Maria Zvezdina

A young immigrant woman, working her first shift alone at a convenience store, encounters unfriendly customers, language barriers, and cultural clashes. An unexpected moment of connection reminds her why she chose to immigrate.

A broke and desperate father, Rafael, gambles the rest of his savings in order to secure the future of his daughter Sienna. Struggling to make ends meet after his wife's passing, Rafael sits at a high-stakes poker table, gambling the last of his savings and the keys of his cherished restaurant, his late wife's legacy, in a final bid to pay for Sienna's education. Unknowingly to Rafael, Sienna secretly watches the game unfold as she doubts if she should stop him from betting their past to secure her future.

A teenage boy haunted by guilt is abducted by a mysterious figure seeking revenge for a deadly secret they both share.

Kyla sits through the quiet funeral of her late roommate, Elmo, with only three of her friends in attendance. She attempts to open up about his cause of death, but her well-meaning but nosy companions interrupt with elaborate and hilarious scenarios: Elmo as a mobster caught in a deadly game, a heartbroken lover killed in a telenovela-style betrayal, and even a secret superhero who perished saving an innocent. But when her friends' self-absorbed chatter leaves her alone again, the tragically absurd truth behind Elmo's... dirty demise is revealed.