In the deserts of New Mexico, a man living alone briefly opens his home to two strays from a passing motorcycle group, one of which is nursing a mortal wound.

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.

After his car breaks down at the base of a steep hill, a man encounters a stranger and walks with him to the ranch at the top of the hill, both seeking to solve the mystery of why the stranger’s wife has been taking apart their ranch piece by piece.

During a trip to Morocco, a writer meets a young boy destined for a tragic, inescapable life on the stage at the Dancing Boy.

A man en-route to meet a criminal partner stops partway along his journey at a motel in the Four Corners, where he meets a woman and her baby. During the night, they wake to gunshots.

Two American expatriates in modern Tanzania are mourning a lost lover in a tourist inn when a murderous hyena breaks their peace, hungry for the lover's corpse.

A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.

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.

At a rundown hotel in tropical South America, the only resident cycles through a fever dream of hazy memories and repetitive conversations with his friend, the bartender.

A starving man wandering the countryside finds solace in a young woman's cottage where she offers him food and rest. But when the young woman starts to behave as if the man is a threat, he must decide whether or not to live up to her fears.