After her husband goes missing, a young mother assumes he's been deported and decides she must find work of her own.

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.

When a sick father tells his son a new story of how he came into the United States from Mexico, different from the one the whole family was familiar with, an argument ensues between mother and father about the true history of their family.

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 judge in Texas tries to get the signature of an undocumented Mexican immigrant, who goes to great lengths to avoid doing so due to his fear of the American legal system.

A series of interconnected vignettes and characters explores themes of race, incarceration, family, heartbreak, and love.

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

A woman returns home to her family having just slept with another man. At dinner, her son gets into an argument with his father about their privilege. As the narrative moves back to the time they spent abroad in Nigeria, Burma and Ecuador, fractures in the family life are revealed.

A landlady says a tearful farewell to one of her Mexican tenants, who must leave due to an expired visa.

When a dessert chef in New Jersey attacks undocumented Thai workers with a knife, and claims that they stole his cream puffs, the boss and salad chef must work to resolve the issue and grant amends to all parties, while simultaneously dodging the immigration workers that the dessert chef called in to get his own revenge.