"This film presents the impressions of William Faulkner during his visit to Japan to participate in a USIS-sponsored American literature seminar. The program is based on an essay that Faulkner wrote prior to his departure from Japan" (US National Archives).
When a plane crashes the pilot is saved by the beautiful Soni and the two fall in love, unfortunately, however, the local queen also falls in love with him.
A story about Conchita whose mother died, his father remarries so she leaves to start a new life and meets and falls in love with Ruben a trainee who enlists in R.
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner.
A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from where she sends an expedition to Earth in order to bring back Rio's Carnaval to the planet.