Departures tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted with the means of Spanish flamenco dance and music, and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, farewell and eternity.

Bailaora is the last short film from the Rubin Stein's B&W suspense trilogy Light & Darkness after the award-winning Nero and Tin & Tina. Each of these movies try to explore a different issue related to the dark side of the human beings. In Tin&Tina it was the family; in Nero it was politics; and in Bailaora it is war.

Patrick is angry and wants to destroy everything. When he is forced to take a course in anger management, he meets other enraged people. An experimental therapist tries to squeeze out their brutal energy through dance. Can Patrick find a way to redirect his violent energy into something of value?