The nephew of a deceased housekeeper goes around to different apartments of high society figures in New York City, asking the housekeeper’s past employers if they can spend some money for her funeral arrangements.

A man has his daughter's beautiful, golden curls chopped off as revenge on his wife, forcing the little girl to puzzle out the dynamics of her parents' miserable marriage.

In a village where girls are offered up as wives to a mysterious god, a beautiful but vain teenage girl seeks to replace her sister as the all-powerful god's wife.