Sometime during the 20th century, two young boys wake up excitedly on a Florida day with the hope of seeing their estranged father, unaware of how reality will not meet their expectations.

A fourteen-year-old boy with a love for boats and fear of swimming sets out on a small adventure to reach the river and encounters some difficulties along the way.

While spending a summer in the outskirts of the Dominican Republic, two brothers obsess over a local boy who wears a mask because his face was chewed off by a pig.