Eva and Metodi are young, rich and successful. He wants to have children, but she fears pregnancy. One day Eva drives to the village her family came from. There she arranges for a relative with intellectual disability to move in with them. She has a plan.
Danche and Caramba live in a crumbling house below Eva’s and Metodi’s luxury high rise. They are late middle-aged and feeling left behind. Every day Caramba comes home with fresh kaymak – soft cream cheese. Danche does not suspect that Caramba has fallen for the cheese monger at the green market until she finds them having sex in her marital bed.
The quiet rebellion of ordinary women and men against roles imposed on them by society makes them heroes of a story where everybody is both a victim and a perpetrator. Underneath its lighthearted exploration of the eternal search for love and happiness, Kaymak tackles more complex social issues – human trafficking, surrogacy, infidelity and sexual liberation.

Lea is a young girl on the brink of death. She begins her final challenge, a thesis that seeks proof in the belief that happiness can be multiplied, as can the feelings of sadness, loneliness, and misery. Unfolding the research, she discovers the "Werther Effect", a phenomenon that creates a negative domino effect. She turns to her work on a project which will achieve the opposite effect, something which would be named the "happiness effect". Utilizing an eclectic, individualistic approach to experimentation and the power of positive thinking, connections and equations lead her on a path to uncover ultimate happiness.

两名九岁女孩向警方报案说遇到了暴露狂，但其实她们并未见到。三位电影人士在一个荒废的村庄里遇到仅有的两位居民，他们是兄妹，16年中却从未和彼此说过话。退休的清洁女工在一个小镇被强奸和勒死。撰写谋杀案的记者被捕……虚构的故事慢慢变成纪录片。通过母亲们的群像、奉献、忽视、爱、缺席、谋杀、怪异等等，曼彻夫斯基表现出人类或悲或喜的不同面孔。《母亲们》用创新的结构点明了真相与虚构、戏剧与纪录片的微妙关系，成为对真理性质的冥想。