Each of two brother bulls attempts to convince the other to enter the barn. Neither wants to go, knowing their lives are at stake. The two flatter, dare, and challenge one another, until a race finally settles it: first one to the barn wins. Sort of.

Two explorers close to the north pole - the explorer Peary becomes confused.

An ill and delirious Peary reminisces about his polar days; his wife remembers their early love.

Peary is unsure if they have reached the North pole.

Josephine asks for Henson's help, despite Peary's past bad treatment of him.

Minik remembers Greenland.

The explorers make a plan to bring the Inuit to America to make money.

Peary and Henson once again try to confirm they are at the North pole.

Henson helps Minik reach the land of the dead; Peary and Josephine argue about Peary's Inuit children.

Peary and Henson believe they have reached the North pole.

Josephine wonders what discovery is worth.

Robert helps Charlie, who is sick, check his stool and be calm in the face of death.

The Child is taught a lesson. She attempted to speak her truth, but was met with discipline.

An interrogator turns his lurid eyes on an imprisoned female activist. Purposefully misunderstanding her movements as seduction, he convinces himself of something horrid.

Lucifer taunts the Child in a cell. She doesn't understand what she's done wrong.

A cleric prepares for confessional. Someone enters the booth. The cleric realizes it’s a man with whom he shared a mutual attraction. The man has recently finished gay conversion therapy and wishes to resume some kind of a relationship.

The Child is bored. She reads several books in an effort to learn all the things she shouldn’t do, say, feel, or see. Lucifer simply asks her why, attempting to get her attention on him instead of books. She finds a name, Iblis, and taunts him.

A book pleads with the audience to be read. A rhythmic chorus rises. A tribute to the banned, the burned, and the hidden.

As Lucifer tries again to get the Child to go with him, the Child finds out who Lucifer is in one of the books of the cell.

The Child is allowed out of her cage, with a warning she can have anyting she wants except for one thing. She asks what it might be, and in a Kafka-esque reply they say, “you know.”

The Child is led back to the book cage, and performers take their places.

Lucifer jangles an entrancing key in front of the Child and a young boy. This key promises to open the gates of heaven, but the boy has his own doubts about that. Nevertheless, he zips up his vest...

The Child questions Lucifer’s role as tempter, while he tempts with growing intensity. He chastises the Child for bowing to authority. She erupts in anger, pushing the books aside and leaving the cage.

A distraught woman is trying to report her sexual assault to a policeman. She admits she’s had some alcohol. Instead of pursuing justice, the policeman arrests her for illegal possession of alcohol. The Child witnesses all of it.

Lucifer is enraged at the unfairness put upon him. The Child sees, and has an idea. Perhaps the system should be broken. When Lucifer realizes the Child has seen his truth, he tries to hide his emotions.

A watcher looks over a group of faithful. His irritation turns to hatred as he accuses them of subversion. He claims to have proof hidden in some papers, but the Child has destroyed them. The Child proclaims “I know what to do,” and the tension between authority and people escalates. The Child begins taking pages and notes from all the surrou...

The Child creates her own book from pages of other books. She hands out her new rules to the audience.

Lucifer rebuilds the cage, then tries to convince the audience to join him in self-exile.

A couple fights as a woman leaves to pursue her dream.

In her prime. At a post-gala cocktail party, Jackie ironically confesses she has a terrible disease: glissando-itis.

Comparing herself to Samson, Jackie and her husband have a tangled night of love one rainy night.

In her prime, Jackie admits she finds the pace of touring life dizzying. The sycophants at parties are starting to get to her.

On a phone call with her mother, Jackie is admonished. She begs her mother to visit. She’s alone with fragments of memory.

Delirious, Jackie envisions running to the ocean again through the fields, this time with her sister, Hilary. She asks that Hilary not tell Daniel about the disease.

Jackie tells us how she can blur the lines between fantasy and reality at will. She can escape the confines of her chair by dreaming of bathing in the sea. She wonders where Daniel is, and who he’s seeing.

Jacqueline, the child, tells her cello they will play great concert halls and make records.

Jacqueline remembers playing in the fields with her sister in her childhood, and the fragrance of wildflowers.

Jacqueline experiences symptoms, but her physical illness is undiagnosed, and she is instead told it is hysterical or psychosomatic.

Jacqueline enjoys telling a joke about some monks' sexual arousal.

Jacqueline remembers happy times with her cello in childhood.

Angry and frustrated at her physical inability to play, Jacqueline cancels her remaining performances.

Two travellers trying to communicate in English- which neither of them speaks well- find they are attracted to each other.

A child walks on a beach, in search of their parents.

Sitting by the fire, Merk tries to discover what his mentally disabled daughter will remember when he is no longer with her.

A man tries to write a letter home, but he cannot find the right words. He burns each rejected attempt.

Jackie realizes that her sherpa has died.

Westerner Jackie and sherpa Pasang summit Everest without using oxygen cannisters. Soon their victory turns into a culture clash as they argue about their affair and the mountain, and slowly die of hypoxia.

In a video game, two mice are navigating through a house when suddenly they encounter a giant squirrel.

Stephanie is getting ready to go out on a date, but she begins to unravel when she checks herself in the mirror. The voices she hears in her head are variations of her own critical voice. She sees herself the way she imagines her date will see her.

The 1947 Partition of India forces two children to say goodbye. One departs for Pakistan, leaving her pet rabbit and childhood treasures with her friend.

A middle-aged couple's romantic night: the Man, reading poetry to the Woman, is distracted by the need to hunt down a mosquito in the room.

As he tries to get into the train car, James explains to Sydney the elephant why it is best for her to leave the zoo for a new home.

James and Sydney start their journey. Sydney remembers being young and playing in the forest with her friend Penny. One day, they are both captured, and the family herd is shot.

Sydney is injured in a fire and sold to the zoo.

Sydney on her first day at the zoo. Frightened and alone, she thinks of her homeland.

Sydney and James meet for the first time. Though both are nervous, they connect with each other.

Sydney and James arrive in Tennessee, remembering their 22 years together. They say goodbye.

Sydney exits the train with James at the Sanctuary and sees her old friend Penny. They reunite lovingly. Sydney and James say their final goodbye.

Thomas and Claire meet at a party and fall in love.

The pilot watches Hope from afar. They meet and become lovers.

Thomas and Lise sing of feeling the burning of two suns on their faces.

Thomas has brought Lise to become Hope's tutor, but Hope has grown up and wants to leave the house. Lise warns her not to give her love away to just anyone.

Hope grows up quickly, climbing out of her crib as a woman of twenty-one. She sings to herself, wanting to leave the house.

Hope introduces the pilot to her family. He leaves, and Hope argues with her parents about going with him.

A deconstruction of moments in The Sound of Music.

A celebration of iconic Hitchcock film moments, sampling from The Man Who Knew Too Much, Psycho, and The Birds.

Using quintessential recordings of Maria Callas arias, an aspiring soprano engages with the full and intense presence of her idol. What begins as suffocation and frustration ends as confidence as the soprano gains a deeper understanding of her idol: she’s human. They both are.

A celebration of iconic Hitchcock film moments, sampling from The Birds.

A short scene, sampling the wedding scene where Elaine screams for Ben.

Late at night, Allie receives a visitation from her deceased best friend, Karen.