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.

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

Workers at an American franchise restaurant located in southern China learn of the different ways American capitalism exploits them and creates food waste, leading them to rebel against their bosses.

On the Great Plains, an aging farmer and his wife struggle to sell their produce amid an increase in frozen food manufacturing. The farmer must figure out how to avoid the fate of his neighbors, who were pushed out of business and into welfare dependence.

Several human beings contemplate the case of a boy handed over to aliens.

On the day of the J'ouvert festival, a spirit contends with and contemplates human nature.

Two men who retreat underwater during war become the stuff of legend in the town surrounding their river.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.