In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

In an airport terminal, a former boxer recounts to his coworker about the time he punched a classmate outside of the ring and the traumatic events that transpired.

A woman is fascinated by her neighbor's strange evening ritual of slamming a metal saber into her balcony wall.

In a futuristic utopia where equality and nonconformity are celebrated, the social bliss is complicated when criminals attempt to access the society’s dark past.

Marty struggles to find acceptance amongst the neighborhood boys who bully him, and, when he does, he becomes a bully himself.

A bullied young girl feeds a tiger her badness to keep from exploding.

An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

In an America overrun with guns, a mother tries to get her family to see the Fourth of July fireworks with her.

As they hide from an enemy in their house, a woman and man argue about the nature of the enemy--whether it is human or weather-related.

A woman works her way through a combat training simulation in which she must kill the people closest to her.