Six-year-old Amalka is shut out of a family argument. She spends an idyllic afternoon at the lake with her grandparents and later learns the fuss was about her mother's plan to move away and live as an artist in Prague.

Kristina lives comfortably alone, but after three chance meetings with Marko, she wonders whether he is a phantom or her kindred spirit.

Aida, a city hall manager in a small Albanian town, has to fight against a corrupt system, of which she is a part, when her teenage son becomes involved in a rape scandal that could send him to jail.

Momoko meticulously maintains her home and attends to her husband, but her devoted care masks an emotional rift that blurs the line between love and obsession.