An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
