Refusing to accept the death of his new wife, with whom he has two young children, a man decides to dig up and flee with his corpse. His son, who lives a life of pвlement worker, left with his grandfather, an old tired looking for him despite a long-repressed resentment. The three men bring with them a long history of inability to communicate, stained by a serious drinking problem and violence. While the body breaks down more and more each day, the father has no choice but to resign. But this quest is an opportunity for his son to confront him.

A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader. They soon realise the fatal mistake of underestimating the deadly skills of the Crying Freeman.

An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody s lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name "Jimmy" and gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus IRA background. But there are some things about Dil that Fergus doesn t know, either...