A young Armenian boy in California is confronted with the fact that the world is changing and he is growing up when he and his brother break the wheel of their bicycle because they have gotten too big for it.

After losing his parents in Turkey, a newly orphaned boy starts a new life in the Russian town of Batum and yearns to be like the other boys, complete with a Russian cap of his own.

A U.S state department official encounters an infatuation on his trip to Eastern Europe that ends in despair.

In 1942, an Armenian boy must travel for hours every day to find food for his starving family in Athens. When he finally comes across food, he must decide how to fight his own temptation.

A rambunctious but well-meaning Armenian family imagines what must have become of an absent family member, who is away at work. Via letter, their family member reveals the most earth-shattering news.

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, a Russian man studying in the United States reconnects with his estranged, ludicrously Communist grandfather. Through letters, phone calls, and eBay, they bond over their shared experiences with death and Soviet life.

A U.S. squadron deployed in Afghanistan during the War on Terror is followed by a mysterious Afghan boy with a personal connection to one of the soldiers.

An elderly Russian man comes across a young American in a park and tells the young man about coming of age in Russia.

Once a celebrity in his Iranian homeland, a homeless sitar player seeking to reconnect with his daughter finds refuge with a homeless Indian immigrant in a New York YMCA.

A second-generation Russian immigrant living in contemporary Michigan finds himself caught up in a sad but emotive group of friends when he takes a continuing education course on Intermediate German.