A big-city transplant in small-town Michigan tries to make sense of his own existence as he confronts the possibility of fatherhood.

Facing liquidation due to public mistrust of robotic life-forms, a historic robotics company introduces a new eco-friendly form of robot in hopes of improving robot-human coexistence only to accidentally pave the way for robot domination of life on Earth.

A schoolmarm attempts to teach a group of men about justice, time, and irony in a repurposed saloon after they vote to have her hung for her disciplinarian ways.

A stalled novelist and his intellectual social circle wrestle with postwar malaise in the changing cultural landscape of early 1960s New York City. When one of his friends finally snaps, he races to protect him amidst smoldering racial tensions.