Allie is a newly out teen who is keeping her girlfriend a secret from her Chinese American family. During her family’s celebration of the Hungry Ghost Festival, Allie meets the ghost of a long lost relative named Maxine, who was queer when she was alive several decades ago. Though they come from different times, they find that they share many feelings about struggling to belong, especially within their own family’s legacy.
Aunt Jenny
Margaret reluctantly goes back to her hometown with her brothers to deal with the sudden depression of their dad.
Bernice
After receiving a strange package on her late father's birthday, 18-year-old Lana goes on a journey to visit her father's grave, uncovering the true significance of the package and her father's death.
Beach Tai-Chi People (uncredited)
Set to a new wave '80s soundtrack, a pair of young lovers from different backgrounds defy their parents and friends to stay together.
Peijing
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Auntie Ling
Fate intervenes, when Charles, a young and over-worked American corporate lawyer, finds himself seated beside an elderly Chinese woman with a mysterious past, Auntie Ling on a contemporary flight from Shanghai to New York. After noticing the beautiful bouquet of Poppies that Charles has brought on-board the flight, Auntie Ling reminisces about the early years of her marriage to Shu Zhen, an opium trader in 1940s Shanghai, and tries to coax Charles out of his solitude. Slowly lured into her stories, Charles begins to see the layers beneath Auntie Ling's polished facade. Poppies brought Charles and Auntie Ling together, underscoring the fine line between joy and sorrow...life and death. Influenced by real events, Poppies explores the cross-cultural and cross-generational relationships that develop between strangers in mid-air.
Traffic Dancer
売れない女優とジャズピアニストの恋を、往年の名作ミュージカル映画を彷彿させるゴージャスでロマンチックな歌とダンスで描く。オーディションに落ちて意気消沈していた女優志望のミアは、ピアノの音色に誘われて入ったジャズバーで、ピアニストのセバスチャンと最悪な出会いをする。そして後日、ミアは、あるパーティ会場のプールサイドで不機嫌そうに80年代ポップスを演奏するセバスチャンと再会。初めての会話でぶつかりあう2人だったが、互いの才能と夢に惹かれ合ううちに恋に落ちていく。
Madame
A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.
Health Club Dancer (uncredited)
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
Asian Madam (segment "Smooth Criminal")
大スター、マイケル・ジャクソンには、誰にも知られていない秘密があった。歌やダンスで世界中を魅了するマイケルは仮の姿、本当のマイケルは愛の守護神コスモから遣わされた使者、ムーンウォーカーだったのだ。ある日、子どもたちとピクニックに出掛けたマイケルは、偶然にも子どもを狙う悪の組織の存在を知り子どもたちを救うために戦う。
