When a tragedy occurs at a construction site on Good Friday, the devout foreman's religion fails to save him or his men.

When a carnival daredevil is too intoxicated to perform his big dive, an inexperienced young man who fled home in search of a job volunteers to take his place.

A young orphaned girl becomes frightened when she hears rustling outside her window, which she believes comes from a prisoner who escaped from the nearby prison.

When a young woman in a contemporary American city witnesses her father cheating on her mother, her entire world crashes down around her.

A young boy who lives in America visits his family in Afghanistan and goes on a quest with his teenage cousins to find a dog.

A sixteen-year-old girl in the American West experiences her sexual awakening under the veil of religion.

Guilt catches up to the wife of an abusive but talented black comedian fifty-four years into their marriage, causing her to reevaluate her devotion during his 2010 comeback show in Los Angeles.

An elderly man in a synagogue tells the story of his son who had an evil laugh, and for whom he has been searching for more than twenty years.

When an elderly Polish American man goes to get his curtains cleaned, he becomes enamored by the widow curtain cleaner and must build the courage to tell her about his feelings.

A community of nuns unsuccessfully try to raise funds to build a new chapel at their convent after they exceed the capacity of their current one. One sister in particular is cynical about the whole ordeal, but most of the sisters join in fervent prayer in hopes of Divine Intervention.