A divorced 16 year old girl reflects on how the sexual trauma she experienced as a child perpetuates in her relationships with men throughout her life, forcing herself to grow up too early and leaving her starved for affection and love.

When a Southern California psychologist learns that her seemingly normal middle-aged client is a pedophile, she sets him on a morally dubious course of treatment.

A young man remembers his sexual trauma while idly watching the torturing of a kidnapped kid.

When the father of a college-aged girl, who works in a mail center and has taken to stealing her classmates' mail, comes to visit, he sexually assaults his daughter, as he has been doing since she was a young girl.

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.

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

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.

After several years asleep, a woman wakes up to find her husband kissing her, though she now must face his abusive ways.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

Young protagonist Carlie bends to the will of her volatile and emotionally abusive mother Andrea, loving Andy even as she makes invasive demands, exposes her daughter to nudity and drugs without a qualm, and leaves her in compromising situations.