Together with her sister Juste's family, Ernesta, her husband Lukas, and her son are spending the weekend at a country house after Lukas's victory in a mixed martial arts tournament. The families are swimming in a nearby lake, having dinner, discussing family finances. After a near-tragic accident, the sisters become single mothers. The film follows the sisters' life in the aftermath of the tragedy.

A group of teenagers rent a house with a sauna for a party. Everybody is having a good time: dancing, singing, drinking, talking. The party ends and everybody leaves, but in the morning the housekeepers come to clean the place and in the dressing room they find a girl who is trying to find a button of her ripped up trousers. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT In By the Pool a tragic event is depicted from the perspective of a group rather than concentrating on a single character personal point-of-view, in order to try and understand how one individual’s tragedy gets drown out by the tumult caused by the group as a whole.

Using a faceless doll criminal reenacts a brutal crime. But surprisingly he is not the one being judged. There seems to be an odd one out in the investigative group. The film premiered in the Berlinale Short competition programme.

Paulius and Indre arrive at a small town near an airport. Next day they pretend to buy a house, but get recognized by the owner and are thrown out. It becomes clear that Paulius is the brother and Indre was the girlfriend of a boy, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered here four years ago. Undisturbed by the mood of the locals they carry on recounting the steps of this gruesome crime.