Finland-Swedish University of Applied Science Arcada

Märta arrives at a mental hospital where she has been hired, secretly pregnant with Albert’s child. She shares a room with Sister Elsa who quickly raises her suspicions. Märta finds evidence of Elsa being Albert’s lover. One of the patients, Louise, is interested in Märta and a friendship starts to develop. Realising her relationship with Albert has no future, she tries to abort the child, but fails. After recovering, Louise approaches her, wanting help to escape. Märta finds out Louise is engaged to Albert and her world collapses. After Louise escapes Märta decides to help after all, in her own way.

Karin has no idea what she wants from life but thinks she finds the answer at her father-in-law's funeral.

Tim's family seems like a completely normal family, but inside the family´s four walls everything is not right. Fred is causing physical harm to Petra and the home is an unsafe place. One day Tim gets the courage to seek help, but in an unexpected way.

Death of a Boy follows Albert, who is very shy and insecure. With the aim of bringing Albert out of his shell, his older brother Jon decides to bring him along to a boxing gym, where aggression is respected and the violence is controlled through disciplined practice.

On Christmas eve, as the temperature get over 30 degrees Celsius, two people cross their paths and their encounter riser their thirst for compassion and beer. Juan, the mechanic, has worked for a long and a hot day. For the whole day he has been waiting to enjoy a peaceful, nice and a cold beer. However, beautiful Inés arrives with car trouble and awakens distress in the lonely mechanic. As a result of unfortunate events, everybody from a angry postman to a husband who lost his trailer participates in a a wild chase takes us across the county. The film portraits a sleepy world that has a language which resembles an odd mix of southern European languages. Runaway Beer is a short comical story about loneliness, happiness and beer.