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.

An outer space fugitive on the run stops to help an old friend and becomes involved in a revolution. A fugitive pilot from Earth helps his found family escape persecution from the Coalition and gets involved in a revolution taking place on another planet.

A boy living in poverty in Louisiana needs a winter coat, but can't afford one because his father is too afraid to work.

When an aging, white, American man flies to Mexico on a mission to search for gold in the 1950s, his plane crashes, leaving him stranded and injured in the wilderness with few resources and only so much time left to survive.

When his father runs away into the swamp, a man seeks connection with a struggling cyclist to help relieve his loneliness and find his father.

A Black man escapes prison and hides on an island off the coast of South Carolina, becoming entangled in a game of deadly cat-and-mouse with a white hunter.