An "aeronaut" emerges from the wreckage of his spaceship in the volcanic crater of Mount Nyiragongo, and descends into the city below. Encountering the people of present-day Goma, he begins to understand what he must do to change the future for his people.

She is in prison, waiting. But he has a long way to travel and arrives too late. He wanders through the strange city, lost, until he meets a woman who is willing to help him with some gentle magic.

Ukrainian brothers Liosza and Dmytro live and work in Poland. When news of the outbreak of war in Ukraine reaches them, each brother will eventually have to make a decision; return to their home country or remain in safety in Poland.

Mai Linn works as a porter at one of the biggest hospitals in Oslo, Norway. Due to her extreme shyness, her colleagues hardly notice her and take her for granted. But inside her there is a rich inner life and a great dream of being seen, heard and a desire to connect with people.

Secondhand films the myriad objects imbricated in everyday life, how they appear, disappear and reappear again in countless ways and how the value and meaning they hold changes with each passing. It is a look at the way these ordinary objects affect - and occasionally rattle - our lives in strange and unexpected ways. For Mirza [Adnan Kreso], a furniture loader in the market at Stup on the edge of Sarajevo, the second-hand watches sold and resold in the market become a focus for his unrequited thirst for horology. While for those who bargain-hunt through the flea market’s lanes, these motley objects become an affordable trove of life's essentials. Flotsam and jetsam from other lives, the discarded objects swirl and eddy like shards of memory that carry little meaning, until the chance appearance of some memorabilia collides with the present and brings the film to a close with a violent sad surge.