The Showdown

A dramatic anthology series about people who found themselves in situations of which they had lost control.

The story of Uma, a 27-year old obedient daughter of a mill worker, who undertakes several jobs to run the family ever since the mill has shut. Set in the heart of Mumbai in a middle class home, it is mostly occupied by the mill workers, who are out of job; a story full of hardships and tribulations of a common man's everyday life. where Uma will hold the center stage, as she will be looked up as a source of constant inspiration and driving force for the people, who draw their strength and reason to live from her indomitable spirit.

The wife of motor mechanic, Fyodor Kurbatov gives birth to two unwanted twin daughters. Having arranged things with the doctor, Fyodor, who is also a reckless drunkard, gives one of the babies for adoption to the family of a wealthy businessman, Kirill Olshansky, whose wife had recently given birth to a dead baby boy. Fyodor sees this arrangement as a means of securing financial security for himself and his family in the future, but, twenty years later, the children have to pay for the mistakes of their parents. After many trials, the twin sisters, Evgenia and Alina, achieve justice and the two families are reunited at the two opposite 'poles of love'.

It was after Ozu passed 50, that he met his first major challenge in life. While working as the branch manager of his bank in New York, Ozu was given an order to do some deals that went over and above the law. He was later caught for being involved in those dealings, and was arrested. After being released from prison, Ozu returned back to Japan to find that everything he worked for all his life had been lost: his job, his reputation, his family, and all of his possessions. All that he had left were expensive suits, and the label of being an ex-convict. Ozu gets hired on to be a temporary teacher at a private high school in Tokyo. There is a major problem though...he hates kids. Actually the problem is worse than that, he hates people. He has come to not be able to trust people anymore, so he doesn't even see them as people. Which pretty much makes teaching anything to anyone out of the question. To make things worse, the kids at the school have lost all of their ambition. This teacher can't teach children, and he can't be taught. This story is depicted with a comedic touch, as Ozu and the students go through some violent, yet funny times on the way to his learning some valuable lessons from them.