An eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today's growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world's most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into the future....

A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.

Rich and strange: Instead of waiting for their inheritance, a suburban couple ask for it in advance and, when their rich uncle obliges, they immediately embark on a cruise and a series of adventures that sometimes severely strain their relationship. The sorcerer's apprentice: A simple-minded runaway becomes a pawn in the hands of a magician and his wife.