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An unhappily married man is on his way to the wedding of a much happier couple. He no longer finds his wife attractive because of her weight loss, and thus endeavors into an affair with a larger woman, though she may have ulterior motives that he has not considered.

Two men putting on a production for their New York theater company seek out a legendary, elderly actor, but upon finding him, they meet a man as dilapidated as the theater he once worked for.

In pre-WWII Paris, a mixed-race, lesbian girl works for room and board in a grotesque theater following her single mother's death. The lead actress, a sexually-submissive woman with an abusive boyfriend, takes her under her wing; however, she proves emotionally manipulative as the girl falls in love with her.

A Black, southern house servant with internalized racism, joins her mistress on a visit to another region, where she observes Black people acting with something she abhors: autonomy.

When a new principal takes over and enforces discriminatory dress code policies, a Black high school junior is forced to cut off her dreadlocks. But when flowers bloom from her scalp in their place — attracting even more attention — she must find the courage to stand up for herself.

When Laura attends a show and is escorted to the "dress circle" seats, she's horrified to discover that she has become part of the performance, whether she likes it or not.

When faced with cultural appropriation and police brutality, two Black women in different generations of the same family combine their ability to perform hoodoo with modern technology to remedy these abuses.

In a futuristic privacy-obsessed Toronto, a burlesque street performer gets arrested for intellectual property infringement for a costume she wears while trying to impress the veiled, radical privacy devotee she is in love with.

In a dystopic universe where the aristocracy rules society, a banished tailor is given the opportunity to redeem herself by fashioning a coat from the sky for a nobleman. When the project reveals the dark history of the city's stratification, she is forced to make a choice between revolution and redemption.

A woman works retail and worries about how to make it as an actress in LA. To remedy her social and financial problems, she bonds with a teenage co-worker and dabbles in sex work, despite her nagging concerns.