阿列克塞（谢尔盖·贝泽鲁科夫 Sergei Bezrukov 饰）是一位非常有名的芭蕾舞演员，却在一次表演中身受重伤，不得不告别舞台。阿列克塞一生都将芭蕾舞表演视作是自己生命的支柱，因此这一重大变故给予了阿列克塞沉重的打击。 一晃眼二十年过去，阿列克塞的身体状况每况愈下，甚至很快就将会无法行走。然而，越是身陷低谷，阿列克塞就越是无法忘却对于芭蕾舞的热情。在这二十年中，阿列克塞一直都在设计一些难度非常高的芭蕾舞动作，现在，单纯的设计已经再也无法满足他了，他决定再度站上舞台，向病魔宣战。可是，阿列克塞要面对的并非生理上的痛楚这么单纯，他还要抵御周遭人的诋毁和怀疑。
Follows a group of girlfriends from Assam and Meghalaya, north-eastern states in India, gathering in the back streets of Delhi to throw a secret wedding party for a soon-to-be bride. Terrorised by their rottweiler of a landlady and with their boyfriends utterly useless as help, the group's already disorganized plans soon go further awry. As the women cook the traditional Axone wedding stew (a pork stew with pungent local herbs), neighbors complain about its powerful smell. However, they are determined to prepare the aromatic dish. With the challenges brought on by cultural difference and the pressures of being migrants in a seemingly unfriendly city, is food and love enough to save the day
Killian is a young man who has never left the remote mountains of Huesca (Spain) which saw him grow up. In 1953, he travels back to the exotic Equatorial African island of Fernando Poo, in Spanish Guinee, where he was born, to work in a cacao plantation alongside his father and his brother. During 20 years in this island, until the troubled days of independence, he will undertake a journey towards maturity and knowledge, but will also have to deal with pain and loss.
