A sister remains a faithful friend to her brother as he navigates the strict parenting of their military father, spending his youth fighting in Vietnam, and his return home after the war as a changed man living apart from his family and forging his own path in life for the first time.

When eccentric scientist Papa Schimmelhorn plays his seemingly harmless bassoon, a wave of material-eating Gnurrs are summoned by the millions. He uses them to end the war against Bobovia.

After the father turns into a tree, a family struggles to figure out what to do with him.

When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

When a man's brother disappears, he thinks back to their arduous relationship—and the traumatic moment which fractured it.

A father tells his daughter about the night of shootiing stars.