Two lovers share their passions and dreams, dancing toward the edge of a cliff by the sea - and perhaps over it.

A lustful, rhapsodic husband makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce his distant wife and is surprised when the tables soon turn.

A young woman makes a detour on her way home to visit a man she met on a train. Though the man is married, the woman hopes to rekindle the spark she felt during the train-ride.

A Chinese American teenager invites her friend out to a birthday celebration and finally gains the courage to confess her romantic feelings for him.

A couple attends the show of a marvelous, sensuous, and regal African American singer in Paris. The wife of the couple finds herself struggling for a grip as the pleasure of seeing this performer infiltrates her fortress of restraint.

A young woman recounts three times in her life when she felt emotions of an unexplainable transcendent love: watching a ballet for the first time, making eye contact with an attractive librarian in high school, and listening to an old professor lecture during night classes at a university.

A professor tries to convey to his students the magnitude of the most perfectly crafted poem ever written in the English language: “Lycidas.”

After several years asleep, a woman wakes up to find her husband kissing her, though she now must face his abusive ways.

An American man moves to Germany and falls in love with a married Norwegian woman in his language class. Their contrasting artistic tastes foretell a fundamental rift.

After a dwarf enters a factory worker’s dream, he helps him win over the girl he likes at work. But, this help comes at a price that costs him greatly in the end.