Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living ...

The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on...
Investigator reporter Abbey Fisher always thought she wanted the traditional American Dream: a husba...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to t...

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a hom...
Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard...

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in...

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...

A young couple's world is shattered when their child goes missing in broad daylight. Shortly after, ...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to t...

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could ...

Brothers Alonzo and Casper run their city from different points of the spectrum with Alonzo serving ...

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the ne...

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where h...