On a cold winter night, a couple is going through an acrimonious breakup; clothes are stolen, sold, and finally returned to their rightful owner. Meanwhile, the manager of a movie theater accidentally spoils the night’s entertainment, sending him down a vortex of endless recrimination. The next morning, amends are made, offers of absolution are refused, and the question lingers: should one feel guilt over nothing, or everything?

High school theater geek Justine Jacobson hopes to be cast as Marc Antony in her school’s winter production of Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar," but she loses the part to Matt Walbach, a fellow junior who is dabbling in theater while he recovers from a football injury. To add insult to injury, Justine is named Matt’s understudy. She offers to coach Matt on his acting, but intentionally offers him bad advice, hoping that he will be cut from the play and she can step into his role. When this plan backfires, Justine makes a deal with the play’s director to help the struggling Matt—for real this time—in exchange for credit as the production’s assistant director. She helps him overcome his despair when he learns that his football injury will end his high school athletic career and his hopes for a college scholarship, and he helps her learn how to collaborate and share the stage with her fellow actors. Opening night looms, and Matt is still unable to master his part, so he and Justine come up with a desperate plan to steer the production away from sure disaster, in the process cementing their unlikely friendship. (This version offers roles for additional actors in the scene representing the performance of "Julius Caesar.")

Stanley Whitaker, a checkpoint agent with the Airport Safety and Security Authority, finds himself under a cloud of suspicion in connection with a security breach at James Buchanan International Airport. When he learns that a hapless acquaintance may have stumbled onto a classified drone remote control facility, Stan comes up with a plan to redeem himself—but first he must contend with his curmudgeonly wife, an out-of-control agent from the Office of Internal Investigation, and a maybe not-so-mythical Sasquatch. Over the course of the night, Stan goes to greater lengths than he ever thought himself capable of to clear his name, and as dawn breaks he must grapple with whether the measures he has taken to salvage his job and his dignity are worth the loss of his wife’s love and the diminishment of his humanity.

Caught in the alternately ominous and absurd machinery of an impersonal, high-tech, largely automated (and possibly malfunctioning) police state, a mother and daughter fight to maintain their bond with each other while seeking a way to gain their freedom. As the conditions of their detention become more and more intolerable, their loyalty to each other is tested and the true reason they are under investigation is revealed.

Penelope, a teenager seeking her place in a world tended by hazmat-suited angels, hatches a plot to learn the identity of her estranged father. Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Quentin, struggles with his own issues while being raised by his embittered uncle Jess, who is increasingly obsessed with the imminent threat he believes the local refinery poses to the town. When Penelope’s father, a prisoner on death row, learns of Penelope’s existence, he sees in her an opportunity for redemption. Penelope's attempt to escape with her father and Jess's attempt to resolve his obsession each have catastrophic consequences, leaving Penelope, her mother and Quentin to help one another go forward in a world that, while fallen and damaged, still endures.

When ex-convict Cyrus Bailey returns home after twelve years in prison to an unfamiliar world of hormone-swollen cattle and carbonated dairy beverages, he is determined to rekindle a romance with Belle, his high-school sweetheart. Meanwhile, his mother attempts to enlist her children in various harebrained moneymaking schemes; his sister, Lurlene, pines for a mysterious past lover while deflecting the amorous advances of Cyrus’s gleefully corrupt parole officer; and his teenage brother, JayZee, an overgrown prodigy, must fight off a degenerative neurological disease long enough to present his revolutionary scientific discovery--the secret to time travel--to the military. When JayZee’s discovery gives Cyrus the chance to alter his own past, Cyrus must decide whether the opportunity to rewrite his unhappy life, for better or worse, is worth giving up one night of certain happiness with Belle.

Alan agrees to help cover up evidence of an affair his estranged father had years earlier so that his mother, Rose, will not find out in the event that Al Sr. does not survive his upcoming surgery. At the same time, Alan must contend with troubles in his own relationship as his partner, Vincent, is tempted by an old flame. Everyone in the family must reevaluate their relationship with Al Sr. when his effort to suppress the truth about his past infidelity unexpectedly brings the secret to light.

A dog, the dog’s owner, a store manager, Jean-Paul Sartre’s separated head and body, and his assistant cycle back and forth between Hell from “No Exit” and a series of increasingly dystopian shopping establishments. Meanwhile, a crowd of shoppers tries to remember today’s secret word while fighting over the spoils. Will anyone find meaning, or at least predictability (or at least Sandy Zimet?) in this chaotic world?

The death of the family dog causes a father to question whether his children really love him.