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A fragmented group of friends reconnects for a weekend to celebrate finishing their high school years when a thunderstorm rolls in and knocks the power out. With nothing to do and boredom settling in, they decide to come up with some stories with silly premises to pass the time, such as a story of a genie that comes from a can of cheap beer, or a survivor of the zombie apocalypse that needs to get their braces removed. However, their subconscious manifests in these stories, making their fun getaway a profound realization of their fears of the future beyond high school.

Love and loss collide in this hauntingly beautiful adaptation of Robert Frost's Home Burial. The poem portrays a couple's struggle to reconcile their conflicting ways of dealing with the death of their firstborn child. She is consumed with grief and unable to let go, and he is desperate to move on to find some sense of normalcy. They find themselves on opposing sides of an emotional chasm that seems impossible to bridge.

Amidst the events of WWII, a German submarine lands off the US coast for mandatory repairs. Beaten down and in dire need of supplies, the Germans send a landing party ashore for food. An unexpected encounter with a kindly American woman leads to a most unusual Thanksgiving dinner.

Utopia has been imagined in many different ways, but when people try to build it they very often fail. Can utopian visions reconcile the tension between the individual and the group? Rules and freedom?