A young British soldier returns to his home in Westminster after the war, only to find that both he and the city have been impacted by the cruelness of the war.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

A slice of grim parts of life

An unnamed person recounts a rhapsody about Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London's East End.

After being offered a 100,000 pound advance to write a book on the twentieth century, a historian/writer struggling with depression takes to London to begin this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

A husband and pregnant wife with unresolved marital issues stop at a farm in the British countryside. They're looking for a decoration for their home, but instead find a reason to hold each other tighter.

A woman reluctantly visits her old friends in Grimsby for the weekend, feeling like their good times are far behind. Though the conversations are genial, she considers how they've changed over time.

After he loses his mother, a father feels unmoored and lashes out at his family as the winter solstice arrives.

When a woman finds her purse stolen, she retraces the steps of her eventful day only to realize that the encounters, and her life as a whole, are empty and purposeless.

A year after his wife's murder by a mysterious man the couple met at an inn in Wales, the widower returns to the inn to memorialize his wife, only to find himself continuing the destructive cycle instigated by his wife’s murderer.