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A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.

All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.

Fortune and Kevine, two inseparable friends, play on the same first-division football team in Yaoundé, Cameroon. To achieve their dream of playing for a foreign club, they must fight to gain recognition as female footballers. Kevine signs with the renowned FC Nantes and leaves her country, while Fortune hopes to join her one day.

After a long absence and the death of his ex-wife, aging film director Gustav Borg returns to Oslo to recruit one of his two daughters, a celebrated stage star, to play the lead role in an autobiographical feature film. When his daughter categorically refuses, Borg hires a young Hollywood star as a replacement and also reconnects with his other daughter, who played with him as a child. The struggle over the film brings old family conflicts to the surface.

After living in England for two years without papers, Nigerian migrant Isio is picked up and taken to a deportation center. She hopes for a fair trial and is convinced that she will be granted asylum if she strictly follows the rules. Her charismatic new roommate Farah thinks this is naive. As Isio gets used to life in the deportation center, she falls in love with Farah. When her asylum application is rejected, Farah suggests they escape together to give their love a chance.

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.