An ex-marine bent on staying the head of his family robs a series of banks to make his mortgage payments until he crashes his car and his three sons--two cops and a prison officer--find the evidence. Rather than go to jail, he shoots himself in the hospital.

In rural Virginia, a teenage boy takes a huge bag of money from a wrecked car, believing the driver to be dead. However, the boy later learns the driver survived and disappeared into the woods and is, in fact, his father--a bank-robber who abandoned his mother before he was born--when the sheriff comes to warn him and his mother that they might be in danger.

After his father dies, a young man returns to his father's farm to settle his affairs. One night, four strangers show up at the farm with a request.

Two young boys are alone at their father's farm for the week, when one of them discovers what he believes to be a dead body in the forest near their land.

A woman from Wyoming befriends a couple, but when she has an accident on a ski trip with them, she realizes they are not who they say they are.

A correctional officer gives an inmate's female visitor a ride into Sacramento and soon becomes entangled in her secrets — and also finds himself on the verge of becoming a millionaire.

A woman who's cousin abuses her is saved when her brother comes back, and they start a new life of crime that ends tragically.