House of Fools

Using plastic sheeting between them 12-year-olds Trine and Kaja practice to be good kissers.

Film director Pierre is making an erotic thriller with his girls friend Greta, the mysterious "G" loving men until they disappear. Soon parallels between the movie and real life is obvious. Men start disappearing.

On a day in April 1996, four stories play out in the confines of a flat in the heart of Oslo.

Hermann is working as a delivery boy for a florist after school time. One day he is delivering a bouquet of flowers to Rosa Stern, a woman in the beginning of her 40's who live behind heavy curtains in an apartment filled with a secretive atmosphere. In the coming weeks Hermann gets more bouquets to be delivered to Rosa. The visits with Rosa gets more and more important to him.

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the more theoretical aspects of life. He spends his time in their apartment reading books and looking at the neighbours through the living room window. Elling doesn?t seem to need to be around others like most people. That?s why Elling is less than enthusiastic when his mother suddenly decides to take her son on a beach vacation to Spain. Reluctantly, Elling agrees ? after all, a lady at Mom?s age needs a good man by her side. But what Elling refuses to realize is that Mom is not only old, but also sick. Very sick. On her last vacation she tries to get Elling to see that life is bigger than their living room.