A young man sits in the car with his girlfriend. An unmarked police car pull up to command a routine identity check, under the dismayed eyes of his girlfriend.

A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.

In the aftermath of an earthquake, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated this small mountain town.

It’s Eid in an apartment building that is owned and occupied by three generations of a very conservative family. When the elderly grandfather gets sick, his daughters believe that his illness is caused by bad luck brought on by a young woman who rents an apartment in the building. When the young woman comes home in the middle of the night, bringing a man up to her apartment, the family decides to punish her for her “impure” and “scandalous” ways.