In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

First-grader Tanechka lives in a Yakut village with her grandparents. Although her father has not written to her for a long time, the girl has no doubt that he invisibly helps her every time she needs him. Every morning in the village house begins with the anthem of the USSR on the radio, telling about Brezhnev's meeting with the oil workers. However, Tanechka is sure that “every new day reveals something unknown and secret” and wants to tell about those events of her childhood that still cause her, already an adult woman, either tears or great joy. Looking out the window at her peers, the wise heroine asks: “Why do children play all the time? When do they think? Probably never, that's why they are happy? "

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood.

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. They soon realize they will get more than they bargained for when the Phantom has a surprise for everyone: a foal named Misty.

Reno celebutante Prissy Alcott returns to her childhood home in Colorado when she learns that her family has gone broke and is selling their ranch. With the help of her three gay friends, she tries to reboot the family enterprise as a dude ranch.

On his way to an audition, struggling actor Shaun Davis is asked a bizarre favor by a friend which takes his day in an unexpected direction.

Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.

Camille falls on the nose. A stupid fall, apparently benign, but Camille feels her nose moving, growing, inside. The fear of looking like Fabio and his big adolescent body, his grandmother deformed by the disease, the pigs of the old man, seized her. Fear of losing shape.