Jovina and Marlene, two Black women of different generations, left Northeast Brazil for Rio de Janeiro's Vidigal favela, in search of new opportunities. They relate how they thwarted Portuguese landgrabbers and transcended their status as housewives.

Two boys, a few stolen car parts, a basketball and an awful lot of slaps.

A unique relationship between two women that transcends time and space.

Early released peasant Grigoriy Lopukh, who was convicted of horse theft, is sent to his native village to start a new, honest life. Entering one of the villages, he learns that in his native lands, as well as throughout the country, individual farms have given way to collective farms. This message does not please Lopukh: he still dreams of a "free life" as a sole proprietor.

Centuries after the collapse of modern civilization, a gang of scavengers trade stories with a shifty merchant about the elusive Woman, first thought to be a wasteland myth.

Alice Lindsay arrives in New York from a small town and becomes part of Greenwich Village Bohemian life. Alice resists the advances of Gwenne Stevens, an advocate of free love, and marries civil engineer Samson Rathbone

Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turned him into a man he was at the end of his life. The old man is forced to look these events in an objective way, observe them from the sidelines, as the judge and jury of a tragic life filled with regret, bitterness, and bad decisions. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the old man has actually died and is watching his own life.

Combat footage and old photographs from extant BBC documentary footage from the First and Second World Wars is intercut with contemporary footage of First World War veterans recalling their experiences at Royal Canadian Legion halls, memorial day commemorations and veterans' hospitals.

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

A Canadian officer, David Anson, who falls for French dancer Nicolette Bonnett during wartime, has a child with her, and returns heartbroken after her death from a weak heart, only for his wife to adopt the son, linking their lives across continents and tragedy, exploring themes of love, duty, and lost time.