When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.

After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.

A librarian fakes her death to escape her abusive marriage and start a new life elsewhere, but her husband manages to track her down.

A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.