The Drowned Man

About the everyday life and adventures of a Swedish family from year 1978,when Little Ronny is born, until year 2002.

Two friends begin arguing as soon as they meet. To reconcile their conflict, an elder brother of theirs offers them some money to go on a far trip. Where they prepared for what was to come?

Louis, 50 years old, is trying hard to break through to become a comedian. His brother Pierre, a film director, offers him the opportunity of playing the leading role of a comedy he plans to shoot. Family issues will soon show up and prevent them from making it. It eventually is giving birth to a totally different film - new and unexpected.

Marylee Depue's father, John Cromwell Depue, refuses to improve the unsanitary living conditions in his tenements, although many of the tenants have become ill. John's wife Emily, who is involved in charity work only because it is fashionable among her friends, takes Marylee on an excursion through the tenements, where the child sees genuine suffering for the first time in her life. At a ball given by her mother, Marylee dresses as a slum child and collects money for the poor, and later that night she steals away to the tenement to visit Jones, whose wife has contracted typhoid. Determined to help the sick woman, Marylee steals a large basket of food from her own house and gives it to Jones, but he takes her back home when she becomes ill. Overjoyed to learn that Marylee's sickness was brought on by eating too many cakes with jam, John and Emily vow to lower the rents and clean up the tenements.

Muslim woman is nursing an Jew invalid lady. Even though they live in France, they are trying to get along during the conflict between Israel and Palestine in middle east.

Gloria returns to her bleak home town after failing as a singer in New York. She falls for a grifter who claims to be the former manager of a famous singer. Her passion for singing is reborn, but she is pushed into uncharted territory.