The film tells the story of the complicated relationship between two women living in New York in the 1950s. One of them is a very young saleswoman who dreams of something more, and the other is a married woman who suffers from a lack of love.

Practical Joan Webster travels to the Hebrides to marry an old millionaire. But on the way, strange Scotsmen bring her to Torquil McNeil, a local poor landowner and war hero.

Gabriel, a low-ranking angel, begins to help Arju, a handyman. One day, a mobile job app leads the freelancer to venture capitalist Jeff, who hires him as his personal assistant for a week. However, the new assistant soon annoys Jeff, who decides to fire him.

The angel decides to switch Arju and Jeff's lives, and now the investor has to earn a living doing odd jobs, while the handyman finds himself living in luxury for the first time.

The story of several representatives of bohemia, living next door to each other in one of New York's neighborhoods. The picture describes one year of the difficult life of these people, some of whom are infected with AIDS. Among them is Roger, an aspiring songwriter who is in emotional turmoil after the suicide of his beloved girlfriend. He is still hesitant to have an affair with his neighbor Mimi Marquez, an exotic dance performer struggling with her own problems. In the same apartment with Roger lives filmmaker Mark, who is trying to combine art with commerce. Mark's girlfriend, a circus actress Maureen, who indulges his desires, leaves him for a female lawyer, Joanne. In addition, this close circle of neighbors, friends and acquaintances includes philosophy professor Tom Collins and a street drummer who came to his aid after the robbery. Benny, however, falls out of this circle, having married the landlord's daughter, estranged himself from his friends and failed to keep his promise to provide them with a rent-free space. As a result, he turns from a close friend into a sworn enemy, threatening all the tenants with eviction....

England, late eighteenth century. The parents of the five Bennet sisters are anxious to marry off their daughters successfully. And so the measured life of a solid family is turned upside down when a young gentleman appears in the neighborhood - Mr. Bingley.... Of course, among the friends of the new neighbor is a lot of refined aristocrats who do not mind to court the charming sisters. However, everything is not so simple. The willful Elizabeth gets acquainted with Bingley's friend, the handsome and arrogant Mr. Darcy, and a serious confrontation breaks out between them, the result of which can be both love and hate....

1913. A wealthy Danish woman, Karen Dinesen, arrives in Kenya and enters into a marriage of convenience with an old friend, Baron Bror von Blixen. Here she meets Denis, a hunter, unaware of the changes in her life this encounter will bring.

Tim and Millie have been living together for several years and no longer understand whether their relationship is based on love or has simply become a habit. They move to a small town where she starts working as a teacher, while he continues to try to record a music album. One day, the couple goes for a walk in the woods, falls into a mysterious cave, and spends the night there. The next day, Tim notices that something strange is happening to him—he finds it physically difficult to bear Millie's absence, and he is drawn to her with frightening force.

Jean, a colonial soldier, arrives in Le Havre, hoping to board a ship and sail far, far away - for which he has reasons, not precisely stated in the movie. He meets a beautiful girl, Nelly, and love at first sight develops between them. Strong, restrained and a bit taciturn Jean can teach a bully a lesson and behave with the dignity and pride of a Parisian. He is lucky - he receives a gift of civilian clothes and a passport; the ship's doctor offers him a place in his cabin, but the slaps given publicly to a local young bandit caused a sad end to this romantic story.

An old and lonely scientist created a human being. But he did not finish it in time and died. The young man he created lacks hands - instead he has something like scissors - and is forced to live all alone in an abandoned house. One day he is discovered by a female traveling salesman and takes him to live with her. In his new home, Edward tries to socialize - making friends with his new "mother's" young son and her beautiful daughter.

When Gillian Blake discovers her husband William in an unambiguous pose with his secretary, infuriated, she decides to perform some erotic experiments herself.