After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.

When an upstart young man dreams of bigger things than his job at the local mine, he finds his connection between his father and his best friend in peril.

In the future, all humans must wait in an impossibly long line, where getting to the front means securing one’s future and never having to worry about money again. Waiting in the line for decades on end, the worst of humanity comes out.

A group of working class people run a dangerous path toward a promised Elysium, and those who survive are rewarded with nothing they can appreciate or comprehend.

A college counselor watches anxiously as her teenage son applies to college without her help. As her son plans for his future, the counselor and her husband reflect on how quickly their lives have changed, seeking ways to steady themselves in the midst of middle age.

Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.

In the year 2000, Orion is a young software developer who’s hit it big with his tech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Despite his long-term relationship, success, and newfound riches, he feels an emptiness in his life, leading him into dangerous territory.

A man who goes through life with visions of people from other time periods must answer the question of his purpose with only a cryptic computer printout to guide him.

A shopkeeper sells lottery tickets that grant the wishes of its winners, no matter how wild their desire, but one ticket winner makes him question his assumptions about human happiness.

In a future where technology has advanced to the point where humans can undergo "optimization" to rid themselves of emotions and increase their mental functions, one man decides to cling to his humanity in an effort to atone for his sins and appreciate the beauty of being human.