A drunkard with a habit of lying and the hope of an American dream tries to get his family out of Cuba across dangerous waters.

In 1920s New York, a young boy watches his mother fall in love with a new man, only for that man to unexpectedly pass away and the family's savings to be lost.

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.

A newscaster recently arrived in space receives ominous advice from a jaded engineer: whatever you do, leave space because getting attracted to aliens will be the death of us all.

At a North American winter resort, an arthritic old man challenges a pair of young men to a series of physical challenges to prove that, despite his age and illness, he is still strong.

In a flood-ravaged world, a haughty man turns away beggars who, unlike him, failed to stock up before the dystopia, unless one man makes a request he’d never heard before: whiskey, please.

A father tells a story about his deceased wife and the wild traditions they used to have involving alcohol as well as the disapproval his mother-in-law had about their relationship.

Two people die of drug overdose and flu and never meet each other, never get married, and never live their seedy, disappointing lives.

A woman reads a novel by a guest at her party, and realizes that it is written by the child of the woman who caused her divorce.

A priest struggling with addiction must choose between serving the will of his congregants and following the law.