After he is buried alive by a mysterious figure, a hapless artist begins to think the form of intense and scattered fractals, that evoke his artistic background and tenuous relationship with religious iconography.

An elderly shopkeeper tells a customer about his experiences as a prominent actor's understudy for various decades. The customer witnesses how the old man's obsessions with his unfulfilling acting career still occupy his everyday thoughts and behaviors.

The death of a man's friend reignites his memory of the eerie history tied to a house of wonders in London.

At the end of the world, a girl resolves to finish her English paper.

A former theater worker recalls touring Ireland during a politically tumultuous time and an experience that turned him vegetarian.

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

When a distant relative dies, a professor receives cryptic messages from an elusive stranger.

A professor and mother recounts the summer before 9/11, which she spent with her son touring London. While visiting various monuments around the city, she grows anxious and resentful over the loss of her son's youth and innocence.

In Seville, the Spanish police stop and interrogate a couple on why they left a wreath near a public monument, though the couple refuses to tell the truth.

In France, an extremely wealthy man who owns a porcelain collection is invited to lunch by an odd-ball art dealer who has an elderly, eccentric socialite friend that collects porcelain de sax.