When a small neighborhood starts practicing air raid drills for World War II, a new German couple down the block stirs up trouble for themselves when they get into a spat with their neighbors.

A successful musician tells her children about surviving a bully in college, then searches on the internet to find out his fate.

When a mortgage broker goes under in the 2008 housing crisis, he and his family move and attempt to start fresh, but he finds himself haunted by the past.

When a Soviet state official attempts to coerce a celebrated poet into apologizing for a political joke he made, the official gets a taste of his own predatory medicine at the hand of the poet's vengeful wife.

A man goes to the movies with his father-in-law and uses an assisted hearing device to listen in on the old man's thoughts, discovering that his father-in-law may be a murderer.

Two regulars at a bar are left questioning life and death when the prostitute of one of the barmen commits suicide, but instead of dying, her body has become reanimated with a supernatural spirit.

In a Thai village, the life of a boy who the head monk believes has unlocked the highest state of enlightenment is jeopardized when the village chief seeks to exploit the local festival of floating lanterns for profit. Upon finding out the Thai village chief's evil scheme for the local lantern festival, a precocious child's life is threatened.