The four stories, markedly different in tone and subject, each present a journey: "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" is a tale of an innocent man who devises an exciting escape from prison; "The Apt Pupil" is the story of a golden schoolboy and an old man with a hideous past who join in a dreadful union; in "The Body", four young boys venture into the woods and find life, death and the end of innocence; "The Breathing Method" is a macabre story told in a strange club of a woman determined to give birth!no matter what.