A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Kiichi, a Nakajima család fejének hétköznapjai az atombombától való irracionális rettegés jegyében telnek. Megszállottjává válik a gondolatnak, hogy otthagyja Japánt, és családjával letelepedik a biztonságosnak ítélt Brazíliában. Családja azonban nem hajlandó feladni itteni életét, és megpróbálja hivatalosan beszámíthatatlannak nyilvánítani Kiichit.

Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble.

The film tells the story of a Roma worker in the Zenica iron-works Arif Heralić, whose figure was on the ten thousand dinar bill. Heralić was seeking a monetary compensation for using his character on a banknote he did not receive. He died in 1971 as a disability work in extreme poverty.