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.

As the end of the world approaches a wealthy artists’ community, a long-married couple stays with their friends and attends nihilistic, indulgent suicide parties.

A recently widowed woman lets a man into her house to look at her fuse box — but soon realizes that the man did not come for the fuse box at all.

A husband and wife have a bizarre conversation as they grapple with the reality of leaving each other.

A wife leaves her husband in order to ensure his ultimate salvation after they are rejected from the Christian church for their polygamist marriage.

Two people die of drug overdose and flu and never meet each other, never get married, and never live their seedy, disappointing lives.

In an alternative universe, a young man goes hunting for his missing niece, with whom he shares a troubling history. His search leads him to a malicious villain who forces the man to reckon with his past crimes.

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

When Harold's wife dies, seemingly by malicious cause, he becomes the prime suspect. As the public defender investigates her death, he finds that she may have held secrets herself.

A young girl works to impress her highly critical parents and submits to a terrible fate as she struggles to meet their impossible standards.