On a lonely Christmas night, Missy falls into a slope of overdrinking. That night, Buck, a mystical creature, stumbles its way into Missy’s apartment. Yearning for food, the passive monster finds itself trapped in the woman’s claws.

Reynold is dying of cancer. He uses his last meals to share them with his daughter. As the meal progresses, a ritual begins to take hold, the dishes acting as reminders of the past. Vanessa discovers who her father really is.

As the country explodes under racial tensions after the assassination of Martin Luther King, writer Romain Gary, humanist and animal lover, and his wife, star Jean Seberg, civil rights activist, welcome an abandoned dog into their home, trained to jump at the mouths of blacks: a White Dog.

A young insomniac woman and her baby witness a robbery at a convenience store. The event stirs up painful memories for the mother, who gradually loses touch with reality, eventually endangering her child.