Four out of work Londoners apply to do "The Knowledge" to become London taxi drivers. They have to contend with learning 20,000 streets and 500 set routes as well as Mr Burgess, a notoriously sadistic examiner from the Public Carriage Office.
Three cousins inherit an old mansion in Plaka and each one have different plans on how they want to develop it. The two Athenian cousins Achilleas and Hippocrates are busy making their own plans while the third cousin arrives from abroad with plans of her own. The film also dealt with the hippie culture and its perception in Greek society as drug-using.
Josefine is a Viennese teen very curious of sex. After she is deflowered by the neighbour Frau Reinthaler's lover Horak, she starts a very active sexual life. Following her mother's abrupt demise, a relationship with her stepfather begins. A lodger blackmails the two with the accusation of incest and, revealed as a pimp, he makes Josefine a prostitute. Josefine then begins a career to become an upscale courtesan of Vienna.
Cynthia inherits her aunt's estate. She finds her aunt's diary and learns that she had an affair with her gardener in 1901. Cynthia decides to continue this relationship to the present day and has an affair with her handsome young gardener.
The film is a series of short comedies, based on humorous anecdotes, stories and notebooks of famous satirist writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. These comedies describe the everyday life of Moscow and Moscow's citizens in the 20s - 30s of the twentieth century; the film uses a lot of newsreels of the time.
When Heidi's grandfather finds he is losing his sight he doesn't wish to tell Heidi, but he makes her live with her relatives, Cousins Tobias and Martha to attend school in a large city. There Heidi meets the troubled Elizabeth Wyler who is fascinated by Heidi and her rural life. Through his secretary Mady, Heidi joins Elizabeth and her busy widowed father Dan Wyler for a Christmas in New York City.