Stockholm, Pennsylvania

December 1999. For six years now, residents of Parada 88 have lived in plastic tunnels which connect homes and local businesses and protect them from the lethal gas that contaminated the region after a factory explosion. Joaquim Porfírio, a former factory worker, who supports his wife Maria and teenage daughter Ana - blinded by the accident - and survives by small means, has no money to pay the air bill, and its supply can be cut off at any time. He then decides to take part in a draw promoted by Boca, the owner of the local cabaret, that will reward the winner with groceries and air quotas, on the condition that the chosen one will have to leave the tunnels to get news of an expedition prepared at the Capital to eliminate the gas leak. Joaquim is drawn but collapse when he finds the entourage. Meanwhile, his home is invaded by air tax collectors whose violent leader rapes Ana. After a delicate and successful surgical intervention, and with new artificial lungs, Joaquim returns to the city and announces the return of the entourage. However, back at home, he finds out what happened to Ana and arms himself for revenge.

A teenage boy wakes up and finds himself on a train. He vaguely remembers being on a class trip when something terrible happened, and he is one of the few survivors.

About the problems of frigidity encountered by a young married woman and how they are overcome with help of her husband.

Shankar comes to a village with wife and kids and has nothing to eat or drink he starts living in the village crematorium and decides to turn himself into a Bhasma whom people call live ghost .He starts to roam around the village asking for alms to feed his children the villagers start to insult Shankar many a times when he goes to door to door to ask alms and feels that life of Bhasma is enough.But along with his wife Pare in order to feed his children he decides to bluff villagers by telling that on night on eclipse he can rise the dead.Shankar wants his kids to be educated and stay away from the Bhasma community but Pare feels that he is going against them.

A young man with cerebral palsy leaves the safety of his care home to search for a wrecked aircraft, finding adventure, freedom, and love along the way.