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

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

With a local man on trial for the murder of his family and a history of tragedy in the town, a group of neighborhood kids contemplate death.

When a public defender living a dreary life walks in on his wife cheating on him, she apologizes to him by grazing his skull with a bullet and fleeing. Intent on finding her, the husband rescues a witch from an untimely death before the two join forces to decide his wife's fate.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

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.

After a Hispanic shop owner witnesses an act of infidelity, the husband of the cheating wife kills her in what he believes to be an act of honor.

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

A home nurse pieces together the events of a murder after a group of young boys find a dead body in a small Toronto town. She grapples with whether to turn in the murderer—her late patient's husband—and ultimately decides to risk death to confront him directly, with a romantic vision of him turning himself in to relieve his conscience.