At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.

In the steamed climate of the Great Recession and a cataclysmic oil spill, a lowly bartender loses his job at a Maryland crab shack the same day his home is foreclosed. Pushed to the brink, he pulls a gun from under the bar and takes aim at his boss. That's when a chain of good deeds, unwittingly begun by the gunman himself, brings the film to an epiphanic conclusion.

An epic tale about a supremely intelligent young African-American male who rises from the ferocious and oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to being a shining star in the lucrative world of high finance at Wall Street's most prestigious firm. However, he soon finds that the white-collar world is filled with crime and death just like the drug-filled hood he left behind. His only chance of survival is to fully integrate a mysterious gift from a slain childhood friend fully into the fabric of his character.