Pensionarii britanici călătoresc în India pentru a-și stabili reședința în ceea ce ei cred că este un hotel recent restaurat. Mai puțin luxos decât reclamele sale, Hotelul Marigold începe totuși să-i farmece în moduri neașteptate, pe măsură ce rezidenții își găsesc un nou scop la bătrânețe.

Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren't comfortable around her and she's completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, no matter what. Thanks to a newbie's help, she slowly adjusts to her new workplace.

Outsourcing Greenville is the story of what happened when the world's largest refrigerator plant outsourced to Mexico leaving 1/4th of Greenville, Michigan residents unemployed. The factory had been a fixture of the Greenville community for over 100 years until Electrolux uprooted the plant in March of 2006 to move production to Mexico where they could pay workers wages as low as $1.57/hour. This story is told through the voices of employees and the president of their union as they attempt to face the future in a season of difficulty and change.