A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

Left conquered and disappointed from her past relationship, a girl addresses her selfish lover who had sexually used her. The girl compares the boy to a vampire and speaks about how he has left her like an empty shell craving love and blood just like he was when he first approached her.

A writer uses his relationship with a mysterious woman as inspiration for his magical realism story. But, things go awry when he begins to question their compatibility.

After falling in love with another man, an insecure woman attempts to discuss her current marriage with her husband while they drink in a bar.

A woman tries to understand the space-time continuum and his love.

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

A woman develops a risky love for her son's pediatrician, despite the fact that they are both married.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

A Russian man recalls the first time he fell in love.