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A new semester starts at the Jubilee school under a dark cloud after the previous year's suicide of a despondent student. A teacher returns to teach a class full of misfits in the level 5 class. He and his students come into conflict with the harsh teacher of the bright students in the level 1 class.

In this comedy, the requirements of living a respectable life grow too great for Maurice, as do the burdens of his well-paid executive position. After getting fired when a business proposal he has worked on is translated very badly to his English boss, he confides that he has lost his job to his wife. When she freaks out about that, he gets into his camper and heads south. There, a group of wandering Arab thieves rob him of everything he has of value but then admit him into their circle, calling him "Mohamed." One of their best scams comes when the newly renamed executive proposes that they rob his Paris home to raise money to start a restaurant. Though they are thieves, these new friends show every evidence of having more loyalty, good cheer, and basic morality than the associates the hero left behind.

When Serena invites her best friends to her recently purchased countryside villa, questions are raised regarding how she acquired her newfound lifestyle.

An absurdist allegory of the absorption of Georgia into the Soviet Union, a man's apartment is overrun by 'lodgers' who takeover the apartment, restrict his movements, and put him in a birdcage.

A college football player protects his friend by pretending that it was he, not the friend, who drank himself unconscious the night before the big game.