When a mother crosses the United States southern border to escape the unsafe conditions of her home country, she begins having psychotic episodes while she waits to be reunited with her five-year-old son, from whom she was separated during the journey.

On the day before they join the army, two Mexican-Americans see their communities, friends, and homes attacked by sailors and marines during the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.

After a brutal attack on his base in Antarctica, a gay, middle-aged ex-soldier joins a conspiracy to attack police precincts around New York City in hopes of changing the status quo.

When a young Puerto Rican woman finds herself working retail as part of her prison sentence for participating in a protest, she discovers that laughter may be her most powerful weapon.

After yet another hurricane, a Puerto Rican family reflects how they hide their struggles from their Americanized relatives.

In a dystopian American Midwest, a young Arab-American woman tries to get in touch with a past lover as she journeys through the Dakotas with her dying mother who's a part of "the Movement," a philosophy based on continuous transience and the avoidance of violent places.

After losing her child at the hands of the Nigerian government, a mother attempts to seek asylum in America, where her husband has fled as a political refugee.

A series of interconnected vignettes and characters explores themes of race, incarceration, family, heartbreak, and love.

After a revolution, disabled peoples have been captured and banished to a new planet. When they receive a message from Earth, the exiled peoples believe they are in great danger and must decide whether to stay in the society they have established or journey to the other side of the planet to escape.

Just before an American college student is set to leave for the airport after visiting her extended family in Ethiopia, she realizes her suitcases are too heavy. A fight breaks out between her relatives about what items should travel with her at their behest, versus which ones deserve to be left behind.