A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

In the hands of Mityai, a school geography teacher from Sochi, there turns out to be not just a talking parrot, but an intelligent parrot from an ancient family. His name is Innocent — or just Kesha for his own. The parrot turns out to be with Mitya at a difficult moment in his life — his girlfriend Lera puts the relationship on pause. She wants a luxurious life, but Mityai cannot provide it for her. But a parrot can. More precisely, he can "pump" Mitya so that he starts earning a lot. New friends conclude a contract — Kesha will help Mitya return Lera, and Mityai will help the parrot find and return his beloved parrot, from whom they were separated a long time ago.

A physics teacher's obsessive dislike for Christmas is put to the test when a reservation mishap sends him and his family on a trip to Lapland, a tourist destination dedicated to Christmas and surprisingly near the North Pole.

College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Jack, a soon-to-be graduate, finds he's having a difficult time letting go of the college life -- and decides maybe he doesn't have to. Also questioning whether there's life after college are Jack's roommates: Rob, who fears domestication; comic-strip artist Mickey, who's shy around girls; intellectual party animal Slosh; and perpetual student Dennis.

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

During a trip to the mountains with their schoolmates, Arturo, who has just turned fifteen, gets thirteen-year-old Paloma pregnant.

At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and more. Over four years, these young men and women will see if they truly have the dedication and talent to achieve success, while still juggling regular schoolwork, feelings of self-doubt, and budding romances.

Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to patch things up with his former fiance Nicki.

Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female sexual fantasies.

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.