When a new principal takes over and enforces discriminatory dress code policies, a Black high school junior is forced to cut off her dreadlocks. But when flowers bloom from her scalp in their place — attracting even more attention — she must find the courage to stand up for herself.

When an upstart young man dreams of bigger things than his job at the local mine, he finds his connection between his father and his best friend in peril.

A young lute player is aided by a harmonizing spider who resides in her lute, unbeknownst to her. Though the spider becomes attached to the lute player, she continues to feel loneliness and longing for her home among other spiders in the forest of her birth.

A southern Nigerian woman lives through the colonial invasion of white Europeans, losing her son to assimilation and indoctrination that leads him to view her and her culture as savages. Decades later, her granddaughter, a historian, seeks to reclaim her past.