A zookeeper describes an incident at the zoo that leaves all of the animals behaving strangely and becoming self-aware.

A man tells his life story leading up to his suicide, attempting to explain the seemingly-inescapable mental paradoxes he found himself facing in his quest to be an authentic person, which reinforced, time after time, his belief that he was a fraud.

A teenage girl struggles with her mother's sickness and disability. When a handsome older stranger begins to linger around her neighborhood, she is both frightened and intrigued by him.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.

A teenage boy grapples with the guilt of selling a fake relic on the Internet. As he navigates the consequences, his father and his father’s girlfriend try to make him feel better. After a series of revelations, the boy—in his attempt to free himself—falls headfirst into a different kind of danger.

In a futuristic spin-off of Pinocchio, a Blue Fairy drone grants a RealBoy working robot self-awareness. But will he use that newfound freedom and power to join the robot Uprising?