Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughter was at his wife's funeral. When trying to deal with his daughter's affairs, he finds out he is a grandfather of a nine-year-old girl, named Saffron. Since he is her only relative, social services hands over Saffron to him. At first he tries to get rid of her, but he soon finds out that they share more than his daughter, Saffron's mother. They take a trip from Manchester to London, to find Saffron's estranged father, but they find so much more
Part relationship drama and part sex comedy follows a middle-aged man who loves women and sex and can't stop cheating. He gets a divorce from his angry wife, but then cheats on his lovers. However, one of them decides to get even.
오세아니아 지도자들은 국민들을 지배하기 위해 대형당을 조직해 사람들을 통제 감시한다. 스미스(존 허트)는 기록부에 근무하며 신문기사를 수정하는 사람으로 현재의 일을 당에서 원하는 대로 글을 수정한다. 그런데 대형당의 간부 오브라이언(리차드 버튼)은 스미스를 면밀하게 감시한 끝에 그가 사상죄를 범한 것을 알고 체포 심문하게 된다. 대형당의 당칙은 불순분자로 체포한 이들을 사상적으로 철저하게 복종하게 만든 후 그 사람이 사상적으로 완전 무장 되었다고 여겨지면 그때 사형을 시키는 오직 죽음 뿐인 당칙하에 그 모든 조직을 움직인다.