After his father abandons him and his mother, leaving them with two hunting dogs, a teenage boy tries to save them from ending up in the shelter.

An ordinary man gets an inch and a half of mention in the newspaper after stumbling into a low stakes rescue — and the small bit of fame sends him spiraling down a dark, egotistical path.

Set during the Second World War, a Czech man tells a story about his dog, in an attempt to make relatable the cruel reality of life in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to a sheltered American woman who owns a pet dog.

A proud, strong mule drafted into the Greek army during World War II endures incredible hardship and wins the hearts of her tired masters.

A daughter wakes up her mother to ask how much money she made from the dog races — but instead the mother distractedly dwells on her troubling encounters with men.

When a group of farmers notice that they’re being robbed in the night, they discover the culprit to be a loveable skeletal horse.

When a woman travels from her home in Beijing to the countryside to visit her husband's family, she must sacrifice her dignity in order to convince the family not to eat their former racing dog.

A family's beloved dog dies during a storm, and they bury him in their backyard — only to find the same dog scratching at their door three days later, back from the dead.

An old man looks back on his boyhood idolization of a soldier he sees in the parade - until his hero is forced off the pedestal after trying to steal a prized horse from the boy's father.

A twenty-year-old boxer endures his trainer's grueling practice techniques to perfect his skills and win money from bets at his bar fights on the weekends. Though boxing has given him a purpose and a home with his trainer's family, the young man fears for his future, especially considering the tragic failures of those before him.