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During a Chinese wedding hosted by a powerful business man, unsettling incidents occur which disrupt the celebration.

Repatriated soldier becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.

Bank clerk Vincent Forrest (Edward Earle) loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe (Hedda Hopper) and her provider, Van Merton (Ward Crane). Forrest's wife Ann (Marjorie Daw) begins an affair with Merton when she discovers that Forrest is infatuated with Madame Zoe. Ann loses heavily gambling, but Vincent soon realizes what is happening in time to save his wife and to restore her happiness.

17-year-old Sean Purchase is abandoned by his mother and loses his father to suicide. Sean's life hits rock bottom and he goes on the run.

The unifying principle of all the stories is their heroes - they are all teenagers just entering adulthood. The theme of socio-psychological adaptation in the big world, the search for oneself and the difficulties of communication runs through all the films. These young people are ready to desperately run on thin ice, look for their favorite toy in a huge city dump, run away from their parents in their van, day after day build a model of their dream house, sit for hours in the pouring rain. In a word, they all learn to live.

The insane gynecologist Dr. Marukido Sadao theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.