In California, a young woman reflects on her relationship to her father while working on a novel. Through reading her father’s novel, she understands their relationship through his eyes.

A woman reflects on her time in the Bay Area—and the two women she knew from there.

While on the run from her crack-cooking boyfriend, a woman feels at odds with her place in life—literally and figuratively.

A forcibly-retired T.V. star relocates to a rural mountain town with his photographer friend. When the photographer allows a single mother to sleep in the star’s Mercedes every night and eat his food, tension begins to build between the pair.

A Wyoming native unsuccessfully jumps between jobs over his lifetime to support his large family. Through bankruptcy and loss, he perseveres and continues to look forward to his next venture.

Searching for a muse to inspire a novel he is attempting to write, an author in San Francisco finds his passions ignited by something much more sinister.

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 stratified United States where drought and hurricanes have created a massive climate refugee crisis, an entrepreneurial photographer profits off of a tragedy in the name of love and money.

A young Armenian boy in California is confronted with the fact that the world is changing and he is growing up when he and his brother break the wheel of their bicycle because they have gotten too big for it.

A high school dropout tries to make his dreams of being a rockstar come true in California. There, a mysterious hotel's beautiful guests seem to offer him the trinity of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but he quickly finds himself in an endless cycle of exploitation that's difficult to escape.