Ben Del Vecchio

Jane drops her daughter off at sleepaway camp and drives away from her mundane life into an exciting odyssey on the road. Jane’s obstacles, connections and moments were created playing an exquisite corpse; seven filmmakers guiding each chapter of Jane’s journey without knowledge of what the others were doing.

XAN (20s) flies back to New York after his mothers recent 'departure', where he spends a night in her old apartment, in her absence.

When the youngest sister is hospitalized after a suicide attempt, three generations of a Chinese American immigrant family grapple with her absence.

Jo returns home long after his estranged father's passing.

After an ICE raid, a Nigerian immigrant father must tell his son why his mother is not coming home.

in memoriam of those lost to war, all those lost to history. the infusion of tragedy across lineage. part one is told from the perspective of a victim of World War II Japanese atrocities (or, rather, the second Sino Japanese War); part two details her daughter's movement through life without a mother, and the discovery that her father isn't her biological father; part three sees the granddaughter processing the things her mother and grandmother left for her (material and spiritual). more about the Comfort Women: https://www.awf.or.jp/e1/facts-12.html more about the Rape of Nanking: https://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm

A phone rings, and, via voicemail, the news of a hate crime against a family member is relayed from mother to children. They’ll have to finish cooking by themselves.