American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in West Germany, but the Americans have an unexpected problem convincing the hijackers to stay in the West. Based on a true story.

Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded trolley bus and is generously rewarded for his good deed, for the unknown old man is a fabulous grandfather. He gives Peter a magic bell and the opportunity to make three wishes, but the first two slip through his fingers. For the third, the astonished man must take time to think...

戴维（Jeff Lynas 饰）是生活在俄国的犹太人，跟随家人搬到了加拿大生活。戴维的父亲十分希望能够在事业上做出一番成就，无奈屡屡遭遇挫折，因此性格难免有些暴躁。在家里，戴维和外公感情最好，外公经常骑着马车带着戴维在外面兜风，外公和他的马车构成了戴维童年中不可或缺的一道靓丽风景现。
渐渐的，父亲发现了戴维和自己的疏离，于是开始在戴维和外公之间挑拨离间。一场意外中，戴维和外公之间产生了误会，导致马厩被拆，外公也病倒了。当戴维从亲戚家赶回家中时，父亲告诉戴维，马和外公都已经死了，绝望的戴维无法接受这一噩耗。

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money. They have paid the workers generously in return for some of the money

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.