An aging ad executive reflects through the years in snapshot scenes about his ex-wives, a troubled friend, an awards ceremony, and an unlikely love story.

The characters in violent commercials realize they can resist their dark fates, and they rise up against the consumer establishment.

On the Great Plains, an aging farmer and his wife struggle to sell their produce amid an increase in frozen food manufacturing. The farmer must figure out how to avoid the fate of his neighbors, who were pushed out of business and into welfare dependence.

A young boy tries to help his parents make money by selling ice cream at his mother's work at a Snow White Laundry. An accident with one of the machines causes chaos and the narrator is forced to leave.

An elderly storeowner's quiet life is interrupted by a visit from a poor young man looking to sell a valuable item, which he claims has the power to bring happiness in desperate times.

A woman tries to convince her husband to quit his exhausting job as a traveling salesman. She reflects on the impossibility of having everything that she wants.

A young woman begins to work for an influencer, Seraphina, who she secretly hates. After vicious gossip about Serphina and the young woman pops up on anonymous message forums, the young woman must decide just how far she'd compromise herself for this job.

A young boy eager to attend the market is allowed to wait by the wagon while his father and older brother leave to make orders for their store. However, tucked away on the wagon’s seat, he secretly witnesses two truckers commit a heinous crime.

A desperate former arsonist attends a job fair where major American companies offer prisoners the chance to become public brand ambassadors.

A middle-aged salesman from New Jersey finds himself studying the intricacies of his life and the hospital he stays at after he becomes ill on his flight.