Ethan Swann was sure he could learn how to kill as well as his trophy hunting father and finally gain his love and respect. When a black bear wanders into his back yard he shoots at it, certain its massive head will be a trophy his father will proudly mount.

But he misses, and the bullet streaks through the nearby community, its supersonic path intersecting the life trajectories of. .

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. single mom Martina who abuses and imprisons her 8 year old son, Ryan, so she can live a wild life.

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. Lane, who watches his bedridden wife of 60 years breathe her last, and on their park bench, toasts her memory with a glass of wine mixed with 8 mg of fentanyl.

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. loan shark muscle Santee who, while in juvie detention, discovers his gift of taming battle-scarred fighting dogs scheduled for euthanasia.

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. wife beater Brad who is taught a violent lesson by three masked women wrestlers, part of a Mexican wrestling tradition that derived from Aztec performances of ritual combat.

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. road-raged off-duty cop Kasten, on a girlfriend breakup phone call at a green traffic light who smashes the headlight of the impatient horn-honker behind him.

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. Carly, daughter of a Vietnam POW whose recovered skull fragment is the only piece of her father returned to her, the tale of his torture a bond in common with her Vietnamese manicurist lover, Cam.

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. gang-raped survivor Kaneesha who finds peace as a community gardener, her faith in humanity refreshed by a precocious 6 ½ year old imp.

It misses, by millimeters, all. .

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except one. .