Karl, jeune attardé mental maltraité par ses parents, fanatiques religieux, surprend un jour sa mère avec son amant. Persuadé qu'ils font quelque chose de mal, il les tue. Interné dans un asile pour criminels, il est libéré vingt-cinq ans plus tard contre son gré. Il est engagé comme réparateur et devient l'ami de Frank Wheatley, la premiere personne à l'accepter. Frank convainc sa mère, Linda, de l'accepter chez eux.
Katie, une jeune serveuse au cœur d'or, habite dans le Sud-Ouest américain et rêve d'une nouvelle vie à San Francisco. Elle vit ses premières amours et se révèle d'une honnêteté désarmante. Son empathie compulsive envers les autres fait d'elle une proie facile, et ce sont ceux qu'elle aime le plus au monde qui mettront à rude épreuve la ténacité et l'innocence qui la caractérisent.
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.
Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-barred contest as the rival garages go all out to win.
Documentary about the poor circumstances in the process of manufacturing iPhones - about mineworkers in Rwanda, illegal workers in Shenzhen, and repair-techs in Hamburg.