Ash Wednesday

In May 1945, the small town of Weißenthal was no man's land, neither the Americans nor the Soviets occupied it. The soldier Michael Duda, returning to his hometown, meets the escaped concentration camp prisoner Arno Laube. After their arrival, Laube and some Nazi opponents immediately set about establishing a democratic order in Weißenthal, and he made 19-year-old Michael mayor. Not an easy task for the inexperienced. Refugees have to be quartered, there is no milk for the children, the energy supply has collapsed. Scattered remnants of the fascist Wehrmacht are still in the woods. Michael falls into their hands and is about to be hanged, but Laube frees him. On Michael's wedding day, Laube is murdered by werewolves. Michael is determined to continue his friend's fight.

A tough, working-class guy learns that his only son was killed in the Iraq war "surge," and deals with the tragic news.

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry Abbas who exploits the farmers and eventually rapes her.

A Colombian farmer and his son are exiled from their village on the high plains. They boy befriends a girl and borrows a little dog to play with, while the father is forced to work in the illegal Amapola (poppy) filed. The two stories intertwine when one day the boy follows his father to work.

A psychological noir in which a veteran's psyche is pushed to the breaking point as he desperately attempts to secure his family's future in a failing economy and a derelict government.