Watching the Women Life Freedom revolution unfold in her home country of Iran from abroad, Mahnaz wishes to make a difference when she begins to befriend Roshan, who reminds her of home.

Filming their lives, five high school friends document themselves drifting apart over their college years.

Suddenly Slaughter follows an immigrant director whose staging of a 1971 Iranian play about greed and alienation mirrors his own struggles with exclusion, loneliness, and the immigrant experience.

A Latina filmmaker develops an attraction to her Muslim schoolmate and a fallout occurs when their friends and family discover their relationship.