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.

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

A party traveling west to California experiences unspeakable horror when they become trapped on an impassable trail in the winter.

A rancher grew up in a now-abandoned house with a dark past: on a night he was supposed to be gone, he returns to the house unexpectedly, only to find his wife with a lover. He murders the lover and brutally whips his wife as punishment, before announcing he will build them a new house.

A man, uprooting from his life in San Fransisco, takes on a rider on his long drive towards Denver, but finds they don't get along.

A young Armenian boy in California is confronted with the fact that the world is changing and he is growing up when he and his brother break the wheel of their bicycle because they have gotten too big for it.

In 1989, two friends from high school, now in their late-twenties, reunite in Santa Cruz and search for a rare mushroom as earthquakes begin to shake the Northern California landscape.

A man from the mountains travels to a desert town once a year to sell his wares. One summer, he has an encounter with white foreigners that leaves him filled with regret and shame.

When a couple with a strained relationship rides a motorcycle up a dangerous mountain in southern California, they battle for survival against nature and each other.

In the 1800s, a team of Native American men travel by horse to Gavelston Bay, Texas, and form a connection with another tribe along the way. However, the joy of discovery is cut short by immense tragedy.