When a German professor teaching Comparative Literature at an Indiana university in the 1950s receives a letter, he suspects anti-Semitic motives.

When a philosophy professor is called into a committee meeting for inappropriate behavior, she stews over what got her here, and how.

After an esteemed professor of anthropology writes a memoir detailing her family's experience during the Holocaust, an elderly woman reaches out, insisting that she is the professor's long-lost cousin.

American History professor Zoe Hendricks floats through a lonely life unnerving and offending those around her with her odd behavior and unfiltered speech. She flies to New York to visit her sister Evan and meets a prospective suitor, only to reject him in her tempestuous way.

A professor's wife, who has only ever worked to advance her husband's career, explores her autonomy outside of her marriage in the mid-20th century.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

A disillusioned professor finds himself challenging the university when he learns that one of his students is facing physical abuse at home, leading to a confrontation that ultimately reinforces his hopelessness.

A female professor at a contemporary university remembers an old conversation with a former teacher of hers, which prompts her to reconsider her job, solitude, and love of reading.

In 1950s New York, a rabbinical student hires a matchmaker. As he agonizes over his choices, he begins to suspect that his advisor may have an ulterior motive.

A Jewish night-school teacher attempts to change an anti-Semitic student's negative assumptions about Jewish people.