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     A woman tells of her sister and alter ego, a dancer who tours seven American cities to earn sufficient money to build a house for her family back home; in each city she encounters a different tempting sin.

     The solo dancer portrays, through a series of highly emotional movements, the desires and thus frustrations of women left at home while their men are away at war.

     A romantic student rages against society and himself until fate in the form of a fellow student lends a sympathetic hand, teaching him the value of community.

     A group of basketball players, locked out of their stadium in a contractual dispute, entertain their fans by displaying their virtuosity on the street.

     A European sailor returns to his native fishing village with an African woman whom his neighbors at first find exotic but later reject as alien to their narrow minds.

     When a young woman appears in her nightgown at the door of a local hotel, her fiancé renounces her in public; but when he finds her sleepwalking over to his own house, he escorts her, apparently still asleep, directly to the church, hoping that once they reside together, the woman’s somnambulation will cease.

     Three protagonists, each with a different emotional-mental predicament, consider seeking psychotherapists until each realizes, apart from the others, that he or she might be entering a hell from which there would be no escape.

     A young woman albino living in a northern climate falls in love with a man from a sunny country; and once she follows him home, she tragically succumbs to a sunstroke, melting away much like the snow-maiden of traditional myth.

     Several escaped prisoners, living in a remote forest, capture butterflies, which they use for food, until one of the prisoners suffers hallucinations, thinking that he has become a butterfly.

     The cowboys working on a ranch flirt with every woman in sight until their boss dies. The successor is his daughter whom, as their employer, they must respect.

     Several individuals, representing various sexual persuasions, attempt to comfort one another in a socially disintegrating world.

     From a group of women, imprisoned on an island during a civil war, emerges a peasant girl who becomes, successively, a representative of her peers and then their leader in attempting to get back to the mainland.