Cheat and Charmer

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.

During the German Occupation, Dimitris Korres is commander of a police station and everyone thinks he is Germans' collaborator. Nobody knows that he has good relations with the Germans while working on behalf of the resistance, code named "OP 34" is one of the leaders. His daughter Maria without knowing the truth about her father, has acceded to a local part of the resistance.

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.