Aboard the Hopi Victory, a shipman falls overboard and the rest of the crew take action to save him.

Three boys struggle to save their companion on a cave wall climbing trip.

A brief but ill-fated spark flares between an earth-roaming Spacer and a local frelk.

In the future, two human men and their robotic companion are stationed at an old mining base on Mercury. When the robot goes missing on a mission, it's up to the men to find and rescue their companion—at risk to their own lives.

Two strict Boy Scout scoutmasters decide to prank a third scoutmaster who is loved by the boys. In doing so, they put his authority with the boys into question.

On a lunar outpost, a group of coworkers pass the time by making historical movies and debating whether history is the product of individual efforts or of the nebulous interactions of everyday people. The stakes of the debate become all too real, however, when a breach of the base requires one of the friends to prove his heroic mettle.

Kayla and S.T. barge unsuccessfully through several Shabbos parties in search of booze and a boy, finally resigning and turning in, happy to have each other.

A group of friends realize they have been living vicariously through one of their friend's travel stories for their entire lives.

In the far future, a selfless woman helps a wary man flee from a destroyed Earth to the world beyond the solar system.

An American veteran who watched his friend drown in a field of excrement in Vietnam drives in circles around the lake in his hometown ruminating on how he might have saved his friend, won a Silver Star for valor, and made his father proud.