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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.
A wife leaves her husband in order to ensure his ultimate salvation after they are rejected from the Christian church for their polygamist marriage.
A somewhat estranged family grapples with the impending death of their mother.
After spending his adult life under the shadow of his father, a former NSA whistleblower, a man comes to terms with his complicated family history and what he wants for his own future.
An elderly woman prepares for her death, but is anxious for someone to listen to her precious memories and cherish them after her death.
When Harold's wife dies, seemingly by malicious cause, he becomes the prime suspect. As the public defender investigates her death, he finds that she may have held secrets herself.
After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.
In limbo between life and death after falling five hundred feet into a cement mixer, a construction worker reflects on the nature of love.
A young Native American man visits a burial site on a nearby island and must reflect on both his allegiance to his culture and to himself.
After two of a man's acquaintances die by suicide, he goes on a hunting trip and can't stop thinking about why they wanted to die.