Basil (1998)

Different portraits, four short stories, four moments in time capturing the wanderings of a few souls, stuck at the crossroads of History.

After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner’s death.

Kat runs late to an interview at Intrinsic Recruiting. In the lobby, she takes a pill to stave off a “condition.” The picturesque office’s facade soon starts to crack, with…

A woman whose car breaks down in the desert finds her way to an abandoned town, where she is menaced by a gang of psycho bikers.

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven…

When a young war vet returns home from Afghanistan, he struggles to find joy in the life he once knew. As he comes close to giving up all hope, his…

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to…

After many years two mariners return to homeland with the hope of a new beginning, little did they know about a disaster that would change their destiny.

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale,…

In this heartfelt drama, a mother discovers that a son she thought died at birth is still alive.

Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds…

Bruno has lost his medical license and is now practicing illegally, no questions asked. His interest is aroused when a lawyer offers to have him treat a leukemia-stricken mafioso. This…