An Iranian mother makes an extended visit to her son in America and struggles to fit in with his new family and adjust to their foreign way of life.

A middle-aged man has left his wife for another woman, but the two still meet weekly for dinner in San Francisco, each invested in the other's life. The soon-to-be ex-wife had lived with her husband's family in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and often worried about his well-being in the midst of political turmoil. Even years later, her concern for his safety lingers.

A stubborn and grumpy letter writer is detained in a palace for the crimes of his so-called brother during the Iranian Revolution.

When a middle-aged Jewish man is captured during the Iranian Revolution, he spends the time in his cell mentally designing an intricate rug. Now freed and living in America with his son, the man struggles to be fully present in his life, though he does develop an interest in his daughter-in-law.

A fifteen-year-old Yazidi girl stumbles upon a wounded American Green Beret. She secretly takes him in and nurses him back to health in the hopes that he will kill the ISIS soldier to whom she was given as a child bride years ago.

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 destitute Pakistani man asks to work for a wealthy family in modern-day Pakistan. When he loses something that he values most, the man finally learns the brutal reality of his position in society.

When a man visits an old village called Ain Tadouirt to visit an old friend and conduct research, he becomes captured by a tribe and forced to entertain. He must figure out how to escape a life of enslavement in a foreign land.

A woman lives on a goat farm in contemporary Korea with her mother. Once a week, she is visited by a male taxi driver, who helps her to escape her world on their drives to Seoul. When he offers to involve her in his scam, she must decide how far she is willing to go in order to leave the farm.

An American visits an Israeli friend from his past who had recently emigrated to Maine and gotten remarried. They discuss the hostage situation in the Middle East and she reflects on where her loyalties lie.