In this fairy-tale, when two women who are cursed by the men meant to love them meet, they realize that to stay cursed is not to love, and that they have the ability to escape if they do it together.

A poor father reminisces about the life of his deceased daughter while sitting next to her grave in the hot summer of California.

Two American soldiers looking for work in Honduras decide to make the journey to a nearby port to get new shoes. But as they walk toward the town, they begin to realize that their prejudice about the locals has consequences.

When a middle-aged Italian maid works for an American professor, the maid's personal problems and dishonestly interfere with her work and the generosity the professor has given her.