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

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 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.

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 storyteller captivates a group of tourists at Comic Con with a series of stories within stories about a trickster, sorcerer, and otherworldly queen.

After a tragedy in Dehli India kills a significant portion of India's best writers, the lesser writers who are left behind decide to put together an anthology to keep Indian literature alive by their own terms.

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.

A young Afghani immigrant boy plays a war video game set in a Soviet-controlled Afghanistan. The game reminds him of his parents who fled the war, and he begins to imagine himself rescuing his uncle, a man who died in battle.

A Middle-eastern man's journal, written during his time in futuristic Washington D.C. while unknowingly being followed by the Government, is found by a paid detective.