A couple attends the show of a marvelous, sensuous, and regal African American singer in Paris. The wife of the couple finds herself struggling for a grip as the pleasure of seeing this performer infiltrates her fortress of restraint.

An unhappily married man is on his way to the wedding of a much happier couple. He no longer finds his wife attractive because of her weight loss, and thus endeavors into an affair with a larger woman, though she may have ulterior motives that he has not considered.

When faced with cultural appropriation and police brutality, two Black women in different generations of the same family combine their ability to perform hoodoo with modern technology to remedy these abuses.

In a story inspired by the incel phenmenon, Nats, a sex worker in Capetown, decides to provide the voice for growgirls, the latest line of sexdolls, made out of artificially grown organs. After she is exposed to the public as the voice actress, Nats is haunted by a violent stalker.

Young woman recounts her childhood growing up in China in the 1970s and meeting the old maid that the village has ostracized, this encounter forever changes her.

When a middle-aged woman finds out that her deceased father, a prominent New York justice in the early 20th century, was cuckolded by her mother, the daughter reevaluates her father’s far-reaching influence on her life.

The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.

Set just after the Great Depression, a young girl recounts the time she accompanied her mother to a dance. A prostitute and one of her girls show up, and the girl's mother urges the girl to get her things so they can leave.

In Jim Crow America, a newly animate Black doll struggles to find herself a loving human friend.

While she prepares for church one morning, an elderly woman reflects on her tumultuous relationship with her son-in-law, a Vietnam War veteran, and her daughter and granddaughters, who she couldn’t protect from his violence.