In "Michael's Plate," a young girl named Iris sits at the dinner table with her mother, father, and little brother all of which mourning the loss of her older brother: Michael. Whom Iris's mom pretends is still alive and eating with them night after night. Until, Iris decides to take it upon herself to shatter her mother's delusion: for all their sakes. Garrett Wintridge is a space explorer who crash lands back on his home planet of Earth, after spending five years in the vast cosmos alone. Now, all Garrett wants to do is be with his wife and son again, but he quickly realizes in the time that he's been away, everything on earth has been replaced with technology, even humankind itself in, "Assimila." A mortician grapples with his own sanity and guilt, when he must embalm the body of a woman he killed, yet loved in "The Mortician's Ruse." "He Who Heard Paintings," follows Julia—a kidnapped journalist—who is taken captive after publishing articles that threatened to expose the identity of a notorious art thief, authorities haven't been able to capture for years. Julia struggles to escape her captor, whom believes wholeheartedly he can hear and communicate with his stolen paintings. In "Sidekick," a visually-impaired boy with aspirations of becoming a superhero, unintentionally assists a violent criminal—posing as a hero—rob a bank.