A conversation in a shopping mall ends with a call to security.

A woman works retail and worries about how to make it as an actress in LA. To remedy her social and financial problems, she bonds with a teenage co-worker and dabbles in sex work, despite her nagging concerns.

A gay man working in a luxury fashion store in Asia prepares for the upcoming arrival of the brand’s chief designer. If everything goes right, his desired career in fashion will be set.

An interstate road traveled by African souls is both filled with welcoming bazaar-style market stalls and dark, suspicious areas that most travelers and sellers avoid.

A teenage boy must embrace his geeky nature to win over a crush from his suave competitor.

A man working at the Met is given an interesting—and daring—proposition regarding one of the museum’s artifacts.

A wife and mother in contemporary Los Angeles revisits a secret, sensual moment of her past when she comes across an unusually friendly stranger in the mall.

A shopkeeper learns that a mysterious woman is throwing rent parties that leave its guests unnaturally unencumbered and, after some convincing, the shopkeeper sheds her worries too.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

In an increasingly inappropriate recorded message to a customer, a department store clerk compares their product complaint to kangaroos he saw at the local zoo.