S2.E2 ∙ The Expanse is Beautiful

A documentary revealing the under-appreciated, highly demanding world of Broadway Understudies and Standbys. Three undiscovered performers at various points in their careers get the chance of a lifetime. Their struggle is put into perspective through never-before-heard stories from celebrities who themselves were once Understudies or Standbys.

Masty Huba, a hobo legend. Amongst the decaying landscape of Binghamton, NY the stories of Masty remain. He was kept alive - with plenty to drink - in exchange for his outrageous stories, songs, and his cheerful company.

Told through the eyes of an increasingly empowered heroine, The Carrier is a powerful and moving portrait of an unconventional family, set against the backdrop of the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia.

For several years, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich traveled around in Russia and Belarus to investigate the relationship to love of the Russian people. One, as Svetlana means, is an acute shortage of today's society.

Part road movie, part spectacle, part drama, Monsoon is Sturla Gunnarsson's meditation on chaos, creation and faith, set in the land of believers. The subject is the monsoon, the incomparably vast weather system that permeates and unifies the varied culture of India, shaping the conditions of existence for its billion inhabitants.

Thomas, Wolfgang and others are "dealers" and work in West Germany. They drive to their customers. In between they smoke and take trips.