- Locals and neighbouring farmers in a small town in Iceland try to scrape a living out of a system that has left them behind. The residents of Budardalur stick together in their fight for survival, continually threatened by bankruptcy and market middlemen pushing for lower prices of their produce.
- A story about four Icelandic detectives, working in the gloomy everyday life in Reykjavik where international crime rings are starting to operate.
- A street smart but naive Filipino lady-boy prostitute believes herself to be the true queen of France and will undertake a perilous journey to return to her imaginary kingdom in Paris.
- Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless Christian, wants to remove all traces of non-Christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, As…