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.

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

In limbo between life and death after falling five hundred feet into a cement mixer, a construction worker reflects on the nature of love.

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.

After losing her child at the hands of the Nigerian government, a mother attempts to seek asylum in America, where her husband has fled as a political refugee.

An American college student teaches English to a German Jewish refugee who is preparing to give a lecture. As World War II begins, the refugee cannot break his writers block and his tutor begins to fear the refugee may die by suicide.

A 33-year-old woman living in an apocalyptic Scotland with her husband writes in her diary about the tribulations of their lives and their pilgrimage to Russia in hope of a more stable existence.

An aging expatriate invites his friends over to reminisce about their home country of Lebanon and to share the wedding cake of his recently deceased son.

After yet another hurricane, a Puerto Rican family reflects how they hide their struggles from their Americanized relatives.

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.