A government official in futuristic all-powerful Communist Vietnam accidentally takes drugs which counteract the drugs poisoning the public water. With his cleared senses, he sees that the Party Leader is not human or machine, but God.

In post-Cultural Revolution China, a Marxist philosophy professor must decide whether he should confess to a crime he did not commit.

Professor gives a talk about the human appetite for death

From factory workers to the king, members of all social classes in an industrialized society are distraught with their way of life and desire socioeconomic change. In scheming to join the revolution they deem inevitable, everyone struggles to be the first to initiate the highly desired change.

A young doctor seeks to bridge the healthcare divide by illegally administering treatment directly to marginalized communities. His altruism ironically risks his ability to continue helping the community.

In the near future, an immortal Black woman misses the only person she's ever loved: the woman who created the immortality drug alongside her. Only one of them had decided to take it.

In the early 1970s, a listless radical must decide what to do with his life as his social circle of grassroots activists dwindles.

In a futuristic utopia where equality and nonconformity are celebrated, the social bliss is complicated when criminals attempt to access the society’s dark past.

A young man leaves his traditional village behind to travel and work on distant planets. Throughout his interplanetary journeys, he must constantly reevaluate his understandings of truth, tradition, and love as he seeks a fulfilling life of his own, independent of what is expected from him.

In a future where technology has advanced to the point where humans can undergo "optimization" to rid themselves of emotions and increase their mental functions, one man decides to cling to his humanity in an effort to atone for his sins and appreciate the beauty of being human.