Over the course of her pregnancy, a woman reflects on her long and difficult friendship with someone she has known since high school.

An alien race uses humans to host their parasitic offspring. After a human boy witnesses the birth of these parasites, he is horrified by the symbiotic agreement and realizes why the alien has nourished him so much better than his siblings all his life.

Kept away by her parents one summer, a girl reckons with her teenage pregnancy—and the father of her child.

A Jewish mother wants her daughter to marry well and have a better life, but her husband doesn't seem to care. After her other daughter passes away, she realizes she should not hesitate to make bigger sacrifices.

On an alien world, a colony of humans has evolved to reproduce with one mother and many fathers. After delaying for years, one young woman finally chooses three fathers for her baby, but her desire for freedom draws her into the orbit of the post-human anthropologists who have come from the stars to study this quaint biological mating ritual.

A woman harbors a secret desire to have a baby in a future world where childbirth is extremely rare and discouraged.

After being abandoned by their spouses in Japan, two adulterers move to a Greek island to free themselves of any familial responsibility.

An unhappily married man is on his way to the wedding of a much happier couple. He no longer finds his wife attractive because of her weight loss, and thus endeavors into an affair with a larger woman, though she may have ulterior motives that he has not considered.

A young woman's breasts detach from her body and take on a life of their own.

On a far-away planet in a jail cell, a young human woman pregnant with a non-human being urges her child to come quickly, terrified of being murdered by her human companions as she awaits execution.