Rumbling in the distance. Concentrated harp playing. A barricaded apartment. David does his best to shut out the rest of the world so he can practice in peace. A neighbor knocks his door and wants him to seek safety in the basement, but David is not interested. He believes in art, not war.

The nurse Emma arrives for her evening shift at a closed psychiatric facility. It's a day like any other. Colleagues are out sick, patients are dealing with acute problems and Emma and her colleagues must be creative to get the through the shift in the best possible way. In only twenty minutes their trust in the system will be put to a test.

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.

A director and a screenwriter write a screenplay together about a globally spreading epidemic. Unbeknownst to them, an outbreak develops around them in the real world.