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A wrestler who believes he has come to terms with his mortality faces death when he is scheduled to fight against a man who has already killed at least one opponent in the ring.
After losing a fight, a professional wrestler navigates loss, guilt, and self-worth and explores his love-hate relationship with fighting.
After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.
During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.
After her lover abandons her for someone else, a woman plummets to her death on a Monday night, only to return as a ghostly presence who finds none of her problems solved.
In the WWII era, a married couple spectates a death-defying stunt. The husband likens the impossible feat to their failing marriage and is relieved when the performer succeeds, but when the man then falls to his death, his wife's strange reaction signals the end of their love.
Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.
In limbo between life and death after falling five hundred feet into a cement mixer, a construction worker reflects on the nature of love.
A troupe of graverobbing Nigerian children weave together rich tales of their deceased victims set in America, a place full of villains.
After two of a man's acquaintances die by suicide, he goes on a hunting trip and can't stop thinking about why they wanted to die.