At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Grace has left behind the horrors of Dogville and after a chance meeting with a young black girl in Alabama she and her father come across the curious historical aberration of Manderlay, a plantation still running under the age old workings of slavery. Grace is appalled by the workers' lack of freedom and becomes determined to initiate their freedom regardless of what the people, who know the value of simple survival, want. find out more...