国控制的缓冲区相毗邻。于是平日安静的小村庄顿时变得鸡犬不宁。一边是国际组织暗中来取飞行器，一边是男主暗自计划把飞行器挖出来抵债。本就忙于选举和土豆节的小村庄里，上演了一出荒诞又可笑的好戏。影片时而如警匪片般扣人心弦，时而又如喜剧片令人忍俊不禁，塞浦路斯小村之景也在观众面前徐徐展开。

巴黎、鲍里斯和阿列克谢正试图为他们的无所事事赋予意义。在乡村，皮埃尔正在完成他的歌剧，这是对俄耳甫斯神话的全新演绎，同时他也在努力忘掉刚刚甩了他的阿黛莉亚。

加布里埃尔和丹尼尔的旅程，两兄弟被中国黑帮诅咒，他们害怕的三代报复已经夺走了他们祖父和父亲的生命。为了生存，兄弟中的一人必须学习烟雾风格的秘密，这是一种鲜为人知的大麻武术，由一位单一的大师在高山上传授。

两兄弟不得不面对中国黑手党的三代复仇。这一诅咒已经夺走了他们祖父和父亲的生命。指望“烟雾大师”，他们还有一线生机。

母亲云英跟随大儿子移民去了加拿大，随众信仰了天主教，六年后，北方小城的冬天，女儿苏惠迎接了母亲的归来，却发现母亲此次回国另有秘密……

凤女是村子里的漂亮姑娘，因家境贫寒，被父母卖给了一个又馋又懒、整天喝酒睡觉的中年男人为妻。为维持生计，她到一个盐场去做又脏又累又挣不到多少钱的工作。但是当她被盐场主占有后，她发现肉体的交换可以带来少劳作却多拿钱的待遇。于是她开始想尽办法勾引男人，先是小商店老板，从此她不愁酒肉，应有尽有，然后是警察局长，通过他救出了她犯事被押的丈夫，后来又勾引一个姓王的地主，以逃避偷土豆的责罚。可是王地主只是玩弄凤女，又悄悄与别人订了婚，凤女知道后，到地主的婚宴上闹事，结果反被打死。这桩人命案开审后，因为参与审理此案的警察局局长、商店老板、医生等人大多曾与凤女有染，所以王地主最后以付给所有有关人员若干赔偿费，又付给凤女丈夫80元作为了了结。

Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocart and lives a hard life to survive. She pays her family's living by catching caterpillars in a forest reserve. But she loses her job in the reserve and her husband disappears after borrowing money from a Chinese.