Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver.
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans.
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer.
The "Tucci" are a poor Italian family living in a small village in Lazio. Father, mother, a conceited daughter and a genius son, forced to pretend being stupid to keep up with the family.
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening.
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief.
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma.
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike.
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
Barletta, Italy, 2011: one hundred years after the 1911 Fire at the Triangle factory in New York, several textile workers die because of the collapse of the building in which they used to work as employees of an unauthorized knitwear factory.
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child.
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it!
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