As far as 24-year-old Amanda can remember, she has never had friends. It’s the thing she desires most. When she finds out that as infants she and Rebecca had spent a lot of time together, Amanda settles on her new mission: convincing her that they are still best friends.

When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain.

As a man refuses to flee war-torn Damascus, his wife and daughter face a choice.

A youngster finds himself in trouble after being arrested by a plain clothes cop.

Jealousy and bitterness lead a woman to invent a whole other life for herself in order to impress the rich men and women who surround her.

Christina is a Ukrainian woman who moved to Israel through a ‘bride-to-order’ kind of deal. Things work out well until her sister also arrives as a result of matchmaking.

Just two weeks before Roya, a banned Iranian journalist, is set to emigrate from Iranshe encounters a quiet young girl. She takes her in unaware the girl has come to replace her.

At a remote location in the mountains of Mexico lives Artemio, a farmer who is watching the desolate plot of land on which he works and his life itself slip from his fingers. When he receives shocking news, he decides to set off for the city in search of deliverance, but finds himself having to deal with a brutal world that is completely unknown to him.