An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot".

Three grown children gathered at the picturesque villa of their dying father reflect on where they are, who they have become, and what they have inherited.

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last...