A girl flees her home when her parents want to send her back to her abusive husband.

In a rural town, a woman attempts to run away, with her three children, from her abusive husband. While the feat seems straightforward at first, a series of complications causes their escape to become increasingly precarious.

After her father kills himself, a young girl runs away with a traveling, unhoused stranger she meets at the bus stop. The two scrape and save for a life together until one day, she wakes up and he's gone. After looking for him in the cold, surviving an assault, and accepting help from a stranger, the girl realizes he's betrayed her, taking their savings and leaving. The next year, she gives birth to their child.

When a young black man from the Bronx unwittingly becomes an accomplice to the murder of a police officer, he must protect the murderer (his best friend) and flee the life he used to know.

After her possessions begin to disappear from her apartment, a woman suspects that her adoring new husband is not who she thought he was.

After a man sees his ex-wife with another man on the street, he follows her home and his rage overtakes him, making him do something he regrets.

In a small town in present-day America where an ominous legend and a recent string of male disappearances have unnerved the public imagination, a hitchhiker and a barefoot traveler tread in the dark woods.

An older white man in the South agrees to hide a Black fugitive on the same night his old lover visits with her husband and son. When a mob arrives at his house in pursuit of the fugitive, the older man inadvertently causes the death of his newfound kin.

A young, unhoused couple is washing cars outside a fair when the man picks a fight with a car full of men for a dirty remark said to his girlfriend and ends up with a shattered cheekbone and bruised eye. Later, when some Boy Scouts offer him money to see the his girlfriend's boobs, she agrees, as long as he's not there. After, she hides with the money, prepared to leave him.

After a man gets into a hit-and-run accident with his girlfriend, he frantically tries to right the wrong, hoping to save both their relationship and their freedom.