Juanita is shot in the back two days before the victory of the revolution in Cuba. She decides to become a guardian angel, because she has always enjoyed working with people. Günther Lohmann works as an insurance agent in London. He is desperate, because nothing has been going right since his girlfriend kicked him out. His life is unjustifiable. He starts smoking and is determined to gain a zest for life, even if it means losing his health. Then he dies—twice.
Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
