With a fresh fade and new Jordans, a teenage boy hopes his new look will impress his crush, but worries that their differences are too extreme.

When a teenage girl learns that her mother plans to marry a Moroccan man, the girl figures the marriage is just another one of her mom's phases. However, when the girl starts to make real friends at the man's mosque, she begins to hope their marriage will be permanent.

Fresh out of rehab, a young man returns to New York City searching for girl he used to know, finding ghosts from his past along the way.

A young boy at a fishing pond finds himself in a predicament when, as he witnesses two adults having sex, the tree branch he's sitting on gives way. The boy's telling of the story becomes a legend for his small town in Kentucky.

Three boys navigate their youth in Chicago, but are forced to grow up quickly when they start cooking drugs for money.