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.

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.

Aina Lappi migrates from Finland to Canada to marry her childhood suitor and start a farm, but she takes drastic action when her new life is not at all to her liking. Strong-willed Aina Lappi migrates from Finland to Canada to marry her childhood suitor and start a farm, but she hates the new life and quickly develops a death wish for her husband, who is not at all what she remembered.

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.

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.

When a Haitian woman and her mother get on a boat to emigrate to Miami in the mid-twentieth century, chaos ensues as the passengers realize they are ill-equipped for the journey.

After the death of his step-brother, a man travels to San Juan del Monte, Mexico to repay his debts. Instead, the town welcomes him like an old friend and tells him about his step-brother's time living there.

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.

In a camp along a Spanish beach, thirty-five thousand men are separated by barbed wire, awaiting news of whether they will be allowed to leave Spain for Mexico. Every day, someone new escapes.

A young Native American man visits a burial site on a nearby island and must reflect on both his allegiance to his culture and to himself.