Neighbor
1957年10月、ソ連が人類初の人工衛星スプートニクの打ち上げに成功した。ウエスト・ヴァージニア州の炭坑の町コールウッドで、その美しい軌跡を見ていた青年ホーマーは、自らの手でロケットを打ち上げたいと思い、級友3人とともに本格的なロケットづくりにとりかかった。
Rodney
When the family's North Carolina farm is about to be taken by the banks during the Depression era, two boys decide to start robbing banks and return the money to the people.
Minister
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.