Picking Up the Pieces

Raju becomes very attached to his four elephants after they save his life. His wife, however, fears for her child and tells him that he must choose between the animals and his family.

Maria, an 18-year-old girl, raised in a devoted Catholic family, bears the cross of wrath, betrayal, and woe as she navigates life after experiencing sexual assault. In a struggle of faith, are there new doors to be found after leaving the grounds of its sanctity?

A girl leaves her boyfriend to stay with a Masai man she meets on vacation in Kenya. She adapts to the tribe's customs, foods and gender roles as she integrates into her new community.

After meeting a mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets and no way to escape.

Abandoned by his father and raised by a single mother, Nate Merritt joins the Marines to support his soon-to-be fiancée. While on leave in Palm Springs, Nate meets a seemingly free spirited young gay man, who leads him on a path of discovery--and to the surprising identity of the father he never knew.

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.