A political prisoner is released from prison. He has problems of adjusting to the changing times. He and his girlfriend resort to suicide as the last solution.
Vijay becomes the guardian of his sister's three orphaned kids. Later, the children give shelter to Vaijayanthi, a girl trying to escape an arranged marriage, without their uncle's knowledge.
"Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker.
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Toward the latter part of his life, George Balanchine talked about creating a "dictionary" of his technique, a visual reference for the students of ballet.