A small town devolves into fear and confusion as a man sits atop a flagpole for forty days straight with no food or explanation.

Louise, a humble "honey-colored" slave, gains a new master whose wife loves to paint. The master leaves town, and Louise must endure an uncomfortable few weeks posing naked for his wife.

During the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in New York City, a pair of middle-aged adults reconvene when one of them swears she saw their mutual friend roaming the streets, decades after his death.

While investigating an architectural impossibility in the structure of their new home, a young boy witnesses his little sister be erased from reality.