About the fate of a woman who has endured all the hardships of fate with dignity and has not lost faith in the future. The nineteenth century. A guy and a girl from wealthy families have been engaged since childhood. Years have passed, but the struggle for power does not allow lovers to connect. The girl is stolen, raped and left in the steppe. A young widow takes the exhausted Aiganym to her house. Soon the girl gives birth to a son and meets a herdsman, whom she will never love. But for the sake of her son, she stays with him.
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility.
Set on May 18, 1993—the day on which Denmark voted to join the European Union, just a few months after they'd voted not to do so—the film follows eight or so disparate Danes (an escaped mental patient, a newly-famous singer, a business executive, and their assorted families and cohorts) as they unwittingly alter one another's lives, for better and for worse.
A young man makes ends meet by selling camotes in his small providence town, has zero luck getting with the ladies, and is too broke to afford the hookers of the town.
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.
