Forced to sell his home in the remote Icelandic countryside, an aging farmer moves to Reykjavík and forms an unlikely friendship with a 10-year-old paper boy.

Viktor, a deaf man in Kharkiv, is denied when he tries to enlist to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian War and sets out to find his own way to serve in a war he cannot hear.

Tatsumi, a lonely man working in the underworld, encounters the murder scene of his ex-girlfriend Kyoko. Her sister Aoi swears revenge, and Tatsumi, despite feelings of hostility, agrees to help her pursue the perpetrator of Kyoko's murder.

When Mother (Ellen Burstyn) suddenly refuses to get up from a display couch in a furniture store, her three estranged children (Ewan McGregor, Rhys Ifan, and Lara Flynn Boyle) must figure out the predicament.

Venice Career Golden Lion-winning auteur Ann Hui films a topic she holds most dear - poetry. Through her personal encounters with some of Hong Kong's most notable poets, she shows the topography of contemporary poetry on and of the city.