Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.

After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.

In a futuristic world, a disgruntled person dying from a flesh-eating sickness has to rely on their robot to eat their diseased flesh. However, as the robot begins to act sentient and take on their appearance, the person fears the robot has other intentions.

An academic who is dying from breast cancer and high on morphine reflects on her sense of failure in her lifelong pursuit of artistic brilliance. She decides her failing body has become her great work of art.

After a hit-and-run lands a suburban single mother in the hospital, her neighbors gossip about possible suspects, and her son grieves by her bedside.

Facing liquidation due to public mistrust of robotic life-forms, a historic robotics company introduces a new eco-friendly form of robot in hopes of improving robot-human coexistence only to accidentally pave the way for robot domination of life on Earth.

In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.

During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.

Three months after the death of his wife, a man tries to convince himself that he has not truly suffered a loss, all the while missing his wife more than ever.

A troupe of graverobbing Nigerian children weave together rich tales of their deceased victims set in America, a place full of villains.