On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.

The world has been annihilated by The Locust, an unknown force that has ravaged the landscape and brought apocalypse to the human race. Poe and Sek, two forgotten brothers, search desperately for The Face, a rumored camp of survivors. They move quickly through the distant memories of civilization, seeking the last "crossing" in the region that can lead them over a mammoth river of endless width.

In Vichy, France at the height of World War II, nine men and a boy are rounded up under suspicious circumstances. As ominous reports of far-off camps and cattle cars packed with prisoners begin to circulate, the men battle over politics, philosophy and how to escape.