In an environment where the earth is devouring itself and human beings and producing valuable drugs, a successful drug-harvesting team tries to escape a deal with a powerful businessman but face terrifying consequences for defying his orders.

A shopkeeper sells lottery tickets that grant the wishes of its winners, no matter how wild their desire, but one ticket winner makes him question his assumptions about human happiness.

A successful gentleman whose ventures have recently failed goes on a miserable quest to find a seam of ore, following a questionable character who claims to have found it.

In a small American village, anticipation builds for an annual event dubbed "The Lottery," where villagers select a member of the community at random to suffer an irrational and inhumane fate.

During the second World War, a fortune teller in Northern Italy discovers a headless body by the road. He investigates the murder to see if any details will also magically reveal the winning numbers of the lottery.

A woman is employed by wealthy individuals to eat the sins of their recently deceased relatives.

On a Saturday, a young physician and his wife visit a bankrupt couple at their house. The conversation shifts from tension to excitement to anger and in the end everyone leaves somewhat alone.