Ken, jeune lieutenant américain, est gravement blessé lors d'un assaut dans une ville européenne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. De retour aux Etats-Unis, aigri et paraplégique, Ken va connaître une difficile réadaptation à la vie de tous les jours.
La vie quotidienne de la famille Fukuhara dans un quartier populaire de Tokyo. Elle va pouvoir enfin rouvrir sa blanchisserie incendiée pendant la guerre. Mais elle est accablée par le malheur : le fils Susumo, employé jusque-là dans une fabrique de velours tombe malade et finit par mourir. Le père, Ryosuke commence, lui aussi, à souffrir d'une affection oculaire. Un ami, Kimura, appelé l'« oncle » Kimura, se propose de leur venir en aide. La mère, Masako ne cesse, pour sa part, de travailler. Malgré l'aggravation de sa maladie, Ryosuke refuse d'entrer à l'hôpital afin de ne pas compromettre le redémarrage de la blanchisserie. Or, un soir, à l'heure du dîner, après une violente crise de toux, Ryosuke meurt. Après les funérailles, des voisines remettent de l'argent collecté à Masako. Puis, un couple de parents, qui a lui-même perdu un fils, manifestent leur désir d'adopter sa fille cadette, Chako…
A travers trois destins qui s’entremêlent, celui du jeune Kien An qui réveille l'inspiration d'un vieux poète, celui de Hai, conducteur de pousse-pousse, amoureux d'une prostituée et enfin celui de Woody qui erre dans les hôtels et les bars pour vendre des montres, "Trois saisons" est le portrait du nouveau visage du Vietnam ou les derniers moments d'une culture irrévocablement condamnée à évoluer.
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train station. As he falls in love with an agricultural worker and starts comitting thefts, his fragile psyche seems to fall more and more out of balance.
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.
The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.