Dermot, a being with an insatiable hunger but a controlled demeanor, works with police to find and kill predators, like himself, who are ravaging the city.

On a scorching summer's day in a small town, prisoners comb through a field in order to find the body of a dead girl.

An imaginative, bullied young boy and an elderly, suicidal cancer patient save each other from freezing to death one day in December.

A librarian's apprentice copies down the contents of a strange green book which contains the trapped soul of a dead woman.