Without the lifeline of communication, four immigrant families find life in America full of obstacles. As they persevere, pursuing the simple goal of learning English, they cross paths with Americans eager to help, form lifelong friendships, and discover a new sense of belonging.
Without the lifeline of communication, four immigrant families find life in America full of obstacles. As they persevere, pursuing the simple goal of learning English, they cross paths with Americans eager to help, form lifelong friendships, and discover a new sense of belonging.
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.