After his longtime boyfriend kicks him out, a promising young illustrator moves to Arizona where he reflects on everything he’s had to do for money. As he tries to capture these memories in his paintings, he begins to understand all that he’s lost as well as what might be possible.

An employee writes a heartfelt letter to his former boss to argue that he was wrongfully fired. As he lays out his life story, his hidden cowardice and stubborn ambitions paint a different story.

With a haunted car, a woman exact her revenge.

A woman becomes invested in the odd and exciting life of her coworker, a pregnant construction worker whose boyfriend has been in and out of state prison for over a decade. The boyfriend, a Native American living in North Dakota, escapes so often that the town's officers, at this point, usually just sigh and get drinks when they see him run. When it is time for the birth of his child, the boyfriend escapes from prison to meet his son, but the day does not go as planned.

A travelling tool salesman arrives on the property of a poor farmer in rural mountain country and lies about his background and the quality of product to secure the sale. He meets a tragic end when his scheming is revealed, angering the prospect and his twin sons.

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.

The youngest child and only boy in a fishing family of seven children grows up on the Nova Scotia coast. There, he must choose whether to follow in the family tradition of fishing, as his mother wants, or to follow his passion for books that his father instilled in him.

A house painter fixes up a beat-up jalopy with a neighbor boy. As the two spend more time together, the boy’s family strife escalates.

A young doctor seeks to bridge the healthcare divide by illegally administering treatment directly to marginalized communities. His altruism ironically risks his ability to continue helping the community.