A weary medical officer struggles to keep watch during the night shift in a naval prison hospital, even as the prisoners begin to cause trouble.

A desperate man in the Air Force reserve in the 1960s struggles with his belief in fighting for the US during the Vietnam War but fears that objecting may lead to his imprisonment.

When a couple with a strained relationship rides a motorcycle up a dangerous mountain in southern California, they battle for survival against nature and each other.

A young and pristinely beautiful woman in San Francisco lives a loose and carefree lifestyle, financially supported by a married man. When tells her that she needs to sober up, she resists, and disaster ensues.

A teacher invites her adult students — many with personal ties to the Holocaust — to attend a symposium on genocide, but the event is interrupted by incessant screams of an unknown origin.

After fishing in a creek by a Texan oil field, a little boy finds a singing tabby cat that asks for water. When he tries to tell people about it, no one believes him.

Year after year, villagers visit a well in the night to pay the gentleman who lives there a penny and wish for food, revenge, or familial bliss. And while the gentleman in the well may grant each villager their wish, he also tends to take more than just a penny from each who pay him a visit.