Three women are murdered. After they become the talk of the town, everyone speculates about what happened to them, and the police investigating the case receive one false piece of evidence after another another.

A local detective investigates the murder of a businessman who returned to town after years of being away. The detective holds a conflict of interest in the case: his sister was swindled years ago by the victim.

A couple moves into an old, country farmhouse and is touched by a sentimental grave. One day, a man arrives after being released from a mental hospital, tells the couple it's the grave of his beloved pet, and asks to dig it up; however, police detective intervenes and arrests the man. It turns out the man is a serial killer and the grave holds a suitcase full of trophies from his former victims.

After reading about two murders in the paper, a mother panics because her son has been missing since that morning.

A man plots to murder his wife, but news of her pregnancy throws off his plan.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

After his wife's death, a man struggles with his belief in God and with taking care of his young daughters as a single father. But when someone is brutally murdered in the rural countryside, the man finds both a welcome distraction in bringing justice to the killer and an unlikely ally along the way.

When a corpse is found in the forest on a rainy day, two police officers quietly curse at the dark curiosity human passerbys have toward death.

A washed-up journalist's life and fortunes change when a professional hit man offers him a job.

An autistic, selectively mute eight-year-old boy befriends a girl who secretly murders neighborhood pets. He becomes the accomplice to her sociopathic crimes, in the hopes that she can somehow lead him back to his dead twin brother.