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

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.

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.

In an East Ohio town, a middle-aged man checks into a hotel and explores the various characters, events and surroundings that define small town life.

In a small town, a resident watches as the people and place change. He recounts eight seemingly disparate stories, but the town connects them all.

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.

In a contemporary rural American town, a psychopathic 60-year-old man strikes up a deceitful relationship with his young female neighbor.

A woman in her seventh month of pregnancy is abandoned by her husband after he embezzles $150,000 from a local company in their small town—forcing her to go to desperate measures to try to repay the town.

A teenaged boy wants to steal from his poor family to buy a girl balloons, but when he gets home his mother falls ill and he must help his family and community pray for her.

After a hit-and-run lands a suburban single mother in the hospital, her neighbors gossip about possible suspects, and her son grieves by her bedside.