A young boy whose brother has died arrives in America with his family. They had hidden the death from their father, and now the family must tell him the truth.

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.

In the early 20th century, after the death of her parents, a young woman immigrates from Constantinople to America to live with her three older half-sisters—but their plans for her may not be what she desires.

A Russian immigrant who lives in Cuba gets the chance to move to America with his girlfriend, and must consider the life he will leave behind.

A Scottish family in the early 1800s spends six weeks on a ship bound for the Americas. Each family member has vastly different experiences as they await their fates across the sea.

After a death in the family, a son travels with his father to his rural Mexican hometown to settle the estate. The town is littered with all the abandoned houses, roads, and people left behind that didn't migrate to big cities; a fate which his father fears will be his if he does not immigrate to California like his brother.

A young woman embarks on a voyage across the Atlantic, leaving her boyfriend behind. Her good-bye reminds her of when she almost married an artist in Mexico.

An Indian-American immigrant recalls his life's journey, which goes from Calcutta to Boston. In Boston he rented a room from a strange old woman and fell in love with his wife long after their arranged marriage.

After fleeing Germany in the wake of World War II, two immigrants struggle to adjust to a new life of labor and hardship on an American farm.

A Canadian woman lets an American exile room at her house, but warns him that he can only stay for two days.