Across two difficult decades, two siblings come together and drift apart.

When loving each other becomes inconvenient, a man separates from his wife of 20 years and struggles to realize that the end of marriage must also bring an end to the life they were supposed to live together.

A brother-in-law lives with a family, but his presence in the house slowly fades away.

When two men flee from an unstoppable and all-consuming growth of trees, they realize that the end of the world has only just begun.

A young girl decides to run away with her best friend to a strange city only known in stories with the help of her talking dog after he loses everything in a world where success is scored to determine social status. But can they actually escape the controlling society they're running from?

Despite his children and grandchildren living on the futuristic New Earth, an elderly man refuses to evacuate a destroyed Earth because of his ties to the land and its environment. With the help of two young girls, he learns to capture some of the magic of his home away from home.

A husband and wife have a bizarre conversation as they grapple with the reality of leaving each other.

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

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.