A Jewish mother wants her daughter to marry well and have a better life, but her husband doesn't seem to care. After her other daughter passes away, she realizes she should not hesitate to make bigger sacrifices.

A young Jewish girl who is uninterested in her culture and heritage is transported back to 1942 Poland. There, she must do everything to survive the concentration camp.

In a bridge-building reconciliation workshop between Jews and Nazi descendants, a Jewish woman and a Nazi descendant attempt to connect with each other. At the conclusion of the workshop, wounds have not been healed, but perhaps a greater understanding has been reached.

A woman tells the story of her father's mother, a Jewish woman from Germany who moves to Latvia to marry an older man during the middle of the twentieth century, to her daughter. The woman reminds her daughter to be cautious of dreamers and to always read the news so that she does not end up with the same fate as that of the grandmother.

On a ship heading for America, a young Jewish girl, having spent her childhood during World War II, is determined to have her first kiss before she reaches the other side of the Atlantic.

A young woman finds the letters that her aunt wrote to her while the aunt was in a concentration camp, helping her mother give birth and raise the young woman

A seventeen-year-old Jewish boy reflects on his life as he lies gushing out blood, on the brink of death, in Germany at the end of World War II.

An aging Jewish woman who escaped the Nazi occupation of Poland plans a Passover meal for her family in 20th century New York. Her family worries that she's losing her mind, but she worries what is really being lost is her memory.

In pre-WWII Paris, a mixed-race, lesbian girl works for room and board in a grotesque theater following her single mother's death. The lead actress, a sexually-submissive woman with an abusive boyfriend, takes her under her wing; however, she proves emotionally manipulative as the girl falls in love with her.

When her parents' older male friend propositions her, a young teenage girl enters into an affair with a man nearly thirty years her senior. She's forced to confront the fallout of their relationship, all while she navigates her own adolescence.