An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.

Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.

After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.