In the future, all humans must wait in an impossibly long line, where getting to the front means securing one’s future and never having to worry about money again. Waiting in the line for decades on end, the worst of humanity comes out.

In post-Cultural Revolution China, a Marxist philosophy professor must decide whether he should confess to a crime he did not commit.

In an ambiguous American town, a veteran father gifts his scrawny teenage son a dangerous, possessed war jacket that transforms the squeamish boy into a hypermasculine man.