In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before.
In the afterlife, Nick Walker, a detective who used to work for the Boston Police Department, is hired by a director of a group of deceased police officers to fight against the renegade ghosts.
Dancers from the Trisha Brown Dance Company, teach the ballerinas from the Ballet de l'Opéra in Paris one of Brown's most representative works "Glacial Decoy" (1979).