Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for his class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict upon him soon turns to outright abuse.

Tom and Perri are the happy ideal New York couple until Tom's beloved Golden Retriever is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Tom blames Perri for the accident and their relationship becomes strained as Tom's fixation with finding and punishing the culprit consumes his life. Perri can't understand Tom's thirst for vengeance and she grows distant from him. When Tom disappears, she falls into an affair with her scheming colleague. Events spin out of control as death, sex and cynicism take their toll on Tom and Perri's seemingly idyllic life. But why should infidelity, hypocrisy and murder ruin a perfectly good relationship?

Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gunshot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.

A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of Los Angeles' newest immigrant population: extraterrestrials.