Premale Lekhanam

Nimki is a carefree village girl. Belonging to a poor family, a twist of fate suddenly finds her contesting a local election.

Bon vivant Gilles swears to Yasmine that he has really changed and said goodbye to his dissolute life. Until he ties the knot with her and can no longer avoid his ex-lovers...

Three North Oakland natives fight, dream, and plot hilarious schemes to remain rooted as their changing neighborhood becomes a hostile environment. Facing both gentrification and global warming, they combat evil landlords, gluten-free donuts, and ultimately each other.

This story began in 1986. Perestroika was already underway, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. It was a time when there was no Internet, hypermarkets and even mobile phones, but they drank water from the tap, there were no traffic jams in Moscow, and the keys to the apartment were quietly left under the rug.

Standa Pekárek finishes compulsory military service and becomes a chauffeur at communist Czech TV in 1971 dreaming of his own Volga (Volha). Willing to do anything to fulfill his dream he agrees to be a spy under code-name Volha.

Californian veterinarian Kentucky Jones learns his late wife had adopted a Chinese boy Ike, age 9. Handyman Seldom and the local Asian community help him adjust to being a new dad. Social worker Edith Thorncroft looks in on things.