Helga is a tarot reader and works on an erotic telephone line. The story of his story gives rise to the appearance of different characters who belong to a world without many moral values. Everyone tries to "save themselves" in their own way between having a lot of hope or a little. A TV news program tells about a suitcase full of dollars from the "laundering" of money that belongs to an influential businessman linked to Power. The businessman instructs Helga to take the suitcase out of the country. The suitcase will never reach its destination and will give Helga the opportunity to start a new life.
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values.
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a bestseller about a psychopathic killer after he was himself in prison for 8 years for manslaughter.
In 1943 Malmö, 15-year-old Stig is attracted to his teacher Viola, 22 years his senior, who, drawn to his youth and innocence, believes the lad is a God-sent relief from her miserable marriage to a drunken, unfaithful lout.
Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.
Before "L.A. Confidential", there was "Shotgun Freeway" -- the groundbreaking 1995 documentary about Los Angeles coming to grips with it's own history.