A young Hawaiian girl dreams of a better life for her family in the face of intense familial conflict, physical and emotional abuse, and death.

A young Native American man talks about his encounter with a white man who was captured by his tribe. The white man and the Native American man grow closer through mutual teaching.

An elderly Native American woman grieves the loss of her three children to war and cultural oppression and must come to terms with her husband's complicity and proximity to the white man.

The body of a sixty-three-year-old Mohawk woman's little brother is uncovered at the construction site of a fast food company fifty years after his death, which prompts her to grapple with questions of assimilation and memory.

In early America, a white father discovers a community of refugee Native Americans has taken up residence in his old home; rather than asking them to leave, he invites them to stay and break bread with him and his son.

After graduating from Harvard, a tall Japanese American man struggles to find his path despite growing up as a perfect, high-achieving student and athlete.

A divorced couple reunites at their son's wedding. On their way down to a Hawaiian valley for a short trip, multiple unlucky obstructions prevent them from making it any further.

When a strange boy arrives in her small town of Little Nova to live with the local Hmong shaman, a young girl thinks she might finally have a friend to confide in. After the boy gets a mysterious illness and other inexplicable things start to happen around them, the girl isn't so sure the stories she was told as a child are just stories after all.

Before leaving his home to fight in the Vietnam War, a young Hawaiian has to decide what to do about his favorite pet pigeon. While deliberating, he's forced to confront the responsibility he bears for his sister's mental instability.

A white teacher and her Navajo students try to protect the last eagle on their territory from a hunter in a helicopter. They end up engaging in direct combat with the helicopter, with the eagle even participating as well.