A schoolteacher at a newly desegregated Southern school agonizes over whether to turn a Black student in for the murder of a white boy in an alley fight, in order to prevent a white mob from murdering the student's friends and family. The Black student explains he didn't commit the murder and only acted in self-defense, but he insists on turning himself in to protect his neighborhood.

When a middle-aged woman goes on a hike with a man she is seeing, a mastiff attacks the man. The woman wonders whether the dog or the relationship itself is the bigger danger.

Two clairvoyants pursue a romantic relationship that they know will end in heartbreak; at the same time, they reconcile with the power that their gifts have over each other.

In the waiting room of a plastic surgeon's office, a man asks the woman sitting next to him about the scar on her face.