A systems administrator uncovers a government plot to deport him. A nine-year-old boy tries to make sense of a less-than-special world. A woman discovers life is no romance novel. A teenager flees the nets of family. A housekeeper wakes up from the American dream. A college student brings a poem to life. A paperless songwriter is forced to become a hero. A doctor diagnoses her own terminal condition: motherhood. An IT engineer's protocols fail to match that of his wife's. A retired teacher in a foreign land turns pioneer. A woman linked to them all discovers new worlds.