A group of insane asylum inmates flee a broken-down bus and occupy a nearby farmhouse. As they form a collective threaded by bizarre exercises and slapstick setups, the film spirals out into a freewheeling comedy of disorder, told with unusual verve and intensity, and featuring a dissonant, if deranged, soundtrack by free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman and his trio.

Cosmo Vitelli是一个简洁的人，曾在朝鲜战争中担任兽医，他也是一个赌徒。他在加州有家脱衣舞点，叫做Crazy Horse West。　　当我们遇上他的时候，他正在偿还最后一笔赌债。过后不久Vitelli又很快在一个非法的纸牌游戏中损失了$23,000，这次他的债务人不再友好，逼迫他马上偿清债务或是杀死一个唐人经纪以抵债。影片最后，以Cosmo Vitelli一个人站在夜总会门外寂寞的街头，开始用手抚摩因受伤流着血的腹部作为影片的结束。

　　曾在赛特港码头辛苦操劳大半生的工人赛门（哈比•布法莱斯 Habib Boufares 饰）被解雇了，他感到既气愤又无助，跟上司的抗争也无功而返。由于事业的不顺利，他跟家人的关系也变得紧张起来，前妻、情人、儿女都对他感到失望。正在赛门走投无路的时候，情人的女儿丽姆（阿弗西娅•埃尔奇 Hafsia Herzi 饰）挺身而出。在她的鼓励帮助下，赛门准备在废弃的船上开一家餐厅，但是投资方对于他资产的质疑，险些让这桩买卖泡了汤。但是，赛门已经重新找回生活的勇气和信心。他带领家人逐渐走出阴霾，正当一家人为餐厅筹备菜品的时候，他们却遇到了前所未有的麻烦……　　本片获得第64届威尼斯电影节评审团特别奖。

Follows a group of girlfriends from Assam and Meghalaya, north-eastern states in India, gathering in the back streets of Delhi to throw a secret wedding party for a soon-to-be bride. Terrorised by their rottweiler of a landlady and with their boyfriends utterly useless as help, the group's already disorganized plans soon go further awry. As the women cook the traditional Axone wedding stew (a pork stew with pungent local herbs), neighbors complain about its powerful smell. However, they are determined to prepare the aromatic dish. With the challenges brought on by cultural difference and the pressures of being migrants in a seemingly unfriendly city, is food and love enough to save the day

一对老夫妇始终没有小孩，并为此伤心，一日，丈夫挖出了一具人形树根，送给妻子当做小孩取乐，但令人意想不到的是，这具人形树根竟然真的活了起来，夫妇俩欣喜若狂，把它叫做欧提科。欧提科显然是个胃口很好的小孩，一直哭闹着要吃的，老夫妇两人为了喂饱它，花光了所有的钱，但它仍是饥饿地捉了家里的猫吃掉了。尝到肉味道欧提科从此拒绝其他食物，又把偶然进入家中的邮差、路人，还有楼里的邻居都吃掉了。老夫妇又惊又怕，但面对越长越大的欧提科显然没有任何办法，只要任由它吃掉了自己。没了管束的欧提科走到大街上，遇到的活人活物都进了它无底洞一样的胃。在菜地大啖卷心菜后，欧提科睡在了树下，直到愤怒的田地主人老太婆向它举起斧头……