Nathan Williams

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange December in suburban Virginia.

Simeon is an introverted thirteen-year-old growing up the South African hinterland. During one of his rambles in the forest he sees nineteen-year-old Mariana and becomes fascinated. But things get nasty when Mariana's boyfriend catches Simeon spying on them.