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Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.

1. Prologue - "Shooting the Breeze": The scene is (sun)set. Features Lorne Cardinal, Bradley Moss and the music of Old Reliable. "A neat double-barreled moment of black humor that has something to say about the supremacy of image over text in film." - Edmonton Journal 2. "Café Utopia": Two men named Bob struggle with an uncomfortable intimacy after a random incident outside the urban, existential paradise of Café Utopia. 3. Epilogue - "The Street Lamp Flicker is not (para)Normal": Bob wanders the winter streets alone, his journey continually interrupted by street lamp interference. Random yet predictable, function and malfunction all from a first person perspective. A breakthrough is inevitable. On Incident 20 of Epilogue: "...où l'espace deviant éloquent..." - Séquences

Documentary about the 1999 bombing of an apartment building in Moscow which sheds light on both terrorism and post-Soviet government operations.

Geeta, a five-year old orphan of Seva-Kunj, gets adopted by wealthy Asha and Ashok Gupta, believes them to be her missing birth parents, and moves in with them in their palatial house. She quickly settles down and is showered with toys, attention and affection. But when Asha becomes pregnant, gives birth to a baby girl, Ritu; Geeta is traumatized by abuse and neglect, gets depressed and decides to return back to Seva-Kunj.

In this homage to the disaster genre of the 1970's, an insane hijacker takes control of an airplane and demands one million dollars.