After a man suffers from an accident that requires a futuristic surgery to help him grow his lost brain matter back, he goes on a trip with his two oldest friends through the Sierras. Ridge running across the mountains, he tries to recover the memories and knowledge he lost.

In the WWII era, a married couple spectates a death-defying stunt. The husband likens the impossible feat to their failing marriage and is relieved when the performer succeeds, but when the man then falls to his death, his wife's strange reaction signals the end of their love.

A woman descending Mount Everest watches as her fellow climbers begin to die around her and she wonders why she climbs the mountain in the first place.

On his morning hike, a fifty-five-year-old man in Indiana encounters a severely injured college-aged woman by her boyfriend. As the police investigation unfurls, the boyfriend tries to use his wealth to shield him from justice.

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After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.

While hiking with his two young children, a man falls to his doom in a cavern called the Bottomless Well, leaving his son and daughter to race to save his life.

A middle-aged man ruminating on his past failures witnesses a canoe accident and considers sacrificing himself to save two drowning girls.

After a horrific accident, Bernadette agrees to upload her consciousness to a memory server and discard her physical form. She's determined to murder her father's mind, also housed in the same server.

A female doctor mourns the loss of her past lover during a hazardous skydiving expedition.