A woman struggles with shaky faith and emotional isolation from her son, which intensify when she goes to see him in prison. After one particularly difficult visit, she faces her fears with her brother’s help.

After more than a decade in witness protection, a former motorcycle gang member's past catches up to him, threatening the people he loves and his new identity as a Texas barbecue restaurant owner.

A correctional officer gives an inmate's female visitor a ride into Sacramento and soon becomes entangled in her secrets — and also finds himself on the verge of becoming a millionaire.

A convict conspires to break his way out of prison, but he's unsure who he can trust on the inside or the outside.

The stress of poverty drives a young man to commit a robbery. But when the deal goes south and someone is shot, he must hide from the law at his brother's place.

A woman on a grand jury hears the case of an older woman who was brutally raped by one of her former students. She attempts to understand the different ways the story disturbs her.

When a public defender living a dreary life walks in on his wife cheating on him, she apologizes to him by grazing his skull with a bullet and fleeing. Intent on finding her, the husband rescues a witch from an untimely death before the two join forces to decide his wife's fate.

In the 1980s, a private investigator and ex-cop visits his close friend, a gay man dying from AIDS, who tasks him with hunting and killing the man who murdered his sister twenty years ago. But when the investigator finds the murderer, he's already close to death.

When a sheriff and his deputy try to talk down a gun-wielding hostage-taker, the deputy surprises the sheriff — and the hostage-taker — with his unexpected behavior.

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.