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.

George Washington's chef, whose culinary talent is brought alive by magic, reflects on his career back when he was enslaved.

When worms start infesting everyone's bodies, one autistic boy is determined to fight them once and for all.

A girl ponders the rightness of her ancestors' decision to stop the government from taking their land—by destroying their land.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.