露絲一家是墨西哥的移民，家境清寒的她與哥哥約定他們要一起進入名校德州大學。哥哥為了夢想，只能冒著生命危險加入徵兵制到阿富汗從軍。露絲也滿心以為只要能獲得德州女子舉重冠軍就能得到德州大學的獎學金。就在決賽關鍵的前三周，求勝心切的她竟然接受藥物注射，意外失去了參賽資格，情緒失控之下，露絲竟成了縱火犯進入少年感化院。生命中種種的意外，讓她逐漸瞭解生命並非別無選擇，憑藉著對舉重充滿熱情，她仍能在每次人生旅程的轉彎中，努力迎向不同的未來…
Celo a young man from Papua, prompting his father to go look for the lost twin brother since childhood. Celo set off by following the instructions of the dream of his father who saw his twin brother were in the battlefield.
An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy and his lazy father, who has no qualms about hitting his wife. Yet how dark does reality have to get before it stifles the rays of hope that filter through?
