Bill and Robin, along with their friend Lina, create a “reproducer” that can accurately duplicate any object. The invention has a great future, but Bill is shocked by Lina and Robin's marriage. In love with Lina since childhood, he decides to remedy the situation with a radical experiment....
The action takes place in 1937 in Shanghai. A soldier, who is about to be sent to the front, meets a young girl under a bridge during a raid by Japanese bombers. They agree to meet after the end of the war, knowing nothing about each other. Ten years pass, a woman, a singer performing in a nightclub, takes under her guardianship a young girl who has just arrived in the city from the countryside. The girl falls in love with a man who lives a floor above, who writes songs. Later we learn that the man is the same soldier.
1945. South Atlantic. John Stryker is a professional Marine and a tough commander who demands unquestioning obedience to his orders. Under his command comes a platoon of new recruits from the United States, who will have to undergo training before the future landing on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima and destroy enemy defenses.
Three American sailors are left to live on a tropical Pacific island after the war. Their quiet, measured lives are disrupted when a young Englishwoman, Amelia, arrives on the island in search of her father.
Working as a night watchman in a huge supermarket, where you can play music at full volume, get drunk and eat all sorts of stuff from scratch, and then in an empty shopping hall until the morning skating on roller skates - what could be more beautiful if you are 16 years old and you have no idea what to do in the near future. Jim's dream came true: he got a job at the local supermarket. Immediately after closing the front doors and activating the alarm system, the young man began to realize his innermost desires. And soon discovered that he was not alone in the store. A girl had snuck into the supermarket because she too had a similar dream.
Gifted high school student Kenji Koiso accepts an invitation from a girl to visit her family. If only he knew how it would end. First he has to play the role of the girl's boyfriend in front of her relatives. Then he has his account stolen for Oz, a virtual reality where people not only play and have fun, but also do serious things like shopping and doing business.
Brooklyn. Stripper Anora, who prefers the name Eni, meets the son of a Russian oligarch Vanya, who spends all his time in parties and entertainment. Soon the guy buys out Eni's time for a week, offers to fly to Vegas, and there the young people spontaneously get married. Having learned about it from the newspapers, Vanya's parents are furious and urgently fly from Russia to the USA, and they tell the New York Armenian Toros, who was supposed to look after their son, to sort out the situation.
In search of a better life and penniless, Charlie arrives in Hong Kong. He gives his last cents to a poor merchant for a rose flower, which should bring him good luck. And the “lucky” case did not take long to come. The guy becomes an unwitting participant in a shootout between two criminal gangs and takes out from under fire one of the bosses. Dying, the head of the triad appoints Charlie as his heir.
Antoine is seventeen years old, he works at a gramophone factory, actively and naively "pecks" charming peer...
Hélène, a lady of high society, has vowed to take revenge on her lover Jean, who abandoned her. In a tavern she meets a friend who is on the edge of poverty and is forced to sell her daughter Agnès. Hélène takes custody of the unfortunate. Gives them money, an apartment, introduces them to Jean. He falls in love with a young girl, it comes to the wedding ... And at that moment Hélène strikes a fatal blow to Jean and Agnès, who happens to be "between two fires".
