Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, Abel takes a job in Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.

1923年，藏民罗尔布（才项增仁 饰）游弋在高原上，以盗马维生。为了自己的孩子扎西，罗尔布放神羊为其祈福。头人的父亲死去，老阿妈对头人一家的善良感佩，同时又担心罗尔布因盗窃不能魂归于天。罗尔布与同伙抢劫了政府送给寺院的礼物，并打算用赃物为扎西向寺院还愿。抢劫事发，愤怒的头人将罗尔布一家驱逐，从此，罗尔布和妻子卓玛（旦枝姬 饰）、扎西只得在草原上流浪。扎西的病情不见好转并逐渐恶化，罗尔布用圣水为扎西沐浴、虔诚的求佛爷保佑却终于不能挽留自己的孩子。不久卓玛再次怀孕了，罗尔布和卓玛磕头为扎西还愿，但苦难并没有离他们而去……

大楼倒塌开启了潘朵拉的宝盒，财团为求自保，将责任推给一位阿拉伯穆斯林土木工程师承担，阿布达拉必须面临七条人命及多达38项的指控。心怀怨恨的他抛妻弃子加入圣战组织。蜜雪儿来自一个破碎的家庭，她不屈服于回教女性的传统，飙车、跳舞与婚前性爱样样来，当她意外怀孕却发现男友暴力底下的真面目。阿丽娜追求真主，一心成为圣战士，她被派往赛普勒斯执行一项秘密任务：炸弹客。当生死一瞬，揭开了三人交错的命运与救赎。

Umut, a young man who is mute but not deaf, finds out that his mother has been meeting with a stranger.