In the 1950s, a young girl tells her neighbor that her mother is dead. The neighbor is dubious, until she realizes that the young girl may be telling the truth.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

After a young woman's ninety-nine-year-old neighbor peacefully dies, the old woman's family asks her to sort through her belongings for them. To her surprise, the young woman finds treasures the short-sighted family overlooked and her luck turns for the better.

A home nurse pieces together the events of a murder after a group of young boys find a dead body in a small Toronto town. She grapples with whether to turn in the murderer—her late patient's husband—and ultimately decides to risk death to confront him directly, with a romantic vision of him turning himself in to relieve his conscience.

When a corpse is found in the forest on a rainy day, two police officers quietly curse at the dark curiosity human passerbys have toward death.