In a small American village, anticipation builds for an annual event dubbed "The Lottery," where villagers select a member of the community at random to suffer an irrational and inhumane fate.

A gifted spellcrafter ponders an ethical question regarding the dead: to reanimate or to not reanimate?

While trying to track down her missing daughter, a mother confronts the trauma of the violence that she faced at their separation.

When worms start infesting everyone's bodies, one autistic boy is determined to fight them once and for all.

A girl ponders the rightness of her ancestors' decision to stop the government from taking their land—by destroying their land.

A father tells his daughter about the night of shootiing stars.