Mali, who slept around with everyone in her town and got pregnant was murdered by an unknown assailant. She had been demanding that everyone who slept with her take responsibility for the pregnancy. No one was too happy about that and one of her lovers killed her but no one knew which one. Her corpse was laid out for a seven day funeral and during that time her ghost appeared and haunted everyone including the undertaker who the spirit seduced.
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
The film is based on Gennady Shpalikov’s most intimate story, “The Wharf”. Young Katya, who lives in a small provincial town, is dreaming of a prince charming.
