A man becomes wealthy when he strikes oil on his land. However after he learns that his neighbor has begun to pump oil from the same pool, he becomes extremely jealous.

A teenage boy in Alabama monitors the water near his father's marina for signs of oil in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon leak — and also falls in love with a girl who works for his father.

After fishing in a creek by a Texan oil field, a little boy finds a singing tabby cat that asks for water. When he tries to tell people about it, no one believes him.

In a 1950s mining community in the western United States, death and suicide are common. A body is found in a burnt cabin, and everyone suspects it was suicide, but the truth is much more insidious.

In 1950s Louisiana, an oil rig employee struggles to cope with the trauma of witnessing a horrific crime in Latin America.

After World War II, a young woman takes a job working at on oilfield in a desert on the west coast. Once there, she struggles to fit in with her coworkers and can't help but feel out of place in this unfamiliar environment.

When climate change leads to oil scarcity in a dystopian future, a former racecar legend and his pit crew redirect their skills to hijacking highway tankers carrying precious oil for profit. Despite the dangers of the job, it is the love between the crew mates that ultimately leads to their downfall. In a dystopian America ravaged by climate change, an oil scarcity turns a former racecar legend and his pit crew into gasoline outlaws, rustling highway tankers for profit. But a lover's quarrel seeks to undo all of their success.

Three roommates agree to remove a woman's oil tank, but the outlandish payment she offers leaves them suspicious of what the tank may contain.

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.

A wealthy couple picks up an old man on a desert road, and they quickly become interested in his story about an untapped amethyst mine and its potential riches.