An insufferable white man offers advice to a well-read, unemployed Black man holding a sandwich-board sign on a street corner on race relations, physical appearance, and how to improve his handwriting and thereby advance himself in society.

An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

A teenage boy searches a bookstore for the perfect gay romance novel, learning an important lesson about literary representation.

As she walks alongside the Hudson River with her friend, a woman excitedly explains her intricate vision of what would give her happiness.

Actor Kafuku finds an unlikely confidant in his quiet, self-assured new personal driver Misaki; divulging and discussing his feelings on the recent death of his beloved but unfaithful wife.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.

In his new job as an English professor, Tarzan finds himself annoyed by his students, hounded by his department chair, and alienated by the world around him, with solace only from his girlfriend Jane. Naturally, hijinks ensue.

A Chinese American man gushes about his favorite animated series being adapted into a live-action movie–until he finds out that racism has corrupted the project.

A teenage boy tries to navigate his personal relationships while he attempts to understand his many experiences of domestic and interpersonal violence. He struggles to find connection with anyone other than his eccentric, ailing grandfather.

A disturbed man — consumed by fury at the world and the wickedness he believes it contains — attempts to kidnap a little girl and meets a brutal end.