With joints, brawls, and a drunken baboon, head doctor Koestler welcomes two new doctors to an intense African mission.

A missionary preaches to a village in Mexico but faces utter alienation.

A priest struggling with addiction must choose between serving the will of his congregants and following the law.

In a mountainous Haitian village, a missionary has his work interrupted by an unexpected guest who is a stranger to the local culture and blends African spirituality with Christian religion.

A bartender sleeps with a regular patron whose brother has recently passed away.

A white Peace Corps volunteer talks with a Cameroonian passenger in a ship bar on a voyage from Africa to Europe about tensions between white and Black people on the European and African continents. What starts out as a small disagreement grows into a shocking interaction that leaves the volunteer unsure of his future.

A father tells a story about his deceased wife and the wild traditions they used to have involving alcohol as well as the disapproval his mother-in-law had about their relationship.

Sent on a mission from the emperor, an expert wine-taster travels the countryside, seemingly oblivious to the war and death around him.

On an island off the coast of South Carolina, two men quickly find themselves plagued by a mysterious spirit after one of them steals a flask from an African American man’s grave.

While citizens ponder whether or not to dig up an unmarked grave, one of them shares a tale passed down for generations about a mysterious wine merchant and what was found in one of his casks.