An Algerian university professor and former prisoner of France struggles with the symbolic implications of getting advice from an elite French visiting professor.

A disgruntled magazine proofreader returns to his childhood home in attempt to repair his parents' ongoing divorce.

A poor white sharecropper and his Cherokee wife must decide if they will allow their youngest son to leave their home with a wealthy lawyer and become a player for the town's football team.

A teenager joins the Marines and goes to Quantico for training, but it is not longer before he starts to wonder whether he can endure the physical and mental challenges he faces there.

In the early 1970s, a listless radical must decide what to do with his life as his social circle of grassroots activists dwindles.

A young woman reunites with an old college friend who has immersed himself in Marxist ideology and begins falling in love with his deep political passion.

In the deserts of New Mexico, a man living alone briefly opens his home to two strays from a passing motorcycle group, one of which is nursing a mortal wound.

A boy's brother dies in the Korean War, but his grandma believes he is still alive, to the disdain of the family.

A mother struggles to come to terms with her son's mental illness, and begins to realize how poorly society treats people like him.

Old priest travels to Rome to visit the Vatican, where he sustains an injury sending him into a trip down memory lane.