An aging couple living in post-Mao Beijing hide their disabled daughter from the world, and help a man conceal his affair as their own marriage is eroded by a secret.

A handsome seventeen-year-old boy coincidentally meets his girlfriend at the vacation home of a rich neighbor and tries to persuade her to live life at his pace.

While waiting in line at the post office to send a package to his son who is fighting in World War II, a man sees a wealthy Jewish woman trying to cut in line and tries to intervene without being anti-Semitic.

A teenage servant girl observes as the death of a disguised aristocratic young woman causes her English estate's young heir to emotionally spiral. His subsequent illicit tryst with a mysterious woman leads to another deadly scandal.

In a town divided by wealth, a lower class teenage girl gets an unlikely job working for a personality surgeon and goes to great lengths to protect her younger sister.

A Black boy living in Harlem, NY finds a boy's "spex" — technology to enter a virtual world —and uses it to safely attend a good school. After he is caught, his teacher helps sneak him into the spex system by disguising him as an upper middle-class boy.