A first-generation college student, hours from graduating, dreads leaving school and her faculty mentor for the "real world" and her traditional, Eastern European parents.

A man succumbs to shock as an important friend betrays him, despite the friend not being visible to the human eye.

A Jewish-American man returns from World War II to an excruciating situation: he must tell his parents and his fiancee that he is settling in Israel. During their heartbreaking reunion, he and his family confront what it means to belong and debate how the Jewish people can achieve it.

When an old woman sees her son straining to leave to see the world, she remembers her husband doing the same many years earlier. In a fierce battle pitting love against discovery and adventure, she does her utmost to set him free.

A young girl and her best friend attend a settlement school in North Carolina, where two brothers' shenanigans lead them to play a horrible prank on the new girl.

A teenage girl at a boarding school in the 1920s goes with her roommates, who are all very different from herself, to a school-sanctioned viewing of an eclipse. The experience has an unexpected impact on her.

A Russian Jewish immigrant is at a loss for words when his young daughter asks him a philosophical question. He remembers his childhood in his family's peasant village.