Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

A woman tries to understand the space-time continuum and his love.

A man passes by a stranger he considers to be the 100% perfect girl for him and when he fails to strike up a conversation he imagines an alternate reality where they had met before.

Knowing that some things happen only once in a lifetime, a man walking down a street is convinced that he sees the girl of his dreams and wonders if fate is telling him to leave his wife.

A man reflects on his countless journeys on Greyhounds—and the woman he hoped to see at his destinations.

When a young woman can't seem to shake a strange man at a conference, she decides to get to know him a little better despite her first instincts.

In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

All across the contemporary world, space whales are falling from the sky. They seem to be trying to deliver a message to the Earth — but as an American grassroots movement attempts to communicate with these creatures, it will face challenges from the government as well as the possible dangers of interacting with these interstellar beings.

One woman’s affair leads to a lifelong revelation.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.