A complex web of human relationships is presented in the form of an algebraic expression.

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.

In a small town, an anxious middle-aged woman befriends a young cashier, who tries to teach her that not all romance ends in violence.

When a young college couple gets into a routine of studying together, the boy questions his co-dependent habits and becomes frustrated with his girlfriend's attachment to him.

Over dinner, an observer reflects on mothers and their omnipresent prevalence in children’s lives.