While witnessing his boys of his neighbor's family commit chaotic damage to the people of the neighborhood, a father continues to show kindness. The neighbor's family faces their own drama until they are no longer a part of the neighborhood.

A young man remembers his sexual trauma while idly watching the torturing of a kidnapped kid.

A boy looks back on the encounters he and his friend had with a troubled, violent classmate who murdered his own father.

A group of children in a family lives with their grandmother, but she is mean and abusive. The children soon become tired of her abuse and plot to kill her in various ways, though the task is complicated by logistics.

When an anti-Semitic teenager attacks a Jewish boy, war breaks out between the teenage boy factions of 1980s Long Island.

A father and his family witness the chaotic collapse of their neighbor's family, and make small efforts to intervene.

A little girl navigates her relationships with two boys in her elementary school class, a brash bully and a shy victim, and learns about the nature of suffering.

A four-year-old black boy vaguely recalls a mixture of occurrences that puzzled him, including a sentenced hanging in his town of a man who allegedly murdered his wife.

A child chained in a cellar abused by their enraged parents decides to take matters into their own hands.

When a young man is brutally assaulted by a police officer, he must try to heal his fractured life.