The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

Un extraterrestre que procede de un planeta en crisis llega a la Tierra, pero necesita beber sangre de sus habitantes para sobrevivir. El alienígena en cuestión protege sus ojos con gafas negras, que solo se quita para asesinar a sus víctimas. Además, tiene la suerte de que una enfermera le proporcione frecuentes transfusiones; sin embargo, acaba llegando a la conclusión de que este planeta no es un lugar apacible para vivir...

Claude Pierce, un niño inglés muy educado que vive en el sur de Manhattan, intenta ganarse la aceptación ante sus compañeros no tan bien educados, en la escuela.

Malik spends his days trying to get attention from others with empty, boring chats. One day, he catches the attention of one guy with a lie, saying that he's going to the US to study cinema. The news quickly goes around the neighborhood and Malik suddenly becomes everyones’s hope and pride.

In the 1950s, Seattle had plans to build one of the densest networks of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor and people of color. Over the next two decades, a broad coalition of communities came together and halted these plans. Testimonies from that era are juxtaposed with interviews of activists who participated in the revolt, giving a picture of what Seattle could have been had the people not stood up to the highway lobby and their representatives.