1940, Linda Voss is a woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage who loves the movies, especially films about war and spies.
Carlos is a famous journalist at the age of 55. His wife, Ada, is the opposite of her husband, a woman with a very active social life, and she is happy and seductive.
He doesn’t know her, she doesn’t know him, but somewhere on the highway between Lisbon and Porto, he stops to rest and there she is: as lost as he is. It is a truly fortunate encounter that perhaps is not so fortunate. Almost without any words spoken, they leave together in his car. And so follow the gas stations, and motels, the conversations and the silence, the revelations and the mysteries. They draw an interior route together without either of them knowing where it will lead. In any event, she hopes he will deliver her to a primordial place, an almost mythical destination: her grandmother’s house. In its solitude, each of them can, quite simply, lose themselves, or perhaps, encounter each other.
Miguel is 40 years old and has his great share of the usual problems. His body is starting to give signs of rebellion against a life that is full of unrestraints, he is separated from his wife and he got himself involved with another woman that gives him nothing but troubles, he has no time for his son, he is having lots of problems in his job and his bank account is down to zero. In short, his whole life is falling apart. However, a last blow of energy makes him decide to make a change. Deep inside, he thinks, all he wants is to lead a normal life. Unfortunately for him a normal life is the most difficult thing in the world.
An ordinary Prague family, the Lavička's, yearns to have a house in the countryside. They make a deal with the charismatic old Mr Komárek (Josef Kemr) that they will rent part of his summerhouse and that he will live there until spring, and then move to his son in Slovakia and sell the house to them.
Cormac Ó hÁdhmaill explores the mountains of Ulster with the people who live and work around them. Mainly in Irish with some English. Embedded English subtitles for when Irish is spoken. Merged English subtitles for when English is spoken.