It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Confined to a cold cell for 41 nights, a doctor's dreams of failures collide with his memories of success.

Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

She and he cross paths on the street without knowing their names or their ages. But that crossing, in a way, unites them.

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

A weary Dream Operator, a person inside our heads who constructs our dreams, going through his weary, daily motions is suddenly confronted by a rogue creation.

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Together for 20 years, a couple that has grown apart over time receives difficult news that will impact the entire family. As they try to make sense of the changes, they end up rediscovering their love for one another.

Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional luck as a barkeep in West Berlin. A realistic love story set during Germany’s post-war economic miracle, which here does not fulfil its bright promises.

At church camp, Joseph is visited in a dream by his late father, leading the other campers to believe it was a gift from God. All Joseph wants to know is; what did it mean?

In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.