In a rural town, a woman attempts to run away, with her three children, from her abusive husband. While the feat seems straightforward at first, a series of complications causes their escape to become increasingly precarious.

When a young black man from the Bronx unwittingly becomes an accomplice to the murder of a police officer, he must protect the murderer (his best friend) and flee the life he used to know.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

In a futuristic world, one of the members of a tour group is murdered. Nobody knows who the murderer is, and as the police try to solve the case, they discover that this murderer has far more nefarious plans that can alter the world.

A man is caught in a traffic stop on his way to the nearby mountain where strange disappearances have occurred.

A dysfunctional couple argues while detectives search their Bay Area neighborhood for a man who stabbed a police officer.

In New York City, a woman is saved from being hit by a rogue car by a British man, and asks him to help her run away to England for her safety. A wrestler who knows her interrupts, revealing her feelings for him and that the plea for flight is a sham; the British man is being played.

A father gets a call informing him that his son was arrested in a far away town, so he goes through every effort to find him and get him back.

When a bus is taken hostage, a woman comes to terms with her death.

Compiling notes for an English essay, a sixteen-year-old girl recounts her middle-class upbringing, kleptomania, and eventual coercion into prostitution and assisting with drug use. After she suffers violence and abuse, she is eventually rescued — but the experience traumatizes her.