An intense court case involving divorce proceedings is adjourned for lunch. Husband and wife then discover they are both going to be eating in the same cafeteria.
Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, and events take a sinister turn.
The old and decaying center of a large metropolis is about to be completely incinerated. While the local population prepares to evacuate by government order, an elderly prostitute decides to stay and disappear into the flames. She receives an unexpected visit from a former client.
The flight of Albert, an old man suffering from Alzheimer's, who will experience a sensory and memory journey during which his past will resurface, before fading entirely.
