After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route; along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

In order to return to their haven, the lake house, with the couple that saved their lives, six extraordinary children must thwart the sinister plans of a survivor from their worst nightmare.

Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present.

Told in three short films, the lives of an actor, a television show runner, and a videogame designer intertwine in unsettling ways.

As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories. When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power....

Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of these groups--especially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang start acting suspiciously.

The Hurst's are a married couple who are both dentists. Dana has been unhappy with their marriage lately. Backstage at a community theater production, David sees Dana in the arms of another man and is immediately certain she's having an affair. Slater, a disgruntled patient of the Hursts, has gone public with his unhappiness over their work. As he observes the obvious tension in David and Dana's relationship, Slater begins offering his own kind of...

When Bill wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumner Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality. He is quite certain of his sanity, but memories of being cryogenically frozen, tissue regeneration experiments and talk of a final lethal injection race through his mind. With the help of his psychiatrist, he struggles to piece his memories together.

Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.

After their mother dies in a car accident, a father accepts a teaching job and moves his two daughters to Italy in an effort to contend with the family's grief.