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A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town’s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone’s high expectations and the opera singer’s triumphant return.

After a lifetime working as a gigolo, Manuel comes back home to star anew. But his arrival coincides with a mayor forest fire, and soon he is coercing family and friends to volunteer for the rescuing squad. Through a spider web of lies he will realize that, sooner or later, he’ll have to come clean about his past.

Stram is a heartthrob bumbling. His whole life revolves around his bike, his friends, parties, vandalism. Bambi is a student in search of redemption from his ugliness, she is attracted to the dangerous life of the protagonist. Street racing, violent fights, love affairs and furious quarrels for nothing.

James, called Jug by his wife Francesca, a real estate agent is stressed by the economic needs of its ever-growing family. The two young sons, Paul and Clare of 18 years of 14, they behave as if he did not exist, while that for twenty years Francesca has landed from Naples to Milan has become more of meneghini pure blood. Nevertheless, the couple stands while their marriages of their friends are broken one after another.

But when the mother-in-law from Naples arrives suddenly abandoned her because her husband, James, who was forced to sleep on the couch takes a drastic decision. Revamp the old loft, already used by too young to escape the attentions of their parents, and will return to live alone. But it has not provided the unusual reaction of his wife ….

What if everything in life was down to chance? What if we couldn’t escape fate? What do Galois, Bauhaus and The Unbearable Lightness of Being have in common? What if the sweat in our brow could save us from the dust we are destined to return to?

Two relationships in North London simultaneously draw to a close. Jed, a journalist is living with his long-term girlfriend, Cheryl, with the couple regularly seeing Jed’s best friend Marcus and his girlfriend, Sophie. Jed and Cheryl’s relationship is tired and dysfunctional which Jed tries to put right by suggesting marriage. When he asks her, Cheryl turns him down because of the lack of romantic chemistry in their relationship. In the meantime, Jed is preparing to interview the pretentious French film writer/director, Thierry Grimandi.

Jed looks to his friend, Marcus for help and for advice from Grimandi who tries to school him in the French philosophy of love.

When Lola’s boyfriend is unfaithful to her on his summer holiday, she dumps him and flirts with his best friend as punishment. But as their class prepares to leave on an excursion to London, the relationship hots up.

The Levys are a happy family of eight people living in a small town in Israel in 1980. The father continuously preaches to his children about the importance of fulfilling ones’ dreams. The family must protect one another at any cost.

This ideal life is shattered when both the twin brothers fall in love with the new girl in town who arrives on an intoxicating cloud of American fragrances. Our hero, Erez, realizes how difficult it is to maintain family loyalty while pursuing his private dream.

A banker has died. He trafficked in nuclear material, so French intelligence assign two agents to find his list of contacts, which are on a flash drive: Muriel – the boss, acerbic, willing to sleep with any man, wondering if she should have a child – and Philippe, younger, boyish, meticulous, bothered by Muriel’s frank sexual interest. They watch Constance, the banker’s widow: a naïf, friendly, open, trusting. She’s taking opera lessons, so the French spies join the class, which Muriel enjoys. It seems that other spies are after the same USB, and some of them sing as well. Singing, spying, and sex lead to duets of all kinds as well as to an eventual showdown.