Desde pequeña, Amy ha oído a su padre decir que la monogamia no es un estado realista. La periodista vive de acuerdo con las creencias de su padre, disfrutando de una vida sin ataduras, libre de aburridas promesas románticas. Sin embargo, ha llegado a un punto muerto. Cuando descubre que se está enamorando del hombre al que dedica un artículo, un encantador y exitoso médico deportivo llamado Aaron Conners, Amy se replantea sus creencias y su estilo de vida.
Ling (Yeo Yann Yann) es una chica procedente de Malasia que da clases de mandarín en un instituto de Singapur donde su labor es poco apreciada. Tienen pocos motivos para ser feliz: ella y su marido han pasado los últimos ocho años intentando concebir un hijo, un proceso que ha erosionado notablemente su relación. De hecho, su marido apenas pasa ya tiempo en casa, por lo que Ling se tiene que ocupar prácticamente en solitario de su suegro enfermo. Una inesperada fuente de comfort aparece en la figura de Wei Lun (Koh Jia Ler), el único estudiante de su clase al que parece interesarle la materia.
In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambles - then comes the phone call that her estranged father is in the hospital. Not knowing what to do, Claire hops in Thom's cab and orders him to just drive and so he does. They find themselves in Pennsylvania and Claire makes the rash decision to drive across the country to California. On the road, there are many detours as the obstacles and secrets force them to learn about themselves and each other.
Diane Ford, conductora de camiones de largo recorrido, ve limitado su libre estilo de vida y sus relaciones cuando, debido a una emergencia médica, debe cuidar de su hijo, al cual abandonó hace 11 años
A lo largo del Día de San Valentín en Nueva Jersey, un joven trabajador sexual intersexual debe huir de la mafia después de que un negocio de drogas fracasa, lo que lo obliga a enfrentar su pasado.
When a single mother and high-powered Chicago ad executive returns to her home town in Kansas to care for her ailing father, she rediscovers the joys and hardships of farm life.
It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return.
Thirteen-year-old Daniel lives with his older brother and terminally ill father in a village plagued by rural exodus. There, the young people live their lives between rare bus stops, xenophobia, unemployment, illegal dog fights and chemical intoxicants, among other things. Daniel stands between childhood and adolescence, and in the face of the indifference and stagnation of his surroundings, he becomes the victim of inhuman conditions that force him into a painful loneliness.
When backpacker millennials Benjamin, Judith and Katharina travel to Cuba to find Katharina’s missing brother Wanja, they become more and more entrapped within a maze of delusions, sincere feelings and sexual desires: It begins as an exciting adventure and turns into a passionate love triangle.