A Senegalese woman has troubled finding work in France after a divorce from her French husband.

Maria’s car stalls and she is picked up by a van of a mental institution. When she arrives at the institution, she is thought to be one of the inpatients and she finds it impossible to find her way out again.

A Russian intellectual struggles with mental health issues on an estate in the Russian countryside.

An insurance company throws a party during the apartheid years in South Africa in honour of the Colonel, an Indian salesman with an impressive record. Apartheid enters into every dimension of the lives of himself and his family.

If Tacha, the youngest daughter of a poor family, loses her calf in the flood, she is likely to follow her sisters into prostitution.

A young man of Mexican descent living north of the border has a recurrence of tuberculosis and resists being monitored by health care workers and law enforcement. 

A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.

A trans youth relates her experience growing up in a Muslim environment.

A woman is mugged on the street while onlookers fail to come to her aid.

Binyavanga Wainaina gives a humorous account of everything that is wrong with reporting about Africa.

A reporter is covering a mud slide after a Volcano eruption in Colombia. He encounters a thirteen-year old girl who is stuck in the mud. While trying to rescue her, he confronts his own past and is left a changed person.