In an alternate America, white people allow demons to possess them in order to help them keep Black people out of their communities. A reporter researches a famous exorcist and activist, recording his last heroic act against a town full of demons.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

At a monk retreat, a guilty pharmacist tries to reclaim his attention span—and take accountability for what he has done.

In the 19th century, a man convinces people that he is either a madman or an incarnation of God. As he oscillates from identity to identity, the people who know him vacillate between reverence and disgust.

A sociopath joins an all women's cult so that she can satiate her desire to kill men. However, she begins to be convinced of the beliefs that the rest of the women preach and follow religiously.

A middle-aged man watches his vulnerable older sister slip into the clutches of a religious cult.

In intense discussion a group leader ponders aloud, asking why hermits hide and what defines outcasts, among other cerebral queries. A group of friends discusses the oddities they have seen and perceived in their lives leather-clad hermits and criminal astronauts among them. They debate the purpose of hermitage, the classification of outcasts, and the purpose of their own reflections.

When a low-budget science fiction television show successfully predicts the discovery of extraterrestrial life, its cult followers investigate its mysterious origins, only to be met with more mysteries.

A missionary preaches to a village in Mexico but faces utter alienation.

A filmmaker and his companion interview an old movie star, only to be caught in the middle of a conspiracy theory about her most famous scene.