In Spain during the Francoist dictatorship, a girl's father insists that their family will never speak Spanish again in favor of Basque — a small act of political defiance that slowly changes their lives, until they can never go back.

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.

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

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.

In pre-Civil War Spain, a little girl witnesses her famous matador uncle become plagued by superstition and deteriorate in his craft.

In present-day New York City, a young Colombian woman strikes up a friendship with an older Columbian man fleeing the memory of his kidnapping and subsequently finds relief from her own trauma.

An American visits his family in Spain as the Spanish Civil War erupts. Familial tensions emerge as he argues against war with his wounded cousin, who served for the Nationalists.

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

When a young American couple ventures to Europe in 1959 to recover from a recent tragedy, both the husband and wife must confront how lost they are in life.

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.