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

A middle-aged woman reflects on the strangeness and wildness of adolescence as she watches her best friend's teenage son behave in ways that hurt himself and others. As his behavior worsens, the women struggle to find the courage to confront him.

A doctor and a nun are on a train that makes a stop near a work camp where a Mexican laborer will die unless he receives emergency surgery from the unlikely duo.

An Iranian mother makes an extended visit to her son in America and struggles to fit in with his new family and adjust to their foreign way of life.