Three Stories About Sleeplessness

It is nighttime In Croatia a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying Her motherinlaw is also being kept awake by the babys crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted childrearing advice to her daughterinlaw In Spain a young husband and wife are also wide awake in the dead of night they are in the middle of a turbulent argument She is Spanish he is Croatian and their marriage is in crisis because they simply do not understand one another Back in Croatia the young mans elderly mother is also awake plagued with indigestion pains The old woman is also worried about her lodger a young Spanish girl who happens to be the sister of the old womans daughterinlaw in Spain The young girl comes home with her new lover He is a taxi driver who drifts aimlessly through the night while his own wife endures a sleepless night with a crying baby and a nagging motherinlaw