For over 60 years, Studs Terkel elevated the voices and experiences of everyday Americans through his skillful interviews on radio, in books and on TV. This documentary takes a fond and illuminating look back at one of America's most influential authors and media personalities whose curiosity about people never dimmed over the course of a long and brilliant career.

A young woman (Nastya) arrives in Moscow to study at the Conservatory and thinks her sister (Alya) will help her with a place to stay. Her sister, however, can only offer her to live in the hospital, where her son is waiting for a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, the only source of money for them is a rich family, more exactly Dmitri, a football related "businessman", for whom Alya has been working as a cleaning lady. Then comes the romance between Nastya and Dmitri, but...

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A young journalist seeks out an old friend, to make a podcast about her missing brother.

A 90's version of The Dating Game. In this show, a single woman would be given a choice of eligible bachelors, who would preen, flex and otherwise show off in the hope of arousing her interest. The next half of the show would be an interview with a previous pair of contestants, in which they would describe their evening together in very explicit detail.

“This project is a celebration of femininity, even though it’s not what we understand to be female.” —Bea Sweet

Story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930. The story centers on young Studs who is growing into adulthood in a city full of temptations.

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

Studs' Place chronicled daily life among the denizens of a small Chicago diner, starring Studs Terkel in the role of the proprietor, Beverly Younger as the waitress Grace, and Win Stracke and Chet Roble as guests.

At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.