退休的火箭工程师史老先生（Henry O 饰）来到美国，看望阔别十二年之久的女儿宜兰（俞飞鸿 饰），经历了离婚的女儿近几年一直没有再婚的打算，这让史老颇为纠结。白天女儿上班时，史老试图与年轻的美国邻居交谈，但语言与文化隔阂让史老只能停留在孤独的世界里。由于工作的特殊性，史老与宜兰一直缺乏沟通，美国之行也并没能改善两人的关系，所幸史老结识了一位伊朗老妇，他们时常用生疏的英语交流，而老妇最近喜得孙子让史老两相对照之下黯然神伤。史老发现了宜兰与一位有家室的俄罗斯男子前景黯淡的交往，情急之下开口质问，才明白女儿不如意的感情生活与自己有莫大的关系……...
One has to be brave enough to accept loosing old self for the sake of growing up. Kira becomes adult briskly, watching her family and soviet childhood smashing into pieces. So does Ukraine in the early 90th, launching painful process of transformation into an independent country....
Lera is a sociology student at a small-town university. Her mother is a sleepwalker who believes in miracles, and her father just left the family for another woman. Lera has no idea how to make her life better. And one more thing: a spirit keeps visiting her dreams at night. And the harder Lera's life gets, the more often she has these dreams. That is, until the spirit steps in......
The Garden Left Behind traces the relationship between Tina, a young transwoman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City....
