A former stableboy set to marry the wealthy daughter of the proprietress defies his future-wife's wishes to turn him into a gentleman and returns to his horses.

A teenage girl spends her summer riding horses to waste time while she waits for a letter from her recently enlisted boyfriend to come.

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

A husband's increasing resentment towards his wife is tracked and contrasted to his incessant devotion and investment in horse racing and a particular horse's harrowing journey after its injury.

When a group of farmers notice that they’re being robbed in the night, they discover the culprit to be a loveable skeletal horse.

A man visits a woman he once had an affair with twenty years ago, in the hopes that he might rekindle their relationship. The woman asks her friends to join them for dinner, as they must help her judge the man's intentions.

A mother constrained by the ceaseless demands of her husband and teenage daughter finds escape on the back of a majestic horse.

A young woman from a strict household heads off to a countryside home with an older man where she falls for the freedom of being out late at night, being romanced. However, she is forced to return home the real fun begins, dreaming of what the night could have been instead.

A man dips his toe into horse racing with a mysterious business partner, rejoicing at their horse’s success until he is greeted with sinister news of the horse and his partner.

Dan and Nancy spend the summer in a remote town Northern California to rekindle their marriage after they discover each other's infidelity, but below the surface, they both know their efforts are in vain.