A boy and his friends swim in a river near their small hometown. After, the boy watches as his older brother splits off from the group to chat with a girl, and leaves his boyhood behind.

When he and his fellow workers are left unemployed by the mechanization of the cotton-picking process, a man overcomes his instincts to flee, and stays with his friends as they set out to make a new life.

An old elevator operator in Cleveland develops a friendship with one of his co-workers, but after tragedy strikes, he struggles more with his advancing age and growing loneliness.

A father reflects on his parental failures and his growing age as he drives through California on a rainy night.

During WWII, years after his parent's divorce, a college student and his brother visit their father and his new wife. However, the visit leaves him disappointed at what his father's life has become.

Set during the Second World War, a Czech man tells a story about his dog, in an attempt to make relatable the cruel reality of life in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to a sheltered American woman who owns a pet dog.

Nat and his companions pursue wild horses Though they are close, Nat witnesses a tragic ending to one of the horse's lives.

A young Italian teenager who served in World War II alongside American soldiers no longer has any living relatives in Italy. A friend who is a Black soldier offers to house him, but the Consul wants to keep the two races separate.

An American bureaucrat in Germany tries to save a girl and her mother from abuse at the hands of a sergeant, but finds that his clumsy intervention makes the girl's life much worse than he could have imagined.

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.