While fighting the Sandinistas in El Salvador, a young American soldier uses hallucinogenic drugs to cope with his fear, making it difficult to determine what's real and what's not.

An indigenous man in a South American rural town must kill a jaguar to pay off a debt, but he discovers that there is more to the beast than meets the eye.

A village is troubled by the presence of a comatose dragon, but all attempts to kill the dragon fail. Then, a young man proposes a more clever tactic.