A quiet gardener and shopkeeper defies her town's cruel gossips to shelter a destitute young woman.

Five days after moving to the quiet town of Manacle, Arizona, a married couple learns of the curse on the town: if you do anyone a favor, they will turn against you.

A middle-aged, single, hairdresser spends the day spreading gossip from client to client. She ends her busy day with an ultimate act of meddling.

A man slowly goes insane when he suspects that his neighbor knows his deepest secret.

In a small suburb in the 1940s, a nosy neighbor's aggressive kindness and anonymous letters have some unintended consequences as they provoke violent responses.

While witnessing his boys of his neighbor's family commit chaotic damage to the people of the neighborhood, a father continues to show kindness. The neighbor's family faces their own drama until they are no longer a part of the neighborhood.

A four-year-old black boy vaguely recalls a mixture of occurrences that puzzled him, including a sentenced hanging in his town of a man who allegedly murdered his wife.

A western town’s rule-flaunting, drunken personality is locked up for hiding his still in the church basement, while his son is finally released from the school that had for so long oppressed him.

In a small university town in the 1960s, a mysterious couple moves into the attic and keeps to themselves, leaving the neighbors to wonder what goes on behind closed doors. Through gossip and rumors, the neighbors witness the slow unraveling of Mr. Markham's life.

In a town so small it can hardly be called a town, a black woman serves a rich white family until a series of horrific events causes the single joy in her life to vanish.