Franco de Pena

While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.

While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.

Una noche en Caracas, en una esquina del mundo latino, conduciendo por una de las avenidas de cemento encontramos a Carlos, un taxista, que se cree sabedor de los secretos fundamentales del amor, aunque en realidad está loco por Carmen, una camarera, pero no ha sabido como acercarse a ella en los últimos 20 años; por la misma avenida está Claudia, una médico responsable que vive atrapada en una existencia que gira en torno al marido, aunque está pensando en dejarle después de 20 años; en una Yamaha de 500cc, Héctor, acompañado por su novia Yamila, acelera a toda velocidad, prometiéndole que van a salir de su agujero de decadencia, porque no va a ser un don nadie toda su vida; también está Tony, un hombre joven en eterno conflicto con su padre y consigo mismo, él abandona su casa para encontrarse con Clemencia, una travesti con quien comparte sus sueños, madurando, de este modo, adentrándose en un mundo prohibido.

Una noche en Caracas, en una esquina del mundo latino, conduciendo por una de las avenidas de cemento encontramos a Carlos, un taxista, que se cree sabedor de los secretos fundamentales del amor, aunque en realidad está loco por Carmen, una camarera, pero no ha sabido como acercarse a ella en los últimos 20 años; por la misma avenida está Claudia, una médico responsable que vive atrapada en una existencia que gira en torno al marido, aunque está pensando en dejarle después de 20 años; en una Yamaha de 500cc, Héctor, acompañado por su novia Yamila, acelera a toda velocidad, prometiéndole que van a salir de su agujero de decadencia, porque no va a ser un don nadie toda su vida; también está Tony, un hombre joven en eterno conflicto con su padre y consigo mismo, él abandona su casa para encontrarse con Clemencia, una travesti con quien comparte sus sueños, madurando, de este modo, adentrándose en un mundo prohibido.

Berlin, A Polterabend (i.e. a party on the eve of a marriage) is taking place in a café. An American has persuaded his German friend to marry him, after just one month of knowing each other. But while Anke has decided to create a family for her and her baby, Bruce has reservations. The party's member consist of various immigrants that happened to be there, each with his own problems and Anke's mother who objects to the marriage and is expelled by her own daughter.