In the depths of his mind, a writer tries to uncover the autonomous, nefarious motivations of his own characters.

A babysitter faces a home invasion one night and discovers the truth about the baby she has been asked to protect.

A man must hunt down his painkiller-addicted ex-boyfriend and attempt to rescue the ex from his drug dealer.

A woman in her twenties struggles to recover the memories of what happened to her and her family at a young age.

A woman goes into the woods and learns a horrific truth about her late grandmother.

An older man recounts how White settlers violently removed him from his home and took him to a boys ranch to strip him of his indigeneity.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

When a young adult accompanies her avoidant mother to a mammogram appointment during a visit to her suburban hometown, she receives terrible news that throws her identity in flux.

When two men flee from an unstoppable and all-consuming growth of trees, they realize that the end of the world has only just begun.

A woman is hired by a multi-level marketing scheme to sell a product that leads its users into the next evolution of humankind.