On a business trip to Detroit, a naïve Swede catches feelings for a woman during a one-night stand, but her involvement with a cult prevents any potential future between them.

The president of what's left of the United States desperately attempts to defend his country from the Krolp, an evil race of aliens who have proven impossible to beat.

Extraterrestrial visitors promise solutions to America's financial, environmental, and energy problems - in exchange for the country's black citizens. A cultural struggle breaks out to determine whether the trade will be made.

A U.S state department official encounters an infatuation on his trip to Eastern Europe that ends in despair.

As an American man returns to his ancestral home in New Hampshire, he imagines how he might have spent the last three years if he had traveled the world and become a Latin American revolutionary.

Visiting Tokyo in the 1980s, a Swedish aspiring civil rights attorney from Minnesota spends her last night with a Japanese lover.

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

A Middle-eastern man's journal, written during his time in futuristic Washington D.C. while unknowingly being followed by the Government, is found by a paid detective.

While conducting research in the remote country of Keteng, a Stanford grad student hears that another American has entered the country and is challenging the power structures in place.

On an artificial island build to counter the effects of climate-induced flooding, an immigrant father returns from a long period away and struggles to reconnect with his distant son.