A curious woman attempts to get to the bottom of an urban legend in her town.

A newcomer in a small town joins a knitting group where she learns the trade and gossip about the recent disappearances. After she becomes a proficient knitter, she is invited to a secretive knitting group and discovers the horrific reality behind the missing people.

There is something suspicious about the family with a crabapple tree on their property. After a new stepmother arrives, the other members of the family start to mysteriously drop like flies.

A New York family embarks on an island vacation which quickly turns disastrous. In an effort to prove she belongs in the family, the stepmother saves the children from certain death on multiple occasions, but she is unable to spare them from all injuries.

After his father dies, a young man returns to his father's farm to settle his affairs. One night, four strangers show up at the farm with a request.

A young woman attending a party with her obscure boyfriend is a witness to a dire cosmic event that thrusts her into a new, desolate existence.

A woman becomes invested in the odd and exciting life of her coworker, a pregnant construction worker whose boyfriend has been in and out of state prison for over a decade. The boyfriend, a Native American living in North Dakota, escapes so often that the town's officers, at this point, usually just sigh and get drinks when they see him run. When it is time for the birth of his child, the boyfriend escapes from prison to meet his son, but the day does not go as planned.

Two "straight" young men are hired for the summer to look after sheep on Brokeback Mountain; alone together, they fall into a sensual and secret romance that they never forget and can never quite leave behind. Over the next twenty years, although their careers and families threaten to separate them, they find ways to reunite.

A secret agent evades torture in a cliff hanger mystery.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.