现就职于纽约的邮局职工雅各布·辛格（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰），曾是在越战中险象环生的退伍老兵。不堪回首的破碎记忆时刻刺痛着他的每一根神经，失败的第一次婚姻，夭折死去的儿子，以及折磨他最深的越战后遗症。他常常出现在越战服役期间被追杀的幻觉，熟悉又陌生 的种种细节，亦幻亦真。他的现任妻子试图帮助雅各布忘却这段痛苦的记忆，然而这些穿梭在梦境和现实里的情节遭遇，让雅各布彻底失去了理智。每当生死攸关的时刻，雅各布总会在另外一个时空醒来。孰真孰假的错觉，让他游离在现实和幻想的世界中不能自拔。
Stephen Seary, a charismatic and successful stage designer, returns to his small hometown in Australia to say goodbye to his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into chaos, drama, and at times downright funny moments as Stephen navigates family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his father, old friends and past lovers, all while trying to return to Europe for a major opera contract.
Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) receives the horrifying news that her husband met with an untimely demise while mountain climbing. Newly married, Stella asks for the retrieval of her husband's body - but the task proves impossible when the corpse accidentally falls into a deep crevasse, where no human eyes or hands can reach him. Mark (James Donald), having feelings for Stella, stays by her side, a close friend and nothing more. Forty years later, still trying to get over the news of the accident, Stella learns that the glacier has moved. Hiring a crew to help prospect her husband out of the ice, they find the body preserved and untouched. Stella views the body of her husband one last time.
Barbie Hallem is a bored rich girl, who drinks too much, parties too much and flirts outrageously with any man she meets. And there's no reason to think she stops at flirting, even though she has a boyfriend. But her boyfriend is a drip. He won't punch out a guy when he sees her kissing him. The dullard even tries to take her home when she gets drunk at a party. What she wants to do is go up to the mountains and stay at the cabin her uncle left to her. The boyfriend tries to tag along, but she manages to abandon him at the side of the road. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
