Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow, New York ; seductive yet repellent monsters. The film′s twelve chapters tells the tales of very different people : Shankar, the Bioscope Man ; Modesto, the chicken feet vendor ; Babu Khan, the paint recycler ; Nestor, the trash scavenger ; the street kids ; Cassandra, the performer ; Larissa, the crane driver ; Toni, the hustler. Day in, day out they all set about their struggle for survival with ingenuity, intelligence and dignity. And they all share a single fantasy : the dream of a better life. Megacities is a film about work, poverty, violence, love and sex. A film about the beauty of people.