After a 13-year-old boy named Phillip disappears, his single mother Astrid is left to navigate the emotional turmoil and uncertainties that follow. As the community rallies together to search for the missing boy, Astrid grapples with her own grief and the complexities of motherhood. The film explores themes of loss, family relationships, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no longer loves him. The paths they both take lead them to Kenneth and Theres.

Lamento is a romance in which a couple quarrel with the help of Micheal Jackson, Mariah Carey and many others. Every move is meticulously choreographed in a space that is a replica of a sitcom stage, and the reason for their fighting is somehow ignored or forgotten. Staged as a musical, refined and witty, Lamento meditates on how pop culture, slowly but surely, is colonising our souls.

Thorbjörn, an opera singer from Berlin, visits his parents in his Icelandic hometown. While they're planning a party for his 40th birthday, Tobbi rather wants to hide away.