Summary: In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

Summary: The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.

Summary: In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.

Summary: A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.

Summary: A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.