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Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.
A famous comedian makes a confession to a closeted stranger, two bickering parents come home to a surprising discovery, and an art gallery attendant gets a short glimpse into the life of a young woman she once briefly knew. Enter a new world with six enlightening tales of private revelations, lingering secrets and those fleeting moments where the burdens of everyday life are temporarily lifted.
Monika meets Ginte while taking pictures at night in an abandoned building. After meeting, Monika and Ginte exchange photo negatives. They agree to take photos on the tapes again, and agree to meet and see how the photos turned out in the double exposure. When Monika takes a photo of Ginte's tape and highlights it, Monika begins to see overlapping portraits of herself and Ginte. The tension between Juste and Monika grows. Monika and Ginte meet to exchange photos. Monika tries to kiss Ginte, but Monika is rejected. After returning home, Monika is surprised to see that Juste has also left her.
When her estranged father dies suddenly, artistic director Egle begins to hear voices who prophesy her father’s return. Fearing for her life, Egle solicits the help of an actress friend from the theatre, and through role-play and ritual they are drawn deeper and deeper into the torments of Egle’s past.
Left homeless after a fight with her sister Yana spends 24 hours desperately looking for a place to stay.
The series tells about the three occupations and mass exterminations that took place in the middle of the last century, the Holocaust, the terror, the attempt to physically and spiritually crush Lithuania.
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
An ironic story about the unpredictability of human existence. The heroes of the film: two bloated grandmothers riding a velomobile, a young photographer capturing moments of sadness and joy, and his new acquaintance, a beautiful girl. Grandmothers think about impending death, young people - about eternal love. Unfortunately, not everything in life can be predicted in advance.
