Mike and Claire from Milwaukee want more out of life: Claire doesn't want to be just a hairdresser, and Mike wants to entertain people. They start performing as a duo, singing Neil Diamond songs. Gradually, the couple gains popularity and grows closer, despite the serious challenges they face on their musical journey.
John Sedley was born with a disfigured face, and this, combined with a difficult childhood, sealed his fate—he became a criminal. During an armed robbery, John and his friend Mikey were framed by their partners; as a result, John ended up in prison, but he didn’t rat anyone out, hoping to be released and take revenge. In prison, with the help of a compassionate surgeon, he receives a new face, and eventually he is released under an amnesty. John begins a dangerous game to settle the score with his betrayers.
Ricky Baker is a chubby city delinquent. Paula, a social worker, takes the teenager to the countryside, where the only family willing to take him in lives—Bella and her reclusive husband, Hack. When Bella dies and child protective services are about to take Ricky away, he runs off into the woods, and Heck sets out after him. Paula is convinced that the strange Heck has lost his mind over his wife’s death and has kidnapped the teenager, so she launches a nationwide manhunt for the boy and his “abductor.”
Spike Fumo is an Italian teenager who dreams of becoming a boxer. He falls in love with a wealthy girl who turns out to be the daughter of a mob boss. Gangsters threaten Spike and demand that he leave Bensonhurst, so he heads to a poor Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Daniel Kellner, a former employee of a secret government organization, is on the run from his former employers along with his girlfriend. He has stolen some classified documents and believes their contents should be made public. Meanwhile, Margaret Fairchild, an ordinary weather anchor at a Kansas TV station, suddenly begins speaking several languages, makes strange clicking sounds on live TV, and loses consciousness. The doctors find nothing unusual wrong with her, and after escaping from the hospital, Margaret suddenly realizes that she needs to find Kellner.
Strange rumors circulate about the Owens’ house: supposedly, the mistresses of the mansion are witches, and anyone who falls in love with the young sisters is doomed to die young. Rumors are just rumors, however; these charming young women have no malicious intentions whatsoever—they simply want to love and be happy.
Professional hitman Yosef Shapira is assigned a job to “take out” a man in his hometown, where his father, his dying mother, and his younger brother live. His father disowned his son, the hitman, long ago, knowing full well what he does for a living, but his brother and mother still love him. And even his father cannot completely erase him from his heart. The family reunion ends in tragedy. Yosif is forced to kill the son of a local “boss,” who believed him to be dead, because the son had spotted him on the street, and Yosif could under no circumstances allow the deceased’s father to find out—that would be tantamount to death.
New York, 1945. At a jazz orchestra concert in a nightclub, Jimmy—who has just returned from the front—persistently but unsuccessfully tries to strike up a conversation with a girl named Francine. The next morning, they run into each other again in the hotel lobby, where she is looking for a friend and he is trying to get another extension on his bill. When the extension is denied, Jimmy makes a run for it, dragging Francine along with him into a taxi. During their conversation, it turns out that he’s a pretty good saxophonist. Almost against her will, she ends up attending yet another one of Jimmy’s auditions...
An old farm, living out its final days. Several residents decide to leave, having stolen the money earned by all members of the commune. However, their plans are disrupted by rumors of the arrival of the eloquent and charismatic Irimiaš, who disappeared a year and a half ago and was presumed dead.
