The Satanic Thicket - Three

Five people, one living room. Outside on the street cars are set on fire; from the kitchen comes an unpleasant smell. Only after the wine has been spilled and the issue with the dark matter is solved, the music is turned up. Open-mouth surgery.

Simon spends a summer day by the river with Enes's clique, whom he knows from the neighborhood. Between moments of uncertainty and sluggish conversations, the hours slip by. But then Marie shows up and Simon is suddenly wide awake.

A family lives in a house in the woods.

Dené, head coach of a professional football club, passes away and leaves behind a world of sorrow. As club officials try to fill his place, events begin to shift - the signing of a new coach fails, and the team does not show up for the final game. Those involved find themselves in surreal encounters, while Muslim prayers merge with backroom conversations.

Anna is milking the cows, Jakob smokes pot, Berni works on a telescope and Ulrike celebrates her birthday. So far, everything is fine in Otto's farm. When Ulrike's coffee cup breaks on the kitchen floor, something dark breaks loose. Sometimes the devil has to take the hindmost.

Thierry is a photographer on a visit in a foreign city. He is looking for the museum. Isabelle is lonesome and helps him out. Together they go for a drink in a nearby pub. There, Thierry soon discovers that his prearranged phrases in the foreign language won't lead to the results he desires. The dialogues of this boy-meets-girl-tragedy were adapted from an audio language trainer.

Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen, Sean, struggling with his sexuality and the hardships of high school. After his father finds some questionable magazines in his room, this devout Christian will go to any lengths to get his son to find the light and "perform" the way a man should. Sean is introduced to Katie, a prostitute that understands the stigmas of modern society and helps him see the true light that is within him.