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Over hundred years of development, the Chinese film industry has been through a lot. Lisa Lu, a nearly hundred-year-old Chinese American actress, stands for a book of Chinese film history herself. In the film, Lisa Lu talks about her life, career, and her on-going process of dream pursuing inside the movie world. During this journey, she'll also bring out a couple more memorable Chinese filmmakers. Including one of the first Asian actress who has her own "star" on the Hollywood Boulevard, Anna May Wong; Minwei Li, who made a huge contribution to China by documenting the warfare; Chusheng Cai, one of the founders of Chinese feature film; and the world-famous martial artist, Bruce Lee. All of them, including Lisa Lu had gone through their toughest period of the nation and its people all around the world, and they decided to carry the national honor on their shoulders, with such strong mentality and the purest pursuit of art.

Angélica, a Spanish expatriate living in San Diego, visits Tijuana for the first time and discovers the American Immigration Service will not let her return home to San Diego. She is further frustrated because the American Consulate is inexplicably unavailable to help her. While waiting for the consulate, she encounters an itinerate musician, a mute trombonist, who gets her attention by tapping her on the head with his trombone slide. From the moment she acknowledges him, he pokes her relentlessly with the instrument. She tries to escape from him, but is unable to. She even kicks him savagely, but he remains undeterred in his bizarre mission, and Angelica only feels guilty. He pursues her from Tijuana, eventually leading her illegally under the international border fence to her home in San Diego, all the while, poking her with the trombone. At first, she hates the annoyance, but after three years, she has grown accustomed to it, and is terrified at the idea of losing it.

After five years in prison, Marshall Kensey returns to his Mississippi home and faces a less than warm welcome. While his flirtatious sister, gay younger brother and neurotic mother seem happy to see him, tensions rise between Marshall and his older brother, T.G. - an unemployed alcoholic who may be responsible for sending Marshall to jail. As Marshall's childhood and his nightmarish prison experiences are revealed, old family secrets come forth and the party escalates into violence and ultimate tragedy.

When a sociology grad student spends his last semester living on the street in order to write his thesis on the homeless, he realizes he's bitten off more than he can chew. He struggles with objectivity as he's pulled into the lives of the very people he's trying to study. Just when he thinks he's regained control, a 10-year old boy will change his life forever.

Take in the Bahamas as you've never seen them before, from towering pine forests to dense coastal mangroves. The most daunting and unexpected attractions, however, are its flooded inland caves--geological wonders adorned with otherworldly stalactites that shimmer in the darkness.