On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?
A grieving mother lures her daughter's killer into her smart home in order to take revenge, becoming involved in a distorted game where life and death are at stake.
Giappone. Attraverso i racconti dei personaggi, si snoda la vendetta di una maestra di scuola che perde la figlia a causa della violenza di alcuni suoi allievi.
Una bambina viene uccisa in chiesa durante la comunione. Sospettata è la sorella Alice, ma i delitti non si fermano: muore la zia delle ragazzine e poi il padre. La colpevole non è la principale sospettata.
Tentando di aiutare la figlioletta soffocata da un boccone di mela, Julia la uccide. Sconvolta, decide di abbandonare il marito, troppo occupato col suo lavoro, e di andare a vivere da sola a Londra. Ma nella nuova casa compare il fantasma di una bambina sulla quale Julia ha la sciagurata idea di voler sapere di più. Attraverso una seduta spiritica, infatti, viene a sapere che nella casa, anni prima, era stato ucciso un bambino di nome Jeffrey.
Una ricca ereditiera, rimasta orfana e sottoposta alle attenzioni eccessivamente morbose del patrigno, ingaggia una prostituta perché "reciti" la parte di sua madre. La prostituta accetta per i soldi ma in seguito prende troppo sul serio il suo nuovo ruolo, scombinando del tutto i già difficili equilibri familiari.
A mother who works for an ammunition manufacturing company is devastated when her son serving in Afghanistan is killed. Despair gives way to rage and a desire for revenge when she discovers it was a bullet from her factory that was responsible for her son’s death.
Sydney Carpenter is a devoted mother to her young son, and is now accustomed to the puzzling existence of her mysterious, non-communicative husband, Matthew. When her husband and son are suddenly lost at sea after a boating accident, Sydney's comfortable existence is shattered. Although overwhelmed by her grief, Sydney cannot ignore the strange pieces from her husband's past that continue to make their way into the present.
Vera, a mom in the 1930s, mourns the loss of her baseball player husband and her 7-year-old daughter. After finding relics from her daughter’s life in a room, she unexpectedly experiences the time in which her loved ones were alive. In this dream-like world opened through her memory, she reconnects with her daughter and husband and comes to terms with her collapsed world.
A woman travels the multiverse, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again. She grows addicted to the revenge streak, putting her own humanity in jeopardy.