When a young man is brutally assaulted by a police officer, he must try to heal his fractured life.

The racism a Black, working-class couple faces at work during the Harlem Renaissance spills over into their relationship in violent ways.

As he reflects on a murder perpetrated by his father, a college professor considers the history of his family and how race and violence intersect.

A paranoid old woman makes a disturbing discovery that intensifies her fears about being the victim of a crime.

When a kind, upstanding family man is misidentified as a rapist, he begins to wonder if his longtime community and friends will believe him or the accuser.

A woman returns home to her family having just slept with another man. At dinner, her son gets into an argument with his father about their privilege. As the narrative moves back to the time they spent abroad in Nigeria, Burma and Ecuador, fractures in the family life are revealed.

When a sexual assault takes place near his Minneapolis home, a young, expectant father’s desire for erotic violence is triggered, leading him to crave inflicting terror on women.

After losing both his wife and son to a car accident, a French prince begins an unlikely friendship with a woman who is a victim of domestic violence.

In the early-twentieth-century South, a black teenager discovers she has a magical power. But when race and gender-related violence violate her existence, she must decide whether to use her power to protect the people she loves or to harm the people who hate.

A couple in grad school who witness a domestic dispute have opposing views on whether to intervene, which leads to tumultuous arguments in their own relationship as well.