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

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

A young man in a fraternity reveres his brothers and finds himself drawn to a girl two of his friends have hooked up with, whom he calls God.

In New York, a young woman goes to a dinner party with her boss’s friend. After a tense game of charades, too many drinks and a decision to spend the night, she wonders why people make the choices they do and if anyone else will remember them.

On a train ride to a metallurgical conference in Chicago, a consultant tries to avoid the debate between pure and applied sciences, but he cannot avoid it when he gets cornered in the washroom by two professors and an undecided bright new recruit.

In Iowa, a young Black man goes to a party where he meets a host of artist types who cause him to reflect on how people relate to each other.

A college professor pays a famous poet to guest lecture at his university. Although this encounter improves his professional standing, his personal life suffers as a result of the poet's behavior.

Three people all sit down to talk after a night of drinking, but the agenda of one dinner guest changes the night.

An accomplished, scholarly older man finds his lonely life momentarily invigorated by the presence of a young male student.

A bartender sleeps with a regular patron whose brother has recently passed away.