An eighteen-year-old kid's life is forever changed one night in New York City when he meets a legendary musician.

When a musician is faced with harsh criticism from a revered teacher, the life he had always planned goes up in flames.

In a futuristic surveillance state in the near future, a young man's lover gets admitted to a high security prison and he attempts to use music to save her. Unfortunately, he barters for her life—which has been downloaded on a drive—only to discover the file has been erased by a nefarious hologram.

In a technologically advanced universe, an irritable music student living on a space station is visited by a strange creature seeking household employment.

A man from Vienna has recently become an American citizen and now works as a musician at a Jewish restaurant in New York, where he plays piano in a quintet. When the restaurant is robbed and the man is held hostage along with the restaurant's guests and staff, he must try to survive while maintaining his grip on reality as strange things begin to happen around him.

A photographer grapples with the meaning of her own work and life after the untimely death of a female musician friend, whom she had documented from her high school years in 1990s Chicago through her adult life of performances, drugs, and rocky relationships.