Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the sanatorium exists in a realm where time is distorted—his father's death has not yet occurred, as time here lags behind the outside world by an undefined interval. Jozef's experiences become increasingly fragmented and dreamlike as he confronts various manifestations of his father, each representing different aspects of their relationship and his own psyche.

Jacques Averil leads an idle life which plunges him into weariness and melancholy. When he learns of the suicide of his father, a banker ruined by dark speculation in Icelandic minerals, he decides to take charge. An old friend of his father offers him the opportunity to join as a sailor.

Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of returning to his homeland. During one of night patrols, border guard Armen who is in love with Ghambaryan's daughter Seda, recognizes him on the other side of the river Araks.

A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.

Anya divorces her husband and returns to live with her aunt in a provincial town. Here she meets Boris, a young man who has been in love with her since childhood, and Mykolaienko, a successful businessman who also likes her. It would seem that everything is clear: Boris is much younger than Anya and she still treats him like a little boy, while she likes the businessman Mykolaienko and would not mind sharing her life with him, but life makes its own adjustments to their plans, and everything ends quite unexpectedly...

The idealistic journalist Sonja Waler is making every effort to provide financial assistance for the young doctor Albert Holm’s new invention, which is predicted to be able to save thousands of lives. She comes into contact with a cynical loan shark who ends up falling victim to Sonja’s altruistic plan.

The villagers cheerfully welcome the Red Brigade paratroopers who have arrived in the village for a rest. When the brigade commander, Ivanov, comes to stay at the priest's house, he falls in love with the priest's daughter. Their marriage plans are thwarted by religious prejudice, as the priest's daughter insists on having the wedding in church.

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.