In 2017, a young boy in suburban Maryland is stuck watching his grandfather, an alcoholic former advertising executive who still sees the ghost of the son he killed.

A mother with a inferiority complex who is being monitored by her own oppressive mother starts receiving mysterious texts from a stranger. Her obsession with the perfection of Hallmark movies leads her to pursue a forbidden attraction that endangers her safety and wellbeing.

In a post-apocalyptic Vermont of the near-future, a former writer picks up her old craft once more in an attempt to document the before and after of her resource-starved, disease-plagued world.