A man travels around Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in a trio of crooks. He and the woman he is in love with ditch the leader of the group.

After a teenage girl from a poor logging family is found dead at a college party hosted at the home of a prominent Michigan family, a detective on her case must negotiate the area’s local politics—at his own peril.

A fifty-year-old man from Michigan attempts to interpret a recurring dream about walking around his city with a woman that resembles his wife.

A big-city transplant in small-town Michigan tries to make sense of his own existence as he confronts the possibility of fatherhood.

On a business trip to Detroit, a naïve Swede catches feelings for a woman during a one-night stand, but her involvement with a cult prevents any potential future between them.

An older man living alone in a secluded cabin near Lake Michigan gets an unexpected visitor who reminds him of a past acquaintance from his sailing days.

Compiling notes for an English essay, a sixteen-year-old girl recounts her middle-class upbringing, kleptomania, and eventual coercion into prostitution and assisting with drug use. After she suffers violence and abuse, she is eventually rescued — but the experience traumatizes her.

A teenage girl befriends a solitary bookworm who summers in her lakeside town, hoping he can help her learn about a lake monster she believes she saw. Over the course of a few summers, the two fall in love. The girl eventually learns the boy is the lake monster, granted human form for three months of the year.

A Black woman recently moved to Michigan's desolate, unfriendly Upper Peninsula to pursue a post-doc takes comfort in an unlikely relationship.

A Californian couple takes their teenage daughter on boarding school tours in New England, hoping to provide her some freedom after their older daughter passed away a year ago.