Producer
En Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, de 28 años, aspira a ser cantante de lounge; Su repertorio es estrictamente Sinatra, respaldado por Bill, un viejo pianista y su único amigo. Toni sueña en grande y entra en un programa de talentos de la televisión local. En ese momento, un jefe de la mafia local decide que Toni es un gran entretenimiento y lo invita a ser su invitado en un casino. Toni conversa con Irene, una chica de los cigarrillos, él o ella tiene uno o dos trabajos extraños de parte de Chisolm, el número dos del mafioso, la audición fracasa y el futuro de Toni es incierto. Una cosa lleva a la otra con la mafia. ¿Está Toni en una encrucijada, o en realidad no hay vuelta o retroceso?
Mrs. Grant
Desolada tras la muerte de su marido el Príncipe Alberto, la Reina Victoria (1837-1901) encuentra consuelo en el leal caballero escocés John Brown, con el que mantendrá una relación amistosa por encima de las barreras protocolarias.
Yvonne
Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchicker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Miss Cicely
El gran escritor Franz Kafka está tratando de escribir su famosa obra "La metamorfosis" y sobre su personaje Gregor Samsa, pero la inspiración es deficiente y sufre continuas interrupciones, como ruidos de fiesta, vendedores ambulantes y extrañas visiones oníricas. El título también hace referencia a la película de 1946 "Qué bello es vivir" ("It's a Wonderful Life") de Frank Capra.
Maria Modritsch
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Isabel
Four students working in a factory cause emotional, as well as industrial catastrophe, for when theory and reality meet it is the 'Silly Season'.
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.
