Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Un home esgotat per la Primera Guerra Mundial accepta una feina de faroner a l'illa de Janus per fugir del món. Coneix una dona jove i bonica amb qui s'acaba casant. La dona té dos avortaments naturals i cau en una profunda depressió. Un dia veuen un bot de rems a la deriva, que porta un home i una criatura acabada de néixer. Corren a rescatar-los però es troben que l'home és mort. Dubten sobre si informar-ne o no i quedar-se l'infant, que finalment és el que fan. No és fins anys més tard que descobreixen que la criatura encara té una mare que l'està buscant.
Ryoata, un arquitecte obsessionat per l'èxit professional, forma amb la seva jove esposa i el fill de 6 anys una família ideal. Totes les seves referències s'esfumen quan la maternitat de l'hospital on va néixer el fill els informa que dos beus van ser canviats: el nen que va criar no és el seu i el seu fill biològic ha crescut en un medi més modest...
A young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.
Una dona que té cura de la seva geniüda i dominant mare ensopega amb el cos d'una noia assassinada. El cadàver serà investigat per una jove forense amb una vida traumatitzada per la desaparició de la seva germana petita. Alhora, una mestressa de casa fa un inquietant descobriment que connectarà la noia morta amb el seu propi marit. Finalment, quan la mare de la difunta cerca respostes sobre la vida de la filla, només les trobarà en una prostituta. Les històries d'aquestes dones sense connexió aparent acabaran unides per aquest acte de violència que canviarà el rumb de les seves vides.
In the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah and Phil come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his morals as Sarah puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations, falling deeper into her own fever dream.
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
A stranger receives mysterious promptings compelling him to search for a boy lost in an abandoned mine.
An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico; at the behest of his estranged mother when his half-sister disappears during a local epidemic of kidnappings attributed to the legendary J-ok'el, the weeping woman, who drowned her own babies, centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own.
It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return.
Pavan is a boy who reached Kerala after he lost everything in the Gujarat earthquake on the Republic Day. Operator Madhavan happens to meet the boy among the beggars. Initially he dislikes the boy but soon he becomes a part of Madhavan's family. But soon they must part with him as the Govt. decides to send him back to Gujarat. Can the family bear that?
An army veteran discovers an abandoned boy lurking in the woods behind her childhood home. After taking in the boy, she searches for clues to his identity, and discovers local folklore about a malevolent life-draining spirit that comes in the form of a child: The Tatterdemalion.
Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, Anna awakens and decides to go and find her, despite the unknown and the nightfall.
A little girl gets lost in the wilds of Utah.
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
A mole lad with sensitive vision is allowed outside to play in the daylight on the condition that he stay close to home. Outdoors, he meets a traveling sales-skunk.
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.