It's horse breeding season at a ranch. Shinji, who works there, is a newlywed. He returns from his honeymoon and begins a new life on the ranch with his new wife. The ranch owner warmly welcomes them back. The ranch owner is paralyzed due to his wife's carelessness...
Hiromi Katori, a new employee, felt unwell during work and went to the infirmary. Then, instead of the usual Maki Kitagawa, the person there was Hanako Minamida, a flashy middle-aged stranger.
Tomorrow is her husband's 77th day. Ayako strips naked in front of her urn containing her husband, and she suddenly makes a decision to put on her mourning clothes.
Etsuko, an office worker, witnesses her live-in partner Mamoru cheating on her. Heartbroken, she meets a man named Fuyu at a drinking party set up by a colleague and is attracted to Fuyu's laid-back attitude, but.
Kimie steps into a boutique each day to support her household in place of her husband, who is unable to work due to heart disease—while her own spirit aches with longing.
Writes Viola: "Sodium Vapor was recorded over a period of several weeks in the hours between one and five in the morning on the streets of an industrial area in lower Manhattan.
Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife, who, with the help of her Jewish law-student husband, Serge, begins an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who is an enthusiastic bandsman from the north, where they do these things properly.
Georgia Benfield, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child.
What are Ilona Herfurt and her boyfriend Dietmar Freistrath doing in the old mine? Where does the money come from that her son Jimmy finds under the newspaper? Where have the unique and intricately carved works of art, often passed down for generations, disappeared to from the village in the Ore Mountains? What do the carver Gerlach and his foster daughter llona have to do with it? Questions upon questions that are burning under the detective's nails.