In Arabic, “al-barzakh” means a physical barrier that separates two things, or a spiritual state of in-between. Living in a dystopian future where the U.S. government is sending refugees and undocumented immigrants to a newly colonized Mars, a Syrian refugee misses her deportation launch and makes a musical connection with a local DJ.

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy will it be to go shopping?

Lana, cashier in a supermarket of a gas station receives a call that upsets her: Her father was hospitalized, he has a dysfunction of the left kidney. Lana realizes that she can make a good amount of money in one night if she satisfies the desires and fantasies of men in order to pay the hospital fees.

Tragedy strikes when the Zayyad family loses its patriarch under mysterious circumstances, leaving the surviving members to fend for themselves within a judgmental community in Southern Lebanon.

One day Ahmed, employed at the public baths and nearing retirement, encounters Mike, a teenager adrift. Between the bath house walls, in a place on the point of disappearing, a strange relationship will develop between these two fractured souls.

Operating out of her aunt’s flower shop, Rosa has made it her side job to ship undocumented bodies home for burial. To avoid any paperwork, red tape and also jail time, her operation is well-intentioned yet completely illegal. Time works against her as Ali, an Iraqi man desperately wants to get his recently deceased father’s body home where he is a respected member of his community. Rosa is Ali's only hope.