- A soldier (Evans) on the brink of ending his duty in Iraq survives from a car bomb where his friends die. He made an agreement with them before to tell their family each about their deaths in soothing way. When the soldier comes home he realizes he can't get his life back together until he makes good on his promise.
- A young Texan (Hartnett) discovers his widowed mom has married his father's brother (Malkovich) and is told by his father's ghost that he must seek vengeance on the the man that killed him. Loosely based on William Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
- Denmark in the darkest Middle Ages. The King decides that his son Valdemar must travel to Bishop Eskil to get an education. Meanwhile he and his knights have to go off to war. Aske, the kitchen boy, soon becomes the prince's best friend. The boys unexpectedly come across a secret meeting in the woods, lead by Bishop Es…