When you live 55 miles from the nearest gas pump, no one can hear the screams.

After a couple is carjacked one evening in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the wife becomes increasingly paranoid and cannot return to normal daily life.

When a friend from his drug-dealing past shows up unannounced, a filmographer who lives in the suburbs of Long Island must reckon with how to preserve his suburban fantasy while he tries to save his friend from their former dealer.

A large factory is shut down in a small town in Illinois, and the town's residents face a sudden economic depression — until a prison is built where the factory had been, invigorating the economy but bringing along with it unintended consequences.

Five days after moving to the quiet town of Manacle, Arizona, a married couple learns of the curse on the town: if you do anyone a favor, they will turn against you.

A father and his family witness the chaotic collapse of their neighbor's family, and make small efforts to intervene.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

The stress of poverty drives a young man to commit a robbery. But when the deal goes south and someone is shot, he must hide from the law at his brother's place.

A young adolescent gang leader steals a flashlight, which helps him find a new way to see the gang activity in his city.

A man escapes a hit and run accident and feels immense guilt until he meets his own misfortune.