Filmmaker Willy Lindwer traveled with his father Berl Nuchim and his daughter Michal to Galicia (now Poland & Ukraine) to retrace the route his father had taken six decades earlier, escaping from he Nazis and to see how the area and its inhabitants had changed. This film contains unique historic footage of pre-war life in the shtetls.
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman.
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.