From the streets of Kuala Lumpur to the deepest reaches of the jungle, a young artist witnesses first-hand the development of a brutal communist insurgency in the mid-twentieth century. From his sketches emerges a horrific yet poignant portrait of the conflict and those who fight it.

When married scientists invent a means of observational time travel, they hope to expose the WWII atrocities committed on Chinese prisoners by the Japanese at Unit 731 in Pingfang. However, their efforts only stir up political controversy and hateful backlash from denialists, and ultimately reveal that nations - and individuals - often choose to hide from the past rather than confront it.

A diverse array of passengers and crew aboard a 777 commercial airplane are on their way to Boston when the pilot informs everyone of a presumable military attack in Guam.

An ethnic cleansing forces a Chinese man to move to Thailand, where he lives as a second-class citizen. He confronts dehumanizing conditions that make him consider how far he will go to guarantee his own survival.

A Chinese American man gushes about his favorite animated series being adapted into a live-action movie–until he finds out that racism has corrupted the project.

In 21st-century China, a journalist and a former dissident, once the best of friends, lead very different lives. When one goes to jail, the other confronts rampant corruption to find his friend.

On a lunar outpost, a group of coworkers pass the time by making historical movies and debating whether history is the product of individual efforts or of the nebulous interactions of everyday people. The stakes of the debate become all too real, however, when a breach of the base requires one of the friends to prove his heroic mettle.

An old man recalls how the death of King Kong caused him to lose someone he loved.

A Japanese businessman reflects on his experience with Chinese people and longs to visit China.

In post-Cultural Revolution China, a Marxist philosophy professor must decide whether he should confess to a crime he did not commit.