A young boy wades down a creek killing water moccasins, despite his mother telling him not to since another boy in town was recently bitten by one. On his way home, an encounter with the snakes gains the attention of the adults nearby but leaves the boy confused.

A farm boy kills a female snake, protecting her babies. He later learns that there are consequences for his actions.

A young Black woman grows up to the realization that the snakes living in her hair have a special power imbued to them by history.

A family with a gene that allows them to transform into snakes grapples with tradition and intergenerational trauma. The two daughters of this family have to decide: will they stay with an abusive family, or will they molt out of it?

A contemporary Indian housewife’s peace is broken when she notices that her dog is locked in a dance to the death with a cobra.

A homeless heroin addict, hiding from a drug cartel, decides to help a herpetologist track down his missing child bride.

A homeless heroin addict, hiding from a drug cartel, decides to help a herpetologist track down his missing child bride.

A man in a hospital in Myanmar tells his nurse the story of how he was cursed for falling in love with an attractive woman who is guarded by a giant snake.

A lonely girl forms a friendship with a woman rejected by society; they spend an afternoon together, after which the girl is able to better understand the casual cruelty of the people around her.

As an orphaned Floridian boy grows up to become a mathematician with a healthy family of his own in the 20th century, the memory of his unhappy father lingers, threatening his peace of mind.