The characters found in jokes are forced to act out the jokes every time they are told.

A New York bartender attempts to engage in a conversation about owning comets — as in, the ones in space —with his somewhat crazy customer.

When a Soviet state official attempts to coerce a celebrated poet into apologizing for a political joke he made, the official gets a taste of his own predatory medicine at the hand of the poet's vengeful wife.

A girl attempts to make the chocolate cake her mother used to make.

In the kingdom ritual to become men, two boys stray the path to embark on a legendary hunt for the impundulu.

Following through on her dreams to be on the water, a girl working on a ship discovers a dark secret about the ocean.

Upon escaping from a plantation, a boy discovers his true self in nature.

After the father turns into a tree, a family struggles to figure out what to do with him.