An ailing man's wife hires a caregiver who comes to Israel looking for a better life, and, in the process, he finds an unlikely community.

A grandmother takes care of her granddaughter Lisa for the summer while her son, Lisa's father, is in the hospital on life support. On the last day of her son's life, the grandmother distracts Lisa by taking her to a 4th of July block party.

As he naviagtes his own sobriety, a man finds out that his best friend of twenty years has two months to live due to HIV/AIDS. With help from the dying friend's lover, the man helps prepare his friend for a final bronchoscopy.

After a hit-and-run lands a suburban single mother in the hospital, her neighbors gossip about possible suspects, and her son grieves by her bedside.

In modern-day Philadelphia, an old, Korean married couple navigates the aging husband's Alzheimer's as best as they can. When the wife's secret that she also has a chronic disease comes out, her husband must fight to remember how to take care of their family.

When a rug merchant's best customer requests a new rug for her home, but complications arise, he must decide how far he's willing to go for a paycheck.

After their mother leaves a preteen and her siblings, the preteen must navigate her emerging adolescence by herself in an orphanage.