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 Scottish Foreign Scholar tries to help the beggars he encounters at his university in India, but finds his outlook on life greatly changed by the sincerity of those he once looked down upon.

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.

Despite his initial excitement at being drafted as an aidman in the war, a young man soon realizes that the demands of the job are far more than what he expected.

When a programmer creates a new type of empathy-based cryptocurrency that disrupts the workings of a charity run by her old roomate, the two are drawn into conflict over rationality, morality and justice.

Two enemies become inextricably linked when one chooses mercy.

When an Iraq veteran goes missing, his friends reenact their wartime routines to lure him out of hiding.

After being offered a 100,000 pound advance to write a book on the twentieth century, a historian/writer struggling with depression takes to London to begin this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.

Two American soldiers looking for work in Honduras decide to make the journey to a nearby port to get new shoes. But as they walk toward the town, they begin to realize that their prejudice about the locals has consequences.