When Michelle Wong's brother, Philip, committed suicide at the age of 36, she felt that she had to find out why. Her film, Pieces of a Dream, is her attempt to understand her brother's death and to deal with his loss.
Got a big debt? No need to worry. There are many online gambling sites that promise to give you a huge profit for a short amount of time. Sania, a single mother who’s got online gambling as a hobby, wants to pay her rent before she and her daughter got kicked out by their old, flirty landlord. However, her daughter does not know that Sania had came back to the world of online gambling.
Former footballer Paul Merson sets out to understand why his life has been so blighted by gambling and asks if enough is being done to prevent others following in his footsteps.
A newspaper owner clashes with his editor and a state representative over the issue of the parimutuel gambling and the lottery.
An experimental piece displaying the acts of common addictions.
Living the High Life
Dario, a young electronics enthusiast, decides in the late evening to take a trip down the street to throw out the garbage to kill time - waiting for his "freeze-dried tart" to finish ...getting ready - but his return to home is hindered by many bizarre, violent and out of the ordinary characters who one after another involve him in their delusions, making him run far and wide.
Comedian and presenter Lloyd Griffith embarks on an experiment to find out if he can uncover the secrets of gambling success and in the process learn the truth about how the industry operates.
Marty Schwartz attempts to steal a couch to pay back his gambling debts.
A family on the brink of a break up: dad is about to throw out mom because of her gambling addiction, the oldest boy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his epilepsy and the youngest child thinks he has the perfect plan to bring the family back together again.
A young man's journey from gambling addict to YouTube star.
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
A man squanders all of his wife's fortune in gambling and drinking. Now in financial crisis, the woman tries to keep their home afloat, while he plays, gets drunk and lives off his friends charity and good will.
When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad.
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.