As a surveillance agent watches a Muslim family, he quickly grows from suspicion to attachment. When the father of the family needs help, the agent has to decide between what he is supposed to do and what he wants to do, despite the consequences.

A secret agent evades torture in a cliff hanger mystery.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

An American bureaucrat in Germany tries to save a girl and her mother from abuse at the hands of a sergeant, but finds that his clumsy intervention makes the girl's life much worse than he could have imagined.

An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

A successful middle-aged lawyer brings home her little sister, a woman who was institutionalized at a young age. In attempting to sort out her sister's history and her own corruption, the woman encounters continually perplexing behavior from those around her.

The protagonist is instructed to receive money from a hustler in order to help a tinkerer get rid of the Tell in people's bodies. However, the authorities find them first and now she must escape in order to complete the mission.

A co-worker gives a new staff member an introductory tour of the office, while providing small gossip about other employees along the way.

In a lengthy dialogue, two men, possibly a psychologist and a patient, discuss adultery, sin, desire, and life.

A journalist tries to figure out the root of various digital crimes—only to stumble upon an impossible ethical question.