When a prideful ten-year-old boy visits the ski slopes with his mother and brother, who has cancer, he gets himself into trouble after going off on his own and ignoring his family’s warnings.

Three boys struggle to save their companion on a cave wall climbing trip.

When a psychoanalyst's family forces him to give up his poker addiction, he uses the misery of one of his patients, a poker champion, to keep his need to gamble at bay.

A man who walks his dog in the heath comes across another man and his strange dog who seem to suddenly be on his walk everyday. He tries to avoid the man until one day his own dog goes missing and he suspects the stranger is responsible.

An older man goes off on a quest through the desert to find a fortune despite there seeming to be no hope.

A boy at a boarding school writes a letter back to his mother. He fights back tears and must face another harassment from his bullies.

A preacher is welcomed into a farming couple's cabin and performs an exorcism on their son.

A proud, strong mule drafted into the Greek army during World War II endures incredible hardship and wins the hearts of her tired masters.

As he flushes three decades of narcotics out of his system, an Arkansas man recalls a traumatic hunting trip into the woods with his father and his friends. In this memory, he finds the roots of both his addiction and his identity.

A teenage boy in the throes of sulky, rebellious adolescence begins stealing a farmer's cannabis plants for quick cash—until his choices come back to bite him.