While experiencing a midlife crisis, a respectable man must choose between his wife and his commitment to an eccentric political party.

A co-worker gives a new staff member an introductory tour of the office, while providing small gossip about other employees along the way.

At a party in its 40th straight hour, a group of eccentric bureaucrats in DC discuss human behavior, music-without-instruments, and the laws of thermodynamics, while trying to keep the party from deteriorating into chaos

From a senator’s divorce statement to the poignant war stories by a prominent columnist, written word takes on a special power within the affairs of Washington, D.C.

When a philosophy professor is called into a committee meeting for inappropriate behavior, she stews over what got her here, and how.

When a man believes his job is at risk because of an annoying, incompetent woman at his office, he decides to take drastic action to end her influence once and for all.

The trophy wife of a campaigning politician fears a life in the spotlight, which leads her to try to undermine and sabotage his candidacy.

A schoolboard debates the merits of history—and how to remember it.

While a mid-western US man waits for his family to gather in the car to finally leave his in-law's house, he wanders around the area and thinks about the importance of family, even though he and his father-in-law often disagree on values.

Al Roosten, a local business owner always second-best to his competitor, Larry Donfrey, contemplates returning to an anti-drug charity event to ensure that Donfrey is able to help his disabled daughter.