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A young adolescent gang leader steals a flashlight, which helps him find a new way to see the gang activity in his city.

A woman reflects on her time in the Bay Area—and the two women she knew from there.

A 62-year-old man has moved back to Oakland. After a confrontation with his neighbors about his aggressive dog, he reflects on his arrival to the neighborhood years ago, when his mother left him behind.

A man recounts his life experience in New York, covering the various people near and dear to him, as well as the growth of the city itself.

As climate change continues to worsen, the American government issues a mandate requiring citizens to register their location and limit their oil-dependent travel to less than twenty miles per month. When a young woman living in California hears the news, she struggles to determine where her home is, considering her family lives thousands of miles away.

When a friend from his drug-dealing past shows up unannounced, a filmographer who lives in the suburbs of Long Island must reckon with how to preserve his suburban fantasy while he tries to save his friend from their former dealer.

An African American sharecropper is suddenly evicted from his home. When he tries to convince his landlord to stay, his landlord falsely accuses him of threatening violence and throws him into the jaws of the unfair justice system.

An unnamed narrator muses about the layout and the mundane emptiness at a neighborhood intersection. A man later gets out of a streetcar at the intersection and enters one of the brick buildings.

An unhappy woman lives in the slums of New York only to watch her life transform as her children become wildly successful, catapulting her into an unrecognizable world of extravagance.

In a small university town in the 1960s, a mysterious couple moves into the attic and keeps to themselves, leaving the neighbors to wonder what goes on behind closed doors. Through gossip and rumors, the neighbors witness the slow unraveling of Mr. Markham's life.