After a young Jewish boy moves to Berlin with his family, he learns that his family agreed to watch a boy from the mental institution on the weekends. The two become friends, and the boy learns more about himself through meeting the other boy.

A young boy in a Jewish family in Poland during the WWII era doesn't understand what's going on, but he can tell something is wrong when his family and their friends begin to gather and flee their home.

A four-year-old black boy vaguely recalls a mixture of occurrences that puzzled him, including a sentenced hanging in his town of a man who allegedly murdered his wife.

A young boy with the supernatural ability to see ghosts and understand complex histories watches his father's violin teacher perform and envisions his tragic past in 1940's Romania during the pogroms.

A Jewish couple must learn to deal with their 10-year-old son who seems to deeply hate them and harbor anti-semitic views.

A man develops a deep interest in the author of a children's book he reads to his daughters. Ignoring his wife's confusion and mild disapproval, he goes to visit the author's old house and takes his daughters with him.

A Jewish family in Brooklyn must contemplate their own zealous beliefs when it develops into a mental disorder in their six-year-old son.

A group of boys is lured into a sewer by their classmate where mind tricks and riddles await them in the damp darkness.

A four-year-old Southern boy can read novels but has never spoken a word in his life. When he goes to his family's Fourth of July picnic, he must decide whether it is the appropriate moment to speak—or if there ever will be one.

A little girl navigates her relationships with two boys in her elementary school class, a brash bully and a shy victim, and learns about the nature of suffering.