Blood Ties

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.

Four women of different ages work at or frequent an ice cream shop, each dealing with dreams, timidity, inexperience with love, and personal pain, their lives intersecting at the shop.

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

Ruth is a Catholic teenager in the midst of Muslims. As a minority in a place to study, she must adapt to the habits of his friends. This carried over to habits in her personal life, could she?