Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

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Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is e...

Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student cl...

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...

Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burgl...

A Peruvian teen lusts after his wild sister while the new wife of their difficult, wealthy father tr...

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...

Ali gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up...

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and...

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his ...

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matt...

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he find...

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a...

Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a youn...

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for h...

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his par...

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog...