24-year-old Bobby tries to save a peer, a young man's life. The dying tells Bobby that he was adopted as a child and has never seen his biological mother. Bobby seeks out the man's mother, Gudrun, and pretends to be her son. First she refuses Bobby, but admits her responsibility and invites Bobby to be a part of her family.

A young woman's friend dies accidentally, but she doesn't cry. She finds a bag full of money and is more affected by the joy of the money than she is weighed down by the grief of her deceased friend. In dreams, she is haunted by her deceased friend who questions her lack of tears.

In a suburban town characterized by an unpopular no-drinking policy and a simmering atmosphere of misery, the drunken country sheriff wakes up with a raging hangover and a big problem: he's lost his revolver. In search of his missing revolver, the officer fights a futile battle to maintain control over the workers' drunkenness and a strange moped gang with evil intentions.