Inside Llewyn Davis raconte une semaine de la vie d'un jeune chanteur de folk dans l'univers musical de Greenwich Village en 1961. Llewyn Davis est à la croisée des chemins. Alors qu'un hiver rigoureux sévit sur New York, le jeune homme, sa guitare à la main, lutte pour gagner sa vie comme musicien et affronte des obstacles qui semblent insurmontables, à commencer par ceux qu'il se crée lui-même. Il ne survit que grâce à l'aide que lui apportent des amis ou des inconnus, en acceptant n'importe quel petit boulot. Des cafés du Village à un club désert de Chicago, ses mésaventures le conduisent jusqu'à une audition pour le géant de la musique Bud Grossman, avant de retourner là d'où il vient.
Une femme travaille comme gouvernante pour un salaire misérable et son seul plaisir dans la vie reste le whisky et les cigarettes. Lorsque le prix des cigarettes augmente et qu'une crise du logement fait augmenter les loyers, elle n'a plus les moyens de se loger correctement. Elle abandonne sa maison pour conserver ses derniers petits plaisirs et commence à squatter chez des amis qui vivent dans différents quartiers de Séoul.
In the form of an anthology film, travelers and hosts encounter one another in four different places in Europe via an internet-based hosting network called “Couchsurfing”. In Stuttgart, the Swabian publisher Annette meets the Polish master in the art of living Pawel, while her niece Nina is expecting a big fiesta in Spain, but meets only a deaf old man. In parallel Matti, a freshly minted high school graduate, hopes to find a great adventure in Paris, while the two Erasmus students Reka and Alma wander through Frankfurt desperately seeking their hosts. In the quest of adventure, diversion or just an authentic travel experience, encountering people whom one never would have met otherwise and so they are confronted not only with counterparts, but also with themselves.
Upon breaking up with her boyfriend, Leyla goes back to her couch surfing lifestyle as she struggles to juggle her personal life, aspiring career as an artist and her need for stability.
An ultra-Orthodox Jew, a couch surfing custodian, and a personal injury lawyer - risk everything to find their voices on the cutthroat New York comedy scene.
On her trip back from a working holiday abroad, Emma couchsurfs at Leon's place. They get along great but something is off about Leon's behavior and then there is this strange photo wall that perks Emma's interest ...
Warsaw is becoming a meeting place for people from different corners of the world, of different ages, with different life stories. What they have in common is a feeling of being lost and a dire need to run away from their solitude. The film shows an image of a contemporary city from couchsurfers’ perspective.
One Couch at a Time follows 'CouchSurfing evangelist' Alexandra Liss across 6 continents, 21 countries, CouchSurfing for 7 months in the first full-length feature ever to document the CouchSurfing movement and this emerging 'age of sharing' we are entering.