In Ceylon, colonized by the British, an Indian Tamil woman describes the events that follow the departure of the British from the plantations. She imagines the possibility of a new world as the Indians reclaim their land. However, the reality that follows shows how the British values persist and are upheld by ethnic differences between the Indians on the plantation.

An Australian soldier spends several seasons stationed in a British Imperialist colony in Asia where he interacts with the city’s residents and comes to terms with the evils of imperialism.

Before he leaves to settle a space colony, a Kenyan father receives a visit from his estranged son. The son spots a couple of jackals, the only animals left after European destruction, and his father informs him that they are to be resettled in an artificial game park.

A young Native American man visits a burial site on a nearby island and must reflect on both his allegiance to his culture and to himself.

A white Peace Corps volunteer talks with a Cameroonian passenger in a ship bar on a voyage from Africa to Europe about tensions between white and Black people on the European and African continents. What starts out as a small disagreement grows into a shocking interaction that leaves the volunteer unsure of his future.

In this satire, a cartographer discovers an isolated North African village in which the sole occupation is counting upward. Living in their utopia forces him to reckon with the utility of reason and the necessity of pain in human life.

When he discovers gold near his village, an African man dissatisfied with his lot in life develops new obsessions, flouts old responsibilities, and ultimately loses more than he gains.

After being offered a 100,000 pound advance to write a book on the twentieth century, a historian/writer struggling with depression takes to London to begin this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The British discover members of an isolated tribe in the Ratnabar Islands and kidnap an Indigenous girl. However, the girl resists the British's attempts to "civilize" her.

During World War II in West Bengal, a Bengali grandmother and doll-crafter faces the atrocities of British colonial rule. Upon delivering a magical doll to the Governor of Kolkata, the grandmother seeks justice for these colonial cruelties and the death of her grandson.