A young Korean girl sees her family's pain and suffering after her father's bad business deal loses them their house, and takes it upon herself to remove the burden of her and her younger sisters on her family's finances.

A Korean War nurse faces gripping memories of childhood loss upon encountering an old friend.

After one of his patients develops severe dementia and begins speaking only in Korean, a Black male nurse develops a relationship with the patient's daughter.

A young woman from Dahomey is stolen during the Dutch colonization. She is separated from her brother and hopes to go on a mission to find him.

A Chinese woman reminisces on her relationship with her geologist husband, reuniting with him after a work-separation and his eventual death by sickness. Their communication centers around the husband's assistant, the Human Phonograph, who sings on command.

In the far future on a cold and snowy planet, an aging woman seeks a successor to her role as Kunchen: a bearer of memory for her people across generations, a role in which one must live a long and lonely life punctuated by decade-long cryosleeps.

After her husband disappears in the Laotian Civil War, a young mother decides to raise her daughter in Laos against the wishes of her America-bound family.

A young Chinese woman has just been divorced by her husband and wonders what her next stage in life will be. However, her dark past makes her wonder if her life is worth living, until she meets an older gentleman.

A Japanese woman who has begun to forget her name, frantically seeks the help of an eccentric clinician who eventually claims to know what happened to her name.

When her older sister comes home for the summer, a girl contemplates girlhood and what it means to be a teenager.