A frustrated jet-setter who can't travel discovers video superimposition. Through the magic of video technology, he is relegated to a box at the bottom of the screen as other people's pictures of faraway lands are shown. The protagonist reflects his generation's acceptance of today's diminished expectations. He is left to film his seemingly blank space coupled with his amusing narrative as others explore the world.
Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets.
A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.
The tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of sound and images.
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions.
