Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

妻子失踪后，性格内向的地理学教授费尔南多悲痛欲绝。他茫然无措，于是假扮成另一个男人，成为葡萄牙一处庄园的园丁。在那里，他与女主人结下了意想不到的友谊，并开始了一种不属于他的新生活。