Frequent beatings from his father and the casual dismissal of his childhood fears lead to the deterioration of a boy's mental health, and the loss of the only 'real' person in the world leaves him in despair.

A young Hawaiian girl dreams of a better life for her family in the face of intense familial conflict, physical and emotional abuse, and death.

After a lifetime of getting pummeled by his own family and wife, a man gets the last laugh.

A lonely girl forms a friendship with a woman rejected by society; they spend an afternoon together, after which the girl is able to better understand the casual cruelty of the people around her.

After her grandma gets sick, a young girl begins to make a copy of her grandma using old fabric and clothes.

An encounter with a little boy and his abusive mother at an airport causes an old woman to reflect upon her relationship with her children and her late, depressive, and abusive ex-husband.

A fifteen-year-old Yazidi girl stumbles upon a wounded American Green Beret. She secretly takes him in and nurses him back to health in the hopes that he will kill the ISIS soldier to whom she was given as a child bride years ago.