Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.
Before follows a group of not-yet-humans in an eerie and exhausting waiting room. Like an eternal DMV visit, every visitor in this room has waited for thousands of years for their number to be called to be assigned a life on Earth. Some are anxious, some are hopeful, and others are defeated by impatience before their earthly lives have even begun.
A Puerto Rican seamstress ponders leaving her island to go live with her daughter in the United States.
