In Jim Crow North Carolina, a Black man new to town inadvertently becomes witness to a relationship between the town priest and a seventeen-year-old seminary student, and must stand trial when the priest is accused of statutory rape.

A brother and his sister disagree fundamentally on how to care for their dying mother. Death approaches sooner than anticipated, leaving the brother feeling lonelier than ever.

After cancer sends his wife to the hospital, a Maine lobsterman brings his youngest daughter home for a day to tie up loose ends at the house. After a tragic accident at sea, their night takes an ugly turn.