After decades alone, a wealthy family living in a salt mine encounters a stranger.

When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds on holiday Ireland as a series of surreal encounters test the them all to their limit.

In the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.

A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.