两名九岁女孩向警方报案说遇到了暴露狂，但其实她们并未见到。三位电影人士在一个荒废的村庄里遇到仅有的两位居民，他们是兄妹，16年中却从未和彼此说过话。退休的清洁女工在一个小镇被强奸和勒死。撰写谋杀案的记者被捕……虚构的故事慢慢变成纪录片。通过母亲们的群像、奉献、忽视、爱、缺席、谋杀、怪异等等，曼彻夫斯基表现出人类或悲或喜的不同面孔。《母亲们》用创新的结构点明了真相与虚构、戏剧与纪录片的微妙关系，成为对真理性质的冥想。

Lea is a young girl on the brink of death. She begins her final challenge, a thesis that seeks proof in the belief that happiness can be multiplied, as can the feelings of sadness, loneliness, and misery. Unfolding the research, she discovers the "Werther Effect", a phenomenon that creates a negative domino effect. She turns to her work on a project which will achieve the opposite effect, something which would be named the "happiness effect". Utilizing an eclectic, individualistic approach to experimentation and the power of positive thinking, connections and equations lead her on a path to uncover ultimate happiness.

建商女強人愛娃，坐擁高樓豪宅與體面丈夫，卻苦於膝下無兒，竟從鄉村帶回一位智能不足少女，欲借少女之腹生自己的孩子；餡餅店打工餬口的丹澈，被生活折騰成黃臉婆，丈夫還勾搭上市場賣奶油的少婦，一場正宮對決小三的捉姦戲碼，讓二女不打不相識。兩對夫妻，一富一貧、比鄰而居，肉眼相望，卻是高低有別、不相來往。隨著各自生活出現改變，雙方命運交錯，彼此牽動，走向不可測的未來。
米丘曼契夫斯基 繼《生之柳》後，重回故土北馬其頓，這次不玩時間魔法，聚焦首都一隅，改探現代生活中的社會階級與情慾流動。以喜劇為基調，尺度大膽，時而荒誕異色，瘋狂幽默沒有極限；時而撕心裂肺，狠批偽善毫不手軟，盡顯不受類型拘束的作者風範。