A spaceship and its crew crash land on a planet covered in sand. As two men wait for rescuers, they begin to realize that the dunes they stand on hide a tremendous secret.

On a far-away planet in a jail cell, a young human woman pregnant with a non-human being urges her child to come quickly, terrified of being murdered by her human companions as she awaits execution.

A family's beloved dog dies during a storm, and they bury him in their backyard — only to find the same dog scratching at their door three days later, back from the dead.