A young mother in Morocco, trapped in a mundane existence, confronts her dreams and fears, leading to the agonising decision to forsake all she knows, even her children.

In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.

The news of his daughter Emma's disappearance sets Benno Winkler off on a journey that puts his convictions and ideals to the test and shakes them to the core. His daughter Emma's passport has been found on the Turkish-Syrian border and there is no trace of her. Benno learns that his daughter and her boyfriend Max have made their way to Syria in order to smuggle the family of a Syrian student into Germany.

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

Sarah works in a garage at the local junkyard. She is trying to save up enough money to continue her studies, and to fix up an old Renault 4 so that she can finally fulfill her autistic brother's dream: to go to the beach.

On the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosphates, a 16-year old teenager, Abdou, is anxious to regain the gift of human dignity through learning how to read and write. His adoptive mother Mbarka, the neighborhood’s healer, protects her privileged status with ways that the laws of obscurantism allow her. Ch’Aayba, a 30-year old guy, uncontrollable and ferociously cynical, is an eccentric pickpocket. Suffering from a skin disease, Abdou convinces him to come see Mbarka in order to get treatment for it.