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.

A young boy whose brother has died arrives in America with his family. They had hidden the death from their father, and now the family must tell him the truth.

After a death in the family, a son travels with his father to his rural Mexican hometown to settle the estate. The town is littered with all the abandoned houses, roads, and people left behind that didn't migrate to big cities; a fate which his father fears will be his if he does not immigrate to California like his brother.

When a refugee’s employer threatens his livelihood, parallel experiences foster surprising solidarity between him and a kind neighbor.

A girl flees her home when her parents want to send her back to her abusive husband.

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

Just before an American college student is set to leave for the airport after visiting her extended family in Ethiopia, she realizes her suitcases are too heavy. A fight breaks out between her relatives about what items should travel with her at their behest, versus which ones deserve to be left behind.

In a rural town, a woman attempts to run away, with her three children, from her abusive husband. While the feat seems straightforward at first, a series of complications causes their escape to become increasingly precarious.

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.

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.