During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own.

The close relationship between twin sisters is broken down irrevocably, when one insists on keeping up the tradition of circumcision of her young daughter.

In a sleepless city hooked on engineered dreams, Lola enters a lucid simulation and falls for an artificial companion designed to fulfil her every need.