In a dystopic universe where the aristocracy rules society, a banished tailor is given the opportunity to redeem herself by fashioning a coat from the sky for a nobleman. When the project reveals the dark history of the city's stratification, she is forced to make a choice between revolution and redemption.

An eccentric engineering exam in the far future introduces candidates to tales of three impossible machines—one to distort the physical world, one to travel through it, and one to grant telepathy to a community—and asks them to reflect on these technologies' impact on humanity. Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.

Afraid of judgment, two high school girls who have turned from friends to lovers debate whether or not to go to prom as a couple.

A longtime dentist's receptionist accepts a dinner invitation from her new-coworker and her boyfriend. As the evening unfolds, the women realize they both have traumas in their past and come to an ephemeral, but affectionate, understanding.

A heartbroken man remembers his ex-lover while reading about the dramatic end to the relationship between two famous poets and listening to his favorite musician.

As the only son of the only Black family in an otherwise entirely white and racist town, a teenage boy has always struggled to fit in. When he gets his chance to participate in the town's big horse race, he hopes it's finally enough to prove himself, but his feelings for his neighbor's son complicate the day even more.