The film begins with 'New Dawn Fades'. Audio of speeches of Hitler are played alongside interviews of Chief Constable of Manchester. Montages of photographs, adverts and Manchester street scenes. Part of a Joy Division performance at Bowdon Vale and a rehearsal are shown. (Film only available in fragments)
“I don’t drive, but I know people who’ll drive 100 metres to go to the shops. Our society is obsessed with the car, with coming and going, getting somewhere.
The Riehl family has recently owned a small house in a new development in the countryside. Mr. Riehl drives into town every morning, where he works in a furniture store.
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin.
A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband.
Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the summer break in their countryside house next to the beach.
Gloria Fontanesi is a girl who works as a factory worker but carries within her a great passion: dancing! Success comes one night, when due to a delay by Renato Zero, the stage is finally hers.
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