A man en-route to meet a criminal partner stops partway along his journey at a motel in the Four Corners, where he meets a woman and her baby. During the night, they wake to gunshots.

A young boy working in his mother's mannequin shop leaves school early one day and witnesses a strange encounter that stays with him well into adulthood.

While preparing his mother's birthday present, a young boy realizes he has lost her special pruning knife and laments that he has ruined her day.

A chronically ill teenager grapples with his mother’s instability and his stepfather’s absence while turmoil in the neighborhood sparks a sobering revelation.