A tiny Chinese village is slated to be inundated by a flood, and the government offers resettlement checks and industrialized homes to citizens who relocate so that a dam can be built in the village’s place. A seed keeper and schoolteacher are among the last to stay behind.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.