In the far future, a human veteran adopts a war soldier, developing an unlikely friendship that helps each of them cope with the trauma of combat.

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.

A middle-aged man faces a difficult decision; he can choose to use genetic alteration to have a say over the life of his unborn child, or leave the future up to chance. As he struggles to choose a path, he reconsiders his own past and the struggles he has faced.

When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.

When a young man signs up to fight in an intergalactic war in exchange for his citizenship, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the killing technology they’ve given him to murder the enemy.

A traumatized veteran returns from the war and must navigate the changes he finds in his disoriented personal life, all while enduring superficial judgments from his family and community.

In 2038, a woman visits her estranged father’s retirement community to find that he has replaced her with a robot in the form of a little girl.

Anxious ahead of an important lecture, a psychology professor blows up after finding a photo of his wife's ex-husband.

In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, humans who reject this conversion are hunted down by the posthuman's artificial intelligence army. But as one AI becomes aware of the posthumans' excessive cruelty, he starts to recognize the inherent worth of mortal humans. In the far future where posthumans upload their consciousness to the digital cloud and reside in robotic bodies to achieve immortality, an AI soldier in charge of hunting down humans who reject this conversion becomes troubled that the posthumans have, along the way, traded away their conscience.

When a posthuman 'hardshell' robot finds an injured biological human who has committed war crimes against hardshells, the hardshell's programming will not allow it to let the human come to harm, so it must use all the resources it has to find a way to bring this war criminal to justice.