A schoolboard debates the merits of history—and how to remember it.

In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

When a scientist discovers science-based information that negates his world's established creation myth and belief system, he sends the world into chaos, with some zealots clinging desperately to their dogma, while others attempt to embrace the unknown future.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.