In 2006, a teenage waiter working in a restaurant on California's Mount Tamalapis handles an erratic, unstable female customer as a favor to another coworker.

An irate customer at a fast food joint slashes an employee's car tires and wrecks the engine. Years later, homeless and fresh out of prison, the employee encounters the same man and swears he'll get revenge.

When a Hasidic man finds a severed finger in a bag of non-kosher chips, he decides to track down the finger’s owner.

A liquor seller living in Rock City tries to explain why he is home so late after making a delivery to the observatory at an unusual hour.

A restless night of hunger leads a man in Tokyo to tell his wife about a robbery he committed ten years ago at a bakery.

A restaurant owners tells a customer about a crazy client he once had.

When a middle-aged lawyer in contemporary Indiana discovers that he has a powerfully sensitive palate, he suddenly finds himself with riches, fame, and a mid-life crisis.

When a young boy on the cusp of adulthood fails to catch a repeat shoplifter from the family grocery store, he must reevaluate what he wants from life.

Four teenage boys escape the Brooklyn summertime heat at their local swimming pool. After their swim, the boys are ravenous, and they imagine all the foods they'd like to eat.

The characters in violent commercials realize they can resist their dark fates, and they rise up against the consumer establishment.