A soldier trained from birth is deemed obsolete and dumped on a waste planet where he is reluctantly taken in by a community of defenseless, stranded wayfarers.

A home care nurse works with terminally ill patients.

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.