1920年代，美国东南方的佛罗里达州座著两个相临的小镇。一个贫穷荒凉，居民以白人居多；另一个则是富饶繁荣的黑人城镇─罗斯伍德。原本即存在的种族紧张态势，因一名白人妇女误控有陌生黑人袭击她而更加不可收拾。白人暴民开始泄愤式地疯狂杀害罗斯伍德镇民，大批无辜的妇孺被迫逃离家园。此时，一个白人商店老板与一个老兵却打破种族藩篱，帮助许多老弱居民躲避残酷的暴行。只是，他们将带著无止境的恐惧，永不得返乡...

1938年，佛朗哥将军独裁统治下的西班牙，和希特勒统治下的纳粹德国关系密切。西班牙的电影工作者受到德国资助，来到柏林拍摄电影。战争中的德国到处是暴力和硝烟，这些不想和政治纠缠在一起的人们到了这里才发现那不过是他们单纯的想法而已。德国人对电影的制作过程横加干涉，宣传部长戈培尔看上了影片的女主演马格莱娜，对她百般骚扰，她请求丰迪维洛拿出办法，丰迪维洛深爱着她，但是他也无计可施。他们不知道，整个队伍得以成行就是因为部长喜欢上马格莱娜。如果她拒绝部长的要求，就等于将她的集体推向深渊。整个社会环境也越来越恶劣，种族主义情绪高涨……他们应该如何摆脱这重重危机？这些追求自由与纯粹的艺术的电影人，为捍卫尊严他们齐心协力，与德国法西斯展开英勇的斗争。

In a future world ruled by good-looking people, a terrorist group of mutants led by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo, a rich businessman, to claim for the rights of the ugly people. Escaping from the police in their spaceship, Ramon try to kill his gang in order to get all the ransom. The trip ends abruptly when they crash in Axturiax, the planet of the crazy miners where no woman lives

In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.