As an orphaned Floridian boy grows up to become a mathematician with a healthy family of his own in the 20th century, the memory of his unhappy father lingers, threatening his peace of mind.

A homeless heroin addict, hiding from a drug cartel, decides to help a herpetologist track down his missing child bride.

A homeless heroin addict, hiding from a drug cartel, decides to help a herpetologist track down his missing child bride.

A family with a gene that allows them to transform into snakes grapples with tradition and intergenerational trauma. The two daughters of this family have to decide: will they stay with an abusive family, or will they molt out of it?

A man in a hospital in Myanmar tells his nurse the story of how he was cursed for falling in love with an attractive woman who is guarded by a giant snake.

A farm boy kills a female snake, protecting her babies. He later learns that there are consequences for his actions.

When an out-of-work anthropologist’s toxically masculine, aquarist father falls ill with breast cancer, the son must take care of his father by covering his work at the Detroit Zoo. In doing so, he learns to care for his father’s best friends, the amphibians in his exhibit.

In the 1950s, two white couples go on a hunting trip near Dallas; when the husbands leave their wives at the ranch for a few days, one of the wives tries to visit her lover but struggles to break free from her violent husband's grasp.

A sexually frustrated preacher becomes obsessed with a local wealthy woman, but she finds him abhorrent.

Follow three medically-based arguments across three separate periods of time--all of which are connected by the discoveries of the deviant be rejected by conformity.