In the future year of 1996, an older wealthy man isolates himself in his mansion, along with his daughter, son-in-law, fiancé, and two servants. A deadly plague, which causes the infected to sweat blood, ravages the world outside.

An out-of-work man with a nervous condition moves his family to his uncle’s remote farm. His uncle seems to intend to work them hard, even his nine-year-old daughter, and takes a special interest in the man’s wife.

A man plots revenge after his gluttonous lender proposes that he allow his wife to “dine” with him in return for an extension on his loan.

A man turns up in the hospital with a gunshot wound. As he recovers, his doctors and the police must work to protect him from the criminals who shot him.

A man, who has been pressed into the role of faith healer on a small, impoverished island, can seemingly cure anyone except his own loving wife.

The wife of an obscure professor is frustrated that he hasn’t advanced his career; he can’t publish, he says, because the knowledge he has discovered is dangerous. Her life takes an unexpected turn when he invites one of his students to stay with them.

A man in the afterlife finds difficulty in being remembered and mourned by the wife he left behind.

A high-ranking scientist in a small dictatorship is wrongly accused of of crimes against the state.

A conductor cannot accept the death of his favored child, his son, an accomplished violinist. As he spirals downward, his relationship with his daughter worsens.

A couple looking to move to a small, remote town think they might have found the perfect place. But it seems they must first be accepted by the village elders.