An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.

Die neunzigminütige Dokumentation berichtet über die Sexuelle Revolution Amerikas Ende der 60er Jahre und zeigt wie diese kulturelle Veränderung ihren Weg zum Durchschnittsbürger fand. Wie kam es, dass sich die als prüde geltende amerikanische Gesellschaft so dramatisch wandelte? Wie formte sich daraus eine ganze Generation? Berühmte Zeitzeugen, wie die Schauspieler Warren Beatty, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, der Musiker Robert Plant oder die Feministinnen Germaine Greer und Gloria Steinem kommen zu Wort.

Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in the 1930s in Paris. He fixes clocks and other gadgets as he learned to from his father and uncle. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his father is an automaton that doesn't work; Hugo has to find its heart-shaped key. On his adventures, he meets with a cranky old man who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and as he discovers it, the old man starts remembering his past and his significance to the world of film-making.

Through seven bottles of cursed wine, we follow the journey of Valentina, a beautiful artist living in Berlin. With a sordid history of sexual and physical abuse, and having been caught in the arms of her female lover by her wealthy, overbearing mother, Val is forced to make a choice: to live a "normal" life, or be forever cut off - financially and emotionally. She concedes to her mother's ultimatum, and pursues a heterosexual relationship to appease her, only to catch her new boyfriend in bed with another man. Her inability to cope with her life triggers her repressed male alter-ego to emerge and take over.