Claire is a prostitute in New York, constantly working to pay off a debt. When her mother dies she sets out to gain control of her life and her feelings. She meets Elton, a nice and calm man with whom she eventually falls in love.
Hock is a grocery clerk who likes kung-fu movies and sees himself as a Bruce Lee macho-type girl magnet. But when he sees the Singaporean version of Saturday Night Fever he is completely overthrown and taken in by the movie.
John is a middle-aged illustrator that goes into an identity crisis. During a train ride, the borders between reality and his fantasy is blurred and suddenly an imaginary friend from his childhood emerges in his delusions.
Charlie lives and New York and writes plays. When he gets the message his father, Da, has passed away he goes to Ireland to bury him. In his childhood home he relives his memories of his father.
England's pre- war depression seen through the eye's of seven year old Liam who is growing up in a working class family in the 1930's Liverpool. Liam has a speech defect and doesn't like school but is happy in his family situation until his father looses his job and becomes a member of a fascist organisation.
Claire is a prostitute in New York, constantly working to pay off a debt. When her mother dies she sets out to gain control of her life and her feelings. She meets Elton, a nice and calm man with whom she eventually falls in love.
John is a middle-aged illustrator that goes into an identity crisis. During a train ride, the borders between reality and his fantasy is blurred and suddenly an imaginary friend from his childhood emerges in his delusions.
Hock is a grocery clerk who likes kung-fu movies and sees himself as a Bruce Lee macho-type girl magnet. But when he sees the Singaporean version of Saturday Night Fever he is completely overthrown and taken in by the movie.
Dan Starkey is a newspaper columnist covering the general election of Northern Ireland. He cheats on his wife with an art student who is involved in the IRA and has ties to the aspiring prime minister. When the student turns up dead, Dan becomes a suspect of the murder.
Richie and Eddie are running a disaster Hotel next to a nuclear power plant. They have no guests and their chef has left, but when the famous Italian movie star Gina Carbonara turns up at the hotel hiding from her fiancé things start to happen.
