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- An independent young boy living in a prison-like state children's home escapes multiple times, searching for his imprisoned father.
- Dzhamiliya lives in a kirghizian village. She follows their parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new husband has to leave the village. While being alone Dzhamiliya meets the returning soldier Daniyar and falls in love with him.
- In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks about her dissatisfaction with the government and is immediately arrested. Honza is given to another family.
- Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
- In the 19th century the Austrian playwright Johann Nepomuk Nestroy adapts British and French plays for the theatres of Wien. Using ambiguous allusions he makes a fool of the Austrian police state. The first performance of his play "Lumpazivagabundus" causes his arrest by the secret police.
- The death of the principal earner of an extended family results in the family's break. One after the other the members leave the common household. Finally only three of them are remaining; they decide to stay and to continue the family's traditions.
- After many years in a Soviet punishment camp Sadik returns home to his village. There he must learn that his brother, who has always been a conformist follower of the Soviet system, lives with the same conformism in post-communist Turkmenistan.