A man in pursuit of gold comes to learn how an obsession with wealth can tear away all your meaningful connections.

A teenage boy searches a bookstore for the perfect gay romance novel, learning an important lesson about literary representation.

A loveless, disturbed man with a hand fetish seeks out the perfect pair of hands and eventually finds himself drawn to a medical illustrator.

In a dystopic universe where the aristocracy rules society, a banished tailor is given the opportunity to redeem herself by fashioning a coat from the sky for a nobleman. When the project reveals the dark history of the city's stratification, she is forced to make a choice between revolution and redemption.

A humble cambist's life is upended when a local noble decides to use him for party tricks.

In a society where everyone is masked and takes on a new personality every day, an underground network seeks to return to their original identities.

An insufferable white man offers advice to a well-read, unemployed Black man holding a sandwich-board sign on a street corner on race relations, physical appearance, and how to improve his handwriting and thereby advance himself in society.

An assassin begins to question the king's authority after they are forced to kill someone innocent. The assassin must decide if they will still protect the king, who is their brother, against a legendary murderer of royal figures.

After foreign assassins attack the emperor, it is up to a teenage girl to save his life by magically forging his soul in 100 days—or lose her own.

In the waiting room of a plastic surgeon's office, a man asks the woman sitting next to him about the scar on her face.