In a small town, Rhea and Rhoda, two vivacious, inseparable twins, are found brutally murdered and raped by a developmentally disabled man.

When a carnival daredevil is too intoxicated to perform his big dive, an inexperienced young man who fled home in search of a job volunteers to take his place.

While on a cruise, a retired man and his wife, along with a group of older tourist, take a bus in the scorching heat to go on a nature walk for a day trip. When they get to their destination, the tourists get held up at gun point and robbed, but the man’s ex-Marine training kicks in and he retaliates.

When a volcanic eruption impedes their plans to go back home to California, a middle-aged data analyst and his energetic mother find themselves trapped in Iceland, their mutual discomfort toward one another prolonged.

On a trip to Basel, a man falls in love with a middle-aged writer’s muse, creating a love triangle destined to fall apart under the weight of the old writer’s age.

When a man moves in to a new home down the road from a strange couple, he finds himself audience to a sad and bitter series of events replete with bouts of poverty, marital drama, infidelity, and abandonment.

A man plots to murder his wife, but news of her pregnancy throws off his plan.