A secret agent evades torture in a cliff hanger mystery.

As a surveillance agent watches a Muslim family, he quickly grows from suspicion to attachment. When the father of the family needs help, the agent has to decide between what he is supposed to do and what he wants to do, despite the consequences.

A police luncheon is attended by a bum criminal who claims to be an ex-member of the rotary club. Though no one believes him, they allow him to attend and find themselves engrossed in a religiously charged political stunt.

In a dystopian society, a woman makes it her life's mission to free citizens from monitors implanted in them by the authorities. When she becomes one of the most wanted people in the city, she must avoid the path of a fierce bounty hunter.

A man who snitched on his gang becomes extremely paranoid as he waits for the leader’s retaliation.

When a small neighborhood starts practicing air raid drills for World War II, a new German couple down the block stirs up trouble for themselves when they get into a spat with their neighbors.

A trooper in a Kentucky county recounts his early days encountering an outlaw group of little people.

The protagonist is instructed to receive money from a hustler in order to help a tinkerer get rid of the Tell in people's bodies. However, the authorities find them first and now she must escape in order to complete the mission.

A successful middle-aged lawyer brings home her little sister, a woman who was institutionalized at a young age. In attempting to sort out her sister's history and her own corruption, the woman encounters continually perplexing behavior from those around her.

A journalist tries to figure out the root of various digital crimes—only to stumble upon an impossible ethical question.