In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a sciences-physics competition to get a scholarship. His illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, leaving him and his brother and sister in the middle of winter. Ulzii wanders around at night looking for things to burn for heat while preparing for the national competition.
Afghanistan, 1980: more than two million Afghans escape the war to Iran. One family crosses over for a different reason: to find a lost child. Dream of Grape Gardens is all about family and womanhood, about loss and gain, a story as timeless as it is timely, set against the turbulent history of conflict in the region.
