Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.

An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments…

Tilo, the titular “Mistresses of Spices” is a shopkeeper and an immigrant from India who helps customers satisfy their needs and desires with spices. Her life changes when she falls…

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her…

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.