While trying to conceive a child, a woman finds a small, apricot-sized hand beneath her mattress. She collects more tiny body parts that she finds around her house.

In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.

Two men, centuries apart, face the similar struggles with infertility, presenting unique challenges to their will and love for their partners.

Throughout time and space, women struggle to gain control of their bodies.

A woman on a generation ship is offered the chance of immortality, and ultimately lives long enough to become part of subsequent 'waves' of human evolution - from man, to immortal, to machine, to pure energy - over countless millennia.

Eventually it came to pass that no one ever had to die, unless they ran out of money. Then, unless they were so horrible that society had to dispose of them. Then, unless wanted to or could be talked into it. Then, no one would die so long as they had just one person who loved them.

When a near-death experience prompts an elderly Jewish father to reconsider the facts of his own life, he searches for wisdom to impart upon his newly born grandson.

In a distant land, a stillborn child roaming the Earth as a ghost bridges the gap between death and life.

After his wife dies from from giving birth to a pumpkin, a man struggles to understand his responsibilities as a father and give his son the best life he can.

A Chinese-American woman dies on her honeymoon from a crocodile attack, sending her to heaven and causing her to lose her memory of her husband and soulmate. In the afterlife, she must work to remember that which she left behind.