A teenager spends the summer dealing with the unsettling company of two older boys. As he spends time dating girls, he becomes increasingly uncertain about what he truly wants in life.

A high school boy makes a habit of stealing cars, picking up girls, and skipping school. When he begins to worry that he is getting into too much trouble, the boy must decide whether to seek help or continue his criminal lifestyle.

When all the able-bodied men of a small town in Oregon get sent to the war front in Iraq, two teenage boys are left behind. They vent their frustration, seek revenge on those who have wronged them, and ultimately grow up to be like their fathers, despite their fathers' absence.

Two young Mormons go on a mission to bring people to the Church. While one of the boys is determined to convert enough people to make district leader, his partner lacks confidence and persuasiveness.

A boy feels isolated from his group of friends and targets his rage towards the most popular of them all. When he realizes the extent of the influence this enemy wields, he is forced to come to terms with the hopelessness of his situation.

When a young boy witnesses an odd event from the window of his small-town house, he begins to doubt the stability of the world around him.

Three boys try to avoid being drafted into a war in a futuristic world where the government has crumbled into a backward, technologically primitive, Christian nation.

A boy learns a lesson when he is recruited to help a blind man panhandle at an intersection.

In a odd but enlightening encounter, three rural boys visit an eccentric Yale graduate's grocery store.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.