While conducting research in the remote country of Keteng, a Stanford grad student hears that another American has entered the country and is challenging the power structures in place.

Two enemies become inextricably linked when one chooses mercy.

While fighting the Sandinistas in El Salvador, a young American soldier uses hallucinogenic drugs to cope with his fear, making it difficult to determine what's real and what's not.

While on a near-future mission in Afghanistan, a soldier must scrounge up a quorum and receive enough upvotes from the American public before he can execute an important kill.

In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

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.

In a school full of refugees and immigrants in early 2000s America, a teacher shares his traumas with his math class. Meanwhile, a cop tries to prevent a young Vietnamese boy from murdering a fellow student.

After a zombie epidemic destroys America, the government forces people of color into internment camps. Two young Vietnamese Americans go on a mission to liberate the camps, meeting people along the way who remind them about their hopes for the future.

In an alternative history of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, horrific events cause the United States system of government and society to become forever altered.

A young Afghani immigrant boy plays a war video game set in a Soviet-controlled Afghanistan. The game reminds him of his parents who fled the war, and he begins to imagine himself rescuing his uncle, a man who died in battle.