Daisy journeys to Nairobi, Kenya to escape her empty American life and meets a wealthy, seductive man.

Ignatius, a young orphan, develops an unlikely friendship with his bully, Donny, and Donny's father.

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

A shopkeeper sells lottery tickets that grant the wishes of its winners, no matter how wild their desire, but one ticket winner makes him question his assumptions about human happiness.