Kingmaker

The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a society of thieves. When they succeed in scoring the top result on the football pools without earning the top money, they have had enough.

Alexandra and Orestes, a handsome young couple, arrive from Athens, to spend the summer holidays with Orestes' family at a beautiful picture-perfect seaside town on Cyprus.

Jimmy Riley makes friends with Colin and Brian Buxton, both keen members of a schoolboys' scramble club. Lennie and Cliff, old friends of Jimmy's, steal wealthy Mr Hepplewhite's car. Jimmy finds the crooks with the car but will not join in with them.

Maggie's life is in shambles; upon hitting rock bottom, a manipulative and cunning former lover re-enters her life with the promise of salvation.

The hills, especially in our country, are associated with austerity - saints, renouncement and embracingthe vagabond path. I began to wonder where does man end and monk begin? Is renouncing life as we know it, a sacrifice or an escape?

Yuki Takase works at a small publishing house that publishes free newspapers. Together with her assistant Rei Fujishima, she is instructed to go through Tokyo and interview women, asking: 'How do you combine a career with love?'