The film is a personal journey that began in the Shaking world of Moscow during the uprising against Yeltsin and continued in Los Angeles during and after the devastating earthquake of 1994.
Tom Styles is a lonely production assistant to a Hollywood producer who, though a case of mistaken identity with his boss, gets caught up in a very complicated drug deal.
The wind swirls up dust in a desert landscape. The picture is followed by images of clouds racing over the skyline of a city, of reflections on an expanse of water, of waves breaking over an embankment and of row upon row of burning candles.
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest.
The film depicts the relationship between a beautiful teacher and a male teacher, popular among female students, an excellent student who tells the teacher about his feelings using an answering machine, and a high school student who bets on whether she can have a relationship with a male teacher.