Melanie Neilan

16-year-old Zoe enlists the help of her two grandmothers, one Russian and the other Turkish, for a school cooking project. As the grandmother's rivalry escalates, Zoe wishes she hadn't bothered to ask them in the first place. The need for culturally identity clashes with the kneading of dough, and Zoe soon realizes how important both of her grandmothers are to her - and that sometimes the way into people's hearts is through their stomachs.

When faced with discharge, a psychiatric patient is ambivalent about returning to the real world.

An Afro-Russian teenager must make a life or death decision after having his first sexual encounter with a white Russian pastor's daughter.

'프린세스 시드'는 시카고에 사는 친척이자 저명한 소설가인 미란다와 함께 여름을 보내는 16살짜리 운동선수, 시드 러플린을 따라간다. 우울증에 걸린 채 홀로 아이를 키운 아버지에게서 벗어나는 것이 마냥 즐거운 시드는 한 이웃 소녀에게 반한다. 미란다와 시드는 서로의 생각과 믿음에 의문을 제기하며, 함께 ‘성(Sex)과 영(Spirituality)의 세계’를 탐구하기 시작한다.

A teenage cancer survivor learns her friend from the hospital has died.

Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" friends, including the closeted young Logan, who has eyes for Henry.

The Book of Leah is a coming of age story, a drama about love, culture, and above all a witness to history.