A man watches an old woman visit an abandoned house in his neighborhood year after year, and he tries to piece her story together from town gossip.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

A lonely old man comes to visit a married woman's apartment, which she and her husband are renting out for the summer while they travel to Europe—however, the woman becomes suspicious that the old man is not actually interested in renting at all.

When a friendly resident at a retirement home starts to decline in health and popularity, a woman reflects on what it means to grow old when there’s no one to look out for you.

A quiet gardener and shopkeeper defies her town's cruel gossips to shelter a destitute young woman.

A maid in New York City catches stray bits and pieces of her customers’ lives as they waltz in and out of her dressing room at a nightclub.

An elderly woman in a senior living community spends most of her time alone. As she waits for her daughters to visit, she quells her loneliness by having dinner with her neighbor.

A nosey man living in a suburb regularly interacts with several neighbors but keeps his distance from one woman, whom he witnesses abuse her children verbally and physically. When the situation escalates, however, he must decide whether or not to intervene.

A young girl in the 1920s spends her evenings talking to her building operator while her mother is at work. When her favorite operator is fired, she is forced to quickly learn lessons about trust and relationships.

When a couple buys a new radio, the wife becomes obsessed with its ability to catch conversations of their neighbors private lives.