10 historical vignettes tell the dark history of Decatur, Illinois and its interconnected generations of characters.

A handsome but bumbling playboy inherits a set of antique books with a dark history of torture and human sacrifice.

A father on business in San Francisco is quarantined after a viral outbreak and must get back to his family.

A time capsule is found with a play written by a dead lady. Her family comes together to act it out.

A ménage à trois of booze, sex and cancer. Hmmmm. Booze. Sex. Cancer. That could have been the title of a Sex Pistols album.

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