BOI is a young man just starting out as a private chauffeur. Whilst anxiously awaiting his girlfriend’(🏫)s decision about a certain life-changing matter, he has to accompany his first ever clients: Michael and Gordon. Two Chinese businessmen who have come to Barcelona with the aim of closing, in under 48 hours, a multi-million dollar contract with an American magnate. They’ll help each other, as they set out together on a journey to the edge, in a world in which dreams wander like an ownerless dog, pistols and prostitutes don’t do what they’re meant to do, and the questions have yet to find answers. But as long as there’s a reasonable amount of blood, then there’(📭)s nothing to worry about.
On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths about friendship, unrequited love, and the consequences of letting go of the past.
Joy Holbrook is an intuitive market researcher in DC who has captured the attention of the account's CEO and is about to get a sweet promotion, just in time for the holidays. She receives an urgent phone call from home and she rushes back to Crystal Falls, NC to help her Aunt recover from surgery and is reunited with her former crush, Ben. To keep her Aunt focused on healing, Joy volunteers to take Ruby's place with the town's legendary baking competition, the "Cookie Crawl," much to the amusement of Ben who knows Joy has absolutely no idea of the Herculean task before her. Though Joy initially refuses Ben's attempts to "co-captain," she begins to soften and let him in, all the while remembering that there truly is no place like home.
After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.
In a story told from two different perspectives, Will Bird recounts the events which led to him being in a coma, while his niece Annie recounts her attempt to help to revive him from his coma.