A rhythmic gymnast practices a routine set to Carl Orff 's Carmina Burana. Afterward, she tells her coach that she would rather use a pop song, but he says she is not ready for pop and threatens to break her arms and legs if she questions him again. She apologizes. Alps, an unusual and secretive organization of which the gymnast and her coach are part, has its meetings in the gym where the gymnast practices. For a fee, Alps will have one of its four members act as a "substitute" for a recently deceased individual during visits with their loved ones to help with the grieving process. In addition to the gymnast and her coach (who chooses " Matterhorn " as his nickname), the only other members of the group are a hospital nurse (" Monte Rosa "), and an EMT (" Mont Blanc "). Mont Blanc, the domineering and detail-oriented leader of Alps, treats a young female tennis player who has been in a serious car accident and is not expected to live. He discusses the case with Monte Rosa, who is on the tennis player's care team at the hospital, and the nurse, who has few obligations other than taking care of her ageing and widowed father, begins to study the teenager to collect information that will improve the substitution that may be forthcoming. The gymnast tries to stay on Mont Blanc's good side so she can substitute for the tennis player after she passes, but Monte Rosa begins to feel attached, and tells the girl and her parents that she will survive. The tennis player dies, and Monte Rosa offers her services to the grieving parents, while telling the rest of Alps that the girl has recovered. Some of Alps' clients are: a man who is mourning an old friend; a blind woman whose philandering husband has died; and the owner of a lamp shop, who has lost his diabetic girlfriend. The clientele instruct the members of Alps about what they should wear, do, and say, and construct scenarios and reenactments that sometimes cross into emotionally intimate territory, though the interactions tend to be emotionless and transactional. Although sexual relations with clients are forbidden, Matterhorn regularly kisses the blind woman, and Monte Rosa has sex with the lamp shop owner. Monte Rosa visits the tennis player's parents surreptitiously several times, learning to act like the girl. They even have her reenact a scene with the dead girl's boyfriend, after which Monte Rosa takes the boy to the home in which she lives with her father and sleeps with him. The other members of Alps grow suspicious when Monte Rosa fails to show up to their meetings and lies about her whereabouts, so Mont Blanc follows her to the tennis player's house and learns the truth. He arranges to meet with Monte Rosa in the gym and, after hitting her in the face with one of the gymnast's training clubs, ejects her from the group and has the gymnast take over her role as the tennis player. After stitching up the wound on her cheek, Monte Rosa returns home. She asks her father about her deceased mother's favourite actor and singer before attempting to fondle him, and he slaps her. Then, she visits a ballroom she had previously patronised with her father and aggressively tries to dance with his dance partner and new girlfriend, not stopping even after the woman has fallen to the ground. Finally, Monte Rosa returns to the tennis player's house. When no one answers the front door, she breaks through a sliding-glass door, setting off an alarm. She goes to the tennis player's room and gets into bed, but, just after she gets under the covers, the tennis player's parents enter, and the father, with Monte Rosa manically repeating the lines from her scene with the tennis player's boyfriend, forcibly throws her out. The parents lower a metal shutter over the sliding-glass door, leaving Monte Rosa shuffling back and forth on the patio. The gymnast performs elegantly to " Popcorn ", while Matterhorn looks on proudly. After finishing, she runs into his arms and tells him he is the best coach in the world, echoing an earlier bizarre, sadomasochistic moment. Her smile fades.

