An man with nothing begins renting a room in the home of a couple in rural Washington. As he stays with them, the emptiness he feels begins to be filled.

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.

In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

A woman who can see the deaths of others struggles to cope with her power amidst her loved ones.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.