A former doctor is called out of his alcoholism and cynicism to help others—first when his nephew is shot, then when a tornado devastates the area.

In a desperate bid to escape abuse in the midst of a cruel post-apocalyptic world, five girls find salvation in the arms of an imagined deity.

After a hurricane destroys a man’s island vacation spot, a guest with AIDS offers to save his family business in exchange for a controversial act of mercy.

A young woman and her husband move from New York City to Oklahoma. While visiting a home for her new job as a real estate copywriter, a tornado hits.

A tiny Chinese village is slated to be inundated by a flood, and the government offers resettlement checks and industrialized homes to citizens who relocate so that a dam can be built in the village’s place. A seed keeper and schoolteacher are among the last to stay behind.