In 2001, Qiao and her boyfriend Bin, a mob boss, have a lot of power in Datong, an old mining city that has become poor since the coal prices dropped. After Bin's boss is murdered, Qiao suggests they run away from everything and get married, but Bin is not interested. One night a group of motorcyclists attack Bin and his driver, claiming to dethrone him. Qiao grabs Bin's handgun and fires two warning shots into the air, scaring off the attackers. The police tell Qiao that the gun is illegally owned and asks her whose it is; she repeatedly claims it is hers. She spends five years in prison for possessing an illegal firearm but Bin does not visit her during that time. After Qiao is released, she tries to call him but can never seem to get in touch. She travels by boat to the city in Hubei province where Bin is living but is instead greeted by Bin's new girlfriend—meanwhile, Bin hides in another room. Qiao says that if he wants to break up with her, he will have to tell her himself. She has almost no money to her name so she cons a few strangers for money and food. She hires a motorcycle driver to take her to the power plant where she thinks that Bin works, and along the way the driver suggests that they have sex. She uses this opportunity to steal his bike, and when she gets to the power plant she reports to a police officer that the driver tried to rape her and that he should call her boyfriend Bin. This finally forces Bin to see her. In a hotel room, Bin says he's a changed man, no longer a " jianghu " gangster, and has no place in his life for Qiao anymore. He can never go back to Datong because he has lost all the respect he once had there. Qiao says that she saved his life and took the blame for him: he should have been waiting for her the day she got out of prison. Since he refuses to say it, she finally says that their relationship is over and he leaves. On a train back to Datong, she meets a passenger who claims to be developing a UFO -hunting tourism company and invites her to join him after she claims to have seen one herself. But after they transfer onto another train, he admits that it was all a lie. She gets off the train, sees a bright object fly swiftly overhead, and makes her way back to Datong. In 2017, Qiao gets a call from Bin, and when she picks him up, finds him using a wheelchair. She brings him back to their old gambling parlor where she now works and many of his old friends are happy to see him. He is closed-off and hot-tempered, immediately starting fights, and Qiao nearly throws him out. He tells her that he had a stroke from drinking too much and she finds a doctor to help rehabilitate him. When he can walk again, he sneaks out of Qiao's building with just a brief voicemail to say he has left. Qiao goes to the front door when she learns he has gone but she cannot see him.

In 1924, Richard and his father Melville walk through the woods where Melville shows his scientific inspiration for Richard.In 1934, Richard and Arline are in high school and their romantic relationship starts.The story jumps to his college years and Arline getting sick with lymphatic tuberculosis.It continues to his move west to Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where Arline follows him later to a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she dies.The film ends with Feynman crying at the sight of the red dress Arline had pointed out.

Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are working-class friends in the university town of Bloomington, Indiana who graduated from high school the year before, aren't sure what to do with their lives, and consider attending university unrealistic. They spend time swimming in an abandoned water-filled limestone quarry and sometimes clash with the more affluent Indiana University students in their hometown, who refer to them disparagingly as "cutters," referring to the locals' common work in the limestone industry. Dave is obsessed with competitive bicycle racing, Italian racers in particular, because he recently won a Masi bicycle. His down-to-earth father, Ray, a former stonecutter who now operates his own used car business, is puzzled and exasperated by his son's love of Italian music and culture, which Dave associates with cycling. His mother, Evelyn, is more indulgent and prepares Italian dishes for the family, to Ray's annoyance. Dave masquerades as an Italian exchange student to romance a university student named Katherine, and serenades "Caterina" outside her sorority house with Friedrich von Flotow 's aria M Apparì Tutt' Amor to Cyril's guitar accompaniment. Katherine's boyfriend, Rod, and his fraternity brothers beat Cyril up, mistaking him for the suitor. Mike, a former high school football quarterback, insists on tracking down Rod for revenge over Cyril's objections. The university president reprimands the students for their arrogance toward the "cutters" and, over the students' objections, invites the town to field a team for the annual Indiana University Little 500 race. An Italian cycling team comes to town for an exhibition race and are annoyed by Dave's challenge to their preordained victory. They force him to crash. Despite the disillusionment this causes him, Dave is persuaded by his friends to join them in racing the Little 500. Ray privately tells his son how, when he was a young stonecutter, he was proud to help build the university but never felt welcome on campus. Dave, having confessed his deception to Katherine, patches things up before she leaves for a job in Chicago. Dave, the only skilled cyclist among his friends, rides most of the Little 500 without a break unlike the other teams, which switch riders. He gains a small lead, but is injured in a crash and comes in for a change. Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are unable to keep pace with the field. Dave has his feet taped to the pedals, committing him to finish the race himself, makes up the lost ground, and overtakes Rod on the last lap to win, beating out Rod's favored fraternity team. Ray is proud of his son and takes to riding a bicycle himself for his health. Dave enrolls at the university, where he extolls the virtues of the Tour de France and of French cyclists to a pretty French exchange student. His father shows a look of surprise and dismay when Dave says "Bonjour Papa" while bike riding with the French student.

Sometime in the future, Earth has been ravaged by pollution, natural disasters and rising sea levels, making it largely uninhabitable. A woman (Emelie Garbers) works on board the Aniara, a luxurious spaceship that takes passengers from Earth to Mars in three weeks. Her job involves working as a "Mimarobe" within the Mima, an artificial intelligence designed to evoke the viewers' experiences of Earth's lush, verdant past through a totally immersive virtual-reality experience that taps into the participants' memories and emotions. In the first week of the Aniara ' s voyage, the ship suddenly veers off course to avoid a collision with space debris. Some of the debris pierces the hull and hits the ship's nuclear reactor, setting off an imminent meltdown and forcing the crew to eject all of the ship's fuel. This results in the ship having no navigational control, no propulsion, thus no ability to resume its original course. Captain Chefone promises the passengers and crew that they will be able to resume the trip to Mars once the ship passes a celestial body, which should happen in no more than two years. The Mimarobe's roommate, the ship's astronomer, later reveals to her that this is a lie and that there is no possibility of resuming their course. Soon, the Mimarobe finds her usually unimportant job becoming more popular and necessary than ever, as passengers use the Mima as an escape from their current situation. After three years, the Mima becomes one of the most important functions necessary to keep calm on board the ship. With so many people bringing their memories of Earth's decline to the Mima, as well as their anxieties surrounding the current situation onboard the Aniara, the Mima becomes overwhelmed and self-destructs, dying by suicide. Though the Mimarobe had asked the captain for a month of rest for the Mima, she is blamed for the machine's malfunction and is imprisoned. Isagel, a pilot and the Mimarobe's lover, is also imprisoned following a physical conflict with Captain Chefone regarding the punishment of the Mimarobe. By the fourth year, mass suicides and developing cults lead the Mimarobe and Isagel to be granted release and reassigned to work. They join a fertility cult dedicated to the Mima, and soon Isagel becomes pregnant after an orgy. She has depression during her pregnancy and is tempted to end the child's life after he is born. The Mimarobe wants to build a "beam-screen", a projection device acting as a mimic of Mima to alleviate Isagel's and the other passengers' depression, but Captain Chefone forbids her from doing so. He instead orders her to focus on educating the children, in hopes that one or more of them may discover a way to return them to Mars. In the fifth year, Isagel and the astronomer discover that a probe large enough to feasibly contain fuel is travelling towards the Aniara, meaning that a rescue is possibly being attempted. The probe takes over a year to reach the ship, and upon being brought onto the ship in the sixth year, the crew quickly realize that they are unable to identify it, its origins or whether it contains fuel. The captain orders the crew to keep working on the probe, but they eventually lose hope of it being a means of rescue. The Astronomer laments that their ship is a sarcophagus, defying Captain Chefone's orders for the crew to keep a united front to prevent the passengers from losing hope. In a fit of rage, Captain Chefone shoots a taser at the Astronomer, killing her. The Mimarobe begins work on her projection device, eventually succeeding in projecting a waterfall onto the dark windows of the spaceship. Having succeeded, she returns to her quarters only to discover that Isagel has killed herself and their son. Four years later, the few remaining crew celebrate the 10th anniversary of their voyage into space. While listlessly accepting an honorary medal from Captain Chefone for her creation of the beam-screen, the Mimarobe notices that his wrists are bandaged from a presumed suicide attempt. The algae tanks that the passengers rely on for food and oxygen have become contaminated. In year 24 of the voyage, the Mimarobe and a few remaining survivors sit cross-legged in a dimly lit room. An unidentified woman in the group rhapsodizes about the divine power of sunlight on Earth, as the ship descends into a final darkness. In year 5,981,407 of its voyage, the Aniara – derelict, frozen, and devoid of human life – reaches the Lyra constellation and drifts right past a planet as verdant and welcoming as Earth once was.

A provocative question at a dinner party leads to a barrage of reproaches and insults.

Based on a true story, the film is the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, which end in a conviction and his decision to appeal, in real life his appeal was rejected by supreme court and his sentence to 18 months of prison has been confirmed.

Café owner Kato (Kazunari Tosa) discovers that his computer's monitor shows what will happen two minutes into the future from the perspective of the television in the café, which itself displays what happened two minutes into the past. The computer is brought down to face the television, creating a Droste effect, allowing the characters to see several minutes into the future. Kato's friends and coworkers discover this. Persuaded by a future version of himself, he decides to ask his love interest, Megumi, on a date; she declines, but Kato is forced to pretend to encourage his past self to prevent a paradox. Kato's friends also attempt to take advantage of the time window, getting caught up in a gang rivalry in the process. Kato uses his knowledge of the near future, as well as objects the group obtained throughout the film, to attack the gang members and save Megumi who has been taken upstairs. Returning downstairs, they find that two time cops have sedated everyone except himself and Megumi. The cops try to force the pair to ingest memory-wiping powder, but they sneeze it away, causing the cops to disappear from reality as a result of a paradox. Megumi and Kato sit down and discuss their lives together.