Set in Canada in the 1980s, an Indian-Canadian immigrant woman travels abroad, attempting to learn how to grieve her husband and sons after a terrorist attack on the plane kills them on their way to India.

The 15-year-old daughter of immigrants works as a keeper for a rural cottage with her parents. She observes the family who takes over the cottage for a week.

A young girl grows up hearing stories about close family friends who went back to India, but when the family comes back to America with a secret and lives with her family for a few weeks, tensions erupt.

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.

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.

A Native college student recounts some of the people he dated once he left his reservation. After dating a string of White girls, he dates a Native graduate student, who changes the way he sees his place in the world as a Native person.

When a Cuban American high schooler decides to attend college out-of-state, she must confront her ambiguous feelings about her family, hometown, and identity from a distance over the next several years.

A pregnant narrator navigates her Chinese in-law’s opinions about America when they come to visit before she gives birth.

When a refugee’s employer threatens his livelihood, parallel experiences foster surprising solidarity between him and a kind neighbor.

After a terrifying illness, an Indian grandmother drops everything and moves to live with her son and his wife in California. What she finds is a family that has begun to leave behind the traditions she cherishes, and her desperate attempts to save them only intensify her suffering.