Secrets Sins

Years of friendship, laughter and love shared between two brothers faces the music when a 14 year old boy is confronted with the complexities of a simple relationship.

8-year old Yotaro gains a 3-year old step-sister, Kaoru, when his mother marries a jazz musician who plays in a club in Naha, Okinawa where they live. Before long Kaoru's father deserts them, and not long afterward Yota's mother becomes terminally ill. Her dying wish is for him to watch out for Kaoru at his grandmother's place on a small island off the coast of Okinawa. He fulfills her wish and becomes very protective of his younger sister who calls him "nee-nee." Thirteen years later Kaoru returns to Naha and comes to live with him as she starts high school. Yota works hard making deliveries of vegetables from an open-air market by day, and in a restaurant (he is a licensed chef) by night to save money to fulfill his dream of having his own restaurant. He also assumes the role of pushing for Kaoru's entrance to a university. This allows less time for his beautiful girlfriend Keiko, the daughter of a doctor and a medical student at Ryukyu University. It seems that Yota's dreams start to come together when Mr. Kameoka sells him a place for a restaurant. Yota works hard constructing the place, but just as he is to open, the real owner appears. Being swindled, Yota is left with a large outstanding loan. Keiko's father's plans do not include a working class son-in-law as he explains when he offers to pay Yota's debt. Although he refuses, Yota concludes he is not best for Keiko's future. Years later he continues to overwork even after the debt is paid and Kaoru starts university study. With her feelings of love for Yota growing deeper, they mutually decide to live apart.

When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.

The Venetian libertine has trouble facing the fact that he's over 60.

No Choice is about three women who live in three different circumstances in Iran. Golbahar, a sixteen-year-old homeless girl who has been producing and selling babies since she was 11 years old is sold to a middle-aged man to give birth to his child, but Golbahar does not become pregnant after a month. She is threatened with death by a pimp if she does not become pregnant soon. After several tests, Golbahar finds out that her tubes have been tide, but she has no idea about such an event. She believes that the surgery may have been done while she was hospitalized some time ago due to an accident. In the meantime, Golbahar is being introduced by a social worker to a lawyer. The lawyer believes that what Golbahar is experiencing is the result of an unofficial national plan to euthanize the homeless people in Iran to control their population. The lawyer succeeds in finding the gynecologist who may have performed this surgery, the gynecologist, however, does not confirm such an event.

A tenacious nurse who helps people who have reached the end of their lives come to terms with God and heaven, is assigned an unexpected patient. From the creators of "A Box of Faith" and "Before All Others" comes this faith-family-drama slice of life.