A four-year-old Southern boy can read novels but has never spoken a word in his life. When he goes to his family's Fourth of July picnic, he must decide whether it is the appropriate moment to speak—or if there ever will be one.

A series of deaths leave students wondering about life. After watching their class's pet gerbil, fish and plants die, the students are left wondering if their school is cursed.

A formerly imprisoned child seeks to understand the higher order beings in their universe.

A child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.

After her son dies, a mother reckons with the grandson he left behind.

Monica and Di, a teenage mother and a unique child, become targets of Monica's parents and protesters all over the world who demand that child like Di be eradicated.

A young boy and his classmates meet Ms. Ferenczi, a strange substitute teacher with intense travel stories and peculiar mathematical theories to share. However, her comments become controversial and the children must decide if they want her around the classroom.

After they have been removed from their parents and send to a camp to be brainwashed, two girls connect over an act of institutional rebellion. One suffers for it, and one goes on to live her life as she is supposed to—but will she be satisfied with leaving things alone?

When a ten-year-old boy stands up at a family dinner and declares he wants to meet God, his proclamation spurs a series of philosophical debates.

On his sixth birthday, a young boy receives a surprise present that forever changes his perspective on life.