Crushed by a messy unrequited love, a young queer poet, through the confidence of their best friend and the truth of their art, finally reckons with their own emotional baggage (or, 'boulder'). The film oscillates between 16mm narrative compositions of everyday life and Super 8 montages which imagine the world of their poetry.

A single mother's mental health is failing, and her young daughter has to deal with her rapidly switching moods and bizarre outbursts.

　　乔（凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）的妻子艾米丽（苏珊娜·汤姆森 Susanna Thompson 饰）死于一场车祸，讽刺的是，在医院担任心理创伤治疗的乔这一回却无法修复自己破碎的内心。乔的世界崩塌了，他抑郁，酗酒，对于工作的无法放弃和责任感成为了他活在这个世界上的唯一理由。　　一次偶然中，乔被委托完成一项工作，他的病人们是身患绝症的儿童。令乔感到意外的是，艾米丽生前一直照料着的，正是这些儿童。为了怀念妻子，乔毅然接手了这项工作，天真懵懂的孩童逐渐治愈了乔的内心，正当他的生活逐渐走上正轨之时，一个意外的消息再次扰乱了乔的内心，一个有过濒死经历的孩子告诉乔，他在“那个世界”里看到了艾米丽，而艾米丽似乎有着什么话想要传达给乔。

这是一曲失败者的悲歌。西班牙内战(1936 1939)结束后，失败的共和国政府的维护者们理所当然地被判处监禁，连同他们的肉体一道受监禁的还有他们的声音。该片主要讲述的是军事旨领佛朗哥在对反对派进行血腥镇压和报复中入狱的一群妇女的凄惨故事。作品塑造了一系列身世小同、性格各异的女性人物形象，不仪描绘她们在狱中的苦难生活，更反映了地们誓与反动当局斗争到底的英雄气慨。然而这些在狱中饱经忧患的斗士们，有的被处以极刑，有的死于病痛，侥幸出出狱的寥寥无几。因此，她们提山了一个响亮的口号：要活下去，要讲述历史，要人声呐喊。于是，发出了“沉睡的声音”。

It's summer in the Portuguese countryside, where the local festivities take place. Chico is haunted by a hate crime committed in his village against a boy who was secretly close to him. Throughout this journey, Chico, pressured by his friends, tries both to follow their social standards and hide his fears and desires.