Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Examine one of sports' biggest steroid scandals via interviews with the head of BALCO lab, athletes suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs and more.

In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

Buddha heykelinin yıkıntıları arasında yaşam kavgası veren ailelerin bulunduğu bölgede yaşayan 6 yaşındaki Afgan kızı Baktay’ın tek isteği, komşularının oğlu Abbas gibi okula gidebilmek ve okulda öğretilen güzel hikayeleri okuyabilmektir. Bunun için kitap defter satın alması gerektiğini öğrenen küçük kız, kendini şehir merkezindeki pazarda yumurta satarken bulur. Okula giden yolda bir çok engelle karşılaşan Baktay, yolunu kesen ve ayrımı, vahşeti, gücü temsil eden diğer çocuklar tarafından alıkoyulur. Baktay’ın bu “savaş oyunu”ndan kurtulup okuluna, defterine ve en önemlisi de can atarak dinlediği hikayelerine giden yolculuğu anlatan film, Afganistan’ın ve insanlığın gerçekliklerine dair bir yolculuk niteliğinde.

A young woman leaving the city for the countryside encounters the concept of voluntary work - new to her. She eventually does good, and charms the employer at the same time.

A few comical and tragic stories, seen and sketched by the Danish artist Herlouf Bidstroup, animated and transferred to the screen by the artists of the studio "Soyuzmultfilm". In emotionally bright, exciting and memorable screen sketches, for all its seeming fleetingness and sketchiness, the whole world is seen before us, seen by a thoughtful artist, a generalizing image of society with all its worries, deformities and sorrows.