In the far future, a woman is selected to undergo a Great Becoming. As she is forced to choose what she will become, she realizes that someone people do not have to choose at all.

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

A middle-aged man faces a difficult decision; he can choose to use genetic alteration to have a say over the life of his unborn child, or leave the future up to chance. As he struggles to choose a path, he reconsiders his own past and the struggles he has faced.

In discussing the altercations witnessed over the course of the day, Stephen Elwin and his family grapple with question of whether the downtrodden and those burdened by prejudice are nonetheless responsible for their own breeding and behavior. Elwin’s earnest and idealistic daughter Margaret valiantly defends their maid, who happens to be Black and also named Margaret, until she witnesses 'the other Margaret' breaking a piece of artwork.

A girl attempts to make the chocolate cake her mother used to make.

A girl ponders the rightness of her ancestors' decision to stop the government from taking their land—by destroying their land.

When worms start infesting everyone's bodies, one autistic boy is determined to fight them once and for all.

When tiny humans infest her apartment, an artist must think creatively to oust them once and for all.

A gifted spellcrafter ponders an ethical question regarding the dead: to reanimate or to not reanimate?