After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

A young, Black woman wants to get rid of her Tell in order to forget about her lost love as well as kill him and his wife. She struggles to find the information she needs to find someone to do the job for her.

An aspiring reporter must obtain an interview with a guarded and mysterious former classmate in order to be taken seriously as a working journalist.

A secret agent evades torture in a cliff hanger mystery.

A woman meticulously and obsessively reflects on the vanishing of her sister.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

When a graduate student makes his way to Colorado with his recently unemployed girlfriend to visit his married friends, an alarming development in his friends’ marriage causes him to reevaluate his own relationship and, in the process, make a grave mistake.

A female assassin is assigned a target to kill, but cannot concentrate due to the effects of Purge, a substance which allows her to stop being mentally controlled by the government.

As they hide from an enemy in their house, a woman and man argue about the nature of the enemy--whether it is human or weather-related.

Short bursts of inexplicable silence envelope an unnamed city and its residents, inspiring self-reflection and—much to their surprise—contentment.