The Seventeenth Transatlantic

After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who want to build a casino.

After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

Masha has never seen her father. Once she discovers that her parents met at a concert of the popular pop group, she scours the internet and finds a man who she thinks might be her father. Seeing his post about buying tickets for the anniversary concert of the same group, she embarks on an adventure, crossing the entire country and attending the concert to ask her father, why he abandoned them.

A story about a role of Vladimir Lenin in the electrification of Russia after Civil War.

The border fence between Mexico and the United States is part of their lives; Mexican youths use it as a volleyball net on the beach, holding their own kind of international matches with their opposite numbers on the other side. When Nero scales the metres-high metal bars we suspect that he has done this often before: because nothing is going to divert him from his dream of becoming a US citizen. He follows the traces of his older brother which lead him to Los Angeles and the mansions of the rich and famous where he gazes incredulously at this very different lifestyle with its pools and double garages that he soon hopes will be his. His only chance of quickly acquiring a green card, however, is by volunteering for military service. Before he knows it, Nero finds himself in the desert landscape of the war zones of the Middle East, fighting for his citizenship with a machine gun in his hand.