On New Year's Eve of the year 2000, the paths of eight people cross in an unexpected and dramatic way. A businessman, wavering between his wife and his mistress, finds himself being blackmailed. An unemployed man becomes a hired killer in an effort to escape from his misery. A child wanders the streets alone, trying to survive... Will the dawning of the millenium mark the beginning of a new epoch, or could it be that, beneath all the glittering celebrations, people are experiencing a different reality?