On the flat island of Texel, Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination who dreams about mountains. She feels oppressed by the strict religious island community and its narrow-minded way of life. Being the only girl in a big and poor family during wartime, she doesn't have much of a choice than to marry Paul, the beachcomber’s son. From the moment a regiment of Georgians are stationed on the island, Marie’s life changes and flourishes. With their film, music, and especially with their inventive, unusual survival strategies and entirely different life style, this isolated group of outsiders and in particular the young soldier Goga opens a new way for Marie. Through them, she realizes all her dreams without fear.
Erekles life turns upside down, after his brother returns from emigration
Lifetime friends and neighbors from the same year in Old Tbilisi turn into enemies and confront their fellow neighbor's family when an investor shows up to buy their yard and houses.
Architect David Mikeladze is wanted by the Soviet Security Committee for arrest. He manages to move to Turkey and starts a new life there, creating a second family. After Georgia gains independence, David Mikeladze returns to his homeland and dies there, as his family was told, of a heart attack. Years later, his son arrives in Georgia, finds his half-brother, and learns the true cause of his father's death.
In a post war Georgia, an unemployed architect, Andro tries to help out his family, fills the car with household junk and goes to Turkey for private trading, with his son Dato. On the border they give a ride to a Turkish hitchhiker Taner, to Trabzon. This meeting turns this harmless journey, into series of unfortunate events for Andro and his son.
Keti (36) and her son Nika (16) find themselves in a precarious situation when Nika hits an old man in a car accident. The victim’s family promises to refrain from pressing charges against Nika if he compensates their loss in cash. Within a single day Keti has to raise a large amount of money to prevent her son Nika from being imprisoned. An unexpected turn gives the drama a tragicomical air.
A small country road in 40°C heat. A groom on his way to his wedding is stranded by a car breakdown. He then encounters a mobster having a heart attack and recovers a suitcase stuffed with cash. Trouble with the underworld and misunderstandings with the traffic police are not long in coming...
