At the beginning of Carnival in Port of Spain, a drunk woman meets a strange white man with a jewel in his chest and then wakes up in a mysterious place.

After Earth experiences a long and extreme drought, a privileged woman in South Africa watches as her local city bows down to a slave system that convinces people they are free.

In the far future, HIV cases skyrocket in South Africa, and chemists develop an expensive new drug that must be taken annually by those with the disease. When clinics start raising prices, a man attempts to steal the drug for his friend, only to be confronted with an ugly truth about the industry.

In the near-future, people of color have been legally classified as infected, which has led to extreme systemic oppression. Two Black men risk everything to provide their community with a free library, but the police force threatens to shut them down.