Synopsis: In post-apocalyptic Paris survivors live underground and scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods to beseech both Past and Future to help save the Present. Only one test subject can withstand the psychological strain of time travel, the key to which is a vague but obsessive memory from his pre-war childhood, of a woman he had seen on the jetty at Orly Airport shortly before witnessing a man—his future self—die on the observation platform. During his numerous time-jumps to the past he develops a romantic relationship with the woman. The experimenters next send him into the far future were he acquires the technology to regenerate his own destroyed society, but upon his return he senses that he is to be executed by his jailers. The people of the future offer to help him escape to their time permanently, but he asks instead to be returned to the pre-war time of his childhood, hoping to find the woman. On the jetty at the airport the child version of himself witnesses how an agent of the present kills his future self as he rushes to the woman for the last time.

Synopsis: The year is 1950 and Korea is on the brink of civil war. In Kaesong village, a young carpenter and the daughter of a traditional musician are in love. On the eve of the conflict, the girl’s father is arrested by the South Korean police, and hostilities break out as the village is occupied by troops from the North. The young man signs up to fight alongside them, but is wounded and survives thanks to the young woman who gives him shelter. When he regains his strength he rejoins the fight, but is taken prisoner. He does whatever he can to escape back to his beloved, who has in the meantime become one of the principle pansori singers at the Moranbong theatre, where performances lift the people’s spirits in an underground shelter.

Synopsis: Psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to a space station hovering over the Solaris Ocean, orbiting the moon of a distant planet. Once built to accommodate a crew of over 80 people, the research facility now has only a handful of occupants who suffer from unexplained solid hallucinations. Kris arrives to find the station in various states of abandon and disrepair and the remaining two scientists are withdrawn and secretive. When he himself starts seeing impossible things, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the defensive mechanism of alien intelligence emanating from the planet below.