The Amateurs

Story of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a mysterious twin girl.

From 5 different point of views a story unfolds about three beautiful intoxicated ladies that venture out on a terrorizing crime spree intersecting with dangerous men and others on their own drug induced killing sprees in Detroit.

Hassan is a bus driver and the only male sibling of five sisters, his father owns a workshop that got suspended due to taxes problems. Hassan tries to provide money before the workshop is sold on the auction.

A group of protesters film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition.

JOY is an eight-year-old half-Filipina and half-African American who lives with her mentally unstable Filipina mother, MERCY in the province. Growing up with a cold relationship with her mother, she was made to believe by her grandmother that her father has been absent in their lives because he is on the moon. With so much void in her early life, Joy grapples with her own identity. Joy finds out that her mother plans to leave for Manila to move on from the past without her and start anew. Joy pursues a "journey to the moon" to find her father, believing that being reunited with him will stop her mother from abandoning her. She does this with the help of a new teacher from her school, an American Peace Corp volunteer, FAITH. Faith starts to act more like a mother to Joy, and Mercy starts to feel an unexpected maternal jealousy and loses the smallest amount of sanity left in her.