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.

A woman allows her grandchildren's road trip games in the Canadian backcountry. Distracted by her own nostalgia, she unwittingly takes them to a strange, unfamiliar house.

A Canadian woman recalls the self-actualization, love, and loss that a recently deceased friend brought into her life throughout their yearslong relationship.

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 Canadian family drives out to the forest with their reserved, American friend. On their way home, a deadly encounter with a angry bull spurs the American into action, changing his relationship with the family.

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

When an uncle's last-chance marriage brings a mysterious girl into a Russian-Canadian teenage boy's life, their burgeoning relationship upends his social standing and threatens to tear his family apart.

A professor leaves her job and her husband for her ancestral home of Newfoundland. There, she confronts depression, isolation, old friends, and old love.

A middle-aged Canadian writer reflects on her life, and recalls a family friend who has spent decades drifting in and out of her life, and who leaves chaos and clarity in her wake.

A woman in British Columbia reflects on her Japanese friend from childhood who was swept away from her during World War II-era Japanese internment.