A Kentucky community gains national attention when bears learn how to start fires. A curious man attempts to learn more about the phenomenon while caring for his nephew and aging mother.

An initially unwanted infestation fosters understanding between a woman and the cockroaches in her house.

When her father gives her a dreadfully plain hat, a young girl hatches a plan to get rid of it.

An aging Caucasian ex-military pilot-turned-farmer and his wife struggle to maintain control of two newly acquired buffalo, while wildfires and drought blacken the sky and the farmer's sister becomes increasingly subsumed by doomsday cultism. cults build shelters to prepare for nuclear destruction. Set in the present day.

When a racist organization pervades their small town, a Greek immigrant’s dog has a more important role to play in their protection than anyone realized.

A restless Southern wife faces a feline foe as she plans to run away with her lover.

A woman stares at a cooked fish as she wrestles with her stressful day.

A woman and her husband try to catch a mouse in their kitchen, but when the creature dies, it punctuates the lovelessness in their marriage.

After his daughter is killed by diseased dogs, a father and his friend try to kill all the pets in the town to prevent the same tragedy from happening to someone else.

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