City dweller Molly has difficulty adjusting to a new, downsized life in the country — until she learns why her neighbors are so attached to their pets.

The privileged Olivia eagerly embraces her new writing class but her instructor and an awkward fellow student soon have her questioning reality.

A pharmaceutical industry titan humiliates dinner guests — including his wife — when he discovers that one of them has stolen a valuable prototype.

At their wild holiday office party, two new employees hear strange rumors and try to solve the mystery of a coworker's grisly plunge from the roof.