Valeria

We don't see the woman on the train moving through Sichuan, just the trees, rivers, lakes and houses passing by the window, vanishing behind the blur of vegetation, segmented by the tunnels.

Ulises gets up one day and discovers that his girlfriend Alma has disappeared. Thus begins an intense search that reveals hidden aspects of her life, and the intertwined memory of the moments they lived together leads him to inquire about his teacher and his obsession with a book by Borges. When Bianca, Alma's twin sister, appears, the circumstances that will lead him to commit a crime to find her again are accelerated.

It takes certain breed of men and women to work in the harsh and desolate landscape of Northern Canada where the affect of isolation sometimes blurs the line between real and surreal.

A small part of a large cemetery. End of fall. It has just rained. Black trees, a few leaves are still attached, other leaves litter the ground. A gravel driveway. A bench whose painting flakes. A man advances in the aisle, leaves the aisle, goes to a grave, reads what is written on the tombstone, stays there and looks at the stone, goes to another tomb, also reads this Who is written on the tombstone, remains for a moment to look at it, then joins the aisle and will sit on the bench.

A Jewish surgeon - a war veteran, brilliant scientist and respected citizen - becomes a victim of the mad anti-Semitic purge and stripped of all his possessions and discarded by the hospital. He is pressed back into service to perform an operation on a Nazi leader, and then machine-gunned as a reward.