In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.
In a futuristic world, a man awoken from being cryogenically frozen meets a ditzy tour guide to the Future, whose job is to help him learn about the new world through a series of virtual reality simulations. However, the world's AI leader may be manipulating them both for his own gain.
Humanity has eliminated all plants and animals in a futuristic world that isn't meant for human consumption. One man refuses to kill his pet animals and plants, and the government tries to convince him to comply.
In this satire, a cartographer discovers an isolated North African village in which the sole occupation is counting upward. Living in their utopia forces him to reckon with the utility of reason and the necessity of pain in human life.
In a world where death is impermanent, a young woman wakes again and again in a futuristic dating center where wealthy men visit long-dead women and decide whether or not to pay for their body's full revival.
On an artificial island build to counter the effects of climate-induced flooding, an immigrant father returns from a long period away and struggles to reconnect with his distant son.
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.
In a New York City where people can access personal information about one another instantly via a special technology, an artist-turned-substitute teacher finds himself in a romantic relationship with a woman who wants to communicate in the traditional sense.
In a high tech, futuristic dystopian world where people's consciousnesses can inhabit the bodies of others, a poor young woman falls ill and her brother--who she has never met--appears to pay her hospital bills. But as the class-related injustice and intense authoritarian power of the government slowly reveals itself, a far sadder and twisted narrative comes to light.
In a future where population control measures are stringent, a mother struggles with her feelings for her artificial son, David, who is designed to love.
In the near future, the United States has set aside designated areas for each group of ethnic minorities. After growing up in one of the cultural conservation units, three dancers consider leading a life outside their home.
As humans gain the ability to upload their consciousness, a man must come to grips with the end of the world as he once knew it.
As a man waits in jail for the next stage in his journey through the justice system, he lives through visions of what the justice system could be in parallel universes, only to wake up and realize he can only exist in one system.