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An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.

Two poor roommates, Mitros and Mitrousis, struggle to survive by doing odd jobs, from the neighborhood kiosk to the restaurant. They try to deceive their creditors by selling them promises of a hair loss remedy they are manufacturing. However, when their creditors realize that they have been defrauded, they pursue them, unaware that an ingenious industrialist is perfecting their medicine.

To get through his one-week probationary contract, a young Moroccan plumber must deal with equally eccentric colleagues and customers. Valero, his superior, doubts Moha has what it takes, or that customers will accept a Moroccan worker. Maybe six days is not enough time for someone to overcome their prejudices. But it might be enough to discover that we must live together.

A story of about crisis of exhausting in the life of creative artist in advertising business.

Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.

Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him...

Nate is a neurotic, recently laid-off investment banker. Joe is his unemployed, morally questionable, hustler roommate. Unable to find gainful employment (or pay for his impending wedding), Nate secretly tags along on Joe's work-for-hire Craigslist adventures. Each episode follows the pair as they blaze a trail through a world in economic crisis, trying on new hats (and hamburger costumes) as they learn the rules of survival.

A man is heartbroken after his wife walks out on him. Reasoning that he has nothing to live for, he hires a peculiar odd job man to kill him and put him out of his misery.

The story of an older man who gets fired from his job and is left by his wife. By chance, in his search for new possibilities, he ends up in an unfamiliar environment filled with colorful drag queens. It's a new sparkling world but does he dare seize the opportunity and pursue a dusty dream?

After leaving school with no qualifications and struggling to hold down a full time job, 18 year old Alfie set up his own business on his tandem bike and trailer. Despite becoming a bit of a local hero in his hometown of Clitheroe, Alfie is forced to find other ways of making ends meet after being banned from the local tip.

A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

A good heart and bad luck will get you nothing but trouble. That’s what Ryan discovers — the hard way — when he thought hitting the road would solve all of his problems, instead it was just the beginning. Ryan falls into one circumstantial trouble after another. From getting car-jacked at gun-point, being mistaken for a mobster’s son, to a run-in with cheerleaders intent on vigilante justice, Ryan barely escapes one mess before landing in the middle of another. Finally able to go home, Ryan heads back out on the highway. But has his luck really changed, or is there only more trouble in store for our charming hero?