When eccentric scientist Papa Schimmelhorn plays his seemingly harmless bassoon, a wave of material-eating Gnurrs are summoned by the millions. He uses them to end the war against Bobovia.

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.

As they hide from an enemy in their house, a woman and man argue about the nature of the enemy--whether it is human or weather-related.

Sean leads Daniel, in the summer of their youth, to test out a stolen gun.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.