In Japan, a man takes in his transgender childhood friend after she shows up at his apartment. He is driven by guilt that he abandoned her when they were younger, and he must now grapple with feelings of guilt and budding emotion.

Visiting Tokyo in the 1980s, a Swedish aspiring civil rights attorney from Minnesota spends her last night with a Japanese lover.

After graduating from Harvard, a tall Japanese American man struggles to find his path despite growing up as a perfect, high-achieving student and athlete.

In contemporary Japan, a poor young woman finds a new approach to life in her new job: accompanying a widowed professor on trips, dressed as his dead wife.

Recent graduate Scotty wants to write manga and goes to Japan to teach for a summer. He falls in love with one of his students, Masashige, but becomes jealous when Masashige draws a manga.

The life of a young Japanese man becomes intimately intertwined with his deceased best-friend's girlfriend, as they each navigate the past in search of lost time.

A Chinese man adopts the daughter of a deceased close friend. As she turns 23, he is determined to find her a husband. When the man she marries is revealed to be gay, their marriage stirs outrage and dismay, upending traditional Chinese conservative perspectives on gender norms, marriage, and sexuality.

In post-war Japan, an ex-soldier and his childhood neighbor continue their friendship as adults, on unequal terms.

When a Chinese American female triathlete dates a Burmese man, she does so because she wants sex. But when the man starts to make her feel happy, she pulls away, caring more about her own sexual satisfaction than the man's emotions or her own.

As a young gay Pakistani man goes through the interview process to become an Air Force officer, he reflects on how he got there and why he might want to be chosen after all. A crush on a fellow interviewee both complicates things and makes them simpler, in turns.