The lonesome sound of a long forgotten train draws an old man to memories of a horrific past...A journalist makes the mistake of visiting a website where real-life executions are the order of the day...At the foot of an old tree, an insidious evil awaits two boys digging for treasure...A browbeaten salesman finds hope and a possible escape from the banality of his world when he returns home to find a fairytale beanstalk sprouting from his garden...A man resists the social pressure to quit smoking and puts himself at an unimaginable risk...A high school student accepts a dare to ask out the ugliest girl in school and enters a world of pain and violence...A comedian finds himself faced with a most peculiar and deadly audience...The pariah of a village accepts an offer of peace at his mother's funeral, but the olive branch may have hidden thorns...A bunch of barflies doomed to murder sinners get together for one last drink in a dying town...These are just some of the passengers, headed for a ride through the dark uncharted regions of the heart and mind...