In a near future world, a famous computerized drama director is pushed beyond his artistic limits when a random science fiction writer asks him to adapt his novel for the digital stage—for the alluring incentive of real gold payment.

An actress rolls through the plan of a rehearsed production while making small mistakes to spite the production team.

When a man watches an obscure French art film to kill time, he doesn't expect its characters to exactly resemble his life. Its gruesome ending leaves him shaken and determined to get his hands on a copy and watch it again.

Two men putting on a production for their New York theater company seek out a legendary, elderly actor, but upon finding him, they meet a man as dilapidated as the theater he once worked for.

The crew and producers of a movie set recall the strange events during the filming of an adaptation of an unsettling novel.

Two brothers try to appease their older sister by screening a film with her favorite actor, but have trouble buying the right reel.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

A woman tries to understand her friend's newest movie and, in doing so, the incident that initially drove them apart.

A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A man goes to the movies with his father-in-law and uses an assisted hearing device to listen in on the old man's thoughts, discovering that his father-in-law may be a murderer.