Reparations are being paid through a scientific algorithm and the police have been abolished in favor of a new system. However, the project begins to break down when non-marginalized groups find ways to abuse the marginalized.

An old man tells his grandson a story about a crazy Jesuit who used to preach to cockroaches.

When the 1979 June 4th Revolution in Ghana spreads across the country, the people of a small town quickly change from hopeful to fearful as life becomes violent. To cope, they must turn to the most powerful presence in their lives.

A King receives refuses to listen to claims from his barons and other powerful members of his kingdom that his thirty-three daughters are wicked, for they are clever and outspoken, and they work hard to elevate the status of women and the poor, acts which the barons find threatening. When the barons kidnap all thirty-three daughters, the kind but dimwitted king must figure out how to rescue them.