A desperate businessman orchestrates a perfect family picnic, secretly planning a murder-suicide to escape financial ruin; a boy paralysed by aquaphobia faces swimming lessons in a pool haunted by the spirit of a drowned child; a husband worn down by relentless marital conflict plots his wife's death; a man starved of intimacy explores forbidden desire with a seductive masseuse; and an executioner obsessed with his hanging record finds his glory slipping away.