W.A.K.A se déroule dans la ville de Douala au Cameroun.
C'est l'histoire de Mathilde, maman du jeune Adam le jour et prostituée la nuit sous le nom de Maryline. Mathilde se prostitue pour subvenir aux besoins de son fils et s’accommode de sa routine quand un jour, un personnage du passé fait irruption dans sa vie. Sous la coupe de Max, proxénète véreux et violent, Mathilde devra faire des choix bouleversants. Jusqu'où ira-t-elle par amour pour Adam ?
Jenna (Keri Russell) is a waitress living in the American South, trapped in an unhappy marriage with controlling bully Earl (Jeremy Sisto). She works in Joe's Pie Diner, where her job includes creating inventive pies with unusual titles inspired by her life, such as the "Bad Baby Pie" she invents after her unwanted pregnancy is confirmed. The waitresses show up late for work, talk on the phone, spend much time with personal business, and talk back to the boss. Jenna longs to run away from her dismal marriage, and is slowly accumulating money to do so. She pins her hopes for escape on a pie contest in a nearby town, which offers a $25,000 grand prize, but her husband won't let her go. Her only friends are co-workers Becky (Cheryl Hines) and Dawn (Adrienne Shelly) and regular customer Joe (Andy Griffith), the curmudgeonly owner of the diner and several other local businesses, who encourages her to begin a new life elsewhere.
Alberta leaves her small hometown to move to the city, and she moves in with her former babysitter, Celene, who wears thigh high boots and is now a professional dominatrix. Out of money, Alberta decides to impersonate her roommate's identity, lured by the $300 per hour pay rate. While working with her first client, Paul, three men break into the house, believing that Paul stole half a million dollars from them. Paul defends himself, saying that whatever money he has, he had won at the casino. Alberta flees the scene, grabbing Paul's money on her way out, which leads the robbers to believe that she is involved with the theft as well. For the rest of the movie, Alberta and Celene try to deal with the three robbers, and rescue Paul from them.
When Gavin is finally buried after dying of AIDS, his close friends Charlie and Anna find themselves at odds regarding the way he died. In the weekend that passes, Gavin's estranged family come to stay, which only adds more tension to the strained household. As Charlie tries to cling to his distant partner Frank, and Anna begins a sexual affair with Gavin's married brother, the pair realize now that Gavin has gone and there is no one to keep them together, or even keep them in line. The film is an exploration of human relationships, moral ambiguity and the consequences of difficult choices.
Frank Garrett est un riche propriétaire terrien amoureux de Joanna, une prostituée. Garrett est malade et a peu de temps à vivre, alors il remet à Joanna une copie de l'acte notarié de l'extrémité nord de son ranch, avec une carte. Garrett meurt peu après, Joanna est accusée à tort du meurtre et de tentative de vol par le shérif Clayton, qui ordonne la pendaison. Le shérif le fait parce qu'il veut l'acte. Pendant ce temps, Dani arrive à Diablo City pour un grand tournoi de poker, où elle a l'intention de gagner assez d'argent pour aider son amie Birdie et sauver le ranch familial. Dani apprend la situation de Joanna par l'assistant de Garrett, Samuel, et l'amie de Joanna, Lilah, quand la partie de poker est interrompue par son arrestation mouvementée. Dani décide de sauver Joanna en faisant un duel avec le shérif Clayton puis tire sur son posse. Morgan, un chasseur de primes, arrive quand le shérif Clayton demande à quelqu'un de les appréhender, Morgan accepte d'aider. Dani avait volé Morgan alors qu'elle travaillait comme prostituée de la rue Bourbon à La Nouvelle-Orléans. Quand Morgan retrouve Dani, elle fait un accord avec lui pour partager tout ce qui se trouve au ranch de Garrett. Samuel retourne chez lui pour récupérer l'acte original pour les terres de Garrett et demande à sa femme Sally de le remettre au marshal Lane à Yuma. La poursuite se termine dans une épreuve de force entre Dani et le shérif Clayton, et leurs bandes.
Tok Wan Rimau, the custodian of the spiritual tiger, is searching for a female heir to inherit her powers. Tina (Maya Karin) and Ari (Rusdi Ramli) are the relatives of Tok Wan. They are also best friends. Tok Wan's spiritual tiger protects her family and their village from harm. Tina, who is in love with Ari, nurtures her secret dream of marrying him even though the villagers often ridicule the effeminate Ari as a sissy. Deeply traumatised by these insults, Ari continues to hide behind his close relationship with Tina. Despite parental objections, Tina seems destined to be the next in line as custodian of the mystical tiger. But Ari steps in, offering himself instead.
Anna (Lily Carter) and Jacky (Lily LaBeau) were best friends in high school in Tucson, Arizona but haven't seen each other in five years. Anna is shy, awkward, and withdrawn while Jacky is outgoing, hedonistic, but unsettled. They both formed an unlikely friendship because they both felt different, but it was this feeling that drove them apart as Jacky moved to Los Angeles. Anna travels by bus to Los Angeles to visit her for a day and the two spend the day together. The two head to a nightclub later that night where Jacky has sex with a man in a bathroom stall, which Anna witnesses. Later on Jacky performs a handjob on a random man in an alley. She gets Anna to do the same even though she is uncomfortable with the situation.