A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.

A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.