Kris, an undocumented Polish immigrant laborer in Chicago, meets a successful American film director. His bold and possibly futile attempt to revive his abandoned acting career is derailed when a family crisis erupts back home in Poland.

An insecure Korean-American woman struggles with old resentments against her beautiful best friend, exposing the impossible beauty standards that caused them.

Charlie, an exhausted woman in her late twenties, spends her one day off going through the motions. As a way to break out of her mundane existence, she purchases an airplane ticket