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.

A poor, ever-hopeful couple that imagines itself on the brink of a windfall suffers setback after setback, until the husband has a revelation about what in life holds real value.

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.

In New York, a young woman befriends her quirky roommate, who is trying to make it as an actor. While she watches her roommate attempt to accomplish her dreams, the woman reflects on her own life’s direction and what possibilities (or lack of) lie ahead.

A boy’s idolized uncle immigrates to the United States. As the child grows into a man in late twentieth-century Nigeria, his relative’s absence takes a toll on the family. When the two men finally meet up years later, the encounter reveals unfulfilled dreams.

Two struggling dream-fabbers in a future relying entirely on dreamed creations must save their tanking careers, by any means necessary.

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 man considers the possibility of multiple realities, and creates possible scenarios for how his life could have turned out; including one where he is a famous football player, another where he's a stay-at-home dad caring for a daughter who has Down Syndrome, and another where she doesn't.

A working class man who wants his children to have everything their rich friends have purchases "Semplica Girls" — girls formerly living in poverty who sign contracts to hang as ornaments in people's yards — for his older daughter's birthday. When his younger daughter frees the Semplica Girls, the family is plunged into financial disaster.

In the early 1970s, a listless radical must decide what to do with his life as his social circle of grassroots activists dwindles.