An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.
