Melvin Adal, a mentally unstable eccentric writer, hates literally everyone around him. Because of his strange behavior, he is lonely and often gets into comical situations. But suddenly his solitude is disturbed.

Melvin has to take care of a neighbor's dog, and imperceptibly he learns from her kindness and devotion. Behind the wall of his own indifference he discovers a beautiful world of human feelings....

1950s. A small town in Texas. Dwayne Jackson and Sonny Crawford are the stars of the local high school soccer team. Dwayne is aggressive and Sonny is quiet and sensitive. They are best friends.

In the town lives a mentally retarded boy Billy, he is cruelly bullied and teased by the regulars of the local movie theater. Sonny stands up for Billy and becomes his protector. And then - a friend and lover of Ruth Popper, suffering from loneliness wife of the school basketball coach. Sonny and Dwayne go to Mexico for a short time, where they have a raucous party, but when they return, they receive sad news.

Robert Lee Pruitt is transferred to another unit after an accident. An able boxer, he refuses to enter the ring, because during a training fight he injured his friend, as a result of which he became blind.
However, for the army brass, sport is a good career tool, and Private Pruitt's refusal to enter the ring is seen as something very close to treason. It is this refusal that makes Pruitt a subversive element in the eyes of his superiors, especially Captain Homs. Among the many very colorful representatives of the garrison stand out, Private Angelo Maggio, who finds himself in a military prison, famous for its intransigence to troublemakers.
Sgt. Milton Warden, on the contrary, hating officers as an institution and as a sum of specific individuals, resists in his own way - impeccable knowledge of his duties and high professionalism, making him simply irreplaceable in the company. However, his revenge on his superiors takes quite concrete forms - he has an affair with his company commander's wife Karen Homs, who feels nothing but contempt for her husband.
However, neither Milton nor Karen have any illusions about the longevity of their affair, which nevertheless threatens to outgrow the framework of an ordinary affair and turn into a great, all-consuming love....
Only a few days pass and the seventh of December 1941 comes, when the Japanese Air Force launches a massive strike on the American military base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and on the fate of the heroes of this movie.

Ellie is going to marry the famous pilot King Westley, but her father despises him as a social idler, so he locks up his daughter and looks for reasons to annul the engagement. Ellie manages to escape, and she sets off to meet her soulmate in New York by bus. On the same bus is Peter, a reporter who has just been fired. He needs a scoop to repair his relationship with his editor. Fate smiles upon him in the person of a fugitive heiress of millions, who is being sought by the police all over the country.

The writer thought he was writing about the future, but he was actually writing about the past. In his book, a mysterious train occasionally travels to the year 2046, where its passengers want to find the lost past. It was believed that nothing ever changes in 2046. But no one knew that for sure, because no one ever came back from there. Except for one man.

Eric Claudine, a modest and quiet middle-aged violinist, denies himself everything and spends all his savings to secretly sponsor singing lessons for young Christine Dubois, for whom he has a secret passion. She is unaware of this and pays no attention to the musician, who already has two admirers - opera tenor Anatole Garron and Raoul D'Aubert, Inspector Sûreté.

Driven to despair, Eric commits the murder of a music publisher, but as a result his face becomes disfigured by acid. Now his life's goal is to destroy everyone around Christine ...

After the crisis, the financial situation of the married couple David and Diana has deteriorated greatly. At stake is the house they recently bought on credit. Unable to find a better option, they go to Las Vegas to try to win money. There, at the gambling table, they meet billionaire John Gage, who likes Diana so much that he, with David's consent, offers her to spend the night with him for a million dollars.

Jane Foster takes on the duties of the Thunder God and becomes the wielder of Mjolnir's hammer.

Killer worked with the Agent for three years. One day he took and went into the emptiness of the night streets of Hong Kong. Among the unreal light of lanterns and unreachable skyscraper roofs, the hero meets strange people: a girl looking for a mysteriously missing boyfriend, a mute merchant attracting the attention of customers to his goods in not the most usual way.

Policeman #223 suffers from a broken heart and falls in love with a mysterious woman involved in criminal schemes. And cop #663 is dumped by a flight attendant girl and ignores the signs of attention from a slightly strange night diner worker. Two love stories set in Hong Kong's urban jungle: about the search for happiness, the stifling everyday life and dreams of California.