Five friends go on a weekend getaway to a cabin in Upstate New York, where time and space begins to function without reason, only to slowly turn them against each other one by one.

An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

A family moves back to a farm in the mother's hometown. One of the children is a clairvoyant and along with his sister they start to unravel secrets that have happened on the farm.

The sheriff of a small town is a serial killer. A mysterious woman visits her and starts a conversation about the crimes she committed.