Zhang Zhengchang, an honest businessman, lost his wife in his early years and his business has been miserable for many years. His son's friend teams up with gangsters to seek his property.
Paul, a former womanizer, marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives.
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative.
A dramatised documentary which explores ghetto life as seen and felt inside Harlem, based on experiences of the Northside Centre for Child Development.