A poor single mother reminisces about raising her first-born child.

Aaron Lott is killed by the sherif when he challenges segregation in Mississippi. His friend Booker is called upon to tell the truth in court about what happened while risking to lose much that is dear to him.

Two brothers set off on a mission to bully a disabled peer.  

A black civil rights worker reflects on her white friend’s report that she was raped by a black man in the South.

Two matron aunts hide from a mother who is ill with typhoid that her child has died from the disease.

There is an old ritual set in rural small-town America in which a yearly lottery determines who is to be stoned.

A young man of Mexican descent living north of the border has a recurrence of tuberculosis and resists being monitored by health care workers and law enforcement. 

A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.