A drunkard with a habit of lying and the hope of an American dream tries to get his family out of Cuba across dangerous waters.

A man looking for work on a lakeside town gets involved in the lives of a young couple who are in love, but the girls' parents do not approve of the relationship.

A Japanese businessman reflects on his experience with Chinese people and longs to visit China.

An old sailor is tricked by his friend’s brother into sailing with his old crew into a bad storm. When he returns to the port, he plans his revenge but has a surprising change of heart in light of a friend's good news.

Shortly after World War II ends, the captain of Lucky Dragon and his crew contract a mysterious disease that turn their skin scaly and hard. As the news spreads across the village, the crew's lives are changed dramatically.

After twelve years at sea, an elderly sailor must decide if he should return to Liverpool to search for his lover, or if he is too old for love to even try.

When a Haitian woman and her mother get on a boat to emigrate to Miami in the mid-twentieth century, chaos ensues as the passengers realize they are ill-equipped for the journey.

A mother invites a former employee to join her on a boat ride where everything takes a turn for the worse.

When a fisherman takes his son and nephew on a duck hunting trip on Christmas Day, their boat takes off while they are on a ledge, leaving them stranded in the dead of winter as the tide rises.

A 36-year-old woman falls in love with her friend's 21-year-old brother, and she must choose between doing what she desires and doing what she thinks would be best for him.