An aspiring actress in a small town in Rajasthan agrees to bear a child for a visiting couple seeking a surrogate mother, but her experience takes an unexpected turn when they refuse to have the child anymore.
테오도르는 다른 사람들의 편지를 대신 써주는 대필 작가로, 깊이 아꼈던 아내와 이혼 소송 중이다. 타인의 마음을 전해주는 일을 하고 있지만, 정작 테오도르 자신은 너무 외롭고 공허한 삶을 살고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 스스로 생각하고 느끼는 인공 지능 운영체제인 사만다를 만나게 된다. 사만다는 따뜻한 목소리와 뛰어난 전산처리 능력을 통해 테오도르가 더 편안한 삶을 살 수 있도록 돕고, 테오도르는 자신의 육체를 통해 사만다가 더 많은 세계를 경험할 수 있도록 격려한다. 그렇게 둘은 직접적인 접촉보다 밀도 높은 정신적 교감을 나누는데...
Tommy, a dogged lab tech of industrial food who, though once known in the business as "The Apostate", seems to have rededicated himself to producing scientifically engineered meat. A film about a dystopian future rife with genetic engineering, corporate corruption of government and rampant infection, is really about Tommy’s loneliness and the at-home experiment he conducts.
Neil Black is a good looking schmoozer who can sell anything to anyone, literally. The beautiful Catherine (Madison Walls) doesn’t seem to close deals as easily as Mr. Black (Steven Bauer) and soon realizes her sales room is headed for disaster. Not able to handle rejection or accept failure, Catherine is forced to hand over her sales team to Neil Black, and watch as he turns her unproductive lazy sales room into a prosperous and successful “money room.” Basically, the plot focuses on the transformation of Catherine’s failing sales room and the blossoming relationship between her and Neil Black.
Set in the Cold War era of the 1950's, Relations between the United States and Russia are tense. Senator Joseph McCarthy has many Americans convinced that the Communists have infiltrated society. Paranoia runs rampant, as decent Americans lose their jobs on suspicion alone. Floyd Woods served as one of the FBl's top Special Agents until he was accused of having Communist sympathies. Floyd lost his job despite lack of evidence to support these claims. He now works as a small time insurance investigator, who's flown into the small town of Sherrill, NY to investigate a life insurance claim, only to find himself distracted by the locals' odd behavior.
