Red eggs have always been present in Ivonne’s life—a symbol of birth, continuity, and the cycle of life itself. Through a reflective and autoethnographic approach, she weaves together family archives from her childhood with the documentation of her grandmother’s 91st birthday celebration. In tradition, red eggs are prayers for a prosperous future, but for Ivonne, they also mark the passage of time.
Red eggs have always been present in Ivonne’s life—a symbol of birth, continuity, and the cycle of life itself. Through a reflective and autoethnographic approach, she weaves together family archives from her childhood with the documentation of her grandmother’s 91st birthday celebration. In tradition, red eggs are prayers for a prosperous future, but for Ivonne, they also mark the passage of time.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
Chased by Tom around the barnyard, Jerry takes refuge under a hen, who, in her nest, is sitting on eggs. Tom has to figure out ways to get Jerry out from under the protective hen.
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.