Sylviane's 10-day silent meditation retreat takes an unexpected turn when she develops feelings for a man with whom she's shared everything but words.

Beatrice, the only one of her 22 siblings to be sent from Uganda to college in the US, tries to achieve her own version of the American Dream by selling her chocolate chip cookies from a basket on her head.

A Singaporean single mother wins an all-inclusive Alaskan cruise—allowing her and her two children to experience a taste of the good life on an emotionally cathartic trip.