Deborah Falconer

Blues hommage by Sönke Wortmann.

As soon as they meet Ari and Sam get into a pretty passionate - and combustible - relationship. Indeed, the scenes of their rendezvous often seem reminiscent of the Chicago Fire. But the course of true flaming lust never runs true, and as they try to handle their all-consuming passion their two best friends endlessly meet to compare notes on developments.

After the Civil War, rebel sharpshooter Zack Hollister joins Weir's outlaw gang. After a successful train robbery, he and his brother end up in a gunfight with Weir and his men. He escapes with a wound in his right arm, but his brother is killed. Recuperating he has to learn to shoot left-handed as he plans to avenge his brother's death.

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit.