In a boarding school in a provincial Siberian town comes a literature teacher, a graduate of a teacher training college. The directness with which the heroine intrudes into the life of the school provokes active resistance from the principal and head teacher. As a result of a series of clashes, the young teacher must leave the boarding school, but her pupils protest, and the directorate is defeated.

The film is based on the idea that each person is the forger of his or her own happiness. The film starts with the subtitle: "If a man is destined to live 75 years, he has 2.4 billion seconds to live". The film shows young people on the beach, at café tables, on a carousel, listening to the radio, dancing hippie-style. A sculptor working with clay and stone is shown alongside young people's lives.

两位二战老友住在他们的小房子里，一同走向生命的尽头。其中一位成了一家机构的病人，在那里，具有保留价值的老年身体特征与可用的年轻身体部位被结合在一起。他归来时，已不被另一位老友认出。

Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an "orphan train" bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of thousands of neglected and orphaned children who over a 75-year period were uprooted from the city and sent by train to farming communities to start new lives with new families. Elliot Bobo's remarkable story is part of The Orphan Trains.

The pretty owner of a 'greasy spoon' cafe helps a handsome customer involved in robbery and murder.

When his hockey career comes to a sudden end, Sam returns to his hometown and tries to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life.

A famous playwright's life is turned upside down when she is forced to look at the choices she has made.

Three professions ushered Black former slaves from poverty to the American dream: preacher, teacher, and undertaker. Today, renowned embalmer James Bryant puts his faith in a new generation to continue this vanishing legacy. However, his young intern, Clarence Pierre, meets him with resistance, conflicted about his commitment to carrying on embalming traditions and the judgment he feels from the Black community as a queer, Christian man. Taking place in the oldest Black funeral home in San Antonio, this poetic documentary examines the waning tradition of African American funeral homes.

Trains opens with a quote from Franz Kafka: “There is plenty of hope. An infinite amount of hope. But not for us.” These words hang like a dark cloud over this found footage documentary, which creates a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.