Kimberly Babiarz sets out to fight human trafficking, only to discover that one of the biggest obstacles is the lack of reliable data, and after years of therapy, Denise Cai believes she's moved beyond her trauma—until her family notices patterns she can't yet see.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, Jenice Matias senses there's more to her mother's occupation than she understands, and D.B. Firstman has always known their body is different, but at the age of thirty, they make a discovery that changes everything.

After years of helping others safely navigate glaciers, Monte Montepare suddenly finds himself at the mercy of one and Jessica Lee Williamson's OCD fixates on a single question: how will she die?

While teaching a summer school math class in Texas, Justine Ang Fonte realizes that many of her students have never received even the most basic sex education and Guilherme Lichand uncovers a flaw in Brazil’s education system that leaves thousands of children with invisible disabilities unidentified and unsupported.

Michelle Lanuza has her sights set on a career designing communication systems for airplanes, yet each new opportunity comes with the same obstacle: her immigration status, and for Saba Banaian, the opportunity to study biomedical engineering in the United States comes with a painful cost: she can't return home to Iran for five years.

Feeling isolated in her new job as a particle accelerator operator at Fermilab, Cindy Joe finds comfort in the friendship of her unconventional pet, and Patrick Honner starts to doubt his lifelong love of math when graduate school becomes a lonely experience.

Keren Landman always wanted to be a writer, but her family didn’t see it as a practical career — so instead, she went to medical school, and when Adithi Ramakrishnan gets to college, she only sees two career paths ahead of her: medical school or scientific research.

As a teenager, Mike McFadden realizes one part of his body isn’t developing like the other boys his age, and Ricky Ortiz believed that to be a good husband, father, and provider, he could never show weakness.