A man working for a theater company puts out an ad for actors, which is answered by a throng of homeless men.

A boy learns a lesson when he is recruited to help a blind man panhandle at an intersection.

A young, unhoused couple is washing cars outside a fair when the man picks a fight with a car full of men for a dirty remark said to his girlfriend and ends up with a shattered cheekbone and bruised eye. Later, when some Boy Scouts offer him money to see the his girlfriend's boobs, she agrees, as long as he's not there. After, she hides with the money, prepared to leave him.

Walking around town, a man acts as a good samaritan, offering money and assistance to anyone he passes by. He seems to be genuinely kind-hearted until his conversation with his wife upon returning home suggests his compassion is only performative.

A woman loses her glasses at a rest stop on the way to visit her girlfriend. She knows that her girlfriend will be furious if she is late, and that she cannot drive without her glasses, so she accepts help from a strange man who leads her down the highway and they begin to walk the rest of the way together.

In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

An unemployed man tricks a woman out of a dollar bill at a bar, but afterwards he feels guilty and tries to make amends.

A trans dominatrix has a sexual encounter with a client in the dressing room of a night club. The unexpected pleasure of the encounter leaves her feeling as if they've seen the reality of one another's loneliness.

When a wealthy Chinese widower living in San Francisco begins dating a much younger woman, he realizes he may have trusted her too quickly as her true intentions come into question.

A homeless Native American man goes on a journey to get one thousand dollars in order to buy back his grandma's regalia.