When a bartender discovers that bug bites give him dreams, he attempts to solve his marital problems by making his wife experience the dreams with him.

A middle-aged woman visits Frederik Ruysch's "cabinet of curiosities" in Amsterdam, where the host takes her on a tour of his grotesque displays of embryos, fetuses, and deformed body parts.

A weathered housewife finds her only purpose in caring for her mentally ill son whom she protects from her abusive husband. When police come around investigating a murder, she fears her husband may be responsible.

An older Indian man recounts his story of "alien" encounters on Mars during Saturday tea.

A boy watches as his father takes up the sport of caterpillar racing. When the father's caterpillar faces a scheming and clever opponent, the father risks everything to beat him.

At an elite private school, a student struggles to overcome her life-threatening eating disorder while her father engages in an affair with the headmistress.

A man adopts a cage full of insects that engage in ritual war against each other and soon comes to be their god. When he begins to act cruelly against them as a corrupt exploration of his own power, the insects escape and begin a killing spree.

An old man recalls the day he went fishing as a boy, not long after the death of his brother, and had a terrifying encounter with the Devil.

A mother and father argue over whether or not to allow fairies to punish their daughter who is mutilating innocent fairytale creatures.

When an extraterrestrial bug bites a space explorer in the arm, a comical medical emergency replete with amputations and miscommunications ensues.