In 1952, stifled by a cruel employer and the unfamiliarity of her new life in America, a Chinese immigrant decides to take matters into her own hands.

A Laotian six-year-old, whose parents can't read English, struggles in school.

While reading a novel by Marcel Proust, a middle-aged woman is shocked to find herself remembering her grandmother. The memories that bubble up force her to confront her family's dysfunction and her place in it.

When an uncle's last-chance marriage brings a mysterious girl into a Russian-Canadian teenage boy's life, their burgeoning relationship upends his social standing and threatens to tear his family apart.

A young girl grows up hearing stories about close family friends who went back to India, but when the family comes back to America with a secret and lives with her family for a few weeks, tensions erupt.