An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between two feuding families.

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?

A nightclub singer can't choose between a charismatic small-time gangster and an honest newspaperman.

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

A Depression-era female mouse has to sell apples in the miserable cold, and then bring them home to her abusive husband. But when he abandons her and takes up with another woman, she does what any woman has the right to do.

The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

Marcus seems to have the perfect marriage, but a surprise visit from his long-absent sister-in-law, Louise, threatens to disrupt his serene home. Louise brings along her adopted daughter, who professes her love for Marcus's son. The news forces Marcus to share his own long-buried secret in this film adaptation of Donald Gray's stage play - a secret that may destroy his family.

A few weeks after the spaceship has been built, the teens have adopted it as a place to drink and sleep. Weerasethakul documents this integration and makes a fictional narrative with them. The film progresses from evening into night, presenting various kinds of lights. The fiction merges with candid portraits of the teens playing with fireworks and military flares.