When a worker at a grocery store witnesses a man's arm get severed while attempting to grab a watermelon, it reminds him of an old story during slavery where a watermelon was the symbol of a blessing.

In 1920s Kentucky, the death of his wife leaves a farmer sorrowful and overwhelmed by his two young boys, leaving it up to his brother and parents to step in.

A violent boat captain struggles to transfer his animal cargo from Louisiana to Mississippi. His greatest obstacle to his waterborne journey and his absolute sworn enemy? Water lilies.

After two neighboring men’s wives leave them, they go on a fishing trip in the Bogs. The trip takes a turn for the worst with bad weather and the presence of an unwanted fisherman.

After a rich family purchases family land, they become obsessed with the lineage, bothering neighbors for information and mistaking silly childhood etchings for a rare discovery.

A Confederate officer begrudgingly fights in the American Civil War until his disastrous last battle helps seal the fate of the war for good. After the war, he constantly repents for his critical mistakes until, decades later, he comes to a shocking revelation about the fateful battle.

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.

A young man who is described as hippy-esque receives a letter from a friend who is killed during the Vietnam war and grapples with the possibility of being drafted himself.

A family’s plans for the first day of the hunting season are delayed when the reason behind one son and his wife’s separation is revealed.

An old man reflects on his youth in the countryside in twentieth-century Kentucky, and thinks of the freedom now lost to industrialization and displacement.