These tales, whilst having little-to-no interaction with each other, all present the overarching themes of modern globalization and metamorphosis,[1] as well as links into the magic realism genre.

Having spent all of his money getting to the capital city, and steeped in debt from the costs of his labour, he begins living on the streets outside the royal palace and buries the robe in the desert.

Mustafa returns to the spot where he buried the robe but discovers that a local villager has sold it to a French museum and has used the millions of dollars it fetched to begin construction on the site.

Mustafa recounts the story of a tailor who, having repeatedly failed to make clothing for a wedding, tells the groom that he must not be ready to wear the garments since they refused to be made.

Taking place in Delhi, this story tells of the Malhotra family's three god-like children, a tragedy that unfolds with nods to both the tale of Rapunzel and the Ramayana.

Klaus, a German mapmaker, compiles all of the world's data in a unique map, but trouble comes when a strange mute named Deniz moves into his mansion.

Using Oreo cookies, Robert De Niro's bastard son transmutes his girlfriend into a high-end clothing store, stirring the attention of the Chinese mob.

Under pressure from work and from family members that don't understand him, he creates and falls in love with a life-size doll on the verge of becoming real.

After a rare type of flower begins growing inside his body, Fareed goes to France looking for a single word to help him pass from life to death easily.

Katya, the most recent addition to Magda's ambiguous dungeon of humiliation, experiences more than she bargained for when trying to have the baby of one mysterious client named K. Xiaosong, considered lucky all his life, moves his way up the ranks of the working class in Shenzhen until the fond memory of cleaning Yinfang's ear has him give it all up.