After suffering a miscarriage with her husband of three years, a hotel housekeeper takes a leap of faith and sojourns with a hotel guest to Galicia amidst separatist violence in contemporary Spain. They spend a passionate and hallucinatory day together and end up in another hotel room.

A teenage girl discovers that her father has cheated on her mother, and reveals this fact on a family vacation in Puerto Vallarta.

A young Dominican-American man struggles to make things better with his girlfriend after she finds out he cheated on her. Throughout their ill-fated vacation to the Dominican Republic, he clings on as she further separates herself from him.

In colonial Angola, a Herero woman torn between her family and her oppressive white husband finds herself accused of disloyalty on all sides. Despite significant sacrifice, disaster ensues when she tries to honor both commitments.

A woman recalls the life and death of her aunt, an American who became an avid traveler and died by suicide after she realized that nothing in her life was as exotic or exciting as she once believed.

A young woman recounts the time she solved a tourist's murder on her vacation to the Philippines with the help of a politically powerful human whom she develops strong feelings for.

In contemporary Haiti, a 17-year-old girl with aspirations to attend university in the U.S. is entangled in a multi-national kidnapping plot that changes her family forever.

A woman’s desperate desire for love in Paris leads to her some dark places.

In the midst of World War II, two lovesick foreigners meet at a nightclub in Rio and indulge in the company of each other while still languishing after previous relationships.

An orphaned young man is impressed into the Spanish armada, where he finds a new life among death.