1980'lerin kominizm sonrası Macaristan'ının tahrip olmuş küçük bir köyünde, hayat fiili olarak durmuştur. Güz yağmurları başlamıştır. O akşamüstü köylüler büyük bir ödeme beklemektedirler, sonrasında da, bazıları hakkettiğinden fazlasını alma planlarıyla oradan ayrılmayı düşünmektedirler. Fakat o sırada iki yıl önce öldüğünü düşündükleri karizmatik Irimias'ın konuşmasını duyarlar, geri gelmiştir. Onlar da topluluğun devamlılığını koruma amacıyla Irimias'ın çevireceği tantanalı planla paralarını alacağı düşüncesiyle korkmuşlardır.
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.