Pennsylvania, 1927. Billy, un chico de dieciséis años, está ya acostumbrado a trabajar duramente y a recibir palizas cada vez que su padre se emborracha. Su vida cambia por completo cuando conoce a Alice y a John, una especie de curandero y predicador, que le enseña a leer con la intención de convertirlo en su discípulo. Pero Alice, que se ha enamorado de él, lo que quiere es que se vayan juntos a Filadelfia.
The former convicted Eddie from Oslo meet Suzanne, the daughter of a tyrannic Swedish police chief, in a discotheque by coincidence. Together they run off to France. The father starts the hunt for them, thinking they're doing drugs.
A wave of violent demonstrations paralyzes a small society. At the same time a cynical group works in the shadows and uses the chaos as a smokescreen for a coup d’état.
Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make numerous stops along his route to help out with the smallest of problems. The old man is so caring he sometimes forgets to charge money from his travelers. But modern times are lurking on the doorstep - in the figure of a grumpy county official and an offer from an outside bus company.
