A cancer patient prepares for her departure by finding her husband a mistress and disassociating from her family, only to find that she has survived her prognosis.

A woman with the ability to cure or cause cancer faces a challenge when her ex-husband's lover asks her for help.

An academic who is dying from breast cancer and high on morphine reflects on her sense of failure in her lifelong pursuit of artistic brilliance. She decides her failing body has become her great work of art.

Faced with cancer, Mrs. Wilson confronts her impending death. She finds new strength fight her prognosis with a book, The Will to Live, by the philosopher Schopenhauer.

Gloria, a young woman with a fatal cancer, visits her eccentric friend and her equally strange daughter, but her plans are thrown off course when the daughter asks Gloria to kidnap her.

A middle-aged man suffering from cancer finds the energy to make it through each day happily by doting on his young daughter and setting up his soon-to-be-widowed wife with a handsome fire chief.

Daughter Helen reflects on her pained childhood and strained adult life while on a train in Germany, where she is traveling to Munich with her sick mother to get an unconventional treatment for cancer.

An aging astronaut must make an impossible decision- fly her last mission, or remain at home for her dying husband's final days.