A woman leaves her daughter behind to start a new life with her husband and sons. She begins to hang around her sister-in-law's store, but a customer's request tests their friendship.

When a woman travels from her home in Beijing to the countryside to visit her husband's family, she must sacrifice her dignity in order to convince the family not to eat their former racing dog.

Two elderly women in rural Georgia attempt to help a man with amnesia who happens upon their farm, and in the process accidentally become accomplices to a crime.