When two trigger-happy teenagers seek revenge for a smashed car window, a middle-aged woman must defend her family, no matter what it takes.

A group of children in a family lives with their grandmother, but she is mean and abusive. The children soon become tired of her abuse and plot to kill her in various ways, though the task is complicated by logistics.

In a small rural American town in the late 1800s, a woman's eldest son is accused of committing murder. She takes her younger children to watch him be executed, hoping they will not follow a similar path.

In an alternate universe in 19th century Boston, a single mother commits an act of unnatural cruelty against her son. However, since women are invincible against a man's violence, the wife of an esteemed policeman takes on the task of executing her, only to have second thoughts in the cold gallows.

A successful middle-aged lawyer brings home her little sister, a woman who was institutionalized at a young age. In attempting to sort out her sister's history and her own corruption, the woman encounters continually perplexing behavior from those around her.

A man's jealous wife kidnaps any woman she thinks he shows any interest in to torture and murder in their basement. Deciding to finally put an end to this and escape the absusive relationship, the man poisons his wife and frees her most recent victim.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

In Mississippi, a teenager comes home to find her mother murdered. It becomes clear to the girl that her father committed the crime, and she is forced to make a big decision in the court room.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

While waiting for the man she's been having an unsteady affair with, a forty-year-old woman living a dreary life in New York City plots his murder. Likewise, on his journey to her apartment, the man contemplates whether he should kill her or continue his affair.