At the time of Augustus and Herod, Mary lives a simple life in Nazareth with her fiancée, carpenter Joseph; that is, until one day, a dazzling light announces that she will give birth to the son of God.
Mucizevi bir hamilelik. Merhametsiz bir kral. Ölesiye bir kovalamaca. Meryem'in İsa'yı dünyaya getirdiği yolculuğu, İncil'e dayalı bu destanda açığa çıkıyor.
Garsonluk yapan Parisli genç bir kadının hayatının tek gününden bir kesit. Dört yıldızlı bir otelde işe başlayan Valérie, aynı gün, sevgilisine hamile olduğunu açıklar.
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.
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.
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.