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 woman considers her possible shortcomings when her boyfriend tells her that he doesn’t like some things about her. After a period of reflection, she acknowledges the futility of self-deprecation.

Anxious ahead of an important lecture, a psychology professor blows up after finding a photo of his wife's ex-husband.

A man burdened to live in the past due to his memory condition seeks to avenge his wife by killing her murderer.

A writer thinks about the not-so-fine moments of his career right before an exposé about his inappropriate conduct toward various women goes live.

A young man remembers his sexual trauma while idly watching the torturing of a kidnapped kid.

An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

A writer chronicles his history of depression and critiques society's attitudes toward the mentally ill.

Following his breakup, a Japanese college student uses savings from his relationship as a means to quit his summer mowing job, but not without first helping a woman who asks, but doesn't appear to need, for her lawn to be mowed.

After kicking her husband out and changing the locks, a mother imagines he is still living with her, distant and uninterested in sex. Lying in bed, she conjures up old memories and imagines new ones, grappling with questions of selfhood, identity, womanhood, and motherhood. One night, her real husband returns, and she lets him back in.