Nino Benashvili

Ralph, a mourning detective, discovers an unwelcome lump and an equally unwelcome partner, Xavier. The investigator contends with Xavier’s exuberance as they navigate a quirky partnership between unlikely cases, themselves and a mysterious lump.

Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

A widowed mother and daughter's ascetic life in an isolated village in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveller in need of shelter. His presence awakens erotic longing in both women, who are left to simmer in their guilty consciences after the traveller departs.

On the last leg of a college tour across America, accompanied by her mother, a Chinese teenager considers studying and living in New York, with her aunt, who seems to have a perfect life. But in the time of a crab dinner, tensions rise, and the protagonist finds herself alone in the New York night, fantasizing about her future.