The four stories, markedly different in tone and subject, each present a journey: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a tale of an innocent man who devises an exciting escape from prison; The Apt Pupil is the story of a golden schoolboy and an old man with a hideous past who join in a dreadful union; in The Body, four young boys venture into the woods and find life, death and the end of innocence; The Breathing Method is a macabre story told in a strange club of a woman determined to give birth!no matter what.