In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.

Steven, a bored 20-something email jockey, finds his roommate, Mike, dead in their apartment. The police say his death is a suicide, but Steven is skeptical. After a rendezvous with Maddie, Mike’s most recent fling, turns into an entanglement of their own, Steven succumbs to a harebrained conspiracy alongside her, who may know more about the death than she lets on. Together, they encounter shady patrons of the "arts”, tin-foil-hatters, and mysterious labyrinthine buildings with bright yellow doors, all while contemplating the questions: “what’s really going on in this city? And what really happened to Mike?”

Molly tackles the world of dating.

A teenage girl eagerly anticipates a long-awaited summer vacation until she discovers her best friend's plan to end his life while she's away.

Lonely college student Alex encounters his favorite filmmaker, JP Smith, stalking around his sleepy town in upstate NY. Together they form a precarious relationship, with Alex becoming the star of JP’s latest flick.

Fearing the loss of his authority and job, a lonely emasculated high school custodian targets the new part-time employee: a poor refugee student.