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A young girl decides to run away with her best friend to a strange city only known in stories with the help of her talking dog after he loses everything in a world where success is scored to determine social status. But can they actually escape the controlling society they're running from?
A man leaves his family in NYC to look for a job out West. During the trip, he helps an injured young boy, sleeps with a waitress, and considers leaving his family for good.
As climate change continues to worsen, the American government issues a mandate requiring citizens to register their location and limit their oil-dependent travel to less than twenty miles per month. When a young woman living in California hears the news, she struggles to determine where her home is, considering her family lives thousands of miles away.
Lynnie is a young, working-class girl who works at the Stone House in town and wastes her days making stories about the lives of the people around her, which she tells to her friend, Isobel. But when rumors start to circulate, Isobel mysteriously moves away, and Lynnie is left wondering why.
A motley crew of hobos jump between trains and travel through various towns in search of jobs and learn the importance of companionship amidst hardships.
In a rural town, a woman attempts to run away, with her three children, from her abusive husband. While the feat seems straightforward at first, a series of complications causes their escape to become increasingly precarious.
A party traveling west to California experiences unspeakable horror when they become trapped on an impassable trail in the winter.
Two college students hitch a ride back home to Charleston with a pair of travelers who bet they could make the 135 mile-long trip in 2 hours flat. When the ride turns to be more terrifying than fun, the students fear it may be too late to bail.
A man must plan an escape when he finds himself stuck at a train station ends up trapped in a cult-like existence with no way out.
A wife living in a rural town wants to move out of her husband's house with her three children. However, her will wavers when a rainstorm prevents them from moving, and the husband begs them to stay.