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- A maid works for the estranged wife of a geologist who once visited her village and whom she loves.
- Dad wants his 13-year-old son to work harder and smarter than he himself did; thus justifying the beatings and scoldings given the boy. The boy was also forced to work with some rope manufacturers who worked him like a dog.
- A short mediation on the work of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmaniszvili (1862-1918).
- In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nearly $1 billion in gold bullion hidden in Paris for 50 years. Russian mobsters have a bold plan to hijack the gold after shutting down the capital's power at midnight. For this they need Toivo, an electrical technician. His wife is pregnant and she urges him to take the job ("$5000 buys lots of baby food"). After Toivo leaves for the plant, his wife goes into labor. Birth and blackout happen simultaneously; the baby needs an incubator, but there's no power. Jealousies within the Mob undercut the plan's smooth operation, and soon the Mob has Toivo to deal with as well.
- A humorous portrait of a young man with a working class background who turns into an anarchist punk. Over the years, however, he changes into a genuine bourgeois with conservative opinions. Anarchy is no more.
- A portrait of a contemporary, artist and drug user.
- Maria Machita has to face a great deal of suffering in a very short period. Her father gets killed in an accident, her mother dies on stage and her Turkish lover disappears suddenly out of the country.
- Imagine a place, somewhere in the western world: Voro-Nova. A place where a small-time trader lives alone. Sometimes his girlfriend drops by. A place where children play, talk, fight. What could be their connection? He lives isolated, in the middle of a port, surrounded by all kinds of consumer society trash, computers, cameras. He appears to have a chewing-gum slot-machine business. The children, most of them from non-western countries, discover the place. They play, they talk, they fight. He observes them. They use the place. They could make a party together.
- During the time and space of a retrospective of his paintings where he creates 6 scrolls illustrating his poems, Breyten Breytenbach, writer/artist/anti-Apartheid activist who spent 7 and a half years in prison, reflects on poetry, zen philosophy, South Africa, exile....