A young adolescent gang leader steals a flashlight, which helps him find a new way to see the gang activity in his city.

When an LA tour of gruesome celebrity murder sites takes a violent twist, reality becomes legend.

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.

After a couple is carjacked one evening in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the wife becomes increasingly paranoid and cannot return to normal daily life.

In modern-day Los Angeles, a young lesbian woman lives next door to an actress she's been a fan of since the actress was an underground drag queen in New York. The actress pitches an idea for a TV show to the woman, whose partner is a children's show producer.

In the 1990s, a 19-year-old aspiring actor-turned-construction worker develops an affinity for crack cocaine, making him doubt the promise of his future.

In modern day New York City, a woman working on a movie set attracts an actor who might just give her the life of fame she's always wanted.

A young screenwriter in Los Angeles is exposed to the corruption beneath the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle after befriending a director and his wife.

A wife and mother in contemporary Los Angeles revisits a secret, sensual moment of her past when she comes across an unusually friendly stranger in the mall.

A woman recalls the life and death of her aunt, an American who became an avid traveler and died by suicide after she realized that nothing in her life was as exotic or exciting as she once believed.