A mother and her three boys are on a small Greek island, where they prepare to reunite with her husband. Before they leave, they attend a party, and spend time reflecting on the possibility that they may never see their missing loved one again.

A woman visits a remote cabin owned by her new boyfriend. However, she begins to hallucinate images of his ex wife, who tells her to run.

A Wyoming native unsuccessfully jumps between jobs over his lifetime to support his large family. Through bankruptcy and loss, he perseveres and continues to look forward to his next venture.

An incestuous family leaves for vacation and ends up in the heart of the Olympic National Forest. Here, their traumatized daughter begins searching for the real world equivalent of the void she mentally escapes to during the sexual abuse she endures from her father.

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.

When Laura attends a show and is escorted to the "dress circle" seats, she's horrified to discover that she has become part of the performance, whether she likes it or not.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

Compiling notes for an English essay, a sixteen-year-old girl recounts her middle-class upbringing, kleptomania, and eventual coercion into prostitution and assisting with drug use. After she suffers violence and abuse, she is eventually rescued — but the experience traumatizes her.

A forcibly-retired T.V. star relocates to a rural mountain town with his photographer friend. When the photographer allows a single mother to sleep in the star’s Mercedes every night and eat his food, tension begins to build between the pair.

After a man returns to his childhood home after years of working on himself, he confidently sets out to restore it and find the vandals who ruined it. His overconfidence leads him to incorrect conclusions and he learns to accept that he was wrong.