A family house in New Jersey watches on as twin boys are born, grow up together, and eventually become two very different men.

A bipolar doctor returns to the West Coast after an extended period of practicing medicine in Africa. An unexpected hospital stay makes him remember an old promise he made to his sister.

In a small town, Rhea and Rhoda, two vivacious, inseparable twins, are found brutally murdered and raped by a developmentally disabled man.

In rural Nebraska, a 13-year-old boy and his best friend visit a broken-down car that belonged to the friend’s older brother, who died by suicide the previous year. The boy tries to make sense of his friend’s grieving process and understand his own surprising actions in the face of grief.

Across two difficult decades, two siblings come together and drift apart.

An autistic, selectively mute eight-year-old boy befriends a girl who secretly murders neighborhood pets. He becomes the accomplice to her sociopathic crimes, in the hopes that she can somehow lead him back to his dead twin brother.

In the near future, the elements are attuned to the truth in one’s words: when one lies they are drenched in a sudden, chilling downpour; a half-truth brings about humidity; uttering a paradox results in an overpowering sense of dread, which relents only when one says an unequivocal truth; telling a powerful truth suffuses one with warmth and the sensation of a spring breeze. A young, gay, Chinese-American man navigates the coming out conversation with his immigrant parents while being honest throughout.

A young Chinese-American girl deals with her delusional and manipulative grandmother when her grandmother visits from China.