Mark Helfman

Heaven and Hell are rival bureaucracies. When a junior angel launches an experimental mission to “fix” a corrupt bar-and-casino tycoon, she expects to win an easy redemption. Instead, her intervention triggers a corporate, spiritual, and emotional escalation that forces God and Satan to respond, leaving the angel with a choice: follow God’s command or do what she thinks is right.

When her family arrives as refugees at the farm where she has earned her place, a young goat must confront the terror of discovering that her inclusion was always conditional. Will she choose between the belonging she worked so hard for, or the solidarity that will cost her everything?

A group of cavepeople face a dire reality: they're short on food, winter's approaching, most animals have disappeared, their chief just died, and their shaman can no longer summon the spirits. Their sacred tradition, hunting, can no longer sustain them. The tribe's administrator proposes a revolutionary calendar-based system of gathering and cultivation. The chief's young successor rallies the others around an audacious solution: kill a mastodon, the biggest game, a feat as yet considered impossible. The tribe chooses the hunt. When that fails, they must decide whether adaptation or extinction awaits.

Two men reflect on their life decisions as they bury a fellow member of "the tribe."