In an alternate universe in 19th century Boston, a single mother commits an act of unnatural cruelty against her son. However, since women are invincible against a man's violence, the wife of an esteemed policeman takes on the task of executing her, only to have second thoughts in the cold gallows.

A man plots to murder his wife, but news of her pregnancy throws off his plan.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

A man's jealous wife kidnaps any woman she thinks he shows any interest in to torture and murder in their basement. Deciding to finally put an end to this and escape the absusive relationship, the man poisons his wife and frees her most recent victim.

While waiting for the man she's been having an unsteady affair with, a forty-year-old woman living a dreary life in New York City plots his murder. Likewise, on his journey to her apartment, the man contemplates whether he should kill her or continue his affair.

A curious woman attempts to get to the bottom of an urban legend in her town.

Three women are murdered. After they become the talk of the town, everyone speculates about what happened to them, and the police investigating the case receive one false piece of evidence after another another.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

A high school girl, the lone survivor of two massacres, skips town, believing herself cursed. But when she realizes her virginity and “Final Girl” status afford her protections, she resolves to hunt down serial killers before they claim their victims.

A teenage girl is ensnared in a romantic relationship with her teacher at the same time her aunt's rapist, newly released, moves back into his house next to hers. When two teenage sisters discover a purse near the house of a recently released rapist, they begin to investigate their family's dark history of sexual assault, and a kindly English teacher turns out to more than he appears.