As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
In the middle of Nowheresville lives 16-year-old Mike who wants out of his crappy life - permanently! Spending his time devising ways to do himself in, he considers the fatal brain tumor in his head as a godsend. That changes when he meets a girl and fall
理发师艾迪（Billy Bob Thornton 饰）的生活平淡无奇，在百货店担任簿记的妻子多丽丝（Frances McDormand 饰）和他貌合神离，艾迪凭丈夫的直觉断定妻子与其老板戴夫有染。一日，艾迪接待的一位客人大肆吹嘘新兴的干洗生意，并拉拢艾迪投资，不甘在小镇寂寞一生的艾迪决意入股，并向戴夫发出了匿名威胁信勒索以获得资金。艾迪如愿收到封口费，但事情很快暴露，戴夫找到艾迪泄愤不成反被杀死。戴夫之死导致多丽丝入狱，艾迪反而未受怀疑，于是他超脱于事件之外，每日只靠少女贝蒂（Scarlett Johan
