Brought together by strange Kool-Aid, a bunch of kids reflect on their respective griefs.

A group of young Black women known as the "Furious Girls" are ostracized by their town because of their often destructive ability to create fire. However, when a natural disaster looms over the town, the girls must return to save the people they love.

Gang member, writer, and Mexican American teen Chato de Shamrock drops out of school to focus on his art: filling every nook and cranny of Eastside LA with his name.

After they have been removed from their parents and send to a camp to be brainwashed, two girls connect over an act of institutional rebellion. One suffers for it, and one goes on to live her life as she is supposed to—but will she be satisfied with leaving things alone?

Eight orphaned boys in Caracas, Venezuela band together and do their best to survive. When the youngest gets sick, a confrontation with a police officer becomes a matter of life and death.

A writer analyzes the popularity and success of Star Wars by considering its contemporary political movements and the narrative created by Americans.

In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

A boy feels isolated from his group of friends and targets his rage towards the most popular of them all. When he realizes the extent of the influence this enemy wields, he is forced to come to terms with the hopelessness of his situation.

A group of rebels try to build an army against an oppressive government system. However, they have to do it in secret, in fear of getting punished.

After a student vandalizes a work of art in her prep school's art gallery the day before submissions are due for a prestigious prize, teachers work to uncover who did it. Meanwhile, the culprit grapples with why she felt the urge to vandalize the work and what she should do next